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R? GBO. Hr "HAMPTON, ?? Manager c SUBSCRIPTION RA^S:---^ Wu CASH IN ADVANCE. K On* Ytar - -- - -_- ? ^ l fc~' Six Months? ' I E Thre* Months --- * 1 Single'Copy ? P W " Advertising Rates given on appli- < r communications intended fori' ; the current issue must reach!1 this office, (if out of town) not < later than Tuesday night. Ci-P ty news by Wednesday night. * I , -,1 p" Saturday January 9, 1926 !' The year Just passed out wasj] | according to the local weather', bureau, the dHeat Culuinbia hao L r . " ' experienced. Of course, this dry ] ?ness has no rpf^rence to Vol- , j nt.ea4ic conditions. _ "" ~> How about those New Year's * resolutions? Are they being * kept or are they already thrown in_the discard ? Anyway, unless!: ? sucn resolutions are stock taking*1 of past omissions, they are no'. good. ? - _1 , ... . .. . Forninaty years the Liberty ' Bell in Philadelphia has been sLF lent. This silence was broken at/ "~mid^Ti^lil December 31sL-~inJ greetin&s-to the New Year. Well t plight it ring again proclaiming t liberty throughout this country |' > where Tiberty biiitig su. lesliic- i ted each passing year by narrow ( laws and nasty intolerance. 1 i ~ x , ClarenceT5arrow, the eminent ] " . " yrimro&hTawyer, speaking to a j colored audience llll Nuw Yoi'kjj ~ says the colored people are "too > blooming pious." andjthat if the Lord was going-to tio anything.!.. for them He would have already ^ done it. Mr. Barrow is a skillful ^ lawyer but we have our doubts: about his qualification to speak , for the.Lordl ~-"4 t ~ * * . * * ?t According to Sir Arikur Keith , speaking befbre~tlie Royal-Gel- ? lftprp nf Surgeons. London, the brain of the prehistoric maTf Of ; South Africa was 12 to 13 per ! cent larger than that of the av- ( erapre European. Speaking furkjl . i'v? -r Ai. VTv . .. .. mtsr ui me i\egro, ne said that, '.'eventually one came to a common ancestor of boj^i the-Europ6an and the Negro.". Sir Arthur however, better s^ay in Lor? don with that kind of talk. At-j any rate he could not get away that kind Of a lecture in Virginia' in particular. m f ' . Mississippi is at last aroused ov-j er lynching. The brutal killing, of Coleman who had just been! acquitted of murder by a jury in the CriminaTCourt.aeeiila-tp have been the straw that broke the camel's back. ? Indictments have been Return ed against some*of the lynchers s . but, of course, indictments and convictions are different things. Well might Mississippi get busy 7 on this specie of savagery for. that state is the champion of the Union in the out-door sport of lynching. .8 '",7 1 , - ^ " a | BISHOP BECKETT^ t For the second time this year, I death has claimed the Bishop ot o > _ South Carolina- Last week Bwh- if jpp W. W. Beckett of the African b Methodist Episcopal Church died o r AitnwoT Hnnforpncfl AIUIUP of th h Br"; l ?l- ' n f itL VA li a * " ? * ' ^ distinguished son of South na. Born of slave parents isto Island, near Charlese, by industry and integri>Se to the highest position ! gift of his church. 4.? hop Beckett believed in ed>n, in preparation. He himTas a man of excellent train^*emg-a-graduate^Qf Gammon logical Seminary and, purspepial studies in Columbia ersity. The Bishop in his c time as Bishop of South linn had lnffl hut. p grpat ram for this state and not >nly his church but the people at arge a?rej;he sufferers because of lis deatlr^ tKis time- ? IJYNCHINGSTfir^ According to the records as cept at Tuskeegee Institute, 16 ynclrings Occured in the United States for the year just past. The victims all being colored, rhis number is the same as that of 1924, -when. the number Df lynchings reached the lowest"] level it ever has since this form df upholding American civilization became a popualr out-door sport. ". That the number of lynchings! has shown no increase at least can keep alive the hope that soon! Airiiiiin may hr nhlp tn lift nn her head, being free from this anmistakable sign of savagery. There, is not and nbver lias bccnmy^excirsc 'fur lynoliingsv?and every such occurence is but a relection on the government of ^vhite America.* Even though tlie number sixteen is small iiij comparison to what has been yet ts just sixteen too many, according to the record, South Caroina is one of the Southern States ivittv^a-cleanjiecbrd. It can however be said in all frarikness~fhatJ lynching, even in its days of ^at^sTpopahrrr^^ -never-atJ :ained great proportions in South Carolina,'due as? much if not ( n^re perhaps to the outspoken condemnation of the State as toJ inyt-hing.else. It is the part of ; ill good_ citizens, white and >lack~ to work-te-4he-end thatt .his good recorcTbe~kept.? THE QUARTQljCENTUftY v With thf|as!Sft of 1925, the hbsjt ^significant- of anyTike^pe-r iod has become historv. ~Tn mai ernal things the world has taken rreat strides forward. Spiritu-J illy, to. say that the world has' Trld il 'i invn i i hi give it th*> hen-1 eVny dmtht- When one; ;hinks of the great World War vith is passions,-hatred and cruelty and the w&ve of intolerance ind prejudicetrha1. follewed-and s~preserrt to-day and seemingly >n the increase, doubt must adse as to whether the christian -eligion is making much of a leadway in its practical applicaion to the every day activities >f man- Race prejudice todavi s at its highest and religious! Ttolerance-its bitterest. Roth of j hese-mixed with polities makes; i i brew that la meuir, deviliah and langerous. Just what good these :ooks of such a br?w hope to acromplish is not apparent.^ Iu 'act, they know not themselves, hey are simply on their w^y Jowever, while condition^- may >e dark and gloomy, yet' there ieed be no de^spaiiv?At heart \merica is souhd and has a way >f righting herself when a crisis tppeafs. THE SEARCHLIGHT - i_ ? ' 4. By W. Frank Williams um_ i "* - iweive montns and still a?( foing" is the happiest assertion ( rercan make at thiathe -first ' nniversary of the PALMETTO j :EAF?FjR. South Carolina/s lead-1 ng race paper, and furthermore^ ne of the best in the South. It 3 a distinct achlevementrinade y enterprising men with little r no capital, and they deserve II the praise that might be givnthem. Doubtless jiotapenny profit as been made in this hazardous dventure, but tW# nift.t JUttle THE PALMET j publication has rendered a "service which ciould. not hatfe been rendered through any other medium. This alone deserves~The whole hearted support of all the race people in South Carolina and neighboring Staets. | Through the untiring -efforts, j of Manager George H. Mampj ton, ably assisted by a loyal rcrdw~of~ wor k e r s ;~imdth rough the tei4e and prolific writings of Editor N.-JT~Erederick and. the punctual and reguiaf contriBu^ tions of special writers and correspondents, tne Baluieltu Leader has made a place rrr "Negro Journalism \Vhich deserves its i?rnrd-tmied existence and further^ progress. r The management lias prove** its worth. It is up to the people to keep it a going. TIGER IGNORED In last Sunday's Edition of an Atlanta newspaper a general nummary of achievements in sports by Georgia Colleges a net athletes during 1925 appearedThis summary, compiled by the sporting department of that paper, gave the names and illusstrations of each character whom j it mentioned. . Outstanding golfers, temrrs ptayersr-foot-bali I stars and teams, daasuball~elttbt> and boxers were acclaimed the fhinf nypnnciit s of Georgia's famo for the-yeag^ju^t. closed. But the man who brought more-fame to Georgia than any of the schools" or athletes- named was jiqt mentioned at all. That man, of cuuise, wa;TTigoTnrtow~ ers, the greatest sensation in the prize ring. The .writer cannot conceive of the sporting editor of that paperTa TSaptisl Stmday-School teacher and a good sport, allowing ruch?a bono factor to the Empire State- as Tigeh* Flowers to go unmentioned in (hat summary. "The whitest black men in thering" lliu.y call him, bo! character and skin are d-ijjerent altogether different when it comer to getting vour picture in a Southern newspaper . When Wills defeated- Firpo at Jersey City last year, 111.-1 jJliulir appeared the next morning on 'tflF~tn"^t-page-ef-444e -Now York TTorTd: Oh, when- vvilL"a\ii\_he_st friends" in the South freo themselves from the yoke of fear and prejudice and inconsistency and -come to rpgh'yp that *'a^ man's^a themselves accordingly LYNCH IN GS IN 1025 3It is encouraging'TcTlTTims thatlynching in the United States is ?tin Ji ? - - siiii on me wane; Only sixteen lynchingsin twelve^ months lor forty-eight slates is an encouraging decrease. They were 16 too many, but if we consider past years when the lynching jrecords sfffi&timeB-j passed . the 100 mark it will give us* every rnTVien to believe Ihnt- wifhirr the next decade lynching will have entirely ceased and the mob spirit will havesubsided to almost unnoticable proportions. GROWTH OF SOUTHERN . .CITIES ' It is now sixy ears' since ~thelast census was taken of American cities. The growth of American cities~Tias~T)een~S0?rrroetf prof used since 1920 that it is hardTo'judge and compare them hy fh^~regtrhfm nensns of that year. The California and Florida.boom, the migration to Ndrthern and Eastern cities, and a doaon other m o vem en that we hardly know how to com"pare cities ?-? Since our race figures .so prominently in these movements the figures should be interesting to us. We will give recent government estimates of cities in our section of the South leavng out States west of Alabama. DlXle is that bortton of the United States lying south of the = - TOT^A'DER ? ^Pulumae-^and?Qhio^rivera. In Dixie Ne!w Orleans ranks first with a population of, 414,493 and Louisville -second- with 259?25jh_ j In our section, the southeast, they rank as follows;- Atlanta, ?58,780; Birmingham, 205,670; RLhmond, 186.4Q3; Memphis, 174, 533; Norfolk, 1597089; Nash ville,. 136,220; Knoxville, 95,404; j Brrvnn^?h'; '93,134; rh?rlpstnhr" .73,125; Winston-Salem, 69,U3Jl; .Chattanooga, .66,575; -Mobile, ] Portsmouth. - 59.029; Macon, 53,237; Roanoke, 587208T 'Anrprfn ^,{>15; Charlotte^ 53, - 318 ^ <vities-helow?50JlQILand a' bt?ve 25,000 as follows :Greensboro, N. C., 47.132; |N7}wport News;?; AT < hi 1 i-nmnvv,?A.la.r 46,481; rvlumljus, Ga., 44,244; Durh&nv,' N. C-, 42,258; Columbia, S. C., 41,255.; Rocky Mount, N. C., 37, 061; Wi!mingtam N.: C., _S7,061; Pftlpriii^nvir V n 9K ,710? A oUr4 vvu ft) * %A" y ^ y X"^OHC? i Ville, N. Ch, T,1 474: Lynchburg, Va., 30,395; Raleigh, N. Cb, 30, 371.; Gdieenville, S. C., 27,311; Spartanburg, S. CV, 25, "5377 A j There is a number of cities in the southenst~between 10,000 and 23,000 which Tank in commercial importance with some of -those -named '-above, but .we-refuse to1 weary the f ingers of the linotype -rrpr^fH^y-^tct-_r.nn-io fhom nr givp - ~77~| i C7n account of the boom in Finyn|^ " estimates were not I onlliq <, j(ies of that State but according to the writer's Own estimate, Jacksonville ranks TYext tt> Nr-h \4Jfe,--TenmrTFanipa | -r.ept, to Savannah^ Ga., Miami i:''M ' < ? W.u u ill jenvef hatto the real estate men- Pensaco 'a next to Montgomery, Ala., and St. Petersburg next to Pensaco-' ir, ~*~~Por the-benefit of those Jiving in smalkfr cities and did not keep p.- f.-.-f of the latest estimate, .wc wilFih a 1 uturertesue furnish fiem v. i^h the population of their home towns. ; . -J v OLZ&tiE STUDENTS TilO'TS Q^_lj)25 , Cn r two, three, out goes 1925. i' " 'I'l lf j'' in PThi < rt] on oi the year "men turn "&side -T-'or-i ^^1'ivliy-and check -ttf- (-n ^Uie fhlfchyess- done. Peo'-j li;.-; wovid "ever begin t o a sk (lie. e .1 roe questions; What has1 the r!d year meant to me, what h s it contributed to civilization 1 ,U> 1' '.libit nP I In: yaar9 | ] j^y f^e.^r.wTx Thuuld uoiucj>fra^nt home to College; : A\ hr: \ do, the Negro College binderi-j think oi liJ2h>-?Has1925; left a star irTTtRmNegro-u":;\vn? _ -'| Stud?nts-thuik us has been a year filled with blessings, al-: though the,blessings have been '.the out-come of peculiar cir- j 'curfTsfarirc^T-- ? i Students think the Rhinelan- j -dein-ca4-.c has^hown to the world 'p.-.; it ts lu aeL a "jury who will not fall to the oratory of lawyers when an appeal to prejudice is made, or an argument is-presented to prove the inferiority of the Negro, The Sweet case has shown to the world that through intel ^^riee?^uuL-erinporation we are able to defend our people in time of trouble;?? ?-? . ]?The students wish to congratulate the N. A- A. C. P. for its untiring activity in this case. | L ft did not fiddle while Rome [burned. .. . 1 Miss ITallafcay's being placed on that committee to represent .the- opt ire South has shown the :worlti the attitude white South ern students have towards "Negro i Southern students. Yet, Negro end whif?~^t"ild'jiil * in the, heart of Georgia in the heart of the South to discuss the World Court. Can the college students Imagine the discussion of an international problem in peaca_aiid_ 1 harmony on the one hand, and ^^-ohjectipn _o| a,. Negro on a committee on the other hand? j OFFERS HUMANE LIBRARY COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS CAN GET LOAN OF BOOKS WITHOUT CHARGE , V Boston Society Makes Offer Greenville, Jan. 8 ? An announcement was made here today of a. "Humane Educational Circulating Library" that containsanumber7)FBboks and ollier literature by humane authors loChumane education. TheTibrary will be ^sent^without charge i)y addressing- the Amj^ican Humane Education Society, Sey=mour Carroll, Field SecretarvT 9 Ann Street, Greenville, S. C. The little travelling Likrary its t^vnka the following: "The America Humane Education Society," autobiographical sketches, by George T. [Angelli "The Teacher Helper in ! the Schools," by Francis H. KoWjlejr; "Black Beauty," by Anna Sewell; "Stories of Bird Life," by T. Gilbert Pearson; "Songs oFHappy Life," by Sara J. Eddy | "Prince Rudoli Quest," by Ida jKenniston, and many other auithors. j o Any school or college may have the use of the humane li' plication to the Society. ? Tn manv nf the. schools where [Hands^rof 'Mercv -^r .L7rnnF TIllmane Education Societies have i been organized, the ^'students have been notified about the books. ^; . = ?G&n there be any means by which we mayhring about world nennn. ntid thn samp time retain our hatred and prejudice? i "Men may cry peace, peace but t.h^re is no peace!" " In the light of the truths which have come from the incidents of 1925 the Negro students have concluded that this year has taken fts place with many oj-hers which have opened the Heyes of'the world to actual situations in America in reference to the race relations??Tt?has shown the falsity in the Christianity America preachhs? It has shown how far Anreria liV03 from the democracy-she preaches. It hny fhnt the breeze of freedom whirh swppn? twbnii _ , - M .t vv{/U VAtV and holds our flag suspended, alsoTcisses^the cheek of a flag whose "doctrine is equalityr yet, tcaches that black is a sign of inferiority, and white , is a sign of superiority. ?1025jdiallever be remembered -l l .t XT _-L_- * itv KMuigrjys nt America. Now" unto Him that is ableHto keep us from falling and to present-ns fanHipgg hpfp * the presi.m.... of-Pfg glory with exceeding "joy, we pray that the Negro TTas marched into 1926 with courage and with feet firmed on right. ~~The~Sun seems to rise brighter. \ "A better day is coming." Wayman Johnson. State A. &. M. College ~ FAIRWOLD NOTES? Christmas morning was a happy day at Fairwold- The glPpm that the recent fire had thrown over the girls was cast aside, ???jlajbi TAIU ??-.. .. Dry Cleaning, Pr? X Hats Cleaned and y For and Deliver. ! 1112 Washington St., PI . . r. . J; WHEN IN COLUM BROADWAY * ' ! > EVERYTHING SANIT7 i? | * FISH an | IN SE | - I D. W. WO I 1108 Washington Street, Saturday January 9, 1926 and^happTness 1-eTgned. =. Prayers and Christmas Carols ascended high. Many~wer<T the gifts sent the girls. Mrs. Wilkinson and her co-workers left not a stone unturned in making Christm&s time a happy time for the workers and inmates of the inntitntion Tuesday Dec. 29th was another red letter day. 'he Work.ers and girls of Fair 'old were guestjTolT honoF"atn$3 nrftfniyer^ sity. The East EndjJ under the leadership of Mrs. >. D. Saxon :gave Fairwolld-irJivelv tree I laden with many tisful gifts. TMra. Rfivnn y.'as ill ail "COUld Hut Ibe present. Every on|regretted IthU very much. |?TUjnp ry.nv1r^n Tnf.-snn ^yas lMtotrg30 o^CGrcmortfs. ? 1 The girls of Fairwld and Allien University rendetd several I selections. Allen's jale QuarItette \las highly &pp tided. I Mrs Washington i ide a short I but ii erseting talk I Mr; Martins'than d the club land a who had a Y id in making t ! day a ha-ppj >ne for the girls The Studer of Allen " I are no' to be cor tended for /( Itheir ntcrest in rtking Fair4wold Wis so __ I ^ThlMizpah #asrepeated at I the Cse of the dercises and [thus e came to legend*" ef-a~ iperfa ilay.?rr- -i.--? ' ;=r j DrWhite a?nd ,'s congrega- ? jtion ill give a sp$al collection | for Jirwold Sun^y the 10th trhisjflp' was yohtanl^ulWed __ by D White. Ware thanking = htnrr nd - his rffeggaljon in . 1; . advre for Zioj Church baa - iievefcilctfud. ~ " ' y o - . wooDBu?, s. c., ' ; ? V ? N< Year's IT was ushered " in bbcautifuF eafte which gavfa hopefuaspect to the entii scene. fhe~ following pro^n was jdered at New Beth Baptist hurch, celebrating e NegrYBrtiancipation. -gom .i__i , America " Invoion - _,.Rev. D. A. Irby ;?? Jubij . "Free &t L ist "Tnlrtction .Rev J. C- Goode ? Rcrifr ftf Tfrlflmaliqn \_ * ' _ ....M; Irene Giilianr, . -=? ' Reiris as Slavery Time J^ . Ir- O. McClintock ? ^? " . & Musi Es^a_--- ?ery-? Resaleable Instfon. is Blondena Dawkins; ? Solo' __Mr. E. R. Holland Recion Is Lanes (Jrumwell " TT.RRaTUrih'ighllti Alo-Utndei Octa I B. DeShields et ai k"l! - 1 j.Solo'Mjssippi Ripples^ .. . TT.Qrlnl^Miss Glenhie Mae : " uh : : - . + 1 ' ' < i>tiumniGi 1 ei ks I Add] _>f- J- R. Johnson, Jr. * __ "Musi v>. Offp^ounccmens,' Benedict! i Mi & ~1 Hurman T 1 ical Contractors-" , f D AND BONDED-?-? ""J ies 8723-8854 1 tlumbia, S. C. I -> iX* I es|i>yeini4 jafrVe Cail ? no1 Columbia, S? C. > '. n ?;> ,r " H ^ /MVVV"X?y''"X' A ,;?K"vv ? [1 AT THE tUrvTO-UATE 1 ? ? < H -l? - i > s * ~ ' ' i lllllft,!'.".'!1"",