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The Southern Iadieitor. Published Weekly. e*LU?SIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. PHONE 2657. tv?eerIptfiea Ratte (In Advance.) O&e Tear .... ?? months .. Tare* zaonths $1.50 .90 .so IMPORTANT. The subscription price to Tn? In dicator only entltlea a subscriber to the paper and sot to publish free Caria of Tljanks, Obituaries, etc. These cost extra. Sene ILO?! wi+h obituaries. $1.00 with a Card [of Thanks, $1.00 with a short article on church and Sun iay sehool Work, unions, conven tloas, conferences, etc. Marriage fumoaacements, $1.10; amarriate write-up, $1.01 up. No tfeas, SSc. ujs. 8eid or bring the Editor. AuduST 30, 1921 Register! Register!! Register!! Headline Lynches Whfite Mob spirit! Mississippi Mob Man." is so rampant now that white lyjnchers have turned on themselves as was the case a few days ago in Mississippi. Just as we expected, the new past time of iaring Uncle Sam by tarring, feathering, sacking, drag-, ing and dumping in the streets, of] white men and women is the work of the newly reorganized nefarious Ku Klux Klkn, a branch of which is organized in Columbia, and a gainst which nota single protest was entered >y the powers that be. Just what has happened in Florida Missississipp i and Texas, is likely to happen right here in Columbia. T Just how 13 hold the Negro down without stay ing down themselves, is still a problem far the underclass of whites, while the average Negro is least concerned and therefore will not grasp the legitimate means of advancement at his command. ! eoe Some people keep so busy at tending to of her people's business time to at ss. ~ * " ;-;>.: " The business and professional men and women of Atlanta, are raising $5,oj)0 with which to en tertain the ljarge delegations that will attend ithe National Negro Business League in that city Aug. 17, 18, 19. will give ourj This effort alone readers an idea of the value and importance of attending this meeting! And we trust will prompt themj to go over and par take of the good things said and done. The Indicator assures each and every one that at this gather* ing they wi|l get new inspiration, new business ideas at first hand. I * ? * Now that ?Hon. J. W. Tolbert, the reconize^ State Chairman and National Committeeman, has won out in everyj battle over the many *'would like| to be Republicans" and has proye "* himself to be the proper man to shake the plum tree in South Carolina, we may expect old man Tom Miller and all of his kind?the Lilly White crowd?to take a back seat while the true and tried oli liners pick up Mr. Tolbert's shake downs The ending of this fight brings the greatest!victory to true repub licanism it ; has been ours yet to witness. The Negroes of South Carolina owe Mr. Tolbert a debt o gratitude,-?or this victory, which they shouldjoot let go uupaid. This victory makes conditions in South Carolina more hopeful as Mr. Tolbert has his first time to \ betray the tjrust of those who have ^trusted taeir greatest interest to > keeping. j?\ we understand it, Mr. Tol , 1 Mil ?eti no dictation as t< how Ik JmM should be measure* ?UtaS Lwill understand condi tions m Vh Caroiina and knows his friends as his enem well as th ss. rom e^ ies and friends of the Grane OflL^ And win hand out the ph^ according as their works have oot It now remains to bt ^ whcth. erornot \Ar. Tolbert ^ make good his pledges or defaulHnd gtt in the bad graces of his true and tried friends as he is already with those who were lined up but fell by the way. This is an old line Republican administration, but the adminis tration cannot do its full work un less all of its members or officers are full fledged to the party. So we would admonish Mr. Tolbert be careful in considering New Con" verts many of whom are not con verts to the true principals of the party. Because of the explicit confi dence it had in Mr. Tolbert, The Indicator has been one of his ar dent supporters, and until he be trays the trust it now has in him, it will still support him. It is now time Mr. Tolbert to call your men under the plum tree and give a good shake. ? * * We are grateful to the many who are expressing to us their great satisfaction with our late editorial policy-and the general contents of The Indicator each week. We are especially grateful to our good friend Dr. J. W. Sexton of Spar tanburg, a constant reader and firm believer in The Indicator, who was moved to write us such a pleasing article this week. Which article appears on front page. We invite the attention of our readers to this article that they may read what a man of worth and standing in his community has to say about Negro journals and how he backs up his saying with thirteen paid up subscription to Negro papers. It goes without saying that men like Dr. Sexton with stich a large city and country practice in and around Spartanburg together with his drug store and other business interests, has not one-half the time to read Negro papers that the con tract hand, farmer and other labor ers, yet to keep abreast the times and to keep in touch with doing of our people he finds it his indispen sable buty to subscribe to pay for and actually read a large number of Negro papers. Yet there are scores^f^ who never see a Negro newspaper and cannot be persuaded to sub scribe to them. There is another class who await the coming of Negro newspapers as eagerly as the neighbors themselves who have enough race pride and honesty to subscribe. These belong to the.14beating:"class who believe in getting all they can at the expense of the publisher and their neighbors, matters not what the cost to them may be. This is one of the great hinderances to) Negro journalism. Like a tub o crabs the poor publisher is trying to make it with all the crabs pull ing him back. There are many Dr. Sextons in South Carolina who believe in and back up The Indicator just as strongly with words and deeds as does he. And were it not for these many Dr. Sextons and the unfail ing effortr of this humble servant jf the people, The Indicator, would have long ago gone the way of the dead after many other papers. But it still lives with more hope than ever, that the long oppressed people it represents will soon more Fully realize its real worth and ap preciate its service. We cannot fully express to Dr. Sexton our high appreciation to him for these high expressions of us, of our position on matters per taining to the advancement of the race along all lines but especially racial co-operation which is so badly neglected. We feel, how ever, that we are unworthy of these laudable praises, and will only use such to rekindle the hope that we may some day prove ourself worthy by rendering more effective service to a people who will soon realize the great worth, not of the man but the newspaper that will turn to our boys and girls the bright side of the picture in rebuttle to the dark side that is daily turned by the other fellows. 1 E il ti n S n h is o a K ii o 0 t! P a ii Mr, Samuel Vanderhorst is spending his vacation in New Xork with friends and relatives. n b t c d ii ii t s u tl u our qreJFw()RD! SERVICE was our |iim E very day during 192$ R endering each customer the V cry best Si R V I C E I nyour power will be a: C onstaut feature of our business E very hour during 1921! TRY US! ALLISON LUMBER CO. "The SERVICE Yard" Phone185 729 Lady Street The Economy Shoe Repair Shop J. C EUBANKS, Prop. First Class Shoe Repairing All Work Guaranteed PHONE 2107 1011 WASHINGTON ST., COLUMBIA, S. 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ROBERTS, Photographer Jrifig Pressure on Congress to Pass the Anti-iynch ing BUI. Every colored man and woman i the United States who wants o see barbaric crime of mob lurder wiped out in the United tates should, as soon as it is an ounced that the Dyer Anti inching Bill is reported out and j before Congress, telegraph at nee to i :s ?r her representative sking his support for the Bill, lever bsforehas an anti-lynch ig bill advanced so far as this ne. La rgely through the efforts f the National Association for he Advancement of Colored peo le, whose representatives have ppeared at hearings in Wash lgton and conducted correspon ance with senators and repre entatives, there is every pros ect that if colored people unite, be bill may become law. This nil put the entire federal govern lent behind prosecution of mob sts and lynchers. It is now or ever for if the present bill is i ot enacted, such legislation will e set back for years to come. It is therefore, not too much ! o urge that every colored Ameri- j an eitizen spend fifty cents or a oliar in telegraphing to Wagh-1 ngton in support of this most' nportant measure. It is now up o the colored Americans, them elves, If they want this meas re to pass, it is in their power o have it. If they fail to take nited and nation-wide action, he responsibility for the failure nil rest squarely* upon their houlders. Here is a concrete pportunity for all of us?church es, fraternal orders, all organi zations and individuals?to get together and work as one unit, ten million strong. We shall keep oar readers in formed and shall announce the moment for action. ANOTHER WORD FOR THE INDICATOR. Mr. Roach, Dear Sir: I just want to let you know that I receive your paper everj week on time. I enjoy- reading it very much. I think it is the best colored paper that carries the news for our people and not a fraid to speak the truth. Willie P. Poole, Box 1079, Washington, D. C? 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