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IF FOUR* The Palmetto Leader Published Weekly By E Tht Palmetto Leader Pub. Co. ^ J. B. LEWIE ?? President t 1310 ASSEMBLY STREET y COLUMBIA. S. C. Entered at the Post Office at Colum- ] bia, S. C., as Second Class Matter, < TELEPHONES- . _~4623 ( N. J. FREDERICK, . ' Editor ! W. FRANK WILLIAMS j ' Contributing Editor 1 HENRY D. PEARSON City Editor,< GEO. H. HAMPTON, .Manager 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ~~ CASH IN ADVANCE. One Yearrr__"__-_. .. $2.00 j Six Months_ _ 1=^. .. 1.25 ^ Three Months - .75 . j Slngla Copy __ -r?.05;. - __ ^Advertising Rates given on appli-U . ' ? f Saturday, May 30, 1925. ' i"1 i . ? -? ? c ?* The Supreme--Court of Miss- issippi has rendered a decision ? in which-it is hold that the Chi-? nese not being white is Colored * and the young Chinese must &t-, tend colored scheels?and not;! those for white children. But;1 wait until tlie question of where;1 ^shall the Japanese go come.-: up--; * TTaoan has a strong navy. raanyr ? ~ air ships and a trained^rrmy;?-p "' , m m ' j a . r ' - ' i ' ) A If" congressmen Wlenry 15. y Steagell of the 3rd Alabama di?- j trict and Miles C. Aligned of the 7.th_district are correctly quoted in their comments on the stud-. ents' strike at Howard University, it but shows that Alabama ". . is but very poorly represented in ^ the national legislature. These j men with such ideas belong in a period at least fifty years back. IJ Such rot as they gave is void if - ^ any intelligence at all, * c - A" ' t According to?the- "Uhfcago" v ed by_ the Chicago Crime Com-it mission, of -th .991 murders rt committed during the past four'p ypftr*-only' eigtrt~mnrders were;* f hanged. During the past two,o years, every criminal hanged jv .?:?was Colored. _ T'-Xher a.is.-Some,:,j>? the Whip. We yonder whyja doesn't the Chicago Defender get busy on some of the things at C its own doors instead of havingje its eyes forever focused on the l -South? Tis looking too-fur._ o t -m T r :"y., '~--7~~ r ~4Tr?st week a mob estimated to7 be about 5000 strong attempted X to storm the jail at Dallas, Tex.'r and take therefrom two coloredD prisoneW; The mob made a rnls-1^ take however about the kind* of I^ sheriff and officers ^ i n charge.' Instend^ol"- getting- -the Two pris-r | ^ rmers. it got hoi loai.'l. Five of j the mob were injured, the others1 quickly dispersed. The law rrotj tne prisoners, was protected by that sheriff and officers. Texas for once shows-the way. Page = Florida and a. lew. other mob ridden states.1 . h The assertion Gertrude i' Stern in the New York Times d ??- that the phrases, "First 111 War, | e first' in peace and first -in The4f hearts of his countrymen,'*?re- r ferrirjg t o George Washington c was fi^st -written by Phyllis 1< Wheatley, the Colored poetess, s has started up quite a contro- b versy. The authorship of these "t phraseS Ms heretofore been at- 3 tributed to "Light Ifyse"' Harry n l^ee. it is norriDie to tninK ac-jt cording to some of our Southern h friends that these words were t first expressed by a colored per- I son. But whether Miss Wheat-?ley is or is not the^author of the v phrases makes no difference, her u fame is secured and is \n nowise s tfopeadefit upon this expression, v i?; ly - ' *T?~~~ " "Selling Seaboard Services" ? 1 *- - -44 -?? ?^?-?i 4 _ The Seaboard Railway com-;!| jany is to distribute buttons I !j rearing the above .slogan. >_ jj| isten?buttons are to be distri-j )uted only t oitirvvtTite employees! Nrow, tne emef?business df^iSrf milmnd-is the selling ef trans-U portation or service. But the r Seaboard employs hundreds of i colored people in the production! j jTTransportation. That being' [rue, just why does it or will it t nake it so plain to these employ- !v jes, that it does not care about c :heir "Spelling Service."?No??o poration can do its best with a k iart only of its employees really nt.prest.ed in its welfare. Per- ^ lap, the Seaboard thinks that its a Colored employees can onhr sellHj ts service to their own people >s <ntl ahniTf tbehv it cares but lit^J ;le. That seems an afflictions^ , * i '" a t.v'M mi i ,vitn most 01 our railways, x ney s are nothing much about the ser-^ ace they' give the Colored pat -!|, *ons, though they Jo. not balk1 j. nr receiving their hard earnedi lollars. The railroads are .con-1 inually asking the priviledgejok! v aking off or discontinuing cer-1 j ain passenger trains on the | v jrotrnds that they "are losing inip he operation. As motor con-L revafice bdcome^-mofe conven-L - . __ilI eiit, so far as the colored pass- -1 ;ngers are Concerned. They are< n roing to Tdse^Tnore. The rirll-L oads have never paid much atr || 7mtlTTn~tTr^elHmrserr^iee to them . lid at the first opportunity thejrj-f, re going^to lose them. N o, L here is not a very valuable good'tj rill and the fault is the railroad, |~ ' ??~ v -ij - THE GRADUATES. : L ... ' jb ThiWis the season of the clos-j tig of the schools and colleges, j housands of young men and wo- < ten are leaving school for the tern realities of life. Up to r-~ his moment most of them have 11 een living in a* dream world. ^ ?Ut now all will be changed. The ^ flings that were" gotten ih'Thejv chools- mn^tr-he-eii'ried into, t.ho-' |1 TCrrts:?H the"student ght"~iTd-J01 hing*In schoob-he will'have no- ni hing to varry with him?If -he ,11. erformed the dnyrs task in. drool, he will do the snino out ^ f school. Such a one will he H rorthy to receive benefits and.J1 . ill he in r-onfer benefits l-' or the trseful life is ono of give-.^ nd take. ' ? ^ T'"' <^TE-^TrAlV7t-nf IliM Colored man and woman is hard--^ r than that of any other race. | Tie question with them is not, nly individual but racial* and j his has to be even keptjn mind.,1* ?ut,notwithstanding this, this 4 oung army will make good, they a nust make good?this haSk everf^ icon kept before them. There leed be no sighs for new worlds; ~ 0 conquor. There is much to lt lo right here. The world hasTlever presented more glorious j, opportunities than at this very, ' erio<.i ,TT.^:ikthat43 needethia the 4 nan the woman with the vision 1 ?11 nd the detexmnfation. Lets go. I P O 7?11 1) FIGHTING INTELLIGENCE n The legislature of Tennessee n ra?>- passed a law which makes It t criminal to teach evolution orjt arwinism in any school support-Jo d in whole or in part by public Jd nnds. Of cnurse^no one needjV e^ch the cbnclusion that the j L conclusion tFTat the Tennessee d Bgislators, in passing this a-ct, n hould themselves men FaF a-~ n >ove the average intelligence of I he usual run of legislators, f lilrn lpgiidfttnr.y nf rru<- )f iy states, simply passed some- a hing concerning which they hSfl, li >ut small ideas,'wanting at the k ime something better to do.IT nttle however did those Solons ii ;now that when they placed that n >iece of tomfoolery on the stat- le ite book, they were firing "a Ii hot that was heard around the r inirliL" Prof. J. -T. Scopes, a In .L. ... . ^ ? . ,fHE pALM moxiOimo;o:o.omoAo.oACH^ao:o.x>,o:< I ~ The Sgj |: By William Fr; 5jC7?^ao^.o.o:o;aoxio^ooAo:o?ox>x THE RAYSIof the Searchligh: rave not abpearccT in The Leadei 'ecently. To be .exact, we havi nissed two weeks. But it seem; Lkeyanionth to the writer ifTc lobody else. Its terrible to say but down right jealousy perneats-mv whole soul and bodj vhen I see another scribe's.stufl jccupying the important and sa Searchlight." ( . v. >.' ' . It was myl will io come, and ] iai.l some pni I uIV s11) 1)' 11 rrrrltt bouts but I wqs deprived of the leasure _bV that horribly persllant old ingratQ, Mr. M. Quad le-is a parasyte aaid has JL>eer ucKing me 1110 out 01 me loi cxcral weeks. Ycl be has roivimously cooled my temper will ucks. So. aftcr~all"'Mr. Quad ^ a;friend: If there are any peopUOvhC OLste. time to road my column, suppose t he-more-thoughtl'ui fonder why do I use the first crson when referring to myoil'.. In answer to -their silent uestion let ihe say I have auhoritv f or doim*-so. I -can ame ' a -dozen* (or less, to play ave) of the. best columnist ol he .eouifl'iw who use- ttio first orsrcm, ly^t hrrr jr you now. lleyyvood Brown he leading eolumnjst in Ameria; Fi nnic Sullivan, of the World nd 0? if Keeieivof the Atlanta ournal. If it's good enough for these oys,- it's?good e!umgll for me. A Marvelous Exception THE MAGAZINE section of tc~ At 1 a n fa Jo a 1; n a 1 has-broken Jong , kept rule i n southern jurnalism by printing ^ Negro's icture in full dress 'suit, a page cticle with many quotation^ oni the Negro, none of which as the slightest touch 'ot'the isiom-ary -th-alect, and a cotntendable r'elVreiicu, to his career 1 the city of Atlanta. The page under discussion is e.volod.lQ.I'o;vy banvr. as lie. ; known to ciTioivd people. and" ist ,,r?ai,ncy," as_he isTyiiown to io whites. -Tin? article was tttttti?bv .mr-. ttfrrtrtrtrrtttrtct erkerson. and n^iTrnrrrPiir~ttre L.llaiila Journal Mtigttztrrcriarer ulTday. """ TIJClaris- Iftiuorjrie apliony- "2-") Years oi* Calling ars 'for Atlanta Sotiely.v "Afrs:- Pcrkersoiv?beg i i; s b y riming a dozen things you may ^suclyas get ma-rrmi 1 *\vithdlit minister,., or make a formal ow?to?societv without' a fond jacber in'a school of? Tennessee, :ent right Oil tcflching JiQ. biojgical text that had been in use el'ore that law, which text told f- the- developement of "man ac6rdirrg"tcr the t hcory of teachigs 01 uharles . Darwin. The rofetssor was arrested" ,and i s e tried July 10th l'or that "high HsderrrcanftT" Srs the learned 'ennessee judge styled, it. ... E imont lawyers from all over f"' TVnnnrv will be unpaged in hjv&'ial of the professor. Clarnce Harrow of Chicago and Duley field Alaloneot -\<-\v Vcirk .'ill be among those 0- 'ending 'rof Scopes. ;While the great reamer and talker William Jenings Bryan will be numbered aTong the prosecuting all oriieysi 'erhaps no one is more- thankful or thi.s_piece of freakish legisit inn than Prof Scopes. From n unheard of- humble .teacher, e has become the most widely nowii JJI uiu uuuiitiy, 'ennessee cant stop thought nor itelleclural progress though she lay reject it. The freedom of ;arning tviH remain fn America, ri trying to get away irom the nonkey, Tennessee becomes a . r-^r ii i M4m i> in mi i-ii i'i rsii hT W^iafcr'' ; , : :? ' . . " ETTO LEADER archlight Link Williams. t mamma and a host of aunts an i-jgraiHlinulhel's composing a n i reiving lino, lmf you cannot hav 3 a- coming out party, or any soi rjof wedding and not haveoBarhe , I to call the cars. She quote - Barney like this: "I earned som r of them in my arms when the f I were babies. I've brought thei -'out, and I've married them off. ? She says, during the first veg or so of Metropolitan Opera i [ Atlanta, a duplicate system c Kchecks was inaugurated-lor ai ; tomobiles, but it was later aboi :ished, Ijecause?Barney djdri' . need it. His memory of th t^Umusahds oB names .and?face ',<ynl om." i~j .Mix. Pcrkson says Barne; I has become an Atlanta Institu tion. He has had the honor o shaking hands with four presi ) tlcnty..pf the United States. II . called cars for President Roose U yelt, Taijt and?Harding whej t hey visited Atlanta and was in "reduced ~t o~ President Wilsoi ; jwhen he accompanied the Shrin ;ers to?thc national convention a i j Washington.- __7 _ '[ .-Barney tells all about Atlan ''la's oldest families, clubs and e \ r.ts that concerned them.' ^~Bjirnry~1s not what .they eal i t, a white man's "nigger;".. H 1 Vvorh^onlvfoV whita people o doesn't hav-e to be a lawyer, doc } tor or professor to be honored The car-caUer's position is jus -as important in its place as tha .jot' an artist' in its place. An< i.tiiis is evident in Barney's case as Ik; is just as highly respectec My leading colored citizens'df At , lahta as By the whites wit! jwhom he deals. i_ I)K. FOSDICK'S CALL IT BUST BE a shock and a-i 'eye-opener to the most uncon" corned .tins election of Dl\ Harrj | Emerson Fosdick to The pasto irate of the. Park Avenue Baptisi !ChuKtU=The RdlBetelleT ehuTcl in Now York. Congregation o1 linti Heetuals and money magna jt.es that it is. 1 dicL_not. think ! would live-to sec even Park Ave -Btte BAPTIST. chui cli-agiiiii-Tx I take-Tnerahor s \v i 1 hon 14nsi stin-j on hn-ptism by immersion.?Am 'to think that only seventeen uu 'of TOO mepihers present utterec (a dissenting voice." But this wa: | der which I)r. Fosdick consentec !to accept the-call. And if. thej did not hold more dearly to then the privilege of having Dr. Fos - dick a- their pastor than the aa credness. of their creed, thej I have not done injury to~thei] 'const ic.iH t'.s at any rate. . I wil -he looking to see now this actioi digests on the organs of othe: Baptists in th i s_ co u nt r y. THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION j . "THE SOUTH produces a mos - peculiar set of people of the An ! glo-Snvxm variety. Sometime their?alert;ness, itj you please startles the world, and dh?tfi i.other hand they' are dumb be ~1 :?? ; 1 * tyond reconciliation. rr?1 n. ..it. T."i x ...L* .1 ino oouinern r.xposiuun wnici : i has just closed in New York wa v; a many-fold affair. I belie vei was partly intended to blind th nation's eyes to the many-injus tices and humiliations which col ofect"people suiter in the $outh 11 Just to crowd the nation's sigh and mind with southern achieve ^ment in corftmeree, art and sci ^ebceTneant much in tli's'TesjTec! anrT to The weak-minded and in jdifferent it showed that th< i South is not such a bad plae after all. . 1 lV?n CLrvtifV* iun'f i >yi;iiy tilt; uvum 1011 t ouv.it < jbatf place, but it is a-4oat;worsi ""TTTan it~ should b6. ~Ahd It Couli : be made better without cost ii [honor or pride to the white peo TTYgyrwr.1,- r, ~ 3a; ... .. X iple who hold its destiny in their X hands. If every white persor X!and every-icolored pepson would !*' make himself-a resolution pur.posing to cut the last bit of prejudice from his heart, we could ? gpf rHnng happily without thai y her race. And prosperity and a ,s Southern Exposition wouldn't e have to be carried to New York, y Saxon. n NORFOLK INFESTED *- WITH DOPE FIENDS n r-" if Norfolk, Va., May?(By Tiie I iT*" * i A -yr 1 n ? i.i l-i nouncement by J. Williams Gilftjford, investigator, for the Unit-. e [ed State's Department of Juss tiee, that wit-hin thio oity'e tiUy ^ 000 population there are- 2,5uG ? narcotic addiets, has cansed ^ grave concern among the most thoughtful elements of local residents. The figures refer to ? habitants.?It means that one in every thirty Negrdes in the city is a dope eater! ulirtord's n figures, are backed up by^ other responsible investigators* and I authorities:^ The work of Investigator _ Clifford ti^s haTi the'effect of =f 4-urning-attent-ion to phases of Negro hfe in southern cities |]| that grow increasingly detti e menial to mm ,aue to discrimif nation in the. enforcement of y law and, tha_ appointment of ft I officers of the taw,?Up until -( the time- Glifford?went to Nor1. j folk, accord'ng- to the Journal t__iind Guide of that cityr~lT~~had i * I | HAVE YOU HE I THE SIMPKIN S 1 ? Now Flaying Private and V 8: ' " Anywhere in th | Music Studio FREDERICK ~r|jj Phom W. L. Simpkins, Mgr., 1 J Ben Garris - |Jf "Atldi ;ess all ! mail to W. L.?Slilipl oo^ox>o:o^:oo:o:ox>:o^;o^x^3ox>^ox>^ rff ^IVLJKL Holloway's Sui >!_: :;| ?-Ayo night schi ?will open Juno 15th and cloge Augi _Jj? tunity to learfi the touch system :1 $ Shorthand. Business Enirlish. Ma had eight ycara of actual cxpcvi< [ l 8 -Benedict 'College^ HOLLC 11 ooo^o:o,o^ooLQX>:o-g:o.ox>.oiox>or>-0.ox> s! ! XhXm!mX*4X*4X^XmX**X**XmXmXm 7 ' % T?- ? ! | Lower Sou vfsUMMERSCHOO -! | . ALLEND f ?? i X - ApprovecLby. the State ! ,!$ JUNE 9?Jl 1] % ? " " A standard Summer Set nA -v of the south-eastern se |X Board, * at reasonable hy rifi??ns ofMIendah . j- For further information, ad or C. A. JOHNSON t *.X~xk~X~XK~:~X~X~X~X~X~X?Xm Eleventh Annua! , X 1-| OF >| STAT& ?Ht": . JUNE 15, to J 0 | .. X" i ? Authorized by the State H|' Elementary, High Sc t! i cational courses le; -f? " . 1 e<?rtifir?atoa an/ _ WAAJlVMtfVkJ Ull\ i| Five Weeks Sessii B ?! e TE Entrance Fee $ Board ^.Session : a X L&boratOTy Egg fof each Indn e t" For further information addi $ f * ? K. S. WH 4 -w? ' < ?* *=* 7 ' v ? ~ t " . .t. " ' ' y" ~ ' : _ J . , -w. rr^.. . - . I ~ _ > , Saturday, May 30, 1925. , been impossible to trace the i traffic m narcotic among Ne- 3 I groes, due largely to the. fact - that the dealers knew that all ? officers of the law would be j ^ white; and, -as a consequence, ^ refused to geirto any Vtfhit.e per" sons. ~ They escaped detection -?" and were left free to ply their " trade among easily^ sold Negroes. , . f' ::?Thus the traffic in th?s city, grew to alarming proportion and might have been going on had not the government sent a '?m I Negro investigator.?He did thp i_ . work with swiftness and great thoroughness,?helping Negroes "to protect themselves, and show ing the government that, even in the South, as the Gu'de remarksT the Negro officer can be t * of- greatest value among *Ne-~ groes. Mr. Clifford has come / - in for much praise because of , his work here. SECOND ANNUAL AUTO RACE AT CHICAGO _ Chicago, 111-, May 21.-yThe ~~ ColorecT Automobile Racing As.sociatioiv tho organization that promoted the successful race last year at Hawthorne, has an- *.A nounced their second annual au- 1 'Tomoblle race for the afternoon ;?? r\f -Mity 94 Thp rapp will hp - :-held at the Thornton Track, 175th and Halstenit?Streets.^ . The promoter. Bill Jeffries,-him- self a driver of ability, is authority for the statement- that [already more than thirty entries hitve been received with more promised. - _ / 2A#H THEM? | A ? ENTERTAINERS 'ublic Engagements. Will go A e Two Carolinas. : BLDG., COLUMBIA, S.X.?? ?: e 9173 t ?| - ^ R. E. Simpkins, Asst. Mgr., . r;5. on, Director. ;5 -~i _ M timer Business School I r"m ftOL FOR ADULTS ' ist. 14, in9K An exppptional onpor- 8 of Type-writing, Gregg method of -8 thematics and Spelling.. AVe Jiave Jj: WAY, Director y . |j XX~XKKK~X"XK~X~xkk~X~X~X^<-:- ' ^ , ?;???-?? a : *? th Carolina ! L FOR TEACHERSf ALE, S. C. 1 ^51=4==^ Department of Education & JLY 18, 1925. jj iool to serve the teachers ction of South Carolina, 1 X J rates will be furnished i aM n:w ==^?-1 J rlrpQQ ? . ' X H W Hcgistrar, Allendale, S. C. $ M , Director, Columbia, Sr C. $ c>oooooooo<M>o.^ Aj I Summer Session fl THE- | W iOLLEGE |IULY 18,1925. Department of Education. ^ hool, College and yoading to renewal of Jj 1 college credits. & on?Six Days Each if RMS ^ if? 3.00 | ^ ?-, $ 90 00 I istrial Subject :_^r$ 1.50 | ,K1NS0N, President* J ? Orangeburg, S. C. ? SIE.^