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Bp The Palmetto Leader ; \. Published Weekly By E??The Palmetto Leader/?ub. Co; N. J. ^REL)ERIGK-rilr_JPATditor Ejj - ' ?i?? jdontributing Editor F GEO. H. HAMPTON, Manager One Year _ ? __"L | pix Months ! h2f. Threo Months ^ ~ .T.c Single Copy _ _ TET.fphonp .?.? . 452:: ?^ SATURDAY. JAN. HL.1925. / : Kbu. ... 1 ^ - - _ ?i- We appreciate the many kind ex. _pressions and wishes for our long lift ^ and prosperity. ' But nlcnse remcm ber, that your subscription acconv panied -by an iron man or two wil ? go far to help in making your wishe: ' a reality. * _ U? ^ * JT _ The General. Assembly i>f South tA rolina convened Tuesday. The mos important question that faces it i: _perhaps. that of taxation?and every one is interested in that subject The inauguration of Governor Mc Leod will take, place next Tuesday. . ^?m m ?' 11 ?? The Legislature of California rati .-fled last-week^-the^driid Labor-^A. mendment to the Federal Constitu tion. This makes the second stat =?==?To TatifyT AT~kanann borng?the fir^i The proposed Amendment if rntiliui by th<f" necessary number \of state will be known as the 20th . *?*? Another Governor gone wrong Jonathan M. Davis, Governor o Kansas, and a ""favorite son" candi date for the democratic nominatioi j J for president- last summer seenis t to issue pardons. The governor hai only three dayiT more~to serveT^Setgj ' succeeded by the newly elected" re . publican gnvamnr ~ V " * " - -J.. i . ...? , -Xtie_appeal case of "Marcus Garvev the -would-be -'emporer," has-beei -? hoard last Monday but has -now bcoi EL1... set for a hearing January 19thr: Gar vey has a "sentence"" of "fiveii-ye&r's'' ii a Federal prison hanging over hi head, we would rather see him do ported than serving this' -sentence He if ( not an American, bulra~grafting foreigner. ? - > ' ? j ~~ ~ ? r?< ?The- Peoples- Reeordtrrr-thcr^raldos ? .... colored weekly in the state and-tin v? Southern Tndicaiop^ which has beei pyhli?ihc<l in this etf y?for the - --fifteen years 1 h:tve ftffisoIhTated. Thi consolidation "of these two wceklie: will irrtean_a_ stronger and better.- pur veyor of news' and opinion's. \V< ? wish to cpngrjifi11 ata Editor Roaol Z7 and Manager - Taylor on this movi and wish for the Recorder and Tn _ dicatur deserved-success. ? ? - '-'*** "-Llz_*? " * * * - : Columbia's Juvenile Court had ; hnsy time tha pant yooi'i a total ? 947 cases being handled accordipj ' - ?to-the report-of the Chief Probatim officer. Of this, number 520 ^vcn young colored oiTenderst_ Colored *rvf ceny charges while the whites led th rol nt?Orl r*?nn#l wiviwu IJU K'a"u lUIUUIiy casus Count on the whites trtway? for~~th grand things, while the Colored broth ""Cr seems satisfied with the pett; things. ??? =, ? ? i?* ?^-3U~ : * ~r Judge t)evore who-4*^d- the?crrm ???inal Court in Abbeville last week 1 quoted as saying, "The entire aspec of the .Court in this County ha changed^ within < the past few year: Formerly it was a rare thing for white man to bo tried and one neve remained in jail;-bi^t now the docke is made up principally of white me - -and the jails are fulj to overflow in .withTthem. .-The Negro m- CrroTtrTiTn is the 'exepetion, t J the rule." Tha certjllp>y| nnnnur^frit^-iL m?k?t Tl difference how it is viewed; whethe the Whites are the ones filling th inild Wfllica f lirVve. rf""" mvvmmov mvjf . TY I1U V1MW114J III - law M?-nw- being given trr imriei . stand that the laws are made fo them tQOy hp' Whether^-the fewrtess~c the colored people is due to the mor afaeBaggg?oL. the?TSv Whatever may he the cause, it is hopefoT sign of progress. We trus g* ^ however that , the colored man's at ' -eence is due to moral improvement faj ; . jte his reeognigation of the fact t?a j^^iirime doesn't pay. 1: . ; HOWARD UNIVERSITY LOSES ^Vhen the Interior Department ap"JTtopriatioirlrill was passedTasf week by the United States" Senate, the anioiidmw^'carrying an appropriatieiv I of $185,000 for the construction of 'a pew medical school building was withdrawn- by Sneator Smoot because ' Senator Overman of North Carolina 1 indicated that-he would make a point ! of order against?it. It is to be re* i gretted that such an item would be > opposed by^any -member of Congress, i Because of inadequate facilities HowUniversity is unable to educate yearly anything like the number of colored physttnnns that. are needed tn j.eare lor tlio ill among tno colored <Mtr izens pf-this country. There are only t wo - medical collcgesof Standard cur?rioulu in the whole country to etluVcate physicians, for the 12,000,000 colored citizens, Howard'University' and - Meliarry MedicaL?k>llege. red attention to their people is a fact 1 well recognized. 'That the welfare of *' the' nation depends on the healtl^of . I its citizens is too plain for argument. How then anyone, claiming to have , the* besT" interest?of the?nation^rat heart, can for the mere sake of a point of older eiiiiple-a-t'olletfe.HlrlV^ t ing-to do a Work which is of vital im5 portancc to the nation, is a puzzle. sj There is not a state-in the .Union Uiat . maintains a medical school for the - education of colored physicians. It is true that colored students in?the Northern states can attend the schools provided but in those states the coTflr* -trd populutioiT'Ts comparably small. - The bulk of the population is in the - j4iig medicine aheTnrm the-S.?>uth and e. will after training practice in the iHSotlth. Jlhe South hiore than anv tl oilier section wmilll 'iJL'Ml'nt ffamTFre s enlarged facilities for medical training at Howard University.. Why and how then could a Southern Congress man persuade-himself that he is do?ing a wcn-thy- and sincere service-to ' cither his section or the nation at f large-by blocking the appropriation' "?Senator Overman has k>ng-been"a Senator of North Carolina and certainly ? could not he-looking forward tn fining sr:rometbi7Tg like1 keeping' a; colored '* scfiool out of-a few thousand dollars 2-.lo which he can point with pridc^vvhcn j Representative Byrnes of South Carjolina tfied" sach~ polit+cs-' in an effort to be elected Senator from his state , _and was decisively detcatecn The 'sen-* 1 j timent of both of these States is^ for ^more apd better schools for the color^"ed citizens'and this is reflected in de. I tided increase in appropriations?fbr s for the education of colored people. " I . - O jj UUiN j 4rbLU ASA b LLK-tK. "White men are making cats' paws STegroe3^#h tKe~litiuui traffic and too many are hollering^ 'dry' and .{playing 'wet.'/' said Judge?G.?CL a j Featherstonc last week in. "Sentencing ^ 1*5 while mair- and two colored men cony iott?Td on the -/Aarffo e | a titill.n-That the-Judge has accurately described a condition that is all {too common- is. known not only?by a-those who have experience in and a^ i rounil Hie .(.'duns imr hv r> .7t Is desirable thaF colored" people and .; white people work in_ harmony and ?jeeopcrativcly "yet spch~~wnrk ^hnrdri (be honest, open Swidabove board. 4 No jdecont white man is going to ask a Tcolored man tof-do- work that ho knows ir^is. contrary to law ory injurious to f society, and when he does the-eolorrrtfd mkr\ ought hiive sense" enough to T : roftTKTT "Of course^ there are bad e white men and bad colored men and .jitiis ndt-hard to get such~a combinae j however," is - that there are so many i. j simple minded colored people >vho bec ! lievo that they~Ought-do just what any -1 kind of a White^ man ask him to do ytor employs him to-do. But simple .as- they are, they are not so simple that as a rule they do not know that they are doing wrong. They do it because there is h~Taclt of moral coufi-|age f6 refuse. \VhiTe~Tudge - Feaths erstone in this instance .gave the t white culprit a severer sentence than s I he did the two colored men,, yet it s. does not alw"ays work out in that a | manner. Often the colored worker or r; violator is the only one caught, the d' white man nhways having it planned nj t hat and-when it happens other(tpvise -it is because the-pi arts -go~a wry ^| Ce^or^cljt men ought get it in their l j minos ana nearts uiat it aocs not paj *r? to violate the law ftrfd to do so ber| causa-he i?.employed does not makt e! it any easier for .them. If one just o, can't help from doing wrong, he cei; ""-jfainTy ought "have sepse enough tc >iTdo that wrong for his owi^advantage if"]and not for another. The liquor traf e fir iq rt hgfjjpess full nf Hnngnr, Buffer. t. ling- anil sorrow.^ You may_get awaj it cost will he many times greater thar >- the profit. There are too many hop'. ;; est wtfys t<5_earn a livliheetf that art it tgjcerrt--and upright for one to. rui such risks as there are in the Ulicil i. ?_?!? THEHfrftEME1 'H' 'I* :: 77 By William Fra - ABRAHAM LlNCOfcft, It is not our desire to discuss the life 4ssue-ef~ February 7th will be-more* appropriate. ."But this writer was ' ^so moved and inspired by the "sheen's | greatest drama"?Abraham Lincoln? i which has. Keen on Atlanta screens i for two weeks that we are jfprcod tc5 j mention "the name of the man who jisaved America. " -cr j the jg mulnnlit Hi lT7T^ most accurate pictur e that h as ever rheen-screened. ? The fffe and advcnilufes of "Honest Abe'\are pictured i from the time he was born to the . time he was assassinated in Ford's ^Theatre-, Washington, by John Wifkc&, ( Booth. -'The Ciyil War, with all its r|f**tfhrpg, ATlH t.hft mnny prriKlomq that confronted the President as well as t the T?nion Armies>^are pathetically [pictured."? I Perhaps the reader will see the picture. I-should never attempt to-deI scribe it. I Tan' _only- say it is~~an inspiration to the young AmreicanV even though he be a Negro, tothintjuf the hardships which confronted o^r emancipator " throughout his life, 'it makes us know that we can make it I in spite of the hard knocks of our j fellowftian. o J~' :~7 a-jr?*?-* T^-?Catenate Industrial Schools ' . .TV" . While some of- our schools are so fed up" on endowments that their heads scarcely know how to keep or j spend jthe ; money^ other schools are suffering- for the lack of fuTKte~WiTlr .which to meet elirrent ^expenses. ( takes no head-scratching or nose puHfing to understand why this conditiont obtains,?The wealthy donors of--these institutions have said that they believe strictly Trf industrial trainine for the Negro youth and feel perfectly "justified in giving their money as they see fit. ^ I believe in industrial trajni_ngr-for ithe~ masses and realize That without the gifts in huge sums to industrial -ptrftinmg^rh7mlg^Tir-y?irfr as a Whole 'would be doomed to be the proverbial i hewers of wood and drawers of water, b . But it is a sad and contemptible ne!gl,ect on' the part of the philanthro-" pists not to remember the-Negro col-" 'ItJgGS fift'd professional schools when ^.tliey^feel-it their^duty to do-something -foniiumanity. Colleges niake~teachcrs and proachors and business mom and ! Surely the health, leadership, and christian'training of our group are as i important to the country as trained^ fworkqrs, fOT=uvhat'^wbuld a race of i trained workers, do If they. had no doctors to heal their wounds and give j trained preachers to give their souls 7 "the" righr" "kind" "of rood' and their" : heads a clear cut knowledge of tire jhiMjftT . 1 .1 . , , . _ _ whiskey business. Qwit being a. cat's | j paw for . anyone; the paw that pulls j . the oHfTCtnnt-^' rmt r>f tlio fiv? lh<? : one tUatrrs -always burnt."" T" NEGkOES lN HIGH SCHOOLS." | At -a conference of'State Superin-.. jtendents of Education recently held in Gulfpurt, Miss,, statistics of Ne gro high school attendance -wcre-prc; sented that are not at alL^creditable I to the race. By them it was disclosed [that but 5.2 per cent of colored peo] years attended high schools, both public and private, while 25.2 per cent |of white children of the same ages are . enrolled in public . high, -schools 'alone. Such a poor showing fcannot ' be excused nn the grounds of want of high schools.- If there are not so many private-ones. "But from none of these schools is the cry of over-crpwd! ing heard. Indeed, in most of the i high schools the problem is to get a sufficient number to train. But just 'where cToes~the ihlame for this poor ' showing lie? Is it in the schools* ! themselves bbcause of a failure on the 11 part of the teachers-^*} ?o\vaken the linterest orihe pupils? Or are econ.! offitc "<T6ri(KtTbhs "aF QSTEoUora of- it ? f Whatever the cause, there is work ' ahead for the leaders and educators'." -j No one with less-than a high sehoof i 'education is equipped to bCcOme a very t effective worker in the scheme of life. t Such a preson is destined to eke out > | a precarious existence, catching as 5rcatc& e?nf as it wjjje. Parents .[the sake1 of a- few conVtnjent dollars ..now should not ullnw HipjT"yKiTrTrf?n tn > fop/ ovrpptmnal ohes^ the pupil* leavi ing school before at least a high school - course for a job will find out,- later ; that he paid too-much for the few dol^ i laga that he gets. A "go _yp high U achooI^cruaadeTs in order. Miniatera iiiiiiiiUfatiifiiiii r TTO LEADER .1 irchlight N" I ink Williams. | We are glad the industrial schools are given niil^?Qns but, colleges should ! be given enough to give our boys and goes in any schools of the country.? ? ? I TOBACCO-SUPPLANTS COTTON. ? ..South in yja.d LUlU'll \sPk^ welf known as tne King of southern agri1 culture,?A?f?\v years ugu .uiie Mr. rBoll Weevil came over from Mexico pftw.a visit and "found things" to Txlsliking. So he decided to stay:?He J seemed tobe especially fond of Qcor"jgia cotton, a? it had-a sort-of "Linger -Awhile" -taste. Sp he~ reduced the acreage a few million pounds to appease his appetite. Fortunately the Northern states were in need of common laborers from the South and our while aristocrats of the Southern plantations were~befcoming boMtn^ in ^tftefr ^practices of [peonage, lynching and other forms TUT" lnul_treutni<>nt to their helpless ; Negro. tenants and servants. So, many jyf our group answered the call from thelNorth*. Many-remained and are doing well. Those TbTTus wfto -chose to remain have witnessed a complete transformation in all forms of life. Inters racial "organizations .have been, jostru"mental injbnngfng about better -relations.-feetwceTr the^aces; diversified [cotton is- no longer king. And as a last encouraging, discovery,.the value lol^fobaceo cultufe^in 3uulli Georgia -has -wane t m^-farnlVi's-^ft-own at "cotton raising Jn spite of the fact that his grand old plant is going big again. In-Sogth'Gcorgia^tobhcco is the talk j of TOdayr Thousands Of experienced tobacco planters from North Carolina 'are migrating to South Georgia and -building-large warehouses. Our people who remained on the Southern Harms are fallinginto the tobacco jramiv Ti ulyT The good old" times are -back -again. .lUayi.tii^ tobacco craze ' continue and?sp?ead front the fofcgv of Middle Georgia. I???*j r. - *??-' ? *- ? * /Villi EDITOR. The management of The Leader did a eic.it setuctj tu Culumbja and the I entire -section ~ when they chose Col. X, J. Froduriek to writo the policicniy^Souih Carolina'!; nowor.t and great' *est race journal. He wields a pen "with case anil witlr the dignity "which is characteristic of him. Experience ! and ability, in addition to his knowledge of legal and civic mftttprs-_maka. hi3n-.Hic.lo^cal?man?for the TTositiorn AHiy he discuss our problems in a wav that will enable us to meet them and solve themjn. the?*Tafest-and sanest [ ^ ^possihle. , r- i shoud preach it^teachers?should emphasize it, intelligent men and women ovcrywhere 'iihould?bury?tlienfl .I.. . 5 rr? '. . ? r-viv v.s \\ I til IJy. LO LUC- CtUl tttUt OUT ! high schools should everywhere fre so crowded 1 hut IiIhT" cry will go -fortlr for-more and better schools. ? LEADS IN BUILDING.; OF NEGRO SCHOOLS : Shows Way in Use of I^osenwala Funds, Hill Reports. i "iV" i?r -f ^ ? * m South Carolina has fe<? all South schools under the RosejowalcL _?und I? ^? ? rrr ... *" *" " ^ " - ? --- ? | since July 1 last, according to W. B. Hill, assistant state supervisor of Ne! gTO sehnots, "who returned?Monthly from a conference of school supdrvis! ^4. /" .?!* i HT!__ . 1* 1 1 .* iiHo ?unmiss., canea Dy tne general education board of New Yorkr J. B. Fclton, state supervisor of 1 schools, returned from the conference Saturday. . ? , . I South Carolina, Mississippi and North. Carglma are showing the way i to other Souther nutates m the buildling -prog-rain- under?the fund; and in (rrth'ei' te'spoets, Mr. Hill said. Since ^1,^expemiiturcs^in this state have [_ Jiscu^SToh at the.conference, wjiich IcyntsQ hirae eh. dt de soesshss twns"fitte?hded Tiy several state superintendents as well as Negro school t sypcrvisi>rs, centered nround teacher training?wprk, 'greater thoroughness iin .the ? 4f?mmt*ry grndey "ttftng stressed.-?The State. . - ^g, 1..J 1 * I' A t . - . __ , ~~ Miss Grade "Lowndes has been the'guest of Miss Emma Folder |for the past! few weeks. ? - - -T^? * * 7 ' :i; '"> *-?r-" . . , - 0jS& WE.' TC8C8?C8?????3??3C838?3C83^ (MATRIMONIAL, j .. HARMONY. I BY JEAN JEW. ? '" OOSa??S?BB??5^XlKC8^0mO^ ; Tho<u> brethren whn forever strike discordant' nutes on their matrimot*? ial instruments, might be helped if they^should observe these points of hariftony. L ," f. . ?The technique is^siihple but results " come as unsuspecting as the harmony ^ of--tl^o fcost-Chord. . * ' **- ? : Do riot begin something wfrich^yotr ' know you cannot continue. To discontinue a pleasant thing be, t ransferred.Thea too, you .may have ya business, problem which causes pro tracted serious thot. But that possi bility may not dawp. upOYiher mind. Do not be too^~eommanding" nor yet too yielding". T5e~ former may 'cause your wife to, lose sympathy [for you; the-latter [ may cause a loss jof prestige. 4?Do not-agree with?all of trer j thoughts, nor oppose her every idea: ; To do the first may .cause her to become disagreeably vain. The other | may cause" you to becorrte1 unnecessarily offensive in her sight. If'wives would have their way be [not -authorijative ih your demands. "You carvrhle without that. --^Whan reTfn?told .Tamoa a Via mimt 4.att?nd the Afternoon Club, he^must ; take supper down town-and' he must j call for her not-later than eight regardless to any business engagement, his reply was that" she must-remain J home and prepare supper, for he will be late ajt-r+be office. And so-she^d^d. *- But the~nexTTithe she said that she j would like to attend the Club, but must prepare warm supper for him, i~Tames insisted that she permit -him to have supper-down to"wrT apd^ealL by ror her ift any time desired. Wives do not expect your husband?" , to ,be playful at all times. They canmot too readily shiffTpoth thes more : serious working mood to-play. Learn _to_ coax the transition eautionly and [ without"" a show of impatience. Do not acknowledge your knowledge f Of_their"transient iniplpflsnntnOss; a\. "though you may do so. after it has passed. L Do not persist- in trying'to reason ^things out^during^mn undue fit qf ! emotion. - The sense of reason is | blhhk. ? - ; . T " : 1JOHWSOM-BRA Funeral Direcft ? Emba 11115 Washington x**x**x**x?x*<**x**x**x,*x**x,*x**x? ;!; 3'Ccippy Ctrl | ?IS THE 1 11 Victory i A. ro Each and Ev?ry< ?and Fi We have just paid ? members~of bur 1924 | - which meant so mu< $ one of them. ; | We want 5000 men to join our 1925^Sav: , jl _We liope to. nay ou | mas and would like J if .number. _? | COME TO THE BA LET US WR1 '& T~T~ WB PAY 4% ON" 8 f- VMory Sa ? W. H. HARVEY, President, ?" * ' '" . " \ U-*{\ J. *-\ - ! Saturday, January 17, 1925 White Men Taking P1ft??fl flf Kctf j QUO ' ? In Abbeville Jail, " r ??. ' ' ' f - ,'d r ? Abbeville, S. C., Jan. 9.?Court , - ^ nt gPHPral sessions adjourned hire-- t today after a very quickly despatch etL business session,due to the splendid _ services- of the officials. Judge , Devore so expressed himself before , adjournment and especially corfimended the clerk of court, J. L. Perrin,? . i'.errin has beery clerk of court here for over a quarter of a~ceMUfyi He says the entire aspect of the court in this county has changed within the^ past few years.. Formerly it was a rare thing for a wl\tie man to be tried, "ami onV'never remained in 'jail; _ ' but now .the docket is made up principally of?white^ men -amb-the jails are full td overflowing" with them. The-Negro, in court now is the ex- m ception to the rule.?The Record. > * CASUAL KILLING ?t- ^Ul'' SLAVES. ?= Away back in the sixteen-hundreds the grand assembly-of Virginia passed this curious law concerning the "cas ual killing of slaves." " "Whereas the oyly lawrin force for the punishment of refractory servants resisting their^ mastery mistress or :?jaweseer canfiot be inflicted upoii^Ne-? groes, nor the obstinacy o?~many of therti Tw nthpr tLnn moan a Suppressed.' ' Be it enacted and declared by this gtana assembly if any slave resist Ms master (or other by his master's order correcting him) ?. and by the extremity of the~COTrecTiou .should chance?to die, that (lis death shall nol be accounted felony, but the master (orthat~persoiTappoint ed by the master to punish him) be acquit from molestation, since it can-, 4ee ' (whichr alone makes murder fcl- ? ony) should induce any man to.destroy his own qptate"...-^^-^ ' . """" ^ . ~Kindness,sympathyyuhder standing, patience and thoughtful attentiveness, sooth raw surfaces, quiet troubled waters nnH toon n irronokln ? ?? M54v.vuuit uoiiuuujr. - - SB? DLEY-MORRISl ] ors & Licensed 1 mers | ? ?. _ _ _ j. . 5t. Ph6ne3512 31A, S. C. I .VISH AF " :: (rings Bank I \T1 jt\ AT Donhaifnita X me yi iia it/epupiturs , ^ * rieiids. f "?-:= 1 x; out $25,000.00 to the ]y/ J : 'Xmas Savings Club, ~j | 1 o , women and children ;: v_ ings Club. ~ .-.r.: t $50,000 next Christ^?: r~ ?or YQU to-be-in thigj ; . NK AT ONeE AND f J iTE ifou. upf??"'I" J AVIN6S ACCOUNTS. II ^ vings Bank 1 G.L. FLOYD, Cuhter;" '' ?????? .?.. 111111 M l 111 ,? ?! [illi :..J i^~ ;. ^