The Monitor

"Race Sinks To Lowest Level In The Political Equation." ---Kelly Miller $2.00 a Year—Cents a Copy State Historical Society "Race Politic ce President Coolidge's message has been presented to Congress and to the country. It covers the field of national interests in a comprehensive way and gives satisfaction to those who like it and arouses criticism on the part of those who do not. The document is carefully, if not craftily drawn, in view of the enusing national election. The president is the head of his party, and is always supposed to keep one eye upon its political advantage, while watching the welfare of the nation with the other. This is allowable and expected. The fate of the republican party is in the balance. Is Coolidge to be, or not to be the next candidate? He himself probably does not know. But no word will escape the presidential lips for the next twelve months which will not have this contingency in view. The New York Times believes that his references to prohibition and his remarks on the Negro question had reference ulteriorly to his own self succession. However this may be, we find that these items are of greatest special importance to the Negro race. The President discloses no conviction on the moral quality of the Eighteenth Amendment. One does not learn from this disclosure whether he is wet or dry by private conviction. But he does declare in terms unmistakably for the enforcement of the amendment because it is the law. His position is much broader than the moral question involved in prohibition. It strikes at the very vitals of lawlessness, of which violation of the Eighteenth Amendment ART CLASS HAS BEAUTIFUL EXHIBITION AT "Y" Many Visitors Delighted With Varied Display of Exquisite Needle and Handicraft The ladies who were members of the first Art class this fall, were "at home" Sunday, December 12, from 4 to 7 p. m. at the North Side Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association, 22nd and Grant streets. The many friends, who came and went during the afternoon, were perfectly charmed with the splendor of the occasion. From every corner, one could hear echoes of congratulations, satisfaction and appreciation for the many beautiful pieces of art that were displayed by the class. There were roses, tulips, lilies, and other flowers, some of the plain crepe paper, others were waxed, several pieces of the plastic art done with jesso and clay; any number of pieces of the Egyptian cone embroidery—pretty silk handkerchief holders; many beautiful Glassine lamp shades in every style; lovely silk pillows, and various other pieces. Delightful music furnished by Messrs. Overtree and Hunter was enjoyed. Even the delicious and daintily decorated sandwiches and cake served with tea and coffee added to the artistic atmosphere of the affair. Among the special guests were Mrs. A. Jeffers and her husband of Council Bluffs, Iowa, the proud teacher of the class; Mrs. Jas. M. Patton, president of the Central Branch, Y. W. C. A.; Mrs. J. H. Vance, chairman of the committee on colored work; Mrs. Carrie Ada Campbell, general secretary of the Y. W. C. A., and other secretaries and friends from the Central association. The committee on arrangements for this occasion was Mrs. Jessica Wright, chairman; Mrs. Allie Jones, Mrs. Harry Leland, assisted by the branch secretary, Miss Edna M. Stratton. Other members of the class were Mesdames Louvinia Green, Hattie Hawkins, Bessie Kirby, Mabel Leco, Marie McDaniels, A. O. McGee, Anna Phoenix, Gertrude Shackleford, Hattie Smith, Rachel Woods and Miss Cuma Watson. LIFTING LIFT TOO Work THE MONITOR is but a single form in which its brazen audacity asserts itself. These are his words—"Some people do not like the (18th) Amendment, some do not like other parts of the Constitution, some do not like any of it, but for any of our inhabitants to observe such parts of the Constitution as they like, while disregarding others, is a doctrine that would break down all protection of life and property and destroy the American system of ordered government." President Coolidge is a man of even temperament and cool spirit. Like Tennyson's linnet, he is void of noble rage. One could wish that Theodore Roosevelt might have expressed the same sentiment with his dynamic personality and vehement righteousness. The president induges in polite form of speech when he says that this practice would destroy ordered form of government. The case calls for the indicative, not the subjunctive mood. This widespread practice is destroying orderly government and is breaking down protection of life and property. Mississippi elects to ignore the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, while adhering to the rest of the Constitution. New York disregards the Eighteenth Amendment, but swears undeviating allegiance to the rest. They both equally undermine the foundation of government and bring our boasted institutions to naught. America is the most lawless nation among civilized people. This nation flouts with impunity its own fundamental law. The president says that those entrusted with the enforcement of the law ought BISHOP CLEMENT DEFENDS AL SMITH Monroe, N. C.—Official note by the church was taken of the spread of the spirit of the Ku Klux Klan among Protestant religious bodies. Bishop George C. Clement of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, speaking here at the sixteenth annual session of the West Central North Carolina conference of the church, declared that he would advise Negroes a thousand times "to vote wet, Catholic, Democratic, Al Smith before you cast one vote for a dry, Protestant, Ku Klux Klan Republican like Jim Watson of Indiana." "No true American," he asserted, "can oppose a man because of his religious belief, for the very cornerstone of American democracy is religious tolerance. But even to imagine voting for a Ku Klux Klansman, no matter what his party affiliations, is an absurdity." SESQUI-CENTENNIAL AWARDS HOWARD UNI GOLD MEDAL Washington, D. C.—A letter has just been received by Emory B. Smith, alumni and field secretary of Howard university, from the jury of awards of the Sesquentennial exposition, notifying that the international jury of awards of the Sesquicentennial Exposition has awarded Howard a gold medal for promoting the higher education of the Negro. HAYES TO SING AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE Tuskegee Institute, Ala.-Roland Hayes, internationally famous tenor, will appear in recital here Saturday night, December 18. It will be his first appearance in this state since his rise to fame in European music circles. HAMPTON DEFEATES UNION FOR THE C. I. A. A. TITLE Hampton Institute, Va. — Five thousand people saw Hampton defeat Union, on Armstrong Field, in their traditional battle of the C. I. A. A. The Seasiders' 12 to 0 victory over the Blue and Steel eleven, thereby brought them the C. I. A. A. championship, the Frank A. Young trophy and the Slaughter trophy. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 17, 1926 not to violate it. This is a high and holy sentiment, expressed with sermonic impotence. Mr. Coolidge is responsible for the enforcement of federal law. Every office holder is responsible to him. Sermonizing is not enough. Roosevelt would have said that any office holder found violating the prohibition law would be summarily dismissed. The nation would have approved the drastic pronouncement. G loved hands will not do the work of the bare fist. Let the South heed the wisdom of the President's wise words. Let the "wets" heed it. They are both undermining the foundation of free institutions which they so fervently avow to uphold. But above all, let the Negro heed these words. He is the chief sufferer from violated law. He must uphold the Constitution in its integrity. He can not pick out the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and insist upon their enforcement, while flagrantly violating the Eighteenth Amendment to appease his degraded appetite or to swell his evilly made fortune. The conscience of the nation must be aroused upon the moral integrity of the law. Massachusetts cannot point the finger of scorn at Georgia, nor the Negro at the white man. We all fall too far short of respect and reverence for law. The Negro should give the nation a model lesson in obedience to the Eighteenth Amendment. When the President engages to deal with the Negro question per se, he becomes more tenuous, less logi- NEGRO VILLAGE DRAWS MANY FRENCH VISITORS Marseille, France, Nov. 30.—(By The Associated Negro Press)—Among the curious things at the Foire Exposition, the Negro village is in the first rank. It is a true Negro village and not a pale copy of the African reality, Situated between the Grand Palace and the Palace of Machines, this exhibit from the Sahara presents a picturesque appearance. About twenty huts and a hundred Negroes make up the village. There is a chief, speaking the purest French, tall, a fine type of Negro. There is a spot of red on his breast; the cross of the Legion of Honor. There are shops; jewelers who work in metal on the anvil; a kitchen, cooks carrying children on their backs while they prepare food for the tribe; a checker player—and a good one—who takes on all comers; a maker of tiny canoes; a school, where children learn to read from tablets; and in the center of the Monitor—Five village, a mosque. There is music for all tastes—expert players of the banjo, the violin and the mandolin, with less than twenty-nine strings; and the balafon, a sort of rudimentary xylophone which Maria Valente has demonstrated at the Alcazar. A spacious round hut with a conical roof is the dance hall, where are shown the dances which will be fashioned in France next year. The Negro village is full of life, of reality, of local color. "Visit it," advises a writer for the "Radical," a Marseilles newspaper. "It will spare you a long trip to the Sahara. And you won't be shot." ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY CLAIMS MUSICAL HONORS Washington, D. C.—Washington music lovers were delighted last Sunday when Mme. Lillian Evanti, Washington's own, assisted by Miss Lydia Mason, presented their brilliant program at the Belasco Theatre, but the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority to which both young women belog, took the occasion to express satisfaction with their pre-eminent position in musical circles. "We are more proud of our artists who are recognized wherever they go as most successful in voice or instru cal and less convincing. His reference is entirely well meant and kindly. The fact that he would step aside and mention the Negro in his annual message serves to bring the question before public attention. The general tendency is to let the issue pass by default. It is no longer considered good form to mention the Negro issue in public discussion. On more than one occasion Mr. Coolidge has condescended, if it be p condescension, to make reference to this disagreeable topic. For this he is due our racial thanks. We have been so far degraded in the public equation, that the smallest favor is thankfully received. If the President's reference to prohibition was a sermon, his mention of the Negro was in the nature of a prayer. But when all other modes of procedure fail, the prayer may be the last resort. The American people are besought to treat the Negro kindly, even fairly. The American people ought not to lynch the colored people for the Lord will not hold them guiltless for lynching the helpless victim. There is no indication of declarative intention or affirmative purpose, but an appeal to conscience instead of to the law. It may be that this is the only form of appeal that the American people will hear in their stiff-necked attitude of law defiance. Will they heed a prayer, though it comes from the President of the United States? "Our duty to ourselves under our claim that we are an enlightened people requires us to use all our power to protect them from the crime. ment. Some of them are Josephine Muse of Washington, D. C., who is a graduate of Yale School of Music with honors, Columbia University, and a pupil of Mme. Cecile Ritter Ciampi of Paris during the summer of 1926. Miss Muse is a teacher in the Conservatory of Music, Washington, D. C., but plans to study again in Paris after April, 1927. "Lillian Evanti, Washington, D. C., is a graduate of Howard University Conservatory of Music, a pupil of Mr. Frank La Forge of New York City, and Mme. C. Ritter Ccipi of Paris. Now engaged in grand opera work in Europe and America. "Lydia Mason of New York, who is a graduate of Fiske University Music Department, and who has won the Julliiard Scholarship of $1,000. "Rnola Miller, Washington, D. C., is a graduate of Howard Conservatory of Music, won the 1926 Julliiard Scholarship of $1,000 and the $500 Scholarship fund of the I. B. O. P. Elks. "Andrades Lindsley of New York, who also won the Julliiard Scholarship of $1,000 at one time." "VAMPS OF 1927" When the last analysis is made of the season's successes, it will be a great surprise to local playgoers if the "Vamps of 1927" are not included in the list, if the local engagement measures up to one-half the good things that are promised from Phil Peters and Rose Bernard according to the reports received from their receptions elsewhere. The "Vamps of 1927" is tabulated to occupy the stage at the Gayetty Theatre, on Sunday, December 19, with the aforesaid Peters and Bernard as the principal farceurs of that occasion. Phil Peters is no stranger in these parts and Rose Bernard is just as favorably remembered; both have at various times demonstrated their abilities to arouse laughter and sustain it during the evening, and as that is evidently the mission of their present concoction, there ought to be no apprehension as to their efforts not being successful upon this occasion. The reports about this show are said to be most encouraging. Capital is timid until it gets a mortgage on you. So is a woman. Level I Kelly of lynching." These be heavily fraughted words. Though kindly intended, nevertheless, they are potential with untold mischief for the Negro race. I believe that this is the first time in the history of the government that the President of the United States has identified himself with one element of the American people as contra-distinguished from another. He is supposed to be the president of all the people, and officially to make no discrimination on account of race, color or previous condition. The Negro does not expect to be relieved from the crime of lynching as a supercilious duty that the white race owes him on the basis of racial difference, but because he is an American citizen entitled like the rest to the equal enforcement of the law. But after all, lynching is not wholly a racial evil. Although the Negro for the time and in certain localities bears the chief brunt of the heinous practice, yet white men, and even white women have fallen victims of the mobbish wrath. Since the record has been kept, not a single year has passed that has not recorded white victims. No remedy for lynching or for any other form of lawlessness is going to be effective where the Negro is singled out as the sole beneficiary. Any such attempt is defeated at the start. The great defect of the Dyer bill was that it became interpreted as a Negro measure. Lawlessness knows no race; the law should be color blind. An effective law against lynching would be of greater national advantage than all of the pro- SHOT WHILE BURGLARIZING Little Rock, Ark.—Tom McDowell, 35, with an alleged long police record, was killed here Thursday at midnight when he was caught burglarizing the Reavis Mercantile store by H. W. Warner, white. Warner operates a restaurant on the opposite side of the street from the Reavis store and heard McDowell breaking a glass to get in. BISHOP GREGG DEDICATES CHURCH IN SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town, South Africa—Born in 1898, Bethel Memorial African Methodist Church was dedicated recently by the Rt. Rev. James A. Gregg, presiding bishop of the Seventeenth district of his church. Bishop Gregg was assisted at the dedicatory services by the Rev. E. M. Gow, and members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from all over the Union of South Africa. CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP, THE DEACON The services last Sunday were well attended at 11 o'clock after which the Every Member Canvass was made under the chairmanship of Mr. B. B. Cowan. The service next Sunday will be Holy Communion at 7:30 a. m.; matins, 8:30; Church school, 10; sung eucharist with sermon, 11; evensong with sermon at 8. Christmas services will be midnight night Mass, Christmas Eve; holy communion 8 a. m; and 10:30 a. m. Christmas Day. OLD FOLKS HOME The Christmas tree for the inmates of the Home will be held on Christmas Eve. Persons desiring to give presents will kindly see that they are sent in by December 24. Services were held Sunday afternoon by the Rev. Mr. Stell. Open doors will be held New Year's day. The public is invited. The following donations are acknowledged with thanks: Half peck of potatoes, Mrs. J. H.; one trunk of clothing, Mrs. J. M. Goff; two jars of fruit, Mrs. Alice Harding, Lincoln. MRS. BROOMFIELD, Superintendent. GROWING THANK YOU! 5 Whole Number 595 In The Miller posed legislation of the present session of Congress. But it must be nationwide in its purpose and purport. If Congress should pass an anti-lynching measure based on race, it could not be enforced. The president does not even suggest the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment, and if he did it would fall on deaf ears and dead hearts, because the Negro is the sole beneficiary. We want no class legislation for the simple reason that it would be futile. One lays down the president's message with a sense of gratitude for a well meant, kindly word, but with the reflection that the race has sunken to the zero level in the political equation. The President speaks without any sense of political obligation. Whatever he does or says grows out of his own gratis, grace and goodness. We seem to have lost all power to demand, which the ballot confers. Let us reflect as to how long this political imbecility will continue. Will it still be so after the next administration, whether the present incumbent succeeds himself or not? It all depends upon the political sagacity of the race. If we use wisely the residue of political power which we now have, the next administration will regard the race as a worth while factor and not as a helpless mendicant. Let the political tocsin for nineteen twenty-eight be—"The full enforcement of the Constitution including the fourteenth, fifteenth and eighteenth amendments." —KELLY MILLER. FATHER FLANAGAN'S HOME MAKING GOOD AMERICANS An Institution Which Exemplifies True Christianity by Taking Care of Boys Irrespective of Race, Creed or Color A new record for visitors has been set at Father Flanagan's Boys' Home this year. More than 3,000 have inspected the Home during the last eleven months, according to the Rev. E. J. Flanagan. The Home is always open to visitors. The boys have a smile of welcome for everyone and are anxious to show the visitors the dining room, sleeping quarters, recreation grounds, classrooms, work shops and other places of interest. This Christmas the homeless lads of Father Flanagan's Boy's Home are planning to have their annual Christmas party, providing the friends of the Home are loyal. Many gifts and offerings have been sent to the Home, but not enough to assure the homeless lads of a real Christmas party. "Christmas is the time when we exchange gifts," said Father Flanagan. "For the gifts of the public, we are offering good American citizens. Our job is to make good citizens out of poor homeless boys." Father Flanagan's Boys' Home is non-sectarian. It provides for boys of all races, colors and creeds. It gets no support from the Community Chest, Church, city or state. Good Fellow For Half Century Mobile, Ala., Dec.2.—(By The Associated Negra Press). While serving as a member of the county grand jury forty-five years ago, the Rev. M. F. Owens was delegated by members of that body to collect money and food to give the inmates of the county poor asylum, detention homes and homes for the aged, a Thanksgiving dinner. Year by year without interruption, Rev. Owens has gone among the merchants, bakeries, and stores and collected the funds and supplies necessary. This year a bountiful dinner was served to white and colored alike. Although moving to Solma, Ala., several years ago, where he is now connected with the Selma University, he made the annual pilgrimage. THE MONITOR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered as Second-class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS.....Editor W. W. MOBELY, Lincoln, Neb.....Associate Editor LUCKINDA W. WILLIAMS.....Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 Hundreds of people of both races are out of employment right here in our city in the dead of winter. It is a serious situation. While there is this problem of unemployment the public is being fed up with information that there is unprecedented building activity and general prosperity. This is all bunk. While the non-employment situation may be worse in other cities it is bad enough here. People, industrious people, who really want to work are begging for employment and cannot get it. What is wrong? There is something radically wrong somewhere. In a country as wealthy as the United States, which is by no means overpopulated, there ought to be gainful employment for all. There is not. Is it due to over-production, manipulation or what? In Omaha the employment agencies are swamped with demands for work, but cannot find work for the imploring workers. In times of labor stringency, its is more difficult to get employment for colored workers than for white and very naturally so. The Free Employment Bureau operated under the Colored Commercial Club, with an alert energetic man at its head who strives to find and make openings for our group wherever he can, has many more applicants than places. Miss Edna M. Stratton, secretary of the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A., which also is interested in securing work for women, although limited to people calling in for workers, has had within the past few days nearly 50 applicants for work and counted herself most fortunate in being able to secure work, most of it temporary, for twenty-four. Such other agencies as the City Employment Bureau at the City Hall and the Associated Charities, which tries to find work for all classes, are having the same experience: more workers than work; more jobless than there are jobs. What is to be the outcome of all this, socialism, communism, or what? To those of our people who have work our advice is to do your best to hold on to your job and give every satisfaction. To those who are out of work we counsel courage and perseverance. Keep a brave heart. Wherever there is a will there is a way and sooner or later you must and will find work. PAGE TWO THE M A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED OF COLOREI PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY A MONITOR PUEL Entered as Second-Class Mail Mattie Omaha, Nebraska, under THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAM W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb. LUCKRDA W. W. WILLIAMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR. Advertising Rates Furnished. Address, The Monitor, Poston Telephone W Hundreds of people of both right here in our city in the dea nation. While there is this prolic is being fed up with informatic building activity and general While the non-employment sitcities it is bad enough here. I really want to work are begging get it. What is wrong? There somewhere. In a country as which is by no means overpopul employment for all. Thereduction, manipulation or what In Omaha the employment demands for work, but cannot workers. In times of labor strget employment for colored women naturally so. The Free Employe the Colored Commercial Club, its head who strives to find and wherever he can, has many more Edna M. Stratton, secretary of Y. W. C. A., which also is into women, although limited to peo had within the past few days and counted herself most forty work, most of it temporary, for Such other agencies as the City Hall and the Associates work for all classes, are having workers than work; more joble is to be the outcome of all this, so To those of our people who do your best to hold on to you tion. To those who are out of perseverance. Keep a brave he there is a way and sooner or late A REAL CHRISTIAN INSTITUTION We commend to our readers the work of Father Flanagan's Home for boys. This is a genuine Christian institution. Unlike some reputed "Christian" (?) institutions and organizations, it draws no color, creedal or racial lines. It simply considers boys and their needs. It takes under its sheltering care to the measure of its capacity boys who need the protection and nurture of such a home. It is not in the Community Chest and is dependent upon the contributions of charitable people. Those who have a dollar or two which they want to contribute to a worthy and deserving institution at this Christmas season or at any other time will make no mistake in helping Father Flanagan's Home for Boys. COMMERCIALIZING CHRISTMAS It is to be regretted that Christmas has become so largely commercialized. Fortunately, however, even rampant commercialism has not been able to rob it of its altruistic spirit. The spirit of the Founder of the Feast still prevails and to a larger degree than we sometimes realize modifies the temptation to sordidness which is almost inevitable from a commercialized Christmas. MAKE YOUR WILL Some of our people seem to think that if they make their will it will hasten their death. Of course this is a mistake. People who have any property should make their wills, so that in the event of their death, their earthly affairs will be in order. Where people who have no heirs and no will is made their property goes to the state. If one has no heirs he should make some institution, like his church, or lodge, or old folks' home, or educational institution, or if he prefers, some individuals, his beneficiary. David R. 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Phone Red.3237 Omaha Nebraska Specialist 18 Years' Ex- perience NORTH OF POSTOFFICE WHAT SOME OF OUR RACE EDITORS SAY Unity Needed The sooner we realize that as Negroes, whether white or black or intermediate in color, we must develop a greater unity, the sooner will we all find ourselves on a better plane of both understanding and income.—St. Paul, Minn., Echo. Negro Labor Docile and Loyal Washington, D. C.—Commenting on some of the good points of the various races in America, an article which appeared in a recent issue of a Richmond, Va., publication (white) said: "Next to the Anglo-Saxon race, the most numerous in this country is the Negro race. Few people realize what that race has meant to this country. They made the South a great agricultural country, and largely because of their labor it is becoming greater each year. The agricultural south has furnished much of the cotton and other products that have made the New England States a great manufacturing section. Thus the Negro has added wealth and prosperity to both the North and the South. There has never ben in all the world a race of laborers, who, as a whole, have ben more docile and more loyal and faithful to their employers. As a race they are law-abiding and peaceful." hero Hector Tithonus, k all of the liously rela When Sir Sixty years is a long time in an individual's life, but just a day in the making of a race. In another period, as long as has passed since our emancipation, we will have been contributors to the general good on an equality, so long that this thing called race prejudice will be in the forgotten past.—Kansas City Call. Our weakness as a race lies in our lack of grit—in the lack of sustained effort, for when we try at first and fail, then we abandon all further efforts. This is where the white man beats us and has the mastery over us, for when he tries at first and fails, or even fails at the seventh time, he does not slacken his efforts once he has convinced himself that the object is a worthy one.—Gold Coast Times. All peoples, races and nations, except the Negro, are sentinels, perpetually on guard, to stop the loss of property rights and persons. No people can afford to sit quietly by while any other group is lynching, disfranchising, Jim crowing, or misrepresenting them in any way. We need to be sentinels on guard. We should be eternally vigilant. We must develop backbone by standing erect; we hardly have time to get on our knees long enough to pray. —Kansas City Record Searchlight. So we have awakened to the realization that things are not what they ought to be and we have settled down to the acceptance of the fact that, in spite of law, constitutional or otherwise, the cards are stacked against us, and therefore as we do not control the deal, we must organize our forces in a new way in our effort to beat the play. This means that the tide of segregation is rapidly bearing down upon us. As our efforts to build dams have failed utterly, we must begin to cut sluiceways to control the flood tide.—Pacific (Los Angeles, Calif.) Defender. SIDELIGHTS ON AFRICAN HISTORY (The Hamitic League) The great Iliad of Homer is the epic of peoples of African descent. Never was this dreamed of, not even by scholars, until Sir Arthur Evans made his astonishing discoveries in Crete and Mysenna. Anyone who has studied Grecian mythology deeply had much reason to believe that most of the principals of the Iliad were of African descent, but few people study the myths in such a manner. In the myths Menelaus, Agamemnon and Helen, were all the descendants of Epaphos, the black touch-born son of Zeus and Io. Priam, king of Troy, and father of the great Time Will Adjust Lack Grit Sentinels on Guard Cut Sluceways Homer's Iliad hero Hector, was a blood brother of Tithonus, king of Ethiopia. Nearly all of the lesser principals were variously related to African ancestors. When Sir Arthur Evans discovered the palace ruins of pre-historic Greece, for the first time in thousands of years the mural pictures of the peoples of Homer's time stood before the eyes of Europeans. They were not white, but brown-skinned and possessed of the African features of full lips and curling black hair. Then our modern scholars went back to Homer's epic and studied the translations. It was found that descriptions had been mistranslated and words supposed to mean white, fair, rosy, etc., actually meant brown, chestnut, brunette, etc. So Season's Greetings WOLF BROS. 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They are gifts of beauty and utility. $16.50 Electric Irons This appliance is used in the home almost every day. It is one that lasts for years and is greatly appreciated. $3.95 to $8.50 "Electric Shops" 17th and Harney Sts. 2314 M St. Nebraska Power Co. Courtesy—Service—Low Rates Massey's Little Grocery 27th and Ohio Streets JEWELRY Toyland OFFERS THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT In the Middle West They are in TOYLAND now—Duke, Prince, Pal, Dick, King—and the rest, just waiting to see you. THE BRANDEIS STORE—Eighth Floor after untold centuries Africa comes again into her own. The Iliad is an epic that belongs to her. Miss Cora Alexander was the guest of honor at dinner Sunday, given by Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Greenfield. Covers were laid for five. After dinner tea was served by the hostess to callers in the parlors. Miss Alexander sang and played most charmingly during the afternoon. STUART'S Dealer in Art, Musu PICTURE 1803 North Twent The Branc Toyl OFFERS THE LARGE In the Mid Every top that boys could want, every toy that girls could want—toys from all over the world, are gathered here in this huge collection. Trains, dolls, sleds, mechanical toys, animals—just come in and meet Santa's Twin Brother! TEN REAL LIVE P WILL WONDER HOW THAT WOULD PAN OUT HERE? A paper in a nearby town recently published the following: "The business man of this town who is in the habit of hugging his stenographer had better quit or we will publish his name." The next day 37 business men called at the office and paid their subscriptions and left behind them 37 columns of advertising and told the editor not to pay any attention to foolish stories. ART SHOP Music and Literature FRAMING County-ourth Street deis Store land BEST ASSORTMENT Middle West [Image of a man with a mustache and a beard, wearing a hat and a coat]. ONIES BE GIVEN AWAY now—Duke, Prince, Pal, just waiting to see you. PERSONALS Ed. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters Trust Building, JAckson 3841 or Harney 2156. Mrs. E. H. McDonald, wife of the Rev. E. H. McDonald, has been confined to her bed for several days by illness, but is reported to be improving. White Davis, 2032 North Twenty-first street, who died December 8, was buried from Jones & Company's funeral chapel, Tuesday. Deceased is survived by his widow and one brother. A. P. SCRUGGS, Lawyer. Large experience. Handles all law cases. 2310 North Twenty-second street. Webster 4162. Select you Christmas gifts at Thull's Pharmacy, 24th and Seward streets. Charles L. Curry, 1524 North Twenty-sixth street, who has been in poor health since he was knocked down by an oil truck at Twenty-fourth and Hamilton streets some months ago, was taken to University hospital Wednesday. During the month of December the Ever Loyal club of Pilgrim Baptist church held its regular weekly meetings at the home of Mrs. Alice Miller, 955 North Twenty-eighth avenue, and Mrs. S. B. Young, 2515 Hamilton street, where a delicious menu was served. Thull's Cold Capsules. 24th and Seward streets. Mrs. Bessie Prestidge, who has been quite ill at the Nicholas Senn hospital, is reported to be slightly improved. E-KAID—an honest to goodness hair grower. Just try it. Mail or orders promptly filled. 2218 North 25 Street.—Telephone Webster 5372. —Adv. FOR RENT—Seven room house, all modern. Hot water, heat. Half- block from carline. $25.00 per month. WE. 4810. tf.-12-10-26. Mr. and Mrs. Trulove have gone to visit Mr. Trulove's mother in Texas and will visit other places during the winter. They will return to Nebraska next spring. NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION To Eddie Martain, Non-Resident Defendant: You are hereby notified that Fontella Martain, your wife and the plaintiff herein, filed her petition in the district court of Douglas county, Nebraska, on the 5th day of August, 1926, to obtain a divorce from you on the grounds of cruelty and non- support. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 11th day of December, 1926. FONTELLA MARTAIN. HOTEL CUMING 1916 Cuming Street Rooms by day — 50c, 75c, $1.00 By the week — $2.00 to $4.00 UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Mrs. Mayme Mason D. G. Russell, Prop. — Omaha Phone JA. 2466 Make It a Radio Xmas Radios from $10.00 up Sol Lewis 1804 No. 24th St. at Decatur Web. 2042 Rev. E. H. McDonald has been called to the pastorate of Mt. Olive Baptist church, Thirtieth and Q streets, to succeed the Rev. Thomas A. Taggart, who has removed to Chicago. Thull Pharmacy has speedy delivery service. Webster 2000. Richard Stratton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stratton, 2715 Erskine street, has been detained at home on account of the mumps this week. Miss Madeline Shipmen was detained at home the first of the week by illness. The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Philip's Episcopal church held a largely attended meeting at the residence of Mrs. W. B. Smith, 2409 Blondo street, last Thursday afternoon. Thull Pharmacy has a complete line of Christmas gifts. 24th and Seward streets. Mr. Warren Brooks, who has been confined to his home for five weeks on account of illness is somewhat improved and hopes to be out soon. Miss Sallie L. Matthews entertained members of the Twilight club at her home, 2410 North 21st street, Sunday afternoon. Margery Hall arrived from Buffalo, N. Y., last week and will make her home with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Smith, 2211 Ohio street. Miss Cora Alexander of Colorado Springs, Colo., the sweet soprano who gave several recitals here and in Council Bluffs, left the city Tuesday after spending the week-end as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Greenfield at their home in Dundee. Reid-Duffy PHARMACY FREE DELIVERY Phone Web. 0609 24th and Lake Streets OMAHA, NEB. HOME SEEKERS! Here is your opportunity! I have just listed a few good homes as low as $50 cash, balance like rent. Service first, last and always. For further information call A. J. DAVIS & CO., Office: WE. 2900. Evenings: WE. 0859. Office at 2420 N 24th St. New Lake THEATRE Always in the Lead Sunday Monday Tuesday Zim! Zam! Zowie! RICHARD DIX IN "The Quarterback" OVERSTREET'S Stage Show With SHORTY GLASS Wednesday Thursday HONEYMOON EXPRESS With IRENCE RICH WILLARD LOUIS Turkeys Given Away on Wednesday Nite Thursday Nite Y. W. C. A. XMAS PAGEANT See Next Issue for Our Special Xmas Bill THE MONITOR WILL STAGE STYLE SHOW AT ATLANTA Mr. and Mrs. John A. Smith left Wednesday night for Atlanta, Ga., where Mr. Smith, who is an artistic designer and dressmaker, will put on a style show at Atlanta university, of which Mrs. Smith is an alumna, for the benefit of the endowment fund. URBAN LEAGUE OFFICIAL RECENT OMAHA VISITOR T. Arnold Hill of New York, director of the industrial relations department of the National Urban League, was an Omaha visitor Thursday, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Craig Morris. He held a conference with a committee at the Y. M. C. A. The regular monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A. was held Wednesday, December 8, with nine members present. Devotions were led by Miss Ruth Collins, assistant secretary of the branch. Reports from the chairman of the various committees were given and a very helpful discussion of the program and plans for the branch were discussed. The meeting was adjourned by repeating the national motto of the association. CARD OF THANKS We take this method of expressing our gratitude to the churches and our friends for their kindness and loyalty during the illness and death of our husband and brother, Mr. Harold Johnson, and especially Dr. Jones for his care. MRS HAROLD JOHNSON, Wife. MR. and MRS. G. A. JOHNSON, Brother and Sister-in-law. ersen Baker Petersen Bakeries 24th and Lake 24th and Ames 18th and For Your 24th and Ames 18th and Farnam For Your XMAS DINNER Fruit Cake and Flour Baked in Any Size Mince and Pumpkin Shells, French Paint Rolls. Danish Co- cial treat for your Fancy Iced Cookie Please Call or Ph Early in t We have instruc make a special eff exceptionally good Office, WEbster 4030—PH JOSEPH D. 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This is a proof that the 1926 MERRY CHRISTMAS community realizes the importance of the health work being done by the association. "Save a life for Christmas" and "When giving give health" are the slogans for the drive. The health seals cost only a penny each. Boxes containing the seals have been placed in all the hotels of Omaha. Seals can also be obtained by calling headquarters of the Nebraska Tuberculosis association, 540 Paxton Block. "Health for all and all for health." CHRISTMAS BALL The annual Christmas Ball will be held at Dreamland Hall, Christmas night, December 25. Hunter's Serenaders will furnish music. Dance until 2 a. m. A New Year's Ball will be held at Dreamland Hall, Friday night, December 31. The Dixie Ramblers will furnish the music. Bakeries d Lake 18th and Farnam Your Buffy White Cakes We You May Desire Pumpkin Pies, Paddy Bakery, Broad and Coffee Cake, a spe- Xmas Eve lunch. Des for the kiddies. 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CLARENCE DESDUNES NEGATIVE MISS HELEN WHEELER ATTORNEY D. H. OLIVER MR. HERBERT W. LEWIS DR. J. WESLEY JONES DR. J. H. HUTTEN MR. HENRY BLACK There will be a literary pr Special musical selections by t tette, and Miss Margaret Dalla There will be a literary program in connection with the debate. Special musical selections by the Zion Choir, the Silver Leaf Quartette, and Miss Margaret Dallas. The debate commences promptly at 8:15 P. M. Reserve that date: THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1927. Don't fail to hear this subject discussed, as both sides are being well prepared. The public is cordially invited. Admission, 25 cents for adults, and 10 cents for children. Robert S. 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Tarry's S, Fistula and MICAL OPERA- esthetic used. dially, maily, SEED METHOD Ask for FREE thousands of mary Trust Bldg HA.NEB. Gifts BE DING ON store CH 1927 asset to BOKINS AND MER with the debate. for Leaf Quar- ARY 6, 1927. are being well 25 cents for an CE shop , Nebraska ons FLOWERS BONDS N CIL SETS TED ONES ND CAGES small Deposit ery. Christmas --- PAGE FOUR The Doom Trail — By — Arthur D. Howden Smith Author of PORTO BELLO GOLD, Ete. (@ by Brentano's.) WNU Service THE STORY CHAPTER I—Harry Ormerod, proscribed traitor to King George as a Stuart partisan, returning from France to London, rescues Alderman Robert Juggins from a band of assassins. Juggins form a brotherhood, a former steward of Ormerod's father, to whom Juggins feels himself indebted. Ormerod tells Juggins he has abandoned the Stuart cause. CHAPTER II—Juggins tells Ormerod of a Jacobite plot in the American colonies to weaken England by forwarding French interests. Their aim is the return of King James to the English throne. At its head is one wary but courageous Jacobite, a Frenchman, De Veuille deadly enemy of Ormerod. The two are in London furthering their schemes. Ormerod sees them. Anticipating the plotters early return to America, Juggins arrives to London to write letters to Governor Burnet, friend of Juggins, and work to foil Murray. CHAPTER III.—Disguised as Juggins' servant, Ormerod takes passage to America. He meets a Scottish girl daughter of Murray, and ardent Jacob and Vaillant. He encounters him and their enmity flames. The Frenchman denounces Ormerod to the girl as a traitor to the Stuart cause. Believing him, she repulses Ormerod's proffer of friendship. He is thrown into the sea by an unseen assailant. CHAPTER IV.—Ormerod, regaining the deck, has recognized his assailant as Murray's servant, Tom, giant negro. He accuses Murray of employing the negro to assassinate him, but a truce is arranged. At New York Ormerod saves and fills Tom insult. The Indian who speaks English, is Ta-wan-nears, Seneca chief. "Your pardon, Peter," he said good naturely enough. "but that letter happens to deal with a most confidential subject." "Oh, ja," said Corlaer indifferently "But I do not read." "Take the letter, Ga-en-gwa-ra-go" said the Indian. "Ta-wan-ne-ars does not seek your secrets. But you need have no fears. This young Englishman is Ta-wan-ne-ars' friend." And in his sonorous English, with a slightly guttural intonation, he recounted how I had rescued him from his childish persecutors. The incident recalled my promise and I broke in impetuously upon his closing words. "Aye, your excellency, but he hath forgotten to add that I pledged myself to beseech you to make it illegal to mock at Indians in the city streets." "An excellent thought," approved Colden. "We have trouble enough winning the friendship of the tribes with our subjecting the visiting chiefs to humiliation in our midst." "It shall be done at once," declared the governor. He drew forward a fresh sheet of paper and hurriedly scrawled upon it the necessary instructions, then returned his attention to the Indian. "Ta-wa-ne-ars," he continued. "I need your friendship. I need the THE SENECA DREW HIMSELF ERECT friendship of every one of your people for our king." The Seneca drew himself erect. "Ta-wan-ne-ars is your friend, Gaen-gwa-ra-go. He is not the friend of Ononitio (the French governor general of Canada, regardless of identity), who rules at Quebec. Most of the white people are not well-wishers to the Indian. I am come here with Corlaer to prove my friendship. On the frontier 'tis said Jonceaire, the Frenchman who governs the trading post by the falls of Jagara (Niagara) is about to begin the building of a stone fort." "A fort!" protested the governor. "Sure, 'tis impossible! 'Twould be a direct violation of the Peace of Utrecht." "Idt is true," spoke up Corias. His voice was high and squeaky, and sounded ridiculous coming from such a giant. "Hath the building begun?" demanded the governor. "I think nodt. Te-wan me are broughtt me der wordt at Onondag. We comedt to you as fast as we couldt." "Ta-wan-ne-ars came because it w. partly the fault of his people that the French are settled by Jagara." said the Indian. "Yes," replied the governor. "Onon to and Joncaleir first made the Onei das drunk, and then bargained with them to sell the Senecas' land." "They had no right to do so," as sented Ta-wan-ne-ars somberly. "But now will you believe that Ta-wan-ne-ars is your friend?" "I believe," said the governor. "But I pray you tell me why you feel for us this friendship? When I came to New York to govern the province my predecessor told me that the experiment of having you educated by the missionaries had failed, that you had returned to the forest, closer wedded than ever to Indian ways." The Indian's face lighted up again with that grave smile which showed itself with scarcely a contraction or the muscles. "Yes, Ga-en-gwa-ra-go. It failed to win Ta-wan-ne-ars from the ways of his people. Those ways are best for the Indian. But Ta-wan-ne-ars learned that of the two white races the English were the kindest to the Ho-de-sau nne. The People of the Long House (indian name for Iroquols.) The French always have fought with us. The English have aided us. The French pay little for our furs; the English pay much. "Ga-en-gwa-ra-go, I think the white man can be an honest friend to the Indian for he wants what the Indian has; but Ta-wan-ne-ars prefer the Englishman to the Frenchman whatever may be the issue. "Na-ho!" ("I have finished.") I can give no adequate conception of the impressiveness with which this speech was delivered by a savage speaking in a tongue strange to him Every word rang in my ears. "Who is this man?" I whispered to Golden as he finished. "He is one of the two war-chiefs of the Iroquois league, both of whom are Senecas. His name, which signifies 'Needle-Breaker,' is actually a form of title which goes with the office. Moreover, he is a nephew of the Roy-an-el Do-ne-ho-ga-weh, who is Guardian of the Western Door of the Long House. He was taken as a youth and given to the missionaries—with the result that you see." He broke off, for the governor was addressing me. "Have you any objection, Master Ormerod, to my acquainting the chief and Corlaer with what we have been discussing?" I shook my head. He turned to the Indian. "The letter which you hold in your hand, Ta-wan-ne-ars, is from Master Robert Juggins of London, who was some time in the province when you were a lad." "I remember Master Juggins," interrupted Ta-wan-ne-ars. "He sent me my first musket. Is this Englishman his friend?" "Yes," said the governor. "He comes direct from Master Juggins, recommended to me for use in the plight I find myself in." "I will help the Englishman," agreed Ta-wan-ne-ars eagerly. "But you know nothing of the cause I am enlisting you in," protested the governor. "That matters little," said Ta-wan-ne-ars composedly. "If you and this Englishman and Golden are in it, it is an honest cause. What say you, Corlaer?" "It will pee good enough for me," declared the Dutchman solemnly. The governor laughed. "My friends and I do thank you for the compliment you do us, Ta-wan-nears. But I must lay our case before you, for we seek your counsel. Do you know that Andrew Murray hath secured the consent of the lords of trade in London to the suspension of the law against exporting trade-goods to Canada? Murray landed this morning, together with a French officer, the Chevallier de Veuille, who—" He stopped at sight of the passion in the Seneca's face. But *twas Corlaer who spoke first*. "That is fery stranche news, gofernor, for on der frontier there is talk that an enfoy is coming to deliver a message to der tribes at Jagara from der king of France. Joncalre is calling a grandt council to meedt in der summer. All der Indians from beyondt der lakes and der west vill come." "Strange news!" repeated the governor. "You may well say so! Murray overrides our law! Joncalre sets out to build a stone fort upon our soil at Jagara; the French king sends an officer, experienced on the frontier, with a special message for a grand council of the tribes. "All these three events come simultaneously. 'Tis impossible that accident so disposed them. Here we have the first indication of the culmination of the plot. Aye. 'tis graver than I had supposed." Ta-wan-ne-ars laid down the unopened letter from Juggins upon the table. "Let some other read this," he said. "But it serves no purpose. This Englishman and Ta-wan-ne-ars are brothers. Corlaer, too, will take the Englishman into his friendship—not because he carried this writing across the sea, but because he is a man to be trusted. So much is to be read in his face. And now Ga-en-gwa-ra-go. I would ask that Ta-wan-ne-ars may retire. What you have told me has clouded my heart with hatred, and I may not think straight." His right arm swept up in the gesture of farewell, and the door closed upon his bronze back. "What hath happened to irk him so?" inquired the governor in surprise. "Itd was this De Venille who ran away with der dotter of his uncle, Do-ne-ho-ga-weh." replied Corlaer, stirred again from his habitual silence. (Continued Next Week.) FOR RENT—Two rooms, neatly furnished, strictly modern. Private kitchen and bath. The new James Apartments. Call at 2221 North Twenty-fifth street. Web. 3634. 3T. FOR RENT—Two light housekeeping rooms. Furnished. WE. 6126 2t. 12-10-26. FOR RENT—Two rooms for light housekeeping, furnished or un-furnished. 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HAYDEN'S Santa's Assistant Now at TOYLAND Third Floor Bring your parents or some adult, and register for Three Valuable Prizes Santa is going to Give Away absolutely FREE Christmas Eve at 9:30 a.m. First Prize PONY—PONY CART—HARNESS Pony's Name is "Cash and Carry" Second Prize PONY AND SADDLE Pony's Name is "Red Goose" Third Prize PONY Pony's Name is "Diamond H" TOYS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES and testament of said deceased, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 3rd day of January, 1927, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the said 3rd day of January, 1927, at 9 o'clock, A. M., to contest the probate of said will, the Court may allow and probate said will and grant administration of said estate to Grace Jackson or some other suitable person, enter a decree of heirship, and proceed to a settlement thereof. BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge. 3T—12-3-26. LINCOLN, NEBR. Mrs. Anna Christman is confined in bed with illness. Mount Zion Baptist Church will hold twilight services on Christmas morning. The Christmas tree for the Sunday school will be held Friday night, December 24. A pre-Christmas dinner will be given by the deacon board Monday, December 20. Services were held as usual Sunday at Mount Zion Baptist church. The pastor delivered two interesting sermons. Attendance was very I. Levy DRUGGIST For CHRISTMAS GIFTS Perfumes, Toilet Articles Candies, Cigars 24th & Decatur—We. 5082 EMERSON'S LAUNDRY The Laundry That Suits All 1301 No. 24th St. Web. 0830 Give "Her" a Book she'll love Ask any officer or director for details BANK BOOK FOR A DAILY USE BANK BOOK FOR A DAILY USE HAY Santa's Assi The choir of Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. Church will render a cantata on early Christmas morn. Sunday services were held at all churches as usual and the attendances were fair owing to severe cold weather. The oratorical contest given by students at Quinn chapel last Friday night was well attended. 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