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.