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PalmettaLead^ Published Weekly By . ? ^ Jt T|ie Palmetto Leader Pub. Co. B. Lewie,- -President N. J. FREDERICK, ?Editor g W* Prank williams ???: - : 1 Contributing Editor geo. H. pAMPTON, Manner *T-- SUBSCRIPT!ONRATES: y- one Year _ $2.00 .E Six Months 1.25 g Three Months -.75 Single- Copy ?-vOfcCASH IN ADVANCE. it TELEPHONE 4523 ' i Saturday, Feb. : __ The reckless operation of au-~. ' ' iotTcontmue to take its toll of- IIvah Thp drivprs as wpII as ? -others are being counted among the missing. There were more deaths by autos in the State, for 1924 than by communicable diseases, according to the annual report of I .Dr. Jaines^r^fayne. Secretary of the State Board of health. ~~ * ft <? ?: ?? ; Is good, others say it's bad, but Rr whether gofl7l~~rrrbad, there can be no doubt but that Herrin, 111. would have bee'n better off had :v- the organi2at i_on__ ngy er klanned ^ tnore ??t ? " *?* mous scientist, of Tuskegee Infcgr Btitute, has recently lectured at "the leading" white colleges of ^ . North.Carolina. Dr.-Carver has r_ ^something to say when he talks, that's why. ? - . ? Let us remind you of -that t- subscription you forgot to send t---- Jtll the kind words .that can be said,-but -remember Miss Kind Words accompanied by Mr. Cash make the most beautiful couple imaginable! ?? TThe bootlegger is?aPmenace to the insurance-business, say s a life insurance company presii-1 denti?The companies fear-tcr issue a policy to even a moderate ?,? "drinker,?The?bootlegger,.'- evldently isn't particular about what he calls liquor:?: ^? * * *?- ?? lina does" not believe that a boy of 8 years ought serve 3-menths lBTjail for grand "Tarcceny. What, f* person besides the judge who * pronounced the sentence believes' otherwise ? GovrBor=rlMcLeod" h.:' suspended the sentence and rightly so. * 1? flr is an unhealthy job to enr gage in con&ptfaciefr-to defraud the government or violate its laws.' The long arm of Uncle do. $sk Charted k'; Forbes, former director of., the Veterans' r Bureau. or Gafiton for Means, star witness of the Senate. In-i ^ vestigation Committee. 1 a s tj spring, if you have any doilbts. - ??o ? ?The Dump Too Near Howard ~ School. The City Board of School Commissioners have had erected a beautiful school building for colored children in the extreme: western nnr+irvn nf tV?P .. p-ifv ! When this site was first proposed^ ?i??a commit,lee of leading colored citizens waited on the Board and asked that the building'" be not erected there,-giving among other reasons, that the City dump ground was too near. In ;??answer to that objection, the Councilman Member of the School Board said that could be , , easily remedied by stopping the dumping. Well, the building haa^b^en erected, the school opencd Hlhce the latter pari^ of Sentember hut th#? Hnmninor ornaa merrily on. And What a sight if* ^ this place presents! But worst ."/ of all, what an odor at times fet. - ^greets the olf&etery nerves of J- the school children and teachers, after # rain when t he sun_?omes out and the wind blows from the north. Walking we Jioted thousands of old tin cans, many with water in them, broken glassware, old rubber, garbage cans, oyster shells, decayed fruits and vegetables. The ground itself Hsdainp. ~Ts it any wonder that at times it smells to high heaven? "Rnt what of the little Ghiidren-who must day after day for five or six hours at a time see and smell these things? How can'they be bright and 4he-beautiful? What imprpssinn can the LuugftSFg make-on-these tuture citizens in talks ahcnjta city beautiful when the city itself is making Iheii1 surroundings So dismal? If the city must'"fill in those places^ it ought be done with something else besides the stuff that is bing placed there in such Hose proximity" to so beautiful a'school. The School Board certfiirt 1 v pnnnnf Vio oi\rnrn r\f real conditions, We cannot bellcvc the Mayor <JfL*this?city knows just what -is being placed at the door of that school. We will just take a few minutes off and look the situation over; we say nothing of the smelling, for if- the wind is right, that will take care of itself while are looking: We feel sure that alter 4a personal acquaintance they will not allow -them to longer e^ist. For that reason,_jve ask their att^ntinn "77 ' 7._ Q LINCOLN AND DOUGLASS. February is a month which has the distinction of being that period of the -year- which has given to America its most dis tinguished characters. Next week, the anniversary of two of its most distinguished men occurs.?Frederick Douglass, the great Negro and Abraham Linwar president, of Lincoln, perhaps nothing that has not' already been said can be said.-^or more thah~half a century he .has been the -subject -of song and story. AITfTi^years go by and passion and bitterness subside, ttre "greatness of t~he man but; stand out the more boldly. The cotored" people of America-can U..4. ^1-.^ 1?1 W- - * - uui giuuiy 111s name, ror ne it was -who struck the shackles from the bruised limbs of 4,000,000 slaves and gave them the developthemselvas and make the most of the opportunities that America offered them and their descendantsr- In that act, Lincoln must have been divinely gntrteri, certainly^-Kfe?prayer seemed to have been answered as he affixed-his-name to that great Uueumeiit crylftg out, "Upon this act I ask the considerate jOdgmenr bf "mankind* and the grhcibirs f a YOr~ oF~Slmi ghty God." February^ the J^fJi.lhen can well be kept groen to the memory. oi..every Arnivitiih. Lessf great, rather because of less opportunities, than ?of abilit.V and t.hnsp rn crorort istics that make for "greatness, is another American whose natal anp^ers&ry^comes February 9th. Born in even a more lowly state than Lincoln?for he was a slave ?Frederick Douglasg_ reached in his sphere, a height that by comparison shines as bright. And-welhrnay"his life be an inspiration*. It too illustrates the possibilities that life in America Offers. The little colored American beset on all sides by limitations which he cannot understand and can see no reasoris for, yet can hope-to attain to a height of usefulness and honor .practice the?virtues of life by which and through which only -one-can receimffie, homage of his~fellow citizens for work well dope. ..Though of the submerged race; DogTfils did not sit and repine, but he gave himself fully ftpd wholeheartedly to the aer -- r ~ THE PALME -j: "The Sej | ;By William Fri FOR A* THAT "Be a frend to yoursel, and ithkrs will," is an old Scotch maxim of aottnd truth. At the bottom of most of the woHd's evils lies that everhreHny mtiaa, one's own enemy- One becomes his own enemy when he preys on the weakness and ignorance ..of his fello.wjman^ The princes of ill-gotten gain are a greater . menace to our civilization than anything wo can think of.?Honor is what they desire and seek, but dishonor is what they come -tOii?' r'T^?i , /"." ~ The man who sacrifices a bank, an insurance eonipany-w any kind of busfne^owned and supported by the people, for his phnnoos of caininc* honor anrl wealth, is an enemy to himself vice of his felloWs. He didthe day's task. His memory too years go by his life and accomplishments will hp mnrs fully appreciated. ??' " .0 . *The'Ttecorder-Indicatcr on The . t _ - -State Fair. -- -For ttfo paot two'^ years, The Recorder-Indicator has been hammeririg on The State Cblor^ ed Fair AoDociMidhTor rather Ion one or two of the officials of said Association. - The last issue of that naner contains another knock. We have been wondering just what that publication hopes to accomplish by such tacll'pO Tloo rvi f a fVia montr vivui tv; vnv iiioiijr ucnuiltl" tions of this Association, it goes right on trying to do what it was organized to do, despite the denunciations of rprtain officials of the""Association, the stockholders in meetings assembled i continue to elect those officials: To sa^ that anyone of those offi sell is nonsensical. The Association-!^ a-etock Company and no one, two or three stoekhoJU ers own a sufficient number of shares to elect nnyonp TTiffrpt* then the majority of the stockholders do not share the sentiments of The RecordAr-Tmliratnr jfirlthey-are-a -sei-of -big-boebsv Why try to make it appear that the present Secretary is a Czar, ignoring the Executive Committee? (Certainly that committee has the power and anthontj t,p - control the SecirrtMynr any othfact is, everyone who has an intimate knowledge of the trials, | ribulations and discouragements through which this Association thas passed, knows that the pres jent Secretary?Green Jackson? | has done much to rejuvpnatA | this Association. He has brought ja world of energy, intelligence i and pep to, ?hf> work/" We are jof the opinion that if the Recorder-Indicator would use just a small part of its ink in" trying to entourage andIEeIp-aknTg"tKe WQrk--thafT.lt-has used in trying to kill the Asscoiation, it-would soon see a fair the like of which t professes to dream. But what eforms does Brother Roach hope to bring about by burdening his readers with continued denunciation? Unless, they are stockholders, they are nul vitally interested. The place to have - changes made is in the" stockholders' meetings; the place to - call attention to any dereliction is in such meetings and no good - purpose is subserved by attacking the officers in The Recordertlndicatof. Besides, it-looks like striking a raan in fehe-bactcrTRe , officers have no' organ to defend themselves, even if they were ^oach, dohT^yoii think it's bout time to put up the hamI terprises of aTooperative nature r -are-all top-fcrr as it is among f .us, for those who have it in ; their power to help, to continual ly try to destroy; HP " y J t " ' ' TTO.LEADEI? ?-L irchlight / - ?i ank Williams. ; a? well as to those whom he de t ceives. i The prince of Negro financ< s has fallen at the point of his owi knife.' Two years ago at th< t naijfcier, Heman E. lPer,ry, nov i ranks below the masses. "Ow i vear ago credited by/the whiti man million dollars over night, as i : wei u, he aijjjiiara tUd^ as-a^ua r sant on the plains. ;?t*?~ "Is there for honest poverty, That hangs hjS head, and 'a that _ .The cawrd-slave, we paoo him by,? -We~d?re be poor lor a1 that! The rank is btrt the_guinea's stamp The man's thegowdfor a' that. "What tho' on homely fare wedine, Wear hodden-grey, an' a' that! n;? /AAIH ?:n i 1 11. yxiv ivvio siiiva, unu Knaves vne; . - "rr wtiifl, ^ "--^'7. : : u_ A man's a "man for a' that.?:? J'QT.a' that, nn'.p'. that, Their tinsel show, an' n' that' The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor Is king 4.' men for a' that." _j ?Robert Barns. CEORGIA'S POETT.ATTRFATF Enough has - been said abou Georgia's first poet- laureate rq cently td make several volumes Yet nothing has been said bj - this winter, -who?happens?1( -4ive-m^fehe same i-il.y sweet singer lives. Frank; -L. Stanton, is. - th< South's foremost* poet. For mor< lhan 30 years he has conductet a column of poetry in The At lanta Constitution,- The columr is headed "Just From Georgia,' and speaks f oj the sunny sid< of iife-in the Empire state. All music lovers know Franl L. Stanton. What- song steal; lhtcTthe tenderest part of youi sou} more than "Mighty LakJ* Rose?" And "Just* a Wearyin For You," is a producer of sen timent thronghnnf th? world ;THen ^'he , ,Kn^ Slidirf RtfH der" -smacks, .of the ante-bellurr type in an amusing maner. ... Mr Stanton is particularly friendlj and sympathetic toward the Ne' grd. Governor Clifford AValker die Mi\ Stanton, Georgia and himsell J1 eat nonor?_when _ha~issu?e I vaiv/ ^v/^miuatiua Lilt great poet the .voice of the state in-averse, TheTeadersoL The Leader should bu}r The Atlanta Contsitution _at their local news ' SlafrdS and turn tn the. editdy4A ^jage where they will find Frairt L. Stanton's - picture and?hk "Just frohi Georgia." ; "USE YOUR HEAD." The big display cards on the front and rear ends" of the At lanta street car^ this week renr "Use Yoyr. Head, Not Youi Horn." What nrivicp' Whnl . lntrirT Thin wfra-rntPTirtg?ta~foi auto and jitney drivers whe think all the streets of Atlanta belong :te> them by title and deed But it appliesTo all of "us: *'Ar . empty wagon makes ?r 1utr"0l noise," goes the adage. Parrots can use a lot of glib but it does n't mean anything. Y.^ry ofter there is logic in silence. Use your head and exercise the.braii cells. _And when you speak, aa) something. " MORE-"ROYS." _L Di^ou ever see a long, lank) . fellow of-a dark brown hue walking around the streets ol n^i.j i- _ ft vyuiumoia^ we mean a sure e nough long fellow?a veritabh telegram pole, as it were. Tha' fellow was . Jamas Arthur-Wit Ifams, known around Allen Uni versity and the hot dog stand: i as "Zeb." Well, he is now Dr ? ?* ^ ^ J. A. Williams and lives at Sum ter, S. C. The Leader has pu e us in toughx He is j^^ettiru vyui n._iu LXiti?wame u<^ete?t3ity : Like the writer he had a har< i time of it getting through school But he is there. The writer i: on his Way. ^ -\ "Jl* EEgpmgggajj )F .^ iiappppgaWM-- ,,-, ??| The Sheik, Tal Hend^rsdnTts ofi ?:now Dr. 1 lender soil?lie ftistauneh member of the "H. H. ^ } | Club^ j&f Allen just a little^ be- tre? ? fore Uncle Sam laid his claws on moi - us;'?Eh*. Henderson is practic- to 1 ing medicine in some city up in T ~ " God'7 Country." - r . |?v ^ , We regret that we had very Mej g little contact with Benedict boys out ^ hilt" Wf> kn^w TWiPrhVf her iurj ~ share of good, fellows. "Little by B Jimmy" Good^ isTnow Dr. Jas. Pla' IE. Goode and is a dentist in his ,n^ home town, Columbia. to i t Robert Peguese, "burn -and^f_ reared at Allen, is principal nf "ct _ the high-school at Tampa," Fla. He is asgrsted by TTTs wife, for- ^ " merly Miss Octavia'Herbert. " ?Bj 1 Tillman Buggs, a good fellow--prrr TT there ever was one, is in bus- yet inesa at TntHsirfi-piili^ Tnd _ is married aruTtloing well. We have many more friends who have' entered- the HfGVPT- irvrn well. Education is NOT a fail- wit! r bial "arena" of life and are doing c ure among Negroes, and as time - pimuou on more and Ueller oppor- ~ - lunllles will be opened to edu~ cated Negro youths whereby An< they can Ibe mpre helpful in mak- Pea "iilg AmeTica^nore securely the "iS Infollftctaal?a n cL commerciaf-/F t of the world. ? . , , : ^fT ' /onl: - .? ./ his f I JAZZING THE | m 51 f!T;ASSTf lS? | *1 Bl^-JEAN JKW. " | 'r i ne_ueveiopment of the so-called distinctive American type of - music ^ ?Is said to be on a rapid stride. ?prward. 1 What this new American type is, 'j ? seems to be an inbreeding, or more ^ r correetly, a Crossing of~jS2 2 and the.^^ - more serious forms, as would be the ... language of the music anthopologisty t | And he, wishing to be unbiased, would r the more primitive and higher forms ^ produces an offspring which is .neither ^. , primitive nor of superior form. But . most of the music critics have struck " to the traditional conception that clas--aics are without^. ttngU* hTItha mm ^ ^?>ri jingle intonation; "And" to" most > ' ' """"" ' """ Gohnson-bradi Funeral Piredtor fcmbain 11115 Washington ,_Sl TT columbl MM??? .. . . * ; rF h| TA TKctpp? titt& | - ^lew- ^ > ? ! | IS THE WIl 'I Victory Savi . :|: To Each and Everyone ! 11 , and Frie: |- members of our^4?24-X | which meant so mucb one of them. r | We want 5000 men, w : | to jrrin our 1925 Saving t | ?- We hope-to _pay out $ " I mas and would like for x 3 i numW. ^|| COME TtFTHE BANIi Lf- LET US WRITI WE PAY 4% ON SAV1 JVidory Savi 3 ? W H. HARVEY, President. 41 > \ -. y- T-nr'' i 1 ww Z? ~ -M??I .-^ . . ? ... gftturdoy, F^ruQFy^??riOaB. ^ hem one drop of jaz? in the classet the more serious advocates will letrrdr They contend that this Ti&tf ~f itment of mu^&is notyvfiatTs com- / lly called jazfc but a""type worthy /? ?e called superior American music. - 7^" he first "get together'? of these / " ocates and' the critical music pub? / .was held recently in- the eastent / -v~propolis. AncLit may be said with-. / fear of contradiction that-this newZ.? ? jt:n,wni g.ivrn the stamp nf approval?- ? the Austere Connoisseurs. The" ??1 adits were more than the preyail- _ anticipation. -7 magine yourself gracefully gliding the syncopated interpolated strain a one-step with?O1" A firming mnson Idorie" now and then stgpg-. ig to break through the intonais, seeking the soul, arjd soon there2r___aubdued. Or your innerseff ' th& Waters of M^hnetonka" with babhr tho - immortal ' classics, arid ? dancing still. / .?... " 1 ?: - tut this is prec;4ely what happens 1 for the great of music is" fed " 1q you dance to the highly im ved"~ blataht intonations colored h- tVlP CTPttls Tkf iylnviflp(j nrnniim >f cours/ this cororation is being bo supplied in-thff future by ? work' of present Jay serious A- 5 ~ of.^Qy.fo havrjnlrrn nn ~? rreat.jyp study of this lato genre?r i^Siottglr many are inthe Euro" xy 'studios it is apparentr-that^his r formjfliall be kept free from fori school influences. 'rum all evidence it seems that ihe erica n Negro~Iis~The creator of Hie == / true American ifolk-lore?born of - - f anti-bellum trials and foter tri- ?p phs, but notr bora, without hisextra ial contact as has been sftjd before. lV*the lighter side of his nature Is equally evident that he is the ator of the true Amoriraq Miikuv t is true that improvements- and ? "tremendous strides to the posi1 which this music now holds are much -to the white element, hut . early form was created and main led, (when It was apparently outed-) by" the Negro. ; v~ t was the-late Jim Europe-who rrr^?? iuced-the jau tatffeic into Europe the war, popularized and gave r expression to this odd type which 1 moved fowarH previously' hut?I t? 'oik songs are spontaneous expresis of the soul,and need no modi- [ ig to bring out their ipnatejaeauty. ;y are embalmed by the beauty their-rrative simplicity.? > Continued on page 5. . ? s & Licensed ? I '~ iers ' 3*. u Pfione3512 == Si C. prosperous | ??r , . $ SH OF 7 I ngs Bank | of its Depositors | nds. p_l iX"?25,OOD:0O "to the |' mas SavingTCIub, " happiness to each i omen and children | ruL-i, T-?" ?-? ? fci OitiD. " ^ 50,000 next Christ- I YOU to be in this ij: , I AT ONCE AND I 5 YOU UP. ' X NGS- ACCOUNTS.**1 " / ings Bank j/" G. L. FLOYDf Caahiei. | 1 A?* ~ , , ~~+. ll