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LA. PAKE FOUR - ^7 dlI|FpaUn PUBLISH 1310 Assembly S i . . LLP. H. I1A1N ?"-fcotrreff at the Post Oihee&v_Ooluh ~~ ? j ~ ~XLT"ij?~ CnU^XCSa? ?-Z-_ ? "* sms< 1 1 nng'Vw ----^r^.'.-rew Six .Months , ?-=^~ FOUKlCi?r-ADY W. 11. Z1FF CO..""Gil* L)e? i Ultioial Ailvet lisements al the rate 1 he Leader will publish brief and ...... terest When t|u-y ale lliTtnnpani thurs and alt nvt .?f a .dgfamai will net be noticed. Rejected n REM I * Cheeks. Drafts*and Postal or Expre to the order of the Palmetto Le fw-j. riLEiJEiaeK - ii. \v. bal mg'Audnku . " ' V.. 11.111111 11 til Iir-in-fmii',1 fi>r iheCU rf'-: vt-aich the editorial deKk'bf-the of t-'aeh w.tt'U. City news, local: ' day night. Business and i nn.i'MHiA. s. (.. s; A CONSTRU ' * * Tin' meet in^..of the Slate J * ("omentum of the A. M. E. CI ?rirtmy.angles tvaV. the-most cor ever been our lot to attend. ions phases of yinniK people's ?- met hods whereby t he young j front tlie attendance upon vi - \ i )11 iini theme was; "Youth 1 rtv la.ifninjr of .youth was jrro; ' erances of l)r. ,S. S. Morris. ( K. I.eajjfue; Prof. \V. II. Sha< Dr. .I| C. Caldwell, Hilde beet day School Specialist in Prim These invited exports recer . pu'tllirfied ministers and laymei 1 ?- wii of paramount itnportai11 "' ~~?UjTd mirtii stamp it as aireft tuiv, eonrKicted lw?liisho,p Rc 1 lisle ji Ransom drew question . -- 1 (jj unman acu\iiy.?-iveii^ion ?Tpirryr?atid?'to. tMttfh- MUi'stion i ill mil deep study, k'wii oliser ?e\ riut'il l.fynml t he peradvent i ? ? v ondmv-.mo.nts of t.lu1?truy solvu of hooks and eive it to life. r? AmoiUCtIk* subjects discus lotion., Ciimniunism. The Iligl meats- in the Church's pvojrri Tim voting people?=and ok much inspiration from Dr. M - rone where he attended the 1 lie also told of having .attend pan. A mark of great civility > Convention formed a motorci M. Ik Salter- by holding api grave and placing a wreath present and expressed deep ; 1 he memory of her sainted -? should ever linger in the mer lU'sfSiESS ? - -AVe,ha-ve received marry let v? ;n7,rfs'..~nfiv e'dlpo't^als-have pr-ss, and laudatory express iur colderuporaries concerniiv it' these expressions more tin rom Alliini 1. llnls.-y. seerot; "? ?' ~~r? .vyy'lTe. -----Mr. llol.-ey writes the ??vll< ffir tin- editorial which' -appe (Any. on t lie progressof 1 "[ .regret very ipueh that i t rv rm'SK-^vn^tr f his editoTiithiv eluded your |uihlieation. AVt Hie editorial and send it to ov lie.nit- Idu.-ve. " y "Viiiii1 ediioriad was one ol ' wl'iii 11 has appeared in any ot puMirat ions have lieen'Aery ?ji riven tot lie progress -td' our \ - We aniueeiate lliis exnress <-mh rinjr .service. That is tin s mi.^rcalor ser\ ice that can -at'li him ami encourage him ~?mti 1111 i.e. -. to >outi'iljut4,L_iih> i-i-y economic resources. -> > \Ve helieve in the principles founded and are tor them! The following recommemla . tary's report (N. N." 15. L.) incut he f^icorporat ed , and ori =** and expansion: 2'. That a Ti ? plan a enrnpai^n for raising l'.U That r a Committee represc lotion js concentrated, he a)>p of campaign's t'or Better Neg Office in New Ytfrk he contini begun and proven important ,. a competent staff pf workers creasing office details may hi a joint committee, jiwjresentin ored Women, The >WHbna1 tl] Business League. and such Oil asked t(i work out nh wive study of Ihe Negro buy ?Thad^sy somatic. effort be_ma 1 o' church and fraternal lead* reach the masses of our peop These recommendations are" in a brighter ocoonbmie day f be: "Business To The Fore! 7 T7<Ni^(VEST An article of .great social in ber number of The Americar "Mngior-* In Custody." an' it if a Doctor nf Philosophy from F VVembridge. Doctor Wembridj 1 ?- - ?ttu ibeator 1 ED WEEKUY g treet, Columbia; S. C. a 1PTON, Publisher.. ibia, S. C., as second class mailer by Ha ~ bHtlKllONS n Thj_fc? Mnnii^ . , y? ???Copy .05 r ElUlisING AGENCY ' S: irborn St., Chicago, .11L , c, allowed by law. ? ' . | a ' _ ? | s rational letters on subjets o? general inrd by the nnnn"i and addresses of the au. ; Lory nature. Anonymous communications ! J1 nanuscripts *111 hot be leLuined. j?h ITTANCES | " ss Money Orders should be made payable j ader. ... . .. ? ; , _ :?- ?1 1? j P ; .11"-" Editor! e -Acting Editor! tl rrent issue must be very brief, and should ,, l;ainietto Leauei not later than Tuesday- ., s, personals and social news, by J^edne*- ^ Editorial I'hor?e 4523 C< - "** it V TURD AY, AUG, 30, 1930.- fi UTIVE MEETING. ? fii ' ' " - ' ^ V. C. E. League and Sunday School tl hurch at Charleston last week from si istructive and ennobling that it has IV At each session experts in the var-. rr ; activities lectured, and illustratedfe )eople might receive greater benefit I N irious church exercises. The Coh-t"" for Christ and the Church." The j atly.enhanced by The expert deliv'onncctional Secretary of the A. C., ckleford, Sunday School Specialist; urer: and Mrs. Ira T. Bryant, Sun-' inry Methods. red able assistance from many well n .of South Carolina, but their work' e. A feature-of the Convention >urational triumph was the questirm tj: verdy C. Ransom. From this box 'si s on almost every conceivable phase . philosophy, science, Government,!^ pny'r' n wHf'ivri^nncd answer hhftHfl H cation,- and uncommon sense.. He-fs Lire of a doubt- that he possesses the j." lar?"the ability to take spirit out !;n sod by Bishop Ransom were: Evo-jey lor Criticism, The Place of Amuse-11" am. and the-New Humanism. "f 1 people too?should have received!w orris' travelogue of his trip to Eu- it ^Vorld Christian Endeavor Meeting. H I'd the Passion Play at Obernmmor 1^. vas shown when on Thursday the ! t ide .to do . honor to the late Bishop fi iuopriate memorial services at his i Q! thereon. The Widow Salter was appreciation for the-respect shown !a: spouse. It was a Convention thatjN horv of ev.erv"attendant upon it. . .!rr ?!S i TO THE FORE. " \h - - . ' j A lorn ovpronmng appreciation of our ^ ions h^'Ve appeared in the pages of I n i this paper but we appreciate none jir mi we do a communication received i: iry of the National Negro Business j* iwing: "I am writing to thank you w tared* in your publication last week Ju l, . r-' TV** A . - - K. llf v . Hi. . OIUIC^. my annual report had already gone j ppeared. otherwise I would have in-; ^ lat 1 did, however, was "to reprint'tn ery Negro grocer in America whose is ?? ' ? -H*j ' The most encouraging references j the colored papers, and all of the ni nerous hrthe space That they have..; i,, vork." h>? ion because it tells us that We areit>; [ purpose for which we exist. There |?j be rendered the Negro now than to L, to have faith in his own business Lj quota toward the development ofith . ~ ~ " * it upon which the C. M. A. Storfes areiR< ! in lions are published in the Secre-! ',l I. That the C. M. A. Stores' Mttve- i*anized nationally for premanence o< udget Committee be appointed to q nds to carry on the Teague^worh; nting sections where Negro popu- g ointgd to plan and direct a series % ro Business;; 4. That the Branch js led jn order that activities already'8 may be^ fully developed. 5. That 8 be provider! in order that the in-.-g e gradually apportioned; 6. That 8 p the National Association of-Col- g rban League, the Y. W. C. A., the ? Imr'OrK-Hfily.alionH as may be'inter- g ins for nation-wide and comprehen- |r ing power and buying habits; 7. :8 de to present the League's program 8 prs and such other groups which $ ,le." ' - . A ^ound and if adhered to will usher ? 'or the Negro. .Our slogan should 8 8 ns^t'usiody i terest' is published ip the Septem-, g i Mercury Magazinf! 4-ts title is ? ? written by-a white woman who is ' g ladcliffe College?Eleanor'Rowland o ?e is referee of the Juvenile Court 1^ V a " ?* = V - T11V: t'ALMK f Cuyahoga Countyj umo. aiS laking an extensive study c roups that come under her Dr. Wembridge maintains nd the whites who have cot dds with the law, the N eg roe ' h i tea. ^^Sh ejvas ^ u 1 iprepa^uil ist-good-mamier:. are not the ian porter, domestic, etc. Dr. Wembridge states*?.uiutl eahty-than. the. white. .and t lime source as poise. She. kn an sing "Nobody knows the s if giving praise, for their t ion among No'gr.oe.s than-am p ?<s to what sex they belfint mail's coat it-is-Inn economic ?d, all fall into normal typos dth each other .along lines v Dr. Wembridge, in short, li roes Avho face her need nat-h st be shown by their own here?" she Tisks. "White po< elped elsewhere by friends ould not have mot. Ayiiere Itefr neighborhood when the re their own churches, theit 3urt is the last resort of the :s most stubborn members, rst, and of mahy citizen* whi These observations?of?Dr. ' lg. Although we may not ai rawn from her observations I. ?1 ? ? iiere are too few points of i ervice organizations ant] tin Iany lives might be salvaged lanifested in them.- l)r. Wei very minister, lawyer, doetoi legro race. BETWEEN TlTIf LINES BY GORDON B. HANCOCK Miles And Millcs Of Promise. Saluda, Virginia is n-riiral villn fty"nnles east, of Eirhnmnd and tuated near the.Front Rap_pnhf *k River. For a~vetU o-omforta aeation it is idoubtful if Saluda c ? excelled, and in this goodly la e are- taking a vacation , tlnriTPn PS nf-iytprHsl-mtt I... tT.ti-rt.r IU. f ofj'salt water .s\vinvninj?_and fi! F, With tennis _a,n(l_ia^)qjLiet. It ne to eret up at throe in the moi F. and pet out oh the liver and i> urn famous Virgin in ' st<7(s~; cTz s and trotttr?I.ast. Saturday moi tx the writer took twenty nice or id a few mornings bf?fnyo wo rang ghteen well assorted.. This is onderful section and there is son ling encouraging about the ore ' Negro life. It is doubtful if th( to hp found anywhere in the \\-<w etrroes so suhstnnt iall.v sitTHTTf ood schools, j fine churches with elligent pastors and well '< ned social life that affords eve gcessary comfort and diversion. 1 xy without fear of successful. ci adicti/oi' tViut :< v .w?.i ii rti-zmps nnywln re really and truly living! it is t legroes occupying this strip \ liles wide reaching fro hi 'Fred ksbutg to within five miles of X' ilk. It is possible tn negotiate- 1 ngth of this-strip?mi Negro hfft TT of the Nttpriit-y?irwri--t hc;T- irrrp nd "hrrVT' -beautified ami inipn v tern aftcr'a. most remarkable TIT: hi. Unlike. Negro land downers inny places wohere dilapidation a forlorn.ajipearanee is ainiost invt bly the mark of the Negrb hot te Negro farmers in this seetii ave ?o improved their farms tl tere is no way to tell when which hite and which is colored,.' If Hi m .represents Noero-gtt^'Hhrfe at ?st and Durham the business li ten this section represents the hig ?t development of the-ruralatli.fe a ansends all other phases of Nee fe in promise' for the future. Tin no future for Negroes in the ci ?future?mirrow cd?in?t h,, life le Negroes of this, -netion. .Ii ties ami ndj'pr^of - prcTii.i^'-! Negrovlca<U'|ship in this section telligcnt and const pud ive and It ten for many years.- due -to?t aincd 'ministry sent out from V nia Union. 'Reverends O. homas, I. (I. (liadder.j .1. li. Wrigl , S. Russell and B. Ii.- (layles a istors of contiguous parishes a ey are all college -trained men a tells in their work.- The home v. ami .\irs. wayes where 1 am li K, is an ^?ij?:ht room parsonage \vi lone and electric lichts. Rev. (la ^OCWOOOOOOOCvOv-S^.-I'./^Hl.vf.HX BENEDICT SIXTY YEAKS OF Ir*??'f'nurses -for pastors at ,B. I h decrees. II. 11 ijccli Sc'hool course licj Ill- Full College courses lc . JX._?Students tu!<lntr pro-iva LuLh. (hillppo jLllil Meilii inc ill V. The Model School operj vi. Unusual interest. cento competent instruct mi*. -Benedict i* mend Tor "Sou the approved list of Southeaster! Next"session heeins, Sy.pfoiv trmher T5V -" For catalogue and other IMtKSIUKN "Benedict College, i?>#tfo:ox>oo 000 OOOO OOOOO <X> < ilMin II 'liirn iiirt^ini ? . - ; J J. _-A 1 ; . ; ; I "* i? ??1 > * ...... _____ :jT() i.GAJDER _ m. __ _ _ yp tire lea'clions ul' dill'(.Tent racial supervision. .... in her article-that of the Negroes ne' under her supervision, being at s a-re a decidedly superior Jot to the In thul thill the poor Negro easily diiwu v--.-tnat^ n?> is not set'V'llai ttrart~ result of trtnning-as a waiter, pull-T .?llui- Negro-is^~better rAilp to fart*:: hat.thia qualify- springs from the iowsi of no ot her race of pebpTe who -trouble I "seen, Glory Hallelujah;" roubles. She observes less perver'?vg whites. , "They get dess mixedj to. If a colored woman has on a and not for neurotic reasons.?---In the eolorc<U~though many and varPeople of suitable ages consort rhich Nature has la-id down. elieves that in most cases the Nee brought there if the proper interpeople. "Why worq such people :>ple ofjikc caliber-.wouki have been and-neighbors; and they and 1 were the c^nscientiTTCis""citizens of fight was going on? . . . . Where" lodges and their clubs? . . Our . 1 white race, and of its weakest or Of (he colored, it is apparently the t) should not have had to come." ^Vemhridpe arc well worth' ponderwith tmr in nil jior conclusions we are o>m|)oUed~lb"l7?nTrT?f^^ ontacT" between, the Nepro's social : >se for whose benefit they exist" I. for pood if the proper interest be mbridpe's article should be read by % scluppk teacher and eHizcrrrof~*the~' ? i H hscst-an a?aregatc- membership <of in ore than a thousand and 05 per cent of theso_ar0 hotrif owners^ liaylles has a program that pvertues fro,m | urban pastorates cannot interrupt. (Jaylcs has a vision when he - decides in stay her,, and sharp this most substantial Negro life to he found in all the world. ~ We havvoo distorted to four revival sermons and whillo we |gg listened we wished that the Nog. ;g roes from many large urban centers m_ could have boon rtere to cn.ioy a real J hie intelligent service. None of .this ,an "swamp-angcl" preaching and ".holy a(j roller" singings so prevalent in many rc^-n; nvir "up-to-date" eitv churches. I? have?=ppn more - rimvnrig bt- - church Ui- foolishness. in "cities 'from Roston tp j js New Orleans than here in the rural i ,n_ rot-rents of Vir grniax^ -I sawn Lynch-1 ,,U hurjr Seminary man "Helping a Union ^--miiii in a revival. It \Vas the exer n <,'se ?f 11 bb ?f hrotherline/s and com- [ I(>s I nm.li sense-some of the hiope-jvronii,jvt nent of bijt h ' ednneetions \Vould dot| I well to cm 11 In to. All throuprh this 10-1 sootmn an1 to he found laryf> num- 11 |ev|hors of Necrroes who have returned i >ro I from the North to live oroe aprain in] i"lft i Virjrinia. Scarcity of jobs and tiprht iji'1'1"".' m tronf l-i I ton-.. fin-perl -them in'l I hack into the rural life they forsook! ip_ ja few years afro for t}m more-tslim-(j ["t'jus ' opportunities offered in the j^e! North. The "imaginary radicals" jn iciuld do nothing. for them, so they | ,,.p : returned to the "cursed south'' to live * .jjp1 amone their "cowardly and spineless ; ;en.;l<in." Many arc returning and try- 1 t>r_ nig to buy the homes they almost ] l)PiJirave away ten years ago. Negroes,' ' not only hold your jobs hut flWld your! -,jSv homo.s_iuj.he .South. _J\Vhile the rad-'}ica4?Negroes are "radieaiinpr" the?* -,.tl i?>or whites and foreiru( r< of the1' ^j.^NortlT a it"? r i 7 jn tr t very eOorrnTntr' o prr "-^ p^rT*rt'rri'itn"-r?v -'flit- ft.?i<i t ho vatfM'tfat--. n,j nrs'nrc putting ovifr their program; ,n._ the "imaginary Xegr.b radical" and j n0j 'niartyr-hv-proxy" 'are exuding hot on" ail and hondust 'which only they, iaj themselves jake-?ai all" seriously. The] j- nope of the'Negro race in thi? eoun- ' ar_ try is tied un with'the rural 1 i?e of The South.? If -smno -< ? our "fire-eat-jj f,..' intr" radicals would ?pon,d tnor^ time rj,J trying to organize ' lard holding cor-]. ,1(] j'hrations to la\ hold on koine of the . < *( jw> lands of .the South which shall L which shatf Tic-a Ti a von for the hard | I v M essed Negro migrants which shall ,',f hail.-from the North within* ten years, Jst tl.ov would actually, be doing" the ] | t'itco a' pejmce. :Tio^sO arc miles and , >s ' Tildes) of Paradise fori Negroes-'! . ?', . * * v ys . i hw?.? A Business Point Of Order ^ 'Jl* Banking has Keen too .invariably * the objective in Negro business. v _ Vhereve'r Negroes have boon pros- i Mi porous, the Negroentreprenour has ( "*! set his heart on banking. This h:ts < tur boon a croat mistake. Banking is - no von sate unless Tf is supported by "7 " a robust business life. Such-life has i 'b -jut been largely developed- among ? y- , Negroes There' must be an abun- < I ~ - ; COLLEGE 11 lTNSI-:i,I ISH SKRVICIv * id to B. Tlv. and ^ 1 ^ifininff with Second Year* ; ading to A.^B. gnd B.*S. degrees. ? ^ >rdical course, oworod hero* nmywfinndT >5; 1 seven years .^ntitoad. of eight. 1 i2h J iled Ify ^"Ttyof Columbia next ses- cj 1 rod mi the musical department with jo: J rn Association of C(dieses and on g: ^ i Medical Association. P 1 d>er 17. llco-ici? <.!!..? M. ? -?? " information, write - 8 | T J. J. STARKSt jg t . . ____ ('o 1111n)>ia. S. C. o jj SOO^OOCiOO.OOOOOOOOOO.C-OOCtOACO^tta 1 '? . : V b . ngm?' " r "~ *-* r I dance of short time paper if a bank is to keep liquid a-safe margin M assets."These",,^laoyt time, papers are impossible"pfrTfty 'of business and this business fmong Negroes has not yet been sufficiently developed. _ Even such business as is developed could pll be turned over to Negro banks, they could live and prosper, but1 the buitc ot it goeS lntfr white channels. It-wPgbing- to bo~a fine thing for the Negro entrepre"cur to know that, banking is, a form of -btrsfness dtfe" -that^must" follow rathet^thnn precede great business development. Besides a lack in business, Negro bankers have not had save in a few instances substantial training for their places. The growth of business educaTIon is -making and"will make Negro banking safer md safer. The Negro banker is a eharicp is quit" as safe as a financier as a white man. Let lis support what banks we have, but let us be -u|pw-to establishothers: The organization of large business .-enterprises should take precedence of banking. So obpossoJ have been some of our Negroes with the idba of being bankers, that ive know of an instance where th0 the president of the Negro bank was ianitor in t Vrn wV>itn T+ was assumed that a man who workod around abank would know banking. The Negro janitor was made president. The bank failed. Asido from holding our jobs, which are basic and primary to ever" phase of Negro life, our attention should bo directed towards establishing new Nwu. enterprises and supporting. those already~establlshcd. , What Mr. TTolsey is doing with the C. M. A. stores must he dope in other Vines. If somP of our "high-powered'' Negro cvrticisers and white man abusers would concentrate their attention on this self same matter of promoting larger Negro business lifej we could actually get somewhere. The failure--of. the Binga Bank was a failure in the Negro's business volume and organization and this failure is due largely to our kick-of miTrsis on fhirtrtr*; 1 stressed the things of the spirit nhd things of the mind; it is high time that we stress things of economics.; Who Negroes know business and do business, Negro banking will take ter .to me of recent date makes a most pertinent Suggestion, says he", "Negroes must learn how to go opt of business as well as go into, busiToo invariably a Negro must ail himscIT out of business. ' POINTRH ?1 I P O I N T S I (leorge A. Singleton The Weekly Text:?Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called [he children of find Jaouu. . Browning .-says: " 'Tis not what man does which exalts him hut what man would diLL" Beautiful words. Iktress the poet means that men are exalted by their .aspirations and dreams. Then hear the words of the acred writer: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is." These have point yet grammar school students ?ii"w?that?man?does not?think "inhis heart." Thousands of Baptists are in Chi:ago at this, writing. What they are attempting to d<j this writer has not 'hvev <1 id succeed in doing,, however Aas h> reelect Dr. b. K. Williams ('resident and remain silent on the vnching, 'and cowardly murder of [ '.. 1). PiersoTi. I.-? r,u?ivnuy me deceased Cierson was lbout* to liirn on the searchlight and somebody was afraid of beiner caught od-handed, This is not the first ime in the history of the, church hat good, sincere, and honest men lave been killed to thwart an invesigatior. The Baptist Convention is mder n cloud. Public opinion should leinand the truth. Ueople cry "hard times," still they Tlay The races,, turn out to prize ights. "hack numbers," and- crowd A'rigley Field to see thp mighty "ubs play base ball. Who would not iam ar parktto see a gam0 such as' vas played on August 24th in Chiparo, when Danny Taylor stole home vith the bases crowded in the ninth lining and two strikes on Guy Bush? i )ne hundred years from today, what liffererce will it make? The Chicago" Musical Festival -was i 'brilliant affair. It was an achieveneirt. Over three thousand singers md many bands took part.^The, lealers of your group were Professors I. Wesley Jrfnes, James A, Mundy, ind Boatner. These artists, accomnuiied bv. fwn > -? - wiuunaiiu oi your best | -infers "covered themselves - with rtory/' Those of you who listened your radios will bear teati-1 nony to what thiswriter is trying to ttty:? ?~ | The National Session of Negro Mu-j dcians is meeting in Chicago at this vriting. Professor J. Wesley Jones Director of the great Metropolitan i Omrnunity Center Church Choir, is he distinguisht president. On last Sunday evening the huge'auditorium 1 >f the church was crowded and some >f f.hr race's?greatest artists?perroVine(J7 Such celehreties as Carl DidDL^mid_KAthaniel-IletL-werp present Great day was August 24. At the University, of Chicago, the writer .vith others listened to a wonderful Convocation Sermon delivered by Tof.. Wtlttam Cfeighton Graham, the Department of Old Testament. The J vrifer was gript and enraptured, de ? . ..iinvu more iuuy to cling to an ittempt to understand life in its full-1 to live more gloriously. i r^winging out in space on a tiny j rlnhe, traveling tn a stx hundred mil- 1 ion niilc orbit, ninety three, millions >f miles away from the sun.our cener of heat and light. And the light Uiich makes life on the^ globe cheer'ul and possible' comes to us at the ' ate of one hundred eighty-six th9U- 1 ^ . ' - * SaturchiyAi^^ sand miles per second.- For miHitms years, HMIl'l' SHfflp waiuhuiim Hai _ disobeyed the red 1 iprht traffic signals of the heaven, came too near our ' sun and in the wreck kpockt off a piece our earth, artd' life appeared after a long period of timet death has been thp end of all life. It is the end now.?Kvory mqther's sun?who 1 walks tin tmth tud^v will neon i 1 ??wn This the season when school^"' all i > v?* i* t hp rmintry will be oportmg: -Thousand:* of bo*.* and?gii'lsr-yotwg men and young women will once more begin making- the intellectual , attack. Are they earnest, sincere? Do they study because they realise that ignorance is a damnable curse? worth whilp contribution to the ^ilvaging and rehabilitation of . the race On the other hand do they desire _ simply "to get by" "ArgthiV interested chiefly in getting a certificate? ??trir?L . i- -? - n-'u. iinr.vj>isii w> suck mo lines Of least resistance? Do they have the audacity to "request teachers to have no examinations r nd tests? Are they willing-to pay tht. price of scholarship? Are we move interested in foot ball and basket Drill tlnm we ave in schol-_ arship? Do schools exist,'for the puipose of affording athlejtics? Is that_Jthe main drive? . In certain sec- _ tions it seems to.be. AN OUTSTANDING BUStNESS"" MAN Andrews, S. ('., August this little town?tX?-rrritds west of : Georgetown one tVnds?a?group of??5? prosperous business men. Fordmosf among them is Mr. Fred Green who is one of the outstanding contractors of our group. When , riding 011 the Seaboard Air Line you might stop-to consider that are fastened could be the ties sold the company by Mr. Orccn. The chief part of his work is contracts to the Atlantic Coast Line Corporation for the delivery of these ties already cut. It -was the writer's, privilege to make a visitation to the woods and see 40 or 50 liicn sawing down trees, and cutting them into ties. The ties . are; then ; hauled . * miles to specially constructed railroads. These camps are full of ac-?-e TWTtTes and ;fttl7<veml of the day1 the men return to their camps where kwuu. nu'iiis iiave noon prepared* and beds 'comfortably made.. 7?Bohind?tirese many?activities is tile genius ot bred Greeiu-who?has been in tlTis business some (1-1) fourteen years, lie is fair, hottest and sympathetic' with the -welfare of his men .uppermost- in mind. This man is a sKililul organizer with a comprehensive knowledge of bis business. Not only is he an outstanding eontractor but he is alsoleader in the community. He is often called "the' father of .Andrews.-*' llo->is a..trustee of the school and church and was a..delegate to tlie 1S'2X General Confereiice of the A. M. K. Church. Mr, Green is the owper of a deal of valuable property, among bis real; estate . . are the following: a 245 acre farm, a- modern building containing three stores and a ball, and a beautiful ?I home. _ \ir. Green is the father of three fine children and an exceptinoal Wife who has. been responsible for some of?his?success Iu up Later view with the writer, Mr. Green was found to be very unassuming -aud does?not- care- for- publicity, after a,?deal of persuasion, ho consented to -gdve?tlTts news to the re porter;" Ml'LLlNS NEWS. On last Sunday a largo crowd ' greeted the pastor, who had just re-'' turned from Charleston in attendance * of the ^State League and Sunday School Convention. To sav we had a great fea-t would bo expressing it in mild"terms. We hod quite a largo number- of visitors present. Among the number was Rev. Hodge of Floronco; Prof, -and-Mrs. Gordon?and a host of others who, I do jio^ have spaco to mention. Visitors are always welcome t oour church. The review Sunday morning by Mr. Raymond Ransom was a real treat to the whole school. Mr, Ransom is fast forging his way to the frontr II,. 1? a student of Allen ilnf-- 1 ver'sity, and a local'preacher in our ? church. ' , Mr. Shepherd Thompson is another one of Ebornezer's .stars anwng the young people, lie is a recent grad-- uat(, of the high sr*bool department of Allen, and a local preacher in our church, also. The people love and - A I (riv.. ,i..? ...... * ? m ^ in u.k; Iinjjirtl UCinunC HH-'.Y keen their garments white. The pns- tor and members only wish they had ^ more of their type. The young people of our city delight in attending church services. * , I am sure the Reporter selcted in Charleston -will give duo account of .? the meeting, but-, J just want to say this much: fr was a great meeting." Bishop R. C. Ransom is a mighty power among men and South Carolina is bound to follow his lead. We havA,h mighty fine , group. of P^esid- i ing Elders who tviTT do credit to any s- ag state and we are^ proud of them. j ? Dr.- J. E. Beard*is making goc/d^as usual among his people. He is in- ',H d?er^ a grPTt man. Rev. I- W With- B erspoon th^hohbrjeri 'pastor of ' Mt. _Zkm is hoeing bis. own row, and his people gladly follow his lead. Hb The writer, his Jvife ami children stopped in the A. M.~E.' Manse of Mt. Zion, and truly^the pastor and ? his queenly wife made it pleasant for us. They are doing well, as all of the other pastors of Charlestoii? arp drone.? JVe; desire that all of the people in this Aprtioir^smr^hp -nrrftur ?Trd nay up and renew your subscription to the paper. You will never read a bet- ' . ter one than The Leader. The Editoj^and-.the entire staff believes in a fair Ld4aU- - - ' , \ When in our eity visit our church- ?_v? ep. All of the pastors are real busynbw trying to bring up the rear. . i' V -