The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, May 23, 1925, Page TWO, Image 2
Of Independent Order of Good (
. Samaritans and Daughters
of Samaria. A
in Amercia held their Thanksgiving
~ ?rorvtcer at; -Trinity Baptist church,
? ?Cor. Harden and Taylor ntrccta, Sun- day,
May 17? at 8 o'clock. The fol- f
Towing program was carried out: r
Introductory Remarks by Bro. J.
J. Adams, Supreme Grand Trcas. j
Bro. George Young, acted as Chief .
"Marshal. ! ?
Bro. John Suber was the prelate for, c
??the -day. f ? : ? - ^
The address on behalf of the Order q
by J. H. Goodwin. M. D. j
An address by a little girl on behalf j
?-???of the Juveniles. ' ? An
address on behalf of the Daugh- '
* ters of Samaria bv Miss Tillin Porter. I
' Address by a little bov on behalf i
of the Juveniles. r
Solo by Mrs. Lillian Thompson, j
: 1 Report of Secretary and Treasurer.
v Singing. . ?
Introduction. of Pastor by Master t
-of- Ceremonies.
Thanksgiving sermon by rRevT ~
: J. Harrison.
Collection. ? > ,
. - The"" committee on printing was
composed of the following members: ^
- Sist^E. E. Tyler, Bro, S. W. Book- C
' man, Bro. J. J. Adams. / "'* ]
_ The audience was very much pleased c
with the talk's made by Bro. John
t Y
Suber and Bro. John Adams..
Dr. J. H. Goodwin rehearsed the 1
principles of the Order and created C
much enthusiasm among the members, e
The sermon preached by Rev. J. J-. f
~ Harrison was at home wherL_if comes
to telling about the Good Samaritans.
and the Order in general. - ? ;i,
"" At "ho time ttt the history ot The *
I organization was AfaortT soTmueh-Th^- f
terest and concern shown aF at tnis ^
publie gathering. .It proves-That the <;
Independent: Order of, GoodSamari"'tans
and Daughters "oT "Samaria are 's
growing stronger each year.
_ . NOTICE.
All Past Chancellors from all the 1
local lodges_are requested to meet at x
the?Od(T Fellows'?Hall, on the?last ?
Sunday in the< month, which is the c
. ' OUl rrL .. _ _ _ i l ?
oi5u iiiu purpose 01 tms meeting is j
to organize A Past Chancellors' ,
Council. ~ 1
W. H. THOMAS, Deputy, *
H. D. PEARON, K. R. S. t
ODD FOLLOWS' MEMORIAL SER- J
5 ' VICES. - \
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.? ?The?Loeal Lodges uf the Grand H
United Order of Odd Fellows held t
tlieii Annual Mmnui'lul t>urvlcea at"
*' the Randolph and Douglass cemeter- t
ies laaL.-Sunday. The program arranged
by Col. W. H. Coultry was !
carried out and it left an impression
on thbse that attended. ? 1
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-,gro as asset in mili- ]
< "k tary power. j
?7"?- , (Ev^E. Ten F.vr.k.L"
In a aiguiflca'nLand iUuiiiliiot;ing
contribution to "Seas and 1
... ^,... Colonies," a. publication repre- !
senting the French AIanitime and
Colomal^League/Xj.en('rRl Man- .
_ gin, one. of France's outstanding i
World War heroes, and an au- _
_ thority on things military, In
discussing hin country's and oth- er
nationV^employment of Colonials
and African soldiers^
? traced the use of colored troops
beginning before the "Christian
era by Egypt and up to _the_re=L.
cent World War conflict, where
the European countries wcre~re
ported to ha ve used at least six-1
hundred thousand. His com-"'
ment on the precedent established
by Lincoln is accepted by1
some as a hint that Europeans'
give" the Negro soldier of the}
Civil War period a large.measure;
of responsibility inj making the1
preservation of the Itfnion possible
through-yetory. of V
Northern" armils ^4 which they
became a part to the extent of
I? 300,000 men.' General Mangirr
p7 A states:
f _ RECORD OF COURAGE.
- "Under Louis XV Marshal
.1 Saxe had in his army a Negro
r rv brigade, which charged at Fon^
^he^rnfy of the Antilles
I which successfully defended
?Guaduloupe throug^rit the ret
I""' volutlohary wars, w^xomposecT
I alpiost entirely of blacks. Formed
of its remnants, the royal
African regiment, \vhich served
n the campaign in the kingdom
)f Naples under the first-Empire
vas recruited from all the Ne?ro
elements which could be colectedT_In
1812 Murat led it to
foresia, and it defended Dantztg
H-1&13. _ Such- troopa have alrense
of the homeland. France
aised native forces in all h6r
.colonies. Her Algerian tirail- j
eurs fought in the Crimea, in J
taly and in France during the
:ampaign of 1870. Sinoc Senigal
was gccupied, France ha?arger
thaTT~Eiirope solely with |
)laek^soldiers. Her domination,!
ilways beneficient, was extended
>y the' destruction of slave-huntng
Sultans, like Ahmador, Sanory
Rabat and. Snoussi. In
ndo-China and Madagascar the
latfve population-has ifurnishedis
excellent troops.
mzzzz: z ".^3
negro Fighters.
w "Everything had to bo impro-'
'ised after 1914. Nevertheless,
Vesiern Africa furnished 270,-1
100 combatants, Black Africa'
81,000, Indo-China 49,000,-Jda- j
lagascar 41,000, the older colo-j
lies 38,000, Djibouti and Oceaiica?
3,0.00?a total of 600,000;
ombatants. They also fui^nishid
an additional "On-combatant
orce of 200,000.
american precedent
?''There is~~ a TklngTe " precedent
^srfch^eiTbrt^?that by the NV-'
;ro pouulation of the tfn-itcd
hates, whose liberation" was ftt
take in the war of -secession.'
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President Lincoln, hesitated a
ong time about - freeing the
laves and. especially about arm-;
ng therm?But the ex-slave re-'
nforcement of 300,000 men as-p
ured Northern victory. . J
?"At present, Northern Africa'
ontributes to the French army'
.01,000 soldiers,- of whom 20,-j
100 are in France and 10,000 are
>n the Rhine. The inter-minis--,
erial commission of native re-;
limiting has fixed the possibiliies
of normal Recruitment 'lit;
>30,000 men, 12OJ000 from Nor-,
-hem Africa and 210,000 from'1'
lie tropical countries." ...
This testimony from an un-j
luestioned European military ex-.
nert is illuminating and should
lelp the people in America to
:>lace a proper estimate on her:
oyal colored citizenship such-as
=s=-net-tthuall> acclaimed. It wilt"
also perhaps hearten the colored
people themselves on both sides
nition of iheir power m thmi-onedirection.
In furl^nvs -re;not
only-this type of contribution
in peace, in industry, in culture,*
ill general progress and . welfare
The Possibilities of Negro
Womanhood.
MARY McLEOl) BETHUNE
("Hy__IIm AkwapNoj*ro I'rrss.) ^
PART III.
In 1023 the atlentton~of the'
Board of Education for Negroes
of tfre MeThodist - Episcopal
church was failed to the excellent
work which Mrs. Bothune
and her helpers had done, and
the Daytona Industrial Institute
and Gookman Institute of Jacksonville,
Florida were merged
into?the?Dayt?na- ookman Collegiate
Institute and became coeducational
with Mrs. Mary Mcr.?eodrBethune
ajrpresident.
The first building on the Institute
grounds at Daytona was
ZaSh-HnTl, croctojl HfTWi'i?
McLeod Hospital was erected
in 1907.
?For .Mixteen years the hospital
has served a near-at-hand-community
and many others from
^ke entire East coast. , The girls
?n +V.r, Tt7~U 1 * .
nit i n^n o?jiiuui AvejjaruneriL
have received twining in "First
Aid" and home nursing and 18
young women have been graduated
aa?trained nurses and are
rendering acceptable service in
, Jy ge ^LZ. .2 TT,' . , r. . ?1 ' - 7-tJ 4 TX - 4-^
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THE PALMET
various towns in. the State. i
Homes of a comfortable Sort:
have been.-built for the presi-j
dent and-other -promineftt-officei^s
of the Institute. ?The-gre^tly
needed. Girls' Dormitory.. was
lbuilt in~1922. It is-a three-story
-briek building-one hundred and
forty feet long and forty-three""
i feet wide. It has sixty rooms
neatly furnished, with three beds
in each.. In it some two hundred
or more girls are accommodated.
It is equipped with wash bowls,
bath tubs and shower baths tor
-sliidentaZancTTeachers and has
vate baths, a matron's olhce and
a large living roOm, hot water,
steam heat and electrical liirhts. "
The Boys' Dormitory, which waa._
just completed in December of"
this school y? is equally com- '
fortable and modern ,in the 1 asPdegree.
White Hall, 'the AdT^pisti-nt-inn
building, furnishes
class rooms for Hie various tie-partme"ts,
with offices for the
President. Vice-President and
Dean, also the Institute Audi- ,
tofium, with a seating capacity
of one th?usand. On Sunday af- v
hall is-crowded with students
and visitors, while entertaining ,
programs are rendered by the ,
school. This building was dedicated
by lion. Thus. R. Marshal ,
then vice-president of the Uni- j
ted States, and "Sydney Catts, j
t hen Governor of thp~State of
Florida a-iid Bishop John liurst I
of the lH(d'h^l>iuL'CMrui the Asj^
A r T.^ h i .. h - ' :? . .? - ?
:vl.: B. i jiucii. "
As - i t act'? -the history of
this school under the name The
Daytcna Industrial and Normal
msuuuTC we nave 'ome to a jnue-|
are now to recognize another <
similar body to the one we have <
been cunsiderihg. In Jackson- <
ville, Florida,' t lie re ha.-, been for h
fifty years a school conducted <
under the auspices of the Meth- <
odisl Episcopal Church on behalf <
erf-the same class of people for <
which-the- I)ayt?na Normal qnd
India-trial Instiiute. whs organized.
bearing the name of Cook- f
npan Institute. The Iloard of['
3Ianagers~ot the Cookman Instilute-ha^dea-r^re^l
of tlie inarv'olous
results which . had' been a- .
thieved by the Daytona Institute
under {.'resident llethuhe."
Hans have boon proposed and
.considered, a merger of the two
schools wjjs accomplished ami the
school was nanrcd 'I he uayiona-'"
Cook man Colle?tatc Institute,
with .Mrs. Bctlnino qs president .
It Ls__wiih: groat pleasure 1 hat :
t h e.". u u i o n i s - b i a -1 n ( j n i 1111 i l v, <"
^ratfrtr-in the broadening of
plans in. behalf of fatifitios by
' win el 1 to I m ri( I i lap info rests .of ,
the Kingdom of Christ to reach
kh^danreTsi l'e^ttLui^ _'i he ""jirob- ~
lem of doubling the size and use'fulness
of the Institute' (TTthe
next three years is before the
l'? a rd of Ti us tees', the friends "
of the" school ami .tfoo general
^public. A] ip lie to ns?are?now 4*
r\ i, ?V *T* T V . 1. _
i i v'l tuuiii,>Mun. ( 1 iwonty
ithing .whicdi will delay the work
( will ' bo a 1 ;n k n1.' funds.
There is now an outstanding
, need of an endowment fund of
:S 1,000,000. V1LLARD
PLAYS
AMERICAN PREJUDICE
;L Lake Pl'ayitl, May?
(Uy The Associated N'qgro
V Press) ?-The' .John. Li< v,
morial Association, left by Dr.
1 J. lYTax barber of Philadelphia^
TTio^ld its third -annual' ipenwrial
service, and also celebrated the
| Ikoth an ni versal'v of JcrhlL
--JLrmvnls bil'lh at Thtr" grave" of"
. the old abolition hero Thursday.
Thb outstanding feature, of the
" celebration was an address by
| UswoTcTGarr'son Villard, grand
'son of WillianvIJoyd Garrison.
lie took to task ollicials of thq
j United States from President'
Coolidge dowiij. who are sworn
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...to enforce the Constitution, l>e?fpre
:whi?h?"every child itv
America must bow ftgtf itnverg
. .XL. Geaaler'a hat before which,
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ro LEADER
once Swiss nensmits had to
worship, and yet, who " openly
wink at the disfranchisement of
colored people in the South.
Speaking m the Tow?Hah at
Lake-Plavkl. Mr.; V'1la rd~ Said":
"However, -one^ feels about
John Br6wn.~vhether one belioveS>
in his doctrine of violence
or not, there is one thing
about him which we- can all
join in admiring, and that is
his devotion to his catise. That
is one of the great lessons of i
his-ttfef^brr what trtr^hbHcved-j
to be right he w a willing to
sjTeiul h>s r 1 i fe, and before that, I
he was willing to give- all his!
fciihq,, energy and his strength.
Let no man sneer at this-, par-"!
thutarly nut a!?ttrts?time?fTT
our histon' -when the whole
timid of .modern life 'a I
from, serious purposes and seriot^
aimji^whcn it-seems as if
the?bulk?of?ottt?people were
solely interested in jazz, the automobile,
the radio,, baseball
and. every other fo-rnh'^of sport.
We arc still endeavoring to
an ry on :> ReTmblic half slave
i vf er,^ anion11Ic
' f?* j
the ..condition .of the colored poo?
pie for whom John Drown jravej
his life. Their disfranchise-'
cent continues and_lcw^peop)e-.
lil't^up theiy A'oicci Jn protest.-*
Through that dislYaneiesement
[Tie ConsjutuiKm ot the Umtecl
Slates^ ^hat^ in~
if * f! carder's hat
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n tore- which once Swiss poit=?
a11Ls? 4rml ~-t^o worship, i s
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.da'ly violated. Curiouol;
enough, the societies for th
defense of the Constitution, th(
Daughters of the Americai
Revolution and all our othe:
patriotic societies are silen
about this flouting of the sacre<
document which contains oui
fundamental laws. The Soutl
profits by it, and Congress re
fuses to act and reduce _th<
Southern representation.
j The worse offenders agains1
the Constitution today are noi
t4uo .haiHlfuL,,Qf..,.e^,t?emists' wh<
move agaih.^t it by extra lega
measures, but the officials ol
our country front the*-Presidenj
of the United States down, wh(
are sworn to uphold the Consti
tut ion and regard 't like anj
other laws, as something tr> h<
r'1 + ni'POfl U'llpn1 -tVlQir acta Of or?r
w - V.V.M M..VII VliVJ ovt I A V, C \ 11V
when it suits their purposes
-The present President gives us
one homily after another as t(
the perfection of our institu
lions and the wonderful happiness
and prosper'ty. He cries,
"Peace, Peace," and there is
no peace, He does not defenc
1 he Constitution; he connives at
its violation:
I do urge r whole-heartedly
that, the colored people of* America
make- of John Brown,- th<
nio^l - crusader, their inspire
lion- and their model, and that
'hey devote themselves without
si ,nf. ond \vi
.the cause of freedom which was
but half won when Lee surrcn'
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WIDELY KNOWN WOMAN- "
e v DIES IN PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia, Pa., May 21.?
Perhaps one-of the moat widely - j
_ .known women nf-tlie race dhd
here during the' week, ' in. the
^ - Washing ton7" D. TT~"M7s.?
1 Francis wee-known all over the
" country as a woman of rare
3 charm. She was one of the '
founders of the playground
t movement in Washington, was
t chief among the organizers and
)' promoters of' the parent-teachF
ei s' associations, and was iden
t'. tiiied with municipal and prik
vate charity work. She was a
v member of manv of the capital
. city's leading civic and social
y work oiganiz^ttioiis; was d pal}
ron of TTnisic, HtVrai ttrr :i rutTTP^
I and maintained one of the best..,_
appoihted homes in the city. ?5
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WILLS PICKENS $2,000
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Galesburg, 111., May^21^-In
* the will of the late Mrs. Flora .
I E. A very ,0 white, of this city,
- William Pickens, field secretary- '
of the N.-A. A. C. P., was left
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$2,000. Mrs. Averv arrnmiwi
nied Mr. and Mfs. Pickens to .
Europe at one time.
? hampton~stude1mts
present three
; japan ese_gl ays
el^-Hanipton, Va.t Muy 21, The
*^fihakespeaiV - Dramatic,- (Jlub,5
j which is a student organization
.at Hampton Institute, recently
i presented three one-act Japanlese
plays.
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