The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, January 17, 1925, Page FOUR, Image 4
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?^ SATURDAY. JAN. HL.1925. /
:
Kbu. ... 1 ^ - - _ ?i- We
appreciate the many kind ex.
_pressions and wishes for our long lift
^ and prosperity. ' But nlcnse remcm
ber, that your subscription acconv
panied -by an iron man or two wil
? go far to help in making your wishe:
' a reality. * _
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_ The General. Assembly i>f South tA
rolina convened Tuesday. The mos
important question that faces it i:
_perhaps. that of taxation?and every
one is interested in that subject
The inauguration of Governor Mc
Leod will take, place next Tuesday.
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The Legislature of California rati
.-fled last-week^-the^driid Labor-^A.
mendment to the Federal Constitu
tion. This makes the second stat
=?==?To TatifyT AT~kanann borng?the fir^i
The proposed Amendment if rntiliui
by th<f" necessary number \of state
will be known as the 20th .
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Another Governor gone wrong
Jonathan M. Davis, Governor o
Kansas, and a ""favorite son" candi
date for the democratic nominatioi
j J for president- last summer seenis t
to issue pardons. The governor hai
only three dayiT more~to serveT^Setgj
' succeeded by the newly elected" re
. publican gnvamnr
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-Xtie_appeal case of "Marcus Garvev
the -would-be -'emporer," has-beei
-? hoard last Monday but has -now bcoi
EL1... set for a hearing January 19thr: Gar
vey has a "sentence"" of "fiveii-ye&r's'' ii
a Federal prison hanging over hi
head, we would rather see him do
ported than serving this' -sentence
He if ( not an American, bulra~grafting
foreigner.
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r?< ?The- Peoples- Reeordtrrr-thcr^raldos
? .... colored weekly in the state and-tin
v? Southern Tndicaiop^ which has beei
pyhli?ihc<l in this etf y?for the
- --fifteen years 1 h:tve ftffisoIhTated. Thi
consolidation "of these two wceklie:
will irrtean_a_ stronger and better.- pur
veyor of news' and opinion's. \V<
? wish to cpngrjifi11 ata Editor Roaol
Z7 and Manager - Taylor on this movi
and wish for the Recorder and Tn
_ dicatur deserved-success. ? ?
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Columbia's Juvenile Court had ;
hnsy time tha pant yooi'i a total ?
947 cases being handled accordipj
' - ?to-the report-of the Chief Probatim
officer. Of this, number 520 ^vcn
young colored oiTenderst_ Colored *rvf
ceny charges while the whites led th
rol nt?Orl r*?nn#l
wiviwu IJU K'a"u lUIUUIiy casus
Count on the whites trtway? for~~th
grand things, while the Colored broth
""Cr seems satisfied with the pett;
things. ??? =,
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Judge t)evore who-4*^d- the?crrm
???inal Court in Abbeville last week 1
quoted as saying, "The entire aspec
of the .Court in this County ha
changed^ within < the past few year:
Formerly it was a rare thing for
white man to bo tried and one neve
remained in jail;-bi^t now the docke
is made up principally of white me
- -and the jails are fulj to overflow in
.withTthem. .-The Negro m- CrroTtrTiTn
is the 'exepetion, t J the rule." Tha
certjllp>y| nnnnur^frit^-iL m?k?t Tl
difference how it is viewed; whethe
the Whites are the ones filling th
inild Wfllica f lirVve.
rf""" mvvmmov mvjf . TY I1U V1MW114J III
- law M?-nw- being given trr imriei
. stand that the laws are made fo
them tQOy hp' Whether^-the fewrtess~c
the colored people is due to the mor
afaeBaggg?oL. the?TSv
Whatever may he the cause, it is
hopefoT sign of progress. We trus
g* ^ however that , the colored man's at
' -eence is due to moral improvement
faj ; . jte his reeognigation of the fact t?a
j^^iirime doesn't pay. 1: .
; HOWARD UNIVERSITY LOSES
^Vhen the Interior Department ap"JTtopriatioirlrill
was passedTasf week
by the United States" Senate, the
anioiidmw^'carrying an appropriatieiv
I of $185,000 for the construction of
'a pew medical school building was
withdrawn- by Sneator Smoot because
' Senator Overman of North Carolina
1 indicated that-he would make a point
! of order against?it. It is to be re*
i gretted that such an item would be
> opposed by^any -member of Congress,
i Because of inadequate facilities HowUniversity
is unable to educate
yearly anything like the number of
colored physttnnns that. are needed tn
j.eare lor tlio ill among tno colored <Mtr
izens pf-this country. There are only
t wo - medical collcgesof Standard cur?rioulu
in the whole country to etluVcate
physicians, for the 12,000,000 colored
citizens, Howard'University' and
- Meliarry MedicaL?k>llege.
red attention to their people is a fact
1 well recognized. 'That the welfare of
*' the' nation depends on the healtl^of
. I its citizens is too plain for argument.
How then anyone, claiming to have
, the* besT" interest?of the?nation^rat
heart, can for the mere sake of a
point of older eiiiiple-a-t'olletfe.HlrlV^
t ing-to do a Work which is of vital im5
portancc to the nation, is a puzzle.
sj There is not a state-in the .Union Uiat
. maintains a medical school for the
- education of colored physicians. It is
true that colored students in?the
Northern states can attend the schools
provided but in those states the coTflr*
-trd populutioiT'Ts comparably small.
- The bulk of the population is in the
- j4iig medicine aheTnrm the-S.?>uth and
e. will after training practice in the
iHSotlth. Jlhe South hiore than anv
tl oilier section wmilll 'iJL'Ml'nt ffamTFre
s enlarged facilities for medical training
at Howard University.. Why and
how then could a Southern Congress
man persuade-himself that he is do?ing
a wcn-thy- and sincere service-to
' cither his section or the nation at
f
large-by blocking the appropriation'
"?Senator Overman has k>ng-been"a Senator
of North Carolina and certainly
? could not he-looking forward tn fining
sr:rometbi7Tg like1 keeping' a; colored
'* scfiool out of-a few thousand dollars
2-.lo which he can point with pridc^vvhcn
j Representative Byrnes of South Carjolina
tfied" sach~ polit+cs-' in an effort
to be elected Senator from his state
, _and was decisively detcatecn The 'sen-*
1 j timent of both of these States is^ for
^more apd better schools for the color^"ed
citizens'and this is reflected in de.
I tided increase in appropriations?fbr
s for the education of colored people.
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jj UUiN j 4rbLU ASA b LLK-tK.
"White men are making cats' paws
STegroe3^#h tKe~litiuui traffic and
too many are hollering^ 'dry' and
.{playing 'wet.'/' said Judge?G.?CL
a j Featherstonc last week in. "Sentencing
^ 1*5 while mair- and two colored men
cony iott?Td on the -/Aarffo
e | a titill.n-That the-Judge has accurately
described a condition that is all
{too common- is. known not only?by
a-those who have experience in and a^
i rounil Hie .(.'duns imr hv
r> .7t Is desirable thaF colored" people and
.; white people work in_ harmony and
?jeeopcrativcly "yet spch~~wnrk ^hnrdri
(be honest, open Swidabove board. 4 No
jdecont white man is going to ask a
Tcolored man tof-do- work that ho knows
ir^is. contrary to law ory injurious to
f society, and when he does the-eolorrrtfd
mkr\ ought hiive sense" enough to
T : roftTKTT "Of course^ there are bad
e white men and bad colored men and
.jitiis ndt-hard to get such~a combinae
j however," is - that there are so many
i. j simple minded colored people >vho bec
! lievo that they~Ought-do just what any
-1 kind of a White^ man ask him to do
ytor employs him to-do. But simple
.as- they are, they are not so simple
that as a rule they do not know that
they are doing wrong. They do it
because there is h~Taclt of moral coufi-|age
f6 refuse. \VhiTe~Tudge - Feaths
erstone in this instance .gave the
t white culprit a severer sentence than
s I he did the two colored men,, yet it
s. does not alw"ays work out in that
a | manner. Often the colored worker or
r; violator is the only one caught, the
d' white man nhways having it planned
nj t hat and-when it happens other(tpvise
-it is because the-pi arts -go~a wry
^| Ce^or^cljt men ought get it in their
l j minos ana nearts uiat it aocs not paj
*r? to violate the law ftrfd to do so ber|
causa-he i?.employed does not makt
e! it any easier for .them. If one just
o, can't help from doing wrong, he cei;
""-jfainTy ought "have sepse enough tc
>iTdo that wrong for his owi^advantage
if"]and not for another. The liquor traf
e fir iq rt hgfjjpess full nf Hnngnr, Buffer.
t. ling- anil sorrow.^ You may_get awaj
it cost will he many times greater thar
>- the profit. There are too many hop'.
;; est wtfys t<5_earn a livliheetf that art
it tgjcerrt--and upright for one to. rui
such risks as there are in the Ulicil
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THEHfrftEME1
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:: 77 By William Fra
- ABRAHAM LlNCOfcft,
It is not our desire to discuss the life
4ssue-ef~ February 7th will be-more*
appropriate. ."But this writer was
' ^so moved and inspired by the "sheen's
| greatest drama"?Abraham Lincoln?
i which has. Keen on Atlanta screens
i for two weeks that we are jfprcod tc5
j mention "the name of the man who
jisaved America. " -cr
j the jg mulnnlit Hi lT7T^
most accurate pictur e that h as ever
rheen-screened. ? The fffe and advcnilufes
of "Honest Abe'\are pictured
i from the time he was born to the
. time he was assassinated in Ford's
^Theatre-, Washington, by John Wifkc&,
( Booth. -'The Ciyil War, with all its
r|f**tfhrpg, ATlH t.hft mnny prriKlomq that
confronted the President as well as
t the T?nion Armies>^are pathetically
[pictured."?
I Perhaps the reader will see the picture.
I-should never attempt to-deI
scribe it. I Tan' _only- say it is~~an
inspiration to the young AmreicanV
even though he be a Negro, tothintjuf
the hardships which confronted o^r
emancipator " throughout his life, 'it
makes us know that we can make it
I in spite of the hard knocks of our
j fellowftian. o
J~' :~7 a-jr?*?-*
T^-?Catenate Industrial Schools
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. While some of- our schools are so
fed up" on endowments that their
heads scarcely know how to keep or
j spend jthe ; money^ other schools are
suffering- for the lack of fuTKte~WiTlr
.which to meet elirrent ^expenses.
( takes no head-scratching or nose puHfing
to understand why this conditiont
obtains,?The wealthy donors of--these
institutions have said that they believe
strictly Trf industrial trainine for
the Negro youth and feel perfectly
"justified in giving their money as they
see fit. ^
I believe in industrial trajni_ngr-for
ithe~ masses and realize That without
the gifts in huge sums to industrial
-ptrftinmg^rh7mlg^Tir-y?irfr as a Whole
'would be doomed to be the proverbial
i hewers of wood and drawers of water,
b . But it is a sad and contemptible ne!gl,ect
on' the part of the philanthro-"
pists not to remember the-Negro col-"
'ItJgGS fift'd professional schools when
^.tliey^feel-it their^duty to do-something
-foniiumanity. Colleges niake~teachcrs
and proachors and business mom and
! Surely the health, leadership, and
christian'training of our group are as
i important to the country as trained^
fworkqrs, fOT=uvhat'^wbuld a race of
i trained workers, do If they. had no
doctors to heal their wounds and give
j trained preachers to give their souls
7 "the" righr" "kind" "of rood' and their"
: heads a clear cut knowledge of tire
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whiskey business. Qwit being a. cat's |
j paw for . anyone; the paw that pulls j
. the oHfTCtnnt-^' rmt r>f tlio fiv? lh<?
: one tUatrrs -always burnt."" T"
NEGkOES lN HIGH SCHOOLS."
| At -a conference of'State Superin-..
jtendents of Education recently held
in Gulfpurt, Miss,, statistics of Ne
gro high school attendance -wcre-prc;
sented that are not at alL^creditable
I to the race. By them it was disclosed
[that but 5.2 per cent of colored peo]
years attended high schools, both public
and private, while 25.2 per cent
|of white children of the same ages
are . enrolled in public . high, -schools
'alone. Such a poor showing fcannot
' be excused nn the grounds of want
of high schools.- If there are not so
many private-ones. "But from none of
these schools is the cry of over-crpwd!
ing heard. Indeed, in most of the
i high schools the problem is to get
a sufficient number to train. But just
'where cToes~the ihlame for this poor
' showing lie? Is it in the schools*
! themselves bbcause of a failure on the
11 part of the teachers-^*} ?o\vaken the
linterest orihe pupils? Or are econ.!
offitc "<T6ri(KtTbhs "aF QSTEoUora of- it ?
f Whatever the cause, there is work
' ahead for the leaders and educators'."
-j No one with less-than a high sehoof
i 'education is equipped to bCcOme a very
t effective worker in the scheme of life.
t Such a preson is destined to eke out
> | a precarious existence, catching as
5rcatc& e?nf as it wjjje. Parents
.[the sake1 of a- few conVtnjent dollars
..now should not ullnw HipjT"yKiTrTrf?n tn
> fop/ ovrpptmnal ohes^ the pupil* leavi
ing school before at least a high school
- course for a job will find out,- later
; that he paid too-much for the few dol^
i laga that he gets. A "go _yp high
U achooI^cruaadeTs in order. Miniatera
iiiiiiiiUfatiifiiiii r
TTO LEADER
.1
irchlight N" I
ink Williams. |
We are glad the industrial schools
are given niil^?Qns but, colleges should
! be given enough to give our boys and
goes in any schools of the country.?
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I TOBACCO-SUPPLANTS COTTON.
?
..South in yja.d LUlU'll \sPk^ welf
known as tne King of southern agri1
culture,?A?f?\v years ugu .uiie Mr.
rBoll Weevil came over from Mexico
pftw.a visit and "found things" to Txlsliking.
So he decided to stay:?He
J seemed tobe especially fond of Qcor"jgia
cotton, a? it had-a sort-of "Linger
-Awhile" -taste. Sp he~ reduced
the acreage a few million pounds to
appease his appetite.
Fortunately the Northern states
were in need of common laborers from
the South and our while aristocrats
of the Southern plantations were~befcoming
boMtn^ in ^tftefr ^practices of
[peonage, lynching and other forms
TUT" lnul_treutni<>nt to their helpless
; Negro. tenants and servants. So,
many jyf our group answered the call
from thelNorth*. Many-remained and
are doing well.
Those TbTTus wfto -chose to remain
have witnessed a complete transformation
in all forms of life. Inters
racial "organizations .have been, jostru"mental
injbnngfng about better -relations.-feetwceTr
the^aces; diversified
[cotton is- no longer king. And as a
last encouraging, discovery,.the value
lol^fobaceo cultufe^in 3uulli Georgia
-has -wane t m^-farnlVi's-^ft-own at "cotton
raising Jn spite of the fact that
his grand old plant is going big again.
In-Sogth'Gcorgia^tobhcco is the talk
j of TOdayr Thousands Of experienced
tobacco planters from North Carolina
'are migrating to South Georgia and
-building-large warehouses. Our people
who remained on the Southern
Harms are fallinginto the tobacco
jramiv Ti ulyT The good old" times are
-back -again. .lUayi.tii^ tobacco craze
' continue and?sp?ead front the fofcgv
of Middle Georgia. I???*j
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/Villi EDITOR.
The management of The Leader did
a eic.it setuctj tu Culumbja and the
I entire -section ~ when they chose Col.
X, J. Froduriek to writo the policicniy^Souih
Carolina'!; nowor.t and great'
*est race journal. He wields a pen
"with case anil witlr the dignity "which
is characteristic of him. Experience
! and ability, in addition to his knowledge
of legal and civic mftttprs-_maka.
hi3n-.Hic.lo^cal?man?for the TTositiorn
AHiy he discuss our problems in a wav
that will enable us to meet them and
solve themjn. the?*Tafest-and sanest
[ ^ ^possihle. , r- i
shoud preach it^teachers?should emphasize
it, intelligent men and women
ovcrywhere 'iihould?bury?tlienfl
.I.. . 5 rr? '. . ?
r-viv v.s \\ I til IJy. LO LUC- CtUl tttUt OUT !
high schools should everywhere fre so
crowded 1 hut IiIhT" cry will go -fortlr
for-more and better schools. ?
LEADS IN BUILDING.;
OF NEGRO SCHOOLS
:
Shows Way in Use of I^osenwala
Funds, Hill Reports.
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South Carolina has fe<? all South
schools under the RosejowalcL _?und
I? ^? ? rrr ... *" *" " ^ " - ? --- ?
| since July 1 last, according to W. B.
Hill, assistant state supervisor of Ne!
gTO sehnots, "who returned?Monthly
from a conference of school supdrvis!
^4. /" .?!* i HT!__ . 1* 1 1 .*
iiHo ?unmiss., canea Dy tne
general education board of New Yorkr
J. B. Fclton, state supervisor of
1 schools, returned from the conference
Saturday. . ? , .
I South Carolina, Mississippi and
North. Carglma are showing the way
i to other Souther nutates m the buildling
-prog-rain- under?the fund; and in
(rrth'ei' te'spoets, Mr. Hill said. Since
^1,^expemiiturcs^in this state have
[_ Jiscu^SToh at the.conference, wjiich
IcyntsQ hirae eh. dt de soesshss
twns"fitte?hded Tiy several state superintendents
as well as Negro school
t sypcrvisi>rs, centered nround teacher
training?wprk, 'greater thoroughness
iin .the ? 4f?mmt*ry grndey "ttftng
stressed.-?The State. .
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~~ Miss Grade "Lowndes has been
the'guest of Miss Emma Folder
|for the past! few weeks.
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TC8C8?C8?????3??3C838?3C83^
(MATRIMONIAL, j
.. HARMONY. I
BY JEAN JEW. ? '"
OOSa??S?BB??5^XlKC8^0mO^
; Tho<u> brethren whn forever strike
discordant' nutes on their matrimot*?
ial instruments, might be helped if
they^should observe these points of
hariftony. L ," f. .
?The technique is^siihple but results
" come as unsuspecting as the harmony ^
of--tl^o fcost-Chord. . * ' **- ?
: Do riot begin something wfrich^yotr
' know you cannot continue.
To discontinue a pleasant thing be,
t ransferred.Thea too, you .may have
ya business, problem which causes pro
tracted serious thot. But that possi
bility may not dawp. upOYiher mind.
Do not be too^~eommanding" nor
yet too yielding". T5e~ former may
'cause your wife to, lose sympathy
[for you; the-latter [ may cause a loss
jof prestige.
4?Do not-agree with?all of trer
j thoughts, nor oppose her every idea:
; To do the first may .cause her to become
disagreeably vain. The other
| may cause" you to becorrte1 unnecessarily
offensive in her sight.
If'wives would have their way be
[not -authorijative ih your demands.
"You carvrhle without that.
--^Whan reTfn?told .Tamoa a Via mimt
4.att?nd the Afternoon Club, he^must
; take supper down town-and' he must
j call for her not-later than eight regardless
to any business engagement,
his reply was that" she must-remain
J home and prepare supper, for he will
be late ajt-r+be office. And so-she^d^d.
*- But the~nexTTithe she said that she
j would like to attend the Club, but
must prepare warm supper for him,
i~Tames insisted that she permit -him
to have supper-down to"wrT apd^ealL
by ror her ift any time desired.
Wives do not expect your husband?"
, to ,be playful at all times. They canmot
too readily shiffTpoth thes more
: serious working mood to-play. Learn
_to_ coax the transition eautionly and
[ without"" a show of impatience.
Do not acknowledge your knowledge
f Of_their"transient iniplpflsnntnOss; a\.
"though you may do so. after it has
passed.
L Do not persist- in trying'to reason
^things out^during^mn undue fit qf
! emotion. - The sense of reason is
| blhhk. ? - ; .
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1JOHWSOM-BRA
Funeral Direcft
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| ?IS THE 1
11 Victory
i A. ro
Each and Ev?ry<
?and Fi
We have just paid
? members~of bur 1924
| - which meant so mu<
$ one of them.
; | We want 5000 men
to join our 1925^Sav:
,
jl _We liope to. nay ou
| mas and would like J
if .number. _?
| COME TO THE BA
LET US WR1
'& T~T~ WB PAY 4% ON" 8
f- VMory Sa
? W. H. HARVEY, President,
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Saturday, January 17, 1925
White Men Taking
P1ft??fl flf Kctf j QUO '
? In Abbeville Jail, " r
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Abbeville, S. C., Jan. 9.?Court , - ^
nt gPHPral sessions adjourned hire-- t
today after a very quickly despatch
etL business session,due to the splendid
_ services- of the officials. Judge ,
Devore so expressed himself before ,
adjournment and especially corfimended
the clerk of court, J. L. Perrin,? .
i'.errin has beery clerk of court here
for over a quarter of a~ceMUfyi He
says the entire aspect of the court
in this county has changed within the^
past few years.. Formerly it was a
rare thing for a wl\tie man to be
tried, "ami onV'never remained in 'jail; _ '
but now .the docket is made up principally
of?white^ men -amb-the jails
are full td overflowing" with them.
The-Negro, in court now is the ex- m
ception to the rule.?The Record.
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CASUAL KILLING
?t- ^Ul'' SLAVES. ?=
Away back in the sixteen-hundreds
the grand assembly-of Virginia passed
this curious law concerning the "cas
ual killing of slaves." "
"Whereas the oyly lawrin force for
the punishment of refractory servants
resisting their^ mastery mistress or :?jaweseer
canfiot be inflicted upoii^Ne-?
groes, nor the obstinacy o?~many of
therti Tw nthpr tLnn moan a
Suppressed.' ' Be it enacted and declared
by this gtana assembly if any
slave resist Ms master (or other by
his master's order correcting him) ?.
and by the extremity of the~COTrecTiou
.should chance?to die, that (lis
death shall nol be accounted felony,
but the master (orthat~persoiTappoint
ed by the master to punish him) be
acquit from molestation, since it can-,
4ee ' (whichr alone makes murder fcl- ?
ony) should induce any man to.destroy
his own qptate"...-^^-^
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~Kindness,sympathyyuhder standing,
patience and thoughtful attentiveness,
sooth raw surfaces, quiet troubled
waters nnH toon n irronokln
? ?? M54v.vuuit uoiiuuujr.
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(rings Bank I
\T1 jt\ AT Donhaifnita X
me yi iia it/epupiturs , ^ *
rieiids. f "?-:= 1 x;
out $25,000.00 to the ]y/ J
: 'Xmas Savings Club, ~j |
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, women and children ;: v_
ings Club. ~ .-.r.:
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