The monitor., October 02, 1915, Page 4, Image 4

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The Monitor
A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious
interests of the Colored People of Omaha and vicinity, with the desire
to contribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the
community.
Published Every Saturday.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Post
office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879.
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher.
Lucille Skaggs Edwards, William Garnett Haynes and Ellsworth W.
Pryor, Associate Editors.
Joseph LaCour, Jr„ Advertising and Circulation Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.00 per year.
Advertising rates, 50 cents an inch per issue.
Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
PREPAREDNESS.
It’s in the air. It’s the dominant
thought of the day. And it pertains
chiefly to military preparedness.
Somehow men cannot rid themselves
of the idea that some of the greater
powrers of the world have designs up
on our country and that when we
least expect it some foe may attack
us. For such an emergency it is
claimed we are wholly unprepared;
and that therefore it is only the part
of wisdom to enlarge the army and
navy, strengthen coast defenses and
expend millions on fortifications and
ramparts.
We are not of those who fear at
tack from without. The foes that the
nation should mor;t fear are to be
found within our own borders. They
are greed, lawlessness, divorce, in
temperance, extravagance, a growing
caste system and class-antagonism.
America, in our judgment, has more
to fear from these insidious foes than
from the heaviest siege guns, the
strongest navies and the largest
armies that can be turned against
her. And while it is possible that we
may have to engage in battle for
home and country—which may God
forfend—to us it seems improbable.
We should, however, bend all our
energies to raise the moral tone of
the nation so that the foes within may
be subdued and expelled. This calls
for the united effort of the best brain
and brawn of the nation.
Can we but have a nation domin
ated by justice and righteousness—
and wherein the humblest can feel
that all his rights and privileges are
secure, this will constitute the chief
factor of our national preparedness
for whatever the future may have in
store.
With any large number of American
citizens smarting under a sense of in
justice, the mobilization of army
corps, the assembling of fleets and
the building of arsenals and forts will
avail us little should foreign foe at
tack us. But with a happy, pros
perous and contented, God-fearing
people America is invincible.
WHERE TO LOOK FOR SOLDIERS.
Under the above caption the follow
ing lettrr, which furnishes food for
thought, was recently published in
the Army and Navy Journal:
San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 6.
To the Editor of the Army and Navy
Journal:
I trust it will not be considered pre
sumptuous for a mere civilian to offer
a suggestion concerning our plan for
national defense; but as the sou of
an army officer and as the father of
two others I have always taken a
deep Interest in military matters,
and read the Journal every week with
as much care as a “regular.”
In devising the new plans for the
mobile army and for an adequate re
! serve system I hope the war depart
ment will not overlook our Negro
population.
The Negro is first, last and all the
time an American (and from the
looks of things we are going to need
Americans). He loves the flag and
has reason for his patriotism. As a
I soldier he has time and again proved
his courage and fitness as a fighter.
In time of trouble out of the 12,
000,000 Negroes in this country, an
army of 1,000,000 men could be put in
the field, and this force, made up of
the descendants of ex-slaves, may yet
be necessary to preserve the union.
It would be a strange thing, indeed,
if these Negro-Amerieans (and they
seem to me to be the only ones who
can properly use the hyphen) should
be able to repay their debt to the na
tion by aiding so materially in defend
ing it. HENRY TERRELL.
We have learned with regret of
the death at Washington, D. C., where
he went to attend the national en
campment of the G. A. R., of Dr.
S. K. Spaulding. Several years ago
we were a near neighbor of Dr.
Spaulding and a warm friendship*
sprang up between us. He was one
of those high-class, broad-minded
Christian gentlemen of the other
race of whom there are far too few.
To his wife and daughter we extend
our sympathy.
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The Burgess-Nash company is to
be congratulated upon its welfare as
sociation, which it has established
among its employes. It is a move
ment that could be adopted with ad
vantage by other firms. We are in
sympathy with all movements that
make for the betterment of any class
of our citizens, whatever their em
ployment may be.
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By way of reminder, we desire to
state that you ought not wait until
the snow begins to fly before laying
in a good supply of black diamonds.
In buying your coal get into com
munication with the coal dealers who
advertise in The Monitor.
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“MUF" means “Move Up Front"
when you board a street car.
Safe to Try.
A friend of Nat Goodwin’s was
staying with the actor at his home in
California, in the hope of obtaining
relief from chronic dyspepsia. One
day he was taking a walk along the
beach with his host.
"I have derived relief from drinking
one glass of salt-water from the tide,”
said the invalid solemnly. “Do you
think I might take a second?”
Goodwin reflected deeply. "Well,”
he replied, with equal seriousness, "I
don’t think a second would be missed."
—Osteopathic Magazine.
Letters From Our
Readers
JUST A MINUTE, FR. WILLIAMS.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 25, 1915.
Editor The Monitor:
I have read Father Williams’ letter
in today’s Monitor and he is wrong.
Evidently he has been reading Rid
path, who is more wrong than he.
The terms Negroid, Negroloid, Ne
gritic, Hamitic, African, and many
more have been used to squeeze by
the term “Negro,” but I am going to
stay right home with that term and
prove that the "queer expositor” wins
hands down.
As to the Ethiopians, the Grecians
named them that, meaning "the dusky
faced ones,” and no historian, except
Ridpath, ever had the nerve to call
them Caucasians. There are too many
Ethiopians walking around loose now
adays to raise a question as to their
ethnic relations.
Let us take the Egyptians. Here
is what William Flinders Petrie, the
greatest archeologist who ever lived,
says: “It is certain anatomically that
there is much Negro blood in the old
est Egyptians.” Once more. The An
thropological Society of Berlin sent
Dr. Rudolph Virchow to Egypt to
bring home evidence that the Egyp
tians had no Negro blood. Imagine
their joy when the eminent scientist
delivered his home-coming address
with this introduction:
“I thought I could find, by compar
ative examination of the living and
the remains and pictures of the dead,
some points establishing the change
of ancient Egyptians into the Egyp
tians of modern times, but I have
returned with the conviction that
ancient Egypt and its neighboring
countries have not essentially
changed during all these periods. If
Menes really existed, then they were |
in his time Negroes, since quite old
mural paintings show Negroes with
all their peculiarities.”
As to Semitism, how is this? Fred
erick Ratzel, in his "History of Man
kind,” says: "What further contrib
utes to make the Negro physiognomy
less strange ,and bring it nearer to
our wonted conceptions, is that in
many of its manifestations an ap
proach to the Semitic type unmistak
ably emerges, such as one may often
call Jewish in character. There is
some foundation for the view that in
the Semitic type of the Jew, the Arab,
the Syrian, and so on, there is also
an underlying mulatto type. There
is a germ of truth in it.” Whew!
Here is an official description of the
sarcophagus of Esmunazar II., King
of Sidon, who reigned in the country
of Jethro: "The features are Egyp
tian, with large full almond-shaped
eyes, the nose flattened and the lips
remarkably thick and after the Negro
mold.”
Did you ever see a white man look
like that, Father Williams? If so, he
was a Negro with leucoderma.
Please read Shakespeare again,
lago calls Othello “a black ram,” and
several other naughty names. And
the Moor in “The Merchant of Ven
ice” orates:
“Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadow’d livery of the burnished
sun.”
And the young suitor becomes so
excited that he asks Miss Portia to
bring him
“The fairest creature northward born,
Where Phoebus’ rays scarce thaw the
icicles,
And let us make incision for your
love,
: To prove whose blood is reddest, his
or mine.”
Some challenge, that.
Now the Moors were largely Ne
groes converted to Islam by Moham
med. The latter was of the Southern
Arabians, the Abbasids, a black peo
ple, of the House of Hashlm and the
Tribe ot Quyrsh, which house and
tribe trace their origin back to the
union of Ishmael with a daughter of
Yemen, a Negro tribe.
Space forbids further discussion,
but I have much more of this sort of
evidence and the authorities quoted.
But of all things, don’t feel sorry for
us. Hope on. We are doing tolerably
well, and we are so vain as to be
proud of it. Peoples, like the ocean
tides, rise and fall, and our tide is
rising and not falling.
GEORGE WELLS PARKER.
Timekeeper (arranging starts for
golf tournament)—Name, please.
Golfer—M. de Valmont.
Timekeeper—Tuts, mon, we canna
bother oorsel’s wi’ names like that
here; ye’ll start at nine-thirty the
morn’s mornin’ to the name o’ Mc
Pherson.—The Sketch.
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