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n- m \ [ ? -T FOUR L_: _ ? -, ^ ~~ " The Palmetto Leader i ^^g9tBB!B ^iBHanM-WfitiRly Bj^. ,.!__^. I The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co. |V 1310 ASSEMBLY STREET 1 ' . ' / rr COLLAlJBIAr S. C. 1 -? . TELEPHONE - 4523L v _ t ?ri J. B. LEWIE ___ President N. J. FREDERICK, =*= -Editor W. FRANK WILLIAMS Contributing Editor' GEO. H. HAMPTON, ^'Manager SUBSCJklP'i 10 N ~ KA'IKS .. . CASH IN ADVANCE. ?- - _ One Year ?? $24111, , SiT Mnnths 1.25 ? Three Months .75 Single Dopy >J-'. Of) ?^ Saturday-, April 11, 192^,' "Life, liberty and the pursuits, of happiness" sound so well, but stand up, all you colored Ameri-' cans, who enjoy ? these three thinffg at nnp ?nr> tViP sattip tiryiP in the "land of the free and home of the brave." , r * * ? : r | If "hooch" joints and "number ??playing" are not suppressed in ? in Harlem, it wilhnot-be theYanlt of The. J^ew York Age.. That excellent wcgftlyls atill hammering away at them, with some seeming results too. ' = ...?^ ??. - -% _ 7 The conferences of the fl^g?ho?dist- hurch and thp TSTnthnriio* Church South continue to vote on thfe plan of unification. The ?conferences of the fprmer vote favorably while those of the lat ? ter vote against it.?NOf therewill be no unification. The colored brother stands, in the way and the religion of Christ is hot ? yet strong enough. Some.-dav, ? perhaps, but not yet. * * * - -- When Judge J. H. Tiernan of New York told a colored prison" . er, "If this had happened in your Vinrnso ofofn Tr;? wbhla: have been burned at the stake," heKdid not realize thatJiewas stirring up a hornet's nest. ?-?Since then the Judge has been busy giving an explanation that Hops riot pypTfiin, nf jimt what V>f> ^.^ends too toy!hvestigate the in cidentr-^-1?? '' I * - * . """ ! One Dr. Plecker of Virginia is out, to. make a name for himself. Being just ordinary 4n his pro-! fession he has pounced upon the idea that he can attain notoriety hyLpraving.the-HegrcLthe lowest of the human family hardly in 4""Capable of improvement by even OrTiinotinn n*"5 1 ' "" vuuv.atiun anu contact. i fie deluded doctor however, is barking up the wrong tree.?The- Americans who stand out most emi.nently a?e those whose motto is : and has been "all men up and . none down." '' y .. ^ TT~ I * The City newspapers of last Sunday carried quite a write-up " ? ; of the manner in which Edward Davi^, taken in connection with the murder of Air-. Simgna, was - forcecTYo go through the supposed actions of the killing. The story was entertaining to the readers but it's an experience that Edward Davis will n^ver; ? . Ifor&et. His whole conduct however was that of an innocent' man. The widow of the mur dered n\a.h is only nno r>f a She refused to say that Davis was^the murderer even though he appeared to be about the same size.? O DISCRIMINATORY LAWS. Nothing is right that is not done right is-confinod to no par. ticular kind ? of action. And it i cairiesjwithit .the. idea, th&t unless the motived are high the results irv th? and will Kn ? ?tfc*wI flirt . Mnrp IflWfl of a repressive kind. directed at the discouragement of a particular group of citizen*^ have been enacted in America! : m-tha-past^Afty-^ears than in-' ~ T all the countries of Europe "151 any one hundred years. And -? - sometimes the proponents of . 1 \ . . v**' s ' ^ - ... . . ? ' 1 j. . -. ~^ ^s~y. ,,_ ^ _ petards." Take for an instance the law passed by Congress shortly Uftyr Jack Juliiisun juiti1 Jim Jeffries the land ofT dreams. Awlful indeed, said the little minds, for a big black brui^ ser to treat a large white bruiser frn anrh za^marmgail Something must be done, and "done" it was. j The great TAmdrican uongress * had nothing more important toi do than to solemnly^enact that; pictures of such contests?musU not be shipped from one State; into another-Congress, you know is composed of white represent-; atives of white citizens. The "colored brother hasn't a lopk in-' 3 ever mind about fighting to proes. Since 1770 "taxation-will out representation'* ceased to bq "tyranny.'7 Well, later on jacK Johnson passed out of the arena. Only'white bruisers held sway,.i [hut the law stood in the way of' exhibiting the-pietures in statesntbpr than whpyp thp fights take place. Along comes Mr. Car-j .pentier, the heroic Frenchman,' and Mr. Dempsey who, while not so heroic during wars is mighty with his fists. Mr. Dempsey "hnocked the Frenchman cold and thought tTTe""FighT"of the Cen-[ jtury" was too good, and the [money possibilities too great not to exhibit the pictures bf it in the States. They did." -They j "werearrested indicted and nned a total of $23,501 by the Federal "Judge, before whom they were tried. / The Judge said he wasa little ftuzzled. The Govern- [ ment was not iniured. nn nno was hurt but as the law said it ought not be doner he just had to line them for violating that law. The law "was directed at Colored America, but has played havoc with white America. Nothing is l ight-that io not dono right and with right motives,' bottomed on sound moAls. You can't hurt your neighbor without hurting yourself. { The "Half-Pint Bootleggers." J, Mrs. Mabel W.- Willebrandt, Assistant LJ, S. Attorney Gen lorcement, testifying lpst week ; before the Senate Committee investigating the Internal Revenue. Bureau, said,- "One" of the. main - Obstacle to adequate cWforccment of the law, was the crowding bootlegging operators are not reached by the investigators,Trackdriverrs a n d 'half^pint' bootleggers are haled into Court, buLidie source of their supply is! not given the minor offenders." Everyoile who has'given any at-j tent ion" to the liquor situation recognizes %t* ohce that Mrs. Willebrandt has correctly-sized up: the situation. The Federal diserated into nothing more than, police court?the majority of cases therein being men and women charged with havirig from a- half pint to a few-gallons of "shine." 'Selilom /t/wvg mtk on trial the men who manufact-l ures the stutL-dn the wholesale scale. And if attention is given to what one hears sometimes M th much detail?lathere's a rrie&u>n." From the results one would think that the prohibition law is directed absolutely - and exclusively against tire- drink* dag e? liquor instead of its manufacture, selling and transport- \ ing. While the -Federal offieersare bad enough in this particular, municipal officers go their even one better. Many men and1 Women have been arrested, hal-: ^ed.into police courts and'fined for just having around them a bottle or a glass that has an odor j resembling liquor, Others havp been fined on the word of an officer that a coca cola bottle ..what he said was liquor, judging by the smell. People who donot care for the liquor business and a good thing would Be more ^n-i thusiastic about the enforcement of the law, were a little more THE PALWETIH fairness, decency,"honesty andlof common sense put in its enforce- th mnnf hy +hr> nffinora TTnfU thpnjw indifference if not resentment is will be all that will be gotten. Jc Mrs. "VVillebrandt is right. Too 01 much attention is given the in "half-pint bootlegger" to the ex- N elusion of the wholesale opera- P< tors; ; of I Man's Humanity to gJaj Animals 1 BY JEAN JEW.' ||th 1 Man's inhumanity to man er makes countless thousands g* mourn, but anything less than fh humaneness ^toward-^aninval^ is ili riot of common occurence and a* when seen, it stira the wrath of j trii man. ; " 1- ?- in, Drawing a conclusion from the sa comparison, is it a human vir- K] t.iiw?instinct, a pseudo-sincerity or a fundamental lack in man=_|to kind? 1 ?Within the? four sides of this^ni country man resents- an insult!ha and even on more slight provoc-er ation kills. He goes before the!ai1 tribunal of justice, pleads self- i defenserand when the staid-eklipe minister off he-law pronounces j T. him "free" in accordance \vith co the findirigs of the jury, he re-.. ceives congratulations from^tjie or court officials, --pictures -from-CQ. pretty girls thousands of milesSw* away, and kisses fanciful old-Ou Solomon-would not refuse. 7^( If a bowlegged bulldog causes *a1 you to make a mile in 40 seconds flat and at the end of the fifth miln tron 1- * ?- ? 1 1 1 rt* ' unit y \ju o w ctt mm OI1C Oil tfie leit al1 cheek in self defense,' if the law *s officer doesn't.get - you, some ^ member of a^sdeiety for the pre- ,an volition of; cruelty to Nero, fido, bo rovfc'r, wizzy-wizzy or oootsie- W1 wootsie, will forthwith haul you b? into court. And wnen Hid fine Fc is imposed upon you, if the mob ^ii doesn't got you aftor your-exit,_H< you will at least find no sympa-;01' .thATtfl t rye There are some dogs around ha jny_way that do me the fortune J?* of unsolicited entertainment the S1( Avnoie nign.t?turor ~Bnt?poke w yotarrbreiri' .out tho windo in mi protest and no one would jnSurejltc it at a cent. And what is more^ breed more quadrupedic bother- ;1S ation and'fulluw their masters m into the woods as rabbit or coon W dogs while the masters themsel- :e(^ ves scent 4he hare or the eooh. i fe' " It is now proposed that ~isi ? rpy eon rap in "humane treatmegLof animals'J be Instituted in thfij^ country's public school system. J * " Apparently, the easiest thing] to do, in the treatment of ani-! mals, is to be kind to them. Butj tne bonco of-Time will turn car-! 0 tilagino'us before man wilLireatI ? his fellow gentle as the easiest ^sei wfty out. - i. sti And if the expediency of Mi schooling youth in the hayri Pi things still holds, the education-! TF trf system is Mill minus-a--V6r-y":hQ necessary courser ~ jtei "What is man that thou art m< mindful of him .....thou hast no made him a little lower than the ye angels.'N And Shakespeare gives ed us his opinion?"What a piece^e of work ia- man, how noble in son, how infinite in faculty, in;in forth and moving how express 'as ana anrmrHDie, hi action how like ve an angel."? "~~r ???_?^ " fcow I am not saying that'ha fflrokuspt'die was drunk-when he inj thus?spakey but if- the animaLhy societies can force man to live su up to those compliments by ex- ne perimenting with kindness upon nh animals, we can but say, let ov your efforts be ad infinitum. !an After all, animals are good e(* things upon which to experiment ^ and if it^ suits them why should- as n't it suit us. ra ?- ? Mi T. THOMAS FORTUNE, 68 wJ , YEARS, AND WALKING INFORMATION BUR- 7 m< "ETAtT 1 -~2ptaise from Sir Rupert- is praise indeed.**" In New York ed in the office of the Negro World, th; - ?' - i JLEADfflt ?? ? -which he is now editor, I ha te great pleasure of a long tal LU4,XJ?bsBm Soctuhe,?-wb he? -No history of the Negr lurnalism can be written with it his name taking first ran the story. Founder of th ew York .Age he, with Jerom sterson, under the firm nam Fortune and Peterson, mad powerful instrument for goo it of that well known public ion at a time whenracial jour Uism was looked upon with nail degree of rnneprn T iose days the classes, not th asses, read. Edward E. Coop introduced a hew^day^fTNj o journalism when he mad e Indiananolis -Ei-oomon ? t * *. wiimii nM.riii.wi newspaper. Picture e the universal language o ankind, Cooper, withdraw me taken over by the eterna n'oxes, George L? father and wood, son, went to Washing riband established the Color American." "Booker T. Wash gton,. more than any man w< ive produced, unless it be Fred ick Douglass^knewlJthe vain id power of the printed word r. Washington, cultivated clos rsonal friendship with editors Thomas Fortune was his.rea nfidente. When I first became an edit some years ago;' a letter o mmp.ndfltion framJMr Fnrtim is one of the prize records o r struggling but hopeful of ie." snortiy after the~Assoc ted Negro Press was establish TVT- r?x , ami. ruitune wrote a_.com mt of praise ori'tKe standan d necessity of the service tha still used as a'tablet of inspir ion. There- has never beei ything of the syncophant a ut Mr. Fortune. He hag al iys had a good word to say a ut the new members of thi mirth Estate.?To?talk?will m is an education in itself > js rich in experience and men ies of great, contacts. Fo: HT5~his editorial utterance! ,ve-been quoted by great dail 5 of the country. Today, be les his work on the" Negr< or Id, he writesfor-the-Tattlej agazirie, and is one of the ed trial wrlters of the TustTy med Norfolk Journal ant lide. Mr. Eprtune is ~68 ant vigorous in his desires t< ep on writing. He is neithei jalthy rior penniless. Color editors could well afford t< g that this nestor of journal n never . iknows want 1 lom&s Fortune bore the bur h iTr lliu Pi|j 1 'I in Ilia e day. "JERSEY JUSTICE" TOO FAST By The Associated Negro Press) Trentony N. J.f ~April?i-Sobe; gond-thought on. the circum ances of the attack made upoi rs. Laura Fisher, wife of i itch Neck Farmer, by Josepl lompson, a 19 year-old coloret yTfa?h-hand7"lafe Friday" al rnoon, and on the swift .justict 2ted out to Thompson, who ii w serving a term from 9 to 15 ars in fi-r!v>or<-. wvvvw lUUXly lldO LI Cci L doubt in the minds of lawyer! ditious handling of the~ cas< the courts will not work ou a miscarriage of justice in e lit of the death of Mrs. Fisher Thompson believing that hi d killed the woman and fear i that hb would be overtakei ' his pursuers and lynehed rrrendered at a farm housi ar Lawrenceville about mid ?ht~Tuesday. nHe was turne< er to the county authoritie! d the following morningr enter a plea of guilty in Merce: >urk te a eharge ofatrbciouj suit and battery and attemp pe. He was sentence by Judg< 1. -ii i " uranaii 19 tne maximum term lich also includes a fine o; ,000, and was Immediately re Dve to the State prison to be 1 his sentence. ? The belief was freely express at the State House Fridaj at the Mercer County author ma \'i ?|! ! \ iTTi ilHM 11' 11 m**' 11 '' ' *" * d I Despise Not Thelbay of o Small Things. o ;r" " ^ t7 Mr. Editor:?While eittlhg k down thinking of the power that e is in little things, I am impresse to write that there is great e strength in small things and as e it has been said by some one d'that some of the best things are i- in small packages. 7 We don't know of anything a that is great and did*nt have a n! small beginning.?The medical e ; scholars is sounding their alarm ?- beware of the disease gerjns f-"that gets in the body, and finds Q lodging and continue to mult? n ply until it destroy^ the human g: system and luba llic. liumon be f ing. of life. One has said it v scarcely can be discerned by a ei miprnafnpp And yph ran also see il that there is power for good or L hacLin small things. The dew drops from the heavens waters -the vegetation and causes it to -'grow. It produces moat for the e eater,. vitality and strength. In - fact the beating rains do but lite tie good it4s?the calm rains 1. that fall softly which does vege etation the most good.r' Little L bubbles of water that continues hhbble makes a spring. A spring makes a creek, a creek - makes ?> river and the river f makes the seas. In speaking of ^[the?worka of rVistianitv. I f must "begin upon the things - that is uppermost iiT my mind. -'The children of Israel and the - j chosen people of God had a be Uginning from one man named i! Abraham, who was a friend-iof tiGod and now they have multi-1 plied to countless millions and 1! yet &<11 that is in Israel is not -1 df Israel, showing that they had -ja small beginning and yet God -.made them a great nation. a; Christianity on earth had a 1|umall boginning, it started .with twelve, one was a demon, but Ut grew to a hundred and twenty five hundred and to three 3 thousand and fiva. hundred, - and j. to-day there are countless millions. "Part of the host has ^crossed the flood now." Com^ rjing a little closer hoiiKsT^TFthe "lQld_Eio_neer3_ in_fche .ante helium -j period had despised-the day- or ^ismall .things, they would not i jhave ^accomplished anythiiig. _ 5 First Calvary was established rl some fifty or moro-ygar s _&go_by. -'old father Sanders Johnson, 51 from a room to a stable and is - Inow a beautiful structure with ' t ??' - * - xtuiiui ?u? in Heaven - and Hunr. - dreds on?garth. Zion was es? tabiishori?some?fifty or more years a>go by old father Darby, from a hut to a wooden building and from a wooden building _ to a gigantic brick -building. Bethel from a room with a f . hfal huddled around t - a wooden structure and now a I beautiful brick building and' i greater Bethel. Time will not II permit, and space is too limited 1 |to mention the great things that - jstarfTrom small "things. I knew 3{of a man that came from the roc3 ;ky regions of Fairfield county 2 who was brought up fatherless -' and began his ministerial career 3! in 1903, though rebuked and de^Hspisedy-thougk-baffled and buffs ed. gatherings arfaithful fewrhe t organized in 1904 what is known L.-liti?H' hfld onwnfl 3 acceptance of Thompson's plea - of guilty to an assult charge i without awaiting the outcome , of his victim's iniuijes. Thru *4heir actions^ it is maintained, - the way has been definitely closi ed against the prosecution for i muaer in tne event that the wo man dies. r Physicians at St. Francis Hosi pital, where Mrs. Fisher is contained, expressed doubts as to her i recovery. It was reported that , the woman ha9 been in a semiP conscious condition since the at tack,?~ -t?-?-? - "Jersey Justice" which i s - known in this?state?for its - speedy action against persons or r color was proved to have been to ^ "U?P in this ease, ? ? ?? X Saturday, April 11, 1925. as Second Nazareth Baptist church from an. old store house to a bush harbor and a barrel for a pulpit and a* ditch for a pool. ^gurthatr-samo man has baptiz ;ted over 2000, and hundreds have , gone to Heaven, we trust, doubt- - ? , less some have gone to ?. While r hundreds are rryin g behold the i Lamb of God who talfeth away !. the sins of the world.Then he established another church, which is Macedonia* church, be; ginning in a hut, now agreat I hnildiny.""-Desdise" not the day i of small things. Brethren, there [TiTa continual cry in the army: i "Bring up the rear." As long as r W6~ remember that David rame [ from the sheep-cote, Peter and _ frr>m the fish creek and ; snma nf 11a frn,T^ f.he ditches, the , farms, the turpentine firms and rocK. quarnes: ? :?, " Sometimes~we did not hsvfe e-^ nough to eat, with brogai^ shoes ) and jean pants. Brethren despise not-the_day_ofj3mall things. I Oh ! yes some olus now are picking our places to preach, -when they used to be glad to preach in - log cabrns. I'm like the apost^ ? le Paul. I am debtor to the learned and unlearned and may I add to the poor and to the rich, to the small churches and to the large churches. Jenkins Orphphanage started with one - man : with the zeal-of God in his heart and today he has^SiOt only established great buildings" but ~ : great prineiples into the hearts-^? of thousands that will live thru' out eternity. ?? ? Small are the offerings we can make,Yet thou hast taught us Lord; If 'given for the Saviors sake, " They lose not their reward. 7 REV: R. M. MYERS. f: "fteETO Troon At Wpst. Point Celebrates (Bv /The Associated Jiegro Press.) West Point, N. Y., April?Exercises were recently held here celebrating the eighteenth anniversar-v of the Colored Calvary Troop composed of two Jnindred?- ; which had_been-hei^slnce 1907. 4>rrEmmett J. Scott, Secretary-,^ treasurer of HowardUniversity nnH spppiftl assistant to the See^^B War, was the principal speakerJ^J of the^troop anll told tjf the htirig nf snmp of its members inV the World War. Ferdinand (&. ^ iijr J - -? ? iviorton, rsiew York Civil Service T ' Commissioner was present also. ^ TO MAKE TUS&EGEE DRIVE ? J7 NEGROE (By The Associated Negro Press) Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Apr. Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal? Qt the Tuskegee JNormal and Industrial Institute, upon his return to the Institute recently, [announced that allfrive had been launched in New York CitY to raise $50,000 among the members of our race, for the Hamp^ tonTTuskegee Endowment Fund Campaign and that Watt-Terry, leading realtor of New York City and o? the race had been selected as chairman of the locak? Associated with Mr. Terry are some of the leading business and profoocional men and women of theTcity. Dr. Moton expressed his be lief that the Committee would receive a hearty response among the citizens of New York and that the quota would be oversubscribed. At the initial meetl'nir Onnrt-'l!-'- - 1 < ?>> abvuiuiii^ to reports COm~ * ing from New York, scores of men and women interested in Negroieducation not only sub- j scribed but enrolled as workers. ' According to announcement ?, made by Frank P. Chisholm, j| Pield SecW&fy oftKe Tuakegee^i Normal and Industrial Institute, the Negro citizens of New Haven Connecticut 1 eceiitly contributed more than seven hundred dol- " -j lars toward the Hamptbn-Tuske- J [gee Endowment Fund Campaign. J