The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, May 02, 1925, Page THREE, Image 3
Saturday, May 2, 1925.
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NATIONAL ECONOMIC
. SURVEY. ,
(For The Associated Negro Press.
While the opehing of the build
ing season#has started a dernan
for men >, skilled in buildin,
trades, the position of commo
labor is pretty much the same
2. Steel- business has flro ppST&n
companies are working, aroun
85 per cent capacity?More tha
8,000 men lost their employmen
in Illinois alone during^ Marcl
and this fa?ct is rather indies
tive of the general depressio
which still exists throughout th
* north.
?There is little prospect of th
^-steel ihdystry picking up muc
????the "first half, in spite of^h
'glowing predictions- of Garj
Schwab and other big steel mag
nates. Orders must come in t
mean business and orders ar
- not coming in.
Railroads are holding up sorri
wh'pt npnn tipW wnrlr The pact
inghouses a're running shor
time. General factory work i
low, because they are overstock
ed -and goods are'not moving.
The entire nation is-stfll' loo!
T ing for the_boom that has nc
put in an appearance. Somett
ing is wrong somewhere, hut n
one seems rto be able to place
? -
"?8c? ujjuji Liie cause.
One of "the most significan
signs of conditions is that pra<
_ tically no demands of union
throughout the country for higi
, - er wages have been met. Neai
scale as in 1924.
So bg__careful where you g<
if you leave hunting for worl
know what you are doing an
- have a job in sight when yo
start your trip.
Races will Amalgamat
' The Sua Will Go Out.
. By William Pickens
: - (For The Associated Negro Press
tha nd1d\f ? ?twt
***v mvaavva - VI. .1/^11
Press," of Newport News, Vii
awfully worried aboi
the first,?why not also worr
about ._that? second calamity
^ Worry ..will-do just as much goo
in tM one rasa qq "in'tVifl "fit Vim
even against Hampton- Inslituti
a school which, in order to a\
pease just such Southern sent
' ment as that shown by th
. <fFress" does about all it can ant
? ?aornfe think, more than 11 yugli
But the "Press" editor woul
have Hampton Institute, a schot
for-tha -education of colnrp
youth, to do the following thing
i in order to save a great whit
race, of 100 millions, from bein
ultimately swallowed up by
mixed and mostly light skinne
"black" race of 10 millions.
To_J'Jim_Crow" the Neerroe
in their own school, when thei
^Southern white "friends" com
to VisTtv?and to teach the N<
groes their/'Place" by giving th
_= visiting whites flip hpst gpnt<
not be taught that their rac
ia as good as the whitest
, To prevent the whites wh
work at the school from ever
meeting socially with their co
ored composers oirthe faculty,and
especially to prevent ther
from ever eating at the same ts
t>le. , .
To teach the Negroes fror
different books and different i
?- deals, and train them to a dii
? ferent (lower) -plane than th
sacrea wnites ot tnat communi
ty are trained for.
To have "reserved seats fo
white people'lix^ a Negro schoo
So that the editor of the "Press
come late and feel importan
and comfortable whenever the;
want to hear good "Negro mus
ic," and to patronize the institu
tion. : ???
To prevent the white jjreei
dent of Hampton from ever eat
ing with or othrewise "associat
ing" with Moton of Tuskegee, o
other colored people, even ii
Boeton or at the North Pole.
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All this and more to preserve |
the "peculiar customs" of the
,SoutK7~which are so necessary,
-jas^the "Press" informs us*. "to
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^;the preservation of the integrity
h+of our Anglo-Saxon stock."di
What is really wrong with
n John ?L.Iiockefeller, Jr., gave
* . one juillion?dollars to Hajnpton
3 Institute, for he complains bitd
terly that this Negro institution
n^'is richer than the University
it of Virginia," and has the finest j
h j library in this section of Virgin- J
1- J ia, among its othe?*similar signs!
Hjand misdemeanors.
el That is. in nrH or f rv
,, w. v>V4 VV JJltOCX VCJ
Anglo-Saxon stock, it is neces-:
e-sary to keep a Negnr school |
h I poor, poorly equipped and still
r, | glo-Saxons, you know, can only
f-ibe streng-among the weak, rich
o among the poOr, powerful aejmong
the puny and big among
the little. Negro repression is
e I necessary to Anglo-Saxon great'tftTTat
is greatf fri the Anglo-Saxon
. 1. j. .
s race!
The "Pres6" editdr says that
an equal chanca-and enual intelligence
and culture for the Ne>t
'gro will lead to "association of
!c|&-.roinantic -nature'* and the
^great hoiiui of legitimate, mar
a,riea, sexual intercourse. He
isn't worried at all about the
it three million or so illegitimate
vjmulaltues. He forgets tnat air
is illegitimate mulatto child-is-jtretr
Plis complete a human as a legir-rtimate
one,?and4ust as danger-1
e^ous to the "integrity" of Angloj
Saxons. He pretends not to
>rfmow also that this great army
c, of mulattoes is not the product
d of. Negro intelligence arid culu
ture but frf Negro igipjiaiice and
(degradation that the repression
H-o^-^^nrmorityrace is what^IveF
G the males of. the majority -race
things; and .that the Negro girls
trairied in good schools are the
1 very ones in which the-advany
taged white man cannot plant
- a nameless crop of mulattoes;
it He willfully overlooks- the fact
y that white men; who are always
? crying out against amalgamation
d are closelv resnnnsiHIa'-n
y i.Ul an
rvthe amalgaTOairorrthatPftSsTalcen
2, murder and duing all the hiurder.
)-[ While this editor was writing
i- so eloquently^bont the prAg^rw^- .
,e| tion of Anglo-Saxon integrity
i,'. from harmless helpless colored
L. ixiun "uf Newpbrt News7amalgad
mation, or an effort at it, was
)1 going on just a short walk from
d his pditroial sanctum in A rpfi
s light district where the city;
;e permits white men to keep col-;
g ored women, and where no col-1
a ored man is allowed. This an-i
d intelligent editor ought to know,'}
? srnce~everybody else in Newport
is News knows it. ~\
Ir Hojre's the choice he offers us,
e if yon a^^y7? hin position >i ;
i-jther to treat Negroes as human
?^beings and-risk a slower~tegitt-^
^^nate-amalgamartion,- or to treatl
dyNegroes ag~ human cattle and |
e make sure or a much more rapid'
|illegitimate amalgamators He!
o makes this point, oFcou'rse, with)
y-ouT-intending to do so. But;
H those ^are the alternatives pf allj
? j his indirections. We admit the1
n dilemma. And only a ' moral!
i-1 coward can refuse to choose the1
alternative of civilized justice.
b The Week's Editorial*^,
Colored Press.
fFrom the Dallas Express, Dallas
l" Texas, April 18.)
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r RE-OPENING THE DEMOL
CRATIC PRIMARY CASE.
jr Another attempt, based on a;
t refusal to allow a Negro who;
y was a Democrat to participate
i,|in an election in El Paspr^WtjTj,
,-!be made to break the "white
- primary" lawflu of Texaa and the]
s; ^vfiole South. It is to be backed;
by the "National Association for;
he Advancement of Colored Peo-i'
r pie which plans to make^this the 1
a opening of a general attack on J
the disfranchisement of the Ne- '
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i a Department of C
Iji- - : By WILLIAM D.
(All contributions to this Departn
x- poctiy," accompanied by stamped ai
:S and sent to 1501^ Taylor St., Columl
jx column. -Allworthy manuscripts^ .will
; name. Amateurs and poet-aspirants,
jX thai talent, if you' have it.)
.|0i The Editor of this Department of
;J airing pt5?fias on any subject for any
moriams, expressions of. friendship, <
YOUTH
, By William D.
Bright child, with eyes agk
My heart beats strangely
"Thrills quickly when I toy \
?? And panga of joy- and s
Oft to escape that, longing,
? . Isteal into the Past,?gi
/ Retrace each step, linger b
Hallowpd by rrnmiories t,1
" ' . .. \ ;/ .V.
I walk once more beneath t
? And breathe again the fr;
With her who shared my s<
Fall to the arts the blind
I hear once more , the voiceI
whisper low the love I li
I kiss once more the lips tc
Read in brown ey.es the
I feel within my blood the 1
O pleasant dream! But
And Time with yellow finge
zizztL?And bids me read the cur
Now as I look into your_eyei
So full of joy, so innoceni
t - 1 catch a^gleam, of .hope 4ha
A l i _ ^ i
aim hum my neart vvttn p
Had 1 but caught the visio:
Had treasured me each g
_ j^ ~ By celestial winds that-si;
Had trained my feet to its
?? To that grand march of
I would not now so basely s
Or fear to pass where sh;
_ Had I nofTlikc the silly mot
Enchanted to the flame, ,
Thrown all .yuulli's lieasunjl
I would not now shrink f
i would be like the everlasti
, That proudly toss their g
And smile to see their child
In never dying grandeur t
They laugh at death'. Only
Or lightning's strokes, w
In royal battle, do these m
Only destroyed ! they nev<
O Youth, tb Age's advice ot
. O seek the heavenly^vMe
Lay nofyour youth before 1
And like me, shrink to r<
Who strives to touch with g
.Who cleaves to Truth and
^ -Need fear no death;=trerstn
But like the noble tree, ii
- "He laughing goes from this
Smiles as he smiled when
And Truth's bright beacon o
Revealed to him the path
will be the second made by Ne- the
groes in Texsa to break this in- con
famous law byTwhich, in many thr
cities and irr tti^^ffiajoFiTy "of "the
States Negroes are effectually 1
disfranchised. The first attempt cast
led by citizens of Houston and moi
arguedi by Lawyer R. D. Evans er i
of Waco, resuliKtrnr a noire pro- it h
sequi decision ihv fho Qnnromn
^upAWillCj Wit
Court ofTthe United States to moi
which it was finally carried. tho
cause the immediate rallying of livi
Negroes all over ithe State to ver
the assistance of this organiza- ten:
tion.which has so effectually Sou
fought other. racial battles to"I doe
the gates of success, and.which of
more than any other of its kind by
has the reputation of never quit- he (
ling until the last opportunity full
of winning success has been tak-; izat
en advantage of. It is true that to t]
sad lack of interest in it for the por
past few years and an accompa-jwhj
nying lack of financial support in
of it. Branches which were in an (
flourishing Condition in many ci*:rise
ties were allowed to di^and now! by
in only-two cities,"Tlotiston and^conl
in rase, are-1 there thriving jthc^
branches alive. And, strange be 1
to say, out of thpse two cities limi
have come the attempts te re- - is t
move this decidely unjust suf-jopp<
fragn condition. "There "is noj
doubt but that this lack of sup- 24 *'
port has come frpm the unfortu- J'
nate conditions in the cities (Bj
where thes? branches have been T
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LEADER " w
LAXES^ |
urrent Poetry
UOBINSON.
lent must be typewritten, "real :2
nl addressed return envelope, jji
)ia, S. C., tq the Editor of this :Ji
Be printed -under your own g
this is your chance to develop ;3r
fers his services to anyone de? '5
occasion, such. as epitaphs, meor
topics for programs of all J
AND AGE .
Robinson..
)\v with-4rfe,?carefree,
when I gaze on thee,
vith thy dark hair*
arlnp^si rniriglp th^w*
bitter pain^ - 1
ow young again,
y each dear spot,
hat age can't blot, ? i
ne magic moon, . - - :
agrant air of June, ;?
orrows and my joys,-^
god still employs.
Moved'"so well:
ved to tell;
> kiss I plead; love
her sweetness bred.
flame, of youth.?
now comes-eruel Truth,
rs turns the page,
se of fading age, , , v"
3, bright child,?
t and mild,
it makes me glad,
iloasure, 'though I'm sad. ?
n, heaven-sent,
olden hour spent ;
rig 'round God's throne:?-?jexalte
d he ats,? '
Order God repeats:
hrink Age's blows, adows
dark enclose.
h that flic3 ?:
and wingless dies,?
:> on' the shrine or Lustr^ r
earful from the dust/ M
ng trees,? - 7?~L
;reen crowns in the breeze, 1
iren 'round them rise,
;o blue skies.
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the woodman's blow,
hen fiery tempests blow
onarchs falL?
ir heed deal's call.
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>edience pay;
m day_;hy~day . 1,
:he shrine of Lust,
sturn to the dust. '.h
;old life's poor defects,?
. Error's path rejects,
ill not rot Tn sharfte~
a Hate's swift flame,?
world to the next,? !
i Temptation perplexed,
n Faith's strong wings borne,
to God's bright thrbne. !
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ablished and in many cases 1
disbanding of them , has
le only as the " result of
eafts of physical violence to
ir olftfcials and members.
e, there is an appeal that is <
re fundamental than any oth- n
the knowledge of mankind; ;
as to do with self-defense and
^ ^ ^ ^ yisi&n for the !
"e complete citizenship of
se, not only of future gen- <
nuns uui or triose wno are: \
y root of the infamous sysi
of disfranchisement in the ~
ith where because the Negro
3_not-enjoy- the full benefibA
the right to vote for those \
whom he is to be governed,;!
mjoys few other rights to the \
. Tnfc appeal of this organ-^ s
ion foT^fi^nds is a challenge \
he belief of &N Texans in their <
tunity for them tojdjowr^to I
it extent they are Interested
their ow^-weffare. This is "
icoasiolTto which they should ^
to a man and indicate, not *i
much argument but by the *1
tribution of their funds, that
71 as bthefs, afQ unwilling to \
onger denied the right of un- J;
ted suffrage which, after ^tll, !j
3rtunities/::^_
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