Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ THIS PAPER t DEVOTED TO THE A INTERESTS OF U - THE PEOPLEv %Ct . . r " ? VOL. I?NO. W'l. . . ~ ~ T/lZ" < 1:1?^^DIES^T^VAS No Negro in Recent ; Him in Political - Power in thi RECORDER-Of ?EEDS7DIST < ta ' ' x He Held Sway, While Others of P the Republican Party. .All EfTor "jp Washington, Sept. 11,?rllenry c< Lincoln Johnson, leading Negro C politician of the south. diedat f] his Washington home, -14C1 S c< . street, here at 12 o'clockjXtaurs- ' day. A stroke of apoplexy oausr o e.d his death,?Two years ago hex ^ had a .se\ ute illness, being threat- a cned with, paialy sis, but recov- g r' - ered and had been in fair health a ??-since. He- was bnt-55 yeoP's- of k age. - His death is quite a blow T . to the Negro leaders of the south ei i years. r" ~ la vColonel Johnson rose from the n * poverty and illiteracy of a slave; home in Georgia, where he was o: _ born during recontsruction days ti to a position of great influence, g . No Negro in?-^ecent years out- tl ranked him in pqhtjcal cunning o and power, .lie sway in tl -Genrtria when- leader.^nf His rarp'fl in other southern states were1 c eliminated from the councils of If; " "the republican party. All ef-!b . forts to oust him as leader of th.e p G. O. P. forces of Georgia failed, je: DQltN IN SLAVIC miMK i71 Henry Lincoln Johnson was U born a-t Augusta; Ga., July 27, !.si l&ZQ; He wSS light brown in col fi or, and showed a trace of Anglo-'o Saxon blood. As a mere boy he;o decided to obtain an education, a ?an4-his cnrlv e i fot'-ts- were-direetd-rr ed to that end. He gradtrated-o with the degree of At B. from | Atlanta university. Tip studied 1 law at the I Jnivarsii tv nf Miohi. ? - - ? " P" gan. lie practiced his profes-l "the citizens trust < - all of its depo ' S A ' The Citizens Trust Company, of ? Dividend to livery Depositor of Hank, Taken Over by Them Atlanta, -Qa., Se pt.?The -soli- ' u clarify of the Citizens Trust CoTTs of this city, was more firmly es- ii <) * | tablished in the minds of Atlan-'e tans and peop lei Lying in this Is vicinity last week when the ip- tl stitution paid a five per cent]d diyidend to .every depositor- of# the defunct Atlanta State Sav-e ings Bank, which was taken?ver!a by the Citizens Trust Company' d some thirty days ago. In When taking over what was h left of the17 old^jAtlanta State T Bank from the State Banking a Department, Dr. W. C. Bodio,'o cashier, of the Citizens Trust;! Company announced that withipjt fhad filed legal claims agairratjh the defunct bank with the liqui-'v dation agent of the Banking De-x partment of the state of GCOTgia would be paid a five per cent "TftVtdehd; The "accompHshmenT ~ of this feat in thirty days in- v stead of sixty is being commended on all sides. o - The fact that the Citizens a \ Trust ""Company, a banking institution owned and controlled n by Negroes, paid the same div- t ? . % . v 'j [QHNSON T HING1UN HOME Years Outranked Cunning and ? f ^V.. ? 4 ?'? o vuuiury lis Race were Eliminated from ts to.Ous!_Him as Leader of if Genrgia-EaJled tofi atAfack^oft'&hdhVtlanta^ Ga." 'resident Taft appointed hirti reoluhibia, and he held that office ' rom 1912 to- 1916. He was1 [insiderei! a capable official. Colonel Johnson was a natural rator. Having the imagination p f "his race, a sense of humor,! nd the" gilt of gab, he was a; pod rough ?<nd tumble debatoi\i| rid those who opposed lump new they had been in a fight.; he white people of Georgia lik- ^ il him. They would not have! otcd him inln pnUir hnf b espected. At the time of his death Colnel Johnson was-republican na onal committeeman from Geor- : ia.- For many years he held! iat place'contrary to the wishes^ f republican leaders^ outside of V le state.- He was a thron in the f-'sh nf party woi'ltei's wlnj wisli-j d to eliminate the Negro as a actor in national conventions,1 ut in every.battle with fellow! artymenJie won. In 1920 an;; ffort was made to ortraniwi ieorgia over - Johnsonls-?bead^nd plans to bar him from the Late convention had been care- ' ully formulated. Hut heTnarch d in with his delegates at the! pportune t'ime, took control, j' nd elected Ins delegation to thel: ationaHjoTrventioTi/and Ireld his wn in a contest Llrere* WrOHTTION TN SENATE. The last effort to put Johnon in public office-failed be-"' Continued on page 2. . ' , . B 1 COMPANY PAYS S1T0RS A DIVIDEND this City, Paid a five per cent the Defunct-Atlanta Savings Some Thirty Days Ago lend in thirty davs that, .the. tate Banking Department paid \ three years is being considerd as evidence of the financial trength of the institution and he business acumen of the men trecting the- destiny of The ind that the accomplishment is Tso increasing the number of AT - * c[w?iwib uaiiy. many 01 me e\v depositors being those w her ave received dividend checks. Dr. A. M. Wilkins, President nd Dr. Boddie, Cashier, and the ther officers of the Citizens Vnst. Company are heing hear, Uy congratulated by tFi^ citiave announced thafanother diidend will be paid in a short im ? No one ever heard, of a person being kiflecTby lightning /hile lying in a feather bed. 4 It requires 80,000,000 pounds f twine each year to bind Canda's grain harvest. An auto jack, bfcera-ted by a lotor, run from the auto's batery, has been invented. fofwi " COrmTBIA, ^: C\, SA1 EADER STANDARD PRIDE ( Heads of Negro Colleges Confer Seek Hgher Standards for Insti tutions iiTStato?Meet in Columbia: 1 Tfie second meeting of heads of South Carolina Negro collogca arid high schools, was held irrttTg^iCTf^'lidlldln^ al Benediet college yesterday for the es and standards, a-nd to work out uniform entrance requirements. The committee -made it known at the conclusion- of the meeting yesterday Unit the, entrance requirements will be the sarne-at Allen University. Kenodict College,-State'A. & Mi College, at OraiYgelmrg, Claflin University, Orangeburg, and Morris College m Sumter, .these being the colored colleges in the state doimr regular rolUpv work of -iuliigh-grnflo. ? '??? , The Negro" colleges have a high school course and a normal course. The .normal will consist of two years work above the regular high school course approved by the state, according to the course approved at the meeting'yesterday. Students must navo m uiiien 10 tueir cmlrt Potore graduating^from the high school and musi show at~iuirstT 15 unites of work done in well regulaetd high schools before being admitted to freshman classes in colleges. ates from these schools have been granted the 'T~I~~ttegree which have granted them the privilege to teach in free public schools without examination. Dr. R. _S. Wilkinson,, \vho_is chttft* man of the conference of Negro education, said in speaking of the aim of the meeting yesterday, that' the new p'lan is-to add two years 10 me present normal course, after beginning the high school work in the ninth grade. Continued oil page-2.FAMOUS FISK JUHILEE SINGER DIES. "(By The Associated Negro Press.) . Nashviile. .Xenn^ Sepl. ?Dealli overtook Prof. John Wesley Work, famuos leader of the Fi?k Jubilee Singers and educator, as he ran to-catch a train in the depot in this city Monday morning. A station attendant was assisting him to-Jthujtram- with his baggage when he suddenly crumpled and sank to the ground He had be.en in ill health for sometime, having beerTcompelled to relinquish the presidency of Roger Williams University because of this. lie was fifty years old.' Funeral " services were- held Thursday afternoon. _ As .leader of the. Fisk lingers he gained an mtornatttmal retntt at ion and he was believed To have been- the most capable student of Thtf Negro folk song in America. lie taught at Fisk that time had been a public school teacher. He graduated from Fisk, and studied at both /" u, .1 ir? i : : V/IllIttgu rtliu Ilcil V cl 1 11 UIlIVtIMtie's. At the time of his death he was president of the Work Brothers & Hart Music Publishing House. ' r ' w''.? ? - - f ~ t ^sa ->-r tftOr? ^URDAY, SEPTr'l^ ^?^ ? -OF GE )FfiHElCOL( I UNMOVED , AS HEUSTENS TO DEATH SENTENCE. j (By The Associated Nejjro Press) RiilcnVn V r. T.,11 Vj'?j iLJPfiti 1 tMly black and cuhm Thomas Robin- and listened to the formean of a jury read a guilty \erdict against him in connection with an ~ 'atla'clT 77n a~TvhTte nurse near " here last month. Robinson w&s ' sentenced fo die October 2. He denied committing the crime, but accepted the verdict stoically, betraying mo .emotion of fear 1 in court. ' ' . - _?ill - J >TAY E \ IX' I iiOX"TCT RE- , VIEW ( 01 RT RECORDS. : ? ' ' -'T" , (By The Associated Negro Press.) -Oook^\44kv Tenn.r^ept.?petition for habeas- -.corpus has J been granted t'diaries Ra-rr, who \ was -cottdr timed to die" for the " murdeiL ,Se<jju'nilHir d, and the J execution deferred until the pro-|' ceedings in the state court 1 might' lie reviewed. Burr's law- * yers claimed that the client had been convicted upon the strength ' "of a coiffes'sion which had been 1 obtained in violation of his com./ sttutional rights, explaining that 1 Bafr had Jieen.questioned for 1 several days and nights without ( |l-esf. be::-}ijn. with a rnh^r hose-\ ithe'slaih man. was- placed a- 1 iround his neckc-^-^J^' L 1,EAVES MONEY FOR - S.LAVES. ? - ( J Philadelphia, Pa., Sept.?Ac- < cording to a trust fund, recent--t ly adjudicated by Judge. Van J Duscn, $500 was left to Th<j Pelit{s.v4TanTTt""ATTTi-Sln\'erv S6-~~ ciety "'To promote the object of . that Society. Oddly enough, 1 the society is now legally non-. t Txistent, and will now have to be divided aqiong liveing heirs t of Churchill Huston, who died in 1815 and left the fund. The ] lent ire trust fund amounts to -^0,000, ' ' . l4 ^ .. i i mm m mm FORMER SLAVES HOLD 1 p - MEETING.?-? j~ Twentj'-nine Alabama counties '.wore represented this week at i the annual .reunion of the Ex- i slaves Association. A number t of former Confederate soldiers I .were present at .tfre reunion, c rSimon Phillips is president'and-t M. E. Carpenter, secretary, of t the. Association. It is reported,} that they are to take an active tmrt in the Chicago Defender's d .Sixty-Year Memorial to Slavery, f | I* MAY PARDON COLORED U ARMY OFFICER jj Ylroen, who rose to his present i. position in the army from a pri-A ;vate after 27 years service., has j pel it toned the governor tor - a t he&nrig to consider his parole. ^ 1 J ago to seven years in the state'} penitentiary Tor an attempted I assault on a girl. He was serv- t ing as military instructor at thej( A. and T. College in Greensboro it at the time the crime t >ok place. ( It is understood that conditions o fbvor his pardon. a 'T <\ I \ ( 4 r - .. -; 1 ' ; *" , iial M ,J ' . C01V1 3RED RACE 1? ? :?. ?,?. -- ST. LOUIS UNDlSRWK TO TAKU^QY Deal Cloned Karl> Pai1^ Will Be Taken Over 01 ______? Details No INSlKAM-'h WORTH TW1:\ Contracts \Vere Signed This \\ Insurance Company of Atlant; a Group.of St. I. A ' ^ " * " Anouncement has just lieer nade from the office.^ of the St Louis Underwriters Corporatior iStlli-L'ino Boulevard, that c*c>ntracts were signed this week whcrchy the Standard Life Inranee Company of Atlanta. Ga. -lecoraes. 4-hu -property?of?t hi? jrotip di' St. Lo.uiPhusiness men, thereby bringingback to the Race tit is organization" which was tluife pride. Il is uitdordood that' the lTnsrfne>4'rs~tTrhi; ?> turned .over to the ('oriuirMtinr 3? or about October 1, 192o rhe deal represents approximate y twenty-four million doHart ivorth --of -insurance in force* Toother with the business comes assets of close to three million lobars airfc^i m nn t h lyU-uicome 31 close to one hundred thousanc jollars,?The trarisfpvhV;<7Tp ncluding good will, the entire agency organization and clerical orces of the home ofljop >ranch offices in thirteen states. The St. Louis?Underwriters Corporation, which is responsive for the. redemption "of the Standard Life, was-founded by die President, who waCTTormery an agent of the Old Standard -Jfe Insurance Company and vlio^Chetmsl\e(1 the hope of being ITS tT I m l e 1l til 1 Mfl. 1 jringi n g t liis jem back to the cbtoced ra^oe. It will be remembered tTfat^at he time the Standard Life-InDETROIT, MICHIGAN STIRRE Detroit is Passing Through An conservative 1 Jet roil ers of Hot a Position of Justice. Fail -(-By The- Associated Negro -fre**. ) Detroit, Mich., 'Sept.?Detroit s passing thi-ough another cris s. ftnf arrnWTTng tn eonservaive Detroiters of both groups, ietroit. wilL_maintn-in -a-pe$ition >f justice, fairness and proteci?n-for all cti/.Cns,?This is .the rend of determination, a few lburs following the tragedy, in yjjigh ten colored Americans are leld on the charge of murder, 'ollowing the fussilade of bvillets 'rom the new and beautiful resdence of Dr. Ossian H. Sweet n Garland Avenge, a white neighborhood. hased the property, claims that ho act was one of self-defense ind home protection, a situation treated, by, the- taunts and hoodum activities of angry whites rhtr-do -nrrrwlsti the netgfrboriood-^intested by Nogroes." Poice authorities wore fearful of rouble, following the purchase )f the property from a. white Aoman, at a sum said to be $30,)00, and they were keeping whal ?vas supposed to be close guard pom the place. But' this did -y-.?? .?' ? pi J. ~ ? ^ j^SrilSPRfllR ANI^ ADVERTISE?Cur^ rent. Social and General News. )( A ( Ol Y. , ^ PANY, : REDEEMED a ; ' ITERS iCOIlIV* I/IJ? DVTIOV 1)1 'CifXMVin ^of This Week?^ i or Before October 1st. -t Given Gift TY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS eeJi, Whereby tin; Standard IJfe 1. (ia.. Becomes the Property of ?? ouis business Men LH-triiiiee Company parsed, it 4?, . the hands of the Southern Life ' 1 a prom i s* was made by .Mir! Will (b Harris. prr-gdeni of the'Soutii u ern .Insurance ('< ?mpai'iy. a-grec ing to sell the company bark to . . > any group of reputable Negroes " > within The next ten 5'ears.. Sev, 'oral of the oflieers of .the.- Su ' r Louis Underwriters Corporation i particularly the president7"" hurl been instrumental in disposing ' rof a largo artiount of "stock said- ~ i insurance of the Standa.nl Life, aivfl were naturally interested in its salvation. With this in"view iVHv Harris was approached juul after several conferences in Nashville and St. Louisy the '.deal wa-s finally consummated. j, Among the personnel of the ?Corporation at*e leadirTg"l ntsiness / ; [land professional men. The offi-? ,1: ? - : n <^-i emu are as rojiows ; ?^ nii?Or?Me Malum; president; W. H.* Mas by, -secretary; A. Cb '.uaelin. treasurer; K. F. (Yens' 4* haw; C. A. Pittman, Dr. T. J7~ jJackson, Dr. C. M Prm-Mi .T v ^ lAIitchcll, Dr. R. C, Haskell, -M. J : f.L. San Ford. L. S. Williams, Dr. js.~P. Stafford. Kov l\ F Abbott * ? Dr. II. lb McMeehen, Prof. J. ,'kb Coleman,"Dr. Wm." J. 'Thdjnp... . kins. Will-U-G. -Mosefcy ami ATjtorney Jos. I.. McLemore. coun D BY RACE TROUfrEfc^ olhec .LtisdiL?13uf According?to h Groups. Detroit will Maintain "n ess-and Protection to All . rt-hrrm-TTTy-^TTf?' ' ? stones throughwindows and the ? gathering s!' crowds from time to time. _ ' " If there is further trouble, " are-t4armiiig-il will be due" to the headlines in some of the cla-ily newspapers, and the riotous turn given the stories following the shooting. That the .-thoughtful-people of both races are deeply affected by this fourth , or more act of persecution with. in as many months, puts the matter mildly. t There are white people- - of -great- influence, with uhoTn The 7 *" ^Associated Negro Presa. has dis- - -cussetLlho subject, who?claim -? i that any American has the right [Ao purchase property anywhere .he-is able to lmy^-antLhe must t be protected; and There are ' ; . black people-who take the post AiQixlhat_caution_ should _be ex? ercised in getting into neighbor ! hoods where it is known in adi.vanee there will be bad feeling - aroused. On the other hand, ; there is that rowdy element a1 mong whites that" would* Vun[ Continued on page 2.