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THIS PAPER IS^ I DEVOTED TO THE _ #1 INTERESTS O F ~ MLJ -THE-PF.QPT ,E. >1 VOL. II?NO. 15. , - * ' . i __n l -. i\/i r aimetto ivi -immx??- B ? h LUTIIER Q. GADSON t A Bright Young Poet ? Mr. -btSher Uctavious Gadson, is1 an v amateur pot confined To a local Sani- s tarium, in an effort to regain his 1 . health: * ?-? ? He is a bright and promising young h man uk tvell as ^nnbitioti^r ahd it' is-^ Very sad to think that just in the hi iiuc ui me, ne is nanuicapped with 1 ill health. ,- ' !v floweveri, with- ambition and strong ^ will power,-sometime? writing in bed,.'3 ?he has succeeding in compiling a bo'6k y of poerffs; which he styles as Amateur 11 Poems. These books- have just com6 ^ off the Press of The Palmetto Leader a and are more llike the work of an ac- ] complished writer srather than an a- * mateur. jc You may procure one or as many as j ' yq,u like of these books, by writing $ Luther Octavious Gatlson, Palmetto a Sanitarium, State Park, S. C., oFTiy"i~ writing to the Palfrrettrrj Leader, 1310 *??r Assembly Street, Cplumbiar S. C. |* ' ~ The prjee of th^ :irp ^ each and-5c-additional for postage, 1 making a total of 30c. Orders* will j be given prompt attention at either .13 place. ' . ii^ c Christian Colored ? Women Meet In City J T TT T mi'ury) j The third annual ^Christian confer-1 ence for colored women will be held at 1 Benedict College in Columbia on May J _27 to June 2. The Women's isynoilical Auxiliary | of the" Pro^byterlifh"Synod Of" Soutir j ~~ Carolina will hold thiiict^Anual | Conference for colored women at} -Benedict College, begining Thursday ,c evening, May 27, and closing "Wednes- H day evening, June 2. . Every local Auxiliary is asked to |* include in its budget, the expense of |( one or more delegates to the confer- j' - will be $10, plus railroad fare. The 510, which witl include registration, room and board for the wfcek may be * sent to Benedict College or paid by 1 the delegates on arrival it is an- ' nounced. Colored women of any de- c nomination may be sent but women 1 of possible leadership among their " own people are profovrod. 1 If othe^ denominations or colored Churches in any community wish to j send delegates they will be welcomed. . o Individual colored jomen wishing to v . pay..their own expenses may also attend, It is anhciunced. Each delegate is requested to bring her Bible, towels, two sheets, a small pillow and one { pillow Slip. J The program will-consist of Bible { study,-Sunday School methods, talks' r and demonstrations on practical nurs-j\ _ ing, home 'economics, sanitation and > health, improved home conditions frnrn-p community problems. Lessons will \ be given* in handicraft work Including n the making of {taper flowers, hats, rugs^ baskets and the like. / Outstanding speakers both white t and colored have 'been secured. The r ' State Welfare and health do^nrtments p have generously given the services of j some of their best workers. Mrs. An-* drew Bramlett,' 22, Keenan Apart- / ments, Columbia is directing plans for the gathering in Columbia. r ?The Columbia Record I Murd ? n&Elet edical, Der PATIENTS ARE BKIN(i MISTREATED nvestigations Are Under Way Accomodations Inadequate For Patients i > 1 ,00 WAR VETERANS HERE Irs. De Martis Says (*reen (A Patient) WasTJeaten To Dsattr tiv Two Attonrfanfs: New York, April 16?Alleged murer of William Green, Negro patient i.Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, in Washngton, D. C., and charges that two ther colored men were killed there y. mistreatment; have been forwarded o the National Association for the ulvancement -of?Colored People?byIrs. Myrtle~fte Montis, a white woman Atrgety-that- all -colored citizens: upport Senator Shipstcad's resoluion. calling for Senate investigation f conditions at" the"hospital. The osnital houses about 1,000 world war iiterans juid ..has 4,4(k) patientsJiLalU It is charged by Mrs. de Montis hat Green, a patient of the hospital ras beaten to death by two attenlants" at the hospital who were held >y a Coroner's jury-for the'grand jury ^hich allowed them to go free, but n a subsequent proceeding, on Octo>cr 5, Green's, slayers were?indicted, ccording to de Montis. ' Mrs. *de Montis further charges that wo other colored men were killed In >ne of the buildings of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, Howard ,IJall,_ the lelaths being attributed to paralysis tnd paresis." , ,^ -A-spaciaL grund jury, which in'vesigated the hospital, reported to the .L *S?. Senate that the hospital was greatly overcrowded," and that if resent conditions are riftt 'we fear that the percentage of innates becoming hopelessly insane will >e greater than those cured, in spite if the best efforts of the Superintenlent arid his assistants:"- The report dates that in the "Bull Pen",'"which s the only available recreation sprite 'the dangerous as well as the noisy "paTTeTife "miiigle with those whose ninds are almost normal." The grand ury indorses the statement of one of he guards who said: "If a man vimr in thertr-fHoward-Hall >?with a Jimuxtiy .sounu nnna ne wouia oe rupeles^lyi. insane in less than three ,'ears. If I were an inmate I would "go rrazy in leas than a year." T.he grand iury reports that a number of witiosses testified to a general belief hat "there ard' many f>ersons now lonfiried there 4vho are not now and lever were insane, but who .have been ;eiit' there for ulterior motives."' This report resulted?rn Senator ftfnp^tead's motion?Senate Resol u ion 84?asking for a thorough sensorial investigation of the Hospital, ind colored people throughout the country are urged by Mrs. de Montis rhrough the N. A. A. C. P." to "write heir Senators asking passage of" this esolution. Congressman Warns Of Southern Opposition" To Negro Monument * New York, April 16.?Congressman Ianulton Fish today telephoned the iT A A /I n - . .. ... ?... *.s\. kj. f. saying that his 15UI, iroviding for a monument to the Anerican Negro regiments brigaded vith the French Army during the rVorld War, would come up in the Wednesday, the 21st of April, possibly n the following Wednesday. ?^? Congressman Fish asked the N. A. L C. P. to broadcast to colored people hroughout the United-- States that iow is the time to write to their Con;ressmen demanding this measure,. H. I. 9094, be passed aj^ once. Congressman Fish informs the N. V. A. C. P. that Southern Representatives will vigorously oppose the measure. "The indications .are," said Mr. Fish lerlnJV COLUMBIA, S. C., SATU ted Dele ital AncUBh F'RST WOMAN . THUS HONOUR!) i lVTrs. LillaJL Robinson, SI. Paul's | Delegate To Electoral College 1 (J28 general Conference LOYAL CHURCH WORKER Church Unanimous In Choosing Her~As Representative In? This August Body?? St. Paul A. M. K. Church of Tampa, jJFla. kno\vn' the country over as one jof the strongholds of the conection, made another stride "forward?in-The line of social and religious progress Tuesday night, April ldth, when it ; elected , Airs. Lilla B. Robinson dele-gat(p U> the. -T.'ect v;iT~ ~"\vliirh jshaH scpd-Lay. represenia'.ives to the -Mrs.- Robinson's'record as "a Church I worker is known to young and old .everywhere, for she has given herself |unstintedly to the service of every department in her church from the Cra-] die Kfll in the Sunday School to the official stall' of tho senior Church. Her ,modest announcement a few days ago of her wish to renrbsent-her church in ' the first. General Conference where I women will be accorded equal rights \\^ilh men in the councils~'of the conffe'etion,. aroused unusual interest, notf (only anions: St. Paul members, but 'throughout he .church-going' population qf .1f? mpa, tor Mrs. Robinson has jalways "lbeen co-bperative with the. work of all denominations." She waged no- active campaign . for votes, thinkjing it beneath th?f dignity of her tn rp<ii>rt to cheat) political tac-" |tics--m the sacred circles of hcrr^itgious home. _ i But it was bcliutifhl to behold the ffinc "spIrflT ot loyalty ana apprecut-1 !tion shown in the election wfi'en withdignity and gratitude men and women 'in largb numbers rose to their feet, .and, openly declared...themselves in *Tii vi'.r Yt'f " Hncrrrrvt^i rv<?*? xi worthy* while they could" inhale iPtheir. fragrance and enjoy their bejfu; Mrs. l{obiiiso.u'h_ju>A.luiii in the con 'duct of the affairs of other orgaruzasitiorfs whtch she has done;"much to. push forward in the State of Florida and h??r h adpi'i-.hin and-hums, hle service at St.. Paul, give cause for the anticipation of" lifm-ual 'legislation for practical Chn? bccuusejof her0 entrance into the law-making body of African Methodism. Tlie electioja done, Mrs. Robinson received showers of congratulations, iboth upon her success achieved with su'h becoming grace and upon her 'opportunity to do credit to the woman-. hood of the land in her newly ac J|1.ntfic-'. While it must be- aejknowledged that hers'lS a signal horror, Mrs. Robinson has always been one who never sought honors in her Christi.-m servi'-e hn* already ^egnn to {plan for~su cwWfction* at?ther-eeroingjGeneral Confbrecnce as wilt mean de? Ifinite progress for her denomination. "f-ftttesting the fact'that men of the ' Church .FTave risen above sex prejudice0 d;mit lie' i limine po longer to have tax; at ion without representation?within jtTieir ranks, the following officials of |St7" Paul Church most heartily enl 1 AT... D .,1,1 no ?nli/lnnxr nr?/l aorse luiumayn r> uumiu?vj j were actively interested as were, the i worn en in bestowing upon heT~"llhis , much deserved honor: Stewards?Peter Johnson, Lee R. 1 'Thomas, Jas. E. Gray, A. G.Thambers Jo!+. -thrkt's-f-Xiinton Roberts. .1 Trns|yes?Chester W. Murray. WalIter L. Rose. C. C. GrecnT Si,;1 Win. Baldwin. E. Haygood. J. L. Williams, C. L. Ma nee. today, "that although the Bill will be favorably reported from ComYhitteo, I there will nevertheless be a minority report opposing the bill. It behooves every colored editor who believes that the valor of colored American soldiers, brigaded with French, troops, should be recognized and commended Continued on page 8. fUtiL'.?... . ?_ ? J Vashin RDAY^-APRIL 24, .192(5. armaceutica THIRTY-FIRST Annlatt session Sessions.To He Hold In Chester, Si C., Thruc Days^-April ! . 27-28-29, 192() r~ ~ j EXDECT BIG DELEGATION I I)r. It. s'. Greene of Orangeburg] -?Will Deliver The -Annual j_ -Address The thirty-first annual meeting of the I'almctip. ?3Icdical,. Dental and PhurniAcmt'icul Association will be he 1 in Chester, &. .C.Atfrll 27-27-29. The session will open- with public cxert-i-es oiv Tuesday evening at 'WWt'h tiwe the' president. Dr. S. R. Cloth, "f nrany.ei: '.re" dv C. will deltv-j^ er his ap.iuial address. Dr. Rbscoe Brown of Durham, N.~~~ <j. wii; irfMiCss the Association on ! Wednesday even in sr., using as a sub- I jecfV "Wiin, why and what in Community health/' PROGRAM ' - -Wednesday y A pril 2K. Varicose Ulcer? E. B. Burroughs, M. 1)., Charleston,.S. C. ??j. Intravenous -Medication X. A. 'Jenkins ! M. D., Columbia. jS. C. *. Eclampsia-?U. G". Teele,'M. D.\ Georgetown, S. C. [Treatment ot' Vertigo?J. A. Mason, | M. D., Ivingstree', S. C. I Some Reflections in the Fourth Decade J. A. Robiuson,, M. D., Darlington, S. C. Pellagra W. jil, Evans, M> D., Moncks-Corner, S. C. Syjiliilis?A Social Ev.il?I.. A. Mason, ' M.-D., Rack Hill, S. C. I Thursday, Aprj^29. T1h7~"Tiv7h1 of mitmth Denll'Uty?E. [B. McTeer, D.-D. S., Orangeburg, S. C. Conductive Anaesthesia?W, H. Laney, " 4-t l-T?kL, . h'oc.l,- Hill. S. I".' ' Septic Persists nce^After Extraction !< J. E. Wat's, D. l).,S*., Coitirrtbin,-'S:~ r4 Oral Infec'ion Relative to Systematic^ Distur! an cs- D.-K. Jenkins. D. ] i 1;?"tv.'i?ColHlivbSt, -S, Gi- ' '* ' t Rluuma-tbm ?F. B. Johnson, M. D? G Columbia, S. C. ' A Some Untoward Effects of AvspheiKK'p' II inn r tV niriiio, 11 D , SiinTT~V jdiudwias Angina. -J. 1). .Williams, M. | D.^xewbvrvy, ?. C. - ' ( Ilehderson, MrTTTGrecnwood, S. C. ji Fall. Fh (I , Chnrip'tom-S. C. ?~~=ft ' ' jl Sunday School Congress Notes j ' :?: 1 Now that till the machinery is func- p UMmngAVtTfi-precision. lur tlm -turning a Con rcss in Columbia' in June, we aic heroin; .'asking each minister of j. I this City regardless of denomination,' f t.> appn'nt a coiai.iit in his Church p to-eanvtiHs that cong r cgajiun*.a.ii(l_g?l_.y 'each home- that will- take delegates i and visitors during the Congress.'j. 'Sorah the o names to the Rev. U. W. r Baylor, D. O., $07 Washington St., so v ilv-ii t'.cy m.ayhc catalogued at once. s Already I jtm receiving letters froro^ i / " !various States asking for reservations ^ for whole State delegations. The price each delegate and visitor will pay for ?. lot'ging a ml two meals per day is $2.00 ? eacli per day. * Retneber that you are" going to do, business with thousands of the most T dined, wealthy, and christian onllaireH people in America. TtiiV nVust' not .] Jio looked at from a pmnot ary .j^and point; I reserve the right to change any <1v10lNI! AC home uho will report to mo any irregularity or unfair treatment. x ' For Columbia to fall short in her t< entertainment will seal our doom as I p a City and Stntecforwer in the eyes'7 of the Nation. . . . a F? r information regarding the Na-'n tional Baptist Sunday School Congress e write Rev. J. C. White, 1027 Washlngiforr Street, Colombia, S. C. 7' 1 J 1^-- - , 7L i-1-- " v -T? ?:? - *? '*?*" gton n< ,s ; : 1 ?Electoral il Associatio ..; |L : _jgH EaH REV' J. S- DANIE Cormth Celebrates j Iffftietk A nniersary k By Rev. J. C. White ^ ino t orintn naptist murch. Union, "' >. C. 'had a two week's celebration of fS.-founding and also the fifth anni- ni ersary of -\their* honored pastor, the ,n Rew-J. S. Daniels, ,D. D., concluding! hose great services last Sunday night (h< .vith a climax of0 services by the Rev. a I. F. Marshall, McCormick, S. C. jcc * I started out to tell the many read- r n-s (!f-the Leader of my ubservatiurre-^ is it relates to tjj.akpld historic Church M I pastured the . Corinth^ Baptist tjSfj _fturcJi eight years before taking up :~R? hf work here at Zion Baptist Church ' ar n Columbia. ~ ~~ I m -^l-thought that Corinth had reached ' he crest of her popularity under my : pi tdhifnistration, "but on my visit-?to ' th Jnion last week to preach two nights jth n.tjhat Great Jubilee Semi-Centennial nc \nniversary- I was convinced that 'su Corinth is just now coming into her j >wn. and that not like Greece whose} 5olden Age is in the past, but that U he davs of hfrr potentialities, and la lystcmatic kingdom building are yet.Fi theatk . . . . ' ' ed Thi^ is all because she has. as. her p? >astor, one of the cleanest, pure heart-|se d. constructive Christian minjsters__of he has ever had to lead her, in the. pi 1 nreached two nights in this great th efvlce. and 7it* each service you couTd^th ml--r.pl dnhdrng roAai ras given an ovation at each of these'of <?rvi/?ffl. . ( ^ . SC ""The big church was more orderly gi han I have-ever seen it, and the peo-j 1e almost adore and worship "their be tastor. The deacons are live young Sc VOTED ARTIST AT [J* A. & T. COLLEGE> ulius itlledsog, Baritone Of f0 National Fame Sang Thurs., tn ' April 15th . 7" Julius Bledsoe, an excellent bari-iin one singer with a national fame, ap- Ci eared' in recital at A. & T. College, "t 'hursday, April 15. Mr. Bledsoe was jo t his_J)cst for the numbers rendered do net the great applause of those pres- no nt. toi Selections were given from German, wi tussian. and EngTTah composition*; tit aspital /Subscribe ani^ ADVERTISE?Current, Social and General News. 5c A COPY~^=" College n To Meet B' i? LS, D. D ~ en. The papers read were excelnt, and music fine. ' . -Rev. Daniels'has both old and young - ? irnessed up, and everything is going ^ 1 with clock-tike precision- White ' uulu I ed attended the.ie servieooi?? They tell me that some great sero'ns were delivered -by the; various inisters on the program... ". .. Mrs. Daniels "is co-operating with ?r husband in'hi# work, and is verily queen among the "women_of that ngregation. - ., ,. Amon^ some of the leading people ' that "light be mentioned: the 'JToliihsr '"Lytes, Humphries, ?cds, Hughes, Tallys, Gists, Jeters,? id many others too numerous "to"-out ion iCoripfh Church' is in the wrong ace^and I advised them to sell out tat .fjropoTty and" move out near * - ? ieir own Race. They, ough.t~fo~~getr~ ? ) les? than $40,000 or $50,000/fbrich valuable property. ? . Dr. A. A. Sims and Union The man who has done more for ; nion than any other one man, in the st forty years, is the Rev. Dr. A. A. ms. Dr. Simg^as the head of the Ideational tntcifrnln of the colored ?^ lople there for the last 21 years has" t a high standard for the people -Union. He has a s.chool of 000 pu^ Is^wRfLTlG or~ 18 teachers all-well ained. I addressed this school at e chapel services. Pridrffr. They are Oiesrstngers-T hnve-ever-mek^-? Dr. Sims finds time to pastor three the Churches besides this great ???heed he conducts.?He is one of the eatest speakers of the "Race. Union will be here in large num rs 'to the" Natiolial Baptist. Sunday ' hool Congress on June 8th. id among the other numbers were e Negro melodies. It is hard to y which of those selections Mr. Blede rendered better than the "Others r he showed expertness in both na,'e and foreign compositions. This noted artist was born in Tex twenty-rix years-ago and hate-spent c full years in=New York City, studyp in one of the noted musical schools itics proclain\ him afc chosen to sinfc o mortals,of love and passion, of y and sorrow, of sunlipht and sha- ^ w, of Jesus and Jehovah-." It* is t too much to expect that in the not o distant future Mr. Bledsoe's name 11 be heralded from all sections of" e country by all lovers of music, ' ~ ? - -r - ^ ~? .r:, . ; - ; >... **: ,