Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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P JtT HFOUR * . "h (pf The Palmetto Leader" Published WeekIy~By The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co.! ' P". 1 COLUMBIA, S. C. ? V " J B. LEWIE _ President * N. J. FREDERICK, Editor1^ w. frank williams _jj jp ?? Contributing: Editor | 1 subscription rates: 4 1 .' 0 One Year ... *2.00 " =: ? ,._.?ix Months 1.25 a ? Three Months .75 'e ?? Single Copy a. i05|a ' - cJCsh in advance. ?ji TELEPHONE .. - x ^ % ; ' ' ~~ ? Saturday, March 14, im " If Mr; "John. Truth," of Bos- b name pnd address, we will be 'ti 7do hot publish anonymous let-'d . ters or anything else. Articles1 qi bearing Jictitious~naroea-^most-ej bear the real name of the au-jsi ??thor?not necessarllyTorl^ldbla cation but as a guaranteeof a goc^ faith. > ' '~4tt .s i a If Editor. Roach of the Recor..dor-Indicator > does init'-Juiout}-^ " ; that there is a difference in the si acting of a private individual'b and what-should be the action' i, _ L _ l_JI of an association of people?es- j p( pecially an association that de- h T pends on and appeals to the peo- b, ' pie at large for support and suc-jtl , cess-?this Editor has. neither tl the time nor disposition to trv n; to enlighten him,? ~ ?v,u i q I _ - ? 01 * Sixty-five accidents in whiclrpw ?five persons lost their lives for;n< ~the month of February is the rp I -report of tne StateHighway de-i partment. Besides those killed 0. 17 were seriously injured and 3310, ~ eight ~of the accidents werei^ caused by speeding, careless ... driving and -ixxdne^ne^^Ihn to ? liquor. In the hands" of thetas reckleSs, the automobile ^Ts~ a"^. dangerous .machine. According to. the Assistant; 11 \ State Supervisor of Agriculture al education, the white agricul- U ^ tural teachers of Florence Coum ?r -fy have saved mor?^&han/their jm salaries for farmers oft hat cnmu^ fy"in advising them how to buy m - fertilizer. Those are real teach- eo -ers. Now, how about our col-:?1 ored teachers?.. Are thoy doing *c something real for our. people a- 4;' long agricultural lines? Some- * thing more thaii mere theory -is c ? , needed. Conferences are all [ rjght-^utsomething else too is nebdecT ; ~~ ra ;^r~''" -i- * ?* jio: The etilorea citizens of Sumter ??have been well provrded for in 3U ?? the beautiful scliuol buildtng _re- \ ;. " centljr erected by" the School-'*? Board or that hustling little city. Fittingly too has it been;m' . given the-name- of the "SavageGlover" school?honoring by the"^a " name two of its oldest and must'311 faithful lady teachers, oldest c0 r we mean in point of?service.:111 ? - - We hope that when Columbia: y' provides another school for col- jm< ored .children, its name \yill be J 0 rn j?i?ih?^Saxbii" school, injiohbr of -- one of the best, earnest, hard-1 r working and oldest teachers in; point of effective service jfr the|Pe j.'.V. ' State?Mrs. Celia Dt Sakon. " an ,i, r 4~:^:JoP ROCKEFELLER S Gllfr FOR - NEGRO EDUCATION >* One million dollars for Negro. D* education is the gift of Mr. Johnh'"'D. Rockefeller, Jr. This is the! . ... greatest amount given at gle time by one man subject to th; no conditions whatever?tKa-Kp money is for the endowmentr. fund of $5,000,000 that- is now. jjj* -being raised for Tuskegee In- j stitute and Hampton. Mr. RockT pri efeiler says thatr he gives. thfs | lie money because these schools wi ""provide an e'ducatlbn which fits j*** boys and girls lu be useful cili- ? II THE PAT,MF7 I" ' l he Set 1 By William Fri - This week's starter was first related to me by my- old friend, T^rncirlorrf ~flan TT TTomnf ah J higher and professional edu-j ion or go directly into agricul? ure, industry or business . . . . nd because of my life-long in-1 erest in. the colored-race.??Itrill be noted that he does not I ive this money to these schools! ecause they confine themselves 3 a certain kind of education but ecause they prepare boys and iris for whatever sphere-ift-4ifehat their abilities may fit themj It is indeed fortunate that men1 f Mr. Rockefeller's vision and i bility-have been and are inter-j sted in the colored race. After j 11; interest in- tho oolorod race | 5 but interest in the welfare of merica. me colQred people cer, iinly can never forget Mr. Roekreller. -""-7-?' ' ___, ? THRIFT WEEK The white citizens of Culuniia have been devoting much of' 'mb-and thought to the stimula- j ing of thrift this week among lemselves. Beginning last Sun I ay ^particular phase of this I uhjech has?been.?emphasized *ch day. Prominent among the ubjoele weie a discussion of the dvantages' of banks, building j "me, insurance; pay your billsnd making a will. As can be: gen aljof these subjects have a Imply means earning and spend-} ig wisely \Ve~do wnotjtgowr ist to what extent "the colored opulation hair been lectured on 10 subject of thrift, but if anyody in the world needs to have lis subject impressed dponi lem, it isourgroup. How ma-T V of-tio have- a hank m't'nnrnt^ ertairily" not"-enough. Everyle with any ambition coupled ith industry can start a bank ieount, be it ever-so "modest. ho colored people of this City e f-ortunate in having a bank ( lerated by themselves. Every le who caiL ought Qpen-an-ac^>unt with that hank?the Vic- , ry Sayings Bank. That bank! ill bu lurgc-orsiTim aeeoi'dlrrg^, immunity have confidence -in LJthe?colored?peeple-oflthisT I remseives."" _ :tT< The importance of carrying^ surance cannot be over-esti- 1 ated. Few Will be-able per-;( ips to accumulate~much money ( id because of that the carry-^ g of insurance -H-m ? ----- w.v, 1 ore important. .In ?his_com-ij unity three good insurance mpanies are represented by , ir own,men, the North Carol- ( a Mutual. W. H. Bforvpy, Stafp.! g?nt; the National Benefit, N. rCoTlins, Dist. Agent; and the j >uth Carolina Mutual. Jas TT. :1 )ode, Gen. Mgr. No mam( ight claim that die loves his : mily* and yet make no provis- ( n for them and no better meth- ^ r~has. beelT fuuiiOTtliaii Tifd~lTF~; Iks think it is a mark of dts^"jf iction to owe everybody. The j j an who allows .his bills to ac-lrj mulate and makes no effort to! y them is simply dishonest-Lid no good to himself or his'} mmunity; in short he is anjc idosirhhle citizen. - - -Theny last i ! make your will. We do not' ean make that the last thing-* >u do before "going west." Rej smbeF, jdylng without havingji adu your wlfl~lg~rgb~bing your'J mily of money that they will r rhaps nfced. Thrift can be a id ought be practised ev- 1 y day?- ? --- -? < r OLD FOLKS' HOME ,t i =" ' ' ' I SAR MR. EDITOR: Please allow me. space in the Pal- . >tto Leader- to' speak of my old T" Iks' Home. I still haves 4en? tes to be supported and I-wiH he 1 ankful for any donations that can I afforded. ? ~~ ^ I would like to say that the Jub- ( sQhoir -of Zion ggpflg rftnrnh wn to the ol<J folks' home on Sun-] ay afternoon and had wonderful j' ayer services, and also donated de- ( ions fruit tn the in ma tea,?I also ; \ sh to thank^the^ev. $7 Sf. Myers! ] r a splendid donation. Please pray ^ Rev. J aggers i. 1VOAUW11/ v_4 AX# KJJL the H. H. Association of South Carolina. ' ~ During the World War there was at Camp Jackson a "rookie" who went about the camp every day picking up pieces of paper arid looking at them in astrange manner* Each paper he picked up he would say "This ain^tL it." This continued for several weeks and the camp authorities beeame concerned/They prmiuunced him crazy and were considering giving him discharge papers. One day they watchfidJhim and followed him as he went about his daily habit. They became convinced that he was crazy and carried him to headquarters and presented him with a discharge prr the grounds'" of' lunaqy,/ As be took the paper and read it he said with a byoad smile: "This is it!" ?He. was sent to France with the next outfit. ~ z A COMMON CRIME Dx^JEk P. Johncon, noted minister of Atlanta, in a recent sermon. Jlit the keynote with regard to criminal failure, on the Teachrtheir children the?most important things for their moral welfare.- .. . ? He said from their birth up to the eighteenth month Negro babies have no superiors in intellect. They^watch, talk, wahc and do all things with amazing rapidity. But when they reach the age where, they can inquire they are neglected and discouraged~hy their parents. When a child asks its mother a question; she usually tells it to go away rrrrrl -rrliiu im/1 if ttrs ?-? * J V % ) Mi*V* A J. V-1IV/ VI1HU IllOlOl^ on knowing, she slaps it. The writ.ftr--?mw^R~T*7^ on birth eoritrol recently. The picture stressed two things that are necessary for the welfare society. One was the duty of j parents to act as moral, religious { [jgal and medical advisor to their i children. Every mother is her! child's ideal, and she can do morej towards making her chjld a heal-j thy, respectful citizen than the} taw and Tfre pf^tchers. Somet parents: haven't the mo-; ;al courage to warn thou* cKil-1 iren of pitfalls1 that- might en-i ?uIf them during their adoles-i sent p or iod?and-tdrisis theper-j od " during which most girls J *tiin Iheir lives. It is the"3utjrj yf every parent to begin a seres of serious- lectures to their hildren when they are_?entering a^ljeg^^tion^a^^he^^^l^t hetic of all lessons taught by ;h& -school of experience. ItV: r ba4 road and a detour friust )0 made to avoid its dangers, rhe only signboard that , can be depended upon is the parent, and any parent) who neglects lis or her greatest duty to society is unfit for parenthood. ' t>??" 3o\ernor McLearr-OTr_BorgTum. JU't er_anouier. week of sayings md actions, in the rcase of the fine Mnnntn in Afomnrinl Pnm nittee against Gutzon Borglum, vorld renowned sculptor, it is beginning to look like the whole iountry is on Borglum's side, rhe reader will remember the one of our articlodast week was martial to the sculptor. Ralph T. Jones, staff correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution, writes at length on his nterview with Governor Angus VIcLean, at the executive mandon in Raleigh, N. C., last Sunlay. ?r . v- ? r : flnvprnnr MpT non ooi/> < "T# w . ATAVJLJVU1J oaiu JLJL i jutzon Borglum does not carry! >n his work at Stone Mountain, rhe-great memorial to American reroism, the stupendous monu?ent to the headers of the Conwill never ^ be eomeaid: "Out Mjt . Hn ~ 1 *' . ? 4.v , J..::?. . ? , ... J ? ?- ?I ETO LEADER lrchlight ; . ' :| ink Williams. [ of all the "great sculptors of history, it is doubtful if one in a thousand of them would be able to execute work on sucft a mAflflilJA BPQIA '1 -- - j? " lilOODI Vt: QLQlC> r? When questioned as to public opinion in North Carolina in regard to the controversy between thg sculptor-awH" the executive committee of -the Stone Mountain association, he said men and jwomen over the entire state were solidly with the sculptor. "THe way we regard it," he said, "Is, that with such a glorious undertaking as Stone Mountain Memorial waiting to ibe_completed. and with Gutzon jiSqrglum, Hie only man in the ' world able to do it, we would 'pardon him if he was in our | state prison condemned as a murderer, take-him out and put him to work." . ' Governor McLean praised Gow Clifford' Walker, of Cpnrgin, fnr persuading the committee to annul the requisition papers preThis is another demonstration of farsightedness on the part ?>f jCarolnia. With just such men jas Governor McL.ean in the lead jjNorth Carolina?is rapidly be! coming the greatest southern state. Her educational nrogramher state highway improvements, her great consideration of the problems of her citizens, both white and black, displaya degree of culture which is not 'common to all state govern-ments south of the Potomac. 0SO3O&&OBOL I GOD IN NATURE, j S nv rem u? o Whether we believe in a biologic God with arms, legs, and other human attributes, or whether we concur with a noted church official who said recently, "I believe in the all-in-all in whom we live and move and have our . being and to . whose laws we ..must all conform if we are to attain the most abundant life,"?-whichever we believe, the inexorable fact is, there is a divinity in natural phenomena which has a very tangible effect^ upon us and which lifts us ontt of ourselves giving communion' with a spiritual force more sublime?thaft - - anything human. And I have no apology to make. for calling' that super-thing i God, since I live in th? jfreatl -America?another expression . for toleranee -of-rehgiousbe* liefs. There is something in_the nature of man which seems to demand an earthly' intermediary in his religious affairs. A confession made to some human appears to offer jnore immediate balm than one made in the darkness of the closet. ^-?ou^-eenfess that a confession to man is the harder. If you seek then an agent between yourself and God?one to. whom confession is easy and yet gives undelayed sympathy, seek the out-of-doors, glorious, impetuous spring; the mystic, inspiring sea; or the welcome invitation of the" arorhic pines/ Their blessings are given to' those who soek not; to those: who seek, the glories of Para-j Hiao oro rovooln^ V4.WV V* A U The poet has caught the divinity of nature when her speaks of spring thus: Whether-we look or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, - An instinct within it that reaches- and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, ' Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers. ?T~?i' ^STTTiTir" ii 'iiteiifliMiv Now the heart is so full that xlrOp overfills it, I We are happy now becau; God wills it. I There is an unseen Divinii that reaches oUt~perpetually ! us; if we cannot be touched t It so IriucTTfor our spiritual d generation; if we can, so muc fojfr our regeneration. jCven heterodox Omar disclo es the force of even the potter clay. " . - ? --- ? And if we are desirous < still other examples, what grea er spiritual minister would yc want than a garden_of rose | jasmines and hyacinthes. L. And the sunset at the end < 1 a-perfect Jtme day is a wlCM |faOTer confessor. | rfhe sun has then spent ii I challenged energy and vou voui You know that behind the crce; inc i?ro*+a?n-... ?. p cr?rww ?? v%* vw n uc*j * ; hope, as you know within tl | enchanting sunset's glow tKei is relief from the sorrow of tl day. _ -You sit down with your e bows on vour knees and yoi head in the pocket of ' yoi hands, and you gaze into tl west and are yourself nojnor You have caught the-spirtt^ tho ounoct' and you lay yoi troubles at ita feet. ~The"~e5 change is sudden, for the spir of the sunset is the apirlt ( God.?This we know for whe the last red speck sinks into tl distant skv and the, rising n phyrs chant melodies for tl r? VTTl O" (t&V vTill nnma Tvo/il. * O 9 J VU W1UC UaV/li I yourself ^relieved of your burde and a song of joy in your hear THE VALUE OF A MAN. ^The first and most impoj tant contribution which tl churches can make toward an mallei uf right human relMior is to preach the. gospet~~of IE Incarnation/' declared?Bisho F. F, Reese in an address hi J0HNS0N-BR1 Funeral Dired Embi 1115 Washingtor COLUM | 3^ Kfapp? aI Siew I ?IS THE |Victory Sa To Each and Everj | __ _and J We have just pai< | h members of our 192 & which meant so mu tone of them. We want 5000 mei | to join our 1925 Sa\ x x We hope to pay oi ZZ * r mas and would like I J: number. -- ? COME TO THE B^ I . LET US WR I Viflorv Sa I -W. H. HARVEY, President, $?ee?esoeeee>>inoMHisss< ? V ' - ? < * --- - Saturday* March 14. 1925. , fllforr, FH* 1 -^nnnr<1 nf Churches. The Negro is. a man, se as God revels the meaning of manhood. He is within the , ty unity of the race as the Ijicar- 1 to nation reveals it. The religion )y of every man or group is fatal- __ :h regard him. tiff he Negro is not, liks the s- white man ,in every particular. s mere are striKing aircerences, physical and mental,buthe is af one with^the white man-in his t- -essential humanity,- When the >u churches hajve^ converted their 9, own* people and have led them lo accept that truth and to 3^ base their relations to the Neig gru un lliat principte, there will be cordial co-operatioii and et>nts fidence between the races. , . r? "The responsibility rests. t^ifiEstaipori Jhe white race, just in ie ority in strength and capacity re ahd just in so far as it has en ie ^oyed advantages and civiliza tion which the Negro has not enjoyed. Right relations whrch reconstitute morality and true re ir ligion will inevitably promote ie justice and fair dealing and;. kindness ^and brotherly conduct ir that it will be taken for granted r^-Jbhat ho iiTohtltlod to the oppor It" tunity to make, under God, the iflbest uf himjMT of which he is ? capable, and that no prejudice ? ie or contempt or injustice on the a. part nf the white man will hin ie der or handicap him. Under God, he will have every oppor^ froirr-his stronger ibrother to ^ - work out his salvation, individually and racially." NOTICE. * Communications intended for y the current;, issue must reach ~ 18 this nfflea, (if nut, nf tnwn) nnL ie p- 'ator than Tuesday night.?Gf-?-? s^-ty news by Wednesday night. , IDLEY-MORRIS tors & Licensed aimers - - ? . 1 - i St, Phone3S12 I BIA^S. C. | " ~ 1 . ? x~x~i~X~X~x~X~X~X~X~X"X~X~X' 11 n6 "prosperous <; wish op-?. - ..? vingS^Bank ]p~ one of its Depositors "fiends.., , j 4 Xmas Savings Club, \; ich happiness to each ~:c . * t i r - ? ' - . , ? ' : nngs Club. it $50,000 next Christ- 1 j for YOU to be in this | NK AT ONCE AND :: ITE YOU UP. | vingfrfiaftkj|= - G? L. FIQTO Ca^Merr?j h ># ?l ItMIMOriMOMIMItt .