The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, January 10, 1925, Page SIX, Image 8
Mr - - : mmamBwo.
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g , / S-J? Dr. Geo. W. Carver, who has
one hundred and sixty five, new
prnHiieta from the peanut, and
_ bert H. Jones of Wilberforce.
||| ~ D a degreT^3 On^c^ored womaij
from the University of Pennsyl
^ , . ? vania?-Miss Sadie Moasell.
In the last census there wer i
_ - 3077 doctors, 478 dentiq'ta. Somt
of them are the best to be fouuc
' " ? Yet we do notappreriate thetrir Ther^aramoEe-thAn
BOO college a
and normal schools foar colored
people. Thoy arp aiippftr7<>d hy>
i the church, the states; and philanthropists.
Gifts frojn the edu
cational foundations: \h
Allen University, Beiiedict/Col
lege, Morris College arid th.^ city
of Columbia.
S At the close of the Civil war,
we had a very few professional
men. Today there are. ne&jriy
?"7 ST~ -one hundred thousand-^rofess,
ionals. . ; 7
. We have no grounds tobe)^
shamed of ourselves In~the ebu
but chattel under the auctioneers
a?j ~~ hammer; today we, own more
than' 600,000 homes, including
3U0,00U farms covering zi,unu,000
acres of land, wofth tujinrace
in so snort a~flme nas ^cr
" : cumulated more. ' "j '.
J Banks. Just fifty years algo
there were very few of us who
7 khew how to yet mnnpv nirnTSr
bankr and~today ~wghave ~Ne?
grroes owning and operating aboutr
one Jiundred hanks, with a
capital stock of about $3,000,000
_ bout $5(^000 000.00
' ' I saw a colored man dcpeaiHn
a colored bank in Columbia^ S.
, C., -over $4,000.00 at on^-timef
3 I am, myself this day, the pas
y . ana nave ail the cash money that
~~ J" ^-ffl^^eposlted in that .same
" .... .n-bjanJt.??
_ ^ It began in 1921, with assets
of $2^6O0M)O. Th$ resourses at
the close of the third year was
: v:
? Inourancc 06sT Fifty yeaia ago
the colored people of America
had heard very little about insurance.
And even, tudayjthere
I" " x -^are thousands who say that they
- Vo not need- any money" after
~ ' not want tnTTeave anything fortheir
children to fuss ovei; after
: "ttrey\are gone* In the face~bf alT
this we have more than forty ini;.
surande companies operated by
.Negroes,. 7- 1
I shall inen lion only those lHatr
operate m Columbia. The Mutual
Relief and Benevojtent Association
of South Carolina with
? head quarters- 4n-Gohrmbia has
i deposited with the state fnsur;
~ ance~^epartment $32,000.00 It
V ihas assets amounting to $77,090
employs six clerks in the office,
Sr o
m . ?- ana nag oyer 150 agcntg. ^-7The
National Benefit Life Insurance
Co., Washington, D.. C.
? has tr capita! of $250^(!R)07(50, as^
sets over $1,000,000.00 and has
j?: - deposited with the Insurance Department
$256,600.00, with over
$38,000,000.00 insurance in force.
It has 86 branch offices with one
here in Columbia, operating in
- 26 states and 225,000 policy holders
giving employment to hun-,
^ - dreds of men and wonien-<j#^fF|
r race, come ot the stockholders
^ - of this company live in this city.
y IN MLMOKIAM.
In lovingbut sad remembrance
Of our dear ^mother and wife,
ET- fMrs. Rosa E. Shefton, who ^e^
parted this life Dec. 28, 191?.
Bfe Hnaband, fiugene N. Sheltan*
L Children: Ethel Emily, itosa
L Lee, Edward, Eugene, Jr., and
Earle. * ;
NEXT CONVENTION OF COI
OBKB TEACHEKS1N
COLUMBIA.
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Mrs. C. D. Saxonwho is the trea
on fur rtf ftin assne iatinn Slhfl ha,
VI T/ilv CTOwvvltl VIviri UIIv I*?l
ana holds similar irositions witl
Fflipvft1d iSrhonl and thfi Fp
deration of Colored Women*!
Clubs.
Mrs. 0. A. Lawson and Misi
_ored guests at, the teachers din
ner last Saturday.
PtJTTlNi^PEPlNTrHi
" SUUTH.
?34W controversy-over Muscle Shoal
which for the past fourof five year
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I tJUUHi ?IIU *L2> pU^^lUiULigi> .ueior
I hka been going jon lntremlttently, yi
intone the Ises bitterly, has brrough
th^ rest of the country, in a way tba
cannot but prove helpful to that-sec
tion. The prosperity that the Soutl
enjoyed the " fields. and" not?fn<*
South furnished the raw produc
'and the North the finished jproduct
Ifiotton was kingt
Now comes a new order of things
The moTteyed interests of the, Eas
and North are entering this virgii
"fielcTlmd building large industria
plants in the vicinity of Muscle Shoal
where electrical energy will be cheap
llahnr plentiful aTn"d"~alsa- cheap, an
where the climate the year round i
' mTI'd^and "agreeable. If this-bultdlhi
jprogjam is carried into all of^they^sui
factories' become- as numerous belov
las they are above the Mason
Dixon line, sectional animosities "tha
have for so long existed will graduall:
rdieToutZand the country in fact h'
united. ~~ '
" Again the hand of the black mai
is seen in this readjustment Th
'.thousands who left the cotton ani
sugar cane fields of the South for th
factories an7r~mTlTs~hT" The Nrvrll
brought about a -condition little 4es
than a panic. Large plantdtioiTown
I era .who had been liyiog^m the fat o
iths-land became" property p'oor?fo
what good is the land if it is impoa
isible to get .farm help??-The silve
fining to-this praticular cloud is tha
Titltttm^of^uF"grdup7The great major
lity of whom belong to the workini
[class. -With the influx of broade
! minds "conditions for them will b
|vastly improved;'.IBS. southern whtt
l^l hi^'^^nd^hce on one-farm prod
,uct and try the sure method of di
-versified-farmmg, or go into the flel
of manufacture. It may take year
:for the South to fully awaken fror
!her deep economic sleep, but a ra
of hope is seen in her yawning.?Th
! Drs. Jenkins Entertain
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One of the .most enjoyable occasion
i pulled off in the city in recent time
! was a Stag: Party given by the Dr!
jjenk^^^^^theit^^auU^^^me^
'Thirty .ox mure stags conshding-oE th
i leading business and professional me
jsif the city and'-a- few visitors froi
I elsewhere enjoyed. thi3 unusual affair
j Whist was the ox-der of .the eveningAll
kind of Whist, too-gdod, bad an
; indifferent. When the Seores wer
j made up. it was revealed that Dr. t
fG.-Stuart was champion, closely fo
I lowed by IVter-W. C. Johnson, with D
C. E, Stephenson claiming first ' b
| counting ..backwards. Approprjat
.prizes were-awarded to the-succes'sfi
ones. A delightful supper was serve
by the charming Mesdames N. A. an
D. K. Jenkins. The occasion was vote
a most happy one by all present.
Dr. R. S. Wilkinson,
Negro Educator, is
Taken to NewTorl
i Dr. R. S.' Wilkinson, president c
{ the State College at Orangeburj
who has been suffering with ill healt
j-for some time was taken Saturday t
(New York for treatment. Dr. Wi
kinson has been in poor health sine
last October and his condition has r<
cently become worse. He was accon
panied to New York by Dr. Beanie c
ffimitgr. ?.?..
OFFER SCHOOL
Benefactors Provide Negro
Institute Match Gift.
BSITon, Jan. 6?Mr, and Mrs. Glan
f 76,000 for the endowment of the Alie
Freeman Palmar Memorial iBSflttit
at Sedalia, N. C? proykfed* a lik
aiflount is rmifced byjtfte trustees.'
? The Inatitutipzr Is attended by 30*
Negrp Children,
? THEPALMEI
DK. J. C. WHITE WELCOMED
_ TO THE LAND OF THE SKY.
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' objected to' being competitors, with
? the non-productive alave labor.
7 On the other hand slave labor was
1 profitnhle-to the-South. -fiAfc-beoause
8--the warm climate Slrtred~the : Negro*!*1
tj- mature, and theicfoiu made^thlB 'sec^
tion his natural home, and second
? idealise the Negro could" be trusted
~ aim wan unexcelled as a good held
3 hand..
The first parting of the ways with
3 The North and the South took place
on Dec. 20. 1849 when California or~
ganized a state- constitution and peti^
tinned congress fbt admission as a
^ etate. The-North supported the meas.
ure jind the?-South opposed ftr The
ground "of -opposition was that the
? Missouri Compromise Lino in its
- tention to-the Pacific Ocean crossed
California, whereby a part of the proV
s posed state was opened to slavery,
8 mis uone p y an act o x congress
e which no territorial legislation, could
f abrogate. California aught titers
t jected. * t
The reply of the North was more -
moral but less logical, they said that
h the argument of the opponents-of the
t not to the whojg of California, and
that the Missouri Compromise "Line
7 had respect to the .purchase of La.
i. The -debate became more and more
t violent^ until the stability of the Unrr
ion was seriously threatened..
1?:"Henry Clay appeared for the, last
s time, by introducing the" bill known
i, as "Clay's Cqftltfrromise -Bill." H earLing
the. rail from Eternity..he passed..
s to the great beypund. Henry Clay's
j tDompromise^Bilh'was-an idle dream.
r "Ladles and?gbftUemen^ God~~pre^=
i1pared mighty men to combat with the
/ conditions of those trying timed." The
I'i spanker rriHtil.nmed grunt cliar.acters-t
ip- history, such as Mrs. Harriet B:
t Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's
e Cabin,"' Wendell Phillipsr, WilRam L.
Garrison^'find many, others who have
i helped to combat with Ch e times.
b I "John Brown's*" execution," ..continued:
i | the speaker, "brought on the Civil I
e War more than any thing else. In 1858 i.
h:n. stranire figure appeared in. Amerir
s) can panics.?xms man?was Abra
ham CTncoln. "He went to Wa$ingf;
ton in disguise* but hen was a man
r for the time and Goo? has?atwaysj;
. ; raised mighty men to combat -with
r I the times. H?r~was the only doctor
t that could prescribe for_ American ills, j
hjllis object was to save tho Uniofr.
\T| "Some people say thar Abraham j
? I Lincoln was not opposed to slavery.
r j Whea he came into-New Orleans he I
e'saw a Negro under the overseer with j
e | his back "bieedtngy he said.' 'If
gTgot a-chanee that- abominablej[-1
institution X wil frit-fchardi'-^4f -you.;
i_ | want to do right God will give you
dja chance. Gffd~~gave him a chance.
t- Tnv> TOO 1- nr~?Jv?
a uon. xowo, iic BifucK it witn nisi
n i pen, which is always ^nightier than I
y ! the sword.- He overturned the auction
ejblock and the., Negro-- proclaimed?
|'Thank God^ L am. free!' . Some day.
^ er's knee'the father wiH-^tell of the
i man^ who_ buiit_a monumont irr^thtr"
?jjjiearts of 15,000,000 black men. ?The
^Emancipation was nothing new, it
!S was the re-echo of God's voiced/What?
J i y /
3-| soever, ye would that men should do
?-~ -"Wh^n'the jews ief^^ndage 'they
? crossed- the Red Sea. When we were
n set free we were left in the larid of
^ j our former taslrtnasters. Grefrt men
~J hands of God. 'It was hot by mightf
^inor by power, but by my spirit, "SattlT'
e , the Lrod of hosts.' We faced?the^
fcrggggtg5t:spfire;islon ttmr the worlfl "ha.T:
I" I ever known. The Jew was permitted
r-1 to borrow silver and gold from his
y 'former task master, but we-could
e : neither beg, borrow,'nor steal.
*1; "Some said" that the Negro would
d, die out if left free. Since 1863 we
d j number 15,000,000. When the Jew
d i left Egypt he carried 600,000 men
of war.' Every-fifth-man was,a. soldier.
The Negro has. made the-greatest
racial progress. They are borrf
so fast that _you can. hardly count
them. ""
|j. ""Some sald that thtnNegro's skulls
~ were too thick. From Maryland to
I Texas they are crowded in the school
'house." Dr. White gave an illustra^'jtion
of an old mountaineer who saw
o t a freight train for the first time.
, 1 When he saw the "iron homft" r>nnf.
' 1ng, its heart throbbing, he said, "It'll
j never move; you can push it as much
j as you want . to, but it will never
y move.-V When the train moved at
the rate of ten to twenty miles, the
? htm, by- God, she'th never- Stoprf0
"They are saying that we willneter
stop. ' ' ^
"There wereTpfopagandas that the
Negro co.uld take' the primary stud?
tes^dmt-notrthe higher studies. Bee~
fore those men were" Eofh the~Negroes
d wefe making Greek books. AU tfre
e Negro wUnts is a fair chance.
e "Then they said that the Negro was
e an inferior being. That is the worse
blow of all. "T will admit tfiat there
0 may be some people mora socially
At than 1 am but thtf it nobody Jtet- _
[TO LEADER V-" '
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ter than I.
"There-is a color question that has
gotten into the race. _You can be a
man; look the world in tbe face and
?ay T am a man!'?Is white better
than black? To find the area of a
circle you must know the circumference
and hte diameter" You cannot
take a. segment and prove it. 'All
coons are not alike.'?Qan a white hen
lay mor? eggs With mure meat and
more nutrition to health than a black
hen? Will a white cow give more
Tnilk with mure cream and mbMrionducive
to -health than a black cow ?
Is a white man more secure mentally,
physieally. and morally than a black
man? Who fell the treed, dug the
ditches and tunnelled the mountains 7
The'Negiu. He will measure up with'
the white man if. he/is given the proper
coriditions-ef foed ahd environment;
? ."I believe that when Jesus left Flint's
hall and that black man met hiag
that the Negro'was te be the friend
of' God. If God has any friends toTiay
they are to ber found among the
dusky sons of Ham.
".The Negroes have banks, there are
four-hundred Negro papers^ 600,000
homes in cities and rural districts,
and also secret societies!" Dr. -White
discussed Several colored societies and
n&nks..
I "After ttrr deluge the Bible^teSe:
u^ that Noah and his three sons came
out of the ark," ZSKfian. went to the
Edst and from him the yellow racesoriginated.'
Japheth went North; and
the white race originated from him.
Ham went out to Egypt and founded
the ^Ethiopian race, of which we are
a part. One of these day a -those
live in peaceLwith this SQUther.n .W.hM
that fwe^are^^not. the cauaeLoi the ?aThis
Southland is the paradise of America.,
I?_you cannot stay here let
us-do like the-Negro did m~tne -haunted
house." Dr. White mentioned the
story of the haunted house, and further
stated, "Let us stay here until
'Martin' comes. The Southern white
man likes you as an individual. The
Northern white man likes you off a
distance. We^,mUst work the Negro
freedom out here. The Negro that
pays his debts~4ooks the world in the
face and ia a ri^ah-that can-get any
accommodation in' Asheville. Let the
good Negroes get together, make
friends with the Southern white man
and wrn Turn to our side. Stay ?o
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"I thank God for coming here and lay. 1
speaking. These three sons are com- G0d.
ing together again around the throne ^joQ?
- of God. Shem and Japhetli will bring "ZJTT,
their contributions to the Madter, but
I- see another coming tjiat no man sefVi
can number! ~1 can hear the tramp tory
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their contributionsk.at the feet
'I came through slavery, I hfl
t houtTds at my heels.'God sa^H
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mt?the battle Is fought, lliu nifl
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