Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J " . v- .. - . ?-i}-'. ? - I THIS PAPER IS - 8 .1 | DEVOTED TO THE Tj -A -??INTERESTS O E ? \ , lj; THE PEOPLE. 03XOOO5S833M3J333^0????????5 I VOL; I?^grac: ANEGR V*1 ' n ' " ? J^l BISHOP W. W. BE( ? ?-Who was-appointed to the Se vent lina, at the recent session of the Hgeles, Ca-1. ^Bishop Beckett is we - ?rr Financier, having servqd as Presi years, prior to his election" to the TO THE PATRONS AND ; - FRIENDS OF THE VOOR HEES NORMAL AND IN^~ I^USTRIAL SCHOOL, Denmark, South Carolina.? i.? As you-doubtless know, the Voorhees Nhrmal and Industrial School- 4s now. being run_under . the auspices 7of' the Episcopal Church in the Two dioceses - of South Carolina aTRt Upper Soutlr Carolina. Each diocese, with --its-Bishopselected nine Trustees,, which, together "with the members of the old Board, constittute the newly organized Board of Trustees of.the School. While therefore, Voorhees ifrto be run as an episcopal School, we want ^our friends and patrons to uh7" ?durntand that it in ,nnt to lie_riiiL ' nn a narrow or spntarian lines. . No efforts wiTCbe made to proselyte any'member of the Student Botlyyer to4>ring undue pressure to bear to get any one to conduct themselves ^vith the Episcopal Church. The Chaplain of the institutreligious services and7 of the re1 igious instriictibn, will, of course _ be a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, but i t is clearly iirrTfprstood that the pulpit of the i ? .. bchoui win ue open lo ministers of all Christian churches of good standing to preaeh> on Sunday: morning in school Auditorium. The Efvening services *- on Sunday will be quite informal and of evangelical character. The Principal of the school, Mr. ?J. F: Blantqn, hag keen retained in his present position. It is well -?? known thnt Mr. Rlanton is a member of the Baptist Church and that Mr. Menafee is a Meth. -oriist. Nearly every member of the Faculty are members of ei?tber the Methodist or Baptist Churches. We mention this to let the general public know that ' yf. """ _ 1 i _ i _v l . .. i -l rne scnooi ir to De run on oroau lines as a Christian Institution, standing for Christian ideals of education. .? The whole academic and industrial life of the school will be built around the character and teaching of Jesus Christ, Our * common Lord a-nd Savior, and it shall always be the chief aim and purpose of the Trustees and of J. - I Ml -r r /^l. 1 ' ine iacuuy 10 ounu up onrisuan character and high standards of morality among all who are con; nected in any way with the institution. * T~-? We llieifoie?venture to?ash for your continued patronage and support. We are co-partners "common" enterprise, tyid lire white people of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina have ;:-W/ ' ' ^ j OBEAT rv^;v . * ? ' w ? 1KETT, A. M., I). D. h Episcopal District?South CallBishops' Council held in Los Anil known here as a Pulpiteer and den t-of AUen-Universitg; for four. pledged their loyal co-operation and support. "? Wittrmtitual?confidence and faith in one another and with the ?t i? r-^ blessing of God upon our labors, "We"hope to make Voorhees one oT the leading schools in the Sputh for the ilormal and industrial trainig of the Negro race under' definite Christian influence. ~ THE R1V REV. Wmdt-. -GtJERRY, RinVinn of Smith Cnrnlitin THE RT. REV. K. G. FINLAY, Bishop of Upper "South Carolina J. E. BLANTON, T' Principal of the Voorhees School RLUtTIN. A. MENAFEE, 7^ Treasurer of the Voorhees School. ?? MAYORANI> SIXRF.TARY ( ARROLL WILL SHEAR TO STAGE RIG MEETING AT T GREENWOOD COUNTY COURT HOUSE SUNDAY ?^ Greenvv6txI7 July 2?Sunday (afternoon at the Greenwood -County Con'rt House in this city. S'Yfnonr CarroIT. "field Secretary of the American Humane] i Education Society of Greenville land theon. Howard B. Ellis, .Mayor or ureenwoOd will spuak I in the interest of kindness to ani+rvi dto ~ ; iiiaio( ' > _. ! The meeting is being sponsorjed by thcTRev. Willfam P. Wiljliams, I). D., pastor of Morris jChapel Church and others of this city.* It is expected Mr. Carroll will be heard by a large crowd of both 1 rates. J udge C. C. Feat hefstohc will introduce the speaker. WHITE ROY"GtYEN SIX TED RAPE OF 13 YEAR 01 A) COLORED GIRL (By The Associated toegro Press) Raleigh, N. C.7July?Wallace PatitoII -TirV> l 4- rv. o r?/l i >> 111 utsr auu ociiicnwcu t\J six months on the Wake County roads foi* an attempted assault on Marv Jones, a thirteen -year old colored girl who had a room in the house in which Powell was living in Glenwood avenue, Powell appealed the case and his bond was fixed at ?2(T0T in spitt of the fact that the fiend was thwarted only by the attraction of a small" white child by the crHfs of Mary, the sentence wa^ ^ light and the bond? hkewrat /sman. it is tne general oplnior throughout this section that ii 7 the races ot tne prmcpals hac been opposite, that the escutchr eon of ttre Stajfe of North'CarolI ina would ha?ve been blotted > with lynching. ; . . ; ?GOLUaHHA, S, C., SATl ENTOl WARD DESIRES CO-OPERATION WITH TUSKEGEE t INSTITUTE HOSPITAL ~ r ^ (By The Associated Negro Press.) Tuskegee, Alabama, July? J It has been unofficially announ- ( ced that Colonel Joseph H. Ward, ' Medical Officer, in charge of the ' Veterans' Hospital No. 91, located here, has recommended that the hosuital lindpr his Hirpptinn bo niit'Cfc^availablo as a cooper- ~ ating unit with the Tuskegee Institute.Hospital, urictfer Dr. Eugene Dibble. Jr.. for 'interne- ' ship of young Ne.gro physicians graduating from medical schools. It: is further learned that the, proposition has met with favortJ with President Cpolidge a-nd Geri- ' erans* Bureau, and that irf this effort, DrT Ward has the active ' ' support of and cooperation?ef-Dr.WilliluVi Charles White, former Chairman of the Federal Board of Hospitalization, Dr. M. O. Dum&s, President of the Na"TTTTrrnt 'Me^fk'al Association, Dr. " iSouthgate~" I7eigh; an eminent " white surgeon of-Norfolk, Virginia, Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute and - others.? ; ? ? Dr. Joseph Garland, Associate Ed hot'of 1 ho ivl pH i ml. onrll "BuVgieat JuttFRalrtn- a-reeent issue of his publication, praises the work of the Tuskegee Hospital under Dr. Ward and commends this idea in the following paragraph: ~ , State* "Velel a<iIs~Buieau mil- = structcd within two * miles of , Tuskegee institute, a six-hun- < di ed , bed hospital, first-class in every detail, and the only Veterans' Hospital of our half million white man connected with this hospital, and under the adminis^-Wnr'h U finest j<ml best conducted hospitals for the " "Service. It has Tnoreoverr recently become a general hospU tal. for the study and treatment^ of all, disease conditions arising among these veterans. The two ...hospitals, at Tuskegee now probably comprise the most fertile field for clinical material that the race possesses situated as they are in the center of the Southern Black Belt, with seven mil -- lion Nogroos- residing within?a radius of seven hundred miles. Tnskegee is the logical site for ft new school of medicine in a real _ medical centre.". -?-- - - Plans are now under way to < work ontu suitable mchod of offering the services of this splendidly equipped government hos : pital for the further training of 1 Negro doctors. ELECTION SETTLED f ' IN COURT 1 ! (By The Associated Negro Press.) i Washington; D. C., July? i Claiming that they were duly ei lected grand master and grand ! seretary and trustees respectivei ly of the Most Worshipful Grand i "Saunders, Dorsey 'F. Seville ami ? William IL Thomas, hailed-Alp frcd E. Robinson, Henry Wanh incrton. Henrv C. Scott. Elliah Smoot and John H. F. Fisher, in to court to -nhow hy what war.. ' rant of law they claim to be the duly olectedofficera. of the lodge. I~" * , - .ji-L?Jlii |"1?I??- ? ' - * A TRPA.Y,-JULY~4;i925r~""" ^ HMfHD'JUL' -MB bEI m uR BR v Svr^kVd BP" Hv I?j^E H ? H. ? n ' . . { J-. ~ ht^ (By Tho Associated Negro Press) Jacksonville, Fla.r July?;H. Sella rs and JT . Johnson, ~\vTnte7" tvere indicted by the Duval Coimr ty grand jury last week on charges of second degree mnr- . der in connection with the death of Robert Jones, an aged colored man. The death of Jones resulted from a beating adminis- 1 tered to him by the two white mnn VlPVO t\vn umnlro o ?? /-> T'VO.r. < V V ?? v * ? V-V/IVO a^v/, 1 IIC beating occurred in a section of the city, where white people live who are inimical to Negroes. 1 Jones operated a small grocery store-in this section, and after closing his place of business late Saturday night, he was hailed an his-. way iiome - -by. seVera 1 for dead. Jones was able when twti-Unj-arrest-of tbe two-white^ men followed .--This is the fourth ~ indictment returned against white fmen for maltreating Ne-' groes in-this?county in recent months. The attacks on Ne="~ groes have been aggravated by^ , a crime wave which recently swept the city. ' . ' * FISK TEACHER r ? C.ETS PATFMT - (By The Associated Negro Press.) I h as just -eome-fce-N ash vi lie-Tram the patent office in Washington that the appKciation for patents for hairdressers' cabinets fik< some time ago by Prof. Ambrose Caliver, iiead of the manual apts department, and assistant dean officially on June }7. The article invented by^Prof. Cal iver is a labor-saving device for ' the' use -of thq hair-dresser 1 and beauty culturist. It is a justable chair for children and adult customers- of all sizes, a shelf to hold stove and other art- _ compartments to hold tools, oils, . towels, stove and all other.preparations JL - - - ' -- The inventor has for /more tha44 two years been manufacturing these cabinets on a small scale-and has" had considerable success in selling therms They are scattered over the, city and throughout the state, and have hren?shipped even as far as"" New York state. BEAUTY CULTURISTS -TO 4 ?(By The A.^ucittted N<_'iIV0 I'rcr.n) Chicago, 111., July?According to an Imn oiln e e m e n t by Ma- ' dame L. B. Shreeves-Johnson, of this city and president of the National Culturists' League, Inc., the organization will hold its 6th annual meeting at Atlantic City, September, 8, 0, 10. One of the features of the convention will he a national beauty contest op- ; ened to contesta-nts from every" city in the~counfry. Application should be made to Madame S. M. Latimer, CorresO ~ i. nnn tit j VV est 158th Street,. New York City oF -to the National Qrganizeiy It: Cmtitt-Oln, 5482 Cottage Grove Avenue ^Chicago, ttttnois. The origirf of Dutch windmills was a very clever scheme to .whirl the wind.iinl.il.ilhecameJ& dizzy that it could not blow the jacayeeagainst the. dikes. ??1 1 9 * . ' ... ~ 7 ~ t j MRS. MARY M'LEOD '"j TO MORE Ti Mrs. Bethune Urges Applicati . """ of Race (By The Associated Negro Press) Blue Ridge, N._ C.,. July? Speaking before more than five hundred young men, attending a conference in session here, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, President of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, urged the application of theGolden Rule and emphasized the need of a better understanding-between the races as the race problem. : "T MrS. Bethune.Jiiade a plea_for a better understanding between the races and a fair-and chailee fur Che members of the race and at- the same time outlined what the Negro of this day wanted. She declared that he was not askinglfor any special irtvuis or considerations but iust-the j'ighia. accorded- other American citizenship to educate his children as other Ameri . cans educate theirs, the right to develop and to possess. South and the nation was cited as-evidence that the Negro deserved the, rights l'or_.wiiicIi he is asking and declare "that in asking for these rights -of citizenship he is not trying to be white. No Negro wants to -be white but rather wants to be at his best and a fair chance in the race" of "liO-fe V* r-r:~~ -The enthusiasm with whjch Mrs. Bethune's address was M*eceived" wasjndicated by the thunderous and prolonged applause wTiich followed "it and with which it was* punctuated freqhehTly. CHINA-SHOWS ? TEETH TO FOREIGNERS ? fBy Tho Associated Negro Press) _ New York City, July?The Chinese are resenting in~h<Tuncertain terms the5 treatment accorded them which is to a Targe llpori'pp Bitnilai' ?_e, yvy ma>. H1CICU UUI to Negroes in this country and especially in the south by white invaders. America-ns and Europeans, according to an American newspaperman who has recently returned To America, have entered China and have sub jerted the natives to inhuman treatment and frequently boot them-off the.-streets; city parks, have been established in which Chinese are denied- ?adflfdsfdoiv clubs have been formed in which Chinese are denied membership, and it is no rare, siirht tn a white man soundly "thrashing a Chinaman as if he were a> horse or dog. The Chinese, according to this writer, are now showing their disapproval of this treatment and segregation. KILLED IN~~AUTO ACCIDENT (By The Associated Negro Press) Denmark, S. C., July?Eddie Williamson, an emnldyee of-fehe Jenkins Wholesale GrocenrCom louring car wmcn~ ne was driving overturned while going around a sharp curve. Two oth0r m^n in the ca>r were injured but are expected to recover. r'T~ ' ~' I J SUBSCRIBE AND ? ^ | ADVERTISE?Cur- g & font, Social and Gen- *? g eral News. ? g . g A COPY. mm I ? 1 - BETHUNE SPEAKS iAN 500 YQUNG MEM * - ? . . .^ ^ u r ri 11 r* i ' *r n i . ion or uoiaen Kuie a? ootution PrbBIem I WILLI AM G. PEARSON, DURHAM DONATES S25,000 -TO KJTTRELL COLLEGE (By The Associated Negro Press.) Chicago, July?Prof. William G.Pearson of Duham. North Ca>r _ olina, has donated $25,000 to Kit-> troll College, of the African M. E. Churches in North Carolina. The i money Will be used /or the erec'tion.of a science hall. Prof. rPeti-rson had previously-given-^ -CQQ todhe same insti.tfltiorrwhich | was the Jargest amoufit ever given pre viously _J)y one ot?the "ectfoTTOf a hUllUlim. , j -Tho fliinrini?ci-m<-nt of the handy gift was made exclusively to {The Associated IS^gro Press by I J. M. Avery, See^etary of the ! North Carolina- Mutu%I Iiffeln- . {suraiiiia-Co.. when he and Presi'deht 1'JdwmHbv-ot Kittrell and? Prpf. Pearson, passed through. Chicago on their way to the Bishop's cblfhgil of theA. M. E. les, California. Mr. Avery is credited with "selling" the idea !to Prof. Pearson, at this time. f jnur: P(>ar^dh^ltiiiotabTe ex^ " ample of racial achievement. Not only is he a thorough business man, but is a most successful ed| ucator. He is pringipal-ofc-Hili-kifln Hiirh sr-lvi'd Dill'lrtm. and 77" for almost twenty |'ive.__^_ years:' tie Is a nail-ve uf Dur= liani. aadyJiesi(1 es Secretary of !the Royal -Knights'of Kin& Davjid, a fraternal society of - great wealth, founded by John Merixlent of the Hankers' Fire Insurance Company, a director in the and-endowment secretary of the ~~ i \|ukini ii iii iI.t ..r" TsTm'th ftnrnli liiaT^Prof. Pearson is married, ! but has no children. lie lias a beautliuLiesiaence m Durham, ?_ .and,has always been closely i|dontinod-with-matters of practical racial development. * f TCjtlrell College is one 0f the ? growing institutions of the South [and has, been given great imnet!us recently by a giftT>f $200,000 from Buchanan Duke, of Durham iMan* arc 1<c in?pittbryo- which will make Kittrell one of the largest and greatest schools in the country. North'Carolina more than any other single^state in the South, has advanced the ei.lui-al iomd hit prills of Colored America, and much of the atti tmle has been developed by the ? 'amazing set of myn known as the""Durham group," with their ramifications in helpful devel- _ 'opment reaching all_sections of ;the state, and baUunlDXips. I g ; .1 {420 GET DIPLOMAS ! AT KENlTlCK Y AGRMAL r ? - i (By The Associated Negro Press.) Frankfort,' Ky., July?One |hundred and twenty young men and women, representing the larIgest graduating class in the his[wy Of the institution received diplomas at the rerlTnt commence ^ - went o x ere i s< s of the Kenfue ;ky State Normal School of (which G. I\ Russell is President.- , (The commencement address was delivered By Colonel Roscoe Corikling Simmons, of Chicago. r4?-4 t/:v~ ??^1