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AN OMAHA PREACHER HAS WIFE ARRESTED LIFTING :: :: LIF TOO State Historical Society $2.00 a Year—5c a y STANDARD LIFE AND SOUTHERN INSUR'GE COMPANIES MERGE Combination of Colored and White Organizations Is Effected Making a Powerful Corporation IS AN UNUSUAL COMBINATION Officers and Directors of Standard Re-elected with Three Exceptions and Will Co-operate with Others Atlanta, Georgia, January 23.—(Exclusively by the Associated Negro Press)—Announcement was authorized here recently that the Standard Life Insurance Company of this city, one of the giant Negro companies, had been merged with the Southern Insurance Company of Nashville, Tenn., a white organization. This simple statement issued after a joint meeting of the officials of the two companies acquainted the public with the fact that a climax had been reached in the difficulties which the Standard and its allied institutions have been battling and lifted the curtain on another scene in a drama of Negro financial endeavor which the country has watched interestedly for the past year. According to the spokesmen for the two groups, President Will G. Harris of the Southern and President Heman E. Perry of Standard, the two companies will operate for the present as separate institutions with the probability that later they will be consolidated into a single organization which will be known as the Southern and Standard Life Insurance Company. Officials and directors of both will be on the board of the new combination. Mr. Harris pointed out that the merger brought together assets of over five million dollars and said that there was outstanding business of nearly $75,000,000 covering some three hundred thousand policy holders. He further stated that the move made doubled the protection behind Standard Life policies, and gave birth to an inter-racial control and co-operative business endeavor on a scale never before attempted. Officers and directors of Standard were re-elected with three excertions: Bishop R. E. Jones, his brother, David Jones, secretary of the company, and J. R. Pinkett, director of agencies. Their withdrawals were voluntary; they remain as stockholders and are said to be in accord with the merger as affording the best solution of the problem facing the company. The merger took place after the stockholders and directors had met in their 12th annual meeting and canvassed the critical situation brought about by the failure of Mr. Perry and his associates to raise sufficient money to discharge the $400,000 obligation owed by the Service Company, an organization which held the majority of te outstanding 2,500 Standard Life shares of stock and which had hypothecated them to the Southeastern Trust Company of this city as security for loans. Premature reports given to the racial and daily press of the country several weeks ago had heralded the fact that white northern capitalists and philanthropists had agreed to advance the money needed after herculean efforts made by Dr. Robert R. Moton, president of the National Business League. Later disclosures are said to reveal that this effort failed, contributory causes being first that a greater amount of money was required than originally was stipulated; second, that affairs of the Service Company due to the demands for liquidation forced by the insurance commission were more involved than a cursory examination indicated, and, thirdly, a disinclination on the part of officers of the Standard and Service Companies to resign from what they considered their life's work. Mr. Rosenwald and the eastern group are then said to have withdrawn their offer. APPOINT KANSAS CITY MAN ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR (By the Associated Negro Press) Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 23.—Attorney Duane Mason of this city has been appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson county. This is the first time an appointment of this kind has been tendered to an attorney of the race. Mr. Mason is one of the younger members of the local bar. Don't lose your head in traffic or you may lose a limb. THE MONITOR PREACHER HAS HIS WIFE ARRESTED Rev. John Union Charges That Widow Whom He Married a Few Years Ago Is Insane. Mrs. Mary Shelton Union, 3410 No. 29th street, a highly respected resident of Omaha for several years and prominent in religious, charitable and fraternal circles, was arrested Monday night on complaint of her husband, Rev. John Union, to whom she was married two or three years ago, on an insanity charge. Friends learning of this got busy and interested Attorney John Adams in the case, as it was alleged by them that this was an attempt upon the part of Union to secure her property and Mrs. Union was released. Great indignation has been expressed by Mrs. Union's friends over her husband's actions. NEGRO SHOW ON COLUMBIA CIRCUIT (By the Associated Negro Press) New York, Jan. 23.—On February first the Seven-Eleven company of Negro performers will take a place on the Columbia burlesque circuit where it will replace the Hurtig and Seamon Temptations of 1925. The colored attraction opens in Chicago taking up the time of the show that closes in Omaha. The troupe may find it expedient to change the name. This has not yet been determined. Hurtig and Seamon who are making this remarkable opening for a Negro attraction are the same people who sponsored Williams and Walker's presentation and who took them to Europe. They also were the producers who sent Roseanne on tour with a colored cast, but were obliged to close the show at Shubert's Riviera, New York, an Upper Broadway house, after a brief season. This firm has long been noted for its friendliness to the race, and today the picture of Williams' and Walker's big show is the principal adronment of their private offices in the Strand building, New York. Sam Cook, Speedy Smith, Garland Howard, and May Brown are the principals in the show that has been selected as the first complete Negro unit on the big burlesque wheel. Their advent on the circuit upon which the race has been excluded, except as individuals, acts or units, marks with success a persistent effort that has been waged by the Billboard in the interest of colored shows. NONOGENARIAN GIVES RULES FOR LONG LIFE (By the Associated Negro Press) Van Buren, Ark., Jan. 23.—After working nearly eighty years as a blacksmith and being now still active, Richard Douglas, has just celebrated his 95th birthday and handed down his rules for a long life. Mr. Douglas has a colorful history, one of the outstanding periods of which was his life as a free Negro before the Civil War. His rules for long life are: Go to church. Do not argue with a woman. A woman has got to talk and when she does—go away and let her alone until she gets over the spell. Man is boss of everything, just as long as he can keep his nerve and look them in the eye. He can look a lion in the eye and bluff him. But if he loses his nerve, Lord help him. Woman's place is in the house except on Sundays. Let her get out then. I do all the housework and cooking on Sundays. That's the way a man should do. When a man doesn't love his mother he is not fit for the dogs to drive out of the country. Live right and be right. Do lots of hard work, it won't hurt you. Sleep regularly. I go to bed at eight every evening and get up at four the year around. Laugh a whole lot—and be a friend to everybody. FRANCE STUDIES FURTHER USE OF BLACK TROOPS (By the Associated Negro Press) Paris, France, Jan. 23.—Significant phases of France's future military policy are suggested in the sailing for Bakar, French West Africa, of Marshall Petain, recently, to study military roganizations and the possibilities of recruiting native troops for the colonial army. Transportation will also be a subject considered. Marshall Branchet de'Esperey is now crossing the Sahara with six-wheeled cars, studying the organization of military automobile transport across the desert. NEBRASKA'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1925 The Eclipse NOW LOOK AT IT. DAD OH. GEE (Copyright, W. N. U.) RENAULT OUT TO REGAIN PRESTIGE BY A WIN OVER ROPER ON JAN. 30 What is probably the most important heavyweight boxing bout ever staged in Omaha is the one between Jack Renault and Bob Roper, which will be the headliner on the American Legion's fistic show at the city auditorium next Friday evening. The bout is especially important because of its bearing on the world's heavyweight title, which, it is reported, Jack Dempsey is about to relinquish. Until recently, Harry Wills, Tommy Gibbons and Jack Renault were considered the three outstanding contenders for Dempsey's title. But the dope was upset about a month ago, when Romero Rojas, the South American slugger, won a referee's decision over Renault at Boston. The defeat by Rojas hurt Renault's standing as one of the "big three" contenders. To make it worse, on New Year's day, Bob Roper met and decisively defeated Rojas at Grand Rapids, Mich., which according to comparative performances would rank Roper above Renault in the present ratings. Renault is out to win back his standing among the "big three". To do this, he must win over Captain Roper in the fight here next Friday, and there must be no doubt about the victory. Sounds simple, but can Renault do it? Omahans who saw Roper cut Andy Schmader to ribbons here, and later saw him defeat Tiny Herman only to have the bout declared a draw, have a great deal of respect for the demonstrated ability of Roper. He has never been knocked out and had never taken a count of one in a ring. He has taken special delight in stopping the championship climbs of a number of youngsters who, previous to the time of meeting Roper, had won practically all of their bouts. For COLONIST PRAISE PRES IDENT KING OF LIBERIA (By the Associated Negro Press) Monrovia, Liberia, Jan. 23.—At the prospect of the visit of President C. D. B. King of the Republic of Liberia to Sierra Leone, the papers of that British colony have taken the opportunity to laud the work of President King in maintaining the cordial relations which have so long existed between the neighboring territories. One of the papers of Sierra Leone remarks: "We are proud of the way that republic has been pulling through the difficulties that were strenu on its path since the great war. And much more so for that exhibition of precision and determination over a misguided movement that threatened to have embroiled the republic with foreign states. President King has shown extreme tact and courage in the manner he has dealth with that political agitation. We are hopeful that his stay in this colony will be one of very great mutual profit." instance; Schmader, right here in Omaha, was going like a house afire until he met Roper. After his defeat at the hands of the captain, Schmader began to sink. Bob Martin, former A. E. F. champion, was another blooming hope until Roper met and defeated him. Then there were Tony Mechior of Chicago, Dan O'Dowd of Boston, Tiny Herman, who had won every fight he engaged in in Omaha until he fought Roper, and last but not least, Romero Rojas himself, the man who just defeated Renault. The tickets were placed on sale Wednesday at popular prices of $3, $2 and $1, tax free, and the fans have been snapping them up. In the semiwindup, Henry Malcor, a knockerout from Kansas City, who is after Morrie Schlaifer's hide, will meet Johnny Nichols of St. Paul, Nichols, it will be remembered, defeated Schlaifer three times, losing one to the Omaha boy. Malcor has won more than half his bouts by knockouts. He has been defeated only one, that being by Bert Colima, Pacific coast middleweight champion. He has knocked out such good men as Harvey Thorpe, Anthony Downey, Battling Ortega, Gordon McKay, Jimmy O'Hagen and a score of lesser lights. He is the only fighter to knock out three opponents on three successive nights, his victims being Ortega, McKay and O'Hagen. Kansas City sports are backing Malcor heavily. They believe he can defeat Schlaifer, and Malcor has taken this fight with Nichols to prove that he is capable of giving Schlaifer a real fight. Nichols has been fighting in the east and has been going great. He recently defeated K. O. Phil Kaplan and fought a draw with Billy Wells, so it can be seen that he is in great condition. STATE SUPREME COURT DECIDES NEGRO ELECTED (By the Associated Negro Press) New York, N. Y., Jan. 23.—The appellate division of the New York state supreme court has just unanimously decided that George W. Harris, editor of the New York News, and not John W. Smith, white, was elected alderman in the general election held in November, 1921, and that Smith, held office without warrant from the voters of the district. Mr. Harris may now sue Smith if he so elects to recover the salary which was paid to the latter as alderman. The appellate court found that 205 votes for Harris had been thrown out. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HOLDS ANNUAL ELECTION The Negro Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association at a meeting held last Friday night, held their annual election with the following result: Dr. D. W. Gooden, president; Dr. J. J. Jones, secretary; Dr. G. B. Lennox, treasurer. GEORGIA COMMERCIALIZES RACE HATRED WRITES DR. DU BOIS IN "NATION" Georgia is the state which commercializes race hatred, according to Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, writing in "The Nation" of January 21st. "It is usual," he says, "for the stranger in Georgia to think of race prejudices and race hatred as being the great, the central, the unalterable fact and to go off into general considerations as to race differences and the eternal likes and dislikes of mankind. But that line leads one astray. The central thing is not race hatred in Georgia, it is successful industry and commercial investment in race hatred for the purpose of profit." Dr. Du Bois declares that white and colored labor were played against one another, the whites being used to disfranchise the Negro and Negro labor being used to force down white wages. He continues: "Then followed the curious and paradoxical semi-disfranchisement of white labor by means of the 'white primary'. By agreeing to vote on one issue, the Negro, the normal split of the white vote on other questions or the development of a popular movement against capital and privilege is virtually forestalled. Thus in Georgia democratic government and real political life have disappeared. None of the great questions that agitate the nation—international or national, social or economic—can come up for free discussion." White labor, says Dr. Du Bois, is bribed by flattery which declares it socially superior to the Negro. The result is that every white man becomes a potential mobist determined to keep the Negro "in his place". Out of this attitude grows the Ku Klux Klan. The salvation of Georgia, Dr. Du Bois declares, lies in an eventual union of white and black labor: "They hate and despise each other today. They lynch and murder body and soul. They are separated by the width of a world. And yet—and yet, stranger things have happened under the sun than understanding between those who are born blind." DOUGLAS AND LINCOLN WERE GOOD FRIENDS (By the Associated Negro Press) Springfield, Ill., Jan. 23.—The Illinois Historical Society has just published records which reveal an interesting phase of the relationship between Stephen A. Douglas, the political rival of Abraham Lincoln, and the martyr president. So intense was the political enmity between these two men that it has become to mean the same thing in human discord that the story of Damon and Pythias does in human friendships. But it is now learned that, despite their fights on the rostrum and the decline of Douglas due to the rise of Lincoln, the two men maintained a strong and tender personal friendship which was exhibited in many acts of kindness by the one for the other. Better counterfeit money than a spurious front. Whole Number 498 ROLAND HAYES' VOICE PLEASES CANADIANS (By the Associated Negro Press) Toronto, Can., Jan. 23.—The press of this city has been a unit in praise of the work of Roland Hayes, who appeared in recital at Massey Hall last week. Critics agree that he possesses one of the most perfect lyric tenor voices among living artists and that his art is as great as his voice. They have also expressed a fine appreciation of the work performed by Mr. Hayes' accompanist, William Lawrence. One critic writes: "In his own sphere as a vocalist, Mr. Hayes is as perfect as an artist can be. He has a lyric tenor voice of almost flawless beauty, the tone limpid and clear and filled with vitality. One cannot remember ever having heard another tenor whose soft notes combine color and transparency in such a remarkable manner. He sings without tricks and with a direct sincerity, interpreting perfectly the mood of each song." PUBLISHER HAS ANNIVERSARY (By the Associated Negro Press) New York, N. Y., Jan. 23.—The first issue of the New Year of the Indianapolis Freeman marked the beginning of the thirty-eighth year of the Race Journal that was first to accord recognition to the amusement world. The paper was established on New Year's day, 1887, by a man then well advanced in years, for George L. Knox was born in 1841. At the time his paper was started and for many years after he was the political dominator of his group in the state of Indiana and was a familiar figure wherever the famed Marion club was seen at national conventions. His snow white hair then as now distinguished him even when in the company of then physically large figures. It was in 1890 that he installed J. Harry Jackson on the staff to do show news. It was an innovation in race journalism. Jackson has long since gone to his reward, but his work goes on. Today more than twenty papers of the race have theatrical departments and all of the more than two hundred carry some amusement news; and the Negro performer is accorded his share of attention in the general press. The now 83 years of age Mr. Knox continues as president of the Freeman Publishing company, although his son, Elwood, is the active manager; and when they visit Indianapolis, all of the older group of showfolks give themselves the pleasure of a visit to the pioneer theatrical editor. ROOSEVELT POST OFFICERS ENTERTAIN LOCAL COLORED MINISTERS AND EDITORS The colored ministers and editors were entertained at a banquet Friday evening at the North End Branch of the Y. W. C. A. by the executive committee of the Roosevelt Post of the American Legion. The purpose of the meeting was to inform the leaders of the colored community of the work, objects and purposes of the Legion and to obtain their aid in putting over its program and in making a success of entertaining the delegates to the national Legion meeting here this year. Opening remarks were made by E. W. Killingsworth who introduced Dr. W. W. Peebles, past commander, who made an excellent toast master. Addresses on "Hospitalization", the "National Convention", "Employment" and "Insurance and Bonus" were made by R. C. Long, Dr. Andrew Slington, R. L. Williams and H. J. Pinkett. The officers of the post made it clear that their first aim and duty is to serve ex-service men who are in need of service, and then to co-operate with all organizations in the community which are helping human beings to help themselves. A delightful menu was served consisting of oyster coctail, celery, olives, roast turkey, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, potatoes, English peas, head lettuce, mayonnaise dressing, ice cream, cake and coffee, prepared by Jack Bell, vice-commander of the Post, and served by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Post. The ministers and editors pledged their aid to the Post in its effort to grow and serve their comrades and the community. Musical numbers were rendered by members of the Post, Dr. Jno. A. Singleton and Rufus C. Long. Announcement was made of the coming of Madame Lottie Murray in concert the latter part of February under the auspices of the Roosevelt Post. Mr. E. W. Killingsworth is commander of the Post and Mr. R. C. Long is Adjutant. GROWING :: :: :: :: THANK YOU Vol. X-No. 30 LAST OF ELAINE PRISONERS HAVE BEEN RELEASED National Advancement Association Sees Successful Outcome of Its Great Battle For Justice WINS VICTORY OVER PEONAGE Wonderful Fight to Save Lives of Men Whom the State Would Railroad Cost Over $15,000. New York, Jan. 23.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has announced receipt of a telegram from Scipio A. Jones, of Little Rock, stating that the last of the prisoners jailed in connection with the Arkansas riots of 1919, has been released. This marks the end of a six-year fight brought to a successful conclusion by the N. A. A. C. P., in the course of which twelve colored farmers of Arkansas were saved from the death penalty and sixty-seven prisoners, who has been sentenced to life and long term imprisonment have been freed. The famous "Arkansas Case" was undertaken by the N. A. A. C. P. in October, 1919, immediately upon receipt of news in New York that a riot was in progress. While the riot was still going on Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., arrived on the scene and gathered facts showing the condition of peonage prevailing in Arkansas, out of which the trouble sprang. The N. A. A. C. P., published Mr. White's findings to the country, meeting the propanganda put forth by Arkansas whites about a plot by Negroes to "massacre whites." Mr. White reported that Negroes were being hunted and 250 shot down like wild beasts, in the Arkansas cane brakes, because they had organized to employ a lawyer in an endeavor to obtain settlements and statements of account from their landlords under the share-cropping system. In farcical and summary trials, during which torture was employed to make colored men testify against each other, twelve colored farmers were sentenced to death and sixty-seven to life and long terms in jail. The N. A. A. C. P. at once undertook to liberate these men and thus strike a blow at the peonage system in Arkansas, Attorney Bratton, the white lawyer whom the peons had hoped to employ, a former U. S. attorney; together with Sciopo A. Jones, with the co-operation of Moorfield Storey, president of the N. A. A. C. P., carried the cases through the courts and before the governor of Arkansas to victory. The cases of six of the men sentenced to death passed through four state and federal courts, the men having been twice sentenced to death and dates for their execution set five times when the U. S. Supreme Court in January of 1923 reversed their conviction. The other six men under sentence of death were twice tried and sentenced and twice had their convictions reversed by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Dates for retrial of these men were set on four occasions but despite the readiness of the N. A. A. C. P. attorneys, the state of Arkansas each time announced itself unready and asked for adjournment. Under the Arkansas law, the failure of the state to act, automatically entitled the men to discharge. A motion to dismiss hem filed by the N. A. A. C. P. was granted. This long fought legal battle resulted not only in the saving of the lives of twelve innocent men and the release of 67 others from prison but in the opening up and placing before the people of the United States the whole nefarious practice of peonage in the South; in the exposing of the conspiracy which had been formed to justify the massacre of more than two hundred and fifty colored men and women, and which would have been used afterwards as an excuse for similar crimes; and in the winning in the Supreme Court of the United States a decision which stands as a protection for white men as well as for black men who may thereafter be tried under the conditions which surrounded the Negro poems of Arkansas. Gufport, Miss., Jan. 23.—One of the subjects taken up at a conference among state superintendents in southern states was that of the training of colored teachers, text books for and development of colored high schools. Colored supervisors were in attendance at the conference. THE MO A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED OF COLOREE PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY A MONITOR PUBLISH Entered as Second-Class Mall Matt Omaha, Nebraska, under THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLI W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR Advertising Rates Furn Address, The Monitor, Posto Telephone W ARTICLE XIV, CON UNITED THE MONTTOR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA. BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY 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 Uni and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizen United States and of the State wherein they re state shall make or enforce any law which shall a privileges or immunities of citizens of the United S shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty erty without due process of law, nor deny to a 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. IS GARVEY RIGHT? MARCUS GARVEY, if we understand his position, maintains that the black race can never come into its own in America and that its only salvation is to migrate to the land of its forefathers and build up a great and powerful empire in Africa. We believe that, stripped of details, fundamentally this is his contention. Is Garvey right? That race prejudice is increasing rather than decreasing as our race advances in thrift, intelligence, wealth, moral worth, character and self-respect, cannot be denied by the thoughtful student of social phenomena. In striking contrast, however, to this increasing prejudice is the ever-enlarging number of thoughtful and fair-minded white men and women—who realizing the injustice, as well as the danger of this attitude are doing all within their power to combat it. Then, too, it must be noted that in spite of opposition we, as a group, have made, and are making wonderful progress. This progress we hold answers Garvey's charge that the black race can never come into its own in America. It is coming slowly, we grant, but steadily into its own. That Africa offers golden opportunities for those who have the pioneer spirit and the spirit of the pioneers is doubtless true. That as knowledge of this grows among our people venturesome youth will seek their fortune there cannot be doubted, but that there will ever be the evacuation of America by vast multitudes of Negro folk, while possible, is scarcely probable.—When one views the growing prejudice against Negroes in America it is easy to account for Garvey's contention and those who believe as he does. When however, one notes other significant facts one cannot agree with him. The Negro who has contributed so much to the making of America will come into his own and win his place right here—just as surely there is a God in heaven. Africans will develop Africa and are developing it and Americans will develop America, and black men born here are Americans to the core. UNITE AND ACT THE MONITOR is always inclined to be conservative, although its editor has been called "a dangerous radical", much to his surprise and amusement. We have been stating that the Negro population of Omaha was about 14,000. We were told the other day by certain compilers of statistics that our number is around 17,000. Perhaps this is true. We are inclined to believe that this estimate is too high and that 15,000 would be nearer the mark. We have been trying to show what 14,000 people, alive to their economic, civic, religious and political power and privilege, could do in this community by united effort. If our number be larger as some contend then it adds force to our argument. Fourteen thousand people by THE NEGRO'S CONTRIBUTE A moment's thought will persons that the contribution nationality as slave, freedom negligible. No element of An yet clearly woven itself into and acting as the American N explorers and helped in explore the first the foundation of the cause of the rapid growth economic importance. Moder 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 choiceest 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 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 propheth, nor deny to any person real protection of the laws. giving only one-tenth of their patronage to our own business enterprises could soon be able to build them up into strong institutions. Think this over and act upon it. The exigencies of the time demand united action. This is as necessary in Nebraska as in Mississippi or Georgia. BOOK CHAT By Mary White Owington, Chairman, Board of Directors of the N. A. A. C. P. "An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes". By Newman Ivey White, Ph. D., and Walter Clinton Jackson. Published by The Trinity College Press, Durham, N. C. Price $2.00. By mail $2.10. This is the third anthology of Negro verse in two years, a significant indication of the interest today in the literary work of the American colored people. If James Weldon Johnson's anthology is the most literary and Robert T. Kerlin with its illustrations the most popular, it can be said of the Trinity College anthology that it is the most scholarly. We have here, not only introductory life sketches of each poet, such as Mr. Kerlin gives, but also biographical and critical notes. Indeed there is as much prose in this volume as poetry. The biographical and critical notes are especially valuable. Much of the material in them can be found in Arthur Schomburg's Biographical Checklist for American Negro Poetry to whom credit is given by these compilers. If we turn to this Trinity College connection, however, for the poetry alone, we shall be disappointed. The selections chosen do not compare in excellence to those of either Mr. Johnson or Mr. Kerlin and although the book has been printed sufficiently recent to include Countee P. Cullen, Gwendolyn Bennett and Langston Hughes, only Countee P. Cullen is quoted, and he with only one poem. The volume gives much space to early Negro work and shows a decided tendency to admire the sentimental. There are thirty-eight pages of Dunbar's poems—a poet easily accessible—while Anne Spencer is not mentioned. In attempting to rate Negro poets these compilers put the first four in order of merit as follows: Paul Lawrence Dunbar, William Stanley Braithwaite, James Weldon Johnson and J. Mord Allen. The poems of Allen, which are entertaining, do not seem to deserve so high a rating. The following conclusions are reached: One, that Negro poetry has shown a decided and unmistakable progress both in value and quality. Two, that the quality of the poetry has generally depended upon the cultural opportunities of the poet. Three, that Negro poets have not as yet as a class risen to the level of poetry attained by many white poets far more richly endowed by leisure and cultural background. And the compilers end by saying: "A race, un- UCTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE I easily convince open-minded an of the Negro to American man and citizen was far from American life has so subtly and warp and woof of our thinking Negro. He came with the first questionably endowed with humor and music, that has made a marked advance in poetry within the scant sixty years of its freedom, will unquestionably produce finer poetry when conditions have followed their present tendency for a generation or two. In the light of these facts the present period is, from the larger point of view, likely to nitness the real dawn of Negro poetry." HE THAT ENDURETH TO THE END One of the greatest failings of the Negro is his lack of continuity of purpose and action. He will start out in some undertaking with so much zeal and enthusiasm that one would be inclined to think that he could achieve his goal in less than given time. Watch his progress and you will observe that when he should be striving hardest his interest wanes, he gives up. Ask him his reason, and he will retort nonchalantly, "I couldn't be bothered any longer," or "Something went wrong." This indifferent attitude is exhibited in the actions of Negroes in all walks of life. They lack stick-to-it-iveness, and do not realize that it is the plodder that rights wrong, surmounts difficulties and eventually reaches his goal. Nothing in this world that is worth while is easily obtained. Whether it is a good position, a business, a profession or a life-companion, these prerequisites all require the elements to stamina, perseverance and endurance in one's character to acquire them. Use this thought as an incentive when faced by difficulties and they will disappear before your intrepid onslaught. The youth who has to work and struggle hard to acquire a profession usually appreciates it, and puts it to better use than one whose parents paid his expenses and furnished him with an office or the necessary appertenances to practice such profession. The struggles to attain one's ambition bring out either the best or worst in us. If we fail to overcome our difficulties, we exhibit a weakness of character that could not stand the test of endurance because the elements of self-confidence and courage were undermined by fear and doubt. If we overcome our difficulties we conquer our own weaknesses and thereby gain two victories at once—the attainment of our ambition and the conquest of our weaker self.-The Negro World (N. Y.) ODE TO THE CRAVEN FAIN By William Poag. Who casts a slur on Negro worth, a stain on Negro fame, Who dreads to own his Negro blood, or live, or die the same, Who scorns the warmth of Negro hearts, the clasp of Negro hands? Let us but raise the veil tonight and shame him as he stands. The Negro fame: It rests enshrined It holds its storied past on high- un rivaled and alone. The Negro blood! Its crimson tide has watered hill and plain No dastard thought, no coward fear, has held it tamely by, When there were noble deeds to do and noble deaths to die! The Negro heart! The Negro heart! God keep it fair and free, The fullness of its kindly thought, its wealth of honest glee, Its generous strength, its ardent faith, its uncomplaining trust, Though every worshipped idol breaks and crumbles into dust. And Negro hands! Aye, lift them up! Enbrowned by honest toil, The champions of the world today, the guardians of the soil; When flashed their battle swords aloft, a waiting world might see What Negro hand could do and dare to keep a people free. $ ^{8} $ They bore our starry flag aloft through enemy gate and wall. They stood before the foremost rank, the bravest of them all. And when before the mouth they held the foe at bay. they held the Ne-de-day, O, never could the Negro's heart beat prouder than that day. So, when a craven fain would hide the birthmark of his race, Or slightly speak of Afric sons before his children's face, Breathe the no weak word of scorn or shame, but crush him where he stands, With Negro worth and Negro fame as won by Negro hands. Among the twenty-three women arre- sted in 1924 for murder, two of them were colored. Both were convic- ted of first degree murder. * * * When French, Russ and Democrat And a Serb all bunch together, The man who is a diplomat Will talk about the weather. * * * There are more Sunday school mot- toes hanging up on the walls than are lived up to. --- THE MONITOR A San Diego man has been fined for snoring in church. Serves him right. One snoring man in church is a nuisance to any of the rest of us who want to sleep. The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.—Franklin. Soft words are frequently more effective than hard facts. The watchful sentinel is happier than the sleeping soldier. A man is, in his veriest reality, what he loves.—George Tyrrell. He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.—Sallust. Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.—Hazlitt. "If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as getting."—Franklin. If some people only spoke their minds they wouldn't have so much to say. It is not until you know some people well that you regret you do know them well. Worry eats through energy, purpose, vtality, and produces—nothing.—The Progressive Grocer. As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. Men of Great Genius Not Firstborn Children It has often been said that first-born children are the cleverest in the family, but the careful investigation of the Society of Bavarian School Teachers upsets this theory. An inquiry into 74 cases of prominent personalities of the artistic and literary world showed that among them were only ten first-born children. The vast majority were late-born offspring. Fentmore Cooper was the eleventh of twelve children; Honore Balzac, the youngest son of his parents; Napoleon Bonaparte, the eighth child; Benjamin Franklin, the youngest of seventeen; Rembrandt, the fifth of six children; Richard Wagner and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were the last of seven; Robert Schuman, the fifth, and Franz Schubert, the thirteenth of fourteen children. The investigations thus show that a rather advanced age of the parents seems to be more favorable to the production of great personalities. Returned to Native Sod With shells screaming overhead and the rattle of machine guns in the air, an officer of the Irish guards in the front line trenches near Glivency in 1915, noticed some pinks growing in the garden of a shell-battered cottage between the lines. That night he succeeded in digging up some of the plants with an entrenching tool. Eventually they reached a garden in Surrey, where they have bloomed and increased. Now plants grown from these war refugees have been taken back to Glivency by an officer of the Imperial War Graves commission, and their white flowers are to be seen in the Guards' cemetery, and by the Memorial of the West Lancashire territorials—London Times. Heart Specialists Organize The American Heart association is a recently formed organization of cardiac specialists whose announced purpose is "to study and disseminate knowledge concerning functional derangements and maladies of the heart, to promote scientific treatment of such sufferers, to relieve the sufferings of patients unable to work because of the disease, and to select avenues and means of employment suitable to other patients." Record Snapshot A snapshot taken from the highest altitude at which any such photograph has ever been made is now on exhibition at the War department in Washington. The picture is of Dayton, Ohio, and it was taken from 32,220 feet above sea level, which is a little more than six miles. The temperature was 62.5 degrees below zero F., and special electric warming devices had to be used for the camera. Wooden Sewing Machine A sewing machine made entirely of wood, except a few screws and the needle, is owned by P. A. Coney of Deering Center, Maine. Although the wooden bobbins, wooden wheel, wooden head and wooden machinery are more than half a century old, all are in good working condition. The machine was made 63 years ago by Mr. Coney's grandfather, Philip A. Faust of Danyville, Pa. Woman's Distinctions Dr. Amelia Reinhardt, who is at the head of Mills college in California, is said to possess more college and university degrees than any other woman in America. In addition, she has the distinction of being the only woman to hold the presidency of a college in any part of the far West. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DEFENDENT To Ellis Lacy, non-resident defendant: You are hereby notified that on the 14th days of October, 1924, Bernice Lacy, as plaintiff, filed a petition in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebr., against you as defendant, the object and prayer of which are to obtain a divorce from you on the grounds of cruelty and non-support, and custody of your minor child, Ellis. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 23rd day of February, 1925. BERNICE LACY, Plaintiff. By W. B. Bryant, her attorney. 4-11-16-25 with such RICHNESS it is easy to make excellent Coffee Butter-Nut "The Coffee Delicious" 3 Lb. Can $1.75 1 Lb. Can 60¢ JACK RENAULT adian heavy- champion, who ob Roper, the champion, in the event of the Legion fight the Auditorium day night. Re- isted third in ward's list of ten heavies in today. The Canadian heavyweight champion, who meets Bob Roper, the A. E. F. champion, in the main event of the American Legion fight card at the Auditorium next Friday night. Renault is listed third in Tex Rickard's list of the best ten heavies in the game today. C. Solomon Coal & Ice Company 2529 Lake St. Web. 3901 and 4238 All Work Guaranteed We Call for and Deliver 2120 North 24th St. Web. 1020 H. J. Pinkett ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Suite 19, Patterson Block 17th and Farnam Sts. Office Phone At. 9344 Res. Web. 3180 W. B. Bryant ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Suite 19, Patterson Block 17th and Farnam Sts. Office Phone At. 9344 Res. Web. 2502 W. G. Morgan ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Suite 19, Patterson Block 17th and Farnam Sts. Office Phone At. 9344 Res. Ja. 0210 H. A. CHILES & CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS Chapel Phone, Web. 7133 Res. Phone, Web. 6849 1839 No. Twenty-fourth St. 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 Butter-Nut flavor results from the artful blending of many choice coffees. In this way we secure a flavor entirely individual. The accomplishment of good coffee-making, the final touch that makes a good meal perfect, will be solved with your first order of Butter-Nut. Local and Personal Happenings WE PRINT THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS q Webster 4243 ele ea ADDRESS BOX 1204 - . - EPISCOPAL Church of St. Philip the Deacon 21st near Paul . Rey. John Albert Williams, Rector SUNDAY SERVICES 7:30 a. m. Holy Communion 10 a. m. Sunday School 11 a. m. Sung Eucharist With Sermon 8 p. m. Service and Sermon The Church With a Welcome and a Message, Come Mrs. Sarah Pickens who has been very ill at her home, 1918 North ‘Twenty-fifth street, is able to be out again. E. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters ‘Trust building, Jackson $841 or Har- ney 2166, Miss Carrie Brown who makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Miller, 5232 South Twenty-third street, has been called to Austin, Ta,, by the illness of her mother. Mrs, Clarence H. Singleton of 2628 Maple street, who has been ill for the past fortnight, is much better. BIG MONEY selling Everstrate to Colored people. Enormous demand. Sure repeater. Eston, 2500 Second Avenue, Dept. 150, Birmingham, Ala. Mrs, Jerry Richardson whose leg was broken September 15th has im- proved so that she was able to walk out for the first time this week. Mrs. Susan Speese, 2304 North ‘Twenty-seventh avenue, died January 18th at the advanced age of 84 years. She is survived by several children and grandchildren and other relatives. ‘The funeral was held from Bethel chureh. | It is dangerous to change horses in the middle of a stream. More dan- gerous to change your mind in ti middle of the street—Omaha Safety Couneil. Mrs. Homer R, Bell entertained a few friends at dinner last Sunday at her home, 2217 North ‘Twenty-fifth street, in honor of her birthday an- niversary. Covers were laid for eight. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harris, Mr. William Eavens and Mr. and Mrs. J, W. Shields, Mrs, Bell’s former home was St. Joseph, Mo. ©. L. Curry, Sr., cobbler. Shop in roar of 1520 North Twenty-sixth street. Work called for and delivered, WEbster 3792. | A fine eight-pound boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Costen, 2717 North Twenty-eighth avenue, Wednes- day ight. “Billie” Costen, as a host of admiring friends call him, is a veteran railroad man and is receiving congratulations from the boys. Moth- er and son are doing fine. ‘The Wednesday Bridge Luncheon club met at the residence of Mrs. Earl Wheeler, 011 North Twenty-eighth avenue, last Wednesday. | ‘A twenty-three per cent increase in the insurance business of Omaha during 1924 ig indicated by figures re- ceived to date by the bureau ef pub- licity of the Omaha Chamber of Com- merce, . Miss Bessie Singleton who has been very ill at the residence of her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F, Singleton, 2865 Corby street, is slightly im- proved, Cyrus D. Bell, one of Omaha's pio- neer citizens, is reported to be very ill at his home, Thirty-first and Maple streets. Accidents are some one’s fault; don't let them be yours.—Omaha Safety Council, Miss Martha Perry is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs, N. P. Patton, 1014 South Eleventh street. Mrs. Johnson, mother of Sgt. Philip Letcher, who has been at the Univer- sity hospital, has returned to the home of her son, 2415 North Twenty- eighth street, where she is confined to her bed, ‘The angels sang “Peace on Earth” —not pieces—Omaha Safety Council, Are you doing all you can every day to prevent accident ?—Omaha Safety Couneil. Among the guests at the Patton hotel are J. E. Davenport of Boston, Mass.; S. A. Watkins of Portland, Ore.; William Harding and P. L. Crawford of Kansas City, Mo.; J. S. Hogan of Oakland, Cal.; R. Croston of Oklahoma City, Okla, and St. Steward of Chicago, Subseribe for The Monitor. MRS. 8S. L, BUSH ANSWERS: THE FINAL SUMMONS Ametta, beloved wife of Samuel L. Bush of North Forth-fitth street, suc- cumbed to a painful and lingering illness, patiently and cheerfully borne, early last Thursday morning, at the age of 46 years. She is survived by husband, two daughters, Dorene and ‘Marie, and several other relatives, ‘The funeral was held Saturday atter- noon, under the auspices of Hiawatha Chapter 0, E. 8., at Bethel church, of which she was a member, the Rev. Fred Divers officiating, assisted by the Rev. 0. J. Burckhardt and the Rey. FE. W. Ewing. VISITING RELATIVES HERE Roy Smith, formerly of South Oma- ha, but for several yesrs a govern- ment employee at Portland, Ore., is in the city, visiting his mother, Mrs, James Smith of the South Side, and his brother, William B., of 2409 Blon- do street. Mr. Smith is returning from New York where he took persons who were ordered deported. He ex- pects to leave for home Sunday, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST, PHILIP THE DEACON | The services at the Church of St. Philip the Deacon Sunday will be as follows: Holy communion 7:20 a. m.; Church sehool 10; morning prayer and sermon 11; evening prayer and ser- mon 8 o'clock. F CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends for their assistance and beautiful floral offerings during the illness ana death of Grandmother Speese. Mr, and Mrs. Joe Speese, Charles Speese, Mrs. Mary Speese and Mrs. Elam Speese. APPILIATES WITH THE COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB Te Young Men's Club, which was organized some time ago and has been meeting at the Colored Commercial Club, has now affiliated with that or- ganization under the name of the Innior Colored Commercial Club of Omaha. The club will hold its reg- ular meeting Saturday night. CARD OF THANKS ‘We wish to thank the many friend: for their kindness and sympathy dur ing the illness and death of our dea! one, Mrs. Armela Bush. 8. L. Bush and daughters, Mr. Alex Gardner, Mrs. Anna Hammond, Mrs. Dora Perry, ‘Mr. C, Gardner. WOMAN PLEADS QUILTY AND IS GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE ‘The Deed and Subsequent Attitude of Mamie Madison Raises Question of Her Sanity. Mrs, Mamie Madison, 2404 Caldwell street, who shot and instantly killed Elijah Washington of Kansas City, Mo., Pullman porter, at the Burlington depot Saturday morning, January 10, pleaded guilty to the charge of mur- der in the first degree, in the District Court Monday and was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Fitzger- ald. The woman seemed to exult in her crime and refused legal aid. She expressed satisfaction at her deed and desired that the lat take its course. Her deed and attitude thereafter would seem to raise the question of an unsound mind. ATTEND DIOCESAN CONVENTION AT LINCOLN The Rev. John Albert Williams, Sergt, Isaac Bailey and John Dillard Crawford attended the annual dioce- san council of the Episcopal chureh which was held in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Lincoln, Tuesday, Wed- nesday and Thursday of this week. Mrs. John Albert Williams was a dele- gate to the annual meeting of the Woman’s auxiliary which was in ses- sion Wednesday. Messrs. Bailey and Crawford were the lay delegates from St. Philip's Chureh, AGED MOTHER OF REY. Z, 0. MeGEE DIES IN ALABAMA Mrs. Hannah McGee, mother of the Rev. Z. C. McGee, pastor of Pleasant Green Baptist church, died at the home of her elder son, J. W. Wade, in Huntsville, Ala, Friday, January 16, at the advanced age of 90 years. The funeral was held Sunday from the Baptist church in Huntsville, of which she had been a devoted member for many years. The deceased is sur- vived by her son J. W. Wade of Hunts- ville, and the Rev. Z. C. McGee of Omaha, and several grandchildren, LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT Mrs, Gertrude Haynes, aged 41, wife of Mr. Charles B. Haynes, died at their home last Friday after a lin- gering illness of lung trouble, Mrs. Haynes leaves as survivors, a hus- band, Chas. Haynes, and a cousin, who is said to be in the east. She was a member of the Daughters of Isis, and Amaranth Chapter 0. E. Star, which had charge of the obsequies. Her reli- gious affiliations were at Quinn Chapel A. M. Church, where the serv- ices were held Monday at 2 p. m. Rev. M. C. Knight officiated. ‘The scene of the services was a sad one, A large crowd of friends paid last respects to the deceased. Pallbearers were: Messrs. R. H, Young, Wm, Woods, A. L. Williams, 'T. 'T. MeWil- liams, W. A. Johnson, John J. Bur- den. Much sympathy is extended the husband in his hour of bereavement. Mr. Guy Wiley spent Sunday in Omaha as guest of his affiance. Mr. and Mrs. John Irving entertain- ed at a very elaborate four-course dinner Monday evening in honor of the Troubadours at the home of Mr. and Mrs, M. L. Copeland, 2400 Hol- drege street. This organization is composed entirely of men, and under the management of Mrs. J. Zetta Ma- lone. They are rehearsing for a unique program to be given in the near future, Mrs. Ella Black has returned home Grand Opening of the Economy Shoe Store ies NoeT 24th STREET 3 Blocks North of Cuming St. Saturday, January 24 Shoes for the entire family at Greatly Reduced Prices A PAIR OF HOSE FREE F R E E! WITH EACH PAIR OF SHOES @ SOLD DURING OPENING SALE mere MEN'S: LA DIES? CHILDREN’S: moms | snore: |) guibrmes | St0Es $1.95 $2.95 $2.95 $1.00 Matta ahahaha aaah aaa aa ae” Trade at GATE CITY FURNITURE COMPANY Complete Home Furnishers Cash or Terms 520-22 North 16th Street ATiantic 0230 | LET Us Pay You 6% ON SAVINGS.| ——We Treat You Right—— STATE SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION N. W. Corner 19th and Douglas Streets Bankers Reserve Bidg. THE MONITOR eee SCRE U TAA A EB IR from Iowa where she went on account J of her mother’s illness. | Mrs. P. A. Abner entertained the Mission at her home last Tuesday night. ee meeting is said to have been a profitable one. Hear Hon. Geo. L. Vaughan, attor- ney of St, Louis, Mo., at Mt. Zion Baptist church Thursday night, Janu- ary 29th, under the auspices of the N. A. A.C. PL Mr. Adam Loving is yet confined at his home with rheumatism. Mr. J. Spicer is yet on the sick list. DEPENDABILITY FIRST * REQUISITE TO SUCCESS After all, dependability is ‘the first ‘requisite to suecess. You may think that it is easy, but it is the hardest lesson the Negro people have to learn and ignorance ef which is at the bot- tom of most of their civil and eco- nomic troubles, The person who ren- ders good and faithful service seldom wants a job. A proper value is al- ways placed upon him because he is dependable. If he be efficient as well as dependable, and thrifty as well as industrious, it is always easy for him to have employment and a dollar to the good in any time of need. Every worker should place a proper valua- tion on the job he has, because it is his job, and because there is always some ene standing by ready to take it if he shows that he does not place the proper value upon it—T. Thomas Fortune in The Negro World. ‘TID-BITS: By Leonard Massenburge for the Associated Negro Press. The first colored woman to receive the degree of A. M. was Miss Mary Patterson. She graduated from Ober- lin college in 1862. | History records the fact that dur- ing the Civil War the Negro soldier participated in more than four hun- <ired engagements, Queen Lydia Lamekeha Liliuoka- lani was the last independent ruler of the Hawaian Islands, suceeding her brother, King Kalakaua in 1891, ‘There is a creature living today whose “family history”, it is said, ean ‘be traced back for 8,000,000 years. ‘This is the sphenedon, supposed to be the oldest living forms and probably the ancestor of the crocodile, snake, turtle and lizard. A diminution and then a final stop- page of the flow of sap to the leaves of trees and shrubs is the cause of them first changing color and falling, ‘according to a scientific theory. This is contrary to the popular belief that frost is the cause. Rev. Lott Carey was born in Vir- ginia in 1780, and died November 10, 1823, in Liberia. He was the first colored American missionary to Af- rica, In the warm waters of the Mediter- ranean sea there is said to have been found a fish that spins silk, or thread similar to it. In the East, that is to say, in Tur- key, Anatolia, Persia, Afganistan, Baluchistan, Turkestan, and those other countries and districts the mak- ing of carpets plays an important part in all social, political and reli- gious ceremonies. | On top of a mountain in Chile scientists are using the wind to fur- nish light for an observatory in which studies of the sun and weather are made, ‘The first ballot ever cast by a wo- man in the state of Mississippi was that of Mrs, Lucy Tapley, a colored woman. ‘There were between four and five hundred Negro soldiers who were en- gaged in the battle of New Orleans. BE A GOOD FELLOW An automobile driver can make friends by driving carefully. He can make a friend of traffic policemen on the corner, the one he passes every morning on his way to work or on his way home in the evening. He can make a pedestrian in the street say, “He's a good fellow, thoughtful of others”; he can make the driver of another car say, “There’s a decent driver, I wish there were more like him”. Are you making friends? Can you smile at your traffic cop and re- ceive a smile in return? Do you get a “thank you” from a passing automobilist for giving him the road? Does the elderly lady wave her hand- kerchief at you for stopping to let her cross the street? OMAHA SAFETY COUNCIL Pee etetentetorteternteeeontetetoteteeotnd Lustgarten Drug Co. 2701 Q Street Ma. 3435 PROMPT, COURTEOUS SERVICE FREE DELIVERY : We treat ’em all alike -D.H. 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The Beauty Book mi, Srey Se a , .THE ARROWAY ep a ae Dept. 2 WELL-INTENTIONED, BUT EMBARRASSING Servant's Gift Traveler Was Unable to Accept. Ferdinand Ossendowski, whose books on Asia have caused such an unusual stir, relates in "Man and Mystery in Asia" that on one occasion when he was leaving the wilds of that continent for Europe he was presented by his faithful servant with a camel, observes the Argonaut. The gift was declined as impracticable, but the man vowed his determination to give something, since his master had saved his life by amputating a thumb after it had been bitten by a poisonous spider. So he rode off, to return later with a companion who immediately attached himself to the traveler with great devotion, waiting on him hand and foot. Complimenting the youth on his deftness, the traveler was startled to discover that his new attendant was no boy, but the sister of his former servant, and that she had been presented to him as a gift "wife." "I give her to you as I would a camel or a dog," explained her brother. "From today she is your slave, your chattel, to do your will." As the traveler knew that to refuse the girl would be to condemn her to death, for no one would marry "the rejected," he solved the predicament by flight. Defective Vision Said The increase of blindness and lesser eye troubles has become so alarming in the last decade that experts who have been collecting data on the subject do not hesitate to declare that the nation is confronted with a menace of great magnitude. It is estimated by the eyesight conservation council that defective vision afflicts 25,000,000 of the 41,000,000 persons in gainful occupations. During the war eye troubles ranked third as a cause rendering young men unfit for military service; about 11 per cent of the young men had defective vision, and it is estimated that this ratio of serious eye defects prevails among the children in both city and rural schools. In its investigation of waste in American industry the committee of the Federated American Engineering Societies discovered that in some factories nearly as many as half the men had serious eye troubles. — World's Work. Weather Affects Tumors That the growth of malignant tumors is related to the general weather conditions and to sunlight in particular has been shown by investigators in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Drs. W. H. Brown, L. Pearce and C. M. Van Allen have had a number of rabbits suffering from malignant tumors, under observation. A comparison of meteorological records and the growth of tumors in diseased rabbits revealed a striking coincidence between the decrease of tumor growth and the periods of maximum and minimum sunlight, that is, in summer and winter seasons; while the greater malignancy occurred at the times of sudden and rapid changes in the hours of sunshine a day. The latter periods correspond roughly with spring and fall of this year. Flattery Does It Albert Keller, general manager of the Ritz-Carlton hotel group, said in an address to New York waiters: "A good waiter makes his obstacles his stepping stones. "Walter!" thundered a man with a head as buld as a billiard ball. "Yes, sir?" "Walter; there's a hair in this soup!" "Why, so there is, sir. I’m very, very sorry. But don’t you think it must have fluttered off your head, sir?" Divorce Psychology Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts said at a Washington dinner party: "Divorce has increased 100 per cent among us since 1913. This is terrible. "Divorce thoughts distort and discolor even our etymology. A young and pretty girl applied to me for a position the other day. "You are unmarried?" I said to her. "Oh, no," said she, with a blush. T haven't been married yet." Infant Mortality Heavy In some districts of the Belgian Congo there are more deaths than births and in some places in this territory one half of the children die before they reach the age of two. Reports indicating conditions such as these have led the national children's bureau of Belgium to appropriate, for the first time, 50,000 francs for a campaign against infant mortality in the Congo. He Wished to Know "Mercy sakes alive!" ejaculated Mrs. Johnson in the midst of her reading. "A doctor says here in the paper that you can't keep healthy by bathing alone!" "H'm!" responded Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. "How many people does he say it to bathe together, and when and whit?"—Kansas City Star. Big Difference in Price Helium has been greatly reduced in price since it was first produced. Its original cost was $1,700 a cubic foot. Now it can be extracted, 92 per cent pure, for 7 cents a cubic foot. Hitherto unknown white race, suggested by some to be of Welsh origin, is reported by explorers just back from the Darlen district of Central America, thus adding to the number of mystery races discovered in recent years, says London Tit-Bits. The Japanese census of a few months ago revealed the unsuspected existence in that country of a tribe whose members wear no clothing, hunt with the bow and arrow, and speak no known dialect. Inhabiting a remote valley in North Japan, these strong people are almost savages; while what is more interesting to the ethnologist, or student of races, is that they are white-skinned. Not long ago a nearly white tribe was located in the heart of Brazil, where tradition states that white Indians have long lived. No direct evidence is available, but more than one explorer, among them Colonel Fawcett, perhaps the greatest living authority on Brazil, believes that they are still to be found in considerable numbers. These Indians are said to have blue eyes. Compared with their neighbors, the people of Ankolo, in South Uganda, are quite pale in complexion. They are of fine physique and apparently have no affinity with the negroes of the country. WAYSIDE MUSINGS Riches have wings and travel faster than a flying ace. The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. A lawyer doesn't know everything, but he thinks he does. The problem of life cannot be solved by touching the button. The most trouble a woman has with her husband is getting him. One day is as good as two for him One day is as good as two for him who does everything in place. Your character cannot be essentially injured but by your own acts. It always makes a man feel out of place when he loses his situation. Customarily, "tributes" to anybody are not as relishably read as wallops. To affect always to be the best of the company argues a base disposition. Usually the homelier a man is the more he thinks lovemaking is his forte. The line to walk is that which lies between self-depreciation and self-assertion. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.-Mrs. L. M. Child. No civilization that didn't wear trousers ever lasted. "Tis why Sparta disappeared and Rome fell. Pottery That Bounces One of the many interesting features of the famous Wembley exposition is the British Guiana pavilion. The attendants show among other things some perfectly designed jars and vases which suggest the finest examples of pottery from Egypt or the earliest days of Greece. But the attendant will surprise you by taking up one of the jars and throwing it on the floor. It will bounce into the air, and you can catch it unharmed. These jars, which look for all the world as if they were delicate, as most jars seem to be, are an example of the art of British Guiana, where the natives make dishes and pots out of the sap of a tree. The raw sap is white, with the addition of pure dyes, extracted from tree bark, this bounding pottery is colored and made very beautiful. Unconventional He took his ticket leisurely at the booking office of a suburban railway station, but, on hearing the train approaching, made more haste than speed to the platform. He was going well until, nearly at the top of the steps leading to the platform, something or other caused his foot to slip. His silk hat had wobbled onto his brow, his bag and umbrella betook themselves one to the right and one to the left, but he manfully regained these possessions in a grasp-all sort of fashion while on his knees. Then he looked up at the official at the gate and inquired: "Is this the way to go to the train?" "Yes, sir," was the unsympathetic reply, "you can come that way if you wish, but it looks bad." Matrimonial Whoop Dr. Carver—How old are you, uncle; stxty years? Uncle Amos—I is ove ninety years old. Why, Lawsys me, doc. I was sixty when I got de wife i不l eit got now; an' I was married to i'times befo' dr. Dr. Carver—Well, uncle, what became of all your wives? Uncle Amos—Well, de fust one, she died. 'An den de secon' one 'vored me. An de nex' one warnn't no 'count now, so I 'vored her. An 'd eoth wife, well, I nevah did know wot come of dat woman. Odd Baseball Happening In a baseball game at Climac. Pa., the batter chopped a ball directly in front of the plate and headed for first base. The catcher, scrambling for the ball, threw quickly, only to have the ball disappear from sight. Not until the runner reached first and tossed the ball to the pitcher was it discovered that the backstop's throw had landed the ball in the batter's hip pocket. The Advantage The golf liar has one advantage over the fishing liar. He doesn't have to show anything to prove it.—Life. The Rivals Sheldon Whitehouse of the Paris embassy condemned, at a dinner on the Paris, the more immodest fashion in dress. "I was talking to an old lady the other day," he said, "about two very beautiful young women whose taste is unfortunately a little immodest. 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