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? ?' *** i W The Palmetto Leader iar] Published Weekly By 1 rpj The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co. ^ j?. J B LEWIE ; President aj 1310 ASSEMBLY STREET K-r : ; OX >r COLUMBIA, S. C. .1. Entered" at the Post Office at Columbiar S. C.,as Second Class Matter. "J*~T TELEPHONE 4523 ' 01 ^ r?T? T71 r> t.^ r> t >*? W. FRANK \VILLI^IS^T~~~j~ -r- ; - - 1 vi - Contributing Editor HENRY D. PEARSON^ipty Editor; GEO. H. HAMPTON, .Manager ! wi M " ' ?? ;~ ? j Ti ^SUBSCRIPTION RATES:~ j tj, ? ' ^ CASh HI ADVANCE{ ? One Year $2.00 ^ Six Months 1.25 n< Three Month* ?h? ?9? ?, .75 ^ Single Copy . .05 ar "Advertising Rates given on appli-'u^ cation. ^?? t?: r : ~ ? S attrrd ayr~3 n n e 27,1925. ^ . in University has not been dropped tl r from the faculty of that mstittr-'U . tion as hips been reported errone- zt "* ously. IluWard without Profes- ti t sor Miller would not be the same, al ' tft The Atlanta Independent does- d< n't seem to like the awards of the e> ??i Spingarn Medal. To its way of zc thinking out the ieleven awards T -only foiir rise-beyond- the farei- is cal. Oh well, you?just can't w please everybody. ' j tr * > ? "^pi Editors Bass of the. California Eagle and Ben -Da^is of the At i?\\' _ lanta (Ga.) Independent-are be-! w ing sued -forlibel uy certain gen- q( - tlemen who claim that their good Raines and character have been f. injure^. These Editors, how- ^ ^-eTTso'cdyrto haVcTFo fear of thel^ " outcome, even though the plain- n~ tiffs are men of the while race. Lj ~ * ? * ' -.-While-Genevai Robert. T.pe lard of Alabam a is damning the <r. ?-h?K^gro soldiers of the late war,;. * -X. " in ?LU,New honors Dorrence I Brooks, one of those same sol- ^ dier's who gave" his life in France?' for his?country. A square , atm^ -h? i^oitvstreev.-EttgQcombe.anrt sr. li_ Nicholas avenue will hereafter i - " " ' ' " ' ? i. ^ be known as."Dorrence Brooks" i * * square,__ But are cowards; thus honored ? , " ^ * * < . 8t : After all, the., colored people r?? i-H - L0^ need n<+t be too hard on the great , general Robrt. Lee Btrtlard for; * Ids attempted stTti^ures-on the ^ culorcd^sqltfigr. The mail wauls ^ to sell his Look and it has alw.dvs been popular to. da nth the Negro, i,1 * t il( The Negro's record as a soldier i -is too secure-Xo^li^-xlimmed by an-by .. orumarj^fe'eneral .steeped in prejudic(r. * -i . * * ? ' ' After atrthchullabaloo about the so-called "Teapot Dome" (lit scandal,-Judge T. B. Kennedy, U.si S. district judgepbefore whom g< the ca>e was-tried,, has decided ei ? -that-the deal was legal an with-'nt out taint,-of' course, Senator (tl ?WalsKeK^P; n tan a - who gained ' A his reputation by his partisan ef-Tr _ fort to damn everyone "connect- K ed with JJpe deal heartily dis- j sents. Hut the Court has spo- G ken. : aj o p, THE SI'INGARN ME7>AL 1923 a] dal will be made to Jam*. r Wei-: ^ "" "don Johnson. J:hci ? faithful and'efficient Socroi ryjiL of the National Association for; ^ the Advancement of Colored peo- p, pie. Mr. Johnson has had a note ft worthy career. He is an alto- fc get her" useful man, part 1 cuTarly! to his race and in a way therefore to the country. Of course, T l ? ; there-may be difference of opinion as to-what person has made ^1 the highest and greatest achieve- c< * " mgnf in-%he pant your or years im t but be that as it may, a man wor- ' r:: 'thv of the distinction has been ^ cfregefl by the coinmittee whose L.v duty it was to make the choice. We doubt if there is a man ini^ ? "America who is doing a greater work and in a more intelligent F id effective manner than this j* me James Weldon Johnson. { lere may be some who think { ey are doihg it but that's about ? ...... y 1. Mr. Johnson is a worthy re-, -congratulates him 1 " o FUTURE WARS ' !r, Uf course, there will be wars, j> ispite peace societies, Leagues a : Nations and other organiza- h ons whofoolishly hope that na- \ ons are going to do what- lnai-fn duals' have not yet learned tofr >) Viz: settle their differences 0 ithbut resort to physical force, p he United States, like other 11a- -\ ons, is going-to have some ti ghting to -do_ too.. But this n mritry, unlike other nations, is ,? it trying to have all of citi111s ready to loyally, efficiently b id enthusiastically give . their Ci ist with whole hearts?In plain! irds, this country is saying in R -feet to one tenth of its citizens . . i_ Afon^t-givrra fig about-your be- k g . flblfi t" g'v*1 *hff .,hpgtr'Mi/: hile ?iiilions-rae being spent by A le government in training-the b ivorit'e nine-tenths oi its citi- s. ins, nothing is being spent i'or v. le tenth that- has always loy- 11 ly stood up for it. -Barred tl :am Wdst Point. Military .Aca.-...a jmy and Annapolis, nothing is r< ,'en done., by way ol' the eiti-^ b ills' Military Training Camps.! lie great big idea, ol' course, a - to hare ncr - colored officers b h<*n w-av pomes This foun-j y is too much welded to the* 'opaganda-JJiat colored ' men I in fight as a buck private but; ^ ont do as an officer. TheAvorld ' ar disproved this idea, despite r meral Bullard's Memoirs. The h >lored man can fight, " has :J hat this fact-lra?ri?een dcirrmr^ rated in the late war wtrs thrti' ) help on the part of officers of v ie mind of General-Bullarcjj-and a ord knows, their names were gion? ask the-hoys who were n ivcr there." The white officers a i gneral proved so mean and ^ ejudiced that in future wars, ^ iere must be a mighty careful eking?of?those who~are-. to-^ immand the?colored boyn,?iT-* iere is to be real lighting. This; lunUy for its own welfare, had itter lay-off the old "al^ right' TTnTcks^t 110 good as officers"/-*" tiff. Ccnored soldiers in' the * < iture are going to expect .col- ^ ed officers, and."upstanding in-U lligelit young colored men igfat~be"given- training along-" iat line. Gen. Iiullard's "Mem- V' ie. --General. Btffiard-'?-'Mem-; rs" are going'to do more than; 1 intended. * !>* FfrHO N FAY-SIMPER IS r SUED FOIl $10,000 , t,j BY CLARK GRIER > t, Clark 'Grici', prominent repub-j :an of Georgia,-Ttttrstlay filed', jit in Fulton superior court a- , linst the. Atlanta Jndepend it Publishing company,-a^Negrt) n jwspaper for^ft>,000 damages, j ie outgrowth of an article in an ^ pril issue-of the Independent I i wmcn ne__cianns no was at-?;^ icked. " -j. According- to the petition, rier's reputation has been dam- ( ?ed and he has been held up to ^ ublie ridicule on account of the - . w lleged attack. i, ^he story referred-fn -.was--, ng(|s ^ tun, and tliun assails him ie pretension of, organizing rer- ' ublican clubs in the state. This, (a. ie story relates, was only an ef-; >rt on frier's part to enrich imself. The public is yarned td Tt is stated in the story lat Grier does not represent f Te "repnhHcsm state central :>mmittee or any other organi-|f The article ends by charging ^ ?: r ? if nat hp i'i a "devil wearing the ^ very of a saint," according to r rier's petition, which was filed c / John T. Echols and Charles t Wells, his attorneys THE PALME! The Sear By William Fran - VE SCRIBE TRAVELS -?44 ^JLkave jus|t boarded a Georgia " ailroad train at the old station ^ i Atlanta and expect to debark a ia-Um--hours- hence. Some how feel sort of unnecessary when ^ ly back, is turned on the Gate j, itv. Now, I don't know wheth- s r it is altogether the city that c uts me in this state of mind. ^ Iy idols of the present and fu- t Lire, the wife and two yelping, veddlesome kids^ have no little art to play in causing the blues ,, t^kis?departurc. Yet Lraust1, e on ..hiy-^a-y-rfor the sake of ducation anclfrivfersion. s ._.c IDING THROUGH GEORGIA I am sixteen miles out of At-^1 uitn-and ^here's that giant tOjl-V" , v.tovuv^iVH, KJ fountain ?he looks like a giantj? s31oon with the sun kissing her ^ lick, Daki nerni. 1 am too far a-,^ ay to see the ecfuestrian, stat- c es of Confederate war lords but he huge mountain of granite* "0 lul. Uie_.heauiifjxL. landscape sur.-.:1 Dunding it make a sight wonder-|c ttt-toJjQhcId. -??'--tS There's a- quarry ancl the men i re cutting';atone to be used on * tiHtlings and curbs;?? ?p The wind blows mv prpeinii?|a traw hat l'rom the hanger and grab it as it starts eyt o? the;11 nnrl/iwr A vaII'A-P ' iiivivj ?? 01^11 v^i ^ ?, The pastor of my church is | iding this train and he sits be-j* iml me. A discussion about the tn olm T. Scopes case and evolu-;r ^ ^ +r \vhh ihytrn and , .the ^antis. p nt but I agree with hinrto avert r n argument., * {!; IEerdV'Madison, Ga., an old]? century. Isue twoTremeteries , ^ here!they do not Jim Crow the! iegro; dead. . ? j i: People who live in country ;v rOUIV??AMMMI lAITIANri?Aim GENERAIM KISSEL'S RESIGNATION |l Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June?Ie he following letter was sent;c ) the America" Secretary .;of-:p late, in the name of Haitians by ti Patriotic Union: ^ "7 To Hon.- Frank B. Kellogg, ocretary of Statu, .u Washington, I). C. 7 |tl ^Sir , y |b . "We. have the honor, to writer on this letter to pay qur.respec- o Til homage to you and to.take!p aTHrherfy to call y^r LMtTn-Jf: ion on the necessity of the?re-!o i 1! rif Air .TnVm Amon'.Ll un-lligh Commissioner to Haiti, b "Mr. Russell is the author of's ikI responsible for, or nearly, all jo hat we are suffering actually.1 C nder the regime of the govrn-1 ;eni of ?.Ir. Borno. electd on the t Oth of April, 1022, by incompet- t nt cohnciliors^of State. r - "If," In lOlTTfhie Senatroial 1 ommittee of Investigation of 2 he Cnlted St.-'trs had taken ac-C aunt. of l.he protestations- and 1; il'iu 'nur.s of the audience which ,h s-rated here at its sessions,! }"lf?n l!u> r?f filisipn zi< r?vr?_ I I lave been- maintained in Haiti at loimcclt the latter wouTtt "not liv title Wh&tKOeVOl'. ~~ "It v oukl he long to enumerate. ^ 11 .the grievances against, Mr. tu -sell. The Hatian Governtothing without first snbmiting it to the Legation of the U- j nent or what replaces it, - does ~ iited States,Tand tTiat(| in virtue if n vprlinl nnfp pvrVinnororl T-ip_ - ?y ? Ir ween the legauoh of the United j lalian Government. Mr. Rusfcbis-tho soul of the present regime of occupation. The peo- { >le would be very happy if as tronmtiln tfi tW grpnt mpflsnroa 1 >f reparation the American Gov- 1 srnment decided to give them i hat satisfaction. ...... v- < "But, that is not all: The Hai- ( ?gO LEADER ^ chlight ' |; k Williams. | owns shnuld_neyer die from verworlc. ..Three's aTpoor white nan whittling on a stick. And wo men hammering with the ,nvil in a small blacksmith shop. LndTwo men sitting on their lows while the train whizzes by. Everybody meets the . train aifd tas a chat with his or her couins and aunts. There's a groery store and a bench of odlers. lee! We city folk are the ones hat work hard. Here'sThomson, Ga., the homcT f the. famous politician, Tom Watson. There's an nl<l nrinfinrr ' T f xt.-. 1 g rouo under a shelter.?Bete ha ts fifty years old, and dollars to rollers TomJised it. ?t There is an old man on this rain^who says he is from Athens ia.v^and haa not been Lu Atlana-in Sf.yoargt?The "iliVs re oyer 71'miles apartaowUbeoes not care to see the "Ne\v| ."o'rli of the Ooutli."?IIu s lie an't afford to dodge traffic. * | Here is Augusta, fourth city f Georgia. I wire the Pahnet-io Leader's manager that I am' hanging trains for Columbia. I1 re$S Broad street and the river >nd hit Carolina dirt. Passing hrough Trenton, BatesburffT1eesville and Lexingt^w Kidsre selling peaches as thy were' oing in Georgia. I don't see as oany.idle farms as I ?aw on the ther side of theSavannah. l am in Columbia for the first ime in five years. The manager neets me. Washington street leeds repaving. Editor Freder:k looks well. He is a real \vi i-er.-Mr. Leevy, bignnerchant, is he picture of health a?nd?eaysttlantans have money but lib trains. I admit there is room or Negro clothing stores in Atanta but there's room in Col?mia> for many other things. 'Leaving tomorrow for Washngton,_ D. C. The Searchlight ,rill be continued. . r? tail puuplu"'aie dupriml siiicc917 of their legislative repres- , iitalion. GenT Cole and Con. >utler have related before, the Committee of Investigation oi' he United States-diow-they-havo^ aken part to the dissolution oi' he Chambers. ?firtL una. ui luui^.f, ci;i :ien, we have no legislative chain ers. It is & body of t'nnctroTiaris, nominated by the President f Haiti, that functions in its lace. You understand, bir, vnat Fthe danger, lor utTYoliec-fea--? ur laws are made l>y 4ndividun-Li. lociles and serviles, nominated y the executive power, which itelf dares not do anything withut the approbations the High Commissioner. ?? ? s "We. therefore", beseech won o pass orders t,o your roiires'm.iivs in the Island, so that \venight have the legislative electons on the 10th of January, ltl5, date foreseen for that by the ;oiisllUjllun, which Mr. GL'mK- . yn.-'--Roosevelt has boasted to tave given us." JNCOLN UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT .?===== i_ mi mm? ~ : v _t (By The Associated Negro Press. 1 : tjtrus ?f Lhe Culluge commencenent at Lincoln university, Pa., vere the laying,of the corner tone of the new $82,500 Science building and a Memorial Service conducted by the AlafrTrii Assoc ation in memory fo the late resident Dr. John B. Kendall, of fersey City. * The crowds in atendance at the Commencement xercises broke the record of recent yearn, On Tuesday, .hiho ), the campus was crowded with ? ?-? - _ - . .... U--\ ^ lutomobiles from Philadelphia md Baltimore, as well as from noreUistant points. Visitors ; :ame from Denver (Colo.) from Oklahoma City, from Atlanta and Savannah Georgia, from Boston and intermediate points. MARINES IN HAITI TO STAY - ? 41 ?(T'.y The AasHci-.itod Nggro Press.-) ? ? New York. N. Y., June?Ac- a cording to Brigadier General Ful- :v !er, cunimandee-of?the thrrttecTT States Marine Brigade occupying 1 who was among the 194% f passengers who arrived recent-1s in ttrcr states; the marines are 5 in Haiti to stay. The General in discussing the present attit- t udc of the'United States Govern- j i-nent toward Haiti- declared that he could see no change in the ? American policy toward the Hai- * t ian govoriimont and only -tho pol k .ncianr, oi'ihe islands were hos- * tile toward the presence of the i marines. General Fuller did not \ eompient on the atrocities-with-t Vviiieli the marines aie chaiged. ,c ?? 1' ?"" ??? RENTS COLLI' XD IF r| Ali.-jif i:ut fi.i;i'n,Pi?nrita,;.wf-Mini houses yui: sane on instalmi ' KENT. NOTARY.!? (It requested will conn REAL ESTATE ANT 7750 HNCOLN ST,_ , . Flf frirtont Sill For Colorec Anderson, S. C., Ju A]) roveiV by the State Departn ?Under the? direct supervision t ? I>. (_ . W-'EA-KS, (k'osfte? .~T. V. t! AYTON. 1'k-kvn.s _ * . JU 44?lijil vo' it. i >. .<i v * v v u> .nv L. M. IVl\* _ ^nd .1. II. FELTON, State Su .A;'*r.''A< oft?i-ry the State Depai t*t-iIn:., fir itIs. . * and louuild up h ~T!cc7ToTTm tc.e 111e and activities ( Thiv. cunivnor school has been ?tonohrr.". work in the north Thus a .plondid opportunity, at to:. 'T'i _tr-' ' "i- sf.-lWm tn iiilm Sessions hckl in Reed Street h Heard for session will be fur i >.'i at reasonable rates. J itvyJ d ration fee ?81.00. l"cr ui ttycr nforniaiibn write .. ?-o.i.. . *.iiiici st.n,-S. G. ^ .1. : i. V JOHNSON. Pr. t ".lUimijij..u, LLilttai rc ' Jrr-1 : -+-* y "'*?' * u?>;.4'.svanKMMUUBBMi * ; ?' Vo V C&<&uCuO&d& 0.0^(0^>N03C'/ i > Mr M/Molloway's Sum ?ANIGHT SCIIO ^I i; .1 11 1 i.iih -j?d cllJ.O AiljjUK A ti.itiy U) li.'iiii the" touch system o hf F-h?mtr.rrl, ibi.ono.s English, Matt > i.:. I e.-ji.i v. ."-: ot; actual oxporion ? < a;e vc.^ ,i\.:.-o.uible. Address ^ M. H. flfHJLDA lioncdict C\:l!oge,_ .'O l'-l' T . I ! .*> ' ' vC\v v.C'OOvOOO'vO.OO < ?../< . . ?. * - wuk. ? if rr .-m ?MWl :: : C'':^'0^O.O.o.,^O.O;O.C'lOL>; ;; - i iedmbnt Sur iiOCiC HILL, SOI JUNE 15--JU V ^ T'% -SAFE SUPER VIS FT I I-IFTL'IIFRS?? 0 ULTY. Authori o mmit of Eriucatu p "? !:. J.-|;o.i.:L\VARI-:, Director, ; rr-r?rrxTrrrrr rr ~ o'co w?y<? a-:* wo vc-'ooo o.ooo'o;o< l r- V - * W . . mrfTm* \ ' Eleventh Annual | ^ OF 1 (&' gA HPT?----^1 kZ? . _ i .? ?L?-t?v?.V^ JUNE 15, to Jl Authorized by the State I -? Memeatary, High Set cational courses lea x ~ _ ? certificates and 4r? :?: i? j Five Weeks Sessio r~ tuk ;i; Entrance Fee ; .Board for Session' y. T/.Moratory Foe for each Indus v For further information, aridr* 4 - --?R, S. WILl 'tV ' ^ . . Z"~~~ ) , ' "V * ' * 7"""" ~ __ . Saturday, June 27, 1925. BURNS FATHER'S WILL, (By The Associated Negro Press.) Easton Pa?.June ?One of the Fitxst unusual eases in North a ' \ impton county in many years~ \as brought to light here Wednesday, wheir dohii Rothenhausm \\ a^'aiTQsted~fQr hurning-hia. ather's will. The apparent rea- _ ;on for his act is that the will .tipulates that his wife is to get? iis slrfrrtrofrhis-4ate-Tather<s es-_ ate The av:t was committed several lays ago, just before the fathsr's funeral, when the will was a>oat toTSeTread. Rothenhausler ii i ?j <? j j t i _ j? i_i. _ rramwn it. irom tngnannsjoi tne .?, uh.'tivc who was about to read???t, threw it into the fire and then ; - C* vayed the poker around and " hreatened to kill anyone who ? amc neai him,. ~~~ ?122 ~ loans NEGOTIATED ? fS REAL.ESTATE 1 ~ 7^ i-lh-sitlrnls-fttihgment sept 1st Month _ sst. my prices like paying seej me. ublic ' . . ' e to probate papers.) LIN VE STI\ IE N TSL .. i COLUMBIA, S. C. nmer School ?? ? T1 T 1 Teachers ily 20--August 28. lent of Education./ )l Superintendents l.oHOV WDDKMAN, Newberry ISS K ATS WOI"FORD, LAURENS T. E. DORN, Greenwood _-_i -^-1 IPAFFEY, Anderson :? ? : ' per visor of Negr^o Schools. - . tment of Education. iigh idea's whictrshouid faere- ' if the community, organized to serve elementary western counties of the stat?. i:< little expense, is offered the 1 a standard summer school. igh school .building. rushed by the citizens of An- " Miss A. E. Webb, 1243 S. Fant incipal ItookerWashintftOih = U'lUit. ' zzz >,c>:oo.o.o.C'v.v.C'.o.o<:':o_o o</o_o asepaaaos) mer Business School | t. 1.1, An .'onuoptional oppor1?g?? f Typo-vv riling, tiregg method of o lemaifcs and Spelling. We have ? Columbia, S. <J. jjj OC-ti<vC-OOO3C'v^O?O>3C<ODCOO]<^toC0ao . * '-JKT-r v? >?.-wUM? mt ^ -i II MiWUMa^?^? ?? :^o.'.->:v.v.v oo.g-:? v timer Schodl ?/. ITH CAROLINA | . LY 24,1025. ; j ~?" iTOX-KXPKRT 1 STRONG -FAC-' J zed by Depart- f/ isL . ibiicily Lbairman. ' ' -???. :> o 00 o oo o ocro ooooo^owoxfoxoyff o " % Summer Session * UK | MkLKIjfc, 4 iLY 18,1925. '?| )epartment of Education. ^ S tool, College and V^~| ding fo renewal of $ college ctedits. | >n--Six Days Each i MS " ' | ~ ^ J, 3.00 * 20.00 f _ trial Subject 1.50 4 ?ss ... ? KINSON, President, -| Orangeburg, S. C, ? omaam^ao?to^^8?3??ceca8$oi