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ill FOUR The Palmetto Leader ... . Published Weekly By The Palmetto LeaJei Pub. Co. ^ J. B, LEWIE President 1-, . ~ . 1310 ASSEMBLY STREETCOLUMBIA, S.C. _ ~ Entered at .the l'ost Office at Columbia, S. Cm as Second Glass Matter. , TELEPHONE 4523 \ ? - t y . ? N. J. FREDERICK, Editor W. FRANK^AVILLIAMS ir_ ""Cdntributing Editor ??HENRY D. .PEARSON City.Editor GEO. II. HAMPTON, Manager "j ~~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: CASH IN ADVANCE. Ohe Year .,' $2jQQ_ Six Months ? ___ 1.25 TiMnnvi?..^o ' T? Single Copy .05 Advertising- Rate* given on appl? ?Saturday, jseptemher. ii. 11)23? Siki, the Senegalese scrapper, ? citizen of France want;* to bo ? come an American citizen. This ? country, however can r?asily get, ? along without such as Siki. His presence has certainly added yealed in the probe of the murder of-Prank P Rainwater f^be raw merchant. The trouble seems to center around a color? ed woman, the cliifti of a^jwhite^ father and the wife of a coldied ..man,. The merchant seems to have been thej>h:tjm_ofjinother vvhite man" jealous of the color - ~ed woman. Ugh, what a messj 1 ' v?m?m ' ??:?* Governor E, Lee Trinkle, of Virginia-delivered ai^ address of weleome-las| ,week to the Colored Elks in their convention?' at Richmond. Governor frinkle is, r the first governor -to give sucff a welcome, Xort ho rS6uth. Coloted organizations need have no 1 ~ *nnr nfV ions; -r. -in the South. They-will- ber webeemett-and-will-be received with kindness, cordiality and consid' eralioji un the part of the whites.; We of the South know that, 7~2 though it is a little hard aT times to convince some who are misinformed. . :7~v~ -rrr-' - ? - _ " ""How long since has it been that one big educated city Nc gro could slandei another? From ??i::?whence came such 'nigger' in -tegrity or est helical feelings?. If is .news to the nnblic. - Editorial in The Light. This in 1 ' ' . an excerpt from the pen of the rAiuor discussing a tn.ur rtrr libel brought by a colored man of standing^newspaper. Surely, The d.ight is not . subt scribing to the doctrine that a good name means-nothing to_fl Negro and that he ought not protect it, andyetrwhat else can . casm? To our way of thinking, such sluah is the limit, and we are pOzzled over just how a man who bas devoted the best part of his years lo tile.training of the young can entertain such, sentiments, to say nothing of sa I? expressing them. -mHEN 4NDK TK1 > Walter L. Cohen, Comptroller of Customs for the New Orleans district, once again occupies a ?1' frontpapers. This time it is not because of any meritorious deecT-^he would not be thefe for that? ~ but because he, Mong with tS3 others, has been indicted by a federal grand jury-ebar^ed- withconspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Rut Cohen's part in the conspiracy certainly seems fine spun. All he is ? ?charged wit&4*s .giving informa? . tion concerning the movements; of Customs craft, so that possibly those shipping in the liquor Would not come in contact with the craft- We would wager dol^ lars to dough-nuts that Cohen knew as much about the alleged o , - . It llll I III - '** *n shipment of liquor as General Andrews now in charge^ol- the j enforcement of prohibition. Co- i hen knows too well that, being a colored office holder?an important one too?he would have to be on his P's and Q's as there j 'wbuTd^Tkralt kmcls^ of efforts to i Trap him for the purpose of i throwing ,him out. Caution j would - have ti> be his constant i companion, if he were Jjo dis-1 i charge his duties with credit, and when all is said and done, *4 Cohen will be O. K. , - - - i - ?; O 1 r THE?MURDER OF PINK j WHALEY. j V. T. Whaley, better known i as Pink Whaley, ot btriViatthe\Vs, l South. Carolina, has been most' j fou-lly?murdered, being shot to j death Sunday night, presumably j -while asleep on a bench in the t streets of. tftat town. Whaley was one of the most t wealthy'Then of Calhoun county, j and-perhaps the wealthiest - cob -] orod man of ttnrstate. Whaley's ^ wealth was perhaps the reason , lie is dead to-day, too many peo- 1 pie dgwn that way owed hirm < \v naiey; was murdered becaase '-j -the people of St. Matthews._did. j not care. I-ast year, "Whaley1' was given OO days to straighten; ] out his bU&lnesa and leave St.11 is but another form of the same;] spirit, and all of it occured be-'j cause the best_s?ntiment of that j town willed so. Newspaper -dispatches try to picture Wha- j ley' as n "republican boss." tJut . that's news to republicans.Wha:i,?y nov^r ftyfn in tho Var^ , ious conventions and if he were t not known to tnose who Tcnow. But even that would be no ex-'j cuse for the brutal murder. He \ has been written about as "ar-U rogant" arid characterized as a j j "notorious character." ij -y Though these- threats were ' [ unknown to his number of r I ^ " _ _ ' -1 I friends and acquaintances, yet | ] i lm ii-m-n trio lnu- dp"* --nnh|i -rnake such a canital offense. \ After-all ris said and-dene,- Wha-!r ley's money was his greatest of- ^ Tense ah~d because~~of~ that he " was murdered. " ,< The Governor frequently offers . rewards when dastardly .crimes are committed. This is -oneT and the- State owes ft to ( decency and civilization to "do all * That's humanly possible to apH "pyeliwnd the d-irtv assassins and v -mmtsh?thorn. The-, nf J St. Matthews owe it to them-d selves as decent, law abiding d No one with reason can doubt t that the murderers are known to ; many and that the plot to mur-;' der is not-aToo close secret.-The :, family of Whaley ought, if "nec- 1 essary, spend ten thousand dol- | J lars or more to findjthe murder- 1 efsT" h - ??_o 7 - - INEGRO liOYSON-^liE^lE- 1 Sheriff "John P. Hunter, of I Lancaster County scorns to be t peeved because some ' of the'* hoys sent to the Negro Refoy-h matory continue to grow and by ] and by appear as men. Be-'i cause of-this he thinks that they 3 are ail older than they say they~j! ' 1-h ot Hvfr- nf. pp^vietion- d The Sheriff thinks that such higji fellows ought be on the chain > gangW-building good roads" in-' 1 stead of raising cotton, corn and ! -other products-in. the. Reforma-!I tory. The assertion of the 1 Sheriff that "almost every Sher-'l iff in ceu ?1 L in m me ucacc mwws time tntjy it will claim to be under 18 when' i they are over that age, in orderj* instead of being sent to the J1 chain gang or put in the peni-d tentiary" is attributing to young i criminal colored boys morei< knowledge than that class of j i bays usually have. Th^t.'thp-reji is such a place as a Reformatory:! for colored boys is not known~byjf seven out of ten young culprits? s indeed, such a fact is hardly t known to that number of aver- r age adults. Besides, those who c . I ft ' THE PALMET A Negro Literary Renaissance. ? [From The New York World: Sun-j. day. August 23. 1925.) T~ ( . Seven hundred Negro writers jnd artists competed for the Ai Harlerrr ^meeting under theauspices the Crisis. It was _ :iot the ^/recent. a nonths when eminent white authors have joined in praising'T die fruits of the new Negro lit- f jrary movement. Older writers,. t ike Stanley Braithwaite in crit- t cism, DuBois in the essay, Jas. X iVnlrlrm TnVmurm in pnotrvf rr^> t o distinction slowly and singly. But since iuzu there has cumu't Forward a group remarkable for f ts~ vigor, originality and racial t flavor. In fiction it includes a lessie Fauset and Walter White, vhose novels/ "There Is Confil- ^ sion" and Fire in the Flint,'" are t ible studies of race problems- * In the short story it has pro--* kieed=ifea:n Toomor.?It?counts JL such poets as Claude McKay, the iamaica-born author 01 "JHarlem b Shallows," and two of the Spin- c jarfFf>rize-wiimOrs, Countee Cul: ? en?ami Langston .Hugh&v rhese^and others are gaining th6 f^egro a recognized place in contemporary letters.. ?thifl?-literary , movement N'ew York may feel a ^ special. ; iride. We have 175,000 colored, . ? 1; esidents placed into-the Harlem listrict,?or 100,000 more than ( n any Southern- centre. Here -jl people whose American history ^ sively 'rural have been given the stimulation--'and cultural advan ages of the metropolis. " They: . lave now a number of their own ~ ntellectual, social and ^financial' j. eaders to guide them. The response to the new environment .. s already striking, and promses to affect the Negro all over ( he-United St ates. Ot|ier nrts~ nusic with Burleigh, Roland. . layes and Nathaniel De.tt; the ^ fflir tVf<h | velcojned Negroes, Thft perhaps nit urally they-find tlieir_liillesl_ 1 roice in literature.. ? ? mim- ~r n SHEEN AGAIN LEADS FY- ? J THIANS. * XoaisMlle, Ky., Sept.?S. W. t jgien. New Orleans, La., was re- h ;lected supreme chancellor 'of The n knights of Pyhtias at the recent? . urntuition-held in this city~aTrd h Lioscoe^Simmons,, Mi|ireme lee- xl urer. Chicago was chosen- as I ;he next place of meeting. The r moks; of'the order, according td~T ho suprenfe-^miK-eUor*, showed y vKKnts-nf ^Sr0()0r000 :in<I placed ? he order in the front rank of T: Negro fraternal organizatiohs. t [t is hoped to have t he grand Pythian-fcemple in Chicago com- ii oleted in time for the next con- ? ,'ention. . . . t ??i s inow of the place, knoxv that P :here isi'uTCCfotiE tinle"(fftfererrctr a letween the so-called Reforma-- o ,ory and the penitentiary, the a greatest difference being only in ~ the fact that in the so-called i< Reformatory none but the young f ire found. But suppose " the ^ oung colored criminals diclknow " mough to misstate their ages, is g lor has the good ^heriTf ever P ,'isited the real Reformatory at ^ Florence maintained for whites? v if so, did he . see any-?"4>igr k strong" white men "who should }e making time on chain gangs, t milding good roads, etc?" Of f course, he saw large sized in- f mates. As is the case therer so is it in the Lexington County ^ iieformatorv. boys are sent up 1 .0 the age of 17 yearsf ancT as~~ s well known, boys just' wont stop growing \Vhether in prison >r- out and as many, are sent--? i i i 1 ^ - mui mey are zi years of age, n 'ellows are to be foupd. The v Sheriff, we fear, lays too^much S itress on chain gangs, an instil JL ution unknown in some of the iP ? A . I rrore progressive seciiona-of this n country. ^ |c: / " \'t. ' J-'"' TO LEADER THE WEEK'S EDI- I TORIAL. 1 WHITE PRESS. From ihe Ogden, tTtafr, Standard' Examiner, Aug. 19, 1925.) ON THE TRIAL OF THE LYNCHER^. i The colored people ..of UtabL ire carefully following every tep in the prosecuting of the' ynchers- of Robert Marshall at h'lce, and they have organised tr >rahch of the National Associaion for the Advancement of Tolo recTPeople \vhich is laboring cTput an end Todynchings. ?> Recently the colored people of )gden subscribed glll.65, thru V K. Turner) as a contribution o aid in bringing the lynchers it Price to justice. Utah has deeply regretted the figma plaeed upon the state by he mob at Price and hopes to ripe out some of the stain by v ?- ; r kfe--proee&s--e?? law in -bringing^ he offenders to""an aaiountiiiuv Lawlessness begets lawle^srrrrs:?Ulali cainiul tilTurtl 10 be lassed as a state which wiifltsv t lynchings. ?1? ? V-? .ABOR CHEAP IN,LIBERIA. So Savs Hon. Edwyn Barclay. 1 _Philadelphia, Pa.r Sept.?The Ionorable Edwyn Barclay, Sec-J etary of State Of Liberia,-whos in this country on an unofli-1 ial visit, has been extended cour-1 esies in keepings with his posffl iillL He hsa lieeiQnefr bv Hen-1 y Carter, representng the Hon-' ruble Frank B. ICetioggr-See-etary of State. ?Liberia is the only province it Afriea?controlled entirely -by:: Negroes. The republic1 ' _>va_s . ounded in 18-17, and is situatd on the west coast of Africa. Is poulation is estimated at 2,00,000. It has an era of about \ s\s\r\ 1 Liberia's form of government i closely iikin to that of the Jnited States of 'America, in.J hat it hs (idinotTuilc in furiii. it as $ constitution modelled "on FiaTof I he United States of A-" verica. 'The President of ^ Li-, eria is elected for" four "years; :s Senate is elected fur six+ ears, and its House is elected! or four years. All electors' lust own property, and must be: L Negro blood.?. ?. Mr. Barclay states that per-' laps la tut* on his country may r esiifru.ro borrow money 1'iuiii the1 Jnited States to develop a rail-1 oad systen^ in Liberia. Mr.1 ia'rclay gl\??s his age as W1 ears,;.and -stales that . lip re-;, eived education at thdrfliberian' ifoilege at Monrovia, which is hetapital of Liberia. The rubber industry is thrivng in Liberia and the Liberian iecrctary of State says that here wijl. be a good crop^this eason.' Fifteen hundred acres, laiitcd bv the Firestone coneern aft?experiment, have turned ul a success, and 20,000 acres re now under cultivation." Labor is-very cheap in Liber-a, and strong, healthy men work! or twenty-five cents-a tlary" sardfrr^Barelay, who -continued: The language of Liberia is Enlish. It is a country for young len arid" any of the colored peole who "wish to get there from tmerica to live will be heartily welcomed and given grants of mds to cultivator Mr. Barclay will remain someime in this country, on an ef ort so he says, to cement thej riendship between his country n4 this. - ? ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF NEGRO tflSTORK CAE SOCIETY. Washington, D. C., Sept.?An ntire session of the Tenth Aniversary Celebration of the Nero Historical Society wilt ho deoted to Negro business. __ Mr. | . W- Ruhterford, of the Nation-i 1 Benefit Life Insurance Com- 1 igs which will be held in this < ity September 9 and 10. " ^ "p. ?tcc DROWNS SELF . TO ESCAPE ' JAIL SENTENCE. _ The Palmetto Leader. - Conway, S. C., Aug.27th.?^*Ar ~ colored woman* who claims she j came from Georgetown, came j here last Friday on the steamer . Comancie, She~werft through ] the colored section of the city"] trying to get a room for a few , clays: It has not feeen learnedj < whether she got the room or not j but-jshu went throu&hLthc buai- ; ness section on Saturday night \ and caused a great excitementr5" when the stores began missing j clothes She was caught and , arrested by I'llltif ,IIull. Muiiild.y ; morning?she was tried in the 1 Mayors court and sentencecHby^ ATavor Magrath ?50.00 or ninety ( days?she had to take the daysTj but/as soon as the authorities j thought ^yery thing was safe_ , 4- V"% % *i o ti'n o n nlnmvm j n r>rl rvti uiti t' a mu ami in aim yn ] rushing Lto the guard house', fonml that it. was on fire.the wo-1, man had set five to her cell and goiio-sjiip the chimney. The fire ] she was pulled j down the chimney and carried . tn Hin jpilj?rhprpjghp ^taypH iiri-', til Tuesday morning. Tuesday , about noon she was* to begin hen'] sentence on the "streets;?She^ worked faithfully for a few min- j utes, but when-tiie chief left herL she dropped the hue and thedast-^ ning down South Laurel street, , until Thursday morning a group of mon going to saw a lif**-" l'p'T linrly flnriting dmvnThe~VVraccamaw river. On examination it , was round To be~"~fhe same ~ wo- * Plan that jumped her sentence..,^ The city authorities got busy Irving Tog^t-in touch with miiii^ one who - knew her- Up to this time nobody seems to know anything about her. Mr. George Latitner, the colored Undertaker has charge of the hodv. - " ; W/J. "I, THE GETHSEMANE BAPTIST:' - -UNION HELP. SESSION AT ; "ST. ^ETER^r IRMO^ S.-C. | The- Gethsemane-Baptist Union held' a most successfulues^~; sion at the St< Peter's,^Baptist ^ church, Irmo, S. C.r the Kev. A. , M. Sanders, Pastor. The Re~vrDrr~J. C. White is the" president; _andr^_enet|Mhesession With some brief but encouragiivgr Temarks on Saturday at ii:.;u a. m. , Devotion was conducted by Deacon W.' M. Charley, of Zion Pilgrim, Arthurtown. The president pre - ~ sented Lic.-CV H- Simons, who preached a most creditable in- J troductory sermon. After which the reception and reading of letters'were called for. The" topic which featured the Saturday's session was discussed by the Rev. L. C. Jenkins, A. B., "The Bible the Inerr&nt Word1: q? Cod.". - This was ably d_is*i cussed, , oarefufly piepaied7 tmd-j most careTully followed by the audience. Dr. P. P. Watson, State Missionary was?present ] and .made a wonderful plea> for , State Missions.? : 7J1 Saturday nignt, Lie- L. ifi.j; Connvell, our effif ienOlecretary: > preached to?the delight?of all present. This young man is', the coming young preacher of ( the Gethsemane field. Sunday morning the Sunday School Concert was conducted by Supt. W. H. Bookhartr The Missionary sermon- was 1 preached by tihfcJRev. H. M. Tay-b lor, which was full of the spirit: 1 and powor^ ? Sunday afternoon's sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. II. W.~Long~A. B., D. D., new J pastor of the First Calvary Bap- < list church, from these words: , "Pure Religion $nd undefiled before God, etc.'"'" Dr. Long is verily, nne of the hest. prepared; gospel preachers of this state. His sermon will long be remem- tiered by the Gethsemane Baptist' I Union. It was ajnasterpiece of ^ eloquence, and was joyfully re-,1 ceived by all. We collected $68.! 1 . _ i Saturday, September 5, 1925. T UN WAY IS GETTING MORE LIKE NEW YORK EVERY --T5AY7* ~ As one allows his memory to ?0 back ~over , the history of South Carolina, {hen permit his ayes to take a glance at Conway fifty years ago, he sees nothing but a Hamlet of about four huhr ~ fired people, a store here and another there, no factories, no electric lights, no paved walks,noth ing to give one a vision of such?? a city as we have to-day If one should rise^ who died ' fifty years ago, it would be an Dther Rip Van Winkle case. The Improvernenis are so astonishing ~ [hp dpnd will declare the Hamlet my QLprosperity ana love. We, who -Have come into existence during the last quarter rf a century and have compared the * improvements that have ;ome" about during' that time, sav. nothintr~~~about conditions ~ that existed twenty-five years before that, are compelled to adrnii ihai Conway is getting mori and more like New. York-every? lay. ? ??? "To say'this, might seem ambigipus 'to some, however,.it is . might have more, but we are Dotdiscussing the quantity. If Corivvay were as large and old as NTcw York, we would have the same quantify or more than she has, yes, even crime. ~PCo\V Vnrk VlAl* HlirloAH nnrl . . w ? w - 4. ?1VA AiUViUVil U1JIU hr?r?ships plm^ngthft'mightv deep. "Has tref~Waccamaw and her ships plowing her.depth.... ' New York has her police force her .hall, her evils ^ and her good. ' She has her white way and her. beautifully paved streets. Conway..,has her police force, her jail, her city hall, her evil : ? and good. -She may not have llth' ' . gleaming white way sending forth its brightest lights against a beautifully pa^ved street, but the fact remains?We Al'U gulj ? ting more-Jike New York every day. V a . P'; Who?cj&es to live in a city. wnerc nobody knows you and no- ?body cares anything about you? This i.o one thing Conway?has that New York has not. his brothers keeper. When Conway folk meet you it is a hnwflyrio. a Tmr1tfl,~nr?a hand shake, in other words their actions bespeak the life they live. . 1 New York may have her millions in population and money, hut Conwav is getting more like her every day. . _ WAYMAN JOHNSON. N. jt. A. C. P. ASKS^SOMINATIONS FOR MADAM WAL- s KER MEDAL. fi Nominations for. the medat?] ?iven annually by the TVTadam C. M J. Walker Company, of Indian- fl apolis, Indiana, and - open to fl members uf the National Asao-?II station for the Advancement of 11 Colored People, should reach the V National Office of the N- A. A. ' D, F'.. 69 Fifth Avenue. _ New rl York Cit?y, not late^ than De- y member 15th, 1925. ^ornmuninations should be addressed to { William Pickens, Secretary of ( the Awards Committee. The nominations -should be / based on service rendered by fj any member of the N. A. A. C. P. IJ to the treneral cause of the. ad- 11 vancement of colored people" in Yj 1925. The person nominated o must be a member of the Aooo?M hation and not employed in any /J capacity by the National Office. A Anyone may make the nomina- li tion. The winner of this medal is announced at the time of the Annual Meeting of the N. A. A. err:??? - , Our next session will, meet aA Zion Pilgrim at Arthurtown. 1