The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, April 25, 1925, Page THREE, Image 3
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Saturday, April 25, 1925. .
BOOK CHAT ?
r - By'
MARY WHITE OVINGTON,
Chairman, Board of Directors of thi
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People. *
?"BLACK CAMEOS**"
By R. Emmet. Kennedy. Publishe<
by Messrs. Albert ft Chan. -Beni
39 West 8th Street, New York City
Price $2.50 postpaid.
?"Black Cameos" are sketche!
of black people livipg in South
ern Louisiana and whom this au
thor, a white man, speaks oi
with kindly affection. Mr. Ken
? nody tollo uo in liis ui efacg~tfia^
; he began to collect Negro spir
ltuals at the age of" thirteen
, "and it was easy work, living
as l-did-,*-rn a small town whert
the primitive types of Negrc
were all about and showed greal
willingness to let me take dowi
their songs and comments am
conversations^ ^Fhis book h
made up of notes, bits here anc
there, songs, sometimes with
the music, amusing anecdotes
n^Plakes its place with Gonzales
"Black Border,"' the - collectior
of Gullah-tales. _
Mr. Kennedy's preface is rc
pleasing, his emphasis on the
Negro's habit of "thinking ir
picturse," "his^ naive, unhampered
imagination," "his natura
~ disregard- for syntax^anff^Sb?
rect. pronunciation, his gracefu.
elisions and gentle eliminations
oi any harsh consonants," thai
.' . one has-a right, perhaps to expect
more thaiv one receives ir
the bulk of the book. For the
stories that' he tells us, whik
probably who 11 y charmihg~wher
reniteri hv a rhrnter flf thr rlin
lect. are'"not PVf rnnrrlinavtr xirVio-r
r _ J If IIWI
Fr read to one's self. They ofter
turn upon the misuse or misun
P derstanriing of-English. _ Take
r for example, this one called "Chi
I valry."
The Saturday night "feesh fry1
was in full swing. Everybody wai
having a good?feime-excepTlme lan
ky, lonely looking colored girl sitting
-?-?over in thc~corner of the room. Sh?
had been a wall flower all evening.
After a whi 1 e^ a tallr dandyr-Wae)c
velvet complexioned young colorfcc
man walked over to her and jsaid:.. .
p "'Souse me, Mis^young lady. bui
r " Bint yn' nmil" MlrT' Micron John.
H- son?"
1 OYas suh, mah name Miss Magnolu
Johhsop." .
"Well, Minn Mncrmtin, H yn'~pfo
gram fill' yet?1' ?
"No SUh, finwd. lrnnnm mntv-pro
" _ - gram ain' fllP. " No suh, ~ *001156 al
I bin had to eat dis evenin' was one
| slice mjllim' "
* " 1 f fa Tn fV\A nnll
-i/ io uiio i,uiicunuii ui spir?
< ituals that .the ^writer deems tc
> me to have-4one most valupbk
?service. There are sixteen giv.
| en/frith the music and' manj
1 more with only the words. These
1 are woven into the stories, ofter
f are a large part of the stories
In his preface Mr, Kennedy tells
us "the spirituals or hymn^, m
J 'ballets' of the Southern Negroes
|< are origfnar productions which
k* the authors go about singing
H ' frqjn church to-church, the con?1
gregations learning them bj
M ^ 1 -IV ^ At-'
)wviu ui mourn. 11 rney oecome
popular, theauthx^-havethen
printed on narrow strips of "pa
per,^ and they~*are sold to the
church members a?t five cents
each. Many of them attain tc
j - almost gigantic proportions ir
J - number of stanzas, fifteen * tc
^ twenty being considered a smal
number to tell a Bible story
M with every intimate detail."
W Mr. Kennedy hplipvpq
m wnile some of the Creole songs
f^TXouisiaha Negroes may have
- a> relationship to old Spanish anc
Provencal compositions, the de
4 votional songs are " essentially
J spontaneous. "They are the
1 unpremeditated melodies thai
* 1'have never been learned or pon
Idered over and worked out foi
4artistic effect." To which we say
| "amen" and wish that the Hamp
- / ton and Fisk qimrtettesj She
1 others less famous, could take
1 1.1-J- i-'- t. , i j *
.i j,nia 10 neart ana cease to maks
^ great music commonplace . bj
1 their imitation of Glee Clul
I forms. How one does hate ed
I ucation when it lays irreligious
1 hands on this noble primitive
I Gretna, the village of whicl
I
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I The Week's Editorial.
White Press
B (From the Brooklyn, N. Y. Citizen
April 6, 1925.) ?" 7'
NEGBOES* RIGHTS
?INVOLVED^
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, Thr- righis-of-the-co 1 ored race
in America to the franchise is1
I involved in a case which has |
been argued in thp courts in Texj%s
and which will be appealed
J from them to the highest tri-_
Jbunal in the land, the United
f States Supreme Court." Not on,-lly
are the,rights o?-the Nogroco
t invfylvfjd but the good-faith of
-_the Nation is at dtakc. ~
A law passed by the Texas
r J State Legislature in 1923 tfel
.clared that no Negro should be
} eligible tcrvote in a Democratic
L-J primary. Dr. L. A. Nixon, a
x I Negro, sued for $5,000 damages
^[irmii-officials when his ballot
j I wae-refuseiii in '"the primaries.
j The courts cjeedied against hhfc j
{ This decision was affirmed by
the Federal District Court oir
appeal. . ' j
The court defended the action
- x>f the-effieials since it was ihi aecordance
with the law^which
/ had been upheld by the Supreme
{ Court of the State. - It was held
ithat the law did not infringe the
il rights of the Negro to vote.
_ 1 hi nee-it was a primary^ and not
an election. -- ?
jl ' This is begging the question.
(. Nomination-at a Democratic
^primary in Texas means elecJtion
of the nominee, andUEolE?
J deprived of the right to vote
'J at a primary is to" strike a blow
~fat "the victim's right to par tic-'
jipate in the choico of officiate.!
L1 "This- case- will profoundly afj
feet the Negro in America," very
_I truthfully remarks James Wolidon
Johnson. Secretary of the
^National Associatioi^for the Ad1
vancemerit of Colored People.1
J So long as-N'egroes can be dei.
prived-ef-^retr access to the baJV
lot, just SO long ^T1 thpir?ppnnrTomic,
legal, political and Other
I righfs Jie. disregarded-with 4mi
punity. ^ w --- -I
The people of the South, who
J forced the Eighteenth Amend|ment
upon"the Nation and who
1 demand that it beA respected^
- have themselves fdr many years
^yiolated the provisions of the1
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth.
j^mendmentSr-- The^eer.
sion of the courts that a prim-|
> arp is "not unconstitutional is
,; based upon a torhnicality^-Suah-i
indecisions as this tend to bring
r the law into contempts The peo-i
J pie want justice to rule, not
J legal technicalities,' in "the ad-!
^ministration of jiisfire." _~?|
ThpNational?4Jfbaft
2 League Launches^In?
v dustrial Program
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. \ New York. April?Thp Na-j
r'tional Urban League has announ;
;jced the inauguration of its na-;
tionad4iKhrstrrat i)rogram which]
.^has been under . contemplation!
> for the past year-for the pur-!
5 pose ?of conducting a strenous
> nation-wide campaign for larg-j
l[er opportunity for Negro work-j
)'ers The direct?** of this pro11
gram is T. Arnold Hill, who for1
,! the nast. fiorht vooro Vioo T>/\ *-? ?->
x ^ JL WWA U AAC4Q VPCil |
the executive secretary of the!
E j Chicago-Urban and League-andi
i; western field cenr?tary of thf*
? national "bjganization. 1;
Mr. Hill, whose headquarters
.'are now in New York City, has;
r had a most" successful adminis?
tration in Chicago and the west,
t In Chicago he developed the lea.
gue from its incipiency to the
r point where it had sixteen work7"ers
and a budget of $3,000 per
11 Kennedy writes, is justacroas
5! the river from "big New Leens."
J, The stories bring to remfemrnbrance
the beauty that has come
3 out of that great city from Ca
ble, Kato, Chopin and many oths
ers. It is a land of picturesque
; and lovely things to which the
' Negro, as depicted in ttlis bbpk,
i brings his share.
-y- TBTETPALME1
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A Department o
18:.'?= By WILLIAM
(All contributions to this pep;
8?poetry," accompanied by stampec
J2. and- sent to-1501 V(> ^Payter^gtrrCo!
? column. Allworthy manuscripts
g name. Amateurs aml poet^aapirai
g tha'. talent, if you have it.)
The Editor of this De'part'men
jJS; siring poems on anv subject for a
Hgr moriams, expTesslons ni friendshi
kinds.
jj On the afternoon of April &
the Reverend Richard Carroll, w
lid. As I sat and talked with.hi
i thought of how sweet to him no
r>f r.hri^rmh mihictrin Pom* ind<
-antrpast to look back upon when
rinire takes~lTim avvay from the bi
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SHU':
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By William ;
To sit da<y after day, an<
Of long and tedious 1
? The slow approach
That engulfs all at la
One haS full time to visi
Ruve thru the past, t!
Live all one's happiest ]
r. ? ,p4)|ec} as we've filled tl
Full pleasant 'tis to hav
??-Attentive-to-our ever3
Flowers and rnnTpst si
rr ?Bright sunshine thru
^Blithe h>irds in sweetest
And everything with
. V Or in drear winter, sit 1
With children's voices
But oft there are mpmeri
l^hat comes to those si
Come^from the silent 1j
Where all our thoughts
?.?: Thing# that-we thought
- done, '
Lofty or base,?each
Revive and pass before"
... Reviving long dead jo;
? <?l man tho rrron i
Not like a dnngeomviAfTis
the memory of a
In which vile thoughts
" ?Tn the vile filth of tmfer
A life lived only "some
Whose past is a record
- More pTecious yet Than h
........ _ ? Is a life of loving sen
- Qno in ist sweet embrace
Is stern to us, yet kin
Thorn the busy-^crowd, -si
Cure of the.greater -Cu2
"The world that was. Rei
I?,1 "Into the mind and tin
In the mirror of the Pas
The gold-rimmed shad
Then pleasant 'tis to sit
The tedious hours rkf_
Away from the crowds i
Away from the thouod
iniRtH nrahrFsrHf tie woi
year.^^He^ lau^^he^^fQuncI^tioii
number ~bT~western ci?*es and
became The outstanding authority
on the problems of race relations
and the Negro industry
-in?soefat "work circles" regard^
le\s of" coloi\
?'Durirw/ Mr P I !hlPO?n VO /-?/-? I
. ? o V..V vy***vi*5V i UV.U 11UIO
Jie- wai. .instrumental--m~-brings
ing together the leading white
and colored citizens of Chicago
resulting in_Hig?ofltablinlimcnt "
of the Chicago Commission of
Race Relations which publishLed-arrep6rt~wirmfFis
considered"~
the niQst^_authopitative report:
on race conditions yet present-'
ed. Before leaving Chicago, Mr, I
Hill was a member of the Ex-1
ecutive Board of the' Council of \
|Social- Ageneies^-aiid the! Social J
Workers Club. He also was a1
member of the committee rep-1
'resenting all of social agencies
^SfnTTvicag^r which published air
ftHthnritntivn rnpnrt nn -Pi. [nancing
of social agencies.
Mr.'Hill is thirty-sjx years of
age, a graduate of Virginia Un- ;
ion University and has specialized
in the social sciences atNew
York University.
The program of the Indus-,
trial Department is as followgrf
1 nn^v -a. i J? ?
_x. au sLaiiuaruize ana co-ordinate
tho local employment ag^H
encies of the league s that exchange
of infonnatiori and more
regular correspondence between
them can assure applicants for
work more efficient and helpful
service and employers of labojr
a more efficient group of enfployees.?
. 2. To work _ directly- with !
large industrial plants both in
rro Deader -.p ?
LEAVES :-: - |j
f Current Poetry 18
D. ROBINSON. ? j? I
artment must be typewritten, "real :2
1 and addressed return envelope,
unrbia, S. C., to the Editor of this ;3
will be printed under your owp :g
t offers his services to anyone de- j5_
ny occasion, such as epitaphs, me- |g
ip, or' |opics for programs of all 4.
th, i was la guest at the home' of J
ho is .now convalescing, an inVa- j
m, I was suddenly moved by the 1
w is the memory of his own life s
:ed is the man who has no pleas- l
The stepi ypf trrnrtlv T .nwrrTFf'Na- f
isy workhand shuts him in.
r IN.
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D. Robinson. -
d watch the passing
lours, each announcing
le all wast ing deep
st withift Time'ft sloop t
It Memory Land, ? !.
^ru dark or sunlit strand,
hours o'er again, ?? . .'[m
rem, each with joy or pain." - I
- ' '' . e
our loved ones near us, L
t ~need~;^to "cheeFlis,
immer breezes blowing, ??
melody asinging, . =
living^joy aringing.
)y cozy hearth^ _
Jblent in simple mirth. ?~~~ I
niu in,?pangs tnat annoy,
and of Menjory^ Th
of, dreamed of, deeds we have?
? ^ _ struggle
lost or won,
our souls again, _ A
ys and prides or pain." ~ X
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vho has a pleasant past! ftere^the-slave
is cast,.?-? - !|!
selfish soul, -- _ 1X
Ease dreams, and low deeds rolt; ^
ry of a squl shut in, ;*>
i other to bless? ? ?1 -M
of unselfishess,? ~
all earth^s'sliver and gold, !]*
dee to enfold
j when Nature's law
id, a>nd-we withdraw $
hut in, awaiting
Oy-r-a'nd recreating . : |
flection softly steals v
u the mists reveals, ? ! |
t, Memory, ? X
ows of the things to he, ?? ?f%
? .
and dream away ?
the- *rdy :day;== ?- y
ind the busy din, {
its of 'st r uggling -mee, ? ?j-3r
rid, shut inr? ^ j1
cities -where the league iff esfah-^1
Ilshed and the communities re-TIjl
moved from such Genters to pro- $
cure larger opportunity for "work;
&nd for advancement on the job
for Negro workers a nii_?^^wvttlate
Negro-wo^kers-to^-a fresir^
determination to?"make good"1?
on the job so that their future-^
irfirfdustry may be assured. - ?
?3t? To help through availableTg
channels of information to as^S,
certain libinT^aF which there is S
an over supply of Negro labor,-0
and to use existing ageneies_Qf?^
pubilicity and placement to di- &
F?ct Negro labor, including mi- 8
grants, 1o those-points whereas,
they arejnost needed ^hd^wTieref
their.^faTnilies": will?most easily I |
gdjnvtnd^- ? ==
Tfte-Department of Research 3
and-Investigations of the Lea- 8
guer~Cha-r kw-?L... Johnson, DirecvJI
tor, is cooperating with the InCMdustrial
Department-by making q
sm~ investigation"of the exper- s"
iences of Negores with Trade-'a
Unions throughout the Unitedja.
States?the results of which stu-tq
dy will immediately be placed
at the disposal of the Industrial; ?t
Department.
MR. IIENRYMLT______|_
mnmuiK t.1 uiv, - marriage ox ms
niece ^
MARY COLEMAN - |
to - ? ?j-jjtMR.
WILLIAM O'DELL |
Saturday, April 19, 1925
at tr p: m. 7 "
At Home '{\
904 Washington St., -r 11
Columbia, S. C. . ;
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Davis Flower Shop anc
Beauty i*arlor
"Poro System"
ioSes, Qarnations, Sweet Pea
and all Seasonable Flaw era.
?-v wax and FreshTCut."
WEDJELIVER,
lOURSi ? 9 A. M. TO 7 P. M
Sundays 9. A. M. TO 1 P. M
Mme. Sarah B. Davis, Mgr.PHONE
8098
!103Gervais St., Columbia, S. C
FORSALE
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'.kin an4?S^alu Sun|). Pi.M.vW)eodar&tit^?Vanishing
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)ream, Talcum Powders, Toilet Water,
Bouquet Perfume.
PORO SYSTEM
SCALP and HAIR TREATMENT
Mme, Edith Holmes
Nn q THOMPSON ROW ,
NEW BROOKLAND, S. C.
Alom&fJ
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