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r . -v ... - FOUR "The Palmetto Leader " Published "Weekly By H " * ' ' : ?T; The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co. J. B. LEWIE" ; iPtesidept; * "> " 1310-ASSEMBLY STREET 7 ri ' ! ' COLUMBIA.' S. C. ; 11 - Entered at the Post Office, at CoVum bia, S. C., as Second Class Matter. TELEPHONE T ' "4623 '*N. J:'VltEDERlOK?; Editor W. FRANK WILLIAMS t__._ Contributing Editor HENRY D. PEARSON City Editor CEO. II. HAMPTON, Manager -STJBS RIPTT(5N RATES;? " ' "CASII IN APrANCR. - ? One Year ? $2,0C ? Si? .Montha?.. . ? \-r2?. Three Montha . .7f . Single Copy ?-? -02 Advertising Kates given on apyli-* cation. ? ? ' Saturday, August 29, 1925. In Laurens, Vfie drought has been so severe that the Young Men's Prayer Club held an oper , -" : _ meeting to pray foi^ain. The drought continues. ' * -r * President Coolidgc has namoc a high Klan (Jfflcial Collector-oJ ' Customs at Savannah, Georgia TTnn IT T T,. 1 .1 jij.v/11. iiciuj x^nnjmii ?j?imsuii i?: the National Committeeman? Georgia and is said to have mdorsed the appointment. '" After all, no one place or sec?tiont of..great country ha^ all the virtue while another has ?^ ah?the?vice;?In?Chicago, 41 seems that the gallows are maintained only for colored murderers. The white ones all get'of! py neing crazy. Not su in . Liu South. = 3 ' __ ?_ The movement of people now The hope of getting rich is the seems to point' te^vards Florida magnet that driyvs. Colbrec " peopre however ,had better third more than twice before starring ?: toward that state,_ ?.TfltL-.maiii Higgenbothens or whatever ~ names the brutal whinmng'bos. ses bear. . __ , : S " By a neW method of chemica sian scientist, claims tMt Negrc blood or that of any race can b( definitely discerned and identi fied. But-who is going to bothei . through his veins; Some folk; ; really doiht want to know. . * * * Senator Butler of Massachu setts being "waited on about seg regation in the departments a Washington, told his _?&lar?( "hearers that-segregation was ar executive and administrativt matter and not legislative. Presi dent Coolidge then "can end scg regation i? he wants to, but doe: he? ' . r. o . "APPOINTMENTS ARE OVER ?? ? DUE" Under the above* caption. tin Kansas City Call, edited by C. A Franklin, discusses frankly anc ? forefblythe-Tahitre^^esiden Coolidge to appoint some out standing colored man to a gov errtment) position of important and dignity. With Editor Frank lin's V1PW tVin A flanf Q T ?-> /-I a*->/-! " V**v A I. I, JC? 41 CC* ent differs. White Ihe Calf pla ces the blame where it rightly belongs? on the head of the par ty?the Atlanta Independenl reasons around and places* th( blame on_the colored peoplt themselves. With the* latter'.' ?have no?sympathy The colored race has no more right nor is it a duty to back one ~~r cblored man for an out .standing , position than the white race tc get behind one of its members, ? Appointments are simply not made it hat-way. We think the Independent's stand is just one of the reasons that the colored people are givemthe grand go bf. There are always, some to make excuses as to why no appointments are made. The Republits ~ ' ; 1 ' ' can party has been making just Iplain fools of the Negro about ng enough, but this fact does-| n't yet seem t have fully pene-! ^trated some craniump.The Repub lican party knows that it cannot 1 win without kthe - vote oi -the Nejgi'ft, yet it does nothing bul 'promise. The quicker the Negro decides that no longer will he be( made a TooPof^he quicker will; he be given the same attention that other largo groups withirn ;the party are'given. j Judging from the last few years, the Democrats could not rln any-wnrsp than the Republi-1 cans havlf Thoughtful Negroes in fUaco of otou urlmnD fViaiv Arrvfnc AU AiiUOU k?VULV?J " UV/1A/ tUVU ? VWVU i count ought give that thought' J * JT . : ? : J i some consideration. 1 -1' vo THE NEW PRINCIPAL ANI) BREWER NORMAL. Beginning September ^14th. 'Brewer formal School1 ill.Green-' wood will open for the first time [under the administration of a colored nian as its head The 5 public may expect great things, : and achievements that will put i the school in class A as an acs credited high school a type of which is not found in the Piedmont section or any other sec1 tiou' for that matter.?1? It is the aim. of .Principal Ilil yard to make this a standard > hi eh school. The diplomat will : be signed by the Governor and ? the full number of credits that ^fs" required of such a school will jbe given. In shop work the plant is better ftted to do first" ' class work in home economies ' and manual arts-than many of ' our colleges ill the state. Thq. ' science department at Brewer ; has more equipment for science " teaching than- any of the accre' dited colleges^ahii this year Piu! fessor Iiilyard has selected a ?facu 11y of men-and women who ;are experts in their lines?- hav' ing been trained in'the. leading j colleees~5I the North. The plant at Brewer is fully worth $150,000 and furnishes accomodations. V I?rrrr^:?-:r -l-n _-z xui uuaiuuig siuuums as wen as ~ctaKs TTJOTrr-Fpace f or the several hundred pnpilg Trmti-ny 4n- thin ^year from the -Greenwood. City system. ; j Besides being well educated? holding diplomas and credits of } State,-Cornell and Columbia? Principal Hilvard in__ablc_to in" troduce a school spirit that will * be-the~life of the school. .He" is 1 a_man of broad vision, deep ^sympathy and is well- up in ad'ministration.^.nd ?technique. He will not - only ha. air_ asset Jto Greenwood City and county but a factor in the educational cir'j-ele-of the State that will com-. mand the attention .of the lead1 ers and take-his place as factor ""tTTThe-PaTnietto STate Teachers " Association. i 5: NEGRO LITERATURE . ' ^ ____ ? By William Pickens (By Tha Aaaociat*d N-egVo Praia.) ?-T-he on ly genuine "Negro lit' i l ajLure" will that which Nc. groes'writje. And yet some Ne1 groes With high brows and low t mental power are always com - plaining "Why don't colored - writers quit discussing their own 2 race and do something in Gen era! Literature?" Who in the - mischief ever saw any "general - 1 terature?'1 literature must tie r, specific or it's no literature. You - myst create, a litrature on spme-. t thing you know something about 2 and not something you have ; heard a little about. Victor Hu< go will write oT France and .-F-renehmeftramLRobert?urrovuf ; Scotland and Scotchmen. Hugo ;; would have made a moan -of the, v r?inooA/l nn /-> i .utootu I/lie nciltll. 1 IIU IirHl/ , rule in all writing is to write a; bout something you know. i j When DuBois writes of the i souls of black folk, and Dunbar writes lyrics of lowly lifa, and Jessie Fauset writes a story of Philadelphia and New York colored people, they all know what | they are writing about. When '.-.j .?2 : ?u . THE PAtMET 1 ' r.ii | The Searc X ? by William Frai "The Jot Man" of South Carolina t reaffirms his policy" of standing by I Evidently^he is like the lizzard-^rgets x Or htTYnay be like the Irishman who i said on his death bed: "Good Lord, i or Good -Devil, which ever of ye gits t -mo bo easy on ye oid Pal."?^ i " 1 One hundred men arrested in antit im waFat Savannah. Criminals they < ard, but who made them so? There j1 are more l:ms in the United Statesr1 than in any other nation, and yetj there are more criminals. Ilfthe num.j1 ber of laws were cut in half crime 11 \Vould be reduced fifty per "cent arid society would not suffer in the least. * ' . ' : r | . The convention of Madam Walker agents in Atlanta la-Jt week gavo-oiiry1 : northern- sis terswho have never been ^ south a new idea about thiti.iantPwnore I "alligators walk the streets and Ne- ^ groes are not Allowed to use tHe sidewalks." Progress and good will down | here have -their?ulace_as-well as nrc.j- ^ udice. < f 0 ?Where is _the_giiy that |is kicking: j about this weather we are having i now? . - . ..V. ' ?Officials of the Ahierjcan Federation of Labor are uneasy about some 1 red propaganda "that- ls"tieihg~ spread aijnong working men. of our race. Ev- 1 eh though the A. F. of L. does not irive our laborers a square-deal, they,' ! will not yield to propaganda against 1 American institutions from any- for- f! eign influences. Even during the ward nudaen inching was at its apex in this country, our men in the~trenches of ~ Finnn.. "damns" to the nn?naganda that was being showered upon' jtbcm by, the Kaiser's forces:?Hightalong with the Ku Klux Klan, the American Negro claims to be purely A-1 mcrican (not Anglo-Saxon, as. you , \ u:. l.I. :n ?i t-.-i i nw.j clIlU 1119 IUJ U(iy Will IlUj, OUl}!? j in spite ot hTs many lurtuius ami ew?s barrassmcnts in thre land of the free and home of the brave. fT-'~ .>< ' ' ' I It is said that there is one aulorvrr> bile to every four persons-in Wti.dimgTton, D. C:?Theie arc-so nniny y.irs hi the streets every night because of the lack of garAge sSpace. --1- AtrhfrV V^VH KHEi 11V ^ Kcal progress at Allen Uipycrsity is ;a fact and it can not again be a tar J' Woodson writes, bfJScgro history -or when-Walter White writas oF" Georgia life and lynching they ai'o likely to got read, ? I Some Negroes hate llur inferi ority feeling so deep-seabed in their psychology, that they are i .1 M. I i. _ ii ) } TTT1. _ aiways trying to escaper~: wnen they go to?L'iL'<)itu?"art,"- they think they hav4 to create something outside of their own life.T They seem not to know that A ^nierican Negro life is just as good* a basis for art as any life Jaayyvhero-4n--tho world, ?-j1 They do not know thaFthe on'F ;ly real interpreters" of the life; -of- colored Americans must bej 'colored Americans, anil that'col-;' ored American literature, his-! jtory and art wiUnevcrVe respectr I table untiTChey1 do it themselves. ( that all white people ever write about is white people and when they do ?so with a perfectly "white consciousnessthat is, ! if their wrtng s about while peo-pie, is for white people. ; Here, for example, is Mary B.l Mullett writing a long (and good) particle inttie "American-Maga-' zine" about Roland Hayes,?, and see what she emphasizes: j Hayes mother is said once to have said to the aspiring boy: "Remember wha_you are !" This becomes Mary Mullett's cue to -the interpretation of the Hayes phenomenon. It is ridiculous., rThe mother - -eeuld not - have . ^meant that he should not aspire for the best or think himself worthy to attain it; she perhaps' [used that method (being an un-: lettered woman) to warn him of, the opposition to'his aspirations. And anybody can see the naive' insults in the following paragraph from Miss Mullett'a arti- ; ".iA ' . TO LEADER hlight 11 ik Williams. . Jjj jet for those unscrupulous critics 'on loth the inside ana outside who have 1 ;o lunir sought to (fcstrov it. Wis- ^ loin has been welcomed by its fathers tUiLjyith ' this gruut-numtul?endow-; _ nent they have seen fit to place at ts 'head and on its official staff i strong young men who have been ar rained in the greatest iMMtiiutiona uf a,. earning in the land. The new administration building is me of the best we have and the chap 1 -which graces it has no peer among l'G my of odr colleges. ly An increase1! in'dormitory space has nadc it a pleasure for afuflChts tu at- ^ end Allen and ft Well chosen currieu- . um makes the school a factor among Tifr best institutions Of learning, w Doubtless a handsome endowment-is sc leeded to make assurance that well nc v*C iaid teachers and modern science lab- . iratories be maintained at- all times lV _-i A-.-t- M . - . V , . f r or Tn<> nest imoresis ol tne school. It' there is one modern eu?tonf-which?Ik he "school needs, -ft is freedom of worship. The writer never did think ;ftu, ivas fair to- line up students for a roll hurch. It should be the privilege of ^ students, or any Body to attend (the tl hinvh of their choice. We :mention , \\ :his rule beeuuse we note that it is j g still contained iu the Catalogue. And w lis an alumnus of Allen we feel that_ ive have a perfect right to criticise <li I his rule. " . ?*_ 8 But-the-world wasniot made in a (h jay. There are big days ahead for j Alien,, and President Sinio, Vieo Prusi ^ lent Thompson Prof.-Singleton and . the faculty- are -gdtng to thresh ouCT** Tome little depots if theischool fatlv- ^ ?rs will nut molest them. C( ? "FREE: SPEECH _ li Our art ie-le iii" last week's Leader, ijiiuw inc cupuun, ?line rrc&iucnisi>f Nogl'O "Colleges," has brought a ' few congi atulations.-to us, which look us by surpri.-e. Qnfc gentleman told ^ us that ho didn't think we had lhe_e< nerve to write such an article. \\c p; ilidiT^-UaA-e nnv norvo viji^\ve-Jivrote it. \Ve had left it in the slorelioihjtf . because it wasn't needed. Ask?the Indicator jreudors ~6f five years ago.P1 about, a: The j i>ej?i'o press is .the ipfeatest -y; defender of our pcQplcrrnnd any editor j whalhas^a~jellv -hack?shrmhi 4*> d4s-! ? ' C( counted in the fraternity of quill push-.^ or*? ? ........ ... Thanks to free speech, a man can ( tiplit the wrong in this coUliliy undj? n?ft be itiofe^uak" - ij-ztku I'i uiaikmWtit u'lUfitirr irn i-m ' crilinUp him .-ind not ! ^ fear the guillotine. ^ i S( "Hayes has the typical fea- N tures ot his race;?and yet, wheit B he talks, these features become"^' somehow transformed by that ti spirit wliich is within him. He ti harr great simplicity, quiet, and d gentleness; a sincere modesty ^ and an exqtiisite T^u'rtesy.Ser- B itms and 1 hr11ij>*lil fill, he has nnn<*-U of the irrepressible gaiety we as- N so crate with his people." T_j~_ That paragraph assumes that t< Negro "features" are iricojaaiftt-Tk Ptlt witll dll 1 lin Viitrh riiiatvJ-ino 1*1 mcnt.ionodJri thin paragraph,-^? aird in?the?article;?ami?that f Ilayes' possession of both these ;E features and. these qualities/1 fcould* only be reconciled, if the; 11 features were "transformed" by TJiat's silly, But colored peo- I1 hie will never get rid of that silly stuff as long as they are mere- tl ly talked about They've got to " tell their own, story. And they- b 've got to pay thq expenses of jC the telling. If Mary B. Mullett had' been writing for colored! readers, and not merely about "w colored people, she^ never would - Q have writeen in that manner. In>rc other wt>i ds, if thereaders of the !r? "American," or any considerable!01 portion of them, were known to A be colored she would have writ-W< ten to them as well?as ahautjei them. In short, colored Ameri- |i*< cans, to rrrtike a literature that | a ly have to do the expressing butj also to pay the expressage. ' o - ? ' ' "If ABBEVILLE SOCIAL SET EN- ( TERTAINS w ' ? C On Wednesday June 19, at: IV1 Abbeville, S. C., Mrs. Emma R. B Wilson entertained at a lovely T party, at her home on ,"Fort;T Pickens" road, complimenting si Mr. Henry Talmadge Chappelle, ir who motored here from JZJolum- ai i ' V ? 1. . . l * . c~?r?~?3 :?r?? i.j -{? , -^By JJheJPippie, - v- Of The. TEMPERANCE nut?deceived,?God io? arked. Whatsoever a man>weth that shall he also reap. alatians b:Y , ' Paul when teaching temperice used this very passage just, ; it is. As it was true irrtnose lys it is true how. A man need >t expect to sow cotton and iap wheat for if he does he sure will be disappointed. As it is j ue with the sjiiritfyal things.As ue wth the spiritual things. As! i* true with the s^n it is true' th the un>,0011.?A man rannnt >w right and reap wrong. He, innot sow ignorance and reap ] itelligenre,?Hp can not, sow to ie flesh and reap everlasting Take our law makers. .They ave made prohibition laws and ws against evolution, they ave made so many lawT that icy have gone to the excess ith it. Whenever a man or' roup of men go to the excess" ith anything he"or they is or ;e just as-much intemperate as man that will drink liquor unn t he prohibition Jaw. If a-thief steal your automoile and be overlakeii Iranspurt >g liquor, your car can Eni. sold ?- disposed?of without * your msent. ?-?. -* ? How much temperance or jusciiJLs, that ? " ' "Horn is comihiTalbhg the antikolution law (they voted it awn in Georgia. That is one lessing on Cfeorgia, if it is curs1 with many other things) to revent one from teaching what e thinks he-knows about evolu011 and forces the Bible on The cople. We have enough courts nd laws to save the world if salation would come-through that liannel but when the time mies that we have to force sal-. NEWBERRY, S. C. NEWS -fchnv bet i y, 37t!l;,-Aug.?Titers re many wsilurs in?otrr?cftyr ime of whom are formerlv-of Fewberry. Mrs. Luvinia P. 007.01' Fountain, who is eninlnv. , ? I" ?If-? 1 in the U.~3. V. Hospital as a ained nurse at Tuskegee Instiite, Ala.,-was home 4for a few ays on business. She has ?a eautiful home for sale over in rooklyn.?Mra. Fountain while 1 the city was the guest of Mrs. r. J. Galiman on Hunter Street. Air. \Vh$#^u K. Valentine moored from I.Chester, Pen. 1 He ;ft home on-Aug. 1G, 4 P. M., arived in Newberry Monday, 8 P. I., a little over a day's drive. avenport. Mr. Henry Harris nd family, are visiting his broher-in-laws,^ Mr. Square and aurence Gary, Helena, S. C. Mr. [amis' home is?in Braddock, enn. One thousand five ihunred miles from-his home he said ia for his mother, Mrs. R. C. happelle, who has been a guest 3r a few weeks. Through the reception rooms here the guests were assembled uantities of varl-colored sumler flowers were used for decoition. Japanese lanterns dee-ratcd.the cosy bungalow porch, .s the guests entered punch was srved by Miss ThomaaaMi Boozr thf1 nippo nf TVTr>a tu~ . ^^ a. Tt^pxil. iXlt: ifreshments served consisted of salad course, ice cream and ike-. ? ? Henry Talmadge, is a student f Lincoln University and the -hi of the Tate Bishop Wm. D. fiappelle. Other guests present ere, Messrs. Maceo Christie, lifton Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. [arion Jones, Misses Nannie Lee radford, Helen Latimer, Martha aylor, Gussie Heard, Myrtle! eal, Kate Pressley, Geneva Pres ey, Emily Collier and Thomasla Boozer, and the Mrs. Pope nd Heard. Saturday* .August 29, 19^5/ For The People, I People':'-V , | " vation in the people by daw we ii-ill for the cross. carTbe "reapelTTrom *k- But let us ho I hale uu'i law makers, let twprnv for them, for Paul says in this same chapter, ."If a Than ; , hp-iSVMttuhpn In a fault. ve w 11ir 11 ? are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, consid- ering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." This is a fault of theirs.and the world has seen it, s<T let us consider uuiselves^nd prav for them; for I am afraid that some of us are' drifting in the very same steps. ? - Many of us are sowing, ignor- * ance. Think of our states that c are putting forth from twice to J kflranty-tiTTrai- ns much for the education of white children as ' for colored when the number of the children in the states is nearly equah?That is no more-advan tage to the white child than it is to the colored child. J Some of us colored people believe in-just such Ihings fpr I stand on the streets of my towri sometimes, and I can hear it dis- r~Z " cussed that education ls~dbing the church harrn ahd the race :r~~ harm.?Education without rel igion may do your ."fellow- man. ~ -some -harm but religion without - . [education-is. likely, to do~your feU?- ? ? low man no good. It merely | makes him think that you are hot a ChT'isttah~because ' you don't know. I have nothing a-\ ; gainst either white Or colored or yet religion, but hoping that we will see our mistake and each feel his brother's burden to be , borne ~wc~shall -bctten our condition. ~We all are either good or ' bad. . But remember whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also ;reap. ? i_ - 1 GRAHY JONES. 4trouble with ills car not one punc rture. This is his first time In * ?He isays that New- '~V^ berry is.a live city.- : : ? Miss Lillie Reed and sister \ are Visiting friends in our city. 'rhow InfT ' J . A ovj uynt taimuig Uli last -Sunday and will spend a?few days with friends in the city? Mesd;imes~Gilder,-Moon and EF lis rcportr~a success in the missionary meeting held in Columbia on last week. - - * ' A~ " ' There was a high day at-Enoree Baptist Church on last Sunday. The revival meeting started down therer?Jfeoplo were j there from every nook and cor^ her of'"the"^ cdunty^ They werpt ihere from Virfffnio M/w.+u Cr. v * " iiv/x i/14 vjai r . olina, Pennsylvania, and West Ti rginia in automobiles. The *r ! Rev. John Myers preached the morning sermon from Kings 2U:22. The morning collection was- r -ffraynu..?. , ? ? r _ The friends of Mr. E. F. Floyd and his school children were very glad to have him worship with?H them. All the children are look-^. J ing forward for the opening-of school. " " ' , .Jij ' Prof. Frpd Pratt, Jr., left for' ^ itichrnondr Va., on last Sunday ? ;to Represent the Elks in their j Grand Lodge convention. ^ Mr;- T. A. Williams is away in the mountains for a vAratinn.' His health is improving nicely. _... [Hr^Fauirhe Davis left on the -22nd to visit her children in De-j troit, Mich. ' Mr. Edward >Wisers cafe on 10-13 McKiben Street is the home for strangers. | The work is still going on at Miller Chapel A. M. E. Church. When the Chnrch~1sriromplete<} it will cfest" aboixt six thousand jdollarsL Hurrah, for Rev. Ell|s i i and his good members, ? - V 1 j. V ! '