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VOTE TUESDAY--DON'T SHIRK YOUR BIG CIVIC DUTY LIFTING LIFT TOO $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy VOTE T KANSAS CITY CALL CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNIVERSARY DAY Rapid Progress Made by Missouri Newspaper Which Has Pursued a Well - Defined Policy PLANT IS WORTH $25,000.00 Chester A. Franklin, a Former Omaha Boy, Is the Energetic But Modest Proprietor of Publication Kansas City, Mo., May 2.—(Preston News Service.)—Almost every week news reach us of advanced steps in the publishing game among race journals. What is believed to be the most remarkable progress in race journalism is the rapid strides of the Kansas City Call which quitely celebrated its fifth anniversary last week. It now sets its own ads on its recently installed Model 24 linotype. Plant Worth $25,000 Since May 1, 1919, date the Kansas City Call was founded by C. A. Franklin, editor and owner, improvements and equipment have been added until the plant is now worth more than $25,000, exclusive of the three-story brick building, which is valued at $30,000. The plant includes a Duplex Webb press, installed lsst. February, a model 8 Hotype machine and the recently added Model 24, besides other miscellaneous standard equipment. From four employees in 1919 the staff now numbers fifteen. Recently Mr. Franklin disposed of a large job printing office in connection with the publication in order to devote his entire time to the printing and publishing of the Kansas City Call. Mr. Franklin Very Modest When a Preston News Service reporter said to Mr. Franklin, "Celebrating your fifth anniversary?" "No, sir," retorted Mr. Franklin, "really, we are too busy getting in our new machinery so we can do some real work, give employment to more of our people and get out The Call, to stop to celebrate. Whatever success we have attained in the past five years has been due to the loyal support of the people of Kansas City who have patronized our advertisers so consistently that we have been able to secure advertising business enough to expand and improve our publication," he declared. Mr. Franklin who is a native of Texas, was reared and educated in Omaha, Neb., where his father Geo. F. Franklin was editor of The Enterprise. POPULAR BABY CONTEST TO CONTINUE THRU THE MONTH OF MAY Three Prizze Will be Awarded Babies Receiving Largest: Number of Votes to Help Association Cause STANDING OF CONTESTANTS The Omaha branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will award three prizes, $10, $5 and $2.50 in gold to the child up to five years standing first, second and third respectively when the contest closes Friday, May 30. The proceeds of the contest go to the work of the National Association. The following children have been entered in the contest: Lilian Austin, age 5,2305 Madison St. South Side. Votes reported 0. May Jefferson, age 1, 2639 Z St, South Side. Votes reported 0. Lena Paez, age 2, 1418 No. 25th St. Votes reported 0. Mary Headdy Wiggins, age 3, 2838 Franklin St. Votes reported 540. Nonice May Williams, age 5 months 2709 Caldwell St. Votes reported 56. Lulu Divers, age 2, 2430 Franklin St. Votes reported 0. Charlotte Hicks, age 3, 2716 Miami St. Votes reported 0. Cecil Walls, age 2, 3026 R Street. Votes reported 0. Richard Stanton, age 3, 2617 Erskine St. Votes reported 420. George Bullock, age 2, 2518 Maple St. Votes reported 0. Evidently some of the contestants are holding back their reports, but all are expected to report each week. It will seen seen from this that Mary Heddy Wiggins, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Wiggins, leads Richard Stanton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Stanton by 120 votes. Watch the contest week by week and work for your favorite baby. There is an Elk baby which it is said will be the winner. Watch developments. Phone for information Mrs. John Albert Williams, chairman, Webster 4243. THE MONITOR "A good shine now, Jacko!" "Put a high polish on!" "I want to look nice for--" "Call a taxi!!" Chicago, IL., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—According to government statistics the cost of living has increased seventy per cent since 1913, while the salary of postal employees has gone up only fifty per cent in the same time, leaving a net loss of twenty per cent. It is estimated that the total loss to each postal clerk and carrier is $3,246. Postal employees are now asking Congress to grant them a raise to range at the maximum from $2,000 to $2,400 a year. NEGRO DEMOCRATS CONVENE Washington, D. C., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—A convention of Negro democrats, meeting to organize for the purpose of adding the democratic party will be held in this city May 27. The convention will be held under the auspices of the Nationa' Negro Democratic party. OMAHA TRIMS THE LEAGUE LEADERS IN THREE GAMES Omaha Western Leaguers Make Good Impression on Fans in Their Opening Games Here Several thousand rabid baseball fans crowded into League Park on Tuesday afternoon to witness the Omaha Buffaloes trounce the bald-headed Izzies from over Wichita way. It was a sweet game, despite the gooey field, with Omaha on the winning end of the count, 11 to 5. Wednesday and Thursday were repititions of the verdict of Tuesday. Tulsa arrived for todays' game and will be here Saturday and Sunday and a mammoth crowd should greet the boys during the week-end games. Omaha, from all appearances, has a dandy club, and as the season progresses, with warmer weather, great things can be expected from the home clan. Seven home runs is the record of the locals during the three home games, which bespeak them as sluggers. Several other extra base blows have been accounted for. Join your neighbors Saturday and Sunday and watch the Buffs take Tula from their perch at the top of the gang. There promises to be some good things in store for the fans. ST. PAUL PRESBY- TERIAN CHURCH NOTES Boys' Sunday was fittingly observed. The address to the boys by Dr. Edwards was of the highest order, pleasing, clear and instructive. And the boys grasped his thoughts remarkably well. Sunday school was well attended. New workers were elected as follows: Assistant superintendent, Mr. Harry Speese; secretary, Miss Dehila Reeves; assistant secretary, Miss Willa Mae Cruter; treasurer, Master Wayne Harris; Junior teacher, Miss Ethel Speese; Intermediate teacher, Mr. R. S. Taylor. Mrs. M. A. Johnson was retained as superintendent and Mrs. Taylor remains in charge of the primary and beginners' department. At the evening service the Rev. J. B. Currens was present and gave a very helpful talk on githing. The Rev. Mr. Currens is in his eighties and has been a tither all his life practically. Services Sunday will be as follows: Morning, "What Think Ye of Christ?" and in the evening, "And the Winds Were Contrary". The Christian Endeavor will have its monthly consecration meeting at 7:00 o'clock. The pastor will lead. The roll will be called. Will you be there? Remember your pledge. Easter visitors to Quinn chapel were Miss Anita Gentry, St. Joseph, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon motored up from Beatrice, Tommie Mason, Jr., and his mother, Mrs. Bell Mason, motored up from Nehawka; Mr. Chas. Scott, Beatrice. A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924 A STORY OF THE MARTYRS OF 1822 CHARLES WEST AT HOWARD MEET, MAY 20th Washington, D. C., May 2.—Up to two season's ago, the athletic reputation of Charles West, intercollegiate pentathlon champion and captain of the Washington and Jefferson track team, was limited to his line plunging and end-running skill in football. When he finished runner up to the great Legendre of Georgetown in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival of 1922, the public began to sit up and take notice of this all-around "phenom" who already enjoyed a local reputation in the Allegheny Mountain Association as a baseball, tennis, and basketball player of unusual merit. He followed up this achievement next year by winning the intercollegiate pentathlon championship at Franklin Field against such sterling athletes as Plonksky and Maroney, Georgetown; Norton, University of Kansas, and Kipp, Haskell Institute. Experts claim that he is the nearest approach to Jim Thorpe in amateur circles. West heads the list of that great quartette of runners composed of Bridges, Allen, Moore and West who has made athletic history for the Negro in the region around Pittsburgh. Coming from the rear in the Middle Atlantic States Championship at the Penn Carnival last year, he turned defeat into victory for his Alma Ma- It is not known for how many eager and anxious months or even years, Denmark Vesey had patronized the East Bay Street Lottery of Charleston prior to 1800, when he was rewarded with a prize of $1,500. With $600 of this money he bought himself of Capt. Vesey. He was at last his own master, in possession of a small capital, and of a good trade, carpentry, which he practiced with great industry. He was successful, amassed in time considerable wealth, became a solid man of the community in spite of his color, winning the confidence of the whites, and respect from the blacks amounting almost to reverence. He married—was much married it was said, which I see no reason to doubt, in view of the polygamous example set him by many of the respectabilities of the master-race in that remarkably pious old slave town. A plurality of children rose up, in consequence, to him from the plurality of his family ties; rose up to him, but they were not his, for following the condition of the mothers, they were, under the Slave-Code, the chattails of other men. This cruel wrong ate deep into Veseys mind. Of course, it was most outrageous for him, a black man, to concern himself so much about the human chattels of white men, albeit those human chattels were his own children. What had he, a social pariah, in Christian America to do with such high caste things as a heart and natural affections? But somehow he did have, a heart, and it was in the right place, and natural affections for his own flesh and blood, like men with a white skin. "Twas monstrous in him to be sure, but he could not help it. The slave iron had entered his soul, and the wound which it made rankled in secret there. Not alone the sad condition of his own children embittered his lot, but the sad condition of other black men's children as well. He yearned to help all to better social conditions—to that freedom which is the gift of God to mankind. (He yearned to possess this God-given boon, in its fullness and entirely, for himself before he passed thence to the grave.) For he possessed it not. He had indeed bought himself, but he soon learned that the right to himself which he had purchased from his master was not the freedom of a man, but the freedom accorded by the slave code, to a black man, a freedom so restrictive in quantity and mean in quality that no white man, however low, could be made to live contentedly under it for ter, hanging up a record for same. It was largely through this achievement, plus the victory in the pentathlon event that he was elected captain of the Washington and Jefferson track team for 1924. Both the winning of the intercollegiate pentathlon event and his selection as captain are honors unique in the annals of Negro athletics. His best event is the javelin contest in which he has a record of 177 feet. He also excels in the dashes, middle distance events, broad jump, and is a discus thrower of no mean ability. He will display his wares in a contest with "Ned" Gourdin, Harvard University, at the Fifth Annual Intercollegiate Meet at Howard University or May 10th. TEXANS PREPARE TO GET VOTE Galveston, Tex., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Qualified Negro voters of this city were called into formal meeting last week by L. G. Robinson, Chester Ferguson, A. L. Bush, J. A. Mirant and Frank Burton to consider plans for qualifying more Negro voters. A permanent organization is planned which will have for its main purpose the preparing of Negroes to break through the bar to voting, so that their suffrage will not be abridged, either by law or political intrigue. F THE MART Days, Dealing With Slave I By Francis J. Grimke PART II (By The Associated Negro Press) OUR HERO BUYS HIS FREEDOM a day. In judging this black man, oh, ye critics and philosophers, judge him not hastily and harshly before you have at least tried to put: yourselves in his place. You may not even then succeed in doing him justice, for while he had his faults, and was sorely tempted, he was, nevertheless, in every inch of him, from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head, a Man. At the period which we have now reached in his history, he was in possession of a fairly good education—was able to read and write, and to speak with fluency the French and the English languages. He had travelled extensively over the world in his master's slave vessel, and had thus obtained a stock of valuable experiences, and a wide range of knowledge of men and things of which few inhabitants, whether black or white, in the slave community of Charleston, during the first quarter of the 19th century could truthfully have boasted. Yet in spite of these undeniable facts, in spite of his unquestioned ability and economic efficiency as an industrial factor in that city, he was in legal and actual ownership of precious little of that right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" which the most ignorant and worthless white man enjoyed as a birthright. Wherever he moved or wished to move he was met and surrounded by the most galling and degrading social and civil conditions and proscriptions. True, he held a bill of sale of his person, had ceased to be the chattel property of an individual, but he still wore chains, which kept him, and which were intended to keep him and such as him, slaves of the community forever, deprived of every civil right which white men, their neighbors, were bound to respect. (For instance, were he wronged in his person or property by any member of the dominant race, be the offender man, woman or child, Vesey could have had no redress in the courts, in case the proof of his complaint or the enforcement of his claim depended exclusively upon the testimony of himself and that of black witness, however respectable.) --- AMERICA'S OLDEST WOMAN DIES Hayti, Mo., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.—With the death of Mrs. Maranda Cut, the claim is being made by residents of this town that the oldest woman in America has passed away. There was documentary evidence to prove that Mrs. Cute was 130 years old. Like many other old persons she was said to remember many of the men and events of the period soon after the revolutionary war. She came to this town during the recent migration and was able to care for herself until within a few years of her death. SCOTTISH RITE SUPREME COUNCIL MEETS IN CHICAGO Chicago, 111., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—The United Supreme council of the Thirty-third and Last Degree of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry of the Northern jurisdiction will convene in its forty-third annual session in this city May 11-14. Meetings will be held at Bethel A. M. E. church. Dr. Summer A. Furniss, Indianapolis, is the grand commander and is making elaborate plans for the success of the convention. Rev. H. W. Botts was an Omaha visitor last Wednesday. Such a man, we may be sure, was conscious of the possession, notwithstanding his black skin and blacker social and civil condition, of longings, aspirations, which the Slave-Code made it a crime for him to satisfy. He must have felt the stir of forces and faculties within him, which, under the heaviest pains and penalties, he was forbidden to exercise. Thus robbed of freedom, ravished of manhood, what was he to do? Ay, what ought he to have done under the circumstances? Ought he to have done what multitudes had done before him, meek and submissive folk, generations and generations of them, borne tamely like them his chains, without an effort to break them and break instead his lion's spirit? Ought he to have contented himself with such a woeful existence, and to have been willing at its end to mingle his ashes with the miserable dust of all those countless masses of forgotten and unresisting slaves? "Never!" replied what was bravest and worthiest of respect in the breast of this truly great-hearted man. The burning wrong which he felt against slavery had sunk in his mind below the reach of the grappling tongs of reason. It 'lay' like a charge of giant powder, with its slow match attachment, the unplumbed depths of a soul which knew not fear, of a soul which was as hot with smouldering hate and rage as is a live volcano with its unvomited flame and lava. As well, under the circumstances, have tried to subdue the profound fury of the one with argument, as to quench the hidden fires of the other with water. (He knew, none better, that his oppressors were strong and that he was weak, that he had but one slender chance in a hundred of redressing by force the wrongs of himself and race. He knew too that failure in such a desperate enterprise could have for himself but a single issue, viz., certain death. But he believed that success on the other hand meant for him and his the gain of that which alone was able to make their lives worth the living, to wit, a freeman's portion, his opportunity for the full development and free play of all of his powers amid that society in which was cast his lot. And for that portion, so precious, he was ready to take the one chance with all of its tremendous risks, to stake that miserable modicum of freedom which he possessed, the wealth laboriously accumulated by him, and life itself.) (To be continued) Whole Number 460 BIG CIVIC BELL BOY MUTILATED Shreveport, La., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Police authorities here are searching for two white men who are charged with having abducted Dave Howard, bell hop in a local hotel, and with performing a serious operation on him. The boy, who is in a serious condition and may not live, said the white men were angered when a white woman talked to him too long in the lobby of the hotel. The men being sought were guests in the hotel. LIVED TO SEE SIX GENERATIONS Selma, Ala., May 2.—By the Associated Negro press.)—No more will children of the town go to play with "Aunt" Isabella Moss under the tree that stood just outside her cabin. The aged woman died last week, her age reputed to be 115 years. It was claimed that she had seen six generations of Selma inhabitants come and go. She could not remember when she started life's journey, holding to the belief to the end that she had always been a grown woman. GIRLS FRIENDLY SOCIETY ATTEND UNION SERVICE Take Part in Social Gathering and Program in Trinity Cathedral Parish House Last Saturday afternoon at 5:30 an impressive service was held in Trinity Cathedral where a union admission service for the Girls' Friendly Society was held. The services were conducted by Dean McGinley, the Rev. E. J. Seeker and the Rev. John Albert Williams. There was a large congregation present. Several candidates and members were formally admitted to the society by Dean McGinley in the absence of Bishop Shayler. The following candidates and members were admitted from St. Philip's branch: Irbie Anderson, Odessa Banks, Louise Scott, Catherine Williams, Celestine Smith, Ellen Richardson, Lavinia Scott, and Zora Hill. Following the service a luncheon was served in the Parish house and an interesting program presented by representatives of St. Andrew's, St. John's, Good Shepherd, St. Philip's, St. Paul's, Omaha; St. Paul's, Council Bluffs and Trinity Cathedral, Omaha. St. Philip's number was a piano solo by Miss grace Adams. AKRON CLOSES BABY CONTEST Akron, O., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—In what is perhaps the largest yet of a series of baby contests being conducted by William Pickels, field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, this city raised more than $800 to fight lynching with an expedition of only $75. Mr. Pickens was given $600 for the association. There were thirty babies in the local contest, only twenty-five having reported when the above figures were given out. FORMER SLAVE'S WILL CUTS HIS CHILDREN Montgomery, Ala., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Dan Freeman, former slave who died here recently, left his entire fortune to the five grandchildren of his former master. His own children were cut off with nothing. They are now contesting the will, claiming that Freeman was of unsound mind when he left the bequest to the whites, and that an earlier testament showed that he intended to leave his fortune to his own. The property is valued at $3,000. WANTED FOR MURDER FORTY-THREE YEARS AGO Tampa, Fla., May 2.—(By the As- sociated Negro Press.)—Georgia offi- cials are seeking to have returned to that state, J. W. Ellis, 75, an ex-slave, to stand trial for a murder committed in Decatur county, Georgia, in 1881. GROWING THANK YOU 0 Vol. IX—No. 44 C DUTY HOWARD SCHOOL OF RELIGION CAMPAIGN GETS UNDERWAY Colored People of the District of Columbia Have Pledged to Date $21,536.50 for Work INTEREST IS INCREASING Workers Confident of Ultimate Success in Raising Prescribed Quota for the District Washington, D. C., May 2.—With the campaign for $500,000 for the Endowment and Building Fund for the School of Religion of Howard University barely underway, thirty-five workers at a dinner given Friday, April 25th, in the new dining hall of the university, reported a total of $21,536.40 pledged to the fund by colored people of the District of Columbia. The workers in the campaign have set $50,000 as the amount to be secured from the colored people of this city and are most enthusiastic over the success which has thus far come from their efforts. The group of workers is growing each day. A large number of new teams were organized with the appointment of additional captains. In the report of pledges were two of $1,000, given by Dr. Sterling N. Brown and George W. Robinson, one of $500 given by John T. Rhines, and one of $300 by Dr. M. W. Norman. The increased interest in the campaign for the School of Religion is noted in the plans for the observance of Howard Night Thursday night, May 1st, at the Third Baptist church, Fifth and Q streets, N. W., of which Rev. G. O. Bullock is pastor. According to the announcement at the dinner, Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, president of the university; Dr. D. Butler Pratt, dean of the School of Religion; Dr. Sterling N. Brown, director of the extension department of the School of Religion, and Dr. Bullock, will address the meeting. Among those who spoke at the campaign workers' dinner were Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant superintendent of school of the District of Columbia, and Dr. James L. Pinn. Each worker pledged himself to "go over the top" in the matter of raising the $50,000 set as the amount to be secured from the colored people of the District of Columbia for the Endowment and Building Fund of the School of Religion of Howard University. "A NAUTICAL KNOT" TO BE PRESENTED BY LOCAL TALENT Forty-five University and High School Students Rehearsing Operetta Under Direction of Mrs. Pinkston WILL BE GIVEN AT BRANDEIS For the development and encouraging of musical talent among the University and High school students of Omaha, Mrs. Florentine J. Pinkston has been training for some months forty-five students in the pleasing two-act operetta, "A Nautical Knot," or "The Belle of Barnstapoole" by Maude Elizabeth Inch and W. Rhyherbert. In addition to the young men and women presenting the operetta, thirty small children have been in training to present a beautiful and artistic dance, entitled "The Awakening of Spring," each child representing a spring flower. It will be one of the most elaborate and artistic entertainments ever presented in Omaha, and as such should be witnessed by an audience that will tax the capacity of the theatre. The Nautical Knot will be presented at the Brandeis theatre, Wednesday night, May 28th. Tickets go on sale next week FETE 300 ORPHANS New Orleans, La., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Three hundred orphans of the Holy Name society were entertained Easter at a special showing of the Passion Play in motion pictures at the Lyric theatre through the courtesy of Manager Clarence Bennett. Vaudeville was also presented for the benefit of the soldiers at the government hospital Easter Monday. N. A. A. C. P. WILL MEET SUNDAY The Omaha Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will meet at the Church of St. Philip the Deacon Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. M. J. Ford, president of the Men's Service League and deeply interested in the Boys' movement is expected to be the special speaker. THE M A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED OF COLORED PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY A MONITOR PUBLIC Entered as Second-Class Mail M Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIE W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb. LUCIANA W. WILLIAMS E. B. BUTTON. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR. Advertising Rates Fur Address, The Monitor, Poste Telephone V ARTICLE XIV, CON UNITED THE MONTTOR THE MONTTOR ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Citizenship Rights Net to Be Abridged 1. All persons born or naturalized in the Unit and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizen United States and of the State wherein they reside shall make or enforce any law which shall al-privileges or immunities of citizens of the United S shall any state deprive any person of life, Liberty arty without due process of law, nor deny to an within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the 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. A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK I would be TRUE for there are those who trust me, I would be PURE for there are those who care. I would be STRONG for there is much to suffer, I would be BRAVE for there is much to dare, I would be FRIEND to all the many friendless, I would be GIVING and forget the gift, I would be HUMBLE for I know my weakness, I would LOOK UP, and laugh, and love and lift. —Howard Walter. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES SHOULD PREVAIL IT IS to be regretted that political campaigns cannot be conducted without resort to wilful and deliberate lying, misrepresentation and appealing to passion and prejudice. Surely the Americans have reached the stage, or should have reached it, when the appeal for the support of men or measures should be addressed to their reason and intelligence, rather than to their prejudices. And yet in every political campaign, national, state, county or municipal, the appeal to reason and intelligence is largely overshadowed by the appeal to passion and prejudice. Racial and religious prejudices are exploited for personal and partisan gain. This ought not to be so, but it is. Wilful lies are told and facts distorted for the sake of a few votes. Instead of honestly and frankly discussing men and measures upon their merits, and letting it go at that, resort is made to reprehensible and unworthy methods which should be rebuked and condemned by all self-respecting people. And yet these things are taken as a matter of course and tolerated as part of the game. But are lying and cheating elements of good sportsmanship in any game? In the long run doesn't it pay to play the game fair? This should apply to the political game. Both sides in political contests resort to the same reprehensible methods and excuse or justify themselves upon the questionable expedient that their opponents do the same thing. Let us hope that some day the American people will have reached the plane where they will demand that ethical principles be recognized even in political campaigns and lying and distorting of facts in Nebras Chapter Thirteen Inacted in 1898. Sec. 1. Civil r Nebraska Civil Rights Bill Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. Inacted in 1898. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by siding or inciting such denials, shall for each offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecution. "The original act was held valid as to citizens; berber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs State, 26 Nebr. page 677. N. W. 638." "A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with refrences in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other reason than that he is colored, is civily liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in secure private part of the house. Ferguson vs Glen, 82 Mich. 828; N. W. 712." PAGE TWO 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 real protection of the laws. the case of, or upon the part of any candidate or party will meet the condemnation which it deserves. VOTE AS YOUR JUDGMENT DIRECTS NEXT Tuesday all of our citizens, male and female, who are duly registered and are qualified, should go to the polls early and vote for the seven men, whom they honestly believe to be best qualified to serve this city for the next three years as commissioners. To these men is to be entrusted the important and responsible duty of governing this growing and progressive city. The government of our city touches us all as individuals more closely than does either the state or national government and for this important reason we all ought to be vitally interested in the character, integrity, fair-mindedness and ability of the men whom we elect for the next three years. We ought to ascertain, as far as we can, the influences that are behind them, as to whether they are friendly or inimical to any class of citizens, for be you well assured that if men are narrow or unfriendly towards any class, this is a disqualification for absolute fairness to all. We should, however, be sure of our facts, do some thinking for ourselves and not be swayed by prejudice based upon unproven statements manufactured for political purposes. If we honestly believe that any candidate is unfriendly towards our people then we ought not vote for him; but don't be foolish enough to believe because a candidate is on one slate or the other or on no slate that he is necessarily friendly or unfriendly. Such a claim is bunk A PRAYER FOR DELI PREJ By Morne (For the Associa GOD, who hast made n who dost love all whom O GOD, who hast made man in Thine own likeness and who dost love all whom Thou hast made, suffer us not, because of difference in race, color or condition, to separate ourselves from others, and thereby from Thee; but teach as the unity of Thy family and the universality of Thy love. As Thy Son, our Savior, was born of an Hebrew mother and ministered first to His brethren of the House of Israel, but rejoiced in the faith of a Syro-Phoenician woman and of a Roman soldier, and suffered His cross to be carried by a man of Africa, teach us, also, while loving and serving our own, to enter into the communion of the whole human family; and forbid that, from pride of birth and hardness of heart, we should despise any for whom Christ died, or injure any in whom He lives. Amen. What we are exceedingly anxious to have our people do, is to vote intelligently according to their honest convictions and not be whipped into line by the crack of some whip, be it the lash of prejudice, the coercion of those interested in special privileges or the dictatorship of ecclesiastical or professional demagogues subsidized by promised patronage. If you believe, as many believe, that the present city administration, headed by Mayor Dahlman, has been efficient, progressive and fair, and should be continued, it is your duty to vote for it. If it is your honest conviction that a change would be for the betterment of the city, then vote accordingly, but vote according to your convictions and best judgment and give everybody else the privilege of doing the same thing. In saying this, is The Monitor "on the fence"? Not The Monitor is never on the fence. It always takes a position. Personally we favor the reelection of the present seven commissioners from Dahlman to Butler. We believe, all things considered, they have striven to be conscientious, efficient and faithful public servants. They are not as white as their admirers picture them or as black as their adversaries paint them. There are evils in our city that we would like to see eradicated, there is much room for improvement in many things, but we believe these can be secured—IF THE PEOPLE DEMAND THEM—as quickly and as readily under the Dahlman administration as under any other. With their internal wranglings and dissentions we are not particularly concerned—and much of that is for political effect and grand-stand play—so long as they faithfully discharge the duties of their respective offices to which they are elected. As intelligent and self-respecting men and women vote next Tuesday for the men whom you honestly believe will best serve this city as commissioners, whether it be the "Dahlman Slate," the "Butler Slate" or the "Smashed Slate." Be sure to vote. This is an imperative duty. WHY NOT TELL THE TRUTH? NO DOUBT Dan B. Butler, who heads the opposition slate to the Dahlman slate will admit that he like most mortals is guilty of many sins of omission and sins of commission. But this does not justify wilful lying about him. Handbills have been circulated stating that during Mr. Butler's DRUGS, DRUG SUNDRIES, CIGARS, CANDY AND SODA Let us deliver you a pint of our Famous Malted Milk in sanitary Seal-Tite bottle, 20c. Made Fresh. Web. 5802 24th and Decatur Petersen's Lake Bakery Come in MONDAY, MAY 5, we have our OPENING. SOUVERNIRS AND EATS FOR ALL. It has always been our aim to give our patrons REAL SERVICE and the Best of Bakery Goods We are one door north of our old location where we have been for the past ten years, and everything is new and spic and span—with arrangement of fixtures that facilitates the quick and satisfactory service we want you to have. LAY ASIDE YOUR BAKING CARES—LET US SUPPLY YOUR BREAD—ROLLS—DOUGHNUTS—COOKIES—CAKES The warm summer days are not far away and heating up the kitchen to do your baking is a responsibility that you should let us relieve you of. We bake everything FRESH every day—Dainty, toothsome morsels of all kinds.—WHEN YOU WANT SPECIAL SERVICE WE ARE HERE TO SERVE YOU. SPECIAL BAKING FOR WEDDINGS AND PARTIES THE MONITOR eighteen years of public life he has never given employment to any colored men. A public speaker is alleged according to a newspaper report to have reiterated this statement: What are the facts? In 1918-1920, Mr. Butler was street commissioner. He employed Ole Jackson as foreman of a crew of four colored men on the street cleaning gang. He employed on the asphalt gang the following persons: Bob Fisher, George Wright, Tony Peak, Albert Peak, Albert Ennix, Rufus Brooks and J. D. Harrison. While in charge of the Municipal Coal yard, the following truck drivers were employed: George Brewer, T. Brewer, Jack Johnson, Tony Peak and Albert Peak. The Monitor believes in fair play. Charges are being made that Dan Butler is a "Negro hater." He has been in public life for eighteen years. Isn't it strange that this information was not given currency before? In former campaigns his colleagues some of whom are his opponents now, placed a saintly nimbus on his brow. The seal of approval was put upon him Enterprise Tailoring Co. CLEANING AND REPAIRING Work called for and delivered. Enterprise Tailoring Co. 1423 North 24th Street Webster 4650 SEEDS OF KNOWN QUALITY Flower, Grass and Garden Seeds Bulbs, Hardy Perennials Poultry Supplies See Us for Your Fresh Cut Flowers Always on Hand Stowart's Seed Store 119 No. 16th St.—Opposite Postoffice —JA ckson 9977 WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO. OMAHA Petersen Come in MONDAY, MAY FOR ALL. It has always been our Best o and so we have a NEW HOME. We are one door north of years, and everything is new and facilitates the quick and satisfactory. LAY ASIDE YOUR BREAD—ROLL PASTE The warm summer days of baking is a responsibility that FRESH every day—Dainty, toothy, CIAL SERVICE WE ARE HEALTHY. SPECIAL BAKING Petersen 2506 NORTON 1806 FARNAM STREET then and our people were urged to vote for him as one of the slate. It is a knowledge of things like this that make us credit much that we hear during political campaigns to pure bunco. A. M. E. BOARD TO MEET Louisville, Ky., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—The Church Extension Board of the A. M. E. WELCOME THE BIG SOUL SAVING GO Zion Bapti 2215-17 Gr Each night all the unsave cially invited to attend and th to come help humanity. WELCOME TO THE BIG REVIVAL FUL SAVING GOING ON AT THE Baptist Church 2215-17 Grant Street nt all the unsaved citizens of Omaha are espe- to attend and the pastors and churches asked humanity. WELCOME TO THE BIG REVIVAL SOUL SAVING GOING ON AT THE Zion Baptist Church Each night all the unsaved citizens of Omaha are especially invited to attend and the pastors and churches asked to come help humanity. DR. C. C. HARPER of Dallas, Texas We are pleased to announce securing the services of DR. Texas, Pastor of St. John's Bld. Dr. Harper begins for two heard him last year know his preachers. HEAR HIM! REV. P. C. PINKNEY w week. He is preaching some will do you good. MEETINGS WILL Dr. W. F. Botts, Pastor. leased to announce that we are successful in services of DR. C. C. HARPER of Dallas, of St. John's Big Institutional Church. Her begins for two weeks MAY 6th. All who last year know he is one of the world's best DEAR HIM! C. PINKNEY will assist the pastor all next preaching some fine helpful sermons which good. ETINGS WILL CEASE MAY 18th Ms. Pastor. Mrs. Edith Scott, Church Clerk. Lake Bakery HOME 4th Street our OPENING. SOUVERNIRS AND EATS our patrons REAL SERVICE and the Bakery Goods ation where we have been for the past ten span—with arrangement of fixtures that we want you to have. RES—LET US SUPPLY YOUR NUTS—COOKIES—CAKES We are pleased to announce that we are successful in securing the services of DR. C. C. HARPER of Dallas, Texas, Pastor of St. John's Big Institutional Church. Dr. Harper begins for two weeks MAY 6th. All who heard him last year know he is one of the world's best preachers. HEAR HIM! REV. P. C. PINKNEY will assist the pastor all next week. He is preaching some fine helpful sermons which will do you good. Dr. W. F. Botts, Pastor. Mrs. Edith Scott, Church Clerk. IN NEW HOME 2506 North 24th Street ON MAY 5, we have our OPENING. S en our aim to give our patrons R t of Bakery Go OME. north of our old location where we new and spic and span—with arran satisfactory service we want you OUR BAKING CARES—LET US ROLLS—DOUGHNUTS—COOKIES PASTRIES and DELICATESSEN days are not far away and heating that you should let us relieve you toothsome morsels of all kinds.— BE HERE TO SERVE YOU. BAKING FOR WEDDINGS AND Owen's Lake B NORTH TWENTY-FOURTH STREET (Twenty-fourth and Lake) away and heating up the kitchen to do your set us relieve you of. We bake everything is of all kinds.—WHEN YOU WANT SPE- VE YOU. DEDINGS AND PARTIES Lake Bakery -FOURTH STREET a and Lake) TWENTY-FOURTH and AMES AVE. --- --- church of which Bishop John Hurst is president, will meet here tomorrow, May 3, in annual session. The board has had no secretary-treasurer since the death of Rev. Dr. B. F. Watson. ELECTRIC REPAIRING, RADIO installing, repairing and making. Cheapest and best workmanship. All work guaranteed. W. M. Holts, 2507 Indiana avenue. WEBster 7062. Cor. 24th and Parker Sts. WE. 2042 HILL-WILLIAMS DRUG COMPANY FOUNTAIN PENS-STATIONERY CIGARS and CANDY Eastman Kodaks and Supplies 2402 Cuming Street LE BRON @ GRAY ELECTRICAL WORKS Expert Electrical Engineers Motors, Generators, Electric Elevators Repairs, Armature Winding, Electric Wiring PHONE JACKSON 2019 116 South 13th St., Omaha Mid-City Coal Rock Spring Lump.....$12.50 Old Ben Lump.....10.50 No. 1 Illinois Lump.....9.00 Illinois Lump and Egg.....8.50 Illinois Nut No. 1.....8.00 Colorado Lump.....9.75 Call Jacksən 0115 or 0116 EUTHOLA TOILET PREPARATIONS THAT PLEASE You can make an independ- ent living selling them. AGENTS WANTED MRS. GRACE WHITE Web. 5499 Omaha THOROUGHLY worthy used furniture of every description is offered for sale at very reasonable prices in our warehouse, between the hours of 1 p. m. and 5 p. m. week days. 8th and Capitol Ave.-Orchard & Wilhelma Co. Why Not Let Us Do Your SHOE REPAIR WORK Best material, reasonable prices. ALL WORK GUARANTEED BENJAMIN & THOMAS Phone Web. 5084-1415 No. 24th EMERSON'S LAUNDRY The Laundry That Suits All 1301 No. 24th St. Web. 0830 PHONE JACKSON 0864 E. A. NIELSEN UPHOLSTERING CO. CABINET SHOP-FURNITURE REPAIR AND REFINISHING Box Spring and Mattress Work 1913-15 Cuming St., Omaha, Nebr. H. A. CHILES & CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS Chapel Phone, Web. 7133 Res. Phone, Web. 6349 1839 No. Twenty-fourth St. Bonds Furnished to Reliable Person NOTARY PUBLIC IN OFFICE PHONES: Res., Web. 6613; Office, At. 5104 Res. 2863 Binney St. NOAH W. WARE ATTORNEY and COUNSELOE AT LAW HOURS: 9 A. M. to 12:00 Noon; 1:00 P. M. to 5:30 P. M. Phones: — Office, WE. 3507; Res., WE. 3888 JOHN ADAMS Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law Practice in all Courts, State and Federal 1516 N. 24th St., Dumaha, Neb. Local and Personal Happenings WE PRINT THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS James Pegg arrived in the city Sunday from Chicago for a brief visit with his mother. He left Tuesday night for Kansas City. The Dames' Club will meet next Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. M. E. Overall, 2010 Lake street. The hostesses will be Mrs. L. E. Britt, Mrs. George Watson and Mrs. Overall. E. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters Trust building, Jackson 3841 or Harney 2156. May Ball, Monday night, May 5 at Dreamland Hall. Ladies free, gents 35 cents—Adv. Mrs. W. A. Brown and little daughter of Red Oak, Iowa, are the guests of Mrs. George A. Love, 2434 Grant street. Mrs. William S. Metcalfe was called to Kansas City, Mo., this week by the death of her brother. Rev. Thomas A. Taggart, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, returned last Thursday from Fort Scott, Kans., where he conducted a very successful revival for three weeks. May Ball, Monday night, May 5 at Dreamland Hall. Ladies free, gents 35 cents.—Adv. Do you clean your teeth Then why not use "Dentlo," manufactured and sold by an Omaha race institution?—Adv. Mrs. G. W. Jenkins has returned from Chicago where she was called by the sudden death of her brother, Charles W. Harris, who was well known by the older residents of this city, he having been in the Pullman service since 1888. The Rev. Griffin G. Logan, District Superintendent of the Topeka District of the M. E. Church, after a ten days' visit here with his family left for his district Thursday night. The Pepper Pot Club met Tuesday night at the residence of Miss Lorene Watts, 2514 Garnt street. Refreshments were served following a brief but important business session. Miss Vinnie Hieronymous, the artist, has a small exhibit of her work in water colors and postal cards on display at the North End Bazaar, 2114 North 24th street, which the public is invited to visit. A. PETER H. JOE B. HUMMELL One will always find the High School Girls Athletic club of the Y. W. C. A. pushing forward with the times. Their first hike of the season was to have been Saturday morning at six o'clock on a tramp to Miller Park, but on the account of the rain, it was deferred and the girls enjoyed themselves at the recreation center of the Y. W. C. A., where they indulged in games of which Joe Goff was winner of two. After this the basket which had been prepared was partken of. Last Sunday a large congregation, 25 of whom were boys, was present at the 11 o'clock service. Two excellent addresses were delivered, one by Dr. Craig Morris on "Why the Church Needs the Boy" and one by Joseph Dorsey, a student in Central High school, on "Why the Boy Needs the Church." The offering was taken by John Horton and Arthur McCaw, acting for the wardens. The music was excellent. T. H. BRADLEY MODERN TURKISH BATH Electric and Steam Cabinets Swedish and Electric Massages and Therapeutic Lamp. 2206 North 24th St. Omaha, Neb. RESERVE May 28 For "THE BELLE of BARNSTAPOOLE" At MAN TICKET QUARTER SIX Men have Reason Efficien Explicit Your S or Re-election for CITY IMISSION DAHLMA squ "S These Me Fair, R and E and Solicit for R for COMMI DAHLMAN TICKET Fair, Reasonable and Efficient and Solicit Your Support for Re-election on May 6th. --- May Ball, Monday night, May 5 at Dreamland Hall. Ladies free, gents 35 cents—Adv. "Dentlo," the tooth paste you ought to use.—Adv. A number of friends of Mesdames Dunham and Sales enjoyed a delightful birthday party at their home, 2723 Miami street, Monday night, the occasion being the sixtieth birthday anniversary of their father, the Rev. Mr. Young. J. D. Crum went to Lincoln Thursday to attend the Republican State Convention. Louis La Cour was an Omaha visitor last Friday. FOR RENT—Furnished room in a strictly modern home, 2430 Lake Street. Web. 1888. 4-18-24 "Miss Cherry Blossom," an operetta, was presented at St. John's A. M. E. church last Friday night by students from the University of Nebraska to a large and enthusiastic audience. It was a delightful affair and reflected credit upon the participants. NOTICE There has been a lot of talk about Joe Lewis' prices being so high. That is because the Grant street taxi has been impersonating my cars and drivers and overcharging the people and I have been getting the blame for it. Signed, J. D. Lewis.—Adv. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends for their kindness during the illness of our mother and grandmother, Mrs. Martha B. Turner and for the beautiful floral tributes sent at the time of our bereavement. Mrs. Alfred Jones and family. Mrs. Jno. Vinegar and family. BRANDEIS THEATRE Next Sunday the services will be CLEANING AND PRESSING HAT BLOCKER Ladies' Work a Specialty Phone Webster 5617 2025 Lake St. MRS. L. ABNER NOTION STORE ARTISTIC WORK Fruit and Ornamental Trees for spring and fall planting. 1419½ North 24th Street Let Me Photograph YOU OR YOUR HOME F. R. PERKINS WEBSTER 2957 ebster 4243 as follows: Holy Communion 7:30 a. m., Church School, 10:00 a. m., sung eucharist with sermon 11 a. m., evening prayer and sermon 8 o'clock. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH O. J. Burckhardt, Pastor Excellent services with good attendance was the rule Sunday. Sunday school and League were addressed by Rev. P. M. Harris and Supt. Gross. The Rev. Mr. Harris preached at night. Among the worshippers was the Rev. M. R. West of Topeka, a retired A. M. E. preacher over 100 years old. The usual services Sunday to which the public/are cordially invited. Elwood Sandals With ankle straps PATENT AND BUCKSKIN LEATHERS AT A SPECIAL OF Crounse Boo Formerly C. J. Carlson 1514 North 24th Street Soap S Soap Special GLYCERINE ROSE ALMOND COCOA HARDWATER CASTILE 12 Bars THIS WEEK ONLY Peoples Drug Store 24th and Erskine Streets JOSEPH KOUTSKY PETER H. JOHN HOPKINS Zion Baptist Church is the scene of unusual activities, being in the midst of a successful revival in which Rev. P. C. Pinkney has been assisting the patsor. Beginning next Tuesday evening the celebrated and eloquent Rev. Dr. Harper of Dallas, Tex., who made such a profound impression here a year ago, will conduct the services. Among the special services which he will conduct will be young people's service Friday, May 9; Mother's Day. NOW OPEN S. COSENTINO Has opened his Jewelry and Watch Repair Shop at Knudsen Drug Co.'s northeast corner 24th and Cuming Sts. Mr. Cosentino has had 27 years experience in the trade—workers 14 years for Watch Inspector. FIRST CLASS WORK $3.85 Webster 1594 WEbster 6323 Sunday, May 11, from 3 to 4 p. m.; and a sermon to men, Thursday night, May 15th. There will be preaching by Dr. Harper during the two weeks with these special sermons for the persons named. There will be special Boys Service, next Sunday afternoon from 3 to 4 as it was not convenient to have this service last Sunday. There will be special speakers. Our Is Fighting YOUR BATTLES—BOOK PAY YOU 6% ON SAVING We Treat You Right MATE SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 17th Street Keeline Bury Seeds, Plants, Shrubs We better than ever able to supply your every shrubs and trees, lawn and garden seeds and plants. The readers of this paper we wish to say that your trade and can assure you of a square deal. Following are a few specials for this week: Price little Bridal Wreath.....10c Extra quality Concord Grape.....08c Currency Iris.....05c Shrubs and fruits priced very reasonable. When handling our stock assures you of the best memory this is cleanup week. Clean up shrubs to make Omaha more beautiful. 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It was a hot and furious afternoon, featured when Buck Herzog threw his bat—accidentally, he said—into a field box, and, together with Dick Hobiltzell, was ejected from the game. The crowd was in a sulphurous mood, growing and milling uneasily—and just then Frank Schulte, at bat, rolled a slow grounder towards first base, where Kellogg, the utility man, had just succeeded Hobby. As Kellogg rushed for the ball, his cap fell off, and a beautiful bald head as free from hair as an eagle's egg, burst into view. The angry crowd forgot its anger, and bellowing laughter rang along the stands. Poor Kellogg, utterly rattled, grabbed for his cap with one hand, grabbed for the ball with the other hand, and missed with both. More merriment—and Schulte was thundering down the line. Mr. Kellogg, scarlet from chin to dome, pawed madly for the cap, pawed desperately for the ball. He got them both just as Schulte arrived. Like a cat Kellogg jumped for him—and tagged Schulte with his cap while he slammed himself on the head with the ball! Strong men fell out of the boxes. Bleacherites writhed and squalled and rolled down the perches. Players waltzed and tangued before the benches. It was the richest spectacle taken as a grand ensemble, that anybody ever saw on any field—and in 35 long years, in more than 5,000 ball games, Phelon says he never saw its equal. LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT Mr. Will T. Lewis is confined to his bed with serious illness. Mr. Muriel Dean went to Iowa, where he intends to spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. W. Muckleroy are leaving this week for Gary, Ind. The Treble Clet Club gave a surprise party on Mrs. Muckleroy, who will be greatly missed among the musical circles. Rev. Mr. Brown arrived into the city last Friday, the successor of Rev. G. W. Carter of the Newman Methodist church. Services were splendidly attended all day Sunday. We wish Rev. Mr. Brown much success. Mrs. Laura Bland has gone to Omaha to live with her daughter. Services were nicely attended at Mt. Zion Baptist church last Sunday. The several entertainments held during the past week were successful. Next Sunday, May 4, marks the big financial rally day. Services will be held all day, beginning at 6 a. m., at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Rev. Mr. Pickney of Omaha will preach. At the afternoon services, Rev. M. C. Knight of the A. M. E. Church will preach for Rev. Botts. All churches and pastors are invited to be present. Mr. P. A. Abner was called to his home in Alabama on account of illness of his mother. Mr. Frank Price was called to Missouri on account of the death of his brother this week. Henry White was called to his old home in Kansas on account of the illness of his father. The members of Lebanon Lodge No. 3 are moving into their new quarters on P street this week. Keep in mind Minnehaha Camp Fire entertainment Monday night, May 12. Tickets are selling fast. Davis Women's Club have started on their drive. They plan to have a reception at Quinn chapel Tuesday, May 6 from 3 to 6. Everyone welcome. This is a worthy cause, lend your assistance. Mrs. C. C. Chrisman returned home from visiting her father who is very ill at St. Joseph, Mo. Quinn chapel is to be congratulated on the splendid and efficient stewardess board. The members are always ready at each service to render first aid assistance to the unfortunate ones of our congregation who happen to need help as is often the case in large audiences. We wish them to know that we pay tribute to these worthy women. "Miss Cherry Blossom", a musical operetta by our Lincoln young people, was splendidly received in Omaha and the members are very enthusiastic over the cordial reception. The President of N. A. A. C. P., Mr. Wm. Woods, and Secretary, Mrs. Marie Ferguson; Mrs. Ed Dorsey and son Edward, Mrs. Margaret William and Mr. LaCour made the trip with the members of the company, who were met in Omaha by the directors, Miss Morgan and Mrs. Marie Brewer. L. L. Kensington met at home of Mrs. Mayne Loving. The time was used for needlework and plans for club picnic to be held in June. The hostess served a lovely two-course luncheon at 5 o'clock. Friends of the Vanderzee family were shocked Sunday to learn of the death and funeral of the father, W. H. Vanderzee, of Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. J. C. Collins went to visit friends at St. Joseph, Mo., Saturday afternoon. ANNOUNCEMENT General Insurance of all kinds, Health, Accident and Life as well, agencies for the Pioneer Insurance Co. of Lincoln'n, Nebr., the North American Insurance Co. of Chicago, Ill. Fire and Tornado Insurance on all home and household goods in the National Security Fire Insurance Co. Agents wanted. Good commissions. Salary when qualified. I am a Special Representative of the American Mortgage and Finance Co. of Omaha, we buy and sell real estate. Rentals a specialty. We loan money on property, or other good security. Your patronage is solicited, see us before you buy or sell. If you desire to sell your home, list it with us and we will give you a square deal. We have launched out into the business world and ask your support. 1425 North 24th St. Webster 1650 Residence Phone Webster 5798 District: Office of the American Mortgage and Finance Co., Omaha, Nebr. —Adv. A GREAT COMPOSER PASSES New York, N. Y., May 2—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Will Tyers, one of the foremost composers and musical directors of the race passed away this week at his home here. He was 56 years of age, a native of Petersburg, Va., brought from there to Jersey City at an early age and educated in the musical schools of the metropolis. He has been a resident of New York for over thirty years. Some of the twenty odd numbers that brought him fame are "Trocha," his first; "Brazilian Butterfly" and "Maoori". He was a conducting member of the Clef club and the first Negro member of the society of authors and composers. He is survived by a widow, but had no close blood relatives. BALTIMOREANS WANT BISHOP Baltimore, Md., May 2.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—A big de'legation from here will attend the A. M. E. General Conference at Louisville to urge the election of the Rev. Dr. A. L. Gaines, pastor of Trinity A. M. E. church, this city, to the bishopric. The Rev. A. A. Gaines, C. E. Stewart, M. H. Davis, J. S. Collins, Robert E. Ford, and C. H. Steptcau are the clerical delegate and Thaddeus Cope'and Elmer Henderson the lay. In every group of 1,000 colored married women in the District of Columbia, 497 are engaged in gainful employment. Letters From Our Readers Short, timely letters are invited. We prefer that writers sign their names, but in all cases letters signed with a nomin. plume or as "Reader." "Sub-editor" is also accompanied by the name and address of the author for the editor's information. "For Square Six" As pastor of Pilgrim Baptist church and because of my interest in the continued good government of our city, I am asking my parishioners and fellow citizens to go to the polls on Tuesday, May th and re-elect the same six Commissioners to the same positions they now hold. Every colored voter ought to be honest enough to himself and to the men that last served the city in the capacity of commissioners of this great city for the past two years to go to the polls on election day and vote for James Dahlman, Dean Noyes, Joseph Koutsky, Joseph B. Hummel, Henry W. Dunn, and John Hopkins, and by so doing elect these six men to look after the affairs of the city for the next three years, thereby assuring our city continued prosperity. These men have proven themselves worthy of the positions they seek. They deserve the support of all the colored people of Omaha. Upon this point, to my mind the following facts are convincing: There are 111 colored people in the various departments of the city. In the street department 44; police department 12; public improvement 22; fire 10; building 13; parks 18; mayor 2; finance 0. Thus you can see that colored people are employed in all the departments of the city except the finance department of which Mr. Butler has charge. Don't let anybody fool you on false promises. They say they are working for a good government. That is just what the six men, who are asking your support on Tuesday have been working for these three years and just what they have always worked for. That's why Omaha today is one of the best governed cities of the United States. I believe in the integrity of each of the six men. 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