The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, January 09, 1926, Image 1
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/ THIS PAPER IS^ f
F? DEVOTE!* TO THE I /
INTERESTS O * I )
. THE PEOPLE. I
VOLT NO. 52
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"answers the
final summons
A Man of Ability, A Greal
Churchman, A High Class
Christian Gentleman ? ?
AN ELOQUENT SPEAKER
Funeral services at Morris Browr
A. M. E. Church, Charleston,
S. C. Remains Laid to Rest
, at His Old Home, on
' Edisto Island
Bishop William Wesley Beekett
was the presiding Bishop oi
the African Methodist Episcopa
Churches in Mis<aiaeir?r?{
... JKh/A oiiu 01*
ter the death of Bishop W? D
~l._Chappelle last July, was giver
the work in South Carolina-ir
connectin owith his work n Mississippi.
He held conferences ir.
both states last fall and had organized
plans for an expansior
and reorganization of the work
at Allen University under the
direction, of President Sims. The
- news of his death was a shock
to ministers?and laymen in the
city and to his people, as Bishop
Beckett was one of the leading
Bishops of his church. ?
Bishop Beckett was born or
Edisto -Island in this -state ir
1859, received his early training
in the public and private schools
of Charleston, going later tc
Gammon Theological Seminary
in Atlanta. He was at one tim(
g Jr. fnlnraVtin TTnitmmii
tV!WM QPProt Q y\7 nf miooi/\v.n
VI UUOOlUllO UJ
the A. M E. Church with headquarters
in Bible House, New
York; president of Allen Univer
eity from 1912 to 1916, and was
elected Bishop at Philadelphia ir
1916 and spent his first qua'
drenium of service in South Africa.
\ As a publie speaker, Bishop
Beckett was heard in nearly
every state in the Union and ap?
peared many-times-before white
audiences. .
When one has surmounted the
?difficulties, Intrigues and neia\
rious opposition and has won
i the aproval of his constituency
to the extent that he reaches the
- office^ of Bishop in the Africar
t Methodist Episcopal Church, he
has done well. When he lives b
~ life of service in that office and
is benefactor for denomination
1', and the human race, he has done
better. Bishop William Wesley
Beckett passed through both oi
B 4-1^ A0A A /VA A T_T A 4! M i ? L'X
oia^ca, xit; ima iiiiiorreL
his career"
On January 5, 1926 the las1
respect was paid him by Tils col
leagues, the bishops, the general
officers, presiding elders, pastorf
and laymen of his denominatior
As well as hosts of friends frorr
all sections of the United States
- His body was laid in State at
Emanuel Church, Charleston
Emanuel Church, Summerville
fUC . until Monday nightr thenc?
it was transported to Morris
Brown Church, Charleston, S. C
Tuesday morning amidst an ocean
of floral offerings, his reirtains
were viewed and the greal
COTlcourse of people came to witness
the last rites and ceremony
-^He was the Presiding Bishop
of the 8th Episcopal District,
which comprises Mississippi.
After the demise of Bishop W. D
I Chappelle, June 15. 1925. the
Bishop's x^ouncil assigned BishI
op Beckett to the 7th Episcopal
t.Lpiafrict jHe held the first Cottle
fercnihe State, the Palmet^^^E??iference,
and was preL-?wMk
lijunvening at SUmmerElt
tBtinuad cm par* ?ix.
jy Wins In On
ri
EIGHTEE
! A GAIN OF TWO
L OVER LAST YEA
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^ Mississippi Lea?i with 6, Floric
"follow* with 3. Two of the
1 2 MOB MURDERS INCLUDE
I
All of the Victimi were Negro
' The list of Lynchings by
t States Found Below
1 New York, Dec. 31,? "The .
{ A. A. C. P., 69 Fifth Avenue, t
: day made public lynching stati
t tics for the year, showing
mob murders, an increase of
; over the ltf recorded last ye*
' Mississippi led the States wi
r 6 lynchings, Florida was secoi
with 3 and Georgia third with
1 The Advancement Associate
J, announces that it is including
j lynchings two mob murders n
> included in the figures cmpil
r|by Tuskeegee Institute, the t\
-1 lynchings-being-the shooting
^ | death by a mob of 200 people
. Jim Evans at Jellico, Kentucl
r'on April 13, and the shooting
- death by police and citizens
*- Odum Dunlap in Haines Cll
1 Florida, on December 20.
Two of the 18 of the mob vi
tims, were burned to death. A
>- of the victims were Negroes. T1
] list of lynchings-by States
! 13i Georgia, 2; Kentucky, 1; Lo
> isiana, 1 Mississippi- fit Missoir
tl; Utah, 1; Virginia, 1.
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s NEGRO OUTLOOK HOPE
t' FUL...
i a
t "
I Surveying the passing ye;
i and forecasting the immedia
! future, the Associated Negi
\ Press of Chicago, affiliated wil
II the radical wing of racial jou
-"halisin, concludes upon a hupef
ijnote: "After all, in the de<
*j recesses, the heart of Amerii
j eats right." Progress, howev
l "does not just happen," it r
! minds; " 'pursuit of happiness'
. must be constant, courageous, i
' telligent.
r~ "Hegro_ crime has been co:
J sidered from a more imparti
j viewpoint in recent years thf
. was formerly the case. ... I:
cessa-nt effort, North and Sout
" has practically done away wit
' the big headlines, because <
r race; and all criminals, regan
> less of race, are treated alike
Inat all criminals, regardle:
of race," shall be "treated alike
[ is rather the substance of thin*
^ hopep for than accomplish
f fact in the Southeastern state
The trend is toward that cond
' encouraging, but complete par
ty is not yet realized and no gor
. can come of saying so. Con
. munity of effort among the we
disported of all gfoupa towar
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\ ' irSubseripticfi
folttu
r COLUMBIA. S. C.. SATCI
Hfc S J
mm
;n lynchi
N. A. A. C.I
^ TRIAL DATE
" N. A. A. L. P. ~~~
fORYEART925
T> ?
Reports the Most Successful
__ Year in the History of the
w o
w Association
MORE ACTIVITY SHOWN
N. , '
o- Segregation made National Issue
ls~ Being Fought on Many
18 Fronts r
2 ...
irth
New York, Dec- 31?The N. A.
nd A. C. P., 69 Fifth Ave., today is9
1 - = - A '
ciut;u <1 summary 01 us Annual
on Report for the year 1925, showas
ing the most successful effort in
ot the entire history of the Assoed
fiat ion. The summary stresses
vo the fact that Segregation has
In.been niada national ioouo eon
of fronting the entire American
<y people, and that colored RfiiQ^le
to throughout the United States
of have been united .in this fight as
y, in no other except the nght to
,end lynching,
c- j The N. A. A. C. Report dpals
til with the following subjects:1
QonrrAornf imi ??O HTU^
? ?[ 1 LIUH , l*- me wniie
is | Primary" fight in Texas and otha,
Ter caifcs of DlsertTfTlnation-, 3.
u- Legal Defense; 4. Reintroduction
ri, of a rovised-Byer- Anti-Lynching
r i Bill in Congress; 5. Release of
| 24th Infantrymen; 6>JPublici.
!ty and Branch Organization; 7.
Ku Klux Klan and miscelleneous.
1. Segregation. During the
ir ;
, issue of residential and other sete
gregation, believing it to be per^
haps- the most important issue
with which colored Americans
r I _i
jpTave to deal. "Accordingly a segregation
case arising in Washington,
where white property!
e owners convenanted not to sell i
e_ nor permit sale of their proper-J
? ty to colored people has been carn
ried before the- U. S. Supreme*
Court where it wiH be argued
n. early in January. Another case, j
aj arising in Louisiana, will also be J
in carried before the Supreme]
n-' Court and cases have been!
h, fought in' the following cities
;h Los Angeles and Oakland, Cali3f
fornia; Denver, Baltimore, De-j
d- troit, St.. Louis, Brooklyn, N. Y.,j
." Staten Island, N. Y., where Saovj
3s uel A- Browne, colored postman'
was hacked up in standing his!
??,ground against efforts to oust
id him from his home and is now
s ; suing his wfyite neighbor^ for
li- $100,000; Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
i- folk, Va. In Cleveland, by court
>d action the Board of Education
of Shaker Ileights was compelled
^1 to abandon the exclusion of eold
ored ohfldlren from their school. |
> Continued on page 8.
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*DAY7 JANUARY 9,1926
ITT
ilKRn ft1
NG S I N U. i
\ FUND NOV
: POSTPONED <
ON EXTENDED
SPEAKING TOUR B
'. " . ??- . .
Dr. and Mrs. Sweet and* Walter
White, to Deliver Addresses _J
for Defense Fund '
TO VISIT FIVE LARGE CITIES T
i s
, , I
Philadelphia, Baltimore, * Washington,
Pittsburgh and
Cleveland
i. " a
; th
Dr. and Mrs. Ossian H. Sweet Ai
j released on bail pending retrial hi
of their case in Detroit, and Wal- I
ter White, Assistant Secretary of m
,the N. A. A. C. P., are "to deliver di
(addresses in five larirp pifma frJr'.
0? v.WiVO) VV , \Ji
stimulate interest in fhe Legal is<
'Defense fui\d being raised by the ca
Ikr a - a p ? 1 * , j
I Meetings have been arranged; in
by theN.A.A.C.P.andcooperating m?
groups ,as follows: Jan. 5, Phila-lBc
Jdelphia; 6, Baltimore; 7, Wash-jc.
ington in the Metropolitan A. M.'&y
|E. Church under the auspices of cli
the colored women of Washing- fo
ton; 8, Pittsburgh; and Jan^lO, $1
Cleveland^ ~ Ci
T?ptriol nn'll U ^ _ !- '1
?. ...ii nut, wk'Ji m tne.ty
! early January, as?originally
'planned. Date for opening of Dr
the second tria-1 has not yet been
fixed by the Court.
p
FEW LYNCHINGS IN YEAR, <
WITH NONE IN SOUTH
CAROLINA '
1
Tuskeegee Institute, Ala., Dec.
I bia
.31?There were 16 lynchings du'ad(
^ing 1925, according to records i
.kept by Tuskeegee Institute.'to
Tiere. This number ranks with dex
the numbe~r 16 for 1924 as the
smallesF number of persons lu
lynched in an V VPQl- oinnfl e
_ J VM1 0?11V/C 1<IIC,I C"
cord tf lynchings have been kept at
is 17 less than the number 3 for j
1923, and 41 less than the num- nis
ber 57 for 1922. Two^of the vie-t*h*
tims were insane. Three others |Co'
"had been formally released by ^
the courts. 10 of the personsj j
lynchedr were taken from the' afj(
hands of the law, 2 from jails'.Ar
onrl 8 - !
?... v. xiuiii uuiLci a uI 1116 iSW dlC
outside of the jails. Two of those iter
lynched were burned at the stake ser
tor
put? !{}t?9p 0} }pd SBAV 9U0 pUH j
body burtied. ma
There were 39 instances in tra
which officers of the law preven- set
ted lynchings, 7 of these were tn
in Northern Slates and 32 In
Southern Stages. In 26 of the per
^ , . yes
cases the prisoners were rertiov- bro
ed or the guards augmented or jy
other precautions taken. In 13 the
other instances, armed force was uht
used to repel the would be lynchers.
In 3 instances during the
year persons charged with being ^
connected with lynching mobs the
Continued jift page 8.
7ir , izurim m
V lilO'"U11 L
IQar Offer o
pis
ifFR I.YI
>.1N 1B25['
J $55,761,59 g
:hecks are
still coming in
' G
loston sends $2,000, Los Angeles
$1,000. Other Cities **
Responded Also
HE COUNTRY AROUSED
he Figures Above Include $15,>00
due by Garland Fund
and $ 1,000 by J. Rosenwald jn
tc
New York, Dec. 31?The Leg- Mi
Defense Fund being raised by re'
leNational Association for the
dvancement of Colored People, he
is reached the suiruaf $55,761. j0^
>9 according to anouncement
ade to-day, this figure inclu-|
ng $15,000 now due from the P?
arland Fund and $1,000 prom-,St!
2d by Julius Rosenwald of Chigo.
. - . an
Jjuiye wji'tint'glftd 10 the tundP01
clu'de $2,000 raised in a mass' ^
eeting under he auspices of the
)ston Branch of the N. A. A. jmi
P. and a check for $1,000 sent as
Los Angeles.?Other gifts in- ?1
ide: St. Louis, $257.36; Nor- h?
lk, Va., $400; Elmira, N. Y? fac
00; New Orleans, $100; ^and -cal
larles W. Ray of Jefferson Ci- th(
Texas, (contributings) $218. ?'
- _ _ ; ? Mi
t. J. C. WHITE SPEAKS tUI
AT BARNWELL, S. C. Pm
sh<
elivers Wonderful Oration. Other the
Speakers, Hon. W. S. Dixon and brj
Banker H. C. Calhoimpfwhite) onr
3arnwell, Jan. 1?Dr. J. C. White,
dor of ZionvBaptist Church Colum-' sin
, S. C., delivered the Emancipation 4
Iress at Barnwellrfh-C.
Ml who know Dr. White, know him'jje]
be a born orator, community buil-'
', great historian and in short an mo
1 round man."" He has the ability goi
sway crowds, and he always swaya ttTU
m in the right direction; for he OTg
rs the right thing in the right way,?c^]]
the right place and the riffrht time.
\fter the parade with music fur- ^le
hed by the band from Orangeburg, all
y people were assembled in the iftlg
jrt House of Barnwell, whose ca- Log
:ity-held less than one third
se who desired to ente^.
Ion. W. S. Dixonmade the welcome tell
Iress, after which Rev. A. C. L.'tioi
bouin an A. B. graduate of Bene-ag]<
t College and progressive minis- g|.?
of Barnwell, introduced and Prc*ii ,
ited Dr. J. C Whito tho
stri
^fter Dr. White's introductory re-J ma
rks, he began with history and
ced it from 1607, the first English 1 <
tlement at Jamestown, Va., up un-i
1863, otrr freedom. He reminded'
audicnee that the white man was1*-*-*
manently settled here but twelve /
irs before the Negro, for they were
ught over in 1619. There were onabont.
twenty hrought, first; hnt
y oentinued to come and populate
il there are about 15,000,000 Ne>es
now. Other races have come anc
I sojaoumed for a short time, but wh
Negro has remained. a:
tmong the great characters that
speaker mentioned and from whom 132
Continued on page. p. 11.
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IS
iT/iiniin
WJUNb
VCQUITTED ^
THEN LYNCHED
cports ?ecm to Indicate thai
the State is ^Aroused as
Never Before
OVERNOR POWERLESS
c, willi Bar Association will
ask Legislature for Power to
Remove'Sheriffs
In a letter to James Weldoij .
hnson, Secretary of the N. A. C.
P.,- Dr. W- W. Alexandpr.
rector of the Commission on
terracial Cooperation in Atlant,
reports that the State of
ississippi is aroused over the
cent lynching, of Lindsay Colein,
a Negro, immediately after
had bfeen acquitted of a charge
n^utdfir^by a jury in Clarksle.
>. . ; "...
Dr. Alexander writes that "rerts
seem to indicate that the
ate is aroused 03 never before.
The Governor is _ determined
d, I think, has sufficient suprt
tU Write k new chnntpr in
x ississippi
history. You may
quite"sure that we will keep as
ich pressure on'the situation >
possible.
" The Governor of Mississippi
is very little authority. In
it, none except the power to
L out the militia-.?He, -with
; support of the Bar Associa .
^ienr-and other influences"~of
ssissippi, will ask the legfslae
at its opening session to emver
the Governor to remove
;rriffs, and give him other autrity
that will enable him to
ng real pressure on the local
nmunity. I think such legision
has a good chance of pasg:
. -
The campaign of education
1 go on in Mississippi. Mrs.
nderson of my staff will spend
st of the month of January '
ng from community to comnlty
In the State speaking ana
anizing the women, specifily
against: motr action. Mr.
azer of my staff, will go into
the collecres flnd rnnnv rvf +V>a
h schools' for the same pure\
, Alexanders letter was writi
from the N. A. A. C." P:ing
what the people of the
>te intended to do about the
jst lynching in view of the
ong pronouncement recently
de by the Bar Association of ?
~ ?J. ?' * '
rt^rtuiML moD violence
I mob murder.
IT HOME TO PRACTICE
v MEDICINE
Xr.O- "JT."Champion,"a" gradu- ,
of AtfenUniv., Lincoln Univ./
1 Meparry Medical College;
o is viow practicing in Clin,
S. (a will open his office at
17 Assembly Street January