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FOUR The Palmetto Leader i- t i . Published Weekly By _ (. The Palmetto Leader t*ubr~CoT J. B. LEWIE l President 1310 ASSEMBLY STREET \ COLUMBIA, S. C. Entered at the Post Office at Columi-: bia, S. C., as Second Class Matter. TELEPHONE 4523 - j- FREDERICK, Editor \ W. FRANK, WILLIAMS ?1? Contributing Editor HENRY D. PEARSON Ctty-^Bditor GEO. H. HAMPTON, Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | _ One Year ' 32.00 Six Months 1.25 s Three Months. IZ- .75; Single Copy .05 Advertising Rates given on appli__ _ cation, J Communications intended for! the current issue r^usF reach: this olIR'q, (if qui jql.ixnvn) noL. later than Tuesday night. City news by Wednesday night. _ Saturday^ Septiraber-JU)..11X25. . iK tne tnousanus 01 passengers carried by the street ears of Columbia during August the W majority were colored". The .Street Car Company a?fe-least ought appreciate the worth of the colored population. ?- ?? . m '9 m .j Continental Europeans don't ?*?? c^j-e much ft?r uhat they call' ?AVngll)-Saxon hypoeracy. assert^ inglthat England and America are full of it. and the further West (from Europe) one travels the more hypoeracy is encoun~ tered. t hat's pretty hard ori~ America. ' ' ...> . J) . . ^ iliVVhites are setting an exam- ( pie in criminality for the Ne-| ?1-?? . grdes in Smith Carolina," says. Judge. C. C. Featherstone in his charge?to?the Grand jury? " York Monday'. But Negroes had ; ?-?? better learn, if they haven't al?. readw that thev can't tret nwav. ? with ye hat - lawless?whites cairn it's not neatiny to taKe sucn as 177777 an example; - -. *' ?*?t :?~ ??^ -A Washington correspondent writing nf Hit? i.fnmpliv.-Vimnntn 7 of 'Henry Lincoln Johnson, who .j*1 | >4 died last week, .said: "he was . _ light brown jn color, and showed ~"T a tract? of Anglo-Saxon blood." Just why-did -he?lug- that itr? especially since it is maintained ? by the defenders of. the Nordics that such a mixture makes for ?- - * Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee, either does not believe* I :?in .nraving for rain or no-fears * V W , . ? * ~ ? t that if the prayers were answer' ed, it would be answered too3a-, . - "Abundantly. Being called cm-by; ministers of Chattanooga to is*sue a proclamation calling upon the people to -ppflyrfoc-r-ai-n. he"\declined, saying: "it appears tHifKcain is coming and it may rain too mtuch." ; , - r~" ? An unhealthy .and'unjust sen -Viiment fs growing up in tile pub: lie-minds, fanned up by unfahv stories in the daily press, as to' automobile accidents where colored people are involved. The! colored man-is always at fault, he was reckless or drunk. Now, any fair-minded person knows that such ?Why nott a little justice obtrude itself in , the situation? ' It v+ould be bet-': ter all round. NSON. I' -? ItLinc" Johnson, as he is pop -= Jtriat"lyt known, is iieadr He died j in Washington, D. C., where he i "has been making his rfome ?or 1 - home few years, Mr. Johnson r was, perhapsr,^the most -Widely ^ known colored politician of the' present day. At the time of his"' death, he was the Republican; National Committeeman of Geor-,a gia, this native state, the only y ? colored man to occupy such a is - place, being so elected at the n '. i.' , ' '' '??-? Republican National Convention 1 in Chicago, 1920.- By profession he was a lawyer, ^wid had, the position * of Recorder of | Deed?; He was nominated for,^ the same position by President ] Harding, but because he belong-' ed to tfte Negro race, and at this' particular time the country was1] yet, seemingly, engaged in pun? ishing the Negro for creditable ; showing he had made in the to confirm his appointment. Mr.! Johnson was a man of pleasing [ personality, able and an.orator of the first rank. He \ka? a republican first, lasP andatlthe time and wore himself out eam-i paigning for the party. 'Had he been of another race,1 with his intelligence and ability, he would have been high up in| the -government?- But, consid- , ering his limitations, he did well. ; His -was. an active and useful;, life .and the race is "poorer-j>v Ills death o - . "SCHOOL TIME. ~ The country over, the~pyblic schools and colleges are throwr f?>tr ftfifiyg- fn-vninuT America. The colored vpeople ' showed not neglect to send their .' children to these places of op-^ uortuntiy. No sacrifice should be too 'great to give the bo^ and girl a> chance. The person who1 must make his way through the world in these days arid time without an education is unduly handicapped. Never mind aboutwasting, time on discussing the "Rind of education. . Any and all knids off.education is good that' makes the mind stronger, the heart kinder and the hand skIlP~ ful, that enables.the person tcT find himself:- The uneducaletff js fhe prey of the heartless and the God forsaken scoundrel?and Lord-knows- the world is full of them,?The need for" edueatiScrt among the colored people is. greater perhapsthan thatrof any! other group in America, and the! parent who is too indolent and~^ good. ;for.nothing to- undergo to give his clrild" a chance is all' but criminal, if not that" Education is the greatest weapon, offensive and defensive, that] can'be placed lh the possession' of the child.? It js tho onu thingabove all else that he needs on ;this battlefield of life.. See to it then, parents, that your ehil-; dr.en are placed in the schools i and see to it that they are kept in them. DR. H. M. ^MITH OF SYR A - 1 CUSE, N. Y., AT SECOND ^ ? CALVARY SIN DAY. | -if ' ?On Sunday; September 20th, a visiting minister, Rev. Dr. H.. iVi. smitn, i'astor of the" church two sermons, fore-noon and! night. The Rev. Mr. Smith is prepartion,. broad vision and'ab very progressive t^'^gram. The-1 church which he serves as pas-'p tor, has just recently dedicated an addition to the church for, corhmunity benefits at a cost of ' ?26,000. This indicates his breattt-h^of vision as a christian icauci . . j All are especally^4ftvited to vv or ship \v if h lis S n n d ay a n oTt car rms visitlng mfnistor. ?-^he-MgmframcirTvr his vi?HT is | a question. Just come arid hear I him. " ^ c 1 WIVES ORGANIZE TO HEN- r 1_PECK_HUSBANDS. -C London, Eng., Sept.-?As a J :ounter movement^ among^" the hen, a group of angry wives' in j t {orkshire have organized?thoJ.* 'Society of Wives of Hen-Peck- <1 id Husbands." To "He eligible ^ , woman must be married five e: ears, have three children and, b we&r lQ-aag-hor husband fifteen linutes three times each day. ir ?_* ?.'V .. 1 .. . THE PALMETT WHITE ROWDIES CONTINUE PERSECUTION OF MAIL J CARRIER . ~ ;se New York, N. Y., Sept:.?Onc er year ago residents of Staten Is- ra land began their attempt . to so force Samuel Brown, a colored th mail carrier, to move -from, or sell, his home in a district which sc had previously?been inhabited? by whites. They' tore up the Fi shrubbery of his lawn and broke yc out >vindows,?About two mon- . ths ago, they began again and cc seflt emissaries to treat with m Browne, with a view of . forcing of him to sell. This bp rpfiispH to ai do, explaining that as soon as^he~ici had been made an offer of fflQ.- .ni 000 for his home, the fire insfir- F ance on it w?s cancelled, and he ti - j became convinced that he was L behig persecuted. He therefore,- decided to stay. After_ the out- fc break against him.-two months pi ago, he sought the authorities sc and a grand jury investigatioji d< iva^-hugum-with the result that w six whites were indicted, one of a ^ ?' . - ' 1 the leading real estate promot- 01 ers of the district, who lives 01 Now the affair has-broken out bi anew, with redoubled vigor, *>nd s* Browne dias just turned over to the (listficI attrjrney the fo 11 ow- a-i ing letter: ;al "You are sure in for it. You' ai have started something you will -p: not be able to finish. Why? -Be- tl cause we have voted to take' the, tc a in mr.nrT nvwl fivrlorw m Y^"^' V* MV t > * I % 1 \< | been iss licit" to our .SI a ton Island in members .to act witivout delay. W-hat has happened to you so in far has'been theAyork of a~noy- tl ice ^ - - j-Il As jwi know, we have some vcry-yt-t t^rcrl-rrr methods of handling^ people of our calibre. We fight pi for a. principle, and it does noflai matter when" or how we defend ol ttrst principle. When we]"~have.j decided to move against"a -per- hi -'"flie little"protection you.have y now wfll pr o vo "irdrugh.Jptntas, 0< you will find." There are five of Island.?Are yutl{Whre'.ol tlnd..' H Apparently you are not;-?and-,*ft n<m'i)111 r is vour Di.-U rid Allnr-j^ ney. Ho too, will find out. * je( "SJuji'tlv. ?dw >cm t ;in sell out j'"' now you cam-sell oQ.1- m a profit 01 to your neighbor. thus adding.to ^ the revenge you liave^nfready ob-j taineiT. You can tin:; Jaiigh/at _r< him.. Hence now is t he'time""to ?* get out and?fast. If yoif wait.!^ until we act you will tirrve noth- w ing to sell, and the laugh will bej^1 turned. Wo have 1 v>Is "of Work^i to do, and we would ra flier have-pk you straighten out this affair,^ yourself, You have received letters which Itavo ! ">ai charged to us. We have never written jcc you before,snor have-we done any jtl thing thus far to hartn you-.?A-P5 word to the wise is usually suffi-jw cient. Are you wise??K. K. K. and is a phase of the persecu- ^ tioiy Negro -families have to un- w dergo in the struggle to improve d themselves and their\ conditional" tfrovvnc s wife is' a" school teaichJ' jr. and they have two children. S1 " ~ of WORK IX AUTOS. ?, lo (By Th* As?octat*d N?gro Pr?m) j{( "Birmingham-, Ala., Sept.-? -Uantation owners in this state tm ^ A * * klii-licnig-hard-put - -t-h-U-day- by -p, ho scarcity and high cost of da- ^h >or. Cotton pickers used to n( rowd around the big house ear- fj, in the morning, waiting for rrhanty to go to \Vork. Now he owner must send automO-" digs for them, and fnany_come wi n their own cars, running-from co four-to eight cylinders. The lit Id prices for picking were 30 on o 50 cents a hundred?that was ?n years ago?lum: the pickers -fcd emand fropi $4.35 to $1.50 and' fo / on't seem satisfied. The laboi*- th rs who are not making an effort th 3 come North, are going to in TTrlC Off the public highways,; i' factories and in the mines, j ini PLEADER j Disloyal to the Race. B la considering the matter it tc ems to me that there is no oth1 people as disloyal to their w .ce_ as1 ours. There are rea- . >ns for this and let us consider st lese reasons. - ,j 1st. The aveiage colored per- ' m doesn^t know the race. 2nd. ' trey?don'l cai.e fur lite race. ' . * ' ; (j or that you don't know about, iu don't care about. inetahcc, -Henry Lin-- ? >ln Johnson is dead, one a t> -5 ?? ^ ong the outstanding factors] ' the nation, regardless of color nd some of our people don't ' iiich to know that he is dead. ? or I have had some of them " > ask me:^"Who was Henry 1 incoln Johnson?" T a If ti? T Vl o Pnlmottn T aorlav ^ *. 14V JL UUUVtl/VA XJVUUV1 >r an example,vsome of our peo- 1 !e don't care for it. They sul>^ * 'ribe for from ten to fifteen allars a year for white papers, ? hen they wont put one dollai?^ year in the Palmetto Leader '.J : no other colored paper! Any le that will do thisjs one that ^ disloyal to his rage, Let him 1 e who he wilL or may I don't ? iy that we should not take a liite papery for_I take them^ id it is nothing Jmt right that i of us should take therm-but 'J iy colored persoirthat will take c ipers and neglect their own; a lat man or woman is not-true v > their race. . L: " Our churches. si^ooU- slmvs.- a isurancu?cmopanies,?insurance. = rents, barber chops' and press- * ig clubs, are not patronized by-s leir own people as they should. a the colored people could join '' luii uvui some of the reachers would have to hunt (' not her job. . The same is true *f schools and so on. ? It is time that some of these | i'm,< are not wh.at they ought 11 j for some of-our barber shops ? :en. in ?heJai%er-4owns are not- -1?"ceTrtr-enough for ~nr rabbit to i u io -have; his h^iir cut and we " live some pressing clubs that '' iu pi'Ojji'hHur.^ ii'e not int'eHipit ohniigh for ;i buzzard to ii trry his suit there_Lo be press- ? I. If these placed are not 71 hat they slu)uhI"hl^Tlt ~t5~ no"4* le to make them what they 0 lould be but the race. When we do our duty as a c ice,._we can demand something our people,-or. we can demand h ie~ofhcr feHow to-come-in that l) ill do something hut we must (i rst do our duty. But .it seems lat our people would rather c are trouble than to patronize u leir own race. ^ In Jacksonville a few days a- .s p a whitr* collector went to n h dored liome and killecTThe mo- ^ ler with a seven months "old >* lby in her arms. Of course ho U as cleared. n It .seems like our peopIe~~like a hr^ bettor; thizm 'supporting 177 leir own race. Now lo you s ho will not support your race e< will ask ^'6u this- my black ? rother, when you get sick, c< no- -iirirtf rrmr^ a to t> with.you in the dark hours ' the nigKt? Or when you die S( ho is going to dig your grave? 171 So I will ask you please to be u yat to your race ? For to" be u ya'l to "your race is to be loyal 11 > humanity, and to be loyal to P< Irhanity'is to be true to God. t-i orno man can be true to God. To lat is not loyal to humanity; si >r can he be loyal" to humanity ni tat is noi loyal 10 nis race. u( ? GRADY JONES. & ?? , . t\ Four years after a small ring _ is placed around the leg of a p) mmon tern at Easter Egg 7n jck, Me., the bird was found fn the Niger Delta, West Africa. j?. A gull ringed in the British tii lerrtn T02ITWas found in New- 1 li rundland last year. Roffr of ese birds either had crossed 1>( e-Atlaotie or the Pacific Ocean m ca some manner. .. Thp famous Pony Express was fG lu^urated April-8-, 1,860. th ^ .. : * ' 1 'TW-V v '.mwif v u-y> I SUCCESS AND FAILURE. ] y Retf. J. P. Washington, Pastt of St. James A. M. E. church While' it is impossible, in a orld made up of widely differ--jlg individuals, to formulate a it o( rules by. which each could ; el sliownLjUie surest and swift-' it wa?y to secure success in life, kill it is pos^do to call nttpnion to certain qualities of mind nd Character whose possession as come to be universally lookd upon as essential to those *ho may aspire ib~struggle into he- froTTt"rajjT of: the world's ,'orkers. As* a matter of facLLwould lie ms (litlii-iilt to define he expression "Success in life", s would be to lay donw a rov^) oad which leads to it. r1' _ i- - : a i -i /* - J ? . I vjiven a muiureu uennraons, rom as rpany men, ea-ch Creating < he subject from his own stand-' x>int, and no two of them rou-ld be found alike; and the-, pinion of eaclf of these as time >assed along with its indvita-' letups and downs, would be | ound to vary considerably. Pertaps, then without attempting he impossible,-in a definition f suveq^s in life which will fit 11 who are -seeking it, it. willo .to look upon it as the accomilishment of the laudable lifeurpoKe of man of natural or ultiv&ted parts, who has found n object Viflife worth living and rorkinir*for, and has .worked onestlv. and perseveringly to ttain it. 1 The fact is, the larger thor>e ...1.; i. j ? ?.v uviiilies which go 10 OtlllCt up uccoss in-life, the higher the im which accompanies them; ut it must not be forgotten that inn is tho' nios.L thiltiyabfo~~of 11 (lull's -emttures. ami-that by are fill and intelligent study of he (iiialities which havc'-enabled thers ttr-shine, onc^ may employ; hem and acquire them jn buildig uj^^'pUpyaccomplljshments.^ 'h"is *iumg4M), 'it'Hoes jiot_iie_in he nower Of the vnimg eels that?he possesses only a loderate .share "of iirtelligence',' orce -and ability - to decide, on his amuillL illlii he is not caild upon to make tight for onef the.front nlaces in the life of is geJiurirlluii. Th e rnost brilimt liven have often been those, f men of ordinary gifts, who exrting to the.'utmost such" pow-1 iv. as have been given, them, undrcds of men who were more omilifiiliy supplied with mental ualifications. ?3 If any man looks among the irc.le of his acquaintances, he ill he > ifrprllc3^'lscHrTrf)wa"4ew^ a \ e .jiiade the voyage of life uccessfully, and sorrow cannot lit ariso when he considers the mpotcnt conclusions to tvihch oung men of brilliant parts fre-| uoHtlv come. Everyday wit-.: esses the triumph of patient nd studious mediocrity, and ion oT~great intellect are con-1 tdntly being forced to acknowldge with surprise, the success f persons whose abilities, in omparison with their own, have eerr (teemed?mcoiTccivablg. | These iiiuii know precisely the, foii of their faculties and nev-i : wander beyond them. They1 ait patiently for opportunities' hieh are of th$ kind they can1 nproye, and they never let one uss unimproved. Being unnoeed, they excite *SO much the ss opposiLKJiTT'SncTat last they' irprise the world by the attain-| icnt of an object which others jemed as far away from their nbition as-it seemed beyond leir reach. One of the ?l unri 7? ( ofitablc exercises for a young! an who has just experienced tilure of any kind can perform _ to analyze the whole transac-'! in with, nferciless candor, and ten make a cold-blooded com- j 1 irison after finding out what'u tion of disaster is due to his vn fault. Iii most ca'ses, the!( use of failure is to be found | the man; the reason it is hot und there is, because there is e test place he looks for it. - i \~ ; ^ _.__v . y _ f , t? 1 ? Saturday^ September 19, 1925. Mother of Rev. H. M. Moore Dead. .. ? A representative of The Palmetto Leader received a tele gram and. also ? letter bearing the safd news of the death of the mother of the Rev. H.M._Moore__i^ one time pastor of the Second Ualvray baptist church, this city but now the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist church of Charlotte, N. this state having filled prominent plases in-Baptist ranks of| this state for a number of years., His mother's remaips were laid to rest in the Duncan "Creek cemetery to await the trumpet of the Great Archangel. Dr. Moore has the profound sympathies of the entire state of South Carolina. Peace to her ashes and rest to her weary spirit. PARENTS STRIVING TO ??? 1 ' 1 ' ? (By The Associated Negro Press.) Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Sept. Tuskegee Institute opened its Forty-fifth annual* session today with the largest enrollment in its history. More than fourteen hundred students have been reg? istered and many are yet unclassified. This is four hundred more'students than were enroll-, ed on the opening date last year. Twenty-four states apd twelve foreign countries are represent ed :?-?: ?r . Of the new^students ierrrolfed, ? thirty-nfne are classified in the ~ A'nv'fliip?>rl nr rnlToiridfo unniiofla ? V?*?vvvi Vi vviiVgiwtV/ VVU1 0\/Q in* Trades, Home" Economics and Teacher-Training; and fifty-sev- ~ en in Agriculture. The Night" " -Srhool, and Norm"al^Pfeparat6ry and J"Jurse Training DepartTtrr Robert R. Moton, Principair in addressnig the students in the Institute chapel last ngiht extended a welcome to the students, and teachers, both new-and oici, and predicted for them a year of good work if they applied themselves to their tasks^and? take .advantage of the opportu tiities ofi'ored them,?"At one time," qaid Dr. Moton, "we feared that the boll weevil and the drought-would so limit the crops that it would reduce the enrollment, but the unprecedented ~~~ numbers -at the opening, show that "Negro farmers are learning ip. grow~cotton^^ lifcsmte-of the pest and that more attention is being given to crop diversification." "The fact that we have an increased enrollment in our Agricujlural Department, shows that the Negro of the rural South is si riving to become'a better far mer. And certainly no section of nilf f'Olinfw ntin rriiro 1 n vrynv ?"v. ,, 6**%- 6^1 returns to-the-intelligent Negro farmer than our own Southland" , said Dr. .JMotom ' ?-?"I wish also to commend the parepfcs of the students here for the sacrifices they are making to * * give their children an education. I have been into the homes of shrmr of the parents and T know " how they are-strug'gling to keep their children in school. Such sacrifices are an unfailing sign of racial advancement." SUES BANK OFFICIAL FOR BREACH OF PROMISE. ? XBy The Associated Negro Press) Chicago, 111., Sept.?Charles A. White, vice president of the Lincoln State Bank, the largest financial institution- in the Ne gro section of Chicago, which rra-ries the acc'Ottnts of $he Ch ?ago Defender and the Chicago Whip, and which is said to have been responsible for the Tnvsetigation which resulted in the disnissal of a cjuartet of employees some months ago, has been ham- ^ ed in & breach bf~TTr?5Yftise suit for $50,000 instituted by a di- i vorce, Mrs. Eleanor G. Carlton. White is well known to prominent Negrbes of the district. 77 **?-J - r ~ ' . ' ? * . ? i ,