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DUI E DONATED MILLIONS TO EDUCATION Dr. Sweet Case Goes to Trial at Detroit Friday and Darrow Defends LIFTING :: :: :: :: LIFT TOO $2.00 a Year—Copy DUIE State Historical Society Dr. Sweet EMINENT LAWYERS WILL WAGE BATTLE IN SUPREME COURT Crucial Residential Segregation Case To Be Argued by Moorfield Storey and Louis Marshall in November ARMAGEDDON OF CIVIL RIGHTS Upon the Issue of This Case Depends the Future Status of the Race Touching Property Rights. New York.—Two of the most eminent lawyers in the United States will present the argument against segregation in the case which will be heard before the U. S. Supreme Court the middle of this November. The two lawyers are Moorfield Storey, of Boston, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Louis Marshall, of New York, eminent constitutional authority and a member of the N. A. A. C. P. board of directors. It has been arranged between Messrs. Marshall and Storey, that Mr. Marshall will open the argument and present the case at length and that Mr. Storey will reply to the arguments of the opponents and close the case for the N. A. A. C. P. The case to be argued concerns the right of white property owners to make agreements not to sell to Negroes and to enforce such agreements at law. It is the contention of the N. A. A. C. P. attorneys that since the Supreme Court in the Louisville case of 1917 declared segregation by law or ordinance to be unconstitutional, it is equally illegal for the courts to enforce private segregation agreements. The case arose out of a sale of property in Washington, situated at 1727 S street, N. W., to Mrs. Helen Curtis, a colored woman. The property had previously been included in an agreement not to sell to Negroes. White property owners who were a party to the agreement, went to court and enjoined the owner from selling the property and Mrs. Curtis from taking possession of it. On appeal of the case from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to the Court of Appeals, the higher court upheld the injunction. The case was then appealed to the United States Supreme Court where it is now to be heard. A formidable array of counsel retained by the N. A. A. C. P. will assist Messrs. Storey and Marshall. Arthur B. Spingarn, vice-president of the N. A. A. C. P., and Herbert K. Stockton, prominent attorney, who is a member of the board of directors of the N. A. A. C. P., both of New York, are associated in the case, as are James A. Cobb, member of the N. A. A. C. P. board of directors, chairman of the legal committee of the Washington branch of the N. A. A. C. P. and leading attorney for the appellants; Henry E. Davis, former U. S. attorney for the District of Columbia; James P. Schick of counsel for Mrs. Curtis; and William H. Lewis, former assistant attorney general of the United States. This case is regarded as one of the most important battles in behalf of the Negro's civil rights that has ever been fought in the United States. Defeat will mean the creation of segregated districts for Negroes throughout the country and the relegation of colored people to the position occupied by Jews in Russia in the days of the "pale" or ghetto. Victory will mean a new affirmation that the colored citizens of this country are entitled to equal accommodation and treatment before the law with all other citizens of the land. It has been pointed out in connection with this case that not only are Negroes involved but all minority groups of the country as well. If Negroes can be segregated the way is opened for the segregation of Catholics, Jews, Irish, Italians or any other religious or racial minority. BUYS LOT FOR $1,800; SELLS IT FOR $732,800 Beverly Hills, Calif.—John C. Neal, who six years ago purchased a lot on the installment plan in Beverly Hills for $1,800 has just leased it for 99 years for $732,800, $20,000 cash and a monthly rental of $600. Neal is chauffeur for King C. Gillette, safety razor magnate. THE MONITOR "I'm going out. Your lunch is in the ice box." "I know I'm absent-minded, but she spoke of a box." "It doesn't seem to be here." "What box did you say, Jarrie?" NEGROES SERVE WITH WHITES ON JURY Lexington, Miss.—Practically for the first time in the history of the state of Mississippi and the South as well, have Negroes been placed on the juries to serve with white men in the dispensation of justice. This week in making up the grand and petit juries several Negroes were selected and accepted. In Issaquena county there are only one hundred and twenty white men subject to jury service. DIES AT 101; BURIED AT ARLINGTON Washington, D. C.—Keeping company with the late William Jennings Bryan and the nation's heroes, Thomas Bell, a former slave, who died here Sunday at the age of 101, was buried in Arlington cemetery. He enlisted in the Union army in 1863 and served three years. For the past 30 years he lived in this city. The records at the pension office accounted for 88 years of his life. ELECTED EDITOR LAW REVIEW Boston, Mass.—Mrs. Clara B. Bruce, wife of Roscoe Conklin Bruce, has been elected chairman of the board of undergraduate editors of the Boston University of Law Review. The board consists of the ranking students in the senior and junior classes, eighteen in number. Mrs. Bruce is not only the first member of her race to hold this rank, but the first woman of any race to be elected chairman of the board of editors. FINE SOCIAL FUNCTION AT DREAMLAND HALI The outstanding social event of the season was the masquerade hall given Wednesday day night at Dreamland Hall by Mesdames J. Bailey, William G. Haynes, J. H. Hutten, Joseph LaCour, W. W. Pelebs, Alphonso Wilson and Miss Lena Paul, complimentary to Omaha visitors including Mesdames Taylor of Davenport, Ia.; Thomas of Baltimore, Md.; Slater of Atlanta, Ga.; Smallwood of Washington, D. C.; Mitchell of Los Angeles and Miss Lois Town of Los Angeles, Cal. The hall was beautifully decorated. More than 200 guests with a variety of masks, including the beautiful and gobblegose, danced to the strains of Turner's sevenpiece orchestra. Many guests were present as spectators and enjoyed the fun as much as the dancers. Refreshments were served and favors distributed. Mrs. Leroy C. Brownfield was awarded the prize in the balloon dance. KLAN BURNS CROSS BEFORE FRAT HOUSE Nashville, Tenn.—Two dozen klansmen, the center of attention for several hundred whites and Negroes who remained at a distance, stood at attention Friday night while a cross was burned in front of a building in the heart of Nashville's elite residential section, which has been purchased by a fraternity of Meharry Medical College. When the whites learned that the colored owners were about to move in, the klan placed a jar half filled with gun powder on the steps with the warning that if any Negro should move into the building, he would do so in the face of "death, hell and destruction". The note was written by "white people who stay in their places". W. D. Hawkins, treasurer of the fraternity announced afterward that the members of the organization would move in. The colored Protestant Episcopal churches of Washington recently purchased property, containing fifteen rooms, which will serve as a home for widows as aged and indigent members of the church. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1925 DARROW STARTS SWEET DEFENSE DARROW STARTS SWEET DEFENSE NEW YORK IS THE LARGEST NEGRO CITY Washington, D. C.—Estimated colored populations of some of the leading cities of the United States, as of July 1, 1925, have been made by the U. S. Census Bureau. The figures for eleven of the principal ones follow: New York, 196,199; Philadelphia, 163, 904; Chicago, 150,083; Washington, 119,645; Baltimore, 117,360; Cleveland, 49,856; Pittsburg, 45,166; Indianapolis, 42,117; Louisville, 40,478; Cincinnati, 35,152; and Kansas City, 34,966. TO DEVELOP AFRICAN GOVERNMENT BY TRIBES Nairobi, So. Africa.—It has been announced from this town that native councils and a native trust fund will be inaugurated to assist the native Negro tribes to develop the beginning of a responsible government in the Kenya Colony. New York.—Clarence Darrow, who has been retained by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to defend Dr. O. H. Sweet and ten other colored people in Detroit for repulsing a mob from Dr. Sweet's home, has obtained a stay of proceedings until October 30 to give him time to prepare the case. On October 30 it is expected to go to trial in Judge Frank J. Murphy's court. Judge Murphy recently released Mrs. Sweet in $10,000 bail. Association of Mr. Darrow with the Sweet defense has aroused enormous interest in the case, the Chicago Daily News sending a special correspondent, Gregory T. Dillon, to cover the case. The cost of the Sweet case, it is conservatively estimated, will exceed $15,000, and possibly run up to $20,000. On his visit to Detroit on October 16, when he was accompanied by Walter White, assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., Mr. Darrow held conferences with the local colored attorneys and others interested in the COUNTEE CULLEN WINS ANOTHER PRIZE AS HIS BOOK "COLOR" APPEARS On the day preceding publication of "Color", his first book of poems, Countee Cullen won another prize to add to the many that already stand to his credit. At Harvard, where Cullen is now studying, he was awarded the John Reed Memorial Prize, the announcement preceding by one day the first appearance of "Color" which was published by Harper and Brothers, October 20, 1925. PROMINENT LODGE WOMAN BECOMES MINISTER'S WIFE Pleasant Green Baptist church was filled to overflowing Monday night to witness the marriage of Mrs. Jennie Sellers, a popular member of the congregation and prominent in lodge affairs, to the Rev. John Walker, a Baptist minister of Topeka. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Z. E. McGee, pastor of Pleasant Green. Scores of friends showed felicitation and good wishes upon the happy pair. COMPLIMENTS GUESTS BY DANCING PARTY Mrs. T. P. Mahammitt entertained at a largely attended dancing party Monday night at Hanscom Park pavilion, complimentary to her house guest, Mrs. William E. Mitchell and her daughter, Miss Lois Town of Los Angeles, Cal. Eight couples danced to their hearts' delight to the enticing strains of Dan Desdunes' orchestra. NEGRO INSURANCE COMPANY WRITES $250,000 POLICY Houston, Texas.—Perhaps the largest policy ever issued by a colored insurance company to a colored organization, was issued here this week, when the International Longshoremen Association, through Freeman Everett, president, insured its membership for $250,000 in the National Benefit Life Insurance Company of Washington, D. C. Insurance men here state that this is the largest single insurance contract ever handled entirely by race men, the deal being closed by Oscar J. Polk, manager of the South Texas district for the Washington company. The National Benefit Life Insurance Company is reputed to be one of the largest and strongest financial institutions of the race, operating in twenty-six states, with ninety-nine branch offices, writing health, accident, and ordinary insurance policies on men, women and children. case, laying the grounds for the case. While in Detroit Mr. Darrow said: "I am going to receive $5,000 to fight this case, I would do it for nothing if I could afford it because there is a principle involved. These colored people are entitled to a fair shake. It will cost me more than $5,000 to try this case. I do not want the people to think that I am defending these Negroes because of an exorbitant fee. It will cost me more than I receive to try the case but I have a deep-felt interest in the colored race and hope for an improvement in their condition." The national office of the N. A. A. C. P. has guaranteed the fees of Messrs. Darrow and Arthur Hays of New York, and Walter M. Nelson, travelling and hotel accommodations. The colored people of Detroit through the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. and other agencies are endeavoring to raise as much money as possible to meet the expenses of the case. In connection with the case, Walter White who concluded the arrangements with Mr. Darrow, said: FUNERAL OF CYRUS D. BELL HELD SATURDAY AFTERNOON The funeral of the late Cyrus D. Bell was held last Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Church of St. Philip the Deacon, Rev. John Albert Williams offi ciating. The services were the simple, but impressive rites of the Episcopal church, without sermon or eulogy. Two favorite hymns of the deceased, "Just As I Am" and 'Oh Paradise, Who Doth Not Crave for Rest?" were sung. Interment was in Forest Lawn cemetery. The pall-bearers were M. F. Singleton, Maynard L. Wilson, Henry. W. Black, Dumas James, Jasper E. Brown and Dr. Craig Morris. PASTOR SCORES RACE HATRED Atlantic City, N. J.—"Only patient and persistent application of Christian principles can solve the race problem in America", it was declared Friday night by Rev. Dr. Charles R. Erdman, Princeton, before the Afro-American Presbyterian Council. "It is the duty of every individual to strive for a higher moral, intellectual and spiritual development for himself and his race", he asserted. TEXANS DESERT KLAN Dallas, Texas.—According to Z. E Martin, this city, deposed Grand Dragon on the Ku Klux Klan in Texas, declared upon receipt of an order suspending him, from Clarence S. Parker Dallas Exalted Cyclops, that thouands of Texas members of the organization are getting out of it by allowing their dues to lapse, and in other ways, as a protest against the way the order is run in the state. "Dr. Sweet and the other defendants are in jail not because they have committed a crime but because they are Negroes and dared to defend their home and their lives against a mob. They are in the forefront of the battle being waged for all Negroes in America and in a larger sense they are fighting for justice and fair play for all Americans. "The N. A. A. C. P. has retained the greatest criminal lawyer in the country and we were able to do so only because he is willing to sacrifice other business and devote himself to this case for a fee which is probably one-tenth of what he could get elsewhere for a case of this magnitude. Even so, it is a heavy burden for the N. A. A. C. P. We must have money and have it at once to pay the bills. Our legal defense fund is exhausted. We urge every person who can possibly do so to send as large a contribution as possible to the N. A. A. C. P. at 69 Fifth avenue, New York City. Please act at once." REVISIT CITY AFTER ABSENCE OF MANY YEARS Two popular Omaha visitors are Mrs. William M. Mitchell and her charming daughter, Miss Lois Town, of Los Angeles, Cal., who are the house guests of Mrs. T. P. Mahannitt, 2214 North Twenty-fifth street. Mrs. Mitchell is pleasantly remembered by many Omahans as Mrs. Gertrude Town, who resided here some fifteen or sixteen years ago, after the death of her first husband. Lois who was then a little girl has grown into young womanhood, taken her university course, and is now a trained nurse, holding a supervisory position in a Los Angeles hospital Mother and daughter have been taking a well-earned vacation which included an eastern trip to Detroit, Mich. They are en route west. Many social functions are planned for Mrs. Mitchell and her daughter during their fortnight visit here. MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY GIVES $200 FOR N. A. A. C. P. DETROIT DEFENSE Mrs. Florence Kelley, member of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and secretary of the National Consumers' League, has sent in her check for $200 to be used in the legal defense of Dr. and Mrs. O. H. Sweet and nine other Negroes in Detroit. Mrs. Kelley has been actively interested in the N. A. A. C. P. since it was founded, and has given liberally of her time and money toward the N. A. A. C. P. work. VIRGINIA TOWN REPEALS SEGREGATION AFTER CON- TEST BY N. A. A. C. P. James A. Cobb, chairman of the legal committee of the Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reports that the city council of Falls Church, Va., repealed a local segregation ordinance after they had been convinced of its unconstitutionality by Mr. Cobb's brief. The case arose when James Spencer, a colored man, bought property and applied for a permit to build, which was denied him. Mr. Spencer applied for aid to the N. A. A. C. P., which challenged the constitutionality of the segregation ordinance invoked against Mr. Spencer. Mr. Cobb reports as follows, to the national office of the N. A. A. C. P: "In our presence the city council unanimously on an aye and nay vote, repealed the city ordinance; after which they unanimously granted Spencer the permit to build. Then counsel for the corporation of Falls Church arose and said that he had received the brief by special delivery as promised and that it was a very able brief and asked for a vote of thanks for counsel for the defense for the assistance and aid given them in reaching their conclusion. The vote was unanimous. In other words, the city council not only repealed the law but they did it in a big way." ENTERTAIN FOR OUT OF TOWN GUESTS Mesdames Charles T. Smith and Philip Letcher were hostesses Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 6 at a delightful tea, at the attractive home of the latter, 3415 North Twenty-eighth street, complimentary to Mrs. Robert Taylor, of Davenport, Ia., house guest of Mrs. L. N. Peoples, and Mrs. Leont Smallwood of Washington, D. C., house guest of Mrs. James C. Donley. Other out of town guests were Mrs. Robert Thomas of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. William M. Mitchell and daughter, Miss Lois Town of Los Angeles. Assisting the hostesses were Mesdames M. E. Overall, J. F. Smith and Isaac Bailey and the Misses Grace Dorsey, Elaine Smith, Edessa Banks and Virginia Jackson. JUNIOR GIRL'S FRIENDLY SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT The Junior Girl's Friendly Society of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon gave a unique entertainment Wednesday night in the Guild room. It was entitled "A Trip Around the World." The countries represented by attractive booths and appropriately dressed misses were Japan, Italy, Liberia and the United States. Refreshments appropriate to each country were sold at the booths; Japan, tea and wafers; Italy, spaghetti; Liberia, figs, nuts and fruit; United States, ice cream and cake. RETURN FROM HUNTING TRIP The Mars Hunting Club composed of Larry N., James and Jesse Peoples, Walter Stevens, Curtis Kirtle and Matthew Randall had a successful five-day hunting trip in the sandhills, thirty-five miles southwest of Elgin, at Goose Lake, where they bagged about 200 ducks and chickens. They left Sunday morning in Kirtle's and Steven's cars and returned late Thursday night. The editor of The Monitor was promised some game if these Nimrods had any luck. No game has yet reached the editor's sanctum. Less than $125 was contributed by the two hundred thousand Negroes in New York City to the defense fund for Samuel A. Browne, the Staten Island colored postman whose home has been attacked several times by audacious mobs. The Irving Fireproof Centering Company, of which Samuel A. Irving, a colored contractor, is president, is building the concrete foundation for the $10,000,000 Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Native women of East Africa of the "flapper age" are using tons or miles of brass wire for personal adornment. They wind the wire around their arms, neck and calves of their legs. They roll their own. Mr. Sandy Trice, of Chicago, has been appointed chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and Daughters of Isis. GROWING :: THANK YOU Number 537 Vol. XI—No. 17 ATION w Defends JAMES B. DUKE, BENEFACTOR OF RACE, IS DEAD Born In Log Cabin, Built Up Gigantic Industry. Application and "Stick-to-ity" Secret of His Success WAS GREAT PHILANTHROPIST Gave $40,000,000 For Educational and Public Institutions. Remembered Negro In His Gifts. New York.—James Buchanan Duke, formerly president of the American Tobacco Company, one of the nation's leading philanthropists, died of bronchial pneumonia at his Fifth avenue residence recently. Duke was not only well known among the white race for his magnanimity in lending financial aid to their institutions, but he was also known as a helper of the colored race and its institutions. His gifts to colored educational institutions run up into the millions. He did much to elevate the facilities for the learning of the colored people. The owner of the white palace on the northeast corner of Fifth avenue and Seventy-eight street rose from much poverty that he is often called "one of the last of the log-cabin successes of American life." He was born in 1857 on the small farm of his father where he and his brothers started the great tobacco industry through which he built up his vast wealth, which is estimated at from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. He owns a 3,000 acre park around his home in Durham. Duke is survived by a daughter, Doris, 12, his wife, Mrs. Nannie Lee Holt Duke, and an older brother, Benjamin. "I have succeeded in business not because I have more natural ability than many people who have not succeeded, but because I have applied myself harder and stuck to it longer. I know plenty of people who have failed to succeed in anything who have more brains than I had, but they lacked application and determination. "I had confidence in myself. I said to myself, 'If John D. Rockefeller can do what he is doing in oil, why should I not do it in tobacco?' I resolved from the time I was a mere lad to do a big business. I loved business better than anything else. I worked from early morning to late at night. I was sorry to leave off at night and glad when morning came so that I could get at it again. Any young man with common intelligence can succeed, if he is willing to apply himself. Superior brains are not necessary." Mr. Duke's gift of $40,000,000 is the largest benefaction ever made at one time by a single person excepting Andrew Carnegie. Of the bequest ten per cent was assigned to go to Negro and white orphans in North and South Carolina, and four per cent to Johnson C. Smith University, a colored institution of Charlotte. In announcing his gift, Mr. Duke said that the $40,000,000 would include, among other securities, approximately three-fourths of his holdings in the Southern Power System. His reason for establishing the fund was thus expressed at the time: "I don't believe that a college education does a man much good in business, except for the personal satisfaction it gives him. But when you have a great community growing like the Carolinas, you've got to have five kinds of leaders whose minds are trained. The first is preachers, the second is teachers, the third is lawyears, the fourth is chemists and engineers and the fifth is doctors." ENGLISH MAGAZINE QUOTES FROM N. A. A. C. P. LYNCHING STATISTICS The "Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend", published by the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society in London, in its October number has an abstract on lynching in the United States, based on the figures given in reports of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The average value of all land in farms in Coweta County, Georgia, has decreased $33 per acre since 1920, and there has also been a decrease of 1029 in the number of colored farmers, mostly croppers. THE M A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED OF COLOREN PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY A MONITOR PUBLISH Entered as Second-Class Mail 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 Furni Address, The Monitor, Posto Telephone V ARTICLE XIV, CON UNITED THE MONITOR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY 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 Unit 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 IT DEBT PAYING? IT is difficult to estimate or to foresee the far-reaching results of the entrance of the Firestone Tire Company, with its investment of hundreds of millions of dollars into Liberia. This great American corporation wants rubber. The fact is England and Belgium now control 97 percent of the rubber output of the world. Rubber has been steadily mounting in price due to this monopoly. Astute Americans have been seeking a way out. Africa offers the opportunity desired. Liberia, founded by President Monroe, as a haven of refuge for the free Negroes of America, strangely enough becomes the promised land for the investment of American cash. So to Liberia American capital goes. A million acres of land have been secured for rubber development with a 2,000 acre rubber plantation, fully matured and bearing. The Firestones will invest $100,000,000 in development and improvements necessary to the successful conduct of their gigantic business. All this will necessarily be to the advantage of this wonderful land, rich beyond the wildest dream, but undeveloped. It looks to us as though this is the providential plan through which Liberia is to secure her place in the sun. Of course there is the possibility, but in our judgment, a very remote one, of Liberia losing her sovereignty. This is an extremely remote possibility. We believe rather that the economic development which she is about to undergo will strengthen her sovereignty and political independence. We believe, too, that the investment of American capital will give an opportunity for educated Negroes of America such as engineers, civil and electrical; architects, draughtsmen, physicians, dentists, chemists, mechanics iron and steel workers and agriculturists to find employment according to their ability. White Americans will of course go to Liberia and so will black Americans. Who can tell? Is not America about to repay the African race for its centuries of unrequited toil in this land by this investment in Liberia? "God moves in a mysteries way His wonders to preform" and always exacts payment from nations no less than from individuals. THE NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS SUFFICIENT data is not at hand to permit us to pass an intelligent opinion upon the deliberations or outcome of the Negro Labor Congress just held in Chicago. We do not hesitate to say, however, that we are entirely in sympathy with the main purpose of that Congress as outlined in its preliminary_program. We may have something to say of this movement later. We simply desire to note at this time the extreme solicitude of the United States government for the suppression in the Congress of any "Red" tendency or incendiary utterance, by the presence there of government officials. This solicitude strikes us as damnable hypocrisy. THE NEGRO'S CONTRIBU A moment's thought will persons that the contribution nationality as slave, freedman negligible. No element of Ar 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. Modern 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." AGE TW naturalized in the United States, on thereof, are citizens of the state wherein they reside. No law which shall abridge the citizens of the United States; nor person of life, liberty, or prop-law, nor deny to any personal protection of the laws. If the same solicitude were shown by government officials concerning the utterances of organizations which are permitted in this country to forment racial and religious strife and to suppress its insidious propaganda we would have more respect for the sincerity of the United States government. Why so much apprehension about "black red" propaganda, and so much unconcern and indifference towards "white red" activities? YOUR NEWSPAPER IT is gratifying to have our readers express their appreciation of our journalistic work. The editing and publishing of a newspaper is hard but it lightens one's task and makes it pleasureable when words of approbation and appreciation are spoken. And it is noteworthy that words of commendation invariably come from people who are prompt in paying their subscriptions. The non-payers are almost invariably the critics and kickers. So when you hear any one finding fault with your newspaper, you can pretty safely wager that he owes for his paper. Funny, but it is a foot BEING FRIENDLY P5OPLE who want friends must show themselves friendly. No one can live in selfish isolation and then when sorrow or misfortune comes to them expect to find themselves sustained by the helpfulness of sincere friends. Friendship is something worth while. It is not to be spurned. THE cold snap found many unprepared for it. It is ever thus. SOME folks don't want colored folks to live in decent houses or even to worship in decent churches. DO your full duty. Keep smiling. Love your neighbor, whether he loves you or not, and do unto every man as you would have him do unto you. (From the Washington Daily American. Oct. 19, 1925.) The Retention of Clarence Darrow. Clarence Darrow, one of America's outstanding lawyers, has been retained to defend Dr. O. H. Sweet and ten other colored men and women in Detroit, charged with murder for defending the home of Dr. Sweet from mob violence. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has secured for the defense of those, who represent every red-blooded man and woman in the United States, the best legal talent which America affords—Clarence Darrow, lawyer extraordinary, philosopher and staunch supporter of human rights. The selection and retention of Clarence Darrow as chief counsel in the case is most fortunate and wise. For at the present no issue looms before the colored race in America more im- U T I O N NOT NEGLIGIBLE I easily convince open-minded man of the Negro to American man and citizen was far from american life has so subtly and sharp and woof of our thinking negro. He came with the firstoration. His labor was from portant than whether American citizens on account of their color shall be deprived of their fundamental right of defending their homes against invasion, whether the legal maxim that a man's home is his castle shall be interpreted to mean a white man's home. Colored people all over the country should and will rally to the financial support of this great fight. For we have learned through the years since slavery passed to fight our enemies with their own weapons. If physical violence is offered we kill in self-defense. If justice is sought to be defeated in the courts, we produce a Clarence Darrow to fight our battles. The fight waxes hot, but the colored man will be found lacking neither in the courage to defend physically his home and person nor the will to make necessary financial sacrifices to bring to a successful finish a just fight. (From the N. Y. Amsterdam News, of Oct. 21, 1925.) Thanks to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Dr. O. H. Sweet, his wife and nine other defendants charged with first degree murder because they defended their lives and the doctor's home, are to have Clarence Darrow, most noted criminal lawyer in the United States, to defend them in the courts. If you feel that these imprisoned martyrs were justified in defending their home, even if two white members of the mob storming the house were killed, make your contribution to the fund necessary to properly conduct their defense. Address the N. A. A. C. P., 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City. COUNCIL BLUFFS NOTES Mrs. Erma Jones has returned from a visit to her father at Fort Dodge, Iowa, who has been seriously ill. Rev. A. C. Moore's wife and children arrived Saturday, October 24. Rev. A. C. Moore preached instructive sermons Sunday morning and evening at the A. M. E. church. Hollis Art Club gave a musical and fashion show at the Baptist church October 29. It was well attended. Mrs. E. H. Madison is still serving as secretary to the quarterly conference of the Bethel A. M. E. church and has been for fifteen years. Mrs. Eva Bess has returned as organist for Bethel A. M. E. church. Mrs. Liza Baker has gone on a month's trip to California. There will be a reception on Rev. A. C. Moore and family November 4. Everybody is invited. Scientists Now Able to Hear Insects Eat Mr. C. K. Brake, professor of entomology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, has published an astounding "preliminary note" on the adaptation of certain radio principles to insect investigation work. Ordinary wireless apparatus is used. The question of amplification, says the professor, is a simple matter, and the whole success or failure of the arrangement centers on the microphone and its surroundings. Two portions of apple tree stem, infested with the larvae of the apple and quince borer, were placed in a box in contact with the partition carrying the microphones, and through the headphones the movements of the larvae could be heard distinctly and the gnawing readily recognized. The presence of weevils in grain and in yeast cakes has, likewise, been detected, and attempts are being made to secure a microphone which is sufficiently sensitive, so that it may be used for the detection of insect larvae in fruit. This, if it can be accommodled, will have an important bearing on the selection of fruit for export and the testing of seeds. An old-timer is one who can remember when affixing a patch was a delicate art. A wife may be called the better half because she usually gets the best of the other half. It is easy to pick the fellow whose father jerked a forelock. He is arrogant and overbearing. Daughter says woman is more than man's equal when it comes to being swelled up about her job. The way to tell a bandit from a dry agent is that the bandit doesn't always shoot when you run. Almost Alone "We were playing to practically empty houses the whole time, and one night there were just a few people dotted about the theater. "For a few minutes in one scene in Dear Old Charlie" I have the stage completely to myself, and Holman has to come on and in the most lugubrious and solemn voice ask me: "Are you alone? "On this occasion I very nearly upset his gravity, for I looked all around the house and then replied: 'Almost.'" —From the Truth at Last, by Charles Hawley. To Restore Looted Crown As a friendly return, for the recent visit to England of the prince regent of Abyssinia, the British government has decided to present to the Empress Judith of Abyssinia the crown of the Emperor Theodore, which was captured by Lord Napier at Mdgala in 1868. For many years the historic relice has been among the exhibits in the Victoria and Albert museum. THE MONITOR ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH Twenty-fifth and R Streets, South Side, O. J. Burckhards, Pastor. All services were well attended Sunday. The Rev. Mr. Conwell preached at 3 0'clock. Next Sunday excellent services are anticipated. The pastor will preach morning and evening. Morning text, "Not an Hoof Shall Be Left Behind"; evening话, "The Certainty of Hell". The League will be cared for by Mrs. Gertrude Kinney and Mrs. Addie Jones. President Lester Carter who has done fine work resigned because of other church duties. Among the sick Newest in Mi PARTY HATS FOR New hand-made hats. B $3.50 and $7.50 values, now $2.00 an Your OLD HAT MADE vest in Milliners' Go TY HATS FOR ALL OCCAS ly hand-made hats. Better values for less and $7.50 values, now selling for $2.00 and $2.50 r OLD HAT MADE NEW in the latest s Newest in Milliners' Goods New hand-made hats. Better values for less money. $3.50 and $7.50 values, now selling for Your OLD HAT MADE NEW in the latest style. TOILET REQUISITES A full line of Hair Goods at all times. DOLL WIGS MADE TO ORDER Lamberton Nubone Co 2511 Noth 24th Street Miss Robina of The Bourbon Intro A NEW METHOD FOR THE MOST ST Yet does not injure the de- called straighteners do. A ordinary straighteners is re- permanent. The manufactu- We also carry a very newest thing out. STRAIGHTENER BLEACH The Bourbon Phone AT McCrory Building, Sixteen a Lamberton Hat and Nubone Corset Shop 24th Street WEbs Miss Robina Kammerer of The Bourbon Beauty Shop Introduces NEW METHOD FOR STRAIGHTENING THE MOST STUBBORN HAIR does not injure the delicate hair roots as my straighteners do. A little more time than my straighteners is required, but results are excellent. The manufacturers guarantee results, we also carry a very mild FACE BLEACH thing out. STRAIGHTENER $2.00 a BEACH .75 a The Bourbon Beauty Shop Phone ATlantic 9721 City Building, Sixteen and Farnam Sts., Omaha Miss Robina Kammerer A NEW METHOD FOR STRAIGHTENING THE MOST STUBBORN HAIR Yet does not injure the delicate hair roots as many so called straighteners do. A little more time than the ordinary straighteners is required, but results are more permanent. The manufacturers guarantee results. We also carry a very mild FACE BLEACH—the newest thing out. The Bourbon Beauty Shop McCrory Building, Sixteen and Farnam Sts., Omaha, Neb. MOVING Mrs. H. J. Crawford removal Monday, November and growing store, special Children's Clothing and their new location, a half Twenty-fourth street, w to welcome their old cu ones. PEP SERVICE "EVERYTHING We are specialists in our depot. FREE TIRE AND B 24th and MIAMI STREETS Mrs. H. J. 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Charley Pegram, one of the best known young men of South Omaha, who came to an untimely end by a railroad accident was buried from the church last week its capacity being overtaxed to accommodate the many friends who came to pay their last respects. Many beautiful floral offerings were sent. The parents express their gratitude to many friends. The Monitor is YOUR paper. Your support in both a moral and financial way is necessary for its success. Alliners' Goods FOR ALL OCCASIONS better values for less money. selling for nd $2.50 NEW in the latest style. 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Please be ready to pay your subscription when the collector for The Monitor calls. The Misses Catherine Williams and Lavina Scott gave a Hollowe'n party Saturday from 4 to 7 at the home of the latter, 2885 Miami street. Twenty children, and some children of larger growth had a fine time with games and dancing. Prizes in a waltzing contest were won by Celestine Smith and Millard F. Singleton, 3rd. Mrs. Robert Thomas of Baltimore, Md., en route home from California arrived in Omaha Saturday to spend a week with her brother, Dr. W. W. Peebles, the well known dentist. Mr. Frank Baltimore of Camden, N. J., who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ricks, 120 South Twenty-eighth avenue, left Tuesday for his home with very pleasant memories of Omara. Please be ready to pay your subscription when the collector for The Monitor calls. The Northwest Needle Craft club met Tuesday, October 20, at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Smith, 2211 Ohio street, with the president, Mrs. J. H. Hutten, presiding. The same officers were re-elected for the ensuing year, with the addition of Mrs. B. B. Cowan, instructor. After a delightful, luncheon, the meeting adjourned to meet with Mrs. H. G. Anderson, 2601 Patrick avenue, November 3rd. COAL Love Delight WIZARD - GENUINE RADIANCE NO SMOKE—NO SOOT— MINE RUN $9.00 SMALL CLEAN HEAT—COAL This is the peak of all Coals in its class. Unlike any other Colorado sold here, We are Omahra's Exclusive Agent. HARDER—CLEANER— A VERY HIGH GRADE LUMP Per Ton $8.00 A SAVING TO YOU OF COAL Consumers Coal AT 4444 "Dealers in COAL" Anniversary Two Years in the TWO YEARS OF DEPARTURE Tuesday We Begin Our Second Flow And Continue Through Tuesday we will give a bead adult who enters the store. SPECIALS FOR GOAL Lower Prices for Coal Deliveries-All Parts Great RD - GENUINE RADIANT - SEMI-ANTHRAL NO SMOKE—NO SOOT—70 lbs. Ash to the Ton MINE RUN $9.50 Per Ton SMALL Delivered CLEAN HEAT—COLORADO LUMP the peak of all Coal in Us. Unlike any other Colo- ldar here. We are Omaha's Deliver Agents. HARDER—CLEANER—LONGER LASTING A VERY HIGH GRADE ILLINOIS GARGE LUMP FURNACE LUMP Per Ton $8.00 Per Ton $7.50 A SAVING TO YOU OF ONE DOLLAR PER TON Consumers Coal & Supply Co. "Dealers in Good Coal" Anniversary Sale Two Years in the Same Loc Two YEARS OF DEPENDABLE SERVI Tuesday, Nov. 3 Begin Our Second Anniversary Sale Flowers Continue Through THURSDAY, Nov. we will give a beautiful GOLD FISH no enters the store. SPECIALS FOR THIS SALE COAL Lower Prices for Cash Deliveries-All Parts Greater Omaha WIZARD - GENUINE RADIANT - SEMI-ANTHRACITE NO SMOKE—NO SOOT—70 lbs. Ash to the Ton MINE RUN $9.50 Per Ton SMALL Delivered CLEAN HEAT—COLORADO LUMP This is the peak of all Coal in its class. Unlike any other Colo- rado sold here. We are Omahu's Exclusive Agents. HARDER—CLEANER—LONGER LASTING A VERY HIGH GRADE ILLINOIS LARGE LUMP FURNACE LUMP Per Ton $8.00 Per Ton $7.50 A SAVING TO YOU OF ONE DOLLAR PER TON Consumers Coal & Supply Co. AT 4444 "Dealers in Good Coal" AT 4444 Anniversary Sale Two Years in the Same Location TWO YEARS OF DEPENDABLE SERVICE Tuesday, Nov. 3 We Begin Our Second Anniversary Sale on Flowers And Continue Through THURSDAY, Nov. 6th Tuesday we will give a beautiful GOLD FISH to each adult who enters the store. $1.50 Hardy Ferns.....$1.00 Each $2.00 Hardy Ferns.....1.50 Each Other Ferns for..... .75 Each All kinds of Antique Vases—All kinds of and Fresh Cut Flowers. We specialize in any kind of floral work from $1 to $1,000. In all our floral work you advantage of our 27 years of experience. kinds of Antique Vases-All kinds of Aish Cut Flowers. specialize in any kind of floral work to $1,000. In all our floral work you age of our 27 years of experience. All kinds of Antique Vases—All kinds of Artificial and Fresh Cut Flowers. We specialize in any kind of floral work, costing from $1 to $1,000. In all our floral work you have the advantage of our 27 years of experience. WE SERVE TO PLEASE Weiss Flower Shop 2511½ North 24th Street Phone WEbster 2057 Weiss Flower Shop North 24th Street Phone WEbs Weiss Flower Shop 25111/2 North 24th Street Phone WEbster 2057 ```markdown ``` Mrs. Gordon Handy of Chicago who was called rere by the death of her father, Cyrus D. Bell, left for home Thursday. She has been the guest of her sister, Mrs William A. Johnson. The Old Folks Home Association will meet at the Home Wednesday morning November 4, at 10 o'clock and the board will meet Thursday night at 8. All members are urgently requested to be present as business of importance is to be transacted. Order your Colored Dolls early.—Adv. Be sure and get the kiddie a Colored Doll for Christmas. To be sure of your order now from Stuart's Art Shop, 1803 North Twenty-fourth street, Omaha, Nebr. —Adv. FOR RENT—Two rooms strictly modern, nearly furnished. James Apartments, 2425 Grant street. Phone Webster 3643, Madam Brown, 2221 North Twenty-fifth street.—It. Margaret Murray entertained the younger set at her home, 2423 North Twenty- seventh street, Sunday afternoon in honor of her friend Corrine Ferguson of Lincoln. An enjoyable time was had by all. Mrs. Mabel Johnson Griffin, formerly of Omaha, now of Chicago, has graduated and received an honorable diploma from the McCarris Dental School of the later city. She enrolled February 18, 1925, and has been declared by that school an efficient dental nurse of which her many friends will be glad to learn. Mrs. James W. Madden and little son Jimmie of Chicago, arrived in the city Monday and are the guests of her parents Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Singleton, 2867 Corby street. EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF Next Sunday is the All Saints' Day when special commemoration is made of the faithful departed. Special services with a sermon appropriate to the day will be held at 7:30 and 11 a. m. The sermon topic at the 11 o'clock Eucharist will be "The Souls of the Faithful in the Hands of God". Public invited to all services. Power Prices for Cash Deliveries-All Parts Greater Omaha ANT - SEMI-ANTHRACITE -70 lbs. Ash to the Ton -5.50 Per Ton Delivered DOLORADO LUMP $9.50 PER TON Delivered LONGER LASTING RADE ILLINOIS FURNACE LUMP Per Ton $7.50 ONE DOLLAR PER TON & Supply Co. 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The publication of the book has brought well to the fore the significance of these songs in the folklore of our country. Jane Addams found that Mr. Johnson's introduction was exactly what she had been awaiting for a better interpretation and understanding of the songs. Clement Wood, poet, author and life student of the spirituals. wrote: "This is a magnificent compilation of the finest volume of folk music that any race has yet given the world. There are merits in Russian, Spanish, French, English, some other groups of such folk songs; but for beauty, variety and innate inventiveness the Negro leads. The introduction is admirable and the arrangements as notable as any ever made, and more comprehensive than any." Grace Sinclair Lewis, the wife of Sinclair Lewis, wrote Mr. Johnson that the first time she ever heard a spiritual was when Carl Sandburg hummed "Deep River" to her in a taxicab. Carl Sandburg, himself, who for many years has studied spirituals claims that this is the book on the subject. Carl Van Doren, Walter Damrosch Franklin P. Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Van Vechten, John Haynes Holmes are among the others who have recognized the importance of the Negro Spiritual to American art and the significance of the book in preserving and presenting the best of the songs. In an editorial, The World says: "At last there appears a satisfactory edition of Negro Spirituals. It is called 'The Book of American Negro Spirituals', and it has been edited by James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Only one who had waded through many botched editions can appreciate the intelligence with which this book is put together. Mr. Johnson has selected his songs with discrimination and had them decently printed. With the aid of Messrs. J. Rosamond Johnson and Lawrence Brown he has recaptured authentic harmonies as much a part of the complete effect as the melodies. And he offers in a brief introduction a more plausible explanation of the origin of this music than all the learned commentators since the Civil War. But what elemental poetry, what gorgeous music! Reading these songs over, one is transported back to half-remembered things; a countryside at twilight, a little Negro church back in the pines, and floating over the stillness, a haunting chant which goes on unceasingly until far in the night and which has in it something that we who listen never attain to. Poetry like this, with the music that goes with it, touches the stars. Let us doff our hats to the race that brought it into being. LINCOLN_NEWS AND COMMENT Mrs. E. J. Griffin returned home Saturday after an extended visit to National Baptist convention at Baltimore, Md., and eastern cities. Mrs. Mary Nichols is improving from recent operation. The Grand Lodge O. E. Star Chapter convened here last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The session was held in German hall. Quite a number of delegates were in attendance from parts of state having local organizations. The regular order of opening was held Wednesday morning and the program was carried out as scheduled. The election of officers was held Friday. The public affair on Friday night was fairly attended, the weather being inclement. Mr. Chas. Haynes is yet seriously ill at the hospital. The 45th anniversary sermon of Mt. Zion Baptist church was preached by Dr. W. F. Botts of Omaha last Sunday night, whose instructive and wholesome truths did the hearsed good. A week's celebration was held, leading up to the fourth Sunday, and were as follows: A musical by the choir Monday night; sermon to the Mission Society by Rev. I. Smith of the Second Baptist church; a musical and literary program by the Sunday School Wednesday night; sermon by Rev. M. C. Knight to the Utopian Art Club Thursday night; a ebster 4243 musicale by the buds of Promise Friday night. The entire week's celebrities were most inspiring to those who attended. Sunday morning Rev. H. W. Botts delivered a most instructive sermon. The Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. had most interesting lessons. The ladies of the East Lincoln Baptist church (white) rendered a pageant at Mr. Zion Baptist church Monday night which dealt with Christianization of the peoples of the world. The drive for the Community Chest started Tuesday morning. Mrs. Jennie Edwards and Mrs. Alma Wiley are among the workers. At last the colored working men and women of Omaha have organized to study and claim their industrial, social, political and economic place among other American citizens. This organization was organized May 5. 1924, by a skilled laborer, whose name is withheld by the organization. At present Rev. W. M. Hall is president, MacKinley Cunningham, vice-president; L. C. Crawford, secretary; Jas. Kirby, treasurer; Milton L. Hunter, organizer. The Workers Community Association is the name of the organization which will meet in K. of P. hall the second and fourth Tuesday night in each month. A committee has been created to draft a working program for the coming year. The election of officers for the coming year will be the second Tuesday in December, 1925, and those elected will hold office for one year ending December, 1926. By Milton L. Hunter, Director of Publicity and Organizer CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our grateful and heartfelt gratitude to our many friends for the kindness extended to us during the illness and death of our beloved father. We are grateful, too, for the beautiful floral offerings sent. Eugene M. Bell Bessie Bell Gertrude Handy Walter W. Bell Beulah Johnson Adaline Moore. S. M. T. NOTES Mrs. M. C. Sands, 2522 Burdette street, entertained at a Hallowe'en party October 22, for the benefit of Friendship Temple. S. M. T. Mrs. Sands will entertain the M. C. Sands Juveniles at her home with a Hallowe'en party Saturday, October 31. Mrs. Minnie Taylor, 2117 North Twenty- eighth, will entertain Saturday at a Hallowe'en party for Harmony Temple. Mrs. Sarah Wakefield is very ill at her home, 4430 South Sixteenth street. Mrs. M. E. Hayes of Benson Temple is quite ill at her home. HATTIE BREWER, Reporter. W. G. MORGAN Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. NOTICE OF SERVICE FOR PUBLICATION To William (Bill) Jordan, whose place of residence is unknown, and upon whom personal service of summons cannot be made, defendant. Take notice that on the 20th day of June, 1925, Ella Jordan, filed petition in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, Doc. 221 No. 149. The object and prayer of it is to obtain absolute divorce from you. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 21st day of December, 1925. Per W. G. MORGAN, 4t-10-23-25 Her Attorney. 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While they last, $1.25 SWEATERS 89c Up JUST ARRIVED A Full Line of DIXIE TIE OXFORDS for LADIES and MISSES At Geo.Colton's 1714-16 North 24th St. (Facing Clark Street) We handle a complete line of FLOWER, VEGETABLE, GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS BULBS—For Spring and Fall Planting When in need of CUT FLOWERS don't forget our Floral Department, as we have a complete seasonable assortment. STEWART'S SEED AND FLOWER SHOP 109 North 16th Street (Opposite Post Office) JAckson 3285 I Why Pay Rent We I will exchange wh will build you a new h old one. I can sell you to $150. For further in A. 2221 North 24 WEBSTER 2900 6% DI My Rent When Rent Wont Stop exchange what you have for what you you a new house to your specification can sell you good homes ranging from or further information see Why Pay Rent When Rent Wont Stay Paid? I will exchange what you have for what you want. I will build you a new house to your specification for your old one. I can sell you good homes ranging from $50 down to $150. For further information see A. J. DAVIS 221 North 24th Street, Jewell Buildi 2900 EVENINGS WEB % DIVIDEN 6% DIVIDENDS Paid On All Deposits up to $5,000 Every Months OCCIDENTAL LOAN A 18th and Harney Street Peoples Under C BETTER SERVI L. ACCIDENTAL BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATION Harney Streets Organ Apples Drug St Under Changed Management BETTER SERVICE—QUICK DELIVERY OCCIDENTAL BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Peoples Drug Store Erskine W FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Ruth Wal 2208 North 24th Street R. Nat 24th Street Phone WI R. Nathaniel De Coming! THE BIGGEST BARGAIN IN T MEN A $50 SUIT TAILOR FOR ONE $1,000.00 REWARD To any one who will prove that anything stated in this ad is misrep- resented or untrue. YOUR OPPON To purchase direct facturer a fine qual- bure wool valued at worsted. Latest models. Single or doub breasted for ONLY. Send No Money—Write for our Special Fit and Satisfaction guarantee Ruth Wallace Flower Shop 2208 North 24th Street Phone WEbster 0184 R. Nathaniel Dett -SPECIAL OFFER- $10.00 VALUE PU Six Pair Ladies' light or heavy full fashioned pure SILK HOSE val- ued at $10, for only $1.00 Guaranteed Perfect and Finest Quality. THE ALLIED SALES C VALUE PURE SILK HOSE FOR ONLY des' light fashioned HOSE val- for only Twelve light SILK at Perfect Quality. SENT Write full bu LIED SALES CO., 150 NASSAU ST., NEW Y 24th and Erskine WRITE TO-DAY DON'T DELAY Now Showing a FULL and COMPLETE LINE Cloth and Fur Coats Prices Ranging from $12.50 to $150.00 Bourbon & Co Sixteenth and Farnam McCrory Building Open Rent Wont Stay Paid you have for what you want. Please to your specification for you good homes ranging from $50 down information see N. DAVIS Street, Jewell Building EVENINGS WEBSTER 083 VIDENDS MENTAL BUILDING & ASSOCIATION Streets Organized 1889 Drug Store User Changed Management SERVICE—QUICK DELIVERY L. G. Perty, Prop. Let Us Serve You ace Flower Shop Phone WEbster 018 GEST BARGAIN IN THE WORLD MEN A $50.00 ALL WOOL SUIT TAILORED TO MEASURE FOR ONLY $4- who hat and in sere- true. YOUR OPPORTUNITY To purchase direct from the man- facturer a fine quality suit made pure wool valued at $50.00. Strict to your measure, serge or best models. Single or double- only. Write for our Special Offer. Perfec- t and Satisfaction guaranteed. SILK HOSE FOR ONLY $1.00 Twelve Pair Me light or heavy pu SILK HOSE value at $10, for only $1.00 SEND NO MONE Write us at once full bargain offer to 150 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK, N. V. PAGE THREE ats n&Co. Stay Paid? at you want. I ation for your from $50 down holding WEBSTER 0839 IDS ING & ON organized 1889 store BERRY Webster 6323 SHORT SMILES SHORT SMILES Which? Bob—"How old would you say she is?" Bill—"To her face or behind her back?" Equivalent "Our new neighbors have no mate." "That's nothing against them. They have two cars." **The Compleat Angler** Passer-by—Hey! You've got a bite! Fisherman—I know it. I'm prolonging the thrill—From Life. **A Good Habit** "Is he married?" "I don't know. He's a reserved sort of chap—keeps all his troubles to himself." Canned Carned "What's the matter with you?" "I wrote an article on fresh milk and the editor condensed it." The Prize May—"She had a lively race for a husband." Sue—"Yes. I heard she married a run-down nobleman." In Keeping "These love poems are very short." "What can you expect? Nowadays a courtship doesn't last very long." Inference Visitor—"Listen. Jimmie. I hear a cuckoo." Jimmie—"Gee, it must have escaped from a clock."—From Life. ORACULAR WRITINGS REMAIN A MYSTERY The Sibylline books were a collection of oracular writings in three volumes, said to have contained the fortunes of the ancient Roman date. According to tradition they were purchased by Tarquinius Superbus from the Cumaean Sibyl, and deposited in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus at Rome in a stone chest, underground. They were guarded by certain officers, at first two in number, but afterward increased successively to ten and fifteen. The Sibylline books were not open to public inspection, but were consulted only by those in charge of them, at the special command of the senate. Whether they contained predictions or merely directions for pepitinating the gods is difficult to determine in consequence of the mystery that enveloped them. They were destroyed by the burning of the temple in 82 B. C., but a fresh collection was made and deposited in the same building when rebuilt. In 12 B. C. the Sibylline books were transferred by Emperor Augustus to the temple of Appollo on the Palatine hill, where they remained until publicly burned by Stilicho, between 404 and 408 A. D. Many Religions at College Twenty-five religious denominations are represented among the students of the Pennsylvania State college. Of more than 3,000 students who stated their religious preferences recently about one-fourth were Presbyterians, one-fifth Methodists, one-eighth Lutherans and one-tenth Roman Catholics, says School Life. Other sects represented are: Reformed, Protestant Episcopal, Baptist, Hebrew, Evangelical, United Presbyterian, United Brethren, Society of Friends, Church of Christ, Congregational, Dunkard, Christian Science, Moravian, Unitarian, Mennonite, Universalist, Greek Catholic, Disciple, Schwenkfelder and United Zion Children, the last three having but one representative each. Do You W R THEN I The Monitor' We are giving, Choice of a str dustrious girl, and a hardest working boy Besides these p You have often wanted some spend you work real earn Beginning Octo time for Christmas, tunity to win a nif THERE ARE I You do not have or girl in any section For further inf ice, 1119 No. 21st Boys and Girls! Do You Want a Real Gold Watch? Read Every Word THEN LET'S PUT THIS OVER BIG! WHAT? The Monitor's Big Subscription Drive for New Subscribers. We are giving, for a few moments of your time each day— Choice of a string of pearls or an Elgin wrist watch to the most industrious girl, and a nifty 12 size Elgin watch or suit of clothing to the hardest working boy. Besides these prizes we pay cash commissions on all orders taken. You have often wanted some present all your own. You have also wanted some spending money all for yourself. You may have both if you work real earnestly. Beginning October 20th and continuing until December 15th, just in time for Christmas, we are giving a number of boys and girls an opportunity to win a nifty, valuable prize and make some real money. THERE ARE NO STRINGS TO THIS OFFER. You do not have to live in Omaha to get into this contest. Any boy or girl in any section of the country may enter. For further information mail attached coupon or call at Monitor office, 1119 No. 21st St.: MR. ROBERT A. GREENE, Circulation Manager, The Monitor, 1119 No. 19th Street, Omaha, Nebr. Please enter my name in your your prizes. Tell me all about it. Please enter my name in your contest. I am anxious to win one of your prizes. Tell me all about it. I am ready to work now. PAGE FOSE HARD TO ASSOCIATE JOB AND THE TURKEY Probably the most remarkable thing about the proverbial Job's turkey is the fact that Job never had a turkey. This bird, which belongs to the pheasant family, was erroneously thought by the early settlers in this country to have come from Turkey and the fowl was named accordingly. But the turkey was a native of America and Europeans never heard of it until the New world was discovered by Columbus thousands of years after Job, the richest man in all the East, was gathered to his fathers. The phrase "poor as Job's turkey" is supposed to be of American origin. It probably originated in the old book entitled "Sam Slick" by the American-Canadian jurist and author, Thomas C. Hallburton. In this book a turkey gobbler is described as being so poor that he had only one feather in his tail, and so weak that he had to lean against a fence to gobble. The turkey's emaculated condition was ascribed to his persistent efforts to hatch out chicks from eggs which didn't have any chicks in them. But just how Job became associated with the turkey has never been determined.—Pathfinder Magazine. Ask for KRAFT CHEESE At your dealer's. FREE 5-Tube Radio Set Send self-addressed, stamped envelope — for full particulars regarding this OFFER. RADIOTEX CO. 296 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Valet AutoStrop Razor —Sharpens Itself Brodega 16th and Douglas Streets Boys and Girls Want a Real Gold Head Every World LET'S PUT THIS OVER BIG! A Big Subscription Drive for New For a few moments of your time --- 2 Valuable Prizes ing of pearls or an Elgin wrist watch or nifty 12 size Elgin watch or suit. rizes we pay cash commissions or wanted some present all your money all for yourself. You only. Under 20th and continuing until De- we are giving a number of boys y, valuable prize and make some NO STRINGS TO THIS OFFER. e to live in Omaha to get into the n of the country may enter. information mail attached coupon or 3t.: my name in your contest. I am a me all about it. I am ready to wo JEWELERS FOR 41 YEARS WILL SERVE YOU BETTER F R E E Cat and Radio One of the radio fans of Augusta, Maine, has to share his radio concerts each night with the family cat, as Sir Pussy insists upon listening in. Music and bedtime stories and oratory are all the same to the cat, and he listens with rapt attention to everything that is on the air. Sometimes the high plaintive walling of a violin will make the cat uneasy, but not to the extent of causing him to leave his reserved seat in the chair near the set Light Church Bells The village of Allraht, near Colome, Germany, boasts of the first church bells made of alloy of aluminum and copper. 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Classified Negro Business and Professional Directory These Firms Can Supply Your Needs and Respectfully Solicit Your Patronage THE MONITOR PROBATE NOTICE In the Matter of the Estate of C. E. Allen (also known as Charles Edward Allen), Deceased. Notice is hereby given: That the creditors of said deceased will meet the administrator of said estate, before me, County Judge of Douglas County, Nebraska, at the County Court Room, in said County, on the 20th day of November, 1925, and on the 20th day of January, 1926, at 9 o'clock A. M., each day, for the purpose of presenting their claims for examination, adjustment and allowance. Three months are allowed for the creditors to present their claims, from the 17th day of October, 1925. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 4t-9-11-25 County Judge. ED. F. MOREARTY Attorney-at-Law 700 Peters Trust Building NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION To Horace S. Adkins, Non-resident Defendant: You are hereby notified that Elizabeth J. W. Adkins, your wife, the plaintiff, filed her petition in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, on the 5th day of May, 1925, to obtain an absolute divorce from you on the grounds of non-support and desertion and for the care and custody of their minor children. You are required to answer said petition on or before November 7th, 1925. ELIZABETH J. W. ADKINS. 4t—10-9-25 LOOK HE Classified Ne These Firms Can ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS JOHN T. McDONALD, Sr., Architect and Builder. 3809 Camden Ave. "Better Built Houses for Less." Ken. 5634. ART BEAUTIFUL COLORED DOLLS, pictures, calendars, high grade toilet articles. Dr. Pryor's Jape Wonder Soap. Stuart's Art Shop 1803 No. 24th St. BARBER SHOPS CENTRAL BARBER SHOP. J. H. Russell, proprietor, 1918Cuming St., at 20th. First class service. BAGGAGE AND HAULING J. A. GARDNER'S TRANSFER. Bag- gage, express, moving, light and heavy hauling. Reliable and com- petent. Six years in Omaha. 2622 Maple Street. Phone WEbster 4120. C. H. HALL, stand, 1403 No. 24th. Baggage and express hauling to all parts of the city. Phones. Res. WE. 7100; stand. WE. 0530. BEAUTY PARLORS MRS. C. C. JOHNSON, 1515 North 26th street. Webster 1984. Registered Mme. C. J. Walker's agent. MADAM EDITH LLEWELLYN, Poro hair dresser. Work done at your home if desired. Webster 1515. MME. ZELLA SKINNER, Poro System. All work done by electricity. Violet Ray Treatments. Phone We. 6221, 2613 Hamilton Street. MADAM ANNA E. JONES TUBBS. Scalp and hair treatments. For good and quick results call Webster 5450. 1712 North 25th Street—Poro. MADAM A. J. AUSTIN, Beauty Culturist. Manufacturer of Denova hair preparations. Parlors 1411 No. 24th Street. Phone Webster 5122. Hours 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. MADAM CORA L. OWENS, Authorized agent of Mme. C. J. Walker Company. Gives scientific scalp treatments at the "Snow White Beauty Parlor", 2403 North 29th St. WEBster 2361. MADAM Z. C. SNOWDEN. Scientific scalp treatment. Hair dressing and manufacturing. 1154 No. 20th St. WEBster 6194. MME. H. J. SHEELEY, Beauty Shoppe and College. Toilet articles, hairdressing, manicuring, weaving, facial massage. Open until 9 o'clock by appointment. 1705 North 24th St. Phone WEBster 2763. MADAM WILLIE DIXON, 2426 Blondo street. WEBster 6153. Poro hairdressing, facial massage, Turkish baths. Home comforts. CARPENTERS YANCY W. LOGAN, carpenter and builder, 1622 North Twenty-second street. WEbster 0233. JESSE SNELL, carpenter and builder, 1920 North Thirty-sixth street. WE. 4630. 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 CLUBS COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB 15141% North Twenty-fourth street Webster 1822. R. L. Williams commissioner. Free employment bureau. General information. REAL ESTATE L. C. BROOMFIELD, Real estate. We buy, sell and rent homes. Office hours all hours. 2425 North 24th St. WEBster 1091. G. B. ROBBINS, Real estate and insurance. 20 Patterson Block, 1623 Farnam St. Office Phone JAckson 2842. COAL DEALERS C. SOLOMON COAL AND ICE COAL At your service winter and summer. All kinds of good coal at prices to suit. Phones WEBster 3901 and 4238 CONFECTIONERIES R. ROBINSON CONFECTIONERY 2608 Seward Street. Pies and cakes baked to order daily. Ice cream cold drinks and sodas. We. 3207 MRS. ADDIE NELSON, 2631 Grant street, We. 4948. Plain and fancy sewing neatly done. Men's fancy shirts a specialty. MRS. A. BALDWIN. French system of fancy dressmaking and designing. 2910 North 26th Street. Phone WEBster 0532. MME. E. C. GREEN. High class dressmaking, and designing. Men's shirts a specialty. 2513 No. 26th street. We. 3318. DENTISTS DRS. SINGLETON & SINGLETON, Dentists, 2411 North 24th Street. Phone WEBster 0256. DRUG STORES ROSS DRUG STORE, 2306 North 24th Street. Two phones, Webster 2770 and 2771. Well equipped to supply your needs. Prompt service. THE PEOPLES' DRUG STORE, 24th and Erskine Streets. We carry a full line. Prescriptions promptly filled. Webster 6323. DRY GOODS MRS. H. J. CRAWFORD & SONS 2208 No. 24th street. Ladies' and gents' furnishings. Children's apparel. We. 0184. HOTELS PATTON HOTEL, 1014, 1016, 1018 South 11th St. Known from coast to coast. Terms reasonable. N. P. Patton, proprietor. NEW LAMAR HOTEL, 1803 North 24th street. Tel. WEbster 6406. Semi-modern, comfortable rooms, reasonable. Cafe in connection. Mrs. E. V. Dixon, proprietress. Rev. John Albert Williams, Rector THE HOTEL CUMMINGS, 1916 Cuming St. Under new management. Terms reasonable. D. G. Russell, proprietor. LAUNDRIES THE WOODROW LAUNDRY, 2711 Charles St. WEBsther 5579. Where satisfaction reigns supreme. Wet wash, rough dry, finished work and fine lace curtains neatly done. LAWYERS W. B. BRYANT, Attorney and Counselor-at-Law. Practices in all courts. Suite 19, Patterson Block, 17th and Farnam Sts. AT. 9344 or WE. 2502. W. G. MORGAN—Phones ATlantic 9344 and JAckson 0210. H. J. PINKETT, Attorney and Counselor-at-Law. Twenty years' experience. Practices in all courts. Suite 19, Patterson Block, 17th and Farnam Sts. AT. 9344 or WE. 3180. D. H. OLIVER, LL. B. Lawyer. Graduate University of Nebraska. Practices in all courts. Jewell Bldg., 2221 No. 24th St. WEbster 0963 and WEBster 1209. NOAH W. WARE, Attorney and Counselor-at-Law. Practices in all courts. Bonds furnished reliable persons. 2731 Q St., (So. Side). MArket 5354. Res. WEBster 6613. A. P. SCRUGGS, Lawyer. Large experience. Handles all law cases. 1516% North 24th St. WE. 3567. Residence. WEBster 4162. MATTRESS MAKERS C. W. ANDERSON, 3325 Emmett street. Webster 1358. Mattresses made over in new ticks, if necessary. MEDIUMS MADAM M. M. HALL. Medium and healer. Member of the State Spiritual Association of Nebraska. 2511 Corby Street. NOTIONS PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS A. F. PEOPLES. Painting and decorating, wall paper and glass. Plastering, cement and general work. Sherwin-Williams paints. 2419 Lake St. Phone WEBsher 6366. PAYTON BUCKNER, Painting. Exterior and interior decorating and stippling. Old furniture and hard wood floors refinished. All work guaranteed. "If he says he will, he will." We. 1520. PLUMBERS NEBRASKA PLUMBING CO. J. F. Allison, manager. Estimates furnished. 2522 Lake St. Phone WE. 5846. No Advertisement Accepted for This Classified Directory for Less Than Six Months PRINTERS FORD PRINTING COMPANY, Jewell building, 24th and Grant Sts. For good printing see us. We. 1750. RESTAURANTS PEATS RESTAURANT, 1405 North 24th Street. Where those who desire good home cooking at reasonable prices go. WEbster 0530. SHOE REPAIRING BENJAMIN & THOMAS always give satisfaction. Best material, reasonable prices. All work guaranteed. 1415 North 24th St. WEBster 5084. C. L. CURRY, SR., Cobbler. Shop in rear of 1520 North Twenty-sixth Street. Work called for and delivered. WEBster 3792. TAILORS J. H. HOLMES, the reliable tailor who gives satisfaction. Suits made to order. Cleaning and repairing. 2218 North 24th St. WEbster 3320. LET OMAHA BETTER CLEANERS do your cleaning and repairing in a manner that suits and at prices which please.—2510 N. 24th St. WE. 3300. M. LYNCH, Tailor and haberdasher, wants to ask a question: Why pay more for a misfit when you can have them made to fit? 1807 North 24th St. WEbster 2088. ROULETTE, Cleaners and hatters. Speciality cleaning and dyeing at reasonable prices. Suits made to your individual measurement. 2120 North 24th. WEbster 1020. KEEP-U-NEAT, Cleaning, Dyeing and repairing. Work called for and delivered. 1919 Cuming street. JAckson 1429. J. C. HALL, 1614 N. 24th St., Omaha, Nebr., progressive tailor. Cleaning, pressing, alterations. We call for and deliver. Suits made to order. Ladies and gents fine tailoring. TAXIS GRANT STREET TAXI CO. 2420 North Twenty-fourth street. Stand phone WEBster 4458. Residence, Huey. WEBster 5104; Al. Gray, WEBster 2202. Five can ride as cheap as one. Taxi by hour or trip. UNDERTAKERS JONES & COMPANY, Undertakers. 24th and Grant Sts. WEbster 1100. Satisfactory service always. H. A. CHILES & CO., funeral directors and licensed embalmers. Courteous, efficient service in the last sad hour. 1839 North Twenty-fourth street. Phones, office WEbster 7133; residence WEbster 6349. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY ARGE