xsrrs, The l^, —r=Ji Monitor 1- i i ^ i A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans % v THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor %

---- _ $1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy _OMAHA. NEBRASKA. APRIL 20. 1918 Vo* ill. No. 42 (Whole No. 144) similar expressions were heard from LIBERIAN ARMED SHIP SUNK - Colored are some whites, but when the Colored Counsels Troops boys, their band and drum major got The Children of the Sun Command Attacked by German Submarine That closer, their sneers turned to cheers. By George Wells Parker Feature of Parade It was also noticed and noted that Bombarded Monrovia. to Avoid Trouble despite the fact that thousands of Col- man on Three Thousand Stalwart Sable Sam ored soldiers were in line Baltimore is old is ? Did he begin his pearing the earth was the black London, April 13.—The German sub- Major General Ballou Issues Order lo as the race I am mies, Headed by Six-Foot I)run>; not yet sufficiently imbued with the HOWexistence man or as some su- race, writing to you which on bombarded marine, April 10, Men Covering Question of Policy in Major Landers, Capture Baltimore ideals of to per-ape, some strange transition from about, the Children of the Sun. democracy give represen- Monrovia, the capital of the African Dealing With Civil Rights Matters. and Receive the now Let us now Great Ovation All tatives of the Colored race a place on monkey tribe lost forever? investigate the evidence Republic of Liberia, in addition to in Along Line of March. the stand. But even And where was his first home—in support of this theory. Until about reviewing this destroying the wireless telegraphy ONE REGRETABLE STATEMENT will some Eden that bloomed in the ra- come in time, for Saturday’s Lib- mythic twenty years ago proof of the station, sank the Liberian armed ves- PRESIDENT Africa or or cial of man WILSON PLEASED erty parade has made a great Asia, in some land for- type primitive depended President it was impres- sel, Grant, announced Apparently Conveying a Thinly-Veil- sion for good the and coun- gotten and never to be known again ? upon one thing, the shape of the skuil. upon city here today. A number of casualties ed Threat, Unwise, Unnecessary and Men Show Result of Train- These are some of the questions that Skulls were divided into several Splendid try. were inflicted on shore by the shells Only Provocative of Criticism and Received Under students of the human race have tried the division ing Colored Offi- groups, depending upon from the U-boat. Resentment. cers; Lieutenant Brannon of Fre- PLACED ON to answer and the answ'ers are almost length, breadth and thickness. There DEFENSE COUNCII After a bombardment lasting an mont, Neb., One of Them. as many as the students. If I should Were found many intermediate types, hour the activities of the submarine Kan., April 8.—The fol- answer but these three Charleston, W. Va.—At a recent the questions truthfully I main types were suf- were a coastal steam- interrupted by FUNSTON,lowing order was issued to the Md. — The Liberty meeting of the Executive State Coun- should say that no one knows. Yet ficient to render a fairly good account ship. Ninety-second Division under date of BALTIMORE,division of the national cil of Defense Colored men and there have been many bits of evidence of the three chief races, black and yel- army thirty March 28 at Camp Funston. It is here marched into the hearts of half women were as an that have helped us to form some low and white. And among the right appointed auxiliary many PIONEER BUILDER DEAD given without comment: a million who lined the streets Council of Defense. J. C. slight idea of what may be possible. skulls recovered it was found that the people Advisory “l. It should be well known to all former The of is an endless of skull to the black Saturday afternoon, April 6, to wit- Gilmer, State Librarian, was game thinking type belonging Colored 10.—Mr. Elias officers and men that no use- ness the named and game, and the endlessness of it race prevailed. It was in from Philadelphia, April greatest military spectacle secretary directing head very proof ful is served successful contractor and purpose by such acts as which has been seen in for with an office in the state here. is the secret power that has lifted this evidence that Alexander Winchell Chase, Baltimore capitol will cause church died from the ‘color question’ to be And the in Another of more than man upward from the brute to civili- America’s foremost geologist, said: prominent worker, many, many days. boys appointment raised. It is not a 81 question of legal olive drab the war a bit closer usual interest was that of Bess zation. These questions may never be “Thus we get a conception of a vast general debility recently, aged brought Hugh but a of and He had built a number of rights, question policy, to home. It made the spectators think a Colored man, as baggage master of answered, but in seeking answers we Hamitic empire existing in prehistoric years. large in any policy that tends to bring about a of the union station. discover facts that us whose several nationalities were structures and around this city. He the sacrifices which men are mak- Forty passenger continually help times, conflict of with leaves a number of races, its resulting an trains and understand ourselves and each other. centered in Canaan children, grand- ing to whip autocratic power which arrive at depart from this Mesopotamia, is (hildren and animosities, prejudicial to the mili- would crush and dominate the world station. Man is very, old, perhaps a Egypt, northwestern Africa, Iberia, great-grandchildren. very tary interest of the Ninety-second Di- and it moved them to a realization of million years, perhaps more and per- Greece, Italy, Sicily, Sardiania and vision, and therefore prejudicial to an their duty. haps less. Whether he began his life central Europe—an intelligent and important interest of the Colored race. The 368th the Talk of as the human we know or as ah ape- powerful ethnic family, the first of the City “2. To avoid such conflicts the di- All Baltimore is still about Another Test man is another question that has yet Adamites to emerge into historic N.A.A.C.P.to Have talking vision commander has repeatedly the that the 368th to be settled. Evolution seems to be light, but the records of its achieve- great impression urged that all Colored members of his made when an answer, but it is an answer that is ments buried in gloom almost as dense Infantry 12,000 soldiers of Drive command, and especially the officers from Meade marched in the not complete. And his first home? All as that which covers the ruder popu- Campaign Camp big Democracy and non-commissioned officers, should that man has left us are a lations that the Hamites military parade. The day was a primitive everywhere refrain from where their Niw Effort to Enlist going pres- memorable one not Students of Shaw University Subject- few of his bones, some rude caves and 50,000 Members in that only it displaced.” ence will resented. Will be In spite of this marked the first of thi ed to Indignities at Public Patriotic huts, and innumerable bits of flint, We now come to the evidence that Be Known as “Moorfield anniversary injunction one of the sergeants of the entrance of the United into Meeting, Withdraw; St. Augustine’s bone and which he has made lias clinched this in behalf Storey Drive,” in Honor of Its States the ivory, argument medical has School President. department recently pre- world war and the Takes Similar .Action. into needles, awls, daggers and fish- of those who claim that the black ra \ launching of the cipitated the precise trouble that third but for the fact hooks. If he had left these in one v as the first to develop civilization. Liberty loan, should be avoided and then called on branches of the National As- that President Wilson was INCIDENT IGNORED BY PRESS we here was Eden; Within the last ten years many caves Ninety here to re- place might say the division commander to take sides sociation for the Advancement of Col- view the and at but we have found them everywhere. have been discovered in Europe upon marching troopers in a row that should never have oc- (Special to The In the walls of which these ored People, scattered throughout the night delivered an address that clear- Monitor.) Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, primitive curred had the in all sergeant placed the set forth the aims of the in n. c., April i6.—Ra- America and on the islands of tlio men have carved crude pictures ol country the principal cities are ly country general good above his personal pleas- ■ to 17 to Raleigh,leigh’s was seas these remains tell us that men and animals, of which join April 27 in a nation-wide its efforts to crush the Germans. democracy given a primi- many they ure and convenience. This “Moorfield Drive” for sergeant Receive an Ovation practical test on when the tive man was there. But how did he have colored. And the colors used Storey 50,00C April 9, entered a as he members. This drive has theater, undoubtedly There were four divisions in th; city welcomed Mr. McAdoo and the come there? Who knows? It is hard- were red and black—red for many of membership had a legal right to and been undertaken branches as do, precipi- men mayor proclaimed a that man could the animals and BLACK FOR NEAR- by these parade, the 3,600 of the 368th In- general holiday. ly possible primitive | tated trouble it to a to Moorfield of by making possible the one. A general patriotic mass was so early have wandered away from LY ALL REPRESENTATIVES OF testimonial Storey fantry being only Colored meeting a] allege race discrimination in the seat the association’s :n These men included draftees from held at the city auditorium to boost primal home. He might have done bo ! HUMAN BEINGS. White men would Boston, president, he was given. He is strictly within southern the third loan. col- had his first home been on one con 1 themselves as black recognition of his service to the Col- Tennessee, Maryland, tin Liberty Schools, hardly represent lus in this and the ored of the nation in the Louis- legal rights matter, eastern shore of and Penn- leges and citizens in every walk of tinent, but how did he reach different would they? This is precisely the people Maryland j theater manager is wrong. vile case. In that case legally life, of were continents ? He was afraid of the assumed the greatest stu- segregation sylvania. From the time the parade irrespective color, urged | position by Nevertheless the is of residential of sergeant guilty started at Central avenue to be present. The Colored ocean and had he not been afraid he dents of primitive man and compulsory segregation and Jeffer- attendance today' why the greater wrong in Colored was uncon- doing anything, promised to be and it was did not have to travel the wild the that the black race was people declared son street until it passed the review- large an- ships j opinion no matter how that stitutional unanimous decision of legally correct, stand at Mount avenue and nounced bythe committee and and wind-swept waves. So you may the first to nourish civilization is be- by ing Royal through will provoke race animosity. St. Paul the press that the east side of realize hovv difficult it is to answer coming unanimous. This belief is weB the supreme court of the United street, where President and the “3. The division commander repeats Wilson would be reserved for these about mankind. We summed in the words of Sir Arthui States, handed down last November. Mrs. and a party of distin- auditorium, Col- questions up that the success of the with The Colored and their friends division, guished white citizens the Colored ored people. are only entirely safe when we an- Evans, president of the British Asso- people ,i|( sat, all that success implies, is dependent V When the ladies of “We do not know.” ciation: "Once we must never declare the anti-segregation victory to yj troopers were given an ovation that young Shaw uni- swer, more, upon the goodwill of the That be the landmark affect- public. far exceeded that the three di- versity arrived were to The next question is the question of lose sight of the fact that from the greatest legal given they forced public is nine-tenths white. White men the since the fifteenth visions of white wait several minutes before were race. Was there originally one race early Aurignaeian period onward e ing Negro ^ vjL troopers. they made the division, and they can break Show Results of shown their At last the or many? Did God create of one blood Negroid element in the broadest sense amendment was enacted. Training places. presi- it just as easily if it becomes a trou- dent of of men and make them of in The All the soldiers, white and Colored Shaw university was told all the nations the word shared this artistic cul- National Association for the ble maker. a fine demon- where they might be and in His own image? If so, how came ture, as seen on both sides of the Advancement of Colored People was \ J made showing and seated, “4. All concerned are again enjoin- soon as the division into How' came The contributions founded on Lincoln’s 1909. / strated the fact that the peace-loving they were seated they were many? Pyranees. Negroid birthday, ed to place the general interest of the can an ordered to move into what com- white and red and yellow and brown must not be under-estimated, for it is and has its headquarters in New York. United States raise and train is division above personal pride and J monly called the and and black? This question, too, has on this Neolithic foundation that our From its New York office an appeai army unsurpassed by any in the peanut gallery, gratification. Avoid every situation the fact that it was been answered in many ways, but later civilization stands.” for in its world. The Colored soldiers, however despite announced immediately public support membership that can give rise to racial ill-will. At- 1 attracted that these seats would reserved lately science is swinging around tc Thus may we "rest assured in the campaign is made in tire following \ particular attention. The be tend quietly and faithfully to your A men made a for Colored were told the conclusion that originally there fact that it is our race that first de- staement issued recently: very striking appearance. people, they duties and don’t go where your pres- was com- that those seats were never was but one race and that the division veloped civilization, and in the future r| The 368th regiment in intended “The National Association for the ence is not desired.” for races was caused various articles I shall for I shall mand of Colonel W. P. Jackson and Negroes. While some of the stu- into many by write y'ou Advancement of Colored People ap- conditions which our v» Colored officers trained at Fort Des dents of the white state college hissed climatic and living prove that it is blood that carried peals to all fair-minded citizens, white \\ H I T E T HEATER Moines, Iowa, and the hearing of the and jeered at the Shaw students, the are grouped under the term environ- civilization onward and upward to the and Colored, to join with it in the ef- «y ADMITS RACE PATRONS men of president of Shaw insisted ment. And of w hat race was this highest point that it has ever been fort to secure under the (j showed the results the splen university | simple justice or red or man. did training are receiving from that the young ladies should keep primal race? Was it white reached by Will not this be law for our Colored citizens. They they to The or black ? Here we ! to in? Will (Special Monitor.) 1 their company commanders, their seats; but finding that the rude- yellow' brown or something glory not this represent over one-tenth of our Amer- s. Captains Colo.—For the more of be- be to make of Denver, first time U Peeks, Seward, Sanders and others ness grew he decorously led the young begin to be sure ourselves, something you prouder ican citizenship. The National Asso- in the history of the Plaza theater, a I and Lieutenants Webb, ladies not to the peanut but cause the evidence that has been gath- your kith and kin, to deepen your race ciation for the Advancement of Col- -|* Carpente'- gallery, downtown seems to love and white movie house in the I- VWilliams and Love, all Baltimoreans back to the institution. ered in the last twenty years to increase your racial confi- ored People is making a nation-wide business district on Curtis race first race of men dence ? street, Clyde G. Brannon of Fremont When St. Augustine’s Normal and prove that he ap- appeal for membership not on any T|;inJir,d members were admitted to any seat in Industrial, a widely known school of narrow grounds of race or class privi- flW’4ebra8ka* the house on March 20 and 21. For- President Pleased the city,learned of the action of Shaw, NEBRASKANS SAVE GREAT lege, but on the broad ground of jus- jl I!,. linghuysen of New Jersey, in regards had been crowed” to took merly they “jim It should be recorded that the 368th they similar steps. to the matter and he has to tice, of equal protection of all citizens AMOUNT OF WHEAT FLOUR agreed a small section in the After The gallery. regiment of infantry made the biggest principle involved was not one offer such a bill in the States under the law without distinction of j United a three-hour debate of of the manager b'^” ar>y detachment passing the race or social equality, but one of Senate. race or creed or class. The mainten- f tickJ< Nebraskans have to the the theater was induced to show the / city hall. The Colored men passed in civic rights, the rights which belong responded ance of these just principles is of to re- famous ‘‘Trooper of Troop K” of the to every American citizen. Such appeal to save wheat, according interest to all classes of citizens Ala’ Per^ect alignment, and the showing things equal coining to Gurdon W. Wattles, AN APPEAL TO THE Lincoln Film company and to open made by the officers of the respective are particularly painful in a country ports and an essential element of national federal food administrator for Ner his doors to any seat in the house companies was a matter of the most which proclaims “liberty and justice TWELVE MILLION NEGROES strength. We therefore feel justified braska. without restrictions to the race. complimentary comment from all wh for all and in a patriotic mass meet- OF THE UNITED STATES in asking all classes of citizens to join A review of show that Ne- The showing of “The Trooper” I witnessed their bearing. ing where banners bearing the inscrip- reports our association for this common prin- jf soldierly a out braskans are less than half proved grand success, bringing I President Wilson was very much tions, “Stick together,” “Make the consuming ciple of justice and civil liberty. The as much as before the D. 15.—Our the best race citizens of the city, and I* at the made world safe for democracy,” were fly- saving propa- Washington, C., April association admits members upon pay- pleased appearance by so started. Similar come nation is in a war for its pleased the management that they I the Colored soldiers and men and ing. Up to the present date not a ganda reports engaged very ment of any amount from one dollar paid to book all Lincoln avail- from the United States food adminis- existence. To win this war we must desire films officers a high compliment. single white paper has mentioned the per year upwards. able and to give the race people per- Six-Foot Sergeant Landers affair. tration frbtn Washington. save food, grow great crops of food- “The association feels that thj “It is to know that stuffs and substitute other foods for manent equal accommodations in his Sergeant Landers, U'ho is 6 feet E quite gratifying American people have a right to be of most our theater. inches drum of the infan- BAKERY PRODUCTS MUST HAVE v/c are meeting the requirements those easily shipped to asso- of the 100,000 Colored soldiers tall, major proud W. of our said Mr. ciates in this war and our own soldiers Mr. George Gross, president which was classed as the SUBSTITUTES AFTER APRIL 11 country,” Wattles, “yet now in the and try band, serving regular army the N. A. C. P. of and it could not be otherwise. We haven in of whom are A. Colorado, best of several in the was one France, thousands national As a result of an ac- parade, army. Mr. Clarence of the war to win and must win at all men of own race. The ad- Brooks, secretary of the sensations of the not On and after April 14 all commer- we your food tive on the of this as- parade, campaign part Lincoln deserve credit for the now to do is ministration realizes that firm, because of his cial bakers will have to use substitutes hazards. Just the thing the Negro sociation an officers’ only commanding training camp above concession. to maintain the enviable record we of this nation can be of the height, but also for the skill and dex- in ajl products from the bakeries. people for Colored men was inaugurated at have started. I have no fear of the utmost help in food conservation and terity with which he swung his staff Heretofore it has been optional, ex- Des Moines, la., as a consequence of results in Nebraska. The state has- food man He is a Philadelphian and belonged to cept in baking bread and rolls. Gur- production. Every Negro which nearly 700 Negro officers were CONCERNING FRED C. WILLIAMS been 100 cent in all its woman and child can render a definite the regular army. President Wilson don W. Wattles, federal food adminis- per responses commissioned. and its conservation is no different.” service to the smiled as he recognized his salute. trator for Nebraska, announces that by responding appeal “The association, through an anti- Many inquiries reach us concerning and instructions of the food adminis- As the Colored soldiers came past not less than the following amount of lynching fund contributed by believers our traveling representative, Mr. Fred tration and its The the stand the band detached itself and substitutes must be used: WILL PRESENT ANTI- representatives. in law and order,investigates as many C. Williams, whose interesting letters Negroes have shown themselves took up a position directly in front of Bread and rolls, 25 per cent; crack- LYNCHING BILL loyal cases as possible of lynching and mob are missed by our readers. Mr. Wil- and in national crisis. the president, playing “Over There" ers, 15 per cent; cookies and ice cream responsive every violence, gives publicity to the facts liams has been ill at La Grange, Tex., Their of the and other military and popular airs. cones, 33 1-3 per cent; pies and cake3, Washington.—A committee from greatest opportunity regarding them and endeavors to but we are glad to say he is much im- to exercise this Sneers Turn to Cheers 33 1-3 per cent; fried cakes, 33 1-3 per the National Race Congress that was present day, loyalty, arouse public opinion against the mob proved and writes that he will soon be is to save and food. I am Of course, as is always to be ex- cent; pastries, 33 1-3 per cent; batter authorized by the Congres in its last help grow spirit. Annually, through the gift of able to resume his duties. It is grati- confident that will to pected, there were many whites here cakes, waffles and quick breads, 66 2-3 session, October, 1017, to have a bill they respond the the chairman of the board of directors fying to him to know that his contri- of food administration and there all along the line who per cent. drawn and offered in the National suggestions the of the association the Spingam medal butions to our columns are so highly and thus their thought it smart and a mark of intel- "Violations of these rules will re- Congress of the United States, mak- prove again patriotism is awarded for the highest or noblest appreciated and he thanks the numer- for the of this war. ligence to pass uncomplimentary re- sult in immediate suspension of the ing lynching and mob violence a Fed- winning achievement by a Negro American ous friends he has made for their kind marks. “Here come the smokes!” and license,” says Wattles. eral crime, waited on Senator Frey- (Signed) HERBERT HOOVER. during the preceding year.” words.