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rp ' FO'JR The Fahnetto fceader * ~ published Weekly By ' The 'Palmetto"TJeader 1'nh. fn. 1 r? 1310 ASSEMBLY STREET ~~i COLUMBIA, S. ^ Entered/at the Post Otlice at Colum- ' bia, S. C., as Second Class Matter. 1 "-- TELEPHONE ? N. J-.-EREOEBiCit: ~ Editor A. B. LIXDSEY, - Managing Editor" ?J. B. LEWIE Fraternal .Ltlitor ^ W. FRANK WILLIAMS r~-T . Contributing Editor HENRY D. PEARSON City Editor ? GEO. II, HAMPTON. _ Manager" SUBSCRIPTION KATES. ?? ^ CASH IN ADVANCE." One Year _ ^$2.01) ' ?' f" ' Six Months . , - 1.25 Three-Montlis .75 Single Cony ... . n^~ Advertising Rates -given on-appli- ' y cation. Communications Intended for the current issue must read' this.olla.-e, (if out of. town) not later than Tuesday night. Ci 1 tv news by Wednesday n i gh* ~ Saturday, October Jl, 1925. - ? 7?- 7? Now it is-being discussed, in sporting circles that the signing " . ot a contract b^hH'k Oempsey , j.to fight llarrv Wills--novt. year -. \ " ;.is bitt a smoke screen. Instead " ol fighting- Dempsey intends to - retire and pass the title ovei; to Wills. - Perhaps Jack- thinks .it - ?r - ?hx?TtGirro"dptW\'iItth n vc t ht^T-HJe ;> - witiioujt risking a wreck of Kis' made over nose. J Cou-ntee?P. C alien, the brilliant . young .jioeL. now a studentat' Harvard. -agfil# waiks . ofT ?with a prize for the best poem. H& wax recently awarded ' theJohn" Reecl Memorial Prize for the best poem. If Countee does .not stop:, taking all the prizes h<y win j<oon be bijLvret},fpom th&-? con to.?Color doesn't bpttrcv" him. . . ' - : ; \* p ' , V*-* ";>7 _ in 1017.' the L*. S. Supreme Court jrjeciclod I hat setrregation c by law was". unconstitutional. ' S'nco then ..certain white people haveboon trying'to bent the law by agreeing anions t heniselvos' -not-to sell lafid to colored people. L'Jid^ cases have been made and are now before the U. S. Supreme _ . - '--Court.' It' ts.-hness- and?justice are not- in a in air.'it can't bo placed in him by law. . ^ fc m * Liberia has granted ?a lease ? V "?' 1 nnnbfm 'w^iTinr^mEs able 1'nj- i-wbln'-t- wnvvmofy S. Firestone.''president of the Firestone Tire and ^Rubber C<">. The lease ri.ms far PO years, ft ; '?i^phmncd to spend olUO.OntppdO in 1110 eniei.'1'.ris;'. a largo share of which will be sp.ent in improv > ing the harbor-of -Monrovia, livecapital. The expenditure of such a sum will mean much to tile economic condition of Li: berhir It will moan . too -the domination'of that country by _ American capitalists. Destined to he* the "best sel-' lei" is Die hum mi book, edited tJ by Mi". James Weldon Johnson, -? "Tljc Honk of American "Xayfro Spirituals.V-w-Iu has lmcn? pro-.. ' bounced "America's jrreatest contriblll ion to arl .'' 1.V Sin.-lnir T?nTto > 'i rt fJ- Inn,' ene/ 1 it*; ol ItT ~T\ TY"~ ' i-yv. i.s dim utir> i Lttiv tu ui^ii provnl Iy other eminent men, ?\?r amefift therm being - President ? Ccolidgo. The music is tirrang" _ Of] for voire ;iml phmu-liy?lim famous . musician; J. Rosamond Johnson, jofrdstod by Lawrence ? Cm\vn." t he "accompanist of Rol, > and Hayes. 1 ' : ?~ ' ? ??-fey?entered?the: National S&lesmanship Contest and came out : . third. AH things "considered, i '? such tr stances .would be wonderful, but , ?, when it is remembered that the 1 contest was in the selling of-au- 1 tomobiles ft is extraordinary. ! gi Mt. Roberts tlid not stop to think ] p. V ".:that as he was colored, there 1 ^ V . - , _ . ... : .... ' 1 T j ' ' . vas no use to try. He knew / hat brains, courage and detei-v nination are'greater than the t iccident of color and waded right 1 11 and did t^ie thing that could-1 lot be done. Well done, Mr. "v Robert?rrd"hfrd~ troriOT for you t means more than first honor for r the other fellow. c BEN DAVTS TO SUCCEED L1NC JOHNSON. . ^ When Ilenrv Lincoln Johnson t died, a vacancy was created in t ttrer National Committeeship ( from Georiria. To fill this gap,-( the Republican Central Commit- j tee of Georiria" recommended t Benjamin Jefferson Davis. The ( career of Mr. Davis in Georgia ? is about as brilliant as that "of ( the late Mr. Johir-pm Ben Da- t U.s lias fuuulit in season and 1 out of season for a square-deal for friiv-race. He is bold, cour- * ag^oils ' "and "of independent thought, lie should become a vahintrttrTjTCTiibCT of the Commits Ue that looks after the destiny c of the Republican-party.?Ra- 1 rial lines were not regarded in 1 tlie. choice of- All-.- Davis heA received 15 of the 2-1 white men ( of the Central Committee. That 1 is too as it should be, for the Republican party in its tmo 1 ereqd or color.* As soon as Air. 1 Davis' selection is confirmed and 1 he?fhids- himself-in his new post?-: tiofi; no*doubt-! he will give a good account of himself. Georgia has*d(Vne well and \vc eongratu- ' late her as well as Mr. Davis, f. ROM RING THE CHURCH. | Chicago has a Habit peculiar- ( 1 < - i'to nien TTav T'noi'o if V* o ^ \ t"i _ 1 i4> lto v; >> j?, l ui ^ai oi it nuo ahdulged~TF pastime of bomb-; iTtylho-4?o*'-M of colored "peo^ pie sin eerta-in sections. This ' practice has gone on year, after ' year without a single soul be- 1 ing apprehended by the police, i Hither the police of. that city is ' a sawdust headed set or-it is in" -sympathy or league- -Avtfh- t+re perpetrators. We'll bet dollars 1 t > xl'jui/h r.ul s~ff 'fjie - colored J people had retaliated by .-bomb- ' i'jig. too, long before 'this the u /~vnl/l l\non ] w ?np\i ik? \ \ ?vvv.ii ?. i ?; ?j \ Heretofore bombing - has boon ? . /mt'mdd to home:-,"" hut emboldened by .-.the indifference or 1 in put 1 *.nf ttin police,, dho 1 criminals l^st week bombed the ' Imed church on the Southsidc? IT ibr-uln itid- .church-.?-The i dirrragH-in this cim: is grettdrV**"^ mg estimated' a? over $100,000. < l! would see in tBat a sflfuct UTS"! dedicated to the worship of God . i Arid yot-. .aliEj ur all, what-does n person so low j a ' - nook . round at nightlUlli ' ' crii houses in which women J add children^sleep;care about God 1 is anw deconc\\ in that, city of-' respect for-the. Christian reli- ' "gion. surely it *rs time for "it to arouse itself^ Many"" .theories have been advanced for the bombing of that church, but there is only one and it is a bad, wicked .and depraved heart and" spirit. The South may havq;. Its frt+4Vs, Tut we?doubt that it < would 'stand tor that, ana unicago .need not poke its finger of scorn this way. '.":j n > DEFENDPsO THE CASTLE. Tn Detroit, Mich., on the 30th . . - JO day of the present month. Dr. , th~H."fftveet, his wife and nine, other defendants will be put on i> murdoiv" I)r. ?Sweet hadpurehastid-a iie home in a-so*called? "resiD'-tcd neighborhood" in' ' (V that eity^ A mob-ef men?withforcign ' namcs and potor trash | gathered, determined, to ..drive him out of a home better thanj. rrmst of them tiad or eordd pur-"1 chase. Dr. Sweet, instead of ! running stood his ground in his' awn castle, with a few friends i '**1 1 - 1 ~ U ^ 4 . aaaa amBaagg : answered arrd two mobbists i were killed. For th<>t,< they are < to be tried for their lives. But j Sweet a-nd his co-defendants will i not be so much 'on trial as will -' . ' ? ; ' ? r ' ' I > -* . . ... - THE HA1.METI America. Running all through w tirglo-Saxon jurisprudence is Si he priciple that a man's house, I p] lmvPVAr Viiimhlftj ia hi a n^n^nkj, ind against any and all whorm vould do harm he ha? the right jm o defend-itT Will the ivhite |w nan's- prejudice change Ihis age >ld principle by convicting Dr. p] Sweet and his oo-derendaht'S? if U any rat<^-R-u41i not-be~done tf vithout a struggle. A brilliant S( u l ay of lawyers,' white and col- if jd and able Clarenc Darrow,?of- fa he defendants. Whatever, the jf his may -not be the turning 0 joint in the, ever iucreasig tide n )f itolerancc, prejudice and nnIn istian attitude, -of- white A- ^ nei'ica V At least, let us hope. t ?HAOTJ'C AFTERMATH OF j THE C AM ANCHE. f ~ k The rum runners-have shift- 13 jd-fiom the Statue of Liberty a :o the southern gulf coast. And ^ .1.. .i.L. .. ' i i ^ no cnange nas oeen macie more " evident by the . incidents asso- t( dated with the recent S. S. Co- ^ manche disaster. ; ' S It is reported that the crew y ivas dnink wild behaved them- Ci selves in a very unsoamaftMke-^ manner. _ .One would have k t'less that the entire crew was.it Negro. Under any other cir- v um.stance we doubt if much >v wmtld have been skid of drunkapneas. - i-?-?-?--SLiter reports emphatically ^ leny that tl^ere was drunken- n ness or misconduct at ail. ' ^ Captain ~ uurry ?of the Con-anche, it is said by the-o(fi- ^ dais of the'Cllyde Line, is one k jf. tiie strictest disciplinarians ^ 11 the the employ of the com- f any.- -He denies the stories as ^ first sent out. *v ?Mrs. Fra/der, chacterized a-s d the "heroine of the Comanche,"^ testified that'sh edid not see k any (batnkemidss by the crew; b sillier while or Negro. " ? ja \Yp presume that, the testi- h teor.$*.of the"two such person- ^ aires will have much weight. ? ?lUitaitLr" aTHssakl and done E [here is no denying the?fact-^ that thorn wn^ wh-pdtcy on =? |w The perplexing?thing though is, why should there be so much LUicei tainily as to who was ^ hunk. If Ihtme was drunken-1 nr. s of the?crew, why?the de-? trial V If (Irupkenness did not prevail, wliy the unjust aecu- *j We vent me nnt to pvpllain c Lhe tragic situation, - but we ^ tVender if there was wholesale a hurrkenness of "passengers to 0 the extent that their faculties H were irot functioning sufficient-?: lly.-' to?determine who was drunk^ Liquor plays, many ^ pranks, one of which is that everything, be .it living or in- ? animate, around the drunken 1 It is no wonder then that ^ everybody seemed, to some few a wlid could not at first find them- * selves, intoxicated and white b seemed black. ~ L i" -^jso what won at firnt supposed to be'an intoxicated bllack crew, " possibly was not so wholly be-'e psychology in reseptc to the v Negro but rather rum psycho- * logy on a stygian night. ?-? Jew. "8 ? ? c THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL a IN ALIiEN UNIVERSITY. - ?: d Julius Holman 11< All hrnarl versatile school, a herr know thai, a t heological jp School Is the leading school in a! University system.-,. A wise|G man would not attempt to, pass F in opinion unless he understood the situation and chTurhstancbsjP. jf the point at issue. For manyp* pears we have attended annual ic conferences and many reports [T tve heard were verily mislead- jtl inflf ^ ^ lihfi ?aumhfir of mon rO LEADER ho studied that year in the| :hool of Theology. We are: :epared to prove this.-?If the jjblic could know how many ten are helped by the Depart- J tent of Theology that i it self: oulld be a booster: Because some of us are rominent . ministers or even, ustees, that does notlnake us1 nderstand the work of the :hool unless we get facts. Thei mer workings of the Theolo-j leal School are not understood: yrnr.ny right at the sehool beause they don't get facts and! luch less those who are away. fuF Theological School is one f the hardest worked ^depart-! icnts in the system. The lesons in languages ancfatl those"; itPicate Subjects Tn our line are. aught (generally speakijng) List as well as they are taught j t Gammoir " or Drew " and we i now what we a^fe talking a- j out. This may hot be generlly known because the expert; 'heologians of our ministry do ot come in and spend any time! one for tjae church by the_ chool of Theology..' We ask| ou to get the facts: so thatryou an hejp advertise the virtues.; Ivpry" miniatpr whn is fl Thftn-rl igical school-man to the extentT adge Theological- work, should; t least come and spend,,, one. hole day out of ^ery^jsehool j ear observing the work. Then1 will be found that all we havej aid iiere to be facts. Bishop j V. W. Beckett is a broad school lan having been trained nfevery Institute, Clark UiTyerity. and the famous Gammon | luminary, amd ai s i -Columbia-; Jniversity of New York. Aridl know he will givi the Theolo-, jicEfl School encouragement, j ill -have-seen signs- which con- J ince us that Bishop Beckett is ircctedjjy the spirit. He is a' onderful ?mam We?-have nown him to be great from bur oyhood but it was in 1914 at n annual ? conference we saw j is depth of wisdom a?s never efore. I am sincere.-1 '"I doi rdinarily flattei\^B^eSIaent >. II. 3illlK being-'an acknowlaged?-school man and~an exert Theologian is in sympathy dth and encourages the Theo)gical School. , ^ Questions and Answers In Negro^History Who wjsre Shabak and Tir^S&abak 7waa~-..tlie - jBthopian. onqueror of Egypt. and lived a-t out 800' B. C. Tirhaka-h was; n Ethopian general and ruler f Egypt who expelled the Asyrians from Egypt in 67 B. CT ?Was. Jesus Christ of African lood??D. B. N., Kansas City, lo.A nr>A?vlir\nr tA f VIA nrorinAlAry^r I XJlV.V^W1 Uill^ tu tiic J f Christ as given in the New 'estament, he was descended rorn ancestors-- who were o? Lfrican blood. He was himself Jew and it isethnicalfy true hat there is a strain of dark lood in the'true Hebrew. j^The escfiption supposed to have ucn?-givem-of?Christ alleging lue eyes and blonde hair is violently a forgery: Who was Juan i&tin0__ antf ,rhen did he live??G. F. C., ikron, Ohio. He was a poet ancTscholar of pafrrand lived 1n~TtTS 16th, entury. He was born a slave nd later attended the Univer-j ity of Granada anoi'secured the egree of Doctor of Arts. Laer he won the chair of Poetrv, t this university through com-^ etitlve "examination. Was Hercules, the famous Grecian here,a Negro?-?N. Nj \, Corinth, Miss, Hercules was originally an iirnikn here and his 'StoHes* /ere borrowed by many Asiat ! ^and early European peoples, 'he j Hercules of Grecian my-1 hology was descended from :paphos, the blftlck touch borni t ? w&oeoBCBxa&sotxot^^ I :i; STRAY 1 A Department ol S ^ By WILLIAM .(All contributions to this Dept 8 poetry," accynipaiueU' by stamped :g and sent to 1501*6 Taylor St., Col 8 column. Allworthy manuscripts c nam?. Amateurs and poet-aspirar 5 tha talent, if you .have it.) 3 . ilie Editor of this Departmen g siring poems on any subject for~a 8 morianu?. _e^pressions of friendshi 5 kinds. 3 ; ? ? SUNS By William - -Jxist think of_a land \vh In the golden~kmile ( Just a barren waste of Where Night -forever Just think-of-a-tenet -w ?t Where blithe'birds n A bleak, lifeless land ol With never the joy o1 'Twas at the touch of s the dawn of creati T4- uro.i otin L'binn'd /rortilo XL W CVO OUUOillliL-O 5V.1111L The gloom .where e'en As thus in the hi?art of _ _ The part of T.ifp-rpviv ^o also in human lives Loverof Life, revivii Human sunshine,?kind The genial smile of ] TI-ip jnymig laugh,?-<j U4 Dispelling gloomy sa(i Smile, and all noture si Of souls can rejoice w Frown, and all the wor Thru your darkened j Let us be, each of us,~i vBrightening some dar =^ oSmjling courage into hei Fearful and fainting And all around us sweet 1 And blithe birds hap] AsLifearrrt Joyi^dctor 1? Exult in earth's fairc son of To and Zeus. was ttie wife of Charles Sumner a colored vwman'L, I have heard this statement made, hut did not know whether 4F was true or not^-M. W - Rnffalo, N. Y. ?? No. She wjis^^^ite'woman of thgJt**aTTeTte type and rather *teCrk. Some of his enemies claimed that she was colored, but she was_noC~ ' Sojrjiewhei'e 1 mave read that black scholars composed the Koran. Is such.a Tact??F. G. n., alton, in. 4 The man who compiled the Koran was Abu Bekr. lifp lomr friend of Mohamet. Abu Bekr was a full blooded Negro, a rich merchant of Arabia and the "keeper of the records of jits I" Day 199-J PH" PATTERSO Funeral And License -?All Ca Is Promptly Night.--Motor equi] 1109 FRIEND STREET Motto j1? i: ?TAIL( Dry (leaning, t*n j I . Hatfl (;ip?nf?ti and. ;; Dor and Deliver. ? 1112 Washington St., 1*1 * . M1 ii ' ' jt'wvv 5"il<l|>'<">|.I'.!. !'<?< L?? WIII3N IN-eefctIM ;i BROADWAY o EVERYTHING SANITY ? ! - FISH an ? IN SE D. W. WO 1108 Washington Street, ' * * - Saturday, October 81, Iflflfl, . LEAVES : : r J l Current Poetry I). ROBINSON. "j:"~ irtment must be typewritten, "real * y I and addressed -return envelope, - umbia, S. C., to the Editor of this x ? will be printed under your own. ' - its, this is your chance to develop x t offers his services to anyone de- [ ny occastonf^ggtrh-as epitaphs, me-? i p, or topics for programs of all * IIINE. ~ D. Robinson.r " ere the sun never shows 5f~cfay,? frizen snows holds sway. - here sweet flow'rs never bloom, ever sing,? ' ' dreary gloom, f Spring! ; _ ;unshine that life awoke, ; j on's morn; - . ^ i beams that broke . t Life was born. Nature, sunshine plays ' a ing,. : : ? it plays,' ig. words, and gentle action: gladfiess,? et satisfaction,? _ ??? *Iness! j 3f tens, and the maddest ith you: V 1 r ^~ ' Id,?e'en hearts the gladdest, ^lass) seem blue. r7 fay of sunshine; ?- - ,r~ - ?~ ker life,? * irts that pine, . . . .. "in the strife. ' * , est flowers will bloom, pily sing; v.. / " s over gloom, ? ^ ~ ~r~^= >r Spring L : ~~ ? i tribe. He vvas asked by friends of Mohamet to preserve- the sayings of the prophet. after his death. Abu Bekr was nam}ed by Mohamet .to be the lirst I rinifph nf. tHfr - Mohammedan ^ - j Empire. ; ? 1?1^ j*$2.->,000 ADDITION TO PEABODY. Ft. Valley., Ga., Oct.?The Royal C. I Peabody Trade School buildinf, a j handsome and substantial addition jto the plant of the Fort Valley High jttnd Industrial.School for Negro youth was dedicated here Tuesday in the j presence of several hundred_Studgnts and friends of the nistitution, irieludinj? a number of visitors fro mi the Fast. ' v The huildinir is n two-story hrick 1 I structure and was erected by student i abor at a cost of $25,000 and is the ! jrift of Mrs. Royal C. Peabody- . and her sori, Cftarles S;?Peabodyy-both of _adiuhilwere present aVAhe dedication. .. ONE Night 531 ? N & PRATT Directors d Embalmers Attended to Day or ? pment. ~ ~ ^ N^urUrru C p . ?? ? /J w. V. 1 "SERVICE" -I .OCKER ~H i~~~~ )ring?:: liiockwd.?Wo (Jail? =2 * \ lone 3814 Columbia, S. C. <? > . v ' " > '-** ItiA. KAT AT THB _J t _ DAIRY CAFE < I < k ' , I* V A \in I II) ri<#t 11 * >i<l< ? * ? w ui - i \j-i/A i rvi i i d GAME ?1!?^ A SON. ?- ; r"~ ODS, Prop. - -J! ;}: Columbia, S. C? ? ? * ' l : " i . _" * * ." J .