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State Historical Society LIFTING LIFT 5e a Copy $2.00 a Year EMPHASIZES URGENT DEMAND FOR BIG RACE CONFERENCE Time Is Ripe for Race Meeting to Deliberate on the Serious Phases and to Formulate a United Platform. RACIAL PORTENTS OMINOUS Negro Is Separated from the Rest of the Nation by the Whole Diameter of Social Difference. The times are out of joint. Racial portents are ominous. The rising title of color threatens to engulf us. The problem is becoming more complex and perplexing. Unless the Negro's courage rises with danger the cause will be lost through timidity and cowardice. The welfare of the ten million Negroes in the United States is less well safe-guarded through self-directive leadership than that of any other group of similar size and like advantage in the world. There is the widest margin between what is and what ought to be. Loudsome boasting of our present attainments blinds us to the magnitude of things yet to be attained. This gap can be bridged only by wise guidance and direction. The incoming of the new year emphasizes our delinquency. Within the next half generation there is going to be a tremendous change in the scheme of race adjustment. Whether this is to be for the better or for the worse depends upon the initiative, the courage and the wisdom which the Negro displays. The present tendency is in the wrong direction. Forces and influences now at work if unchecked will fix him for good in a helpless and hopeless position. Instant action is demanded. Hesitancy is dangerous. Delay may prove fatal. The time is fully ripe for a race conference to deliberate upon the serious phases of the problem, and as far as practicable, to formulate a platform of principles and a program or programs of procedure. The Negro group has special and peculiar interests and relations infinitely more serious and vital than any other subordinate element into which our population is divided. The peculiar probelmbs of the foreigner are temporary and limited to one generation. The Jew is isolated only in religious relations of his own making and preference. The Catholic differs from the Protestant only in the mode of worship. The Negro alone is separated from the rest of the nation by the whole diameter of social difference which entails the regulation of all of the essential intimacies of life. This regime is imposed upon him. He didn't make and he cannot unmake it. Special and specific racial interests require as thoughtful and as wise deliberation as the congress gives to the affairs of the nation. And yet today we have no adequate or competent body to give our issues comprehensive and state-manlike consideration. At present the various interests and activities at work in the field are absorbed in their own objectives and are wholly without efficient co-ordination or union of alm and purpose. The waste and friction are inexcusable. The demand for a nation-wide conference is imperative. This conference should not be fostered by any one organization, but every type of agency or interests now at work should unite upon a call to consider "The state of the Race". Political movements such as the N. A. A. C. P., the Equal Rights League, the Lincoln League, the Race Congress, religious bodies like the National Baptist concession, the African Methodist Episcopal, the A. M. E. Z., the C. M. E., and the M. E. churches, as well as those of smaller numbers; moral and social agencies such as the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A.; business and economic agencies like the Business League, the Urban League; educational associations, fraternal organizations, the Federation of Women's Clubs, the Press Association, and all well established movements of wide ramification should be represented. The time has come for all to pull together. If we continue to pull apart, we will pull to pieces. The whole is greater than any of its parts. The members of the body can never cooperate properly unless they become consciously subordinated to the welfare of the body as a whole. It may be just as well to anticipate the objection that several such abortive attempts have been made before. While no one of these efforts has been permanent each endeavor has left a residuum of lasting good. The race today has more maturity and sound judgment than ever before. Many will recall the effort of Mr. Joel E. Spingarn at a race conference at his summer home. If an alien to the group saw the necessity of formulating a common program, surely we must heed the call to conference. The Negro can no longer look to the THE MONITOR white race for intimate advice and direction. No one outside of a group can regulate the intimate procedure for the inside. The white philanthropists have done a good part. The people who must be helped forever are not worthy of being helped at all. Self expression on part of the Negro will encourage our white friends to extend the necessary assistance. But they cannot be expected to carry him on their shoulders any further. The Negro henceforth must walk with his own legs. The white man can only furnish him a crutch. Lynching and lawlessness of which the Negro is the chief victim, the shift of population, congestion in cities and the acute situation resulting therefrom, the moral aloofness and religious indifference of the educated classes, the downward moral tendency of the times in which our young people are being carried away, the necessity for co-operation in business and trade, the growing apathy of the white race and the need for concerted endeavor to stem the tide all unite in demanding the proposed conference at an early date. The situation calls loudly for the requisite race statesmanship. Will it be forthcoming? Lo, I have made the suggestion and invite correspondence and suggestions. "All who are in favor, signify by saving '1.'" (Signed) KELLY MILLER, Howard University CLAIM DISCONTENT IS GROWING AMONG NEGROES New York Professor Has Been Making Study of Much-Discussed Race Problem and Draws Certain Conclusions. NOTE INSIDIOUS INFLUENCES New Haven, Conn., Jan. 4-At a meeting of the American History Professors' Association here Prof. Holland Thompson, of the College of the City of New York, declared that he is convinced that discontent among Negroes in this country is increasing. He said changed conditions had given rise to more apparent hostility to Negroes as a race North of the Mason and Dixon line than south of it. For years, he said, the Negro has been urged by certain members of his race, backed by white sympathizers, to demand all the rights of citizenship and to oppose every form of segregation and discrimination. "This advice," he continued, "had more effect in the North during the World War than in the South, and Negro populations in Northern cities had more than doubled. Large numbers of Negroes came from the West Indies, and as these latter had not been accustomed to racial discrimination, their resentment influenced the native Negroes in the cities." Professor Thompson described the increased circulation of newspapers for Negroes and the encouragement given by publications to the contentions that Negroes must resist oppression by force, if necessary. In politics, the speaker said, the Negro was beginning to vote as a Negro and not as a member of any political party. Race prejudice, he said was increasing and not diminishing. In short he declared the Negro question has become a complex and national one. Professor Thompson's subtle attack on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; his direct praise of the South; his reference to the Garvey movement; his stab at Negro newspapers his accusation of Negro voters; his slap at broad-minded white people, all go to show his place of nativity, as well as indicate his secret organization affiliations, if we are to read between the lines. DID NOT REPORT FINDING NAME Last week the name of Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, 2308 North Twenty-ninth street, appeared in the advertisement of the Alhambra Grocery and Meat Co., 1612 North Twenty-fourth street, one of our regular advertisers. As Mr. Wilkinson failed to report finding his name he missed getting One Dollar. WHOSE NAME IS IN THIS WEEK? Look through the ads. It may be yours. Find it and get your Dollar. HUNT FOR YOUR NAME Each week the name of some paid-up subscriber is inserted in one of the "ads" appearing in The Monitor. If that subscriber finds his or her name and will bring his copy of the paper to The Monitor office before the following Friday he will be paid One Dollar. A nation is no better than its home life, and its home life is no better than that nation's womanhood. A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1923 Annual Survey of 1922 by Associated Negro Press Shows Substantial Progress Colored America may well look with pride on the achievements of 1922. It has been the greatest year of Racial achievement. The millions within the ranks have marched forward, and their unquestioned tread has shaken the world into careful observation. In all avenues of endeavor, there has been more than an awakening; there has been steady progress. The outstanding features of the forward march have been the widespread understanding with which it has been accomplished, and the unflinching determination that animates the people everywhere. Obstacles have been turned into triumphs, and failures into success. Timidity and fear are unknown quantities, sacrifices are accepted as blessings and persecutions are held aloft as beacon lights. "The Negro Faces America," indeed, and also the world, resolved highly to sail on into the Harbor of Opportunity on the "Rising Tide of Color." POLITICAL World Conditions—The complexity of world affairs is being studied by the people. Reading the same publications along with the rest of the nation; amplified with special contributions by sympathetic writers in all parts of the world, listening to lectures from returned travelers, and watching the signs of the time, Colored America has knowledge and vision on world conditions. Particular attention is given to the struggles, aspirations and achievements of the darker peoples of the world. Africa, the fatherland of America's Colored population of 15,000,000, has taken front rank in consideration, for the political entanglements and oppression in certain sections as well as the stupendous resources and future possibilities. Africa is no more ridiculed; it is loved. England's darker millions in India, the millions in China, Japan and South America all afford field for observation and comparison. The opportunity is not being lost; it is embraced. United States—Political conditions in the United States have experienced marvelously radical changes during the past year, so far as Colored America is concerned. An unquestioned ally of the Republican party from the time of enfranchisement, this year's elections in all sections of the country have revealed an unprecedented spirit of independence which has been to the profit of the Democratic party in the North, but is not to be construed as being in the least sympathetic with the beliefs and methods of the Democratic party of states South. Concentration of hope centered in two measures before Congress, the Liberian loan, and the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, both of which passed the House of Representatives but failed in the United States Senate. This condition of surrender to Democratic minority tactics has disturbed the poise and dampened the enthusiasm of Colored Republican leadership, while on the other hand it has spurred the masses of the people to resourceful political thinking. At least ten colored citizens in northern states have been elected to places in state legislatures, one in New York, a Democrat, and the others Republican. President Harding has been unsuccessful in having Colored appointees confirmed by the Senate, except in two instances, and there has been much criticism throughout the group against political compromise and official segregation. Colored political leadership at present is lacking in statesmanship that is able to get effective nationwide results, and demonstrates the absolute necessity of having in both the House and the Senate racial representation. Haiti and Santo Domingo, West Indian Island republics under American domination, have been thoughtfully studied in this country. Study of these republics aside from the complicating question of right or wrong of United States intervention, along with Cuba, Porto Rico, the Central America and South American republics have seemed to offer unusual opportunities for racial sympathetic action and development. The State Department appointed Captain Napoleon B. Marshall to a position in the American Legation, Port au Prince, Haiti; and there are at present at least half a dozen business ventures organized by Colored Americans for the purpose of promoting commercial trade in the countries to the South, all of which have promising possibilities, and one of which is a line of ocean going steamships. Through exchange in reading and travel Colored America has learned with enthusiasm that the people to the South of this republic are brothers of kind, in numerous instances that color discrimination is an unpracticed art except where introduced by whites of the South, and the achievements in the field of business as well as along other lines promise to produce results that will be both profitable and satisfying. ECONOMIC Industrial Opportunity — Colored America is in the emidst of an unprecedented industrial opportunity, and this is not excepting the unusual demands of World War tmes. Prosperity has been restored to the industrial world, and, largely because of the stringent immigration laws, labor is greatly in demand. So great has become the openings for colored labor that even at this winter period, there is now in progress a new exodus from the South. Observation in the great railway centers leading from the South discloses in this winter season that thousands are coming North and finding their way into industrial fields. It is opportune and important to state that the present migration augurs serious possibilities for the spring of 1923, when the opportunities as well as the demands will be greatly increased North as well as South. The migration of 1917 and 1918 created a new consideration of the better class of whites in the South for industrial and educational betterment, but the continued feeling of unafness, the unabatement of lynchings, disfranchisement and various forms of oppression, serve to keep up the desire to move somewhere North, where additional problems are created for the pioneer residents of the northern sections, but in the face of industrial opportunities and thoughts of larger freedom, seem for the present to be beyond control. Unions and Open Shop—A majority of all Colored workers do not belong to any labor union. The increased Colored population of the North has caused the American Federation of Labor to give careful study to the subject, and in its basic law there is supposed to be no discrimination; and yet on the other hand there are a number of crafts in the North in which it is absolutely impossible for Colored workers to become members. This kind of discrimination has had a tendency to embitter workers against labor unions, and has created wide interest of the "Open Shop." In fact, the "Open Shop" advocates are the largest employees of colored workers, and in many instances, the most notable of which course is the United States Steel Corporation, the treatment has been so fair, and the opportunities so encouraging, that the workers have steadfastly refused to come under the banner of unionism. The Industrial Workers of the World have, with their radical propaganda, sought to encourage Colored membership. Their success has been only nominal, but their propaganda continues. The Communists, from their far away headquarters in Russia, have, it is learned on high authority, helped to finance propaganda and movements calculated to embitter Colored workers against the so-called "Capitalistic Class," as well as against the government itself. In the face of certain conditions, they are able to present convincing arguments, but thus far they have had but little effect on the masses. However, the gravity of the situation is recognized and counter movements and activities have been launched by the more conservative, who, through wise counsel and education hope to bring about a state of affairs based on practical possibilities and sympathetic understanding that will redown for all time to the benefit of the great and increasing army of Colored industrial workers. ABRAHAM LINCOLN MEMORIAL The national memorial in Washington as a tribute to the life and deeds of Abraham Lincoln, was dedicated this year. There were only three speakers for the occasion, including President Harding and Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute. The event was international in scope, and Dr. Moton delivered an address of genuine interest. The occasion was marred by an effort to segregate Colored guests, which was resented by a majority, who left the assemblage in disgust. NEWSPAPERS THE VOICE There is a generally accepted opinion that the voice of Colored America today, as of white America, is most audible through their press. Never before have the newspapers held such a commanding position, nor have they ever before had such a high standard of news and opinion as well as circulation and commercial business. There are two publications recently from the press, both written by white authors, that deal with the growth and power of the press for Colored America. One, the "Voice of the Negro," by Prof. Robert T. Kerlin; the other, "The Negro Press in the United States," by Frederick G Detweiler. Added to these important productions, as a vital treatise on race adjustment in America must be "The Negro in Chicago," a publication of 900 pages, dealing with the problems in the frankest form, and impartially; the study covering a period of two years. Magazines of national circulation have this year given unusual consideration to stories and articles dealing with Colored America. A number of the fiction stories have been reduced to book form, and are having a wide circulation. Daily newspapers in all sections of the country have been more liberal in their placing the better side of Colored America before the readable public. A number of the metropolitan dailies have Colored writers on their staff, probably the most important instance being Lester Walton, an experienced journalist, who is a staff writer on the New York Worldd. (To be continued.) QUAREEL BETWEEN KLANSMEN CAUSES AREST IN INDIAN South Bend, Ind., Jan. 5.—(Crusader Service.)—A quarrel between members of the hooded mob, which resulted in one of the giving information to the police, caused the arrest here today of Wesley Hollyoke, twenty-one. Hollyoke, admitted Khansman, is charged with transporting two suitcases of dynamite on a passenger coach from Culver, Ind., to South Bend. He was questioned three hours and is said to have given information about the activities of the rest of the gang. ILLINOIS VILLAGE MARSHALL WOUNDED IN GUN BATTLE Colp, III., Jan. 5.—Charles Baker, colored village marshal here, was fatally wounded in a pistol battle here last Sunday night when he attempted to place a bandit under arrest. The bandit, Melvin Bush, was finally apprehended by the Marion police and lodged in jail. SAY U. S. ATTORNEY TRIED TO SAVE KLAN IN FEDERAL INQUIRY Responsible Citizens of Morehouse Parish Charge "Attempt to Block" Mer Rouge Investigators. Bastrop, La., Jan. 5.—(Crusader Service.)—P. H. Mecom, federal district attorney for the western district of Louisiana, will probably be called upon to answer charges which have been lodged against him by responsible citizens of Morehouse parish, who allege that he has attempted to interfere with agents of the department of justice who have been investigating the kidnapping and murder of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards and Ku Klux Klan conditions generally in western Louisiana. The thirteen is made that he even went so far as to threaten the federal operatives with arrest if they did not stop their investigation. Well-known citizens of Mer Rouge, who refuse to let their names become public at this time, insist that Mecom informed members of the Klan in Shreveport. Mer Rouge and other near-by cities and towns that the federal men were operating without authority, that they were not empowered to make an investigation without his permission and that he had granted no such permission. A warrant for the arrest of Dr. B. M. McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge, has been issued in connection with the Mer Rouge murders on request of Attorney General Coco, and he was arrested in Baltimore and held for extradition. Unlimited funds have been placed at his disposal with which to tight extradition URGE ACTIVE OPPOSITION TO THE KU KLUX KLAN New York City, Jan. 3—Strong resolutions denouncing the Ku Klux Klan and calling for cooperation with organizations actively combating it were adopted last Tuesday night at the closing session of the annual convention of the Mu Sigma fraternity. Fourteen hundred members attended. HAITIAN SOLDIERS BECOME CRACK SHOTS Port-Au-Prince, Jan. 5.—One year ago the gendarme could not hit a mark at 100 yards distance, but today scores of Haitians can be found who are crack marksmens. The champion shot of Haiti is Sergeant Astrale Rolland of Jerminie, firing 50 shots in strings of 10, both slow and rapid fire, in the standing, kneeling and sitting positions, scored a total of 224 out of a possible 250 in the president's match, and in the national team match he was high gun with 234 out of 250. It is well within the range of possibility that Haiti will be represented in the 200-meter international rifle match that will be shot in the United States sometime this year. BISHOP TERMS K. K. K "CURSE OF COUNTRY" Memphis, Tenn., Jan 5—Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, speaking before the Lions Club at a noonday luncheon last Thursday, denounced the Ku Klux Klan as "the curse of the country and an anti-society organization." He recalled an incident some months ago in Dallas, Texas, when he saw 4,000 klansmen march in a parade down one of the principal streets of the Texas metropolis. His scorching remark relative to this group of men came as a climax to his talk. He said these men carried banners favoring religious intolerance. "The trouble with our religion is too many donts. We must have some positive do's and take positive, but religious steps to rid the country of this ungodly blight," he declared. AGED BLIND MAN MADE WEALTHY BY OIL LANDS Louisiana, Who Has Cleaned Up Over $60,000 in Royalties, Evinces Little Surprise Over Suddenly Accumulated Wealth. IS FATHER OF 15 CHILDREN Sheveport, La., Jan. 5.—Sitting in the blackness of eternal night, for many years ago he lost the sight of both eyes, Wright Rock of De Soto parish 75 years old, on whose land oil was discovered recently, takes calmly the sudden change in his fortune which has elevated him to the ranks of the financially independent. Father of Fifteen. Born in slavery times, "Uncle Wright", as he is affectionately called, hardly realizes that the two Rock wells in section 32-12-11, completed as large oil wells on his farm by A. H. Tarver, are bringing him daily far more money than he ever hoped as a return from the truck of his little farm. The lands at present have returned him a profit of close on to $60,000. He is the father of fifteen children, all but two of whom long ago left the paternal roof. A "Matter of Course". When informed of his wealth upon completion of the first well, and asked what he was going to do with the money, the old man said, "Well, I guess, I'll just buy me a few clothes and something to eat." Besides the original lease money which he received for the eighty-acre tract on which the Tarver wells are located, Rock receives a one-eighth royalty from the production and other wells will be drilled, it is said. The wells already producing are making an aggregate of 2,500 barrels. BIG DINNER GIVEN BY DANCING PARSON Kingfisher, Okla., Jan. 5.—The poor, blind, maimed, orphans and widows of the race here enjoyed a huge feast on December 22nd last through the generosity of the Rev. Apostle Paul Sykes, familiarly known as the "Dancing Parson". The ministers and church people here question Sykes' methods of securing funds for his charitable acts and regard him as a queer fanatic, but this does not deter him from his methods. It is said that Sykes meets all the trains coming in here and sings and dances for the showers of small change from the car windows. For a number of years he has been giving a feast to the dependents in the city. He uses the money he gets at the railroad station for charitable purposes and supplements that money throughout the year with offerings and donations secured from businessmen. MASKED BANDITS ROB BISHOP B. F. LEE IN HIS HOME Wilberforce, O., Jan. 5.—Two heavily masked bandits entered the home of Bishop B. F. Lee, senior bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church, last Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock and after covering Bishop Lee, his wife and daughter with guns robbed them of a considerable amount of money and escaped. It is said the burglaries boldly entered the front door of the house while the bishop and his family were reestering after dinner and while one of the men guarded Bishop Lee, another went through his clothes. They also picked up a purse containing $50 belonging to Miss Lee, and another containing a small amount of money belonging to Mrs. Lee. GROWING THANK YOU STIRRING UP FANGS OF RACIAL HATRED, DECLARES HYLAN New York Mayor Requests President Harding to Stop Publication Attempting to "Awaken Race Prejudice." DUTY OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY Brands as Absolute Falsehood Statement That He Instructed Police of New York to Shoot Klansmen. New York, Jan. 5—President Harding Thursday was requested by Mayor Hylan to stop the publication of Colonel Mayfield's weekly Ku Klux Klan paper published in Texas. The request was made on the ground that the paper was deliberately disseminating race hatred. “There is a blatant display of race hatred and religious prejudice in this paper and considerable misstatements”, the mayor wrote the President. “As an example of the latter Mayfield alleges in his newspaper that I have issued orders to the police to shoot klansmen. Such an accusation is both wilfully wicked and absurd.” Mayor Hylan attacked the Ku Klux Klan and their efforts to “awaken race prejudice”, and concludes: "Is it not the duty of rocaler authorities to check the activities of those who would destroy the peace and happiness and prosperity of the people of this nation? Does there not rest upon them the inexorable duty of repressing every attempt to incite religious prejudice and racial hatred? I respectfully urge that if an examination of a complete file of the issues of Colonel Mayfield's weekly bears out the sinister motives for which this publication is apparently disseminated, official action be taken by the Attorney General and the Postmaster General to suppress the sheet, and to proceed against its publisher, Earl B. Mayfield, the Democratic Senator-elect of the state of Texas." The Rev. E. H. McDonald Overcome by Gas in Garage and Unconscious for Several Hours. Last Monday the Rev. E. H. McDonald, pastor of Mt. Morlah Baptist church, while working in his garage was overcome by gas, and had just presence of mind and strength enough to make his way into the house, where he collapsed and was unconscious for several hours. Dr. D. W. Gooden was called and worked deligently and skillfully to revive him. His flock and many friends are rejoicing that Dr. McDonald providently escaped what might have been a fatal accident. CHICAGO RIOTS OF 1919 TO COST OVER $500,000 Chicago, Ill., Jan. 5.—The 1919 race riots will cost Chicago more than $500,000 in addition to its share of the expense of maintaining 6,000 state troops nine days, it was estimated last week, after eighteen death claims, aggregating $81,000, were approved by the city council's finance committee. The city previously had paid $20,800 for five other deaths. Fifteen death claims remain unsettled. During the riots, according to an investigating commission, 542 persons were injured, 178 white, 348 colored and seventeen of unidentified race. NATIONAL CONGRESS TO HOLD BIG MEETING Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 5.—A national convention for the race under the auspices of he Negro National Educational Congress, will be held in Washington, March 5-9th, according to the announcement of J. Silas Harris, president of the organization, recently. Matters of national interest to the race will be discussed and delegates by governors of several states will be named. The organization claims membership in forty-two states. PEEKSKILL SEES FIERY CROSSES Peekskill, N. Y., Jan. 5. (Crusader Service.)—Police of this city were notified that several large flaming crosses, supposed to have been lighted by the Ku Klux Klan, were seen late Tuesday night on the hill slides around Peekskill. CYCLONE KILLS FOUR Jackson, Miss., Jan. 4.—When a cyclone passed over Champion Hill, between Bolton and Edwards, Miss., late last Wednesday night four Negroes were killed and several thousand dollars damage was done to property in that section. Don't sneer at the man who fails, but remember that he at least dared to try. THE M A National Weekly Newspaper I of Colored THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newpaper 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 at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. 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All persons born or naturalized in the Unite and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizen United States and of the State wherein they re state shall make or enforce any law which shall all privileges or immunities of citizens of the United S shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty erty without due process of law, nor deny to an within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the l 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. THE ASSOCIATED MEMBER OF MICRO PRESS FIRST IN SERVICE "OLD FOGYISM"—BUT SOUND We are willing to admit that some of our views on certain subjects fall under the ban of what many "progressive" (?) and younger folk call "old fogyism". Now, by "old fogyism" they mean old-fashioned, and therefore outgrown views concerning morals, character and conduct. Conduct, you know, is the outward manifestation of character, and character is founded upon certain well-defined moral principles. Not only so, character is formed by the strict observance of what many consider iksome rules, and the restrictions, responsibilities and courtesies placed upon us in our intercourse one with another first in the home and then in larger circles such as school, the church and society at large. "Old fogyism" believes that these principles and disciplinary restrictions and limitations are basic and cannot be disregarded without serious loss. For example, "old fogyism" believes that "those who dance must pay the fiddler." That when young people, or older folk, for that matter, spend the night in dissipation, that they must pay the price in impaired health and in lowered standards of self-respect. And by dissipation we do not necessarily mean intoxication and sensual indulgence. It may be perfectly legitimate and proper recreation and enjoyment, but CARRIED TO EXCESS. In fact we believe that there is greater danger in legitimate recreation, CARRIED TO EXCESS, than in that which is admittedly questionable. Questionable conduct and recreation shock and disgust all who are not hardened, while inordinate pursuit of lawful pleasure insidiously undermines the moral fibre. As a case in point, we believe that it is a serious mistake to permit young people between the ages of say fourteen and twenty to remain at parties until one and two o'clock in the morning. That is what we mean by carrying legitimate recreation to excess. Young people of these ages should assemble early in the evening and leave for home not later than eleven o'clock. This enables them to get their needed rest and does not place them in the category of common night revelers. Young people and old should have recreation. Parties for our young folk, under proper home conditions, are to be encouraged and by no means discouraged. They should have their dances, properly conducted, and other forms of social recreation, but it should be seen that these are confined to reasonable hours, say between 8 and 11 p. m., and not continued, as is becoming customary, far beyond the hour of midnight. Yes, we know this is "Old fogyism"—but it is sound as to principle and fact, and those who act upon it will not regret it. RADICALISM THAT rampant radicalism is striving to make converts among our group is not to be denied by those who keep abreast of the times. It is very natural, too, that these disciples of discontent, much of it admittedly justified, should believe that among American Negroes a fertile soil for their doctrines should be found, because they know that this group holds high rank among the victims of injustice and discriminatory social conditions. They know that in many sections we are denied justice in the courts, and all over the land we are subjected to many civil disabilities and the dental of the common civil rights accorded all other classes of American citizens and even to foreigners and aliens. That we are dissatisfied with these conditions they well know and, therefore, naturally conclude that we will be quick to ally ourselves with forces, even of revolutionary tendencies, which promise to treat us fairly and to relieve us of these irksome conditions. That they are making some converts among our people is undoubtedly true, but as yet, their number is negligible. There are easily discoverable reasons for this. And chiefly because we are naturally a Page Two INSTITUTION OF THE STATES. Not to Be Abridged. 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. conservative and law-abiding people. We are not easily stamped by any movement which seems to be radical and revolutionary. For this reason sovietism will not make rapid progress among our people; and even if it should get a headway, fair and just treatment upon the part of our more conservative and stable fellow American citizens would speedily retard it. Despite our conservative tendencies and predilections it is not safe to presume that continued and persistent discrimination and injustice may now have a regrettable issue. TRIFLES. IT is remarkable what trifles will lead to estrangement between friends, estrangements which it seems almost impossible to overcome. The real fact is we do not honestly try to overcome them. Our offended pride makes most of us arrant moral cowards wanting courage to confess it when we are wrong. Review the things that have brought estrangement and perhaps bitterness into your life and see if after all they were not mere trifles and not large and worthwhile things. Paris, France, Jan. 5.—The nefarious American Ku Klux Klan is not wanted in France and will have a difficult time gaining a foot hold in this country, according to Paris newspapers. It is said that these vigorous denunciations of the klan in the papers came as a result of a report that the "Imperial Giant" Edward Young Clarke plans to place the organization all over the world and that he will soon open headquarters in London. "The American Ku Klux Klan will not find any welcome in continental Europe," said the Echo de Paris. "It is an organization of such character as is not wanted on this side of the Atlantic," said another paper. "It is a detestable sect of crazy Puritans," said L'Intransigent. "They are responsible for assassinations, burning; and destruction of churches filled with religious treasures. It is a mysterious society, working in the dark, committing crimes for which the perpetrators are never punished." "Newspapers from the United States of late date have ebeen filled with dis patches detailing the horrifying activities of the Ku Klux Klan, which cannot help but make real Americans bow their heads in shame to know that such a wanton set of men have banded themselves together in their country for the purpose of secretly breaking law," said another writer. INCENDIARIES BURN BARN OF RICH NEGRO PLANTER Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 5—The police department received a call early last Tuesday morning from Jesse Branch, a wealthy Negro planter, living about 12 miles out on the Little Rock-Hot Springs highway, requesting that bloodhounds be sent to track persons who burned his barn. Branch said his barn was destroyed about 11:30 o'clock at night, the origin of the fire being unknown. He said several other barns in that community had been destroyed within the past few months and that the fires were of mysterious origin. Branch lost all his feed, farming implements, horses, two cows and a new wagon. PROHI GETS CAPITOL Washington, D. C., Jan. 2—The determined drive to keep "thirst-quenchers" out of the capitol building caused a waiter in the capitol restaurant to be cut off the government payroll. It is said that this waiter was doing such a land office business taking care of the members of congress during the holiday season that he got a little careless and dropped a flask of "shine" on the marble floor. This was Land of the White Rajahs (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) A country such as might have been the creation of the imagination of a Rider Haggard is Sarawak, on the island of Borneo—the land of the white rajahs. There, in a territory larger than Ohio, an English hereditary rajah rules over a population of 600,000 Malays, Dayaks and Kayans, with a sprinkling of Chinese and other Far Eastern peoples. And he rules in an exceedingly common sense way. Three rajahs of an English family named Brooke have ruled over Sarawak since 1839—uncle, nephew and the son of the latter. It has been the aim of each, as the first rajah stated it, "to rule for the people and with the people, and to teach them the rights of freemen under the restraints of government." Harmful customs, such as head-hunting, have been discouraged or prohibited, but not one of their harmless activities, however bizarre to the western mind, has been interfered with. And though the white rajahs have endeavored to develop trade, they have set their faces resolutely against anything that smacked of the exploitation of their people by either Europeans or Asiatics. The Sarawak jungle, inhabited by what westerners would call "savages," is better protected than many forests of the United States. The jeluton tree, for example, yields a valuable gum, but is easily killed if improperly tapped. Inspectors have been appointed by the government to insure the proper handling of this important natural resource. Even butterflies—and the country is the home of some of the most beautiful of these insects—are protected by the Sarawak game laws. The history of the white rajahs of Sarawak began in 1839. At that time the Dutch occupied the southern portion of Borneo, while the northern part of the island was hominally under the rule of the Sultan of Brunei. Once Ruled by Brunel. Many years before, Brunel had been one of the strongest kingdoms of the Malayan archipelago. Its sultans had conquered a large part of Borneo, as well as several of the southern islands of the Philippines, industry was encouraged and an extensive trade with China was developed. But luxury and corruption had done their work until there remained only a degenerate sultan, with a refine of licentious Malayan nobles, whose sole occupation was to rob the people in order to cater to the pleasures of their master. The sultan's capital was, and remains today, the town of Brunel, about 200 miles from the northern extremity of Borneo. In the days of its glory, when the surrounding hills were covered with pepper gardens and wealthy merchants came in annually in flocks of junks laden with the riches of China, the town may have merited in some degree its appellation of the Venice of the East; but for the past century it has been nothing more than a few score of small wooden houses built on piles on a muddy bank which is bare at low tide, exposing an accumulation of refuse from which a stench arises that is a novelty even to one who has become accustomed to the varied odors of the East. Sarawak was inhabited chiefly by Malays, Land Dayaks and Chinese, and had, at times, been independent under Malay rulers; but in 1839 its government was in the hands of a vassal of the sultan, the Rajah Muda Hasim, weak and incompetent, but apparently an amable man, not entirely devoid of humanitarian instincts; for he did, on one occasion, avail himself of an opportunity to render timely assistance to some shipwrecked English sailors. This event was the cause of James Brooke's first visit to Sarawak, which too much for the thirsty guests who could not stand to see the "precious stuff" running wild on the floor. Instead of "crying over spilled milk," they simply called the waiter a common bootlegger and he was promptly fired. The "flask episode" was reported to the Senate Rules committee and the matter investigated after which the waiter was deprived of his job. It is said the fatal accident occurred in the public dining room section of the cap- THE MONITOR of the Rajahs Which Fighting Cocks Are Armed. THE BRANDEIS STORE January White Sales Eclipsing all Other Sales of their Kind Heretofore Held in This Big Store During These Great Sales You Will Find in the Many Departments Participating Mountains of White Merchandise in Magnificent Array led to his great work there and the establishment of the white rajahs. **Advent of the Brookes.** This action of the rajah was so unusual that the governor of Singapore and the Singapore chamber of commerce resolved to recognize his generosity by sending presents and a letter of thanks. James Brooke, the son of Thomas Brooke of the East India company civil service, was chosen to carry out this mission. He sailed from Singapore in July, surveyed parts of the coast of what was destined to become his domain, finding its position so much in error that he was "obliged to clip some hundreds of miles of habitable land off the charts." Bought When the Market was Low,We Will Sell This Merchandise on the Present High Market On the 15th of August he anchored in the Sarawak river, at the town of Kuching, where he was well received by Hasim. After six weeks he departed, greatly to the regret of Hasim, whose confidence he had won. Since we bought most of this merchandise the price of raw cotton has increased more than $25\%$. And the price continues to go upward. The prices of silks and lineas have likewise increased. But in the January White Sales The Brandeis Store customers will buy this merchandise at the low market prices, thus profiting by our early and advantageous purchases. Mr. Brooke again sailed from Singapore on August 18, 1840, for Manila, intending to pay only a short visit to Hasim on the way; but he found his former friend distracted by rebellion in his country, which he was powerless to control. The visitor reluctantly consented to give assistance in restoring order. A Large Percentage of This Merchandise Has Been Bought Through Great Concessions Made to Us, and We Will Offer It to Our Customers Accordingly. In return for this service, Hasim agreed to give Mr. Brooke the government and trade of Sarawak, with the title of Rajah; for Hasim, who was his presumptive to the throne of Brunei, foresee his own prestige heightened if he could return to Brunei, leaving Sarawak pacified in Mr. Brooke's control. During This Sale in Addition to the Low Prices Made Possible Through Special and Early Purchases, All White Merchandise Has Been Marked at a Much Closer Margin, Thus Giving Our Customers Extraordinary Advantages. But when Hasim saw his country at peace as the result of Brooke's efforts, he forgot his obligations to the visitor and convived in a plot against the latter. This failed, however, and he was obliged to fulfill his agreement and proclaim Brooke rajah and governor of Sarawak in September, 1841. The Sultan of Brunei confirmed the deed given by Hasim and presently also acknowledged Rajah Brooke's complete independence. The Departments Now Being Featured in These Sales are Linens, Domestics, Wash Goods, Philippine Underwear, Laces and Embroideries Rajah Brooke was recognized as an independent sovereign by the United States in 1850 and by Great Britain in 1863. Sir James Brooke died in 1868, naming as his successor to the raj his nephew, Charles Brooke. Sarawak was made a British protectorate in 1888. What the People Are Like. In addition to these, the following departments will feature white merchandise: SILKS, INFANTS' WEAR, FANCY GOODS, KNIT UNDERWEAR, NECKWEAR, CORSETS, BLOUSES, HOSIERY and NOTIONS. With most of the Sarawak tribes, personal clemness is the rule, and the Dayaks have been known to comment on a white traveler to the effect that, although he seemed to be otherwise all right, he did not bathe quite as frequently as they considered necessary. They are a fine race physically and delight in personal adornment, in which they show excellent taste in the use of colors for the chawat, or join cloth, and for the bead necklaces and headaddress. ```markdown ``` Western Funeral Home Established by the late Silas Johnson 2518 Lake Street Continuing the same considerate efficient service John Albert Williams, Executor Webster 0248 In common with the other tribes of Borneo, their houses are long communal dwellings built on posts 8 or 9 feet from the ground, a passageway on one side giving access to the rooms, each of which is occupied by one family. The Land Dayaks, unlike the other tribes, also build a square house on very high posts, considerably above the level of the "long house." It is called the "head house" from the fact that in it are kept the heads which they have taken from their enemies. There are three fairly well defined social classes in the Kayan house: The upper class, comprising the chief and his relatives, occupy rooms in the middle of the long house; the middle class, whose members are not related to the chief, occupy rooms on both sides adjoining, while the rooms at each end of the house are occupied by the slaves—that is, the descendants of those captured in war. itol restaurant. Thus the waiter lost his job for extreme carelessness. NOAH D. WARE, ATTY. NOTICE OF PROBATE WILL In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, in the matter of the estate of John H. Costello, Deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court, praying for the probate of a certain instrument now on file in said Court, purporting to be the last will and testament of THEATRE A talented miss who will help "The Radio Girls" in broadcasting fun and harmony from the popular Gayety twice daily all next week. RIGHT NOW is a Good Time to Pay Your Subscription to THE MONITOR Page Four EMMA A talented miss who will help "The harmony from the popular Gay ST. PAUL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Twenty-sixth and Seward Streets— Russel Taylor, Pastor. Services Sunday were not as well attended as we should like to have seen them, though they were spiritually good and profitable. Pastor and choir assisted by Mrs. J. H. Hutten and Mrs. Irene Mills, went over to the Third Presbyterian church, Twentieth and Leavenworth streets, at ten o'clock p. m. where they were cordially received by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Jordan, and his congregation. For nearly an hour they were kept singing portions of the cantata, "The Nazarene", to the very evident enjoyment of the large congregation. The St. Paul male quartet, reduced to a trio on account of the illness of Elbert Taylor, was also continuously encored in their singing of some of the Negro spirituals. They remained to the close of the services at 12 o'clock. Sunday will be our quarterly communion service. There will be special music, and public reception of members. The topic for the communion and New Year thought will be, "Doing the Impossible". At 7:30 p. m. the topic for consideration will be, "The Guide Board Psalm". This will be a consecration meeting for the Christian Endeavors. The first Psalm will be taken up and carefully considered and its beautiful teaching, worked out as a guide-board for the year and for life. All should make special effort to be present. The pastor will conduct the meeting. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS GOES TO INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 5—This city will entertain the Sunday School Congress June 13-18, 1923, according to an announcement made here this week coming from Rev. Henry Allen Boyd of Nashville, Tennessee, and confirmed by Doctors B. F. Ferrell, Lewis, Morris and others, who are already making preparations to take care of the throng of Sunday School workers that will be in attendance. There will be an Entertainment Committee, Reception Committee and a Committee on Homes. It will be the Mecca of Sunday School workers for the year. The announcement was created as a New Year present to the Baptist forces of the city and state. The Rev. Henry Allen Boyd was in Indianapolis Sunday, the 17th, but not a word came from hib about the Congress, although Indianapolis was bidding with other cities. It was thought that since he dropped no word here, that she had lost her chance. The announcement created general satisfaction, and the Baptist leaders are being congratulated on this opportunity to entertain the National Gathering that is to be held in this city. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Christmas night the children's program and tree proved a happy affair. Wednesday night the Cial Club gave an entertainment known as the feast in the Wilderness which was largely attended and a neat sum realized. Thursday evening the New Era Baptist Sunday School Convention held a joint session. A luncheon was served at 6:30. The program had some good numbers. The subject we do not devote enough time to, the Social Side of our Sunday School, was opened by our Superintendent, Mrs. D. W. Gooden, and was discussed by several. It was well presented and ought to have every Church and Auxiliary's deepest RIGHT NO Subs consideration. The Rev. Dr. Botts and Rev. E. H. McDonald made addresses which gave us much encouragement. The following are the slated meetings: Monday night, the Brotherhood; Tuesday night, Pastor's Aid; Wednesday night, Mid-Week Prayer Service, Thursday afternoon, 3 o'clock; Mission Circle, at the church; Friday night, Choir Rehearsal, Sunday School at 3:00; Preaching at 11; Evening B. Y. P. U. at 6:30; Preaching at 8. R. E. H. McDonald, Pastor, Mrs. Anna Owens, Reporter. THE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE As the Baptist brethren were holding a convention, the alliance was not as largely attended as it usually is. Reports made by those present concerning their work were full of encouragement. The attention of the alliance being called to the fact that it was largely circulated that the alliance refused to officiate at the funeral of the late Rev. John H. Costello, it was unanimously decided that in as much as no presentation was made to the alliance as a body concerning this matter, the charge was without foundation. Every minister present stated that he would have officiated had he been so requested. If any minister belonging to the alliance, being requested, refused to officiate, that was that minister's privilege acting as any other individual, and should in no wise be charged to the alliance. And after all it is the life a man lives and not sermons that count most, it matters not what walk of life they be if. The evil men do live after them, the good is often intertwined with their bones, as true of ministers as other men. As true today as in the days of Caesar BUSH, TAYLOR President. CASE AGAINST LEWIS, TAXI OWNER, IS DISMISSED Joseph D. Lewis, owner and operator of a line of taxis, who was arrested in November upon the complaint of Mrs. Harold Bell, white, who accused him of striking her in the face, and was sentenced by Judge Wappich to thirty days, but appealed the case to the district court, was dismissed by Judge Stauffer last Friday morning. The case was called for Thursday in Judge Day's court, but no one appearing against Mr Lewis, it was continued until Friday, Judge Stauffer being on the bench. No witnesses again appearing the judge dismissed the case. The statement made by Mr. Lewis and his witnesses in police court, as Monitor readers will recall, was to the effect that Mrs. Bell reached into his car and struck him in the face and as she attempted to strike him again he pushed her back. The complainant's mother testified at that time that she did not see Mr. Lewis strike her daughter. COMMERCIAL CLUB HOLDS IMPORTANT MEETING The Colored Commercial Club held an enthusiastic and well attended meeting Thursday night at the headquarters, 2414 Maple street. Nate Hunter, the president, presided and made an excellent address outlining the purposes and plans of the club. Preceeding the general meeting an important session of the executive committee was held and many vital matters taken under consideration. Several new members joined and the outlook for a successful year is most promising. For sixty days the admi- sion fee of $5.00 will be suspended and new members will be admitted simply upon paying the quarterly assessment for the quarter beginning January 1st and ending April 1st. A membership drive is being made and judging from the report made Thursday night there will be a surprisingly large enrollment within the next sixty days. The executive committee meets on the second Thursday night in the month and the whole membership on the fourth Tuesday. ANOTHER BRAND NEW SHOW "The Radio Girls" Will Broadcast Fun and Harmony from the Popular Gayety Theatre. Theatre-goers who make it a practice of attending the better class offering of musical burlesque cannot well afford overlooking the popular Gayette theatre next week when Sum Williams' "Radio Girls" comes to that house as a splendid example of the better-class offerings being presented this season by the Columbia Amusement Circuit. "The Radio Girls" offers a unique and entertaining show in combination of extravaganza, vaudeville and burlesque. Its producers have prepared it with infinite care as to cleanliness and entertaining values, inserting much of appeal to all members of the amusement seeking family. Aside from the comedy, melody and action with which it is filled, there will be an up-to-date fashion show for mother and the girls; a fairy tale plot for the kiddies and a world of clean, wholesome humor for father and the boys. Billy Gilbert is featured comedian in a large assemblage of singers, dancers and purveyors of jolity. A chorus of twenty handsome song and dance maledicts will be of striking aid in presenting "Isle of Adventure" to best advantage—for musical numbers in novel assemblage will be some of the most attractive "adventures" in the lot. These girls really dance, carrying along one number in which they step along with the stage all to themselves. Alice Carmen, the prima donna; Arlone Johnson, ingenee, and Emma Wilson, dancing soubrette, will be leaders of the ladies' fair. Costuming of brillancy and dazzling in color combinations will be a feature of the Sim Williams' show that has wrapped up a lot of his money for appeal to the eye of ladies who now flock to burlesque in large numbers. Sunday's matinee starts at 3:000. Matinee daily all week at 2:15. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Wm. Franklin, Pastor. The morning attendance was unusually large. Quite a number of strangers were present. The pastor's topic was "Walk Through Life With God." Two persons united with the church. Several new members have joined the choir which is making excellent progress under the training of the Rev. Russel Taylor. A capacity congregation filled the church for the Watch Night service at which an interesting program was given. Mr. C. Adams entertained the Alabama Club at his home, 1313 North Twenty-sixth street, Tuesday night, January 9th, at which time the annual election of officers will be held. The Lone Star Club held their annual meeting at the home of Mr. N. J. Winston, 2862 Corby street, Monday night. The following officers were elected: N. J. Winston, governor; LenaEwing, secretary, and Ida Winston, treasurer. The sum of $532 was raised by the club during the year. MAN. VICTIM OF HOLDUP. DIES Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 5—Hy. Walker, aged 25 years, died last Monday in the West Penn hospital here after he had been taken from a boarding house operated by Mrs. Anna Chandler in Spring Way. After the death of Walker and when his body was taken to the morgue, it was reported that he had been attacked by holdup men and beaten on Penn avenue near the police station on Christmas night. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH 25th and R St. Market 3475 O. J. Bukhaskh. Market 3475 O J. Burkehardt, Foster. Sunday, which was a marker on the dial of eternity for the outgoing and incoming year, was indeed a high day with us. There gere great appreciative audiences at both morning and evening services. The climax was reached in the closing of the evening service when the pastor made a pathetic appeal to the sinner not to carry their sins over into the New Year. Quite a number came forward and one precious mother gave heart to God just before the dial recorded the passing of the old year. We expect interesting services Sunday. Our sick are getting along nicely. Mother Helm, Natley Hawkins and Laura Jefferson are all improving. THE MONITOR THE OBSTACLE BY MYRA WINGATE © by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Drawing in his breath with the labored effort of a runner finishing a race, Kenneth concluded the ancient story of Moses, who, descending the mountain with the tables of stone upon which were graven the Ten Commandments, found his people worshiping the golden calf. The boy laid the book of children's stories upon the grass and fell back exhausted. "How do you spouse he got down the mountain with two stone tables?" marveled Katherine. "The legs must have got in his way awfully." "He was strong," returned Kenneth, thoughtfully. "I tell you, I bet they were like Aunt Mary's marble-topped table—not stone all over. I could lug that down the mountain," he added. "Maybe you could bring it down, but how would you get it up?" she asked skeptically. "Well, you could help me," he conceded. On the veranda Mr. Tallant tried to be adviser and sympathetic friend, while he longed to be the true lover that he was. The longing which occasionally crept into his voice he sternly repressed. "I'm afraid of the money," Christine was saying vigorously. "I want the twins to be useful people, with something to do and the will to do it—not mere spenders." To spend Aunt Mary's fortune wisely was proving a greater problem to the girl than to make the small resources left by her parents, with her own salary, cover their needs. "Money is a responsibility," agreed the young man absently. "It can open avenues of usefulness, or it can be an obstacle to—" He did not finish the sentence but continued to look dreamily at the girl's attractive profile. There was amusement, exasperation, and a hint of wistfulness in Christine's glance. "Obstacles, yes! And each must learn to overcome his own," she answered, adding with a glance behind her at Aunt Mary's pillared portico, "I haven't dared to change our way of living much since we came here. I'm afraid Keth and Kath will learn to think too much of money." "A great obstacle," murmured Tallant. Christine turned upon him fiercely. "Can't you say anything else?" she demanded. "It's almost as jolly as entertaining a parrot." "You are quite right," he said. "I'd better go now, and call some other day when I've acquired a new idea." He was pale and grave. Their friendship of long standing seemed about to be wrecked upon the great obstacle. He could never ask a girl with a fortune of half a million to marry a country minister. "Don't be a goose," said Christine. A piercing shriek stilled the healing laughter, that followed. Tallant crossed the lawn in long bounds, Christine racing beside him. Across the field and up the height they speed, to the spot where Katherine stood wringing her hands over Kenneth, whose white blouse was reddening with terrifying rapidity. They worked swiftly, knell among the ruins of Aunt Mary's marble-topped table, to stanch the flow of blood and to reassure the frightened children. Later the little sister crouched outside the door waiting until the doctor came out, followed by Tallant and Christine. She listened to crisp instructions and words of encouragement before she pushed a packet of papers into Christine's hand. "There was a little hidey-hole in the top of Aunt Mary's table under the stone," she explained. "Keth fell and the stone broke an' cut him. The letters were in the little hole." Christine stared, fascinated, at the penciled word "Will" on the outside of the package. "Would it be right to look at it?" she asked Tallant. "Surely," he answered. The words that at first blurred, resolved themselves into Aunt Mary's instructions that of her large fortune $50,000 should go, in equal shares, to her grand-necies, Christine and Katherine, and her grand-nephew, Kenneth. The rest was apportioned among certain charities. "Fifty thousand dollars is not an obstacle," remarked Christine, with dancing eyes. "It may be as bad as five hundred thousand," returned Tallant stubbornly. Mere human patience gave way. Christine stamped her foot. "Irael Putnam Tallant, divide fifty thousand by three! Reckon the interest on it at six per cent! Remember that I have a ten-year-old brother and sister to bring up! Do you think a woman has no pride? Oh, I've no patience! This is the end." The gloomy vanished from Israel Putnam Tallant's face. He took one long step and caught her in his arms. "I need you, Keth, Kath and cash notwithstanding," he announced. "This is just the beginning." A broken murmuring from the next room hushed their voices. "What did he say, nurse?" asked Christine, tipping inoep. "He says," returned the nurse with a puzzled look, "that he doesn't believe there were legs on Moses" tables. Don't be alarmed, Miss Chase. He's just coming out of the ether." LINCOLN COMMENT Mrs. Henry Crews and daughter, Miss Valeria, spent the holidays with relatives at Junction City, Kansas. Mr. C. Brewer returned from a visit to his mother at Minneapolis, Minn., last Friday. Miss Mabel Dorsey returned to her home in St. Joseph, Mo. last week. Miss Frances Hill spent a few days in Omaha last week. Mr. and Mrs. Lora P. Gates entertained a party of twenty-eight at their home last Friday night at a Christmas celebration. A fine time was bad. Lebanon Lodge No. 3, A. F. & A. M., held their St. John celebration in the hall last Tuesday night. After a short session, the lodge was called off for refreshments. All Master Masons retired to the luncheon room in company of lady escorts, where a dainty luncheon was partaken of. The hall was tastefully decorated in Christmas colors. Mr. T. T. McWilliams, acting toastmaster, who in short comments introduced each speaker. Invocation was given by Chaplain J. F. Smith. Addresses by Attorney Wm. N. Johnson of Chicago, Mrs. Laura Johnson, W. R. M. of O. E. S. of Nebraska; P. M. A. M., Mrs. Lizzie Woods; M. A. M., Mrs. Cora Thomas; R. M., Mrs. A. G. Smith R. H. Young, M. W. G. M. of Nebraska. Musical selection by Mrs. Izetta Malone. Greetings were exchanged by all lady Masons and Master Masons present, and each returned to their homes well pleased. Misses Ruth Girley and Kathryn Henry of Boge, Kansas, are visiting relatives here. Mr. Horace Colby is home from Detroit, Michigan, visiting his parents. Mrs. May Morris entertained friends at her home last Thursday night in honor of Mrs. J. Sherman Jones and her brother, Wm. N. Johnson, of Chicago. Mrs. Fanny Young attended the Sunday School Superintendents and Teachers Association at Omaha last Thursday night, and reports a very profitable session. Rev. H. W. Botts and Mrs. A. J. Griffin attended a meeting of the Executive Board of the New Era Baptist Association at Omaha this week. Mrs. Alma Wiley and Milton Johnson have returned from a visit with their parents at St. Joseph, and Plattsburg, Mo. A revival is going on at the Morning Star Baptist Church under Rev. C. W. Wilson. Misses Beatrice Reeves, sister of Mrs. Toby James, and Margaret Omstead of Fort Scott, Kansas, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Toby James during the holidays. The young ladies are teachers in the public schools in their home town. J. C. Collins is out again after a siege of illness. D. L. Oliver has returned from Texas, and brings with him a helpmate. The Plebian Clef Club entertained their husbands last Thursday night at the home of the President, Mrs. A. A. Stanley. About 24 persons were present. Christmas colors were used and a good time had. Services at Mt. Zion Baptist church were all well attended last Sunday. Sunday School had a fine lesson. The pastor delivered a fine sermon about 12, B. Y. P. U. and preaching at night, lasting till 11, when a joyous covenant and praise meeting concluded the service at 12 o'clock, when all returned to their homes glad to see the opening of 1923. The consummation of the railroad contest was held in Wiley hall Monday night, when a glorious meeting and entertainment was held, and the officials of the roads made reports. The sum realized from seven roads was 302.75, which is for the benefit of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church building fund. Mrs. Alice Grant, our oldest member in the church, was promoter in the project and deserves praise for her ambitious efforts for work accomplished. The services at all churches last Sunday were interesting and very well attended. Rev. W. A. McClendon is to aid Rev Frederick Divers in a revival at Omaha this week. READERS—As this is the New Year, and you know you are in debt for The Monitor, you can pay me any time.—W. W. Mosley. The N. A. A. . P. and friends met at the Haddock church, 6th and Steuben streets, at 3 p. m. on New Year's Day, at which time they celebrated the emancipation of the Negro. Rev. J. W. Tutt, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church, was chosen as speaker of the hour. His subject was "What Does Emancipation Mean to Us?" Mr. Leon Smith, formerly of Chicago, who has been attending Morningside College in this city, and Miss Margaret Howell, were united in marriage on December 18th, but kept it a secret until this week, when they departed for Chicago where they will make their future home. Mr. Louis Carter and Miss Ollie Meacham were united in marriage on Saturday, December 30th. Mr. Silas Edmonds and Mrs. Anna Roberts were united in marriage on Thursday, December 28th. Mrs. T. Davis, who has been ill the past few weeks, is reported convalescing at St. Vincent's hospital. The Dames Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Merry Ward on Thursday, January 11th. On January 1 the Elite Shoe Cleaners will be open for business in their new quarters, 511 Nebraska street This shining parlor was formerly located in Davidson Bros. store. Every colored person in the city wishing a shine that is up to date should patronize this place, owned by Mr. McCullom and Mr. Hunter. The Shriners of the F. A. A. Y. M., Cedar Hill No. 80, served a dinner on New Year's Day and had splendid success. First-Class Modern Furnished Rooms—1702 No. 26th St. Web. 4769. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Erwin. FOR SALE at Massey & Cooper—All the leading colored artists' records at fifty-five cents each. Webster 6668.—Adv. To Eddie Vorce, non-resident defendant, you are hereby notified that Arch Vorce, on the 30th day of September, 1922, evidenced a petition of Louis Ferguson in the District Court of Nebraska, wherein he prays to obtain a decree of divorce from you on the grounds of cruelty; and that on the 4th day of January, 1922, the District Court of Nebraska County, Nebraska, entered an order that services of summons in this action may be had upon you, by publication as is provided by the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of Nebraska, for obtaining construction service upon non-resident defendants. You are therefore required to answer plaintiffs petition on or before the 10th day of February, 1923. ARCH VORCE, Plaintiff. 4-1-1-5-23 For Sickness & Accident Insurance Call AUGUST HICKS Tel. Webster 6426 2716 Miami St. With Bankers Accident Insurance Co. Accident CKS Miami St. France Co. N. W. 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