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LIFTING LIFT TOO 5c a Copy COLONEL YOUNG'S BIRTHDAY WILL BE WIDELY HONORED Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and Veter ans and Other Organizations Will Hold Memorial Services for Gallant Soldier. SERVED COUNTRY FAITHFULLY His Cleverly Planned Retirement by Government When America Entered World War Still Rankles Race. Washington, D. C., March 9th—On March 11 and 12 in the principals institutions of learning and in many cities throughout the country, local chapters of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and Veterans and other organizations will hold memorial services in honor of the late Colonel Charles Young, U. S. A., who died at Lagos, Nigeria, on January 8, 1922. Col. Young was born at Mayslick, Ky., March 12, 1864, but received his early education in Ripley, Ohio, where his parents moved when he was nine years old. After graduating from the Ripley high school at the age of sixteen Young taught school until he received his appointment to the Military Academy at West Point in 1884. From this time until his death Col. Young was a public character and was often spoken of as the embodiment of the military spirit of his race. After a period of frontier duty he was detailed to Wilberforce University as Professor of Military Science and Tactics in 1894. From a very helpful tour of duty at this institution where he taught French, German and Mathematics in addition to his military subjects, he was sent to military camps along the Atlantic Coast. Again he went to the Western frontiers. Young was made Captain in 1901, and sent to the Philippines where he commanded a troop at Samar, Blanca, Aurora, Daraga, Toacca, Rosana and San Joaquín. Upon his return to the States his service included administration of Sekuola and General Grant Memorial Parks, California. The War Department commended Capt. Young officially for his excellent work on this detail. In May 1904 Young was sent as Military attache to Haiti and remained four years. During this period he made an accurate map of the country. It is said that the American marines would not have been able to find their way into Haiti so easily had not Capt. Young done his work so well. In performing his duties as Attache he found time to write "Toussaint L'Ouverture," a drama of which only a few copies are in print. Rapidly from this point the scene of Young's service shifted from this country to the Philippines to Africa and back to Mexico where he was when it became a probability that this country would become involved in the European holocaust. He was now a Lieutenant Colonel and in command of the famous Tenth Cavalry. Lt. Col. Young's keen foresight and his eagerness to serve his people led him to establish a school for enlisted men at Fort Huachuchua in order to get black soldiers ready to enter any training camp which might be opened to Colored Officers. As this was done under opposition and great hindrances from higher command, it is thought that that service to his people might have had something to do with subsequent events. The Colored race has not yet recovered from the shock received when the news was flashed across the country that Lt. Col. Charles Young had been retired as Colonel on June 22, 1917. The hopes of 12,000,000 people that they would have a black Major General leading a black Division on the fields of France were shattered. It may be that this broke Young's heart but the greatness of the man is clearly shown by the fact that he never complained. Later when the war had past and his country said that it needed him to go back to Africa he eagerly grasped the opportunity, it is thought, to go with his disappointments to the Land of Forgetfulness. It was there that his eventful life came to an end. The War Department has recently announced the early return of Colonel Young's body to this country for permanent interment in the Arlington National Cemetery. Preparations are being made by the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity of which Colonel Young was an active member, to participate in the burial ceremonies with the large numbers of other representative organizations that will do honor to this great American. CARD OF THANKS We take this means of expressing our sincere gratitude to our many friends for their numerous acts of kindness shown us during the serious illness and convalescence of our beloved husband and brother.—Mrs. Leroy Robertson, Miss Ada Payne, Mrs. J. S. Black. THE MONITOR WHITE HOODLUMS & IFY NEGROES, AVERRED St. Louis, Mo., March 9—According to United States District Attorney Carroll he has received numerous complaints that Negroes are being driven from Pemiscot and Dunklin counties in southeast Missouri, and that Negroes have been fired upon, while in nearly all the instances Negroes have received warnings attached to sticks of dynamite. DENIED WARMTH, KILLS TWO WHITE MEN Gary, Ind., March 9—According to information reaching the District Attorney's office last Monday Lee Johnson shot and killed two white men when they refused to let him come into their warm shanty during a severe cold spell. All of the men were employees in a Gary steel mill. BLACK SWAN PHONOGRAPH COMPANY HAS A SUCCESSFUL YEAR BLACK SWAN PHONOGRAPH COMPANY HAS A SUCCESSFUL YEAR Corporation Owned and Operated by Members of Race Did Quarter of a Mollion Dollar Business Last Year. RECORDS OF OUR ARTISTS New Board of Directors Elected at Annual Meeting—The Late Bert Williams Was One of Heaviest Stockholders. New York, March 9—At the annual meeting of the stockholders held here recently, the legal retails necessary to the change of the name of the Pace Phonograph Corporation, manufacturerr of Black Swan Records, to the Black Swan Phonograph Company, Incorporated, were completed. At the same time the capital stock of the company was increased from $50,000 to $75,000 and a cash dividend of six per cent was voted. This company began business less than two years ago, in a basement room with a force of one stenographer and the organizer. Today it owns and occupies its office building, 2289 Seventh Avenue, where all of its clerical work is done, and operates a factory covering 12,000 square feet, in Long Island City, in the finest manufacturing district in the world. It does its own recording, plating, pressing and printing and employs over forty people, with a combined payroll of over one thousand dollars per week. The report showed the gross income of the company for the year was over $250,000. Despite the serious depression during last year it showed a steady average in sales for all three of its products, records, needles and Swanolas. During the year the company paid to singers and musicians over $5,000 for records made, furnishing opportunities to our singers denied by white companies. Some of the artists of whom records were made during the year were Florence Cole Talbert, Antoinette Garnes, Kemper Hereld, Revella Hughes, Ethel Waters, Trixie Smith, Josie Miles and many others. Every type of song from grand opera, sacred and standard to popular numbers are made. The new board of directors consists of John E. Nail, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, T. K. Gibson, W. H. Wilson, Dr. M. V. Boutte, J. Thos. Williams, Philadelphia; Dr. Godfrey Reyn W. H. Willis, Mrs. Viola Bibb, J. P. Quander, Jr., and Harry H. Pace. The late Bert Williams was one of the principal stockholders of the company, and had consented just before he died to become consulting director of recording. LAWMAKERS IN ROW OVER PROPOSED NEGRO SCHOOL (Preston News Service) Oklahoma City, Okla., Mar. 9—During the discussion in the assembly here last Wednesday morning relative to the proposal of Charles Page to donate 160 acres in Tulsa county for the erection of a Negro school, Representative J. W. Simpson, of Tulsa county, declared: "You can put all the Colonels you want to on the Committee, but I'll tell you 95 per cent of the people of Tulsa county will not welcome a Negro school." In spite of Mr. Simpson's vigorous expression, on motion of Representative Warren Ferrell, also of Tulsa county, the house decided to investigate the offer. Rep. F. M. Boyer, also of Tulsa county, rose and thanked the speaker for appointing such broad-minded men on the committee and repudiated the un-American expressions of his colleague from Tulsa county. Joseph Carr continues quite ill at the Paxton Memorial hospital. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9th, 1923. From Nebraska to Arkansas and Back Experiences and Observations of the Editor on Trip to Southland Where He Saw Many Things of Interest From Nebraska to Arkansas and Back Experiences and Observations of the Editor on Trip to Southland Where He Saw Many Things of Interest R'member WHEN THE OLD CAR WAS NEW ALL THE ATTENTION IT USED TO RECEIVE AND— NOW!! (Copyright, W. M. U.) MY CONTROVERSY WITH JOHN STALL, PULLMAN CONDUCTOR ON THE "RAINBOW SPECIAL" When he reached my seat the Pullman conductor looked at me with a frown on his face and said in a surly tone: "Don't you know you can't ride in this car over the Kansas line?" "Why not?" said I. "Don't you know what the law is down there?" "I know they have a 'Separate Coach Law' in those states, but what has that to do with me? I'm an interstate passenger. When I purchased my ticket in Omaha, I asked about my reservation, and Mr. Blendorf would not have sold it to me if it had not been all right." "Oh, those fellows up there in Omaha don't know anything about the law down here; they'll sell tickets to anybody anywhere," was his surly swer. "Well, sir, I think those gentlemen up there do know their business. That's why they are employed. By the way, my name is Williams; what is yours, may I ask?" "My name is Stall," he replied. "That's a good German name, isn't it? I asked pleasantly. "How do you spell it, 'S-t-a-h-l'?" "No, 'S-t-a-l-l' is the way I spell it." "Thank you, sir. Well, Mr. Stall, having purchased my transportation and reservation, personally, in Omaha, without any evasion or deception, I think I am entitled to use it." "If you insist on doing so, it may cause you trouble. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll accept your seat fare to the Kansas line, that is to Coffeville, and then you can go into the 'proper' coach and everything will be all right. Your seat fare will be $1.25. Under those conditions, I'll take up your Pullman ticket and refund the difference." Provided I do that will you give me a note stating the reason why this action is necessary? I quietly asked. "Oh, no, no, I won't do that," he said hastily and quite decidedly, shaking his head, "but you better give me your ticket and let me refund your money." "No sir, I won't do that. If you insist that you cannot honor my ticket over the Kansas line, and will only accept my seat fare to that point, I'll pay the fare, but I'll keep my Pullman ticket and take the matter up with the proper officials." "That won't do you any good, and it will take you a long time to get your money refunded, so you better take the money now." "No, that's a small matter, and I can afford to wait," was my answer, "but tell me, Mr. Stall, will my riding in this car cause you personally any serious trouble or embarrassment?" "No, it won't cause me any, but it is likely to cause you some." "Do you mean, sir, that I'll be ejected from the car?" "Not necessarily, but those two men up front there (referring to two who were minding their own business and playing cards in one of the front seats) know the law down there and they'll probably object and cause trouble." "Isn't it the rule, that if passengers object then other or equal provisions must be made for the holder of a tick- get for a berth by putting him in the drawing room or in another Pullman car?" I politely asked. "Yes," he replied, "and if my drawing room were open, I could do that; but it is full and I want to avoid any trouble. I have duly warned you and you will have to take your own risk." "In warning me that I'll have to take my own risk you mean that I'll be in danger of personal violence?" "Well, mebbe not," he replied rather mysteriously, "but I have wounded you and you'll have to take your own risk." "All right, sir," I quietly answered. "I'm perfectly willing to take the risk." He then took my ticket. Subsequently he returned to me and said rather pleasantly this time: "Will you mind changing to lower 2 and help make it as easy for us as you can?" But "lower 5" he repeated. That seemed to worry him. "Certainly, sir, I'll willingly make that change, if it will be any accommodation to you," I replied. I was not, however, required to make the change, for at the next station a man boarded the sleeper and said, "I have lower 2." Going into the diner I had my dinner. Two prosperous looking, pleasant faced gentlemen, apparently business men, seated at an adjoining table bowed to me, and I returned their salutation. It was doubtless my clerical garb which attracted their attention, for I did not know either of them. The waiter, a clean-cut, upstanding, nice-looking young fellow, a well-educated Kansan, who served me, had learned through somebody of my controversy with the Pullman conductor and spoke to me about it. I liked the young fellow's manliness. Genuine manliness is a valuable asset. He gave me some valuable information and furnished me with his name and address in case I should need him. He was highly pleased that I had not been bluffed or intimidated into surrendering my Pullman ticket, as I was unquestionably within my rights. He told me that there was hardly a day passed but that colored interstate passengers from the east had Pullman reservations right into Little Rock and Hot Springs and were permitted to use them without embarrassment. I was unfortunate in catching "one of the meanest conductors on the line." Upon my return trip, of which I shall tell you later, other trainmen confirmed the opinion that this young waiter had expressed concerning "my Pullman conductor." Returning to the Pullman while the porter was making up my berth, I went into the smoking apartment. I was occupied by four men who did not seem to resent my presence. I did not intrude myself but was drawn into the general conversation. In due time I went to my berth, retired, rested well and slept soundly. We were with in a short distance of Little Rock when I awoke and dressed. The Rainbow Special pulled into Little Rock about on time. With my fellow passengers I alighted from the Pullman, having enjoyed the privileges to which I was entitled as a self-respecting, law-abiding American citizen, of receiving such accommodations in travel as I preferred and had paid for and which the railroad and Pullman companies were morally and leg- ally bound to give when they entered into contract with me to do when they accepted my money. Had I violated their rules in any way, by disorderly conduct or in any other manner then they would not have been bound. This I did not do. I was cleanly in person, decently and neatly dressed and well behaved. I simply presented my ticket as any other passenger did. My rights were not called into question by any employee of either company until John Stall, the Pullman conductor, exceeding his authority, did so by trying to coerce and intimidate me into surrendering my Pullman ticket. His business was simply to take my ticket as he did those of the other passengers. He had no right whatever to annoy me and seek to embarrass and humiliate me. In doing this he has made his company liable. When he was subjecting me to the annoyance of which I have spoken I did not permit myself to become angry. That would have been a mistake. It pays to hold one's temper even under great provocation. Our conversation was carried on in a quiet tone of voice without any noise or excitement, but even so, some of the passengers knew what was up, as I learned subsequently. One gentleman was overheard remarking, "If that man gives up his ticket he's a d—fool." So I would have been, perhaps with a much stronger emphasis. Had I surrendered my ticket and paid the seat tariff, I would have been a local and not an inter-state passenger, in the Pullman and would therefore have had no redress, whereas my Pullman ticket read "from Kansas City, Mo., to Little Rock, Ark." So you can see why the Pullman conductor, apparently solicitous for my personal safety, for he warned me that I must take my own risk, thereby insinuating that danger threatened, so magnanimously offered to accept my seat fare and thereby permit me to ride in the Pullman, but "not over the Kansas line." The Pullman Company had sold me in good faith and I had purchased in good faith a seat and a berth in one of its cars from Kansas City, Mo., to Little Rock, Ark. It was the question of the fulfillment of that contract. The conductor named did his best to coerce me into consenting to the nullification of that contract. Do you see the point? It was up to the contracting companies, railway and Pullman, to carry me safely and unmolested from the point of departure to my destination. It was up to me to properly conduct myself as a passenger, attending strictly to my own business and leaving my fellow passengers to do the same thing. Knowing this it would have been a serious mistake for me to have voluntarily become a party to a surrender of my rights through ignorance or fear. There was more than personal comfort at stake. There was a vital principle and that is why I am pleased to state that I rode safely "over the Kansas line" and into Little Rock without any embarrassment or "trouble" to myself or anybody else, except the embarrassment caused me by John Stall, Pullman conductor, on The Rainbow Special, southbound from Kansas City, Mo., to Hot Springs, Ark., February 1st, 1923. Next week: "Something About Little Rock." Whole Number 400 MIGRATION OF NEGROS BRINGS NEW PROBLEM (Preston News Service) Atlanta, Ga., March 8—"The growing industrial development of the South the alarming exodus of Negroes to the North and West is accompanied by immigration problems which the southern business men will have to face in a few years," declared Edwin Tomlison in an address before the Kiwanis Club here last Tuesday afternoon. He urged the business men of the South to study the immigration situation which is growing in importance in southern states to be able to cope with the facts when the changed conditions actually come. "MAMMY" STATUE BILL PASSED Washington, D. C., March 9- The passage by the Senate of the Williams bill providing for the erection of a monument to the memory of the "Faithful Colored Mammies of the South" last Tuesday gave authority for the building of the statue. THE URBAN LEAGUE WARNS LABORERS AGAINST MOVING Housing Conditions in Industrial Centers Wholly Inadequate to Care for Numbers Coming.—Negroes Advised to Wait. THE WORST EVIL TO RACE Northern Industries Making No Preparations to Accommodate Families of Laborers from the Southland. (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., March 9—The unusual response, especially from all parts of the South in nearly 1000 letters caused by a Preston News Service interview with the Executive Secretary of the local Urban League has rather embarrassed the secretary, and he has issued the following statement: "The interview referred to, emphasized the large increase in the demand throughout the Pittsburgh district for Negro labor in the mills, mines and foundries. In order to intelligently advise the thousands of Negros who are waiting for the proper opportunity to come North, Mr. Clark communicated with 16 of the large corporations in the district to find out if they knew how limited were housing facilities for colored people and if they were planning in turn to increase the number of houses to accommodate the extra number of colored men they were seeking to employ. Only one concern replied stating they were building 26 houses but these houses upon completion would be taken by the men who are already in their employ with their families in the South waiting to be transported. "The Urban League feels that the supply of Colored labor alone will have to meet the industrial needs in the immediate future and that industry will make proper provisions to accommodate this labor IF NEGROES WILL NOT FLOCK NORTH UNTIL ORGANIZATIONS LIKE OUR OWN CAN INDUCE THE INDUSTRIES TO MAKE PROPER PREPARATION TO ACCOMMODATE THEM. The Worst Evil to the Race "Several concerns have already begun to send their representatives South to bring large numbers of Negroes North. One concern brought 1160 men into one small industrial community in 60 days without building a single house or making any added preparations to accommodate the men. This congestion has caused a tremendous amount of sickness, disease and immorality. Real estate men who handle the property largely occupied by colored people have advised the secretary of the Urban League League that there is not a single house available to Negroes in the Pittsburgh district vacant today. Rooms, usually with some other person, can be had from $2.50 to $7 per week. With wages averaging about $4 a day there is little advantage in coming North and having to meet such unusual expenses. Men Should Stay South Until Proper Accommodations Are Made Accommodations Are Made "Especially does the Urban League insist that men do not bring their wives and families at this time because of the serious shortage of houses; and yet on the other hand the League's workers in various courts have come in contact with too many cases where men away from their families have become careless, irresponsible, gamblers and drunkards. To come North with your family is a serious matter; but to come without your family is more than a serious matter. For instance: last week a man brought his wife and children with him from Virginia. He spent the first day in Pittsburgh without getting accommodations; towards GROWING THANK YOU AFRICANS LOOK TO AMERICA FOR HELP AND INSPIRATION C. Kamba Simango and His Wife, Both Well-Educated Africans, Are Speakers at Hampton Institute. AFRICA HAS GIFTS TO MAKE Those Who Go to Africa Must Have Big and Generous Hearts as Natives Are Keen in Detecting Insecurity. Hampton, Va., March 9—C. Kamba Simango, a native of Portuguese East Africa and a graduate of Hampton Institute, class of 1919, who has just completed a special course at Teachers' College, Columbia University, spoke recently in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, on African forms of government, police systems, education and physical training. "Africans," he said, "in spite of the lack of highly organized police systems, succeed in apprehending wrong-doers. They follow the customs and laws which are useful to their tribes, but they do not carry the rules beyond their tribes to so-called "aliens." The Lot of African Women His wife, who is a native of Free-town, Sierra Leone, and who is a graduate of the Royal College of Arts at South Kensington, England, described the affection of African mothers for their children, especially for those children that are offered in human sacrifice for the sake of bringing peace to whole tribes, and likened this affection to that expressed by other mothers who send their sons to fight in modern warfare. She referred to the hardship which is brought on African women through the government conscription of able-bodied men for forced labor. "There are today," she said, "226 different languages and over 900 dialects spoken in Africa." At another Hampton Institute meeting Kamba Simango gave, in appropriate African costume, vivid pantomimic presentations of an elephant hunt, a hunt doctor's incantations, and a leopard-killing. His wife described several phases of African life, gave an African dance with piano music (originally written by Coleridge-Taylor and later arranged by Helen Hagen) which was played by R. Nathaniel Dett, and displayed specimens of native African work in brass, textiles and basketry, which had been made by men and women who had not come in contact with outside civilizing influences. She said: Africans Judge Persons "The Africans need help in order to develop themselves, but they also have important contributions which they can make to the rest of the world, especially in the fields of art and music. "Those who go to Africa must have big, generous hearts. The natives are keen at detecting all insincerity or failure to make words and deeds consistent. The African native judges individuals. He does not put many persons in a single group because of the failure or even meanness of a single individual. Africans are carefully watching American Negroes to see what they will do to help Africa." These two well-educated Africans will leave the United States in April to take up their work of missionary teaching in the Mt. Silinda School, at Melsetter in Southern Rhodesia, where they will help the native people realize some of their worthwhile gifts. Africans Make Progress That the missionaries who have gone to Africa have given the natives the best that they possessed of religion and civilization and that these missionaries continue their work of bringing out the best traits of the natives were opinions expressed by Kamba Simango before a large audience of white and colored people, assembled at Hampton institute. He said: "We find that the African is also striving and reaching out to get those things which will develop his happiness and welfare." evening he went to a suburban town and could not be accommodated there and spent the night in the police station. After making many attempts to get accommodations in the city, the next day he was finally sent by a coal mining company to their mining town some miles away where two rooms were provided for him and his family. This man could have obtained work here in Pittsburgh in fifty different places. Reliable Element in South Can Help Situation "The situation can be helped if the more reliable solid element in the South can induce our people to remain in the South until they are definitely connected up with a job and the prospects of getting a house to transfer their family life rather than come up here alone usually breaking up their families." Vol. VIII—No. 36 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, Associiste Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 750 Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Oma Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 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 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 any 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. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED MICRO PRIME FIRST IN SERVICE ARTHUR CRITTENDEN SMITH IT is with genuine sorrow that we IT is with genuine sorrow that we read of the death of Arthur C. Smith, the successful and well-known Omaha merchant. It was only a few days prior to this announcement that we had walked together for a few blocks on Farnam street engaging in pleasant reminiscent conversation, recalling our meeting over thirty years ago. He said, among other things, "It doesn't seem so long, after all, does it? But Omaha has grown since then, and we can call ourselves old residents, altho we are still young men." As we parted it never entered our mind that within a few days the final summons would come to this genial, democratic Christian gentleman, in whose passing Omaha has lost one of its foremost and most public-spirited citizens. Not only was he a successful business man, but he gave unstintedly and unselfishly of his time and means for civic, charitable, philanthropic and educational affairs. He did it all quietly and unostentiously. Of good birth and training, naturally he was a gentleman. To this gentle breeding he added the grace that comes from God, and so he was a Christian gentleman, the finest type of man. Assured of his own position he recognized the code of noblesse oblige. This accounts for the place he held in the hearts of all who knew him as business associates or employees. In these days when wealth and position seem to engender and beget so many silly snobs, the world can ill afford to lose strong, generous-hearted, broad-minded Christian gentlemen like Arthur Crittenden Smith. May light perpetual shine upon him, and may many others of like mold and character be raised up to take his place. NEVER was there a time when strong race newspapers were more needed than at the present. Vicious and subtle forces are at work to discredit our people and retard their progress. In this era of reconstruction when there is so much of distrust, dissatisfaction and misunderstanding between the classes and the masses, and between the various groups of our diversified population, the press has a tremendously important task to perform. Daily in our own community and in other sections there are serious violations of our constitutional rights as citizens. These must be brought to the attention of the public truthfully and wisely, but fearlessly, for fearless publicity is the foe of all injustice. The race press has been a power for good. Adequately supported it can be made of even greater service. In every community where we have a worthy press, it ought to be underwritten and adequately supported by those whose battles it is fighting. It was the apparently hopeless campaign begun several years ago by the Negro newspapers against lynching that has at last aroused the entire country against this menace to our American civilization. The battle for the race's civil status is now on and the race press is bravely and courageously fighting that battle. Support race newspapers. REPORTS EXAGGERATED THE Monitor investigated this week the reports of mistreatment and discrimination against colored inmates and patients at the Douglas County hospital. We found that the report that had reached us was grossly exaggerated. We interviewed several patients and found that they had no grievous complaints to make save in reference to one thing, which we are advised will be changed, and that is the new rule which was put into effect recently by the outgoing superintendent of making all colored inmates eat at a separate table. There is no good reason for this. It is only a part of the program of segregation which seems to obsess the American people. During all the years of the hospital's existence no rule of this AR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS mished Upon Application. Office Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. 1322, Webster 4243 naturalized in the United States, nor 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. kind has been necessary. There has been no trouble whatsoever. This hospital is supported by taxes, of which our people pay their share. So this separate table business for the few colored inmates of the County hospital is entirely out of place. CREIGHTON'S DRIVE CREIGHTON University is making a campaign for a fund of $2,000,000 for needed expansion. It is a great educational institution, has meant much for our city and state and will mean more as the years go on. Colored citizens of Omaha are always willing to contribute to any good cause for the advancement of the community and particularly so, when our people are permitted to enjoy the privileges of those institutions. Indeed some have contributed to institutions which have been too narrow to permit our people to share in their advantages, taking the charitable and magnanimous position that the contributions might help to broaden the vision and sympathies of such organizations. Creighton University has graduated some twelve or fifteen colored students in medicine, law, dentistry, pharmacy and we believe arts. Since it admits our students we are very sure that our people will be indeed glad to contribute to this fund. An advertisement appears in this issue which will interest our readers. Among the enthusiastic workers for this fund is Mr. Owen Jones, who is a student in the College of Law. SENSATIONALISM in press and pulpit seems the order of the day, but those who resolutely refuse to pander to sensationalism are doing humanity the better service, as will ultimately appear. THE IMPORTANCE OF NEGRO PATRIOTISM IN AMERICA By Wm. M. Markoe, S. J. The present crisis in the Near East again brings to the fore the world aspect of the race question. Turkish aggression in Europe is one phase only of the ever increasing menace to white civilization, but it is a phase which is intimately bound up with that wider encroachment, under the leadership of Japan and India, which is rapidly developing in solidarity and is of well-night universal proportions. As the assailants of Caucasian supremacy extend their scope of activities they are alluring the colored population of America, 12,000,000 strong, to take refuge under their wing. Our colored peoples' loyalty to American ideals and institutions may be endangered by this trend of events. It may or it may not be compromised according to our application of the fundamental principles of government and religion to this particular group. The consequences for better or for worse, of this right or wrong application, may be of the greatest importance. The history of the patriotism of the American Negro from the advent of the Revolution, when Attucks had the honor of being the first American to die for the cause of the colonies, to the enviable record of our colored soldiers in the World War, is one of which the race and nation may be justly proud. In the Civil War, on whichever side circumstances or his affections placed him, the Negro's devotion was true and loyal. In the Spanish war the Tenth Cavalry did notable service at San Juan and gained much praise for Roosevelt and his Rough Riders whom they had saved from disaster. In short, in every crisis our country has faced the Negro has faithfully done his part in proportion to his means and opportunities. His loyalty has been one of simple faith and devotion to the democratic ideals, whose principles he has imbibed, perhaps, as no other class of our citizens have done; in theory he has never known any other, though he has frequently experienced their mal-application. True, the Negro today is loyal, but he has begun to doubt and ask him- Price Reduced Our High Grade Colorado Lump Coal Rescreened at the Yard $9.50 Per Ton Delivered Consumers Coal & Supply Co. AT. 9146 "DEALERS IN GOOD COAL" AT. 9146 Look! LOOK! Look! Saturday, February 24 Will Be the Grand Opening of Our Real Dance Hall These dances will be continued on every Monday. Wednesday and Friday nights from 9 P. M. to 1 A. M. All objectionable features have been eliminated. Everything has been improved in order to make things convenient for your pleasure. TWELVE BIG REASONS FOR YOUR EARNEST CONSIDERATION self pertinent questions on a scale he never even thought himself capable of before. He is still largely influenced by conservative leaders of the school of Booker T. Washington. Dr. Motion of Tuskegee, and men of his stamp, are attempting to stem the changing tide which they fear, if too violently may be detrimental to the best interests of their race. But a new school of leadership has arisen whose thought and activities have already largely penetrated the rank and file of our colored population. The new standard bearers may be called radical; it is certain that they are more militant and aggressive than their predecessors. They maintain that the doctrines of patience and of blind confidence in the ultimately just application of the American spirit of fair play has been too frequently exploded. Everything may come to him who waits, but things quicker to him who does not wait too long. Such preachments are daily carried to the Negro masses by an ever increasing and very active Afro-American press which has been almost wholly monopolized by the new doctrinaires of Negro advancement. To achieve a greater measure of economic and civil equality these new teachers are avowedly aligning themselves with the world movement of non-white races for the overthrow of white oppression. American Negro thinkers are the instigators and the main factors in the recent pan-African Congress which sat at London, Brussels and Paris. They openly include within their program not only their own radical group, but all the darker peoples of the earth who suffer from white exploitation. They frankly sympathize with Japan in her aspirations for racial equality as expressed at Versailles and in her disaffection over the race question in California. They even look to her as a possible Moses who will lead them and the other colored races out of the wilderness. This new militancy is more highly organized than any previous and more conservative program of Negro leaders. Its greatest strength probably lies in its principal spokesman, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This organization has its national offices in New York with subsidiary branches in practically every city of importance in the United States. Its official report for 1922 gives a detailed account of every important accomplishment during the year. It tells of work on national legislation, particularly on the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill; of the many cases of legal defense including the Arkansas cases, the Tulsa riot cases, the numerous extradition cases, and other notable legal work; of lynchings and race riots, and of the play played by the N. A. A. C. P.; of peonage; of discrimination in labor and hospitals; of THE MONITOR the fight against the infamous Ku Klux Klan; of the annual conference in Detroit; of the Pan-African Congress; of publicity; of work for Haiti; of the interesting work of the branches and of the usual financial statement for the year. That such organized and growing militancy may be capitalized by greater and more powerful non-white alien races can hardly be doubted. Japanese statesmen, for example, are too shrewd to have overlooked our domestic race problem in the furthering of their own imperialistic intrigues. Japan and Kemal Pasha and Gandhi look beyond their own countrymen in their efforts to break the white man's shackles. They look to each other, and the American Negro has begun to look to them, for help. He has already eulogized Gandhi as the ideal man and the prototype, at least, of the messiah who will free the darker races. Thus in proportion to the divisions and contentions of white civilization there is a growing solidarity amongst the colored peoples of the world. Each new split in the white ranks, with its accompanying disasters, teaches them anew the value of developing a united front amongst themselves. They are discovering the weak spots in the armor of the domineering race. They are learning the wisdom of our own neglected maxim, stat vis in unitate. Native Africans are looking to American Negroes for help. The latter are answering the appeal and in the midst of their own grievances are beginning to feel something of the racial pride of the Oriental, the Indian, and the Mussulman. They are beginning to feel that their cause is the same as that of these races and that recognized cooperation with them would be a mark of respect and honor especially since their fellow citizens deem them unworthy of much consideration. If we wish to conserve the present undoubted and often proved loyalty and gentleness of our colored people we must be more considerate of their religious, civil and economic rights. We must appreciate more their devotedness to American institutions and reward their ebbing trust by a just application of our principles and laws to their group, and afford them every opportunity for a decent life and the pursuit of happiness. Every State in the Union should rid its own territory of lynchings and riots and by means of enlightened and practical interracial commissions do all in its power for the uplift and welfare of its Negroes. Individual citizens must cooperate in this leavening of our racial units. They must broaden their vision to the extent of an impartial practice of justice and charity, which virtues can never be fruitfully narrowed to limits of race, for they are as broad in their application as is the human fam- A Special Appeal From Creighton University During the forty-four years, Creighton University has never drawn the color line. It has accepted as students all who apply for admission regardtess of color or creed. Now that Creighton is appealing to the people of Omaha for funds, its appeal goes out regardless of color or creed; Creighton is the peoples university and has been for nearly half a century and for over 44 years has existed and given FREE education in its High School and College of Arts and Sciences. It is asking help for the first time not for the purpose of increasing salaries or to make up any deficit, but in order that it may keep pace with the growth of the city it has served so unselfishly Creighton is Asking One Million Dollars From Omaha for the purpose of erecting new buildings, that it may accommodate all the boys who seek an education. During the past 3 or 4 years hundreds of boys have been turned away on account of lack of room and proper equipment, and if Creighton is to continue its great work and render the service that is needed the people of Omaha must lend their share in the campaign. Every Dollar Donated Here Will Be Spent in Omaha Every dollar contributed by the people of Omaha will be spent here. The trustees of Creighton will guarantee this. 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Little Margaret Alstron, Lovetta Riddles, Mother Gray, Lot Pegram, Martha Moffatt, Mother Jackson, Mother Lamberts. Pray for our sick The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. T S. Phillips, 2504 Burdette street, who has been ill, is much better. No Delay! UNITED STATES VETERANS' HOSPITAL BUREAU The United States Civil Service Commission calls attention to the opportunities for appointment offered to persons who are qualified and who desire to enter the Government service at the new United States Veterans' Bureau Hospital for colored veterans, shortly to be opened at Tuskegee, Alabama, and erected on ground donated for the purpose by Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The capacity of this hospital is about 600 beds. It has been built for colored patients only, being the best of its kind in the world. It will be the policy to select colored eligibles for appointment when reached for certification in accordance with civil-service rules. Persons who desire to apply for any of the following named positions should immediately request full information and the appropriate application blank, addressing The United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Graduate Nurses; salaries $1680 to $2,500 a year. (Chief, Assistant Chief, Head and Staff positions.) Reconstruction Aides; salaries $1710 to $2000 a year. (In Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.) Reconstruction Assistants; salaries $1400 to $1600 a year. (In Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.) Dietitians; salaries $1680 to $2500 a year. (Chief and Staff positions.) Persons who are already eligible on registers for any of the above-named positions and who wish to be specifically considered for appointment to this hospital should so inform the Commission. The following named positions in the hospital will be filled from registers established by the District Secretary, and persons who wish to apply for them should send for full information and application blanks, addressing The Secretary, Fifth U. S. Civil Service District, Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia. Physicians. (General Medicine and Surgery, salaries up to $2350 a year, Specialists up to $5500 a year.) Dentists; salaries $2400 to $3600 a year. Laboratorians; salaries $1680 to $2000 a year. (In Roentgenology, Bacteriology and Dentistry.) Pharmacists: salaries $1680 to $2000 a year. Persons who have already qualified for any of these positions in other civil service districts may have their eligibility transferred to the Fifth District by writing to the District Secretary at Atlanta. N. W. C. A. HOLD MEETING The Executive and Advisory Boards of the N. W. C. A. met at the residence of Mrs. Martha Smith last Monday evening. The full report of the Charity Ball given by Mr. J. H. Broomfield was read and adopted with a vote of thanks. The balance due and turned over brought the full amount realized up to $206.50. After adjournment Mrs. Smith served a very palatable lunch which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Worthington Williams went to Lincoln Thursday night to attend the high school basket ball tournament. He is rooting for Central. WANTED—Colored men to qualify for carping car and trapping experience in university. Transportation furnished. MEN WANTED for detective work. Experience unnecessary. Write for details explaining guaranteed position. J. Ganor, Detective Detail. For Quick Sale A beautiful five room house at 2681 Corby Street, with plenty of fruit trees and a grape arbor. Price $4,000; $500 cash, balance $40 per month. Call Webster 7000. LINCOLN REAL ESTATE C. C. GALLOWAY, Manager We Are PANTS Specialists Mail Order. a Filled Promptly BRING IN those old, worn-out pants. We can match them with a new pair at moderate cost. 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TURNER 1702 North 24th St. PHONE WEBSTER 2092 FISH—GROCERIES VEGETABLES—FRUITS DELICATESSEN MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 907 4026 So. 24th St. Page Four SHERIFF FOILS ATTEMPTED LYNCHING BEE IN FLORIDA Palatak, Fla., March 9—Eleven employees of the State Road Department have been lodged in the Alabama county jail on charges of having attempted to storm the Putnam county jail early Friday morning. The lynching party was beaten off by Sheriff Hagan, 11, were captured in automobiles, supposedly leaving the scene, and five others were taken into custody in Gainesville on suspicion. More than fifty shots were fired by the mob into the jail, one striking Sheriff Hagan in the left hand. As the gang approached the jail Sheriff Hagan slammed the door in the face of the mob, which finally retreated after shooting through the doors and windows of the jail. A 50 foot rope was left behind by the mauders. A special grand jury will be called at once to take action against the eleven white men under arrest, it is said. It is said that the mob was bent on lynching Lige Lawrence, who is in the Putnam county jail charged with a minor offense, for the murder of a white man said to have been shot and killed by Edward Lawrence, a brother of Lige. According to the meagre information available, Crawford Smith, white, is said to have gone into the Edward Lawrence place of business and created a disturbance resulting in Smith being shot to death by Lawrence. Edward Lawrence is said to have departed for parts unknown. The mob being unable to find Edward Lawrence sought to avenge the death of Smith by lynching Edward's brother Lige, it is claimed. HON. W. L. COHEN'S CONFIRMATION HELD OVER (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., Mar. 9—"The appointment of Walter L. Cohen, Negro Republican, to be customs controller at New Orleans, is personally offensive," declared Senator Ransdell, democrat of Louisiana. The fight resulting temporarily in a draw over the confirmation of Walter Cohen was staged in the closing of the last session of Congress, leaving the matter for consideration at the next executive session. The Republican senators have asked Senator Ransdell to state the particulars why Mr. Cohen's appointment and confirmation is "personally offensive" to him. DR. MOTON POINTS WAY TO AID RACE PROBLEM SOLUTION Cleveland, Ohio, March 8—In an address at the Chamber of Commerce here last Wednesday Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute said: "The race problem can only be solved by full and frank discussion of their relationships." He declared that many of the Negroes of the South are coming North because of crop failures, the boll weevil and labor shortage in the industrial centers, and that northners should interest themselves in the progress of the South is making toward the solution of the race problem, as the problem promises to grow more acute in the North than it has been hitherto. "It would be wise to talk the problem over frankly with our people to get at the facts in the Negroes' condition economically, socially and industrially, and avoid the possibility of misunderstanding and friction," he said. "We cannot have peace and good will in this world unless we are willing to talk over things together; to talk over our difficulties and misunderstandings and our prejudices." EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON The annual "Quiet Day" for women conducted by Father Leete of Plattsmouth, Thursday, was well attended from the opening service of the Holy Communion at 9:30 a. m., until the close at 3:30. The general subject of the four meditations was, "Personal Knowledge of our Lord and Savior." The four addresses dwelt upon the attainment of this knowledge through—1. Prayer; 2. Service; 3. Suffering; and 4. The Holy Eucharist. The services Sunday will be Holy Communion, 7:30 a. m.; matins, 8:30; Church school, 10; sung Eucharist with sermon, "The Third Temptation of our Lord." 11; vespers and sermon at 5 o'clock. Sermon topic at 5, "The Ten Commandmen." The Men's Club meets at the rectory Monday night at 8 o'clock. ROMAN CATHOLICS HOLD WEEK'S MISSION A week's Mission will be held at St. Benedict's Home, 2429 Parker street, beginning next Sunday night, March 11, at 8:45. The Rev. S. J. Boyle, S. J., of Cleveland, Ohio, a well-known and prominent missioner, will be in charge, assisted by the Rev. Francis J. Cassilly, S. J., dean of Creighton Dental College Faculty and pastor of St. Benedict's. St. Benedict's is the only colored Roman Catholic settlement work and congregation in Omaha. All denominations are invited to attend the mission. St. Benedict's choir will sing. Ostrich Valuable Bird. The average life of the ostrich is thirty years and the annual yield of a bird four or five pounds of plumes. IN THE COUNTY COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, NEBR. In the Matter of the Estate of Thomas Reese, Deceased. To the Heirs-at-law, Creditors and All Other Persons Interested in said Estate: You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in this court on the 27th day of February, 1923, by Edith Reese, alleging that Thomas Reese died on the 25th day of February, 1921, intestate; that at the time of his death he was a resident of Douglas county, Nebraska; and that he was possessed of an equity in the following described real estate: Lots one (1) in Flack's Sub-Division of Lots 11, 12, 13 and 14, in Catalpa's Second Addition to the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. That said petitioner has an interest in said real estate, being the widow of said deceased; said petitioner has an interest in said petition, that notice thereof be given as required by law, and that upon said hearing a decree of heirship be entered and further administration of said estate be dispensed with. You are therefore notified that a hearing will be had on said petition at the County Court Room of said County, on the 31st day of March, 1923 at 9 o'clock a. m., and that if you fail to appear at said time and place and contest the said petition, the court may grant the same, enter a decree of heirship, and decree that further administration of said estate be dispensed with. BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge. (3-2-3t) LINCOLN COMMENT Word comes to us that Rev. M. C. Knight, newly appointed pastor for the A. M. E. church, will be in the city by next Sunday. Rev. H. W. Botts was called to St. Joseph, Mo., last week where he officiated at the funeral of a member belonging to his former church in Plattsburg, Mo. The condition of John L. Wright at the State Hospital is about the same The Mission Society of Mt. Zion Baptist church was entertained at the home of Mrs. Mary Kings last Tuesday night. Father E. Corneal is yet quite feeble. Covenant and praise services were enjoyed by members of Mt. Zion Baptist church last Sunday morning. The Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. had nice meetings and were well attended. The pastor preached a noble sermon at 8 p. m., after which communion was served to a large number of members. Owing to the snow storm last Saturday night only a few attended the weekly supper at the parsonage. The supper given by the Mission in Wiley Hall last Thursday night was a success. Rev. Thos. J. Porter conducted services at the A. M. E. church last Sunday. The Sunday school and A. C. E. Societies had interesting services. R. A. M. will meet in Masonic Hall Monday night, March 19th. Master Masons meet Tuesday night, March 13th. Robert Henry Hucless Consistory No. 32 met last Monday night and elected officers for the ensuing year. J. S. Galbrath, Commander-in-Chief; A. B. Mosley and M. E. Williams; Lieutenant Commanders; Lloyd T. Carter; Secretary; T. T. McWilliams, treasurer. PHENOMENAL DANCERS AT POPULAR GAYETY Stone and Pillard Return After an Absence of Three Seasons. Stone and Pillard will arrive at the popular Gayette theatre Saturday matinee to present "The Boys from Home" as the principal burlesque feature of Joe Hurtig's "Big Show." George Stone and Etta Pillard have attracted to themselves a large following among votaries of clean and wholesome burlesque and their appearance as stars of "The Big Show" is another and potent assurance that the entertainment will be worthy of the attention that exacting amusement seekers give to the better order of burlesque the Columbia Wheel sponsors. Both Mr. Stone and Miss Pillard have individuality of method and their united efforts have ever been unfailing incitements to merriment and good cheer. Burlesque without a chorus would be "something else again"—and "The Boys from Home" is strictly burlesque. Joe Hurtig is said to possess uncanny faculty for picking talent from a profusion of beauty that annually comes to his attention and for "The Big Show" he has selected a bevy of graceful dancers who can also sing in harmonious unison, according to reports that come from cities on the Columbia Wheel where this offering has thus far appeared. Irene Evans, a beautiful and talented prima donna; Rose Duffin and Gretta Tyson, agile soubrettes who sing and dance, and Stone and Pillard will share in the important task of leading the chorus in various ensembles of melody and dance. Among the men who will help George Stone proceed with the comedy are Billy Baker, an eccentric dancer; Sammy Wright, German comedian, Mary Semon, leading man, and James D. WiWlson, versatile entertainer. Ladies' matine at 2:15 daily all week starting Monday. DRIVE FOR MEMBERS The officers of the N. A. A. C. P. are very busy at present with the spring drive, with the membership mark set at 1000. Let all Omaha help in this as it takes moral and financial support to carry on this noble work. The president is making a thorough canvass of all churches and lodges in this and is inviting as many as can come to hear Mr. Walter F. White when he comes next month. Daddy's Evening Fairy Tale BY MARY GRAHAM BONNER COPYRIGHT BY WESTERN NEW YORK UNION CHRISTMAS AIR "Of course," said Santa Claus to his reindeer, "I can't help but be cheery and gay and merry and happy just as I am, for I have so many, many friends. And it elights me so that all the children are so different. A "I love to have them all different. I wouldn't want all boys to be just alike in their ways and all girls alike in theirs. "I think it is splendid that there are so many different kinds, splendid." "Many, Many Stockings." splendid that there are so many different kinds, perfectly, perfectly splendid. "You all know that." And the bells of the reindeer jingled as they went along through the cold, crisp, clear winter air. Santa Claus had just finished his Christmas work. He had filled any number of stockings; oh, so many, many stockings! And he had trimmed trees and arranged presents. Gra- cions, but he had been busy! "And how he had loved it all. Every bit of his work he had loved. He had seen the children asleep and he had left his work of unpacking the presents for many a look at his little sleeping friends. And now he was back and his reindeer were taking him home. He was calling out stories about the children to them as they went along, little notes he had received, and some of them had left him little notes wishing him a Merry Christmas, and that pleased him so much. He told the reindeer, too, of how they looked and of Helen's hair tied up so tightly in rags it would be curly on Christmas day. And it had looked quite quaint and pretty tied so close to her head. Then Santa Claus began to sing: "Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, the Merry Christmas season! My children have made me the King of a With them as my subjects I can't help but be gay!" I chuckle and smile and I laugh and I shout. As I think of the numbers of children about! I can't feel the cold with my heart so well warmed. Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, the Merry Christmas season" The reindeer jingled their bells more than ever and Santa Claus began to sing again: "The Christmas and the stockings hanging up, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, The letters and the messages, and everything just so. All for Christmas Day, all for Christmas Day. And that's the very right way! For Christmas Day is the day of the year. When we all are so merry and full of good cheer. And Santa comes a-calling and it delights him very much. For then with all his children he keeps in such close touch. And children in the best of all. Santa Claus knows! Santa Claus knows! For so Santa Claus went on singing, and singing and the reindeer made music for his songs as they did when he sang about his work during the days and the nights before Christmas. For they always wanted to make music for Santa's songs and before he started they wanted to let him knew that they were ready. And when his way home they wanted to join in the gay merriment of the season. "You know," said Santa Claus, "I am going to send a message to the am going to send children this very day. People think that there's a certain feeling in the air at Christmas time which is different from that at any other time. And it is different. For it is filled with the echoes of Santa's laughter and the music of the sleigh bells in the frosty, clear air, and that is what they really hear! ```markdown ``` "Oh yes, the air is very differ- "Oh yes, the "Quite Quaint." air is very differ-ent at Christmas time, and while everyone feels there is something wonderful about it unlike that at any other time of the year they do not know what it really means. And so I am telling them. "They hear the echoes of Santa's laughter and of his singing and of the music of the bells of the reindeer. And the air is full of these sounds, and of the echoes of every Merry Christmas which Santa Claus shouts and sings and whispers, and Santa Claus wishes many Merry Christmas, I can tell you." A. Soft Answer Freshman—"I'm doing my best to get ahead." Sophomore—"You need one." (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., March 8-Mrs. Julia Bumry-Jones has returned to the staff of the Pittsburgh Courier after an absence of several months. Mrs. Jones is regarded as one of the foremost newspaper women of the country and especially good at feature story writing. THE MONITOR Seat of of Nati Seat of League of Nations Geneva, Astride the River Rhone. (Prepared by the National Geographic So- to the muddy turbulence of its ingress Because so many tourists have flocked to Swiss beauty spots for centuries and must needs be cared for, Switzerland has been referred to, extravagantly, of course, as "a nation of hotelkeepers." Since the World war international meetings have been so frequent within the mountainous little republic that the nickname may well be changed to "country of world conferences." Lausanne, latest of Swiss cities to become a hostess to diplomats with the meeting there of the Near East conference, is not so well known by name, perhaps, as some of its sister towns, but the products of none other are more commonly at hand among Americans. Look over the shelves of a grocery store and, prominently displayed on the shelf of condensed milk, you are almost sure to find a variety made at Lausanne. Scan the confectioner's counter in any drug store and there, in black paper and silvery foil, will be a milk chocolate made at Veys, not far away, and probably shipped via Lausanne. An inevitable mental morsel of a public library is Gibbon's "Rome," and the last three volumes of that work were penned at Lausanne. Stroll along the main street of an American town that dates back to colonial days, or among the "For Sale" signs of your city's newest suburb, and you are likely to note a mansard roof—Invention of the Frenchman, Francois Mansard, whose fame is enhanced by a beautiful chateau in the vicinity of Lausanne. Lausanne is the all-year-round hostess city of Switzerland. In 1910, by count, nearly one-fourth of the 46,000 residents were citizens of other countries than Switzerland. And in 1922, by estimate, this proportion has been restored, despite the war's disturbance. From Lake Geneva the other part of the city especially is striking, trailing the crests of five ribbed hills, which are the lower slopes of Mount Jorat, with the cathedral of Notre Dame, the finest medieval church edifice of Switzerland, easily the most conspicuous feature. From the Signal, whence many a writer has painted word pictures of the lakeside city, the eye again catches the massive bulk of the Gothic cathedral, sweeps red-roofed houses, rebels at the factories of the newer town to the south and west, but is captivated by the expanse of the lake's blue waters, across which the "jagged teeth of the Savoy mountains bite into the sky." University Is Famous. The luster of famous names clings chiefly to the university buildings. Though the institution did not achieve a formal university status until 1921, it has been famous since its founding, in 1537, the year after Berne took over the control of Lausanne. Previously, it had been said, Lausanne "lay dormant at the base of its many churches." The tide of the Reformation swept in with the Bernese affiliation. A school was needed to train young preachers quickly to spread Protestant doctrine. Thus Pierre Viret, a tailor's son, became the John Harvard of Lausanne. Then came Conrad Gesner, whose fame rests on a solid pedestal of more than three-score works in science, ranging from philology to botany. Overtopping this prodigious research was his enumeration of some 500 plants not hitherto recorded. Most humanly appealing of these early scholars was Theodore Beza, who graduated from the adventures of a cavalier, a sort of medieval "man about town," and forsook the writing of sprightly and risque verse for the chair of Greek and morals at Lausanne. Then he turned his pen to Biblical dramas before he went to Geneva to be Calvin's chief aide. The Simplon tunnel assures Lausanne's future. The city now lies along the main rail route from Paris to Milan. While Lausanne is temporarily in the public eye as a forum for the discussion of world problems, its sister city, Geneva, stands on a more permanent international footing as seat of the League of Nations. This "world capital" is seated serenely on both banks of the River Rhone, where it leaves the limpid waters of Lake Geneva as a placid stream, in contrast A. J. 2426 La FULL LINE STAPLE A FRESH AND 2426 Lake Street FULL LINE STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES FRESH AND CURED MEATS to the muddy turbulence of its ingress at the other end of the lake. The city is not the metropolis of the miniature republic of Switzerland, for Zurich surpasses it in population by 50 per cent, and Berne is the capital. But it is doubtful whether, before the World war, any other city of Geneva's size was visited annually by as many tourists, for it was the main gateway into the world-famous playground of Europe. Although its recorded history goes back beyond the Christian era, to the time when Julius Caesar, in his commentaries on his first expedition into Gaul, mentions it as a stronghold of the Allobroges, its growth has been phenomenal only in its leisureness. Today, after 20 centuries, it has less than one-third the population of the century-old capital of the United States. The city enjoys the distinction of being the birthplace of the International Red Cross, but also has some dark chapters in its past—the religious excesses of the Reformation, when the persecuted became the persecutors. Geneva's Noted Men. Rousseau, of whom Napoleon said, "Without him, France would not have had her Revolution"; and the patriot Bonivard, whose trials Byron immortalized as the "Prisoner of Chillon," were Genevans. Farel, the Billy Sunday of his day, who could not be made to desist from preaching, even though the women of his congregation dragged him up and down the asles of the church by his beard, made the lake city his headquarters during his ascendancy. And John Calvin, "who found Geneva a bear garden and left it a docile school of pliey," was virtual dictator here for a quarter of a century. One of the most picturesque figures in the history of Geneva during this period was Francois de Bonivard, who, when his victorious friends rushed into his dungeon at Chillon crying, "Bonivard, you are free!" responded with the query, "And Geneva?" Upon being assured that his city was also saved, he went home relocating. By one of those curious chances upon which hinge events of monumental moment, the young French philosopher, John Calvin, a native of Picardy, passed through Geneva one evening on his way to Strasbourg. He had intended spending only one night; but Farel, hearing of his arrival, rushed to him las in the vicinity of the park which characterized every act of his life, convinced Calvin that it was his duty to remain and assist in the organization of a theocratic state. There is no more beautiful picture of Christian charity than the scene in this city when, on August 30, 1572, merchants of Lyons brought news of the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's day. Pastors were dispatched to the frontiers to meet the fugitives who were reported to be on their way to this asylum, and the venerable Theodore de Beze, who had succeeded Calvin as the spiritual head of the council, directed the whole population to fast and pray for the sufferers. Geneva has set aside as a site for the permanent home of the League of Nations, a beautiful wooded park bordering on the lake, some five miles from the center of the city. Behind the park tower the snow-clad Jura mountains. While there are many villas in the vicinity of the park which are suitable for offices and for quarters of the delegates and their secretarial staffs, the capitol building itself must be built. On These Crispy Mornin's OH These crispy mornings. "On these crispy, crimpy mornin's when I hear my rooster crow no blankets can't seduce me when my system hollers 'Go.' So I charge the autumn landscapes with a military tread, reapin' victory after victory—till it's time to go to bed. From my early mornin's flaplacks, till the mush-an'milk at night, this merry-cheery weather is a round of pure delight, and she tinkers with my system, lendin' comforts an' repairs. I'm so busy feelin' thankful that I've got no time for prayers. Oh, there's worlds of joy in livin' when the spirit strikes a chord in the harmony of Natur' by the blessin's of the Lord. There's demands upon digestion that we never feel in spring—while I ain't no hand to whistle you'll excuse me if I sing"—Atlanta Constitution. 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 Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables 2001 CUMING STREET TELEPHONE JACKSON 1098 The TABLE SUPPLY in Groceries and All Food Supplies We Specialize in FRESH MINNESOTA BUFFALO FISH We Deliver to Any Part of the City Tel. ATLANTIC 3857 JOHN ADAMS, ATTORNEY NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. In the Matter of the Estate of James M. Kinney, Deceased. 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