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Bargains in BREAD, BUTTER AND WARM CLOTHES One Contribution to the Community Chest During the drive which is now going on will help twenty-nine welfare agencies buy necessities of life for our less fortunate fellow Omahans. "Give Enough For All" Space Contributed by The Monitor LIFTING :: :: :: :: LIFT TOO $2.00 a Year— Copy WOMEN'S LIFTING AT NORTH SIDE "Y" A MARKED SUCCESS Copy Attendance Taxes Seating Capacity of Auditorium and Overflows Into Adjoining Rooms EXCELLENT PROGRAM GIVEN Sunday afternoon the North Side "Y" was filled to overflowing by representative women of the city to consider vital subjects dealing with the welfare of our people. The response to the call for this mass meeting was most gratifying. Several admirable papers were presented and discussed in a manner which fully shows that the women are mentally alert and thinking. Mrs. Senora Mae Wilkinson presented an admirable paper on "The Possibilities of Organized Womanhood" in which she traced historically the things accomplished by the united efforts and whole-hearted co-operation of women. The lesson drawn for the womanhood of the race in Omaha was quite obvious. Miss Mamie Jones opened the discussion on this paper. "The Relation of Teachers and Parents" was ably treated in a paper by Miss Gertrude Lucas, who has had practical experience as a teacher and is now one of the welfare workers of the city. She pointed out the necessity of co-operation between parents and teachers and urged parents to visit the schools of which they are patrons and learn first-handed of conditions. Mrs. W. N. McMillan and Mrs. John Alber: Williams were the speakers on this topic. "What Is the Y. W. C. A." was the subject of a paper by Miss Edna M. Stratton. Among the points emphasized were the following: It is not simply a Christian association for girls and young women, but a Christian movement for all women young in spirit. It is a Christian movement with a Christian platform. Every woman in the community should consider the association her personal investment. Mrs. Estella Craig and Mrs. D. W. Gooden spoke on this topic. "The Work Accomplished by the Committee on Colored Work" was the topic presented by Mrs. T. P. Mahammitt. This committee is composed of three colored and three white representatives. The writer showed the cordial spirit of co-operation manifested upon the part of broad-minded white woman to help in the betterment of conditions. Two letters which had been written to Superintendent Beveridge and the School Board with reference to the janitor of the Howard Kennedy School and his treatment of the Boy Scouts were read showing the practical interest manifested in difficulties confronting us. Mrs. A. L. Hawkins was the speaker on this paper. It is proposed to have a subsequent meeting for the purpose of effecting some central civic organization for making effectual some of the practical suggestions made at this enthusiastic and successful assembly. LEAVES $100,000 TO POOR AT JOPLIN, MO Carthage, Mo., Nov. 21.—A trust fund of $100,000, the interest from which is to be used by the city of Joplin for the relief of the "deserving poor of the city without regard to race, religion or color," was left to that city by Gilbert H. Barbee, retired Joplin newspaper publisher and democratic political leader, who died October 17. BARGE BREAD, BUTTER AND THE MONITOR PROTEST DRAWING OF COLOR LINE IN DEATH Washington, Nov. 21.—Vigorous protests are being made against the separation of the names of whites and Negro treasury employees killed in the war on tablets recently placed in the lobby of the department register's office. One of the protests, addressed to President Coolidge by West A. Hamilton, commander of the James E. Walker post of the American Legion, described the action as "a most vicious bit of discrimination and un-Americanism. Secretary Slemp, replying, said the matter had been referred to Secretary Mellon at the president's direction. Upon receipt of this letter, the Walker post sent messages to the Walter Carter post of Boston, Chas. B. Young post of New York, Lemuel Boydston post of Cleveland and the Tilman-Harpole post of St. Louis, charging that the "drawing of the color line in death" was an insult to four hundred thousand Negro veterans and urging them to join in the protest to the secretary. COLORED GIRL WINS IMPORTANT LAWSUIT The lawsuit known as Bertha Thompson against the Yellow Cab and Baggage Company and others has just been decided in the District Court. It has been on the calendar for nearly a year and a half, having been tried once before, when the jury decided against the plaintiff, Miss Thompson. Judge Charles Leslie who heard the case granted Miss Thompson a new trial, and this time the jury awarded Miss Thompson a verdict of $2,500.00. Miss Thompson was injured April 1, 1923, when a Ford and a Yellow cab collided at Twenty-fifth and Decatur streets. The case involved a great deal of medical testimony, given by eight different physicians and specialists. The trial lasted more than four days. Attorneys for the plaintiff were Pinkett, Morgan & Bryant, and the defendants were represented by Kennedy, Holland, DeLacy, McLaughlin & Rosewater, Meecham & Burton. JAMES A. COBB ELECTED MEMBER OF N. A. A. C. P. BOARD OF DIRECTORS New York, Nov. 14.—At the last, regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth avenue, this week, James A. Cobb, of Washington, was elected a member of the board to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. George E. Cannon of Jersey City. Mr. Cobb has for some years been an active member of the N. A. A. C. P. and in his office of Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Washington Branch, has fought a number of important cases before the higher courts of Washington. He is at present leading the N. A. A. C. P. fight against residential segregation before the U. S. Supreme Court, which is expected to be argued in April of the coming year. Mr. Cobb was born at Arcadia, La., on January 29, 1876, studied at Straight University of New Orleans, at Fisk University in Nashville, and has received the degrees of L. L. B. L. L. M. and Ph. B. from Howard University in Washington. He was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in 1901 and was appointed by President Taft special assistant to the U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1907. Mr. Cobb is a Mason; member of the Sigma Pi Phi society and is a prominent and influential republican. A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1924 Thanksgiving Suddenly over the border That shelters night from day The sun had dropped and as quietly Sped on its ceaseless way. But in the west there lingered In dapper hues and fair, A twilight which awakened The watcher's heart to prayer. God, for beauties shown me, The mauve, the crimson and gray, That herald the advent of evening And tell of departing day; For clouds tinged with gold and silver, For heaven's lanterns fair, For all of earth and its wonders, I offer this, my prayer. I thank thee for friends who are loyal, For dear ones, for love that is true, For home and the comfort it brings me When day and my labors are through; For victories won o'er the tempter, For strength of my body of clay, For peace in our land of freedom, And hope—for the coming day. —Chicago Tribune. HARD TO KILL A RACE THAT LAUGHS AT FATE HARD TO KILL A RACE THAT LAUGHS AT FATE The man who is able to laugh under oppression to see the humorous side of the most serious situation, to extract a brief surcase from the horrors of impending disaster, is, to say the least, a philosopher. He is akin in spirit to Socrates. There was a tradition that Zantippe, the wife of that great thinker, the absent-minded husband, who had the rather bad habit of going about the city poorly and, at times, almost indecently clad, would steal up behind him a-tip-toe when she desired to surprise or assail him. Socrates was too magnanimous and devoted a husband to upbraid his wife alone, or to speak of her disparagingly to others. To ease the situation, when he observed her approach, and pretending not to see her, he would remark to the young men who always surrounded him that the mass of women comprising the good, ordinary housewives of his acquaintance walked slowly and secure RACE ARTIST TO PAINT PORTRAIT RICH MAN (By the Associated Negro Press.) Dover, Del., Nov. 21.—A Negro artist, Edward A. Harleston, will paint the portrait of Pierre S. DuPont, Delaware benefactor of Negro schools, which will be unveiled at a state testimonial meeting in this city, December 5. This announcement was made last week by Mrs. Maud S. Thompson, president of the DuPont Testimonial association, which has been organized to arrange a state-wide public meeting at which the portrait will be unveiled. The DuPont Testimonial association was organized, according to its officers, not only to give personal testimony of the appreciation of Delaware to the man who gave a million dollars to erect schools for Negroes, but to pass on to the country the spirit that has made Delaware public county schools for colored people the best in the entire country. Considerably more than a million dollars has been donated by Mr. DuPont to Negroes for schools with the result that every building in the state is modern and up-to-date and completely equipped. Not only this, but when the Delaware State Board of Education considered the proposition of building new schools for the whites and giving the old buildings to the colored people, Mr. DuFont objected, stating that any school not fit for white pupils was not fit for colored. Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Georgia Knickerbocker, 14, died here last week from the effects of a lipstick applied to a pimple in order to hide it. The poison in the stick entered through the sore and spread through her system. (From the Newport News-Star.) Scourged as a slave, scorned as a freeman, and caricatured as a human being, the Negro has been able to laugh upon their pedal appendages in the public streets; but a woman of genius and extraordinary talents—the paragon of the gentler sex—such as was his spouse, disdained to pursue the common ambulatory habit of her kind, but with feline ease or the avidity of the feathery tribe, came as a silent ally of the wind, which no one can chart or tell its intended course. When Zantipe decended upon him, he appeared surprised and took with equanimity his scolding or his beating, as the case might be, while his disciples, looking on, knew not which the more to admire, the stately amazon or the unruffled seer. In very much this mood has the Negro race carried itself during all of its dark history in this country. WILLIAM B. BRYANT Attorney and Counsellor at Law Mr. William B. Bryant, whose picture appears above, has just been elected state attorney general for Nebraska for the Mosaic Templars of America. He received his academic training at the Kansas Educational and Industrial Institute, and was graduated from the law school of the University of Omaha in 1923. He was admitted to the Bar in 1922, through examination, one year before his graduation from the law school, and for the past year he has been a member of the firm of Pinkett, Morgan and Bryant. Mr. Bryant is a very active member of Zion Baptist church and the Mosaic Templars of America. According to Mr. Bryant's friends, a successful future awaits him in the law, if he will but devote himself to hard study and hard work in the profession he has chosen. Attorney H. J. Pinkett spent Monday in Des Moines, Ia., on legal business. to keep from weeping, to smile because love conquer, and to grow and multiply, even as the ancient Christians did, because of this racial trait of adaptability for the time being to all sorts of conditions. The Negro is essentially a serious human. His carefree behavior is but the outward sign of his abiding optimism, his unshaken faith, his undying hope of a better day. Such a race was not born to die. Its life is immortal. The spirit that animates it is verily of Devine origin. It cannot be extinguished. Many leaders of the race become impatient, desire immediate action, demand to be heard now. They are the ploneers, the trail blazers, the men born, as it were, out of season. But the great laboring, teeming army of ordinary men and women, pursuing the even tenor of its way, fights the day's battle with the ammunition ready at hand, and looks to the Great Commander for ultimate victory. In patience there is power. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS OF NATION WRITE COOK BOOK Chicago, Ill., Nov. 21.—The first cook book of its kind ever to be published, in that it is made up of material furnished by high school students of home economics in all parts of the United States, will soon be off the press, says a statement coming from the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Under the title, "Meat, and How I Cook It," this publication, featuring attractive ways of preparing the less-demanded cuts of meat, will be given free national distribution to schools, colleges and housewives who request it, according to the board. The publication is the outgrowth of the National Meat Story Contest held recently under the auspices of the board. Nearly 12,000 girls competed in the Story Contest, which also required that they submit recipes tested at home or at school. The recipes appearing in the cook book were selected as the best of the thousands submitted and each is accompanied by the name and address of the girl sending it in. The title, "Meat, and How I Cook It", is pointed to as doubly significant. Under this caption Miss Pearl Graves of Lemoore, Calif., wrote the story which won the national championship and it was selected as most appropriate for the cook book, for each of the girls, through this medium, is telling of "meat, and how I cook it". Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 21—A resolution urging the North Carolina board of education and the general assembly to take steps to create a four-year college for colored teachers was passed as the feature of a one-day conference of education leaders from all sections of the state held at Shaw university Monday. Buy Happiness FOR THOUSANDS BY CONTRIBUTING TO THE 1925 Community Chest “Give Once For All” Space Contributed by The Monitor Whole Number 489 COLORED LAD CLEANS UP FORTUNE BY INVENTION Zanesville, Ohio, Nov. 21.-The mechanical genius of Arthur Tate, 18-year old student of the Zanesville High school, has revolutionized the automobile industry with an invention which has already brought him a small fortune. Young Tate is a junior in the high school and his achievements have put him in the front ranks with other American inventors. His latest invention is a transmission which he has sold to the Chevrolet Motor Company. His royalties are estimated to bring him from $7,000 to $10,000 a year. The patent was on demonstration at a meeting in Detroit when the Chevrolet people bought the rights. A year ago the company was producing about 167 cars per day. The production has fallen off greatly and it is the hope of the company that Tate's invention will pull the sales back up to where they were. The local boy in return for his patents is to receive a royalty. Tate is now working to perfect similar transmissions for all other makes of cars. He has already applied for a patent for a new transmission for Ford cars, which eliminates all bands, both from the transmission and from the brakes. It will also provide the Ford with three speeds, two forward and one reverse gear shift adaptable to the present model. It is rumored that Henry Ford is interested in the patent and will demonstrate it as soon as rights have been obtained. COLORED MISSIONARY OF GOLD COAST HERE Washington, D. C., November 21.—Dr. Mara C. Hayford, of West Africa, head of the Baptist missionary movement on the Gold Coast, is making addresses to various organizations and in churches in America to further plans for the missionary work. Dr. Hayford was presented to President Coolidge Monday by Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, and the President gave his signed indorsement of the missionary's work. Dr. Hayford is one of the outstanding colored missionaries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic society of England and his work in improving sanitary conditions in parts of Africa has won for him wide praise and a place in the Royal Sanitary Institute of London. He is head of the largest church of native origin on the Gold and Ivory coasts and is president of a large training college. MEMPHIS HOLDS JIM CROW SOLDIER CELEBRATIONS (By the Associated Negro Press.) Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 21.—It was necessary to hold two parades here Armistice day for the boys who united six years ago against the common enemy in France. There was one parade for white soldiers on Main street and another for colored soldiers on Beale avenue. The sidewalks were lined with spectators to view both processions, many of the leading whites of the city doing the Negro veterans the favor of coming over on Beal avenue to watch them strut their stuff. The colored boys walked up Beale avenue just like they owned it and the white spectators did not seem to mind. Many colored business organizations and military units united to make the parade a success. The prizewinning float was put in by the Fraternal savings bank. Other bright floats were entered by the Porter school and the Madano Art club. The postmen's and the Pullman porters' bands provided excellent music for the occasion. GROWING :: :: :: :: THANK YOU Vol. X-No. 21 KELLOM SCHOOL GIVES BANQUET FOR DADS AND LADS More Than Two Hundred Fathers and Sons Accept Principal Gepson's Invitation to Be Guests of School GOOD FELLOWSHIP PREVAILS It would be difficult to find a more enthusiastic or congenial crowd than the fathers and sons who accepted the invitation of E. D. Gepson, principal of Kellom school, to be the school's guests at a father-and-son dinner at the school Tuesday night. More than 200 fathers and sons with other invited guests, including Mayor and Mrs. James C. Dahlman and representatives of the Board of Education attended and thoroughly enjoyed the delicious menu, prepared at the school, the excellent program of songs and speeches and the admirable spirit of good fellowship which prevailed. The hall in which the tables were spread was most artistically decorated and everything in connection with the dinner showed painstaking work upon the part of Mr. Gepson and his corps of teachers, who were assisted by some of the older pupils. Kellom school has the largest enrollment of any grade school in the city, its pupils numbering nearly one thousand, composed of many nationalities, among them being a large number of colored children. All groups were represented at the dinner without the slightest semblance of discrimination. It was just one big happy school family, with common aims and common interests, the development of intelligent American citizenship. The dinner was in line with Mr. Gepson's desire to have the school promote a healthy and helpful community spirit. Jacob Adler, a bright and energetic lad, recited a poem, "Over the Hills to My Childhood". Howard Shinrock spoke on "Neighborhood Dads"; Manny Goldberg, a boy born in Poland, spoke on "The School Dads", contrasting the limited educational opportunities offered in some European countries with the liberal advantages offered in the United States; Curtis Jones, a promising colored boy, spoke on "Our City Dads". The above named spoke for the boys. The speakers for the father's side were Rabbi L. Sharlop, the Rev. C. C. Sharp and the Rev. John Albert Williams. Brief addresses were also made by Leon O. Smith, assistant superintendent, representing Superintendent Beveridge; Dr. J. H. Wallace and Dr. Jennie Callas, members of the Board of Education, and by Mayor Dahlman. Two vocal numbers were contributed by Mr. Wilson. It was a delightful and successful affair from every point of view. ATTENTION, EX-SERVICE MEN! The Roosevelt Post No. 30, American Legion, will hold their annual election of officers at the Colored Commercial Club, 1514½ North Twenty-fourth street, Friday, November 28, at 8:30 p. m. Every ex-service man should feel it a sense of duty to join the American Legion. The Post under the leadership of Dr. W. W. Peebles has accomplished a great deal this year by giving relief and locating jobs for ex-service men. Judging by the large attendance at their meetings and the interest expressed by ex-service men, 1925 should be a banner year. Come—cast your vote! Lunch will be served. W. W. Peebles, Commander. J. F. Faucett, Acting Adjutant THE MONTTOR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARY 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, Lincoln, Neb. Associate Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS Business Manager 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 WEbster 4243 ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. THE NEGRO'S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE A moment's thought will easily convince open-minded persons that the contribution of the Negro to American nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from the first the foundation of the American prosperity and the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply on the striving white men in Europe and America but also on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for two centuries. The military defense of this land has depended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American literature but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, hope and tolerance of our religion—Du Bois, "The Gift of Black Folk." PAGE TWO THE MO A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED OF COLORED PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY A MONITOR PUBLISH Entered as Second-Class Mail Matters Omaha, Nebraska, under THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAM W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb. LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR Advertising Rates Furn. Address, The Monitor, Poston Telephone W ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION Citizenship Rights 1. All persons born or naked and subject to the jurisdiction of United States and of the State shall make or enforce any privileges or immunities of citizen shall any state deprive any property without due process of law within its jurisdiction the equi- OUR BIG JOB THE Negro in the United States of America and in almost every community in America has a mighty big job on his hands. If he were not worthy of this big job or capable of doing it he would never have been given it. His job is this: To work out his civic, economic and political salvation in the face of an increasingly hostile sentiment and environment. Be the cause whatever it may the fact remains that the job before us is not growing less arduous; but it is our job and we've got to tackle it with a will and with a smile. Nor is our case unique. Most of us think so, but it is not. Progress upward and onward has always been marked by struggle and the overcoming of obstacles. Prejudice has striven to thwart the advance of every forward-looking group in humanity's march towards a larger freedom. Repression of self-expression, self-determination upon the part of the minor or under group, race or nation has been considered the prerogative of the more privileged. And still this repression has proven futile. And so it has been and will continue to be in our case. If we are true, recognize our responsibility and do our work well nothing can prevent our coming into our own. The morning light is breaking. It calls to work. Our job is before us. Let us tackle it not with a whine, but with a will and smile and we will grow strong in doing it. THANKSGIVING DAY BEFORE our next issue Thanks- BEFORE our next issue Thanksgiving Day will have come. It is, therefore, not unfitting that we anticipate a little to call attention to the purpose of this national holiday which has such a warm place in the hearts of the American people. The day is observed for officially calling the people of the nation to the duty of returning public thanks to Almighty God for the blessings vouchcafed this nation and people. And surely there is none, no matter what sorrows and reverses may have come to him, who cannot find some reason for sincere thanksgiving. The first part of the day should be given to public worship in one's accustomed place of worship, for to overlook this is to neglect its most important duty, and then the other portion of the day should be devoted to such recreation and feasting as may be fitting. And surely our day will be happily spent if we share our good things with others, who may be absent from home or have no home of their own. Make someone happy and you will spend the best and happiest Thanksgiving Day you have ever had. MISSOURI AGAIN ELECTS MISSOURI is one of the states which has elected a member of our race to the state legislature. Walthall Moore, who was defeated two years ago, has been returned this THE NEGRO'S CONTRIBU A moment's thought will persons that the contribution nationality as slave, freedman negligible. No element of An yet clearly woven itself into and acting as the American N explorers and helped in expl the first the foundation of the cause of the rapid growth economic importance. Moder year. He made good in the house when he was there before and will maintain his honorable record again. The elections this year have shown many significant results. WHEN DO WE GET IT? WHEN are we going to get that much-needed municipal playground on North Twenty-first street? The Men's Service League and other agencies were busy and successful in securing favorable action by the city commissioners but up to the present there are no signs of fulfilment of the promise. What's the trouble? When is our wideawake park commissioner going to move things? The play ground has long been needed. Speed up, Joe. AND THAT REMINDS US SPEAKING of the municipal playground reminds us that there are a good many other improvements needed in the North end of the city which all classes of citizens should go after in dead earnest. More street lights and better paved streets can be secured if we go after them right. JUDGE GEORGE'S VICTORY The victory of Judge George, significant as it is, is yet not so significant as the way it has been received. It is true that Mr. George's election is due partially to the republican landslide. But it is also true that Mr. George was supported loyally by a large constituency of Caucasians, who were fair enough to feel that in return for the support of colored voters they should give their support to them. Still up and above even this good augury is the friendly, even kindly way in which the city over whose judicial affairs he must help preside has accepted him. Lawyers have been unstinted in their praise. Jurists have voiced welcome. And the newspapers have been as they should have been—fair. After all, it is upon the attitude of the newspapers that much of your public sentiment depends. And Judge George and people of color are to be congratulated upon having had so signal an event as the election of a judge received with such an attitude of friendliness. The Tribune particularly comes in for a full measure of appreciation. The News, the American and the Examiner deserve thanks. It is something new in journalism as regards the relationship of the races. May Judge George's election be the beginning of a city-wide feeling of better will and understanding. — Chicago Whip. Mrs. Josephine Smith, mother of Mrs. John A. Smith, 2511 North Twenty-second street, after a pleasant visit here left for Chicago Monday morning, whence she will subsequently return to her home in Atlanta, Ga. Thanksgiving Reveries and Queries Thanksgiving is the first of America's own holidays. As the earliest to be set apart its observance runs through the whole history of the nation. Like most other distinctive features of our American order of life it sprang up out of the local soil. It was at first and for many years colonial. It became national only as its observance spread from town to town, from colony to colony, from state to state. While it has a historical interest all its own, Thanksgiving is identified with no single event, no special occasion, no definite date in our history. It recalls no single act, as does "Independence day." It commemorates the name and service of no man, as do the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. It is not shared with other peoples as are Christmas and New Years. Day Identified With All. The American Thanksgiving day is identified with the soil we till, for whose harvest we give thanks. It is, therefore, identified with the toll and the tollers whose tillage and productive labor, inventive skill, constructive and distributive enterprise feed, cloth, shelter and develop our own people and many of their kith and kin in the old fatherlands across the seas. "Thanksgiving" is another and greater Labor day. It recalls and calls forth all kinds of effort by all classes of people. It merges the common product of the common toll, for the national possession of which the President and governors of the whole people call upon them to thank their Father Creator and the good providence of the Great Provider. In thus reminding us that our harvests are the joint product of Mother Nature, the children of men and Father God, Thanksgiving is first of all the American people's expression of grateful appreciation for their "country"—its land and waters, its fertility and beauty; for our great out-of-does nature, its response to human effort, to man's discovery and his working with natural law. Thanksgiving is, therefore, nature's harvest-nome holiday. Celebrates Entire Year. And yet it celebrates the full round year. While held after harvest, Thanksgiving does not let us forget the seed and sowing of the springtime, the plowing and weeding of the summer as vital to the all-inclusive process of reaping. Moreover, and above all, in this linking soil and skies, earth and the heavens, it is the Day of Remembrance of the Father of us all, as the great giver not only but as the greatest worker, with whom we may work and who works with all for the common good. "My father worketh hitherto and I work," said the greatest of the sons of God and the children of men. These reveries awaken queries, also,raham Taylor declares, in the Chicago Daily News. They spring from the sincerest recognition and most appreciative askewedgment that the American people are and always have been, a composite race, and that adopt- BOOK CHAT By Mary White Ovington, Chairman, Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "The Gift of Black Folk." By Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Published by the Stratford Company, 234 Boylston St., Boston, 9, Mass. Price $2.00. By mail $2.15. This volume is published by the Knights of Columbus in its Racial Contribution Series. Its preface is by Dr. Edward F. McSweeny, and contains a short historical sketch of the early settlements in this country and the diverse nations and religions that came here. He deplores the effort today to set up caste control in the United States. Then comes Dr. Du Bois' story of the Negro and his contribution to this conglomerate nation. Dr. Du Bois in his prescript opens with one of his superb paragraphs: "We who know," he says, "may not forget but must forever spread the splendid, sordid truth that out of the most lowly and persecuted of men, Man made America. And that what Man has here begun with all its want and imperfection, with all its magnificent promise and grotesque failure, will some day blossom in the souls of the Lowly." Then he leaves this height and proceeds to tell us in 300 well massed pages of what the Negro has contributed to the civilization of America. He shows the value of the slaves dull labor, how it made possible the development of the South. And then he shows us what the free man and woman have done in industry, in the army, in art, literature, music, and last in religion. It is a clearly told, and to many will be a new, story. How many people for instance, know that De Bore, a West Indian Negro, reared in Louisiana, discovered the process of sugar granulation, or that the Negro Rillieux invented a vacuum pan that revolutionized the method of refining sugar? Matzeliger, a New England Negro though born in Dutch Guiana, laid the foundation for the success of the United Shoe Machinery Company by inventing a machine for lasting shoes. But most important of all to the Americans of today, old and young, was the Negro caterer, who invented ice cream. Dr. Du Bois does not give us the man's name, but he assures us that the colored caterers, along with chicken & la Maryland and Philadelphia terrapin, put this dish upon the table of the New World. THE MONITOR ed citizens from many lands have done very much to make America what it is. The early history of the United States interweaves fine, strong strands of English, Scotch, Celtic, French, Spanish and Jewish life, with not few or feeble negro traits, and toils, and some relics of Indian and old Mexican civilization. The human coquest and amazing development of this new continent cannot be accounted for without crediting much to the toil and many other enrichments of the Latin, Shavlc and southeastern European immigrants. Contributions to our culture in art and philosophy and to our cultivation of the land and our commerce of the sea come from the older civilizations of China, India and Japan. Founders of Country's Faith. Foundations of America's faith were laid by pilgrims and cavaliers, Catholics and Protestants, each in its own way, yet all to the same great end. They are merely listed here as queries raised by our Thanksgiving reveries, their discussion being reserved for timely opportunity. Their mere statement, however, makes bold the undoubting faith and hope that these, and all other problems of American life, can all and only be solved and settled by the spirit inspiring Katherine Lee Bates' great patriotic hymn that breathes the soul of our American Thanksgiving: O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain. For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain, America, America. God send His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brother- hood. From sea to shining sea. O, beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life. America, America. May God the gold refine, Till all success be nobleness And every grain divine. Holiday of the Home. Thanksgiving is a day sacred to the home. More of it is spent at home OCCASIONS FOR THANKSGIVING THAT we have bread enough and to spare for the hungry of the earth. That our ancient order of obedience and orderly change stands fast. For the hope of better social understanding and just dealings. That our great opportunities of worldwide helpfulness remain. That the idea of brotherhood among the nations has taken root. For the true men and women who are giving lives of service. For leaders raised up and the opportunity of following them. For the open door of knowledge and the desire for truth awake in men. For joys of simple living and the unnoticed saints. For work and rest, the patience that continues, the ideals that soar. For the love of home in all of us, and its satisfaction when it comes. That the world is bigger than we, and the joy of adventure which it brings. — Conversationist and Advisor The chapter on reconstruction has some of the facts that "The Birth of a Nation" has tried too successfully to root out of our histories. We have set forth some of the reforms accomplished by the reconstruction legislatures, the establishment of a public school system, the building of penal and charitable institutions and a better system of finance. He quotes from an enemy of the movement: "Even those who mocked and sneered at the Negro legislature brought now and then words of praise. It is not all shame, not all burlesque. They have a genuine interest and a genuine earnestness in the business of the assembly which we are bound to recognize and respect. They have an earnest purpose, born of conviction that their conditions are not fully assured, which lends a sort of dignity to their proceedings. The barbarous animated gargon in which they so often indulge is on occasion seen to be so transparently sincere and weighty in their minds that sympathy supplants disguest." They were trying to improve their condition but as Dr. Du Bois aptly says: "Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance and incompetence, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge and efficiency." The book is full of material of use in the many controversies that arise when two people talk the race problem. We congratulate the Knights of Columbus on their series, and only hope that we may learn of the other elements in the country in as clear and conise and interesting a volume as this one on the Black Folk. HISTORY FIGURES IN GREAT MEAT SHOW AT STOCK EVENT Chicago, Ill., Nov. 21.—A comprehensive educational exhibit of meat housed in a special building constructed in exact duplication of the dwelling in which the immortal Shakespeare was born, is to be a new and unique feature at the International Live Stock Exposition. This information has been made public by the National Live Stock and Meat Board, which is sponsoring the attraction. Finishing touches are now being applied to this replica of the house at Stratford-on-Aven, which occupies one of the most prominent sites on the exposition grounds. The novel idea of reproducing the poet's home for this occasion is explained by the fact that a portion of the old birthplace was utilized as a meat market. The exhibit building has been christened "The Meat Shop". than at church, in family reunions than in public assemblies, in serving the needy, the lonely, and the homeless than in formal services of worship. Its sanctuary is the thoughtful thankful heart more than the house of worship. Who that has lived in any of our oldest colonial states, especially in New England, can ever forget, or fall to have a glow of heart at every remembrance of the real home Thanksgiving day as observed on the soil from which it sprang? At the very mention of it, what visions reappear, of the long preceding preparations for it at the old family homestead; of the letters flying forth and back between the old folks at home and the scattered young folks in their new homes, or transient abodes; of the railway station platforms and cars throughed by merry home-bound children-of-an older-growth, and children's children; of greetings at the threshold of the old farm house or village home, mingling the smiles and laughter of the living with tears or silent, sorrowing, undying yearning for "the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still"; of the bountiful laden, beautifully decorated family table, with America's fatted turkey as a "welcome home," instead of the "fatted calf" of ancient days. National Development. In the truest American homes the Thanksgiving family reunion is all that Robert Burns sang of "The Cotter's Saturday Night," and still more for being more joyous, though no less religious for all that. And there are Americans, not a few, who feel deep down in their hearts for their own country what the Scotch singer sang of his: "From scenes like these old Scotla's grandeur springs." Out of this population more wonderfully composite than constitutes the citizenship of any other nation, a very distinctive national development has evolved. It is recognized by ourselves and other peoples as distinctively our own. As such, and as a distinct contribution to the world's possessions and to the heritage of mankind, it is here and now being considered, without any comparison with the characteristics of other nations, as better or worse. This life-spirit of the American people is a fact, and a fact that raises these two queries at least: Is this American life or spirit distinct and valuable enough to be conserved, developed and percepted? If so, how can it maintain its distinct identity and value, enriched by the accessions from abroad which are appreciated and welcomed, without being transformed, diluted, or deteriorated? These are not only fair questions, but are queries that are forcing themselves upon the more or less strained attention of our people. ```markdown ``` Thankfulness and Hope Thanksaving is not, at its best, what anybody says or does, but rather what he feels. And so it is, that all of us, equal members in a free democracy, are privileged to draw our inventories together, to total up the credit side of our ledger of life as one united people, and to join together in a festival of good cheer and hearty thanks for what the past has yielded; to face the future with a mutual hopefulness in what it holds in store.—Farm and Ranch. PINCH AUCTIONEER TO BID AT SALE New York Bowery Has an Unusual Sale. New York. - A silent auction, where the bidders pinch the auctioneer and where transactions run to as high as $250,000 a day is one of the most unique markets on the Bowery. It is here that three-fourths of the unredeemed pledges of pawnbrokers in the large Eastern cities are disposed of. Nothing is dealt in but jewelry, watches, antiques and such valuable articles as high-class field glasses. Several buildings on the west side of the Bowery, between Hester and Canal streets, house the auction rooms and exchanges. The membership is exclusive. The personnel seldom varies, except as sons or nephews of the traders succeed to the business as the older men retire or die. Nearly all are wealthy. Sales Are Held Daily. Pawnbrokers bring their unredeemed pledges to the auction rooms where sales are held daily. A pawnbroker hands in for sale, for instance, a diamond ring and tells how much he wants for it—confidently to the auctioneer. The auctioneer passes the ring from hand to hand in a circle of speculators about him. He is seated in a chair on an elevation. When the article is returned, he asks for a bid. The bidders express their ambitions by pinching the anatomy of the auctioneer at various points from his ankle to his neck. When the bidding opens he is literally covered with hands. Each hand has its allotted place. The auctioneer knows, for example, that the hand on his right knee is that of Morris Hirsch, the hand on the left knee is that of Jacob Rabinowitz, the hand grasping his left elbow is that of Hyman Cohan, and so on. He feels a certain squeeze repeated in a certain way. That means Morris Hirsch has offered $200. Pay After Auction. Pay After Auction. That may be the only squeeze the auctioneer gets on the article on display; or he may get a dozen others. He hands the article to the man whose last squeeze indicated the highest bid. A memorandum is made and another article offered. No cash is exchanged and settlements are made at the end of the auction. Sales are made with bewildering speed. When the stock is disposed of, the buyers troop downstairs to the ground floor exchange rooms and get ready for business. The dealers have little stalls in the main exchange where jewelry purchasers visit them. Little time is wasted in bargaining and business is usually brisk. (By the Associated Negro Press.) Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 21.—Active participation in the election in this city Tuesday, November 4, by the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., through questionaries to candidates and recommendations on balloting, was one of the features of voting here. A questionary was sent all candidates on state and county tickets, asking their stand on the Klu Klan and upon local issues affecting colored citizens. The questions and replies of candidates classified merely as satisfactory, unsatisfactory or failed to reply, together with a recommended ticket was placed on a half page advertisement purchased by the association in the local weekly. Workers from the branch passed out; the association ballots at all porling places. This method of procedure was used effectively in the city campaign last spring by the branch. It is the theory of the association here that it can spend its money to no better advantage than by giving wide publicity to the office seekers who will give a square deal if elected. It asks no favors of newspapers, buying political space at political rates, as the candidates do. DR. W. S. ELLINGTON WEDS Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 21.—Miss Loretta Ursa Chambers, one of the leading teachers of Tennessee, was united in matrimony to the Rev. W. S. Ellington, pastor of the First Baptist church, Beech Nashville, at the residence of Prof. and Mrs. L. E. Brown, 1044 Mississippi avenue. Dr. Ellington is one of the foremost preachers of the race in America. 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Greer of No. 11 Hose company, Omaha Fire department, has returned to duty after a week's absence caused by a sprained back received in answering a fire call. A. P. Scruggs, lawyer, 220 South Thirteenth street, over Pope's Drug Store. Atlantic 7812. Kenwood 2492. Adv. Rev. J. S. Williams, pastor of Salem Baptist church, will preach for a week at the Spring Hill Baptist church, Thirty-third and Emmet Sts., every night at 8 o'clock, beginning Monday, Nov. 24. Rev. M. H. Wilkinson is pastor and Mrs. C. Wood clerk. Grand Thanksgiving ball at Dreamland Hall.—Adv. The Dames Club will hold its regular meeting next Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. A. L. Hawkins, 2120 North Twenty-fourth street. "Dentlo," the tooth paste you ought to use.—Adv. James C. (Jimmy) Jewell is visiting in Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Price Terrell went to Lincoln Tuesday on a business trip. A very pleasant meeting was held at the Old Folks' Home Wednesday. Who will contribute Thanksgiving dinner for the inmates? Grand Thanksgiving ball at Dreamland Hall.-Adv. Mrs. Patsy Gregg, mother of Mrs. Charles Seymour, 2626 Maple street, returned last Thursday from a two months' visit in Missouri and Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Mortimer, 2634 Maple street, entertained at breakfast (Sunday morning in honor of their mother, Mrs. W. H. Mortimer, who has been ill for several weeks, but is able to be out again. FOR RENT—Room in private home, strictly modern, near two car lines. Phone WEbster 1624.—4t-9-19. Grand Thanksgiving ball at Dream- land Hall.—Adv. Mr. and Mrs. James Hieronymous returned Monday morning from Cody, Neb., where they have been spending the summer. Give to the Community Chest! Be sure to attend the High Brown Steppers' Musical Comedy to be given Monday evening, November 24, at St. Benedict's Community House and School, 2423 Grant street for the benefi- t of St. Benedict's school. Dancing after program. Admission 25 cents. —Adv. Mrs. L. M. Goodlett, 2433 Charles street, left Saturday for Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was called by the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Dolly Arde. Coming soon—Nathaniel Dett, pianist, for Old Folks Home. Watch for date and advertisement later. For good and quick results in hair and scalp treatment call Web. 5450. —Adv.4t Remit for your paper. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon held their regular weekly meeting last Thursday afternoon as the guests of Mrs. S. H. Dorsey, 3643 Parker St. ASK FOR ADVO ONE POUND GOLD MEDAL COFFEE M.CORD - BRADY CO. COFFEE ROASTERS We use picture advertising only when the quality of the offering justifies it, owing to the considerable cost of the advertising. We assure you that we know of nothing better that can be offered you than this strictly modern bungalow on paved street. Handy to 34th and Franklin School and handy to the 33rd Street carline. Easy walking distance to the Technical High. Do not hesitate to call or come in and see us regarding this property. AMOS GRANT COMPANY, Realtors Mrs. M. F. Singleton, who was detained at her home, 2865 Corby street, last week by an attack of the gripe is able to be out again. Mr. Clarence V. Anderson of Galesburg, Ill., is the guest of his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bowler 2715 North Twenty-eighth avenue. Mrs. E. H. McDonald, wife of the pastor of St. John's Baptist church, who has been ill, is reported as being able to be out again. FOR RENT—Three-room apartment and two small rooms in strictly modern house. 2024 Burt street. ATlantic 6126. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms in private home. Home privileges. HArney 1263—4t-11-21. Mrs. John A. Singleton has been confined to her home for several days with an attack of lagripe. Mr. Tull Thompson, a former resident of Omaha, but now of Minneapolis, has been the guest this week of Mr. and Mrs. George Watson, 2715 North Twenty-eighth avenue. Mrs. William Rix was called to Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday by the serious illness of her son-in-law, the Rev. John Bundarant. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Hicks and little daughter, Charlotte, have returned from western Nebraska where they have been for the past two months. Mr. William Fountain returned Sunday afternoon from Denver, Col., where he went to visit his mother. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon is preparing for its annual sale or bazaar of useful and fancy articles which will be held Wednesday, December 10, in the Jewell store building at Twenty-fourth and Grant Sts. Grand Thanksgiving ball at Dreamland Hall.—Adv. Going to California—Will sacrifice dining roon and bedroom furniture. Everything in household. Fairview Apartments, Fiftieth and Webster streets. Walnut 0590.—Adv. FOR SALE—Lloyd baby carriage in good condition. Will sell cheap. Web. 4769. Mrs. Ida Edwards of 2310 North Twenty-seventh street, has received the sad news of the death of her grandmother, Mrs. Emily Rowland, of Des Moines, Ia. ST JOHN'S BAPTIST CHURCH WILL HOLD SERVICES IN NEW HALL St. John's Baptist church which has been holding services in Knights of Tabor Hall at Twenty-fourth and Patrick, beginning next Sunday will hold its regular services in the Knights of Pythias Hall at Twenty-fourth and Burdette streets upstairs. This is a very comfortable and attractive place and will admirably serve the purposes of this growing congregation until they secure a permanent location. The Rev. E. H. McDonald and his faithful workers are very much encouraged over the outlook for rapid and substantial development. The Pictu REORGANIZE MEN'S CLUB A number of the men of the Episcopal Church of St. Philip the Deacon met Tuesday night at the rectory where they spent a delightful social evening. As the outcome of this gathering it was decided to reorganize the Men's Club which was forthwith done. The following officers were elected: Charles W. Dickerson, president; Drew Harrold, vice-president; Malcolm Scott, secretary, and William Fountain, treasurer. The club will meet monthly. MINISTERS' ALLIANCE RESUMES ITS MEETINGS The Colored Ministerial Alliance has resumed its regular meetings. Tuesday morning an interesting session was held at the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A., at which much important routine business was dispatched, after which a most scholarly and instructive paper on "The Religious Status of the Negro" was read by the Rev. Dr. McDonald, pastor of St. John's Baptist church. The paper elicited high commendation, and provoked a most helpful discussion. COLOR CRAZE GETS HIM IN JAIL (By the Associated Negro Press.) Chicago, Ill., Nov. 21.—Thomas A. Sears, white, Portland, Me., will know better next time. He passed a Chinese laundry here and saw within a white woman working alongside the Chinese owner. The sight so irritated him that he entered the laundry and protested only to be informed that the white woman was the Chinaman's wife. He thereupon began trying to wreck the place, an effort which eventually led him to the police court. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH Twenty-fifth and R Street—Telephone MMarket 3475—O. J. Burck- hardt, Pastor. Sunday morning the pastor will speak on the "Propelling power of Jesus/Christ", and at 7:30 there will be a song service followed by a real evangelistic sermon. November 30th will be quarterly meeting. Rev. Geo. W. Slater will preach at 3 p. m., and Presiding Elder Hicks will be with us morning and evening. LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT Mr. J. F. Dean returned Sunday from South Bend, Ind., witnessing the football game between Nebraska and Notre Dame Saturday afternoon and spending a few hours in Chicago. The L. L. Kensington club was royally entertained at a pre-Thanksgiving luncheon Monday from 3 to 5. After conclusion of the business meeting our noted men and women in science and arts proved to be inter- AGENTS THE Chicago WORLD'S GREATEST You can make good money rep- FENDER. Write today, don't wait. Write Your AGENT DEPARTMENT, No. 3435 Indiana Ave. Texture Cannot Do The The advertising only when the quality of therable cost of the advertising. that we know of nothing better that can allow on paved street. Handy to 34th street carline. Easy walking distance to instances which we will explain to any n market at the low figure of $3600. are to meet your terms. e to call or come in and see us regarding GRANT COMPANY You can make good money representing the big CHICAGO DEFENDER. Write today, don't wait. We will show you how. Write Your Letter to AGENT DEPARTMENT, No. 9, CHICAGO DEFENDER, 3435 Indiana Ave, Chicago, Ill. At. 8380; 210 So. 18th St., Arthur Bldg. bster 4243 esting topics. The hostess, Mrs. Mayme Lovin, served a delightful menu, appropriate to the season. Next meeting in the evening with Mrs. J. F. Dean, a covered dish luncheon. Miss Ella Mason was a week-end visitor returning home Sunday night. See Trago McWilliams, Sr., as "Every Youth" in the drama. He is a wonderful surprise. Rev. I. B. Smith and Rev. Mr. Hicks were Quinn Chapel visitors Sunday. Mrs. Rosa Adair entertained the Mission at their home last Tuesday night. A fair crowd of members were present. Rev. J. R. Williams of Kansas City, Mo., was over from Omaha last weekend, visiting Rev. H. W. Botts and friends. He preached for Rev. Mr. Botts last Friday night, returning to Omaha Saturday. Mrs. Ella Black entertained the Utopian Art Club at her home, 713 North Thirteenth street, last Thursday night. A goodly number of members and visitors were present. A fine business and social time was had. Mr. Zack Johnson is improving wonderfully at the hospital at this time. Mr. Guy Wiley spent Sunday at Omaha on business. Mrs. Anna Rheinhardt returned home from St. Joseph, Mo., last Saturday. The moral drama "Every Youth", which was to have been given in Masonic Hall Thursday night, November 21, has been postponed to Monday night, December 8th. The cast of characters consists wholly of home talent. Regular services were conducted as usual at Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday. Thankgiving services at 11 a.m. Thanksgiving dinner served from 12 noon till late in evening. A musicale given by the choir at night. Mr. L. L. Lindsey returned to Chicago recently, after spending about six weeks here. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Griffin of 2040 N street, announce the engagement of Mrs. C. C. Trent of Omaha to Mr. Guy Wiley of our city. Date will be named later.-Mrs. Trent has been a long resident of Omaha, well known, and very popular in church circles, with a host of friends, deserving the choice of her afflianced.-Mr. Guy Wiley is a very genial young man, well known at his home. He is holding a very lucrative position as collector for the Continental State Bank, and is well liked by his employer. He is a Christian gentleman, serving as a deacon in Mt. Zion Baptist church. WANTED The Defender TEST DAY WEEKLY representing the big CHICAGO DE- cuit. We will show you how. r Letter to b. 9, CHICAGO DEFENDER, ave. Chicago, Ill and has prospects of a successful career. Hence, we think Mr. Wiley deserves the choice of the helpmate he is about to select for life. At Refuge Baptist church regular services were held and the program of the day was carried out. Rev. J. S. Williams of Omaha delivered installation sermon to Rev. S. S. Farley in the afternoon. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Church. Rev. J. C. 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C.) headquarters of the National Geographic society, which quotes from a communication to the society from John Claude White, one of the few westerners who was ever admitted to the city. "Lhasa, the Place of the Gods, well deserves its name, as anything more beautiful can hardly be imagined than the vision of the sacred city set against its magnificent background of snow-capped mountains. Whether seen on a brilliant day, under a cloudless sky, during a thunderstorm, painted in soft, glowing tints by one of the wonderful sunsets seen only in Tibet, or by moonlight when with outlines softened and toned down, the Potala stands out like a phantom castle in ghostly splendor from among the shadows of its surrounding trees, all aspects are equally lovely. City Dominated by Potala. "The Potala is by far the finest building and eclipses all others in the beauty of its appearance. The present Potala was commenced in 1645 by the Grand Lama Nag-wang Lob-sang-Gya-tso, on the same site as a former building; and there is no doubt, I think, that the city is an ancient one and was in existence more than 1,200 years ago, although we can find no records giving any authentic historical account. "The Potala dominates everything in Lhasa. The enormous mass of buildings, partly monastery, partly palace, and partly fortress, is built on a rocky ridge which stands out in the center of the valley, commanding the town and dominating the landscape. Its architecture is magnificently grand, bold in outline and design; it towers above everything, with its gray white walls and buttresses, its immense flights of steps and terraces dotted with red-robed monks ascending and descending from religious ceremonies; its dull mudder-red temple walls, with carved and painted windows, showing behind black brown yak's hair hangings, surmounted by its glided rooftops and set in almost parklike surroundings of trees and meadows, with snow-capped mountains on all sides and the Kyl-chun, the River of Delight, running clear in many channels through groves of willow or poplar. "It is indeed a fitting shrine for the heart of any religion, and with such surroundings it is difficult to understand how the present form of Buddhism (Lamalism), as practiced in Tibet, could ever have sunk to the depths of degradation that it has reached. "But the interior of the Potala is curiously disappointing as it consists principally of a mass of dark passages and cells, a certain number of halls and flights of steps. "Among the larger balls were several striking ones, especially that in which the gilt tomb of Nag-wang-Lob-sang Gya-tso; the dome of this hall extended upward through several stories. On the tomb there was a great deal of metal ornamentation, and the whole formed a fine piece of work. On each side of the principal tomb were similar ones of smaller dimensions, those of Dalal Lamas less notable. Gold Images and Butter Lamps. Gold Images and Butter Lamps. "In another room of fairly large dimensions the walls were lined with shelves from floor to ceiling, each shelf closely packed to its uttermost extent with images of Budha. There must have been thousands of all metals—gold, silver, copper, brass—and many were of very beautiful workmanship. In another chapel there were hundreds of golden butter lamps. "It would be quite impossible to give even a semblance of a plan of this conglomeration of buildings, and it would take weeks, perhaps months, to visit every part of the enormous structure, capable of holding thousands of people. "From the flat roofs of the Potala the whole valley lies mapped out below—the town to the east, a mass of low, two-storied, substantially-built houses interspersed with temples; the Jo-Khang, the most holy shrine in Tibet; the Chagporl, or school of medicine; the Turquise bridge (Yutok Sampa), so-called on account of its green-blue tiled roof; the many channels of the River of Delight (the Kyl-chhu), beyond which lies the arsenal, and to the north the Monastery of Sera under the hills, containing 5,000 monks. Further on the Debug monastery with 10,700 inmates; the gilded roofs of the Na-chung-chokyong; and the Ling-Nor. the sacred road along which all devout Buddhists prostrate themselves in the hope that all their earthly sins may be forgiven, could be seen in places. "There are monks everywhere in or near Lhasa. The three large monasteries of Sera, Debug and Gah-dan alone contain about 20,000, and with all the other temples and monasteries the number cannot fall far short of 30,000, while the lay population of Lhasa only amounts to about 15,000, of whom 9,000 are women, who, strange to say, carry on practically the whole of the trade done. The remaining 6,000 males are about 3,000 Tibetans and 3,000 foreigners—Chinese, Nepalese, Kashmirers, etc. INDIANS SUE TEXAS FOR BIG LAND TRACT File Title Claim to Acreage Value of $150,000,000. Tyler, Texas—As another legal step in prosecution of their claim to title to 1,500,000 acres of land in eastern Texas, the Cherokee Indians, through their attorney, John M. Taylor of Claremore, Okla, have filed for record in the county clerk's office here a complete abstract and description of the property involved. The value of the land at this time is placed at about $150,000,000. It is made up of many fine farms, thriving communities and towns. The Cherokees claim to have obtained the territory outlined by treaty dated November 8, 1822, with the Mexican government, and assert the treaty rights acquired from the Mexicans were recognized by the republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and other representatives of the republic, acting for Texas. Asserting the white settlers, for no reason other than that they wanted the Indians' land, forcefully dispossessed the Cherokees in 1830, using Texas rangers for the purpose and engaging in warfare against them, the remaining tribe of the Cherokees declares that it still holds title to the country described. The claims involved in the instrument just filed have been pending for years before both federal and state governments. The motive for filing the abstract and history of the claim for record in the county clerk's office here is not known. Students of early Texas history declare the republic of Texas never legally ratified any agreement made by Sam Houston and others with the Cherokees and that, even had the treaty been ratified, it expired upon the outbreak of a state of war between the Cherokee tribe and the republic of Texas, which culminated in the bloody battle of Larissa, Cherokee county, in 1839, when the power of the Cherokees was broken after a determined fight. Pittsburgh.—Back in 1908 Peter van der Meer played a violin recital in Carnegie music hall, New York, and critics acclaimed the artistry in his performance of Paganini's Concerto in D Major. He had studied under Ysaye at Antwerp and Brussels, and had been a member of the Boston Symphony orchestra. Recently a group of men idling about the entrance to the Fort Pitt hotel saw a blind street musician preparing to play. To them he was just a grypsying fiddler. But apathy vanished and a crowd gathered as the strains of Schumann's "Traumerel" came sweetly from the instrument in the hands of the sightless player. "Evening Star" from "Tannhauser," "Souvenir" by Drdla, a Drego Serenade, the prison scene from "Il Trovatore," and the intermezzo from "Cavaleria Rusticana" followed for a two-hour program. Bill folds were opened and the battered hut held more than $50 when the collection was over. The blind player was Peter van der Meer, sightless since 1915 when cataracts followed measles in a prolonged illness. For six years he was in Bellevue hospital, New York, where physicians told him he would never see again. He has played his way to Pittsburgh. He will continue in a few days his journey southward with his violin, and what Yasaye and his own passion for the instrument have given him will pay the way. Armenia Has 40,000 Acres in Cotton Plant Erivan, Armenia.—American methods of cotton growing are being introduced in Armenia. A new cotton factory, equipped with modern American machinery, has just been completed in Erivan. At the present time, more than 40,000 acres of cotton are under cultivation. This is 40 times greater than the acreage under cultivation in 1921. The Armenian government expects this year to produce 30,000,000 pounds of raw cotton. One factory in Erivan has an output of nearly 2,000,000 pounds a month. In order to encourage farmers to cultivate their own cotton fields, the government is allotting them large quantities of free seed. The government pays $2.75 for 40 pounds of the raw material. The present average yield is about 1,000 pounds an acre. ```markdown ``` Astronomer Declares Berkley, Cal. — Methuselah was not nine hundred and sixty-nine years of age when he died, as set forth in Genesis, but was only eighty, according to a statement by Prof. Russell Crawford, astronomer at the University of California. "The ancients computed their time by cycles, which we have taken to mean years." Professor Crawford said. "This is wrong, for the ancients did not mean a yearly cycle but a cycle of the moon, of which there may have been 960 in Methuselah's life. There are that number of moon cycles in 80 years. FOR RENT—Nearly furnished room, one block from North Twenty- fourth and Dodge line. WEBster 5652. FOR RENT—Nearly furnished rooms in private home. Prices reasonable. 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