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* * The Palmetto The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co. ki * * ? " iL^===: 43.ie .-ASSEMai^-aT&&ia. CUI.I MIUA. S. C. 4 I J ? Entered at the Post Oihee at Columbia, S. C., as Second Class Matter. tE^hrauNE 46aa N. 1 UHKitKHicHy - Editor A. B. LINDSEY, _ Managing Editor ? J. B. LEWIE Fraternal-Editor : W. Fit AN K 1U1.L1AMS ? ? _ Contributing Editor I w GEO. 11. HAMPTON/ " Manuger SllHSCKlP'TlON KATES: . " - ' CASH lyj' A OV A NCE. One .Year1 .. f20Q Six Months . . . . . 1.25 Three Months .. -75 ' Single Cupji ... _ _ '05 Advertising Ka'.es given on application. ' . ? Communications intended for - the current issue* must reach ' this^oHiceTtif out of town) not later than Tuesday night. City news by Wednesday night. Saturday February 6, 1926 - According to Rev. G. Croft Williams for years Secretary of the State Board o Public Wel: . fare, "There is no,finer set of Negroes |.i the United States than those in this State," that - is, according to crime statistics, whcih he was discussing at the i..* ~i? i. it.. _x. x. 4 unie ui inuKiiij^ me SLaieiiient. ~ ~ * \ ' ' February7 16th has been set " for public hearings, on the Anti_ i Lynching JBiil introduced. in the i-Senate by Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois. The hearings will be bei orfe-^f sub-commirtee of the Senate Judiciary Com?mittee of which Senator Albert B. Cummings of Iowa is chair map. =??According to a census taken last year by the ,1?1S. Department of Commerce, farms i_n S. C. decreased from 192.374 in 19n A j 1 rrr? i < , 10 in iyzt>. mis great decrease-is ^lue-largely-te ? the migration of colored "people; In th<Tsame time Georgia shows an even greater decrease. . ? 1 It is no>v predicted that ^Marcus Garvey, "Provisional Pres^ _ ident of Africa'," President General of the Negro Improvement Association and President of the Black Star Navigation Compahyj but who for almost a year has been a prisoner in Atlanta, will soon be released. Aa 3oon?as released however, he is to be ~ ffetoorted.' bclmr a fomirnftc=aiad ?" - not an American. '' " " . <r " ? . '' Senator Blea.se is reported as saying in a speech in the' S&nate will have the same vote "in the election of judges for this Court as the United States. , A Negro ?probably will represent Haiti in the Court and I am not willing ~ ; to throw the destiny of Southern men and .women into the lap of a blaok"":man." Evidently the Senator was not informed as to . ... the manner in which the World "Couft is" made-up" or he attrf... hufces too much power and influence to one Negro. Since the Cburt has 11 Judges only and 4 Deputy Judges, how comes-it une iNugro couia ao so ^? . much? Then too, is the destiny of Southern men and women any -^"different from that of the other men and women of this Country ? Such stuff is not senatorial size. It belongs to the two by four . . demagogue. r.:? . . o SALARY SCHEDULE IN COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS T. items of ttip vpi>v o?/i u^/it auu ililCIesting Report of. the City superindent of 'Public Schools is the present salary schedule as established by the School Board. The "following.Js the.schedule:\White Teachers | 1 . Grade teatdrers without experience, 1st year. $900. Increased N by regular steps for 4 yaers to $1400? High School women 2 _ r . teachers without experience be-jth gin with $1000 and advance in 6|w I years to a maximum of $i500. i High Sphol men teachers with- hj jout experience begin "With $1200, Ol ; $1800 the seventh year* Heads fe of Departments receive a maxi- m mum of $2000. ... ' w Colored Teachers ti i Grade teachers without pvpft- m ' rience, 1st year,- $550 and ad- ti Ivahce".to a maximum of $800 in gi ; the sixth year. - ~ tl High School teachers without In experience begin at. $600 and ad-|ti | vance to a maximum of $850 in b* Ithe seventh year. A year from: ii months. */' ac ... -1L can be seen_that;-thg maxi-^ec i mum -salary of a "colored high i: school teacher is even less than th mat 01 ui a whilem-ade teacher '"st jwith no experience at all. Evi-ce dently the work of Negro teach- Is ers isnotrof great ^ahie to/ttnr"A community if the compensation it theory is to be criterion. Keep- w 1 fng in mind the salary schedule, ik ful address on cooperation with ni it is not to be wondered at that A for each white pupil in the be grades, based on enrollment, the gs cost to the city last year was in $37.78, high school $64.69, while w; for colored grade pupils it was N $15.30, high school, $26.87, ?|se ? ? : The Plaything of America si The United States is the only be country in^lhe civilized world ,1c ?that takes one.tenth-o fa depen- ^4 . dable and useful part; of its citi- f Lzonry for gr-plaything, a joke, ot Given theoretically- the boon pf "I Anicrican citteenshio. in nract.ice IS \it deprives him of most of the lo ' things . held dear by all IE its other citizens find then, for- I < ' sooth, tells the patient, hopeful t tiafrk-skmhecTfellow he ought be s0 'happy because he is just allowed ^ to make a-little money! Right ^ now a great deal is" being-said about the crime wave thar rs?w' ' sweeping the country over;-great ai concern is being expressed over w> Sketches of Some of the s< 1 Builders of Our Race REV. S. IVW-MeCOLLUiM. of ; ' he (By Rev. I. E. Lowery.) cc The Rev. S. M. McCollum is , the Pastor of the M. E. Church' ' Pi at Kingstree, S. C. He is a nat-i ive South Carolinian, having G , been born in ^Iarlboro County.!.,2 He attended this common school*'H1 of his community after chich he jm entered the State College at Or J iangeburg. He remained There ^1. I ? . 1 hj .1 ntil he had completed the course' . i and graduated-. Rev. McCollUniiS< , then went to Atlanta-, Ga., and ^ entered the Gammon Theological v " j* Seminary, and when he had fin- ? ished there,, he retured home,; ' 1 YQ i and entersd~the South Carolina' , Conference M. E. Church in 1908 C clS During the 18 years of his min-i istry he has served some impor-j. :14.-^1 w. ifo tancnurcnes as pastor. iHft j ^. ha-3 been a success every where , he has served. Rev. McCollum is now serving rthe" Kingstree Station," and tsrF0 !much beloved by his people.' He' j is a free and easy speaker, and! is also a sweet singer. HeJives!^ -ina large two story parsonage. ^ , the foumkAion of which was laid ^ by a former pastor, but Rev. Mc-g Collum finished it and paid off. the debt. It has 10 large roms^ and a piazza that runs the entire length of the house, front ^ and side. Rev. McCollum is now ^ planning to build a brick church At the District Conference of! the Florence District, held near * j Marion in 1925, Rev. McCollum J ! f % 11*1 i 1 - - - -a 1- a.?- - leu an me pastors in tnese re- !spects?the largest amount paid on salary; the largest number of subscribers for the Southwes- ^ tern Christian Advocate; and j his Sunday School carried home 'Gr the beautiful new banner present A ted by the Rev. R. F. Harrington District Superintendent for the largest amount of money raised for World Service by the Sunday Cc _ - . . \ ,y . * V ~ " THE PALMTET1 ~ i ~~~ ifi disregard _for law. . But -a hat else can be expected when j s< municipal, state. and national 1 ^pocrisy is seen on every hand? li fficers take oa-th to uphold the.E w, to obrcrvc, protect nnd 'de?!<n nd the constitution. How; ti any do it? Rut, precious fewJJ here the constitution touches b> le citizenship rights of the Aerican Negro.?Why ??Because IV. ley do not believe "thai the Ne-jv: X) should havetftePrights that s< ie~^fundari]ental law says are ei is and thev know that their at- r< tude has the sympathetic | C icking of those who put them h 1 office. In obedience to thisj f( >eling, hypocritical laws are on- ; ti :ted which outwardly seem to^t infnvrvi fIn lftffAynf On- J? nivi "i ui tiiv/ v/v/ji" i.**j itution, but plays the devil with' in spirit. I 'ruler these-circum- > V ances, .conditions and practl-'Q is, a generation .has grown up. it'ajvonder'then that the 18th w mcndment br observed"only by bi \e.-' few ^who would not bother tj ith no strong drink vyere there A ) such thing as that Amend- tl ent and its child, .the Volstead (e< ct? Had not the people already P< ;en too well schooled in disre-'al irding other.Amendments more a< iportant, dealing r?3 they do(ti ith human fights and liberty? 1 o one is nrenareri for the ob-/W rvance of one law l>v the disre-.M rd of an&hor* And yet, the fal-l ty of that'truism-is what one F iholds this country, frying to ,ei :monsi rate today. Then the bw Hything t -.rain. One- 'cctiQn of|C< he country is saying to the pi her; " ' ' ' r( want my liquor,?darn the ti ith Am ondmnnt?leave me a-|tl ne; you don't like the 14th and in ith? you have darned them?'rc lon't 1 other you.-' The ansvyer P rnething to that, we'd better c* ! c Link of nuf.L pedaling on?-the-?? Ith." Mea-mvhile, there is . cuulermcnt over lawlessness,'-*^ * it id re crtmer.tji:' lh. plaything tl P?'t hp happy ^ ? | CI ?hools on'th'd Florence District, jc Rev.. MoCoUum is a rising 'w >ung man. Jit the last session | the South Carolina Conference'01 ild in Greenville early inSBe^fn niber, he cctfr.e very near being V acted as the Secretary of the B inference. IJe -was made the'g( rst Asst. Secretary, and sTiould j * live, and nothing of a serious >f( iture should happen it -is more] 1 ian likely that he will be pro-|p oted to further honors. _|B Rev. McCollum is. a man of eat^vmnath\-^r^md-thi^ enablesj-i m. to lc.ok carefully after the ol :k and poor of his congregation a< id his charity does not stop j si fed ministers of his conference, jm s an. evidence of this he sent ajli tired preacher a small coop of S li/'lf-orio . frvi? ? 1! ..j vrx xnoim."i;iv uiy anil . 'Christmas approached, he hi nt.by express a nice fat turkey! 1 r the retired preacher's Xmas w nner. ' "* w The Scriptures tell us: "He c which soweth sparingly shalbfc ap jvUo jsparinjgjy ; and .he that m owet-h-boumii'u 11y shall reapjsi so bountifully. Every man ac-jol i-dingly as he propose in hiajsc i&rt, so TetTrlmgive; not grudg tc gly, or' of necessity; for God! veth a cheerful giveiv" 2 CorJcc r??? ? fa Rev. McCollum has a wife and Si or G children,but his wife is a bi men in the parsonage. Sheyei ins her husband in the proper N aining of the children. I o? Of N Vnderson County of Registers 100 Per sc Cent for State tG Teachers Association. tT MISS ALICE WERE PUTS di OUNTY "OVER tHE TOP" ' M ?? :? tEENWOOD COUNTY TO RALLY LLENPALE TO HAVE COURT HOUSE MEETING. X t Y, Anderson, Jan^ 31,?Anderson si >unty has registered 100 per a -t-/ . V X) LEADER v ant of the teachers in colored :hools in the;?Palmetto State teachers Association and the st is now in the office of the xecutive Secretary, the check iined uvei lu Mis. 0.~D. Saxon -easurer of the State organize on and receipts and badges are eing sent the teachers. The following is a letter from [iss Alice Webb^-Joanes Superisor of Negro Schools in Andorra Countv to Mr. I. M. A. Mvrs: "Dear Mr. Myers:- The en)Ilment of teachers of Andersor ounty is 112. Each teacher as registered and here is check jr $84 for the State Associaon with our 2fj per cent deduc;d. Anderson County must be i the front rank. Yours' for the work, Alice E robb." ~ ?? j-eenwood Coun. Making Effort Last Saturday, even tho the eathter was bad, they had a tg meeting of Greenwood Counr teaehers in the Court House, large attendance was had and le membership campaign stf1 off well. The following re3rt taken, from the daily press bout the meeting gives a *Tul] :count and tells of the activies of the county leaders on belalf of the State 'Convention hich convenes "-iir?Columbia, iarch 18th-20th. Despite tbejnclement ^weather rid&y more than 45 of 75 teach-s in Negro Schools in Greenood. county assembled in the nmty-eourt housc-at noon. The irpose of the meeting was tc 'Organize ' fhp pnn?itv oecr^TTr _ 0 ? ~W WVI??VJ on, discuss the program for i Negro~ Schools mid to stress ?gistration of members irr the almetto State Teachers' Assoation for Negro teachers in S The meeting was presided ovei y W. H. Hilyard, principal pi he Brewer No/mal school in lis city. The devotional exer? :'ca were conducted by the Rev, amuel Nance, pastor of Westor, hapel A. M. E. Church, Green: OOdr- t'v ... The county assbciation was rganized J^vith tlie following ofzer?:"W. H. Hilyard, president, . A. Heard, vice-president; D. . Holmr.'ri, secretary; J. T. Burass, treasurer. On the executive board, the blowing were appointed: V. A [leard. D. R Hnlmnn w A ' 'tPVflQn, G W Bnflpr, Hpnrgp radley^Jlattie Perrin, Georgia flrkftr. _ Concluding the?organization : the assiciatiori, an instructive ddress was made by T. E. Dorn, jperintendent'. of?education in rccnwood county.,. iMi. Dorn t-ged the Negro teachers to affiate with the county and/the Late teachers'? associations .ressing the fact-that the time ad come in all schools, whether for white people or Negroes, hen preparation of the teacher ill count most and school others have the highest regard >r teachers who are-affiliated ith these associations. He also lid that the great desire for all f the people is to have in the ihools the best type of teachers > 4)e had;? : ? Following the speech by the >unty superintendnet of educaon the work of the Palmetto tate Teachers' Association was 'iefly presented by I. M. A. My s, executive secretary of tne egro Association. The third leaker was Lucy B. Crain of ew York City, a representative ' the American Missionary As>ciation. She is here in the in. rest of Brewer Normal School, hich is under the auspices of le A. M.A. A. response to ad ess was delivered by the Rev. . G. Williams of A. M. E. In the county association, 30 ?rcent of the teachers sent in leir registration for memberlip in the state association^nd large delegation will attend mmd - '"-v"V~" v :' ';'.; ' '-' I the meeting- m Columbia in Mar. M The success of the meeting > in the county court house yes!: terday was due largely to the ef: forts of Principal W. H. Hilyard puf Bruwur Murium auliuul. II? Hs servmg^ his first year as prini cipal of that institution. His efforts have been untiring arid he i is making a splendid impression as to hio fitnooo for the advance ment of the work. Allendale Adopts 7 Richland's Plan. Meeting to be Held in County Court House Feb. 20. Allendale, Jan. 31?We are '1 now sending out ant notices for a meeting 'here of- all county [teachers. Saturday February 20. We showed vour letter to our [ County Superintendent and he was so pleased with the restrlts had in Columbia that he agreed to adopt the same plan used in | Richland County where you had such a glorious meeting and such splendid results. We are gl&d to Jcnow that you j will be with us at our meeting I here on the 20th. The meeting begins at 11:30 and will be held " in the County Court House. . Yours foiv^uccess, Mrs. Louiise Callahan. i ? State College Students Present Attitude of J?Youth on Important f World Problems ? II Orangeburg, slan. 30.?rOn Frijday evening the auditorium of 1. State College .was filled with : 1 students and patrona to hear the Junior ,and Senior College ' Public Sneaking exercises. (jurrent issues of important world problems seemed to j>er. vade the thought of all,-those jects ; are typical examples '\ "Youth's Attitude -v Toward i;World's Problems,"' The New Freedom for Women," TNegro . Education a Challenge to Amerii-l-can Democracy/' The Negro's Future in Business in Business and Education," and "Athletics r in Modern Collegsti' Of equal sigftificance in the , choice of subjects was the em; phasis the -students put upon the Negro's part in the solution of these world problems. In Ne:(gro Business, Miss Maude I. Pat.|terson^-brought out the lack of J success was due to his lack of '.-experience?and- training?and i that he could not hope to succeed until he followed a well r worked scientific system. Mr. ( Robert L. Witherspoon's Chal ,' lenge to American Democracy i} was that there Should be more | equal distrlbutoin of funds and equipment given toward Negro Education on the part of State i and Federal Governments. ! The program was "indeed one jth&t engaged the interest of eviery thoughtful hearer and .showed much effort on the part of all who had worked to make i it a success. | GREENWOOD BUSINESS t ^ LEAGUE? ? The leading Negroes in busi ; | B. A. B1 1 ;; . TAIL* 1 11 Dry Cleaning, Pr | dials Cleaned and ! < For and Deliver. !? 1112 Washingion St., i'J < ,j< r "" ' *** * ' *'* WHEN IN COLUM BROADWAY o EVERYTHING SANITY < :: ?.r FISH an : - IN SF < :: ; D. w. WO : > 1108 Washington Streets . . ? I ' - v. ' . i ! - "iiMir-"- ?' w Saturday Tebrwary 6, 19C6 - ness, such as, Undertakers* Merchants^ Contractors (brick masons and carpenters,) head waiters, etc., organized in the city of Greenwood, S. C., a Negro Busi5 TrgmrLcngiroy - beiM>f-the National League. The purpose of this organiza tion is to create a better cooperative spirit within the racial - group for business ' Its first program is to celebrate a week known as, "The Negro History Week," setting : forth tho accomplishments of the race to date. . The League is ^ asking the Negro Colleges.in ^ the State, to send to the City, H . rpprp^pntntivpfl from the follow-: ing Colleges: Allen, Benedict, " state and Morris, preferably? members of the History. Depart" ments, to speak on the folluwiug subjects: "The Negro Business Matf," "The Negro in the Profes sions/' The^Negro Laborer in - -1gram is observed during the week of February 7-11; The officers of the League are: W. H. Hilyard, President, C. H. Stephens, 1st Vice-President, L, ? C. Waller,"2nd Vice, .William Alexander, 3rd .Vice, A. J. Peterson, 4th Vice, J. T. Percival, Secretary, V. A. Heard,- Asst. - rer:. - . . . WILSON HI. SCHOOL^ ^Florence! ' J^b. 4?The second / semester of the- Wilson High School, began Feb. 1st. Exmih- - ^ ations in the subjects taught du_ ring the first semester were held the preceeding week. The two active "Literary So" del-les of the schuol, the Demos- jd = thenesian and Ciceronian Liteiv ary Societies hold their meetings M nri nltpvnnto FriHow aftovnnnna " uccasionaiiy a joint meeting^isT^i held, when an interesting cur-rent question is debated. The girl's basket ball team has had a>'defeat and a victory A so far this season. _On Saturday ^ Jan.23, the girls journeyed"fo Orangeburg and lost their first V game to the fast Claflin girl's ^ septette. The following Fridays?i__ tlje Wilson Invincibtes-won a de- , eisive victory over the Timmons-' ville"girisr Score 18-3. Miss Glemmie Brown represented ^Wilson ' at the athletic meeting which was held at State College, Orangeburg, January 29th. On February 11, . the "Silver ~ world famous William Singers, ? will entertain in the Wilson Auditorium. We-are looking forward to a special treat in high jplass music. ??-r? \ ? -? Martin & Thurman Plectrical Contractors ~ LICENSED AND BONDED Phones 8723?8854 z ? ~ v ' i i,i- > ? ? - 1 . I . > i- ' Columbia, S. C. : _1 .iOCKER . RING ;; easing and Dyeing ! I .blocked. - We CaU ??-?\ [ <> hone 3814 Columbia, S. C. | [BIA, EAT AT THE - ? ? U~ DAIRY CAFE : VRY AND UP-TO-DATE id GAME ?: : :ason. - : ODS, Prop. Ctlumbl^ S. C; -i r??^