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WERE NEGROES THE FIRST TO DISCOVER AMERICA? $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy WERE State History FIFTY-SEVEN KNOWN LYNCHINGS IN 1922 RECORDED IN U. S. Tuskegee Department of Record and Research Finds Seven Less Mob Victims in 1922 Than in the Previous Year. NINETY PER CENT NEGROES Ten Lynchers Were Convicted and Law Officers Prevented Fifty-Caces of Mob Violence in Various Sections. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Jan. 8 —I send you the following concerning lynching for the past year as compiled at Tuskegee Institute in the Department of Records and Research, Monroe N. Work in charge. I find, not including those killin in strikes, riots, etc., that there were 57 persons lynched in 1922. This is 7 less than the number 64 for the year 1921. Thirty of the persons lynched were taken from the hands of the law; 13 from jails, and 17 from officers of the law outside or jails. I also find that there were 58 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Fourteen of these instances were in Northern States and 44 were in Southern States. In 54 of the cases the prisoners were removed or the guards were augmented or other precautions taken. In the 4 other instances, armed force was used to repel the would-be lynchers. In ten instances, convictions carrying penitentiary sentences were secured against alleged lynchers. Of the 57 persons lynched in 1922, 51 were Negroes and 6 were whites; 19 or one-third of those put to death and then their bodies burned. The charges against those burned to death were: murder; 2; rape; 4. The offenses charged against the whites were: murder; 2; fighting, 1; charges not reported. 3. The offenses charged against the Negroes were: murder; 9 murderous assault; 4; rape, 14; attempted rape, 5; killing officer of the law, 3; horse stealing; 2; being intimate with woman, 2; no special charge, 2; killing man in altercation, 1; striking man in quarrel, 1; robbing and striking a woman, 1; cattle stealing, 1; using insulting language, 1; for being a strike breaker, 1; mistaken identity, 2; indecent exposure of person and frightening women and children, 1; intimidating officer of the law, 1. The nine states in which lynchings occurred and the number in each State are as follows: Alabama 2; Arkansas, 5; Florida, 5; Georgia, 11; Louisiana, 3; Mississippi, 9; Oklahoma, 1; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 18. Very truly yours. R. R. MOTON, Principal. PROMINENT EDUCATOR AND EDITOR PASSES AWAY Kansas City, Jan. 12—J. Dallas Bowser, 77 years old,2400 the Pasea, writer and educator, died early Monday morning, January 1, in his home here. He was born in North Carolina in 1846 and came to Kansas City in 1868. His teaching service included one year in Westport (now Kansas City) and 11 years as principal of Lincoln High School and the Attucks Ward School. He also published the Gate City Press, a Negro publication. He was a strong factor in the life of this city, always gentlemanly, but fearless in standing for the rights of his people. The deceased was a member of the Presbyterian church. He was a prominent Mason. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon with John Lange K. of P. and the U. B. F. Lodges also represented. DIES AT AGE OF 121 Paris, Texas, Jan. 12—John Dunham, who claimed to be one hundred and twenty-one years old, died this week at his home here. He worked for his living up to the time of his death. He boasted never to have known a sick day in his life until pneumonia attacked him. EX-GOVERNOR DEPLORES FAILURE OF DYER BILL New York, Jan. 12—In a letter written to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Ex-Governor Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia states his belief that the Federal Government cannot long delay taking cognizance of the lynching situation in THE MONITOR A. , and deplores the failure of the yer Anti-Lynching Bill in the Senate, where it was held up recently by a filibuster of Southern Democrats. Mr. Dorsey's letter is in part as follows: "I am disappointed that the United States Congress did not pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. "The States have had ample opportunity to pass laws for the prevention of this evil, and have failed to take adequate steps. I very much hope that now the States will exercise their rights, but I have very little hope that this will be the case. I cannot believe that the Federal Government can long delay taking cognizance of the situation, and indeed I hope they will not. Certain it is that the Federal Government should do something if the States in the future fail as in the past." The state of Georgia was second among Lynching states for 1922, having 11. Texas was first, with 18. WOMAN APPOINTED ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF CHICAGO Chicago, Ill., Jan. 12.—Miss Violette N. Anderson was appointed assistant city prosecutor, which took effect on January 1, 1923. Miss Anderson is a graduate of North Division High School, Chicago Athenaeum and Chicago Law School. She was admitted to practice in 1919 and is the only colored woman in active practice at the Illinois bar. RABBI STEPHEN WISE DEFIES KLUXIES IN TALK Annual Meeting of N. A. A. C. P Results in Election of Herbert K. Stockton to Place on the Board of Directos. GIVES $1,000.00 TO ASSOCIATION New York, Jan. 12—Culminating a mass meeting in the Town Hall, New York City, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, held its annual meeting on Jan. 2, 1923. In the election a new member was added to the Board of Directors, Mr. Herbert K. Stockton of the law firm of Height, Smith, Griffin and Deming, whose brief on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was instrumental in procuring a favorable report on the measure by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Branch efforts against segregation in schools in Philadelphia, Boston and elsewhere, and the fight against the Ku Klux Klan and the "Birth of a Nation" film were recited by delegates from Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania, at the afternoon meeting in the Russel Sage Foundation Building. At the night meeting the speakers were Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, Spingar Medalist for 1922 and leader of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders; Rabbi Stephen H. Wise; Dan Kelly, a white Texan, who was sent to Kirvin, Texas, by the N. A. A. C. P. to investigate the burning to death of three Negroes, and James Weldon Johnson, who reported on the fight for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill and asserted a renewed fight for its enactment would be carried on. Rabbi Wise in the course of his address, uttered a stinging rebuke and challenge to the Ku Klux Klan, and characterized as discreditable to the American people, the failure of the Senate to enact the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. "I was warned against coming to this meeting," said Rabbi Wise. "I may say to you that I am infileren to what any member of the Ku Klux Klan may say about me or about my people. Their hatred is my honor; their disraise of my people is its coronation." Rabbi Wise closed his address with an impassioned appeal that colored men as well as white, continue undaunted the fight against oppression. He said: "I come to you tonight as a Jew and a Jewish teacher because I know as few men have had cause to know how injustice hurts, how it galls and how long continued oppression may degrade. I know—without uttering a word of bitterness or of hatred, for I feel none against my oppressors and my people's oppressors—my chief business in life is to move my people to stand erect, to lift their voices to the skies and to know that no matter what the world without may do to them they must keep their souls undefiled. "I come to you tonight as a son and teacher of one of the earliest and oldest races in history who have achieved high culture; I come to you as the scion of a race which gave to the Western World its Bible, old and new; its patriarchs, its kings, its OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1923 Annual Survey of 1922 by Associated Negro Press Shows Substantial Progress PRESENT DAY MESSAGES "No one outside of a group can regulate the ultimate procedure for the inside. The people who must be helped forever are not worthy of being helped at all. The Negro henceforth must walk with his own legs. prophets, its evangelists—the race which gave to the world Abraham and Moses and Elijah and Isaiah and Jesus and John and Paul, the race which gave to the world the things of the spirit by which it lives; and I say to you, members, sons and daughters of the newest, in many senses, of the races who have been suffered to emerge from the darkness, I bid you have courage and fear not. To you I speak the word of Isaiah to my people, 'Fear thou not, my servant; tear thou not, my servant.' "There shall be a minimum of justice and liberty laid at your door, and on the other hand those Americans who, like you and me, love oor country, who believe that America and even-handed justice must be interchangeable terms—we stand with you, we will support you, we will fight with you, lawfully in the American way, not in the lawless way of the lyncher, we will fight with you as men and women until this shame shall have been ended, until lynching shall have forever passed from the vocabulary and the life of the American people. "And you, sons and daughters of the Negro race, will render a great service, a supreme service, to your and my America if instead of bowing your backs beneath the yoke of this foul and fiendish oppression, you say to America: 'We are men; we mean to live as men. Our wrong-doers shall be punished and utterly punished under and by the processes of law; but lynching shall not be the portion of (Continued from Last Week) RELIGIOUS Denominational division continue, but are growing more and more cordial each year. All of the great denominations accept the belief that, after all, "In unity there is strength." The common enemy of prejudice and the altogether too obvious slant of white American Christianity that falls down at the color line, places a task upon religious leaders as well as affords a militant opportunity for cooperation along helpful lines. The Federated Churches of Christ in America, while always working in the interest of general advancement, have seen the importance of more officially recognizing the problem, and Dr. Geo. E. Haynes, of New York, has been made an executive in that big field. It is most encouraging to note the renewed interest in education for Colored America being taken by all the great religious divisions, including the Catholics. The Methodist Episcopal church heads the list in the amount appropriated and expanded, the same being between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. The Episcopalians, Baptists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Catholics are all devoting thousands of dollars and developing remarkably efficient leadership of a high order of intelligence and spirituality for the betterment and progress of Colored America. EDUCATION The Better White South, where the masses of Colored America live, is taking a lively interest at present in education. School buildings are being enlarged and rebuilt; terms are being lengthened, and teachers are being paid better wages. It is progress; but it is not enough. It is still the theory in most places of the South that Colored America should have only a circumscribed education; that high schools and colleges, regardless of taxation requirements, are only for white youths. Gradually the convincing justice of an educated citizenry, regardless of color, is dawning upon the South, and there are outspoken advocates for larger opportunities who are listened to with respect, and the blatant mouthings of destructionists are falling on deaf ears. The colleges and universities conducted by and for Colored America are all crowded beyond capacity. There is a thirst for knowledge that both gratifies and amazes! The situation is remarkable in the face of the everyday fight for recognition in the world's any man, white or black, who lives under the American skies." Mrs. Mary B. Talbert announced for the Anti-Lynching Crusaders that all of their work had been done without drawing any of the funds contributed and that those funds were to be turned over intact and entire to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the anti-lynching campaign. Before the close of the meeting, Mr. Johnson announced the gift by Mr. Philip Peabody of Boston of $1,000 to the N. A. A. C. P. COLORED PHYSICIAN HOLDS AN IMPORTANT OFFICE WITH RAILROAD Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 12.—Dr. J. Edgar Dibble holds the unique distinction of being the first colored physician in America to be appointed to the medical staff of one of the railroad companies. And as an evidence of satisfactory service he received on January first his fifth appointment with the Kansas City Southern railroad as the physician and surgeon to more than 15,000 colored and Mexican employees of that company. Dr. Dibble is also physician to the employees of the Kansas City Bolt and Nut company, and to the members of Local 555 of Builders and Laborers union. This organization alone represents more than 600 members. In addition to the above he was re-appointed first lieutenant in the medical reserve corps, U. S. A., this past June. NEGRO FARM POPULATION IN THE SOUTH 5,044,489 Negro farm population of the South on Jan. 1, 1920, was 5,044,489, based on the last census, the Department of Commerce announced recently. The statement showed that figures included the states of Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia and West Virginia besides the states considered strictly southern. work, but on goes the battle with books, and each year sees an increased number of graduates from all the schools. Northern colleges and universities, where students are admitted solely on merit, continue to have large quotas of students from the group Harvard College, where for years the outstanding principle has been educational equality, has had recent flurries of seemingly changed conditions, but it is proclaimed by those with authority to know, that at heart, Harvard maintains its illustrious traditions. COMMERCIAL PROGRESS AND BUSINESS Colored America has taken to the field of business with a relish that brings inspiration and cheer. Banking, insurance, manufacturing, real estate, general merchandising and, indeed, contact with Wall Street itself, are among the present achievements of Colored America—facing and overcoming the depressing obstacles of 1922—that bids fair to turn up side down the theories that in the promotion of commercial enterprises the Race has woeful limitations. Present achievements in these important fields prove to the world that the limitations have been the result of studied handicaps. Colored America has been held back from the opportunity of getting commercial knowledge and contacts. But the opportunities and needs have become so great within the Race itself that through the force of circumstances alone, these lines have been developed to a most surprising extent in the last year. With all the results to date, the fields are yet virgin soil; they have barely tapped, so to speak, Confidence, more general co-operation, vision and hard work will produce results in the future that will be most gratifying. Aside from the standard professions, the commercial field is making the big opening for the college bred man and woman. With 15,000,000 people to supply with all of the necessities of life, and administer to their welfare and happiness in the multitude of ways afforded commercial progress, at once provides a picture for the imagination that stirs the soul to action. In the commercial field there are contending forces debating the wisdom of using all Colored American capital, all white capital, or a combination of each. There are achievements in each way that are abiding and successful. Urban Influences—It must be noted that the activities of Colored America PRESENT DAY MESSAGES "My chief business in life is to move my people to stand erect, to lift their voices to the skies and to know that no matter what the world without may do to them they must keep their souls undefiled." RABBI STEPHEN WISE. The Negro farm population of the South in 1920 constituted 56.6 per cent of the total southern Negro population. The Negro farm population is said to exceed the white farm population in two states, South Carolina and Mississippi, but the largest Negro farm population for any state was shown for Georgia which has 7.7,205. TWO COLORED ALDERMAN FOR ANNAPOLIS, MD Annapolis, Md, Jan. 12—Though the municipal election will not take place until early in July, the colored voters in the 4th ward are becoming active. Leaders say they are going to elect two colored aldermen this time. The ward is at present represented by J. T. Stephney and a white republican. Mr. Stephney has moved into the third ward. There are about 1,200 colored voters in the fourth ward as against 200 whites, hence the movement to give the race both representatives. Sanders Chase, W. H. Butler, R. P. D. Garver, Dr. Rodney Milner and Henry Valentine are among those mentioned. ALL HOUSES BURNED IN COLOREDSECTION Rosewood, Fla., Jan. 12.—Twelve houses, all that remained of the colored section of Rosewood following the clash between whites and blacks last Thursday night in which seven were killed were fired by a crowd of white men here Sunday afternoon and burned to the ground. are influenced by initiative and results from a number of communities throughout the country. While the chief influencing centers upon the group as a whole are in large cities, speaking nationally, however, smailer centers have demonstrated their ability to focus attention on their achievements, and from them emanates wide reaching activities that produce lasting results and helpfulness. Nationwide attention in the first instance is constantly focused on Chicago, New York and Washington in the order named. Chicago is noted for its economic enterprise and civic freedom; New York for its metropolitan contacts and Washington for its closeness to the seat of government. CIVIC Organization is the new watchword of Colored America. Organization has always been an important factor in the life of the people, but it is becoming more and more practical, efficient, and systematic; it is working with vision and understanding. Organization is a master enemy of prejudice, and forges its way to just recognition. Various bodies that have for a number of years left their impression on the life of the people, continue to serve their needs and afford inspiration to guide their ways. These organizations, civic, professional, fraternal, cooperative and national, are working more and more in harmony with the fundamental faith that actuates all efforts—OPPORTUNITY AND JUSTICE FOR COLORED AMERICA. The opportunities desired are not circumscribed, as some would impress, the opportunities desired are merely the inborn impulses of humanity, the eternal aspirations of the soul. Encouraged by justice, they contribute nobly to the sum total of human welfare and happiness. They look to the achievement, and not to the class; Colored America trembles with regret when American color prejudice denies the right and privilege to rise; reflecting upon their loyalty to the patriotic appeals of America from the beginning of the republic, they are stung to the quick—but not dismayed—by the studied insults and obstacles of hatred placed in the pathway of progress and success. But on they go achieving and achieving, getting a stronger hold year by year. FINALLY Colored America Faces the Future Demanding a Place in the Sun. The achievements of the past are but a Whole Number 392 foretaste of the glories that are to come. There are those in places of power today in the national life of America who are standing on dead men's bones. They flound their destructive views and scatter their seeds of dissension with wavering hands and cynical smiles; they create a discord of tyranny in the symphony of human happiness, but their day of elimination is fast approaching; the black sun of their follied hate is doomed to early setting. Colored America faces the future, covering the face with shame upon the deeds of injustice and inhumanity; pointing with pride to the achievements for the good of all, in the sorry midst of handicaps and unwarranted oppression. The year of 1922 goes down in history as one of achievement extraordinary for Colored America; the record is made, and the die is cast—even God cannot change the past. To Colored America everywhere The Associated Negro Press extends greetings and urges Faith, but with it Work, tireless, unceasing, victorious Work. "Labor Conquers All Things"—and Has Its Own Reward! UNVEIL PAINTING OF PHILIP A PHILIP A. PAYTON New York, Jan. 12—An oil painting of Philip A. Payton, pioneer real estate man of this city, was unveiled at the Association of Trade and Commerce recently. Mr. Payton died at the zenith of his career in 1918. THOUSANDS GATHER TO HONOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN J. H. Pollard of Community Service Speaks on "Man-Making" to Big Audience of Colored People at Hampton University. RACE WINNING NEW FREEDOM Hampton, Va., Jan. 12—Professor J. M. Pollard of Community Service, Incorporated, an honor graduate of the University of Chicago, who for eleven years served as director of the academic department at the St. Paul Normal and Industrial School, Lawrenceville, Va., delivered the Emancipation Day oration, on "Man-Making," in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, before 2000 colored men, women and children in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and under the auspices of the local Emancipation Committee, of which Dr. J. T. Lattimore of Hampton is chairman. Professor Pollard referred to the work of the Hampton colored citizens in raising, within two weeks, almost $2,000 for the Colored Community House in Hampton; made a plea for thinking about the "greater emancipation"; paid a tribute to Abraham Lincoln, "who was partly made by the times in which he lived;" pointed out the responsibility which men and women have as co-workers with God in man-making; showed the relation or such realities as radio, airships and matches to dreams; and outlined some of the difficulties of training men so that they will not steal, will not kill, will not hate. Professor Pollard declared that American Negroes are blessed and must learn, in turn, to make even greater sacrifices for the education of their children. "The kind of men and women we make," he said, "depends on the kind of individuals we wish to make. We can make a race that is strong in the essentials of life." Dr. James E. Gregg, principal of Hampton Institute, in his address of welcome, said: "The deliverance from physical bondage was only the smallest part of the new birth of freedom which came to the Negro in 1863. Lincoln's generous words and deeds were necessary preliminaries; the consummation of the process has been approaching ever since. Complete freedom includes freedom of the spirit as well as freedom of the body." Dr. Gregg referred to Hampton Institute as one of the emancipators of the human spirit and an institution which is carrying on the work which the Emancipation Proclamation began. 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. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Preston are rejoicing over the birth of a fine daughter. GROWING THANK YOU Vol. VIII—No. 28 IERICA? BLACKS, NOT WHITES WERE DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA CLAIM Harvard Professor Creates Mild Sensation at Science Association Convention With Novel Theory. INDIANS OF NEGROID ORIGIN Skull Measurements Establish Fact. According to Scientist That Negroid Types Furnish Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 12.—A new theory of the origins of American Indians which places Negroes or Negro types as their ancestors, was explained in a paper by Professor Roland B. Dixon, white, of Harvard university before the American Association for Advancement of Science in convention here last week. Dr. Dixon's paper, in which he declared that Negroid groups which crossed the Bering Straits were among the American Indians' ancestors, caused a great stir in the anthropology section. From his statements Negroid peoples would appear to have been the first discoverers of America. Others who crossed the Bering Straits thousands of years ago to become the ancestors of the American Indian were people of white stock related to the so-called Caucasian group according to Dr. Dixon. Turkish tribes and other Mongolians and the black Australians blended in various proportions, formed the different races of American Indians. Many tribes, in the opinion of the speaker, were largely Negroid in early times, but underwent transformation by mixing with other tribes, and since the discovery of America, by the infusion of white blood. Based on Skull Measurement. The earliest skulls of the Iroquois and some other Indians show strong Negroid features, continually modified from age to age as the Iroquois extended their power and territory, taking captives from other tribes and absorbing them. The whole theory is based on the minute measurements of tens of thousands of skulls. The different types of man in the old stone age, according to this theory, differed very sharply in the shape of their skulls. The middle type, combining the characteristics of the long heads, and the broad heads, was probably rare in early times and was formed by the blending of sharply differentiated ancient types, according to Dr. Dixon. His method was to measure thousands of Indian skulls of the present day and thousands of years ago in the effort to trace their characteristics to earlier Asiatic and European stock. The formation of the nasal bones played a prominent part in the inquiry. boaz raises objection. Dr. Dixon, who is a scientist of high standing, had barely finished his paper before two noted anthropologists, Professor Boaz, of Columbia Washington, were on their feet to op the United States National Museum at pose him, denying that such far-reaching conclusions could be adduced on the basis of skull measurements, though hailing the paper as an important contribution to anthropology. AMERICAN LEGION IN MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN The Douglas County Post of the American Legion will have a membership campaign January 31, February 1 and 2. It is the hope of the membership committee to get every ex-service man in Omaha to join the Legion. The slogan of the campaign will be "The Call of Your Buddies." "The Legion is doing wonderful work for the disabled soldier, for the ex-service man and his family who might be in need, and is carrying out a systematic Americanization program," said Commander Hird Stryker of the Post. Every ex-service man in Omaha should wear a button—the membership fee is $3.00, and can be mailed to Legion headquarters in the Court House. DYNAMITE WRECKS MINE OPERATED BY NEGROES Kansas City, Jan. 12—Dynamite and fire of incendiary origin wiped out the $30,000 mine operated by the Lambright Coal Company near Carter, Mo., recently. There was no insurance. The Lambright Company was one of the few entirely operated by colored capital in this section. Owners found the outer works dynamited and the fire kindled in the tipple. For the past two years, the company had been working with a full force of men. 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. 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. 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 State 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 ASSOCIATION OF MICRO FILMS FIRST IN SERVICE ENCOURAGING PROGRESS IN the exhaustive review of racial Southern white men, as far as may be yet her problems come, too. "Such a IN the exhaustive review of racial activity for the year 1922 by the Associated Negro Press there is bound to be found abundant grounds for encouragement. It notes encouraging progress along all lines. Despite certain handicaps, which only provoke to more determined effort, Colored America has moved steadily forward. This progress shows self-reliance, self-respect, and the constantly growing determination to be worthy of and secure our right place in American citizenship. Our growing political and industrial independence augur well for the future. With our faces toward the sunrise there is no reason for discouragement. With faith in God, faith in humanity and faith in ourselves we will continue to work out our destiny right here in this land of opportunity and responsibility, for opportunity always includes responsibility. A REMARKABLE ARTICLE THE Monitor desires to call the a THE Monitor desires to call the attention of our readers to a remarkable article in this week's issue of The Nation, one of America's most independent, fair-minded and forceful publications. It is captioned, "Alabama: A Study in Ultra Violet." It is the twentieth of that journal's interesting series on "These United States," which series we hope will eventually be published in book form. The writer is Clement Wood, a native Alabamian, who served the bar of his state with distinction. He is now a resident of New York and an author of note. Thoroughly conversant with the conditions existing between the races in Alabama and throughout the South, Mr. Wood handles his subject of physical intermingling of the races with a frankness, delicacy and courage which is exceedingly rare among men of any group and especially of the dominant race. It takes courage of no mean order to present unwelcome truth as Mr. Wood presents it. He shows how, unfortunately, the white man of the South, from pre-war days until the present time has esteemed it his special privilege to sustain illicit relations with the females of the subject race and that even today the Negro girl has virtually no legal responsibility against her seducer in the dominant race. Upon this point Mr. Wood says: "Worst of all, from the standpoint of the white man's welfare, there is, in the South, apparently no acceptance of responsibility in such a relationship, on the part of the man. The Negro girl, it is said, has no legal recourse. The law in certain states recognizes no such thing as bastardy proceedings of a Negress against a white man. The very intimacy is outlawed; no rights may spring from it. It is no wonder that the Negro girl is easy game; there is no closed season against hunting her. It is easy for the white man to accept the relationship; he assumes no risk. Illegitimacy is always an anomalous relationship, but elsewhere there is a recognized stigma on the father. This abnormal freedom from responsibility is true only of the South. As long at it continues, we may expect the furtive tasting of the flesh-pots of Ethiopia." This illicit relationship, and "that postulate of Southern white thinking, that a Negro woman has no virtue" is due to the fact that "the Southern white man today knows only the lowes type of Negress, that type largely in the majority," and as the writer aptly says, "the low class Negro woman attaches less value to her chastity" than "the growing class of cultured Negro women, sheltered from the Southern white" and "in accepting a white lover, she (the lower type) obeys the deep biological law that woman chooses a mate superior to herself." The writer observes that "this slackness is not confined to the Southern Negro girl; there is much of it among white mill girls, the largest low white class in Alabama." While the cultured Negro woman, of which the writer says there is an increasing class, is sheltered from all 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. Southern white men, as far as may be, yet her problems come, too. "Such a woman, in the main, is sheltered; yet she is never safe. Advances come to her; there is little law to which she can appeal, if a white man invades her home. It is at the risk or his own blood that her husband dare even lay hands on a white man to protect her. Grandfathers have seen lynched for protesting against mistreatment of their young colored granddaughters. The situation of the Negro husband, father or brother, under these not infrequent occurrences, is a hideous dilemma; dishonor or death are the preferred choices. And there is always the threat of the black hour of a race riot, started by some isolated breath of white lust." The writer shows how these conditions are most disadvantageous to the progress and stability of the commonwealth, "which is the offspring of two races, united so furtively and blunderingly that she is immeasurably the loser by her joint parentage." Mental and spiritual sterility are among its baneful progeny. Of course, Mr. Wood's article will be severely criticized, but in laying bare certain hideous sociological facts which the enlightened world should know, fearless writers of this type, are doing the South and the whole country a priceless service. That courageous, broad-visioned white men of the South are baring the truth concerning inter-racial relationships in the South which are wrong and immoral, is gratifying evidence of a desire to correct conditions. We are glad that The Nation has published this article. We hope our readers will secure The Nation and read this remarkable article. WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY THE LONG NIGHT OF "DON'T CARE" ENDED We are selling more and more papers to elderly people, men and women who were here during the war. We are selling more papers to men and women who labor with their hands. It is no stretching of the truth to say that readers of the Negro press are of all occupations, all ages, all aspirations. No more hopeful sign for the future could be given than this. No matter if it is weak, the Negro press strives to represent the better side of the Negro race, and the men and women who want to read about tails are inspired by their own self-respect. There used to be a time when it was common to have a speaker tell "Uncle Tom" jokes before an audience, but not now. If it is not good news, news of worth and progress, it is better left untold before the average Negro audience these days. Men whose ancestry includes governors, captains of business, Revolutionary heroes and other celebrities, feel called upon to do and aspire. Common folk, who spring from no such distinguished line, can be nobody, without comparison with their kin, that makes them feel ashamed. There is some real foundation in truth to the claim that it takes eight generations to make a gentleman. So when we see the Negro, in all ages and classes, taking on pride, we know that at last the thrust upward has begun. The long night of "don't care" is ended. At last the Negro wants everything anybody else wants, and wills to be everything that anybody else is. For a generation they have told the story of the slave sleeping on the cotton bale whose likeness would have adorned the Confederate postage, except for the fear of a southern statesman that he might wake up some day. That fear is now a realized fact. The elderly man who leaves his subscription with a Negro newspaper tells of ambitions unfettered at last. The Negro woman with her clubs, the coun- THE FISHING BOAT Where the Children of Israel Crossed the Jordan. (Prepared by the National Geographic | and honey" appropriate Society, Washington, D. C.) Palestine, home of Christianity, the British mandate for which has just been formally approved by the council of the League of Nations, has probably never been better described than by the late Viscount Bryce, former British ambassador to the United States. In a communication to the National Geographic society, he wrote of the Holy Land as follows: Palestine is a tiny little country. Though the traveler's handbooks prepare him to find it small, it surprises him by being smaller than he expected. Taking it as the region between the Mediterranean on the west and the Jordan and Dead sea on the east, from the spurs of Lebanon and Herman on the north to the desert at Beersheba on the south, it is only 110 miles long and from 50 to 60 bread—that is to say, it is smaller than New Jersey, whose area is 7,500 square miles. Of this region large parts did not really belong to ancient Israel. Their hold on the southern and northern districts was but slight, while in the southwest a wide, rich plain along the Mediterranean was occupied by the warlike Philistines, who were sometimes more than a match for the Hebrew armies. Israel had, in fact, little more than the hill country, which lay between the Jordan on the east and the maritime plain on the west. King David, in the days of his power, looked down from the hill cities of Benjamin, just north of Jerusalem, upon Philistine enemies only 25 miles off, on the one side, and looked across the Jordan to Moabite enemies about as far off, on the other. Nearly all the events in the history of Israel that are recorded in the Old Testament happened within a territory no bigger than the state of Connecticut, whose area is 4,800 square miles; and into hardly any other country has there been crowded from the days of Abraham till our own so much history—that is to say, so many events that have been recorded and deserve to be recorded in the annals of mankind. Its Smallness Is Visible. Nor is only that Palestine is really a small country. The traveler constantly feels as he moves about that it is a small country. From the heights a few miles north of Jerusalem he sees, looking northward, a far-off summit carrying snow for eight months in the year. It is Hermon, nearly 10,000 feet high—Hermon, whose fountains feed the rivers of Damascus. But Hermon is outside the territory of Israel altogether, standing in the land of the Syrians; so, too, it is of Lebanon. We are apt to think of that mountain mass as within the country, because is also is frequently mentioned in the Psalms and the Prophets, but the two ranges of Lebanon also rise beyond the frontiers of Israel, lying between the Syrians of Damascus and the Phoenicians of the West. Palestine is a country poor in any natural resources. There are practically no minerals, no coal, no iron, no copper, no silver, though recently some oil has been discovered in the Jordan valley. Neither are there any large forests, and though the land may have been better wooded in the days of Joshua than it is now, there is little reason to think that the woods were of trees sufficiently large to constitute a source of wealth. A comparatively small area is fit for tillage. To an Arab tribe that had wandered through a barren wilderness for 40 weary years, Canaan may well have seemed a delightful possession; but many a county in Iowa, many a department in France, could raise more grain or wine than all the Holy Land. There is one stretch of fertile, level land 20 miles long and from 3 to 6 miles wide—the Plain of Esdraelon. But with this exception it is only in the bottoms and on the lower slopes of a few valleys, chiefly in the territory of Ephraim from Bethel northward and along the shores of the Bay of Acre, that one sees cornfields and olive yards and orchards. Little wine is now grown. Such wealth as the country has consists in its pastures, and the expression "a land flowing with milk try boys and girls, with their pigs, the churches crying for an educated ministry, the Negro men dying in defense of their women, are expressions of the same idea. Ethiopia is stretching forth her hands.—The Kansas City Call. INFUSION OF BLOOD MIGHT HAVE SAVED HIM New Orleans, Jan. 12—Death hoisted its flag of victory over a "Negrohater." Ten blood transfusions failed to save the life of Oliver S. Bur- THE MONITOR TINE Israel Crossed the Jordan. and honey" appropriately describes the best it has to offer, for sheep and goats can thrive on the thin herbage that covers the hills, and the numerous aromatic plants furnish plenty of excellent food for the bees; but it is nearly all the pasture, for the land is dry and the soil mostly shallow. The sheep and goats vastly outnumber the oxen. Woody Bashan, on the east side of Jordan, is still the region where one must look for the strong bulls. Palestine is not a beautiful country. The classical scholar finds charms everywhere in Greece, a land consecrated to him by the genius of poets and philosophers, although a great part of Greece is painfully dry and bare. So, too, the traveler who brings a mind suffused by reverence and plets to spots hallowed by religious associations sees the landscapes of the Holy Land through a golden haze that makes them lovely. But the scenery of the Holy Land, taken as a whole, is inferior, both in form and in color, to that of northern and middle Italy, to that of Norway and Scotland, to that of the coasts of Asia Minor, to that of many parts of California and Washington. The hills are flat-topped ridges, with a monotonic sky line, very few of them showing any distinctive shape. Not a peak anywhere, and Tabor the only summit recognizable by its form. They are all composed of gray or red-dish-gray limestone, bare of wood, and often too stony for tillage. Between the stones or piles or rock there are low shrubs, and in the few weeks of spring masses of brilliant flowers give rich hues to the landscape; but for the rest of the year all is gray or brown. The grass is withered away or is scorched brown, and scarcely any foliage is seen on the tops or upper slopes of the rolling hills. It is only in some of the valleys that one finds villages nestling among olive groves and orchards where plums and peach and almond blossoms make spring lovely. Few Wells and Springs. Arid indeed is the land. The traveler says with the psalmist: "My soul longs in a dry, parched land, wherein no water is." Wells are few, springs still fewer, and of brooks there are practically none, for the stony channels at the bottom of the glees have no water except after a winter rainstorm. There may probably have been a more copious rainfall 20 or 30 centuries ago, when more woods clothed the hillsides, and the country would then have been more pleasing to Northern eyes, to which mountains are dear because rills make music and green boughs wave in the wind. To this general description there are certain exceptions which must not be forgotten. The high ridge of Mount Carmel rises grandly from the sea, and on its land side breaks down in bold declivities and deep glens upon the valley through which the Kishon, an almost perennial stream, finds its way to the Bay of Acre. Here, upon the slopes of a long ridge, on the other side of the Kishon, there is a wildering forest of ancient holm oaks, all the more beautiful because it is the one considerable stretch of natural wood in the whole country west of Jordan. If Palestine is not a land of natural wealth nor a land of natural beauty, what is it? What are the impressions which the traveler who tries to see it exactly as it is carries away with him? Roughly summed up, they are these: Stones, caves, tombs, ruins, battlefields, sites hallowed by traditions—all bathed in an atmosphere of legend and marvel. Never was there a country, not being an absolute desert, so stony. The hillsides seem one mass of loose rocks, larger or smaller. The olive yards and vineyards are full of stones. Even the cornfields (except in the alluvial soil of the plain of Esdraelon and along the sandy coast) seem to have more pebbles than earth, so that one wonders how crops so good as one sometimes sees rain spring up. Caves are everywhere, for limestone is the prevailing rock, and it is the rock in which the persecution of rain makes clefts and hollows and caverns most frequent. dick, white, 57 years old, patient in Ward 22 at Charity Hospital. He had refused to submit to the transfusion of the blood of a strong and healthy Negro who had offered to save him. 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 In the Bargain Basement Monday Everything you need or want, you will find at the lowest prices that you have ever paid B. S. Sutton, 2212 Nicholas Street Winner of Gold Medal Trans- Mississippi Exposition 1898 ADVO THREE POUNDS GOLD MEDAL COFFEE MCCORD-BRADY CO. COFFEE ROASTERS OMAHA, NEB. Omaha's Leading Coffee for Thirty-five Years Excellence at a Moderate Price Established by the late Silas Johnson 2518 Lake Street Continuing the same considerate efficient service John Albert Williams, Executor said deceased, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 20th day of January, 1923, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the said 20th day of January, 1923, at 9 o'clock A. M., to contest the probate of said will, the Court may allow and probate said will to grant administration of said estate to Delila Costello or some other suitable person, enter a decree of heirship, and proceed to a settlement threat. BRYCE CRAWFRD, County Judge. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Wm. Franklin, Pastor. The services Sunday were of a most inspiring character, those of the morning being an experience meeting. The pastor expressed himself as encouraged by the spiritual and material outlook of the church. The B. Y. P. U. is prospering as never before. It had a good program Sunday, chief of which was an excellent paper by Mr. C. Ad- If You W January In the B Everything the lowe BURGESS "B B. S. Sutton, 2212 Nicholas Street Coffee STRICT Winner of Gold Medal Trans- Mississippi Exposition 1898 The Kind Us Excelle McC COFFEE ROASTERS Weste Establ ams on "Bridling the Tongue," and an address by Mr. J. C. Thompson of St. Louis, Mo. The pastor left Tuesday for Detroit, Mich., to visit his wife, whom he is expecting to bring back with him. The Florida Club was given a reception Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. P. L. Anderson. 1418 North Twenty-fifth street, at which time the election of officers was held. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. E. H. McDonald, Pastor Mrs. Anna Owen, Reporter Monday night the Brotherhood meets at the church at 8 p. m. There are subjects of interest to be discussed. Tuesday the Pastor's Aid will meet with Mrs. Biddix. Wednesday night is the regular mid-week prayer service. Thursday afternoon at 2 p. m., the Mission Service. Friday night choir practice. All persons desiring to become members please be present at this meeting. Sunday, Sunday School at 9:30. Preaching at 11. The subject will be "One of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor." Each Sunday will be a sermon on one of the churches until the seven have been discussed and then there will be an open discussion at to which church Mt. Moriah resembles. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30, and preaching at 8. BISHOP VERNON IN HOSPITAL Kansas City, Jan. 12—Bishop W. T. Vernon has been threatened with serious illness for some time, even an operation in prospect. More recently he has been in Wheatley-Provident Hospital and is about at a standstill. He is suffering with stomach trouble Please have your subscription ready when our collector calls. THE FILM MAKER RIGHT NOW is a Good Time to Pay Your Subscription to THE MONITOR Page Four LILLIA One of the many effervescent re at the popular Gayety twice ALPHA PHI ALPHA CONVENTION PORTRAYS EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Serious Attitude of Delegates Towards Important Problems Appeals to St. Louis Citizens. St. Louis Mo., Jan. 12.—Nothing more vividly portrayed the educational progress of the American Negro than the appearance in St. Louis, Mo., of the more than 300 representatives of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity from sixty of the leading colleges and universities in the United States in attendance upon the 10th annual convention of their fraternity which was held during the days of December 27th to 31st, inclusive, 1922. The occasion afforded the first opportunity for the citizens of St. Louis to come in close touch with such large numbers of young Negro college men from all parts of the country and get an idea of just what place a fraternity occupies in their college life. The Epsilon-Lambda, graduate chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha, located at St. Locis, and the citizens of St. Louis saw to it that every delegate and visiting member of the Alpha Phi Alpha was comfortably situated throughout the period of the convention. The opening session of the convention was held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, at the St. Louis headquarters, Pine Street Branch Y. M. C. A., with over three hundred college men as delegates and visiting members of the fraternity from the various colleges and universities in America stretching from Harvard, Boston university, and Yale, on the New England coast, to the University of California, on the Pacific coast, and from universities of Michigan and Minnesota on the Great Lakes to Atlanta university and Morehouse college in the south. The business of the convention was successfully handled under the direction of the national officers of the fraternity: Simeon S. Booker, president; Dr. J. H. Hilburn, first vicepresident; Raymond J. Alexander, second vicepresident; Norman L. McGhee, secretary; Dr. Homer Cooper, treasurer, and Carl J. Murphy, editor of the official organ, The Sphinx. Report of National Officers. At he Friday afternoon session, the national officers of the fraternity made their yearly reports. The national president, Simeon S. Booker, reported that the fraternity had made great progress during the year especially in the results from the annual "Go to High School, Go to College" campaign and in the increasingly important place which the organization is taking in collegiate life. It was noted from the report of the national secretary, Norman L. McGhee, that during the past year chapters of the Alpha Phi Alpha have been established at the University of California, Berkeley, Calif; the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia.; the State College of Iowa, Ames, Ia.; the University of Denver, Denver, Col.; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Springfield College, Springfield, Mass.; Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; and a graduate chapter at Indianapolis, Ind., which added to the chapter roll of 36, as reported at last convention makes a total chapter roll of 44, with a membership of over 2,500. Of these 44 chapters 36 were represented at St. Louis at the fifteenth annual convention. **Shakespeare** The web of our life is of mingled yarn, good and together; our virtues are proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues—Shakespeare. RIGHT NO Subs "BUBBLE-BUBBLE" IS GORGEOUS Burlesque at its Best at the Popular Gayetey Next Week. "A piquant, Parisian novelty" is the way William K. Wells announces his "Bubble-Bubble" show at the popular Gayetey next week, starting Saturday matinee. But Mr. Wells has been too modest in his announcement. The show is really a miniature tour of the world instead of being confined to the French capitol. There is one scene laid in London, England; another in New Orleans during Mardi Gras; one on Broadway and others "Way Down East;" then in Arizona and on the Hawaiian Beach at Wailkiki; while finally just to give the audience a full measure of scenic delights, the action of the piece shifts to the prehistoric Stone Age. Altogether there are nineteen unique and magnificent stage settings in the two big acts of the piece. "Bubble-Bubble" is declared by all who have seen it to be "burlesque at its best." Mr. Wells who is the author of many burlesques, has done his best work in writing the book of this one. He has also written a score or pleasing lyrics and has collaborated with Melville Morris in composing the tuneful, jingly music. Warns devised the melodies and Morris arranged them. Dan Dody, the well known terpsichorean director, put on the many sprightly and graceful dances. Joe Freed, a comedian of rare fun making ability and who is endeared to countless patrons of burlesque, is appearing as the featured member of the cast, this probably being his last season in this style of entertainment, as Mr. Wells contemplates starring him next season in a Broadway musical revue. Ruth Gibbs, a very attractive blonde who comes from high class musical comedy with the reputation of being a very sweet singer, ranks next to Mr. Freed in importance, sharing this honor with Klara Hendrix, versatile singer and character change artist. Miss Gibbs is also a member of the "Lone Star Four," one of the finest quartettes on the present day stage, and a feature with "Bubble-Bubble." Others of importance in the cast are Billy Wallace, Anita Rose, Lillian Bennett and a band of Hawaiian singers and instrumentalists including Mme. Dore, native dancer, who is said to be expert in her graces and free from any suggestiveness. Through his impersonation of six different characters, William Browning will take conspicuous prominence in an excellent cast. Sunday's matinee starts at three, and the daily matinees begin at two-fifteen. VIRTUALLY AN ANTI-LYCHING BILL AT NEBR. LEGISLATURE Lincoln. January 12—Ku-Kluxism was entered upon the lists of businesses with which the Nebraska legislature will concern itself when Senators Tomek of David City and Gumb of Fremont introduced a bill into the senate forbidding anything like a duplication here of the outrages now being uncovered in Mer Rouge, La. The bill declares unlawful the conspiring of two or more persons who meet in disguise for the purpose of investigating, discussing, hearing or determining the guilt or innocence of any person, or to inflict punishment for any presumed infraction of any law or custom. In its wide scope the senate bill comes near to being an anti-lynching bill as well as anti-Ku Klux. The only differentiating clause is that which specifies that the persons must be disguised in order to come under its provisions. Early passage of the bill was predicted by Senator Tomek. "I think it is the best bill that has been introduced thus far," Tomek said, "and I am sure that it will be passed early. "We have made it as drastic as possible because we believe that it is our duty as defenders of the constitution to see to that this business of taking law enforcement out of the hands of the courts and putting it into the hands of individuals should stop. We believe all the people want it." R. B. Strehlow of Omaha introduced a like bill in the House Wednesday. CHURCH REPORTS VERY SUCCESSFUL YEAR The Church of St. Philip the Deacon held its annual parish meeting in the Guild Rooms Monday night. Reports read showed that the church had closed the most successful year in its history. The number of confirmations and baptisms were larger than ever before. The contributions were also larger, enabling the meeting of all obligations, with a small deficit, which available pledges will more than fully cover. A budget of $5500 for the present year was adopted. This includes $2800 for current expenses and $700 for benevolences, diocesan assessment and missions. This income will place the congregation on a self-supporting basis and enable it to assume the status of a parish, for which formal action was taken. The following wardens and vestry were elected: Isaac Bailey, senior warden; Dr. Craig Morris, junior warden; William G. Haynes, treasurer; Miss Jennie Robinson, secretary; Mrs. Sina Brown, Dr. W. W. Peebles, Henry Gaston and George H. Bullock, vestrymen. MRS. GRACE M. HUTTEN UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Grace M. Hutten, commissioner of the Colored Commercial Club, underwent a cerebral operation last Thursday at the Nicholas Senn hospital, and is getting on quite nicely. For some months Mrs. Hutten has been suffering with severe neuralgic pains at the base of the brain. Examinations by physicians and surgeons disclosed the fact that an operation was necessary to remove the trouble. It was first thought that it might be necessary for her to go to the Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minn., but the operation was successfully performed here. LINCOLN COMMENT Miss Ruth Dickson returned to school Monday after spending the holidays with her parents nn Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Lillie Kenney has been confined to her home with illness. Mrs. Ella Black entertained the Utopian Art Club at her home on last Thursday night, and the following were elected for the coming year: Mrs. Irene Mosley, president; Mrs. Alma Wiley, vice president; Mrs. Evelyn Johnson, secretary; Mrs. L. B. Alexander, treasurer. A profitable session was had. Mrs. W. L. Todd was also an attendant at the New Era Executive Board meeting at Omaha last week, she being State Secretary of the Woman's Department. Mrs. Eliza Lee, 57 years old, died at 5 a.m. last Sunday at the home, 1944 O. R. street. She leaves two sons, Robert H., of Lincoln and Thomas O. of Kansas, three brothers, Frank and Robert of Lawrence, Kansas, and Charles Lee of Omaha, and O. J. Burckhardt, half-brother, of Lincoln. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Anna Hill, of Lawrence, Kansas, and Harriet Burckhardt of Missouri. The funeral was held at the home Tuesday afternoon. John L. Wright is yet confined in the State Hospital. We are elated over the fact that colored citizens are still continuing to purchase property in the city. Among recent buyers are Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Colly, Mr. and Mrs. Mosby, Mr. and Mrs. Mason Todd, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christman. Mr. Irene Mosley entertained the Mission at her home Tuesday night. Services at Mt. Zion Baptist church were interesting last Sunday, with the Sunday School and praise covenant meeting in the forenoon, B. Y. P. U. and program, and preaching by the pastor, and communion at night. Attendance was fine. The church is increasing much in membership, all of whom seem interested in the Master's cause. Rev. W. A. McClendon is home from Omaha and conducted his services last Sunday, preaching fine sermons to his folks. The Sunday School and Aid Society held fine meetings. Rev. J. H. McAlister and his congregation are still doing good work for humanity. I would say right here, that I hardly ever get news from the THE MONITOR churches and as I am not in a position to attend all the churches in person, would love to have them made known to me by Monday of each week. Mrs. Blossom Williams returned home from Omaha Monday. Remember Saturday Night Serving Club at Mt. Zion Parsonage, 920 South 12th street, each week. In the real estate office of Mr. J. Norris and Mr. Louis Maxwell, 712 West 7th street, on January 1st, The Negro Building and Loan Association was organized. And on Tuesday, Jan. 9, at 8 o'clock p. m., a meeting was held to complete the arrangements. Another enterprise has been added to the list of progressive ones in this city. On Saturday, January 6, Mr. and Mrs. George Tolson opened a new cafe at 415 west 7th street, in the location formerly owned by Mrs. Nunn. The Ladies Aid Society of the A. M. E. church will give a chitterling supper and musical program on Thursday, January 18, at the church. No admission. The Girl Reserves met in the new Y. W. C. A., white, at 6th and Nebraska streets on Wednesday of this week, with Mrs. Dr. Dobson in charge of the program. Word has been received that Mr. and Mrs. Leon Smith, who were married in this city a few weeks ago, are now enjoying themselves in the home of their father at 4927 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. \ Mr. Albert Cavens is reported ill at his home at 511 Main street for more than a week. Miss Grey, who is living in the home of Rev. R. M. Williams, and who underwent a minor operation at St. Joseph's hospital more than a week ago, was taken to the doctor's office again this morning but is not seriously ill. Word has been received from Mr. Forest Williams, of Louisville, Ky., that he and his young bride will return to this city in March to make their home. Mr. Williams is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams who live at 15 west 13th street. Miss Lizzie Reynolds of Chicago, who has been ailing for some time at the home of her mother, who lives at 1429 Cook street, died Sunday afternoon at 1:25. Previous to her death Miss Reynolds talked to friends who were at her bedside, and after calling for a physician died a few seconds before he arrived. The funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon from A. M. E. church, 513 Main street. As correspondent of the Monitor, I wish to inform all ex-service men that they have been extended an invitation to join the American Legion of this city, and will be accorded all the privileges that other members now enjoy. And to strengthen or reinforce what has been said, Mr. Anderson, who resides on West 6th street, has offered to spend a week with my cooperation, in trying to get every colored soldier to become a member. I kindly ask you to take advantage of this opportunity. Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Topeka, Kansas, who have been in the employ of Mr. Pelletier, since last August, left for their home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lambert are expected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Arthur Solomon and Miss Margarete Boyd, daughter of Rev. H. C. Boyd, were united in marriage last Saturday, and have returned to the city. Mrs. Ashby is reported sick at her home, 507½ North 7th street. Every woman and girl should be a member of the Young Woman's Christian Association. The aim of the Association is to develop the highest conception of Christian womanhood and to aid girls and women in realizing this conception by all round development, by utilizing every available resource of the community for their interest and by offering itself to be used by the community in cooperative service for women. All girls and women are eligible for membership who believe in the purpose of the Association, "To associate young women in personal loyalty to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; to promote growth in Christian character and service through socia, mental and spiritual training, and to become a social force for the extension of the kingdom of God." If your membership has expired renew now. Membership for the year $1.00. Girls from 12 to 18 years 50 cents. Join now so you will be present at the membership banquet Jan. 22. The committee is at work. All help for a stronger Y. W. C. A. MRS. D. W. GOODEN, Chairman Membership Comm. A nation is no better than its home life, and its home life is no better than that nation's womanhood. AT THE POPULAR GAYETY This is a season when playwrights are turning producers in surprising numbers, and one who is far from being of lesser importance is William K. Weel's, who offers his piquant, Parisian novelty, "Bubble-Bubble," at the popular Gayetey next week. Among the many authors of dramatic and musical attractions who have had sufficient confidence in their own writings to put in their own money are Ann Nichols, J. C. Nugent, Earl Carroll, Jas, Montgomery, Jack Lait, Bide Dudley, Mar Maroin and Mme, Petrova, while of course such old timers as George Cohan and William Hodge continue to produce their own works. Mr. Wells is one of the most prolific writers in burlesque. This season alone he has to his credit "The Greenwich Village Follies," "Maids of America," Al Reeves show, "Folly Town," "Big Bamboree" and "Keep Smiling." He has also rewritten "Broadway Brevities," "the Bowery Burlesquers" and the Jacobs and Jermon shows. Mr. Wells not only writes the books of shows but lyrics and music as well. SHERIDAN, WYOMING, NOTES Mrs. J. D. Powell of Savanah, Mo., has been a guest at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Douglas, Jr., for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bell entertained Mr. and Mrs. Al Shute and family, Mrs. J. D. Powell and Mr. Leonard Powell at dinner on Friday, Dec. 29. They were joined later in the evening by a party of ten friends who enjoyed a delightful evening at cards. Refreshments were served by the hostess Mr. and Mrs. Al Shute entertained Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bell and daughter Virginia at a family dinner Christmas. One of the pleasantest affairs of the hofiday season was the New Year's party given by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Powell Monday evening. Dancing and cards formed the evening's entertainment. A delightful two course lunch was served by the hostess to the eighteen guests who enjoyed their gracious hospitality. Subscribe for The Monitor, the paper that informs and pleases. SEEKS TO ABOLISH CHARGES FOR OMAHA - SOUTH OMHA CALLS Lincoln, Jan. 12.—Charging toll for telephone calls between Omaha and South Omaha must end under the terms of a bill introduced into the lower house of the state legislature Tuesday by Herman C. Timme, Omaha member. "As matters stand at the present time in Omaha," said Timme, "an Omaha resident may talk to Florence, Benson or any other suburb of the city except South Omaha without paying a cent. "But if a man lives on the north side of A street and his neighbor lives directly across the street on the south side, he must pay to talk to that neighbor by telephone. It's a holdup pure and simple." Wisdom. Every triumph is the product of obstacles surmounted, of failures, each of which taught us something. Every force that pushes us back may be made to cause a rebound in the right direction; a defeat should be but the bending of a springboard, the recoil of which will throw us higher as we jump.-Bolton Hall. Explaining the "Matchmaker." Exploring the "matchmaker." The natural instinct that makes every matchmaker. She works blindly toward the baby. If she cannot have one directly, she will have it vicariously. The sourest of old maids is thus doomed to have a hand in the perpetuation of the race. —William J. Locke. A Jazzy Warning. There are those who refuse to accept the conventional, no matter how expressed. Take the matter of the signals warning signs now common on the backs of motor cars. Usually they flash readily the one word, "Stop." But the other evening on Fifth avenue, when a light four was brought to a standstill, the command, "Halt, Kid," flared into view.—Detroit News. The Labors of Map-Making To map 43 per cent of the United States, the topographic engineers are estimated to have tramped an aggregate of approximately nine million miles; for the average amount of walking varles from five miles for every square mile surveyed in ordinary country to ten or more miles in rough country. Vague Prospect. "No Sebastian, I am sorry, but I am sure that we could not be happy together. You know I always want my own way in everything." "But, my dear girl, you could on wanting it, you know, after we were married." Rushes Signify One's Welcome. The saying "not worth a rush" dates back to the days before carpets were invented, and the floors were strewn with rushes. When an honored guest was expected fresh green ones were cut and spread, but people of lit tie consequence had to be contented with rushes that had been used, while still humbler folk got none at all. Wanted to Know. Harold accompanied his uncle down to the business district one day recently and heard a number of the latter's acquaintances greet him with a cheery familiarity. Harold was impressed with this and when they were alone he said, "Uncle Ben, when nearly all the hair is worn off my head will folks call me 'old top,' too?"—Boston Evening Transcript. GO ON AUCTION BLOCK Rockford, Ill., Jan. 12—Camp Grant, another of the wartime scenes of bustling military activity, where thousands of colored soldiers were trained to participate in the Great War, is to go upon the auction block—one of the final steps in its ultimate wrecking as a cantonment. First-Class Modern Furnished Rooms —1702 No. 26th St. Web. 4769. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Erwin. FOR SALE at Massey & Coopers— All the leading colored artists' records at fifty-five cents each. Webster 6668. —Adv. To Eddie Voree, non-resident defendant, you are hereby notified that Arch 1922, the 30th day of September, 1922, as placed in the court of District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, wherein he prays to obtain a decree of divorce from you on the grounds that you have been married for more than January, 1923, the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, entered an order to have you divorced. You may be had upon you, by publication as is provided by the Code of Civil procedure of the State of Nebraska, for objection to service upon non-resident defendants. You are therefore required to answer plaintiff's petition on or before the 10th day of February, 1923. ARCH VORCE. 4-t-1-5-23 Plaintiff. For Sickness & Accident Insurance Call AUGUSTUS HICKS Tel. Webster 6426 2716 Miami St. With Bankers Accident Insurance Co. Incident ICKS Hiami St. Insurance Co. N. W. C. THE EMERSON'S LAUNDRY The Laundry That Suits All 1301 No. 24th St. Web. 0820 Why Not Let Us Do Your SHOE REPAIR WORK SHOE REPAIR WORK Best material, reasonable prices. ALL WORK GUARANTEED BENJAMIN & THOMAS Phone Web. 5084—1415 No. 24th Phone 881 Phone 881 CALL L YELLOW CAB COMPANY for SAFETY and SERVICE to all alike Council Bluffs, Iowa I. LEVY, D FREE DE 24th and Decatur Sts. WY, DRUG FREE DELIVERY Sts. OOL POOL 47th Street—Phone CO. CANDIES and AS. W. SOUTH, H THE STATE FO edge Streets BRUNSWICK PROCERIES sesin Gro Fruits and NER'S the Ma EG EET TELEPHO J. Gle I. LEVY, DRUGGIST FREE DELIVERY 24th and Decatur Sts. Web. 3100 CAPITOL POOL HALL 2018 North 24th Street—Phone Webster 1773 CIGARS, TOBACCO, CANDIES and SOFT DRINKS CHAS. W. SOUTH. Prop. PATRONIZE THE STATE FURNITURE CO. Corner 14th and Dodge Streets Tel. JACKSON 1317 Headquarters for BRUNSWICK Phonographs and Records GOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS C. P. Wesin Grocery Co. Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables We Sell SKINNER'S the highest grade Macaroni, Spaghetti, EGG NOODLES 2001 CUMING STREET TELEPHONE JACKSON 1098 A. J. Glenn 2426 Lake Street NER'S The Eggs APLE AND FAN H AND CURED M SKINNER'S The Highest Grade Macaroni Egg Noodles, Spaghetti and other Macaroni Products FULL LINE STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES FRESH AND CURED MEATS The TABLE SUPPLY OMAHA'S PUDDY COFFEE ARQUITECT SEVENTEENTH AVE. DOWNS STREET We SKINNERS The Highest Grade Macaroni Egg Noodles, Spaghetti and other Macaroni Products We Deliver to Any Part of the City——Tel. Douglas 3940 30 YEARS—ESTABLISHED IN OMAHA—30 YEARS EXPERT SERVICE FREE DELIVERY 1904 North 24th Street Phone Webster 0386 (At 24th and Parker Streets) CAMP GRANT TO SOON 2624 North 30th St. Phone Webster 0171 GROCERIES and MEATS Vegetables in Season FREE DELIVERY If Our Goods Don't Please You, Your Money Back We Sell SKINNER'S the highest grade Macaroni, Spaghetti, Egg Noodles and other Macaroni Products. Star Grocery and Meat Market No. 2 N. W. Corner 30th and Pratt Sts. THE STORE OF COURTESY AND SERVICE We Sc SKINNERS the highest grade Macaroni, Snaghetti and Egg Noodles Allen Jones, Res. Phone W. 204 JONES & CO. FUNERAL PARLOR 2314 North 24th St. Web. 1100 Lady Attendant 3421 N. 30th St. Web. 3458 THE STORE OF GOOD QUALITY AND LOW PRICES Come In and Give Us a Trial RUGGIST LIVERY Web. 3100 ```markdown ```