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FOUR . / The Palmetto Leader ,. -r? " Published Weekly By , The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co . , . ' ' - ' r - ?- - i^FRKii*- ? COLUMBIA, S. C. r. mmm ' ' > Entered at the Post Olltce at ColuiU [ . " ?bkhr- S. C.i aa Second Clash Matter ;;..J TELEPHONE - 4o& N. J. FREDERICK, KdUoi A. B. LINDSEY, ...Managing Edito J. B. LEWIE Fraternal Edito , . W. FRANK WILLI AM ^ . ' "Contributing1 Edito: HENRY D. PEARSON City Edito GEO. H. HAMPTON, .. - Manatee SUBSCRIPTION It A l'ES: ^ r^ AS11 IN ADVANCE. . One Year ... ... _ $2.0i 7?- Six Months l-2i Three Months . .71 .. Single Copy Advertising Kate* given Oft 1 flppll cation. = Communications intended fo the current issue must read this oflicer (if out of town) no ; later than Tuesday night. Ci , ty news by Wednesday night Saturday. Febrrprv 1?. February Is the anniversar month of three distinguishet Americans, George Washington ~ the "Father of his Country;' of his Country" and Frederic! Orator. v 1 ; : m m * : : The Mississippi House of Pe preventatives passed by a two t< ZHHHZjr.. uuC > uXl all Lnti ovolution- bill It however would be doing mor for^ thp cause of God and civili zation- to pass a bill to malo the burning?of human?being: alive a crime down there. The Prohibition - question i ! : cloimvu nn-ifnti'r.Vi .i-i'fl-. (U WW ? w J w* *- *-? "nil "'Iitn ?n country has been bothered. Jus , as "'many people professed no to believe in slavery but heli slaves, so are-there many wh profess a belief in prohibition but drink .their ^iquor J.dike ; gentleman." - * ---m?o - .? The Notional Baptist Sunda: School Congress \Vill hold it; annual session.in this City, Jun o 9-14.. It is said that there wil be between 5,000 and 8,0Qp fieri 1 ??from without the Stale:?fha being true, it would seem th< part of wisdom, for everyone t< pull together instead of stoppipi now to discuss the - question o who invited .the Congress. - ?? > .' ? A fpw rrmrifVia 4l->, -* ?? t.w ( i t ** ao in* Federal Council of Churches o Christ that indicted the ope ration of the Volstead Act. Nov " comes the Church Temperanci ' .Society. of_the_Prote-stant-Epis copal Church condemning th< same Act along practically tin same lines.- Meanwhile the^boof legggrs are one hundred per cen ??? _ ?or the upholding -of the Act.? Clraence Darrow, the eminen lawyer r.-ddressing a colored boys - club, is reported as saying: "I I were a colored man,"" I wouh never sajute the American Flag ..... for America has never done any thing but rob VOU." We rannn ? agree with that, Mr. Darrow. Foi us, that flag stands as the rain bow of hope7 "Our blood and toi along with fhaiPbf your Tac< have made it a worthwhile em * '" blem. True, it does not mear as much now to us as it does t< your race. Yet there was a tim< not so far distant that it is for gotten when it didn't mean a: much as it even does to-day. W< will therefore work oh, hop< and trust that in God's own tim< ?the God whom you doubt? the American flag will mean th< same thing to all loyal Americar citizens. KENTUCKY UPHOLDS LAW Florida does not mind beinj known as the State of lawless ness, lynching being but a recre ation.^ MIsaiiUippi glories in th< . _ . . . . ,' / fact that burning of human xjttrT^^Tn-3T7-t-}i but Kentucky believes in holding! up itself as a State where law U>nd order must be upheld, where! ^vmlraattoirr? bottomed upon?> . Christianity means something. r -; And in emphasizing that ozt, l i Reading of the war-like material v r and soldiers gathered together t r last week to insure the safe Iri- fc r i?l of a criminal, one would think c " it was an account of some sec- c tor in waf' ridden France during s P|the World War did he hot knowjj it was Lexington, a City in that c State, The- criminal wfrs tried { 11 according to law and condemned f 5 to his punishment. Thanks to ( 5 officials who know their duty-^nd t } had courage to perform it. there | ' was no lynching,?Most lynch- ^ , ings after all, are but the result t _ of cowr-rdlv surrender of more 1 , cowardly officers/ No crime can l ["be so Ire'nicus as to justify the c breaking down of law and order, j After all, what .does civilization i ' ? j . 1 - mean if not the'doing of things .< according to the plans laid down \ : by society? _Jt certainly does not i / mer-y.theabsonce of crime; if so, j i there has ntwer begnr such * j i,-a thing, as civilization, for there !| " have beep crimes and criminals f r ^ircc t arn tirstrslew Abel. ~7T i No sensil.de person sympathise ( y with eriminials and^H goo<l~efti?t ; zcns do what they can to prevent c crimes or crimes having been j - committed, give.whatever aid \ o within their power to apprehend ^ such. In'the Kentucky e it is of interest too to note that r ctr? V - while the criminal was a colored. , e man it was a colored man that f f gave ihe alarm and pointed oot . iL . ! ' 1 mi_ * a _ _ i A i i trie_nrinj.ir.t>:. ine rnai or n,a- . ward Ha)Tt?-co't Kentucky much [. s in dollars acid cents, but it was e worth-e ve?*y-penri$; of-it tu Ken- , e tucky. 1 ^ : ?t?p t- / ; 'l t "A p.MiKY? HENRY LINCi. OLN JOHNSON" * . y 0 In the issue of February 6th,;c a Col'ierV.^YVeekly. appears an aiv ^ Ej tfrlc written J y. Mary Lina Bledi:sce entitled", ''The Best Negroes in the World." The article j treats in apraiiewprthy way of 8. theifi-eat. meeting held in Richer r.ioSl, Va., of the colored Elks'. 1 It will be remembered that this j e Southern City at first was a lit-;' t tie skeptical" about the result of r e 80.000 colored people coming to- j a gether in it. It-had never seen., I - p. h n rmlhcvinp of cnlnrerl pen- ^ f pie -acrd for that matter such a gathering of colored noonlu and 1 ro'- llif'T nrEl 1 tor srf-h a gather. , a- ing had never been seen by any f Southern City. But the host c - c:-'ne. held their meeting and de- j v .1 art0(1 withjiul a single untoward | ' 3 incident. The-writer tells of the j --meeting in-a jdeasing-roaaner?-L. 3 all to one thing. And that one 2 (Viii g robs it of wh;>t otherwise vvouId have beena most graclous t account which no doubt it was ? iniendod to be.-? Referring - to t the speeches made, the writer J\ t uivs: "But the real oratory t came from a darky, Henry Linc-U f oln Johnson of Atlanta, legal ad-4 1 visor of the Oyder." Now if jc ? -j_i??w utrrtttrgtrt?ri~.c - t.Iui sperker, why couldn't . the [ r "a_darkyV" It make> r.o differ^ - ehoe how kindly the word ]1 ~darky"- is used or what-expla-42 n:?'.ion one may give l'or its use, ( - colored people of intelligence and v 2 (ra:nirg don't like the term any-r! > more than they like "nigger/' or c 2 "Negress" when applying to r - their women. Darky is slang, v * nigger ignorarfl^ppand Negress J 2 crude. Of course, people who t 2 care nothing for other people's r i reciing3 don't .mind using any \ - of those terms-. In fact, they x \ rather resent the idea of the fel- c * low'upon whom such endercing r i terms are visited not smiling and thanking them for calling him . anything at all. No one ho\V- J 'ever likes to be called out of his t I name nor to have applied to him nanies^jvhich commote?some--t - thing unworthy of respect,,. It t ) may please the user of the words % - ,-HW' " *' TffEPALMEl but it certainly does not the learers. iT"rr" ATLANTA THE LIMIT ..^Within the last twenty-five starrer ttartr li?sv? ^eeh"Tnany~ nean, uncalled for and irritating aws passed against the colored leopTe of the South. One must" vonder if there is ne^er going o be an end to such display of >rutal power. The statute books ' >f America are certainly a sad ommentary upon what is known ts democracy.?One would hr>ve o go to India to find anything :omparable to the things made tnd provided in these statute >coks. No where else on earth lr> thoy pxist. Hilt fif fill fhfl hings concocted and devised by ittlo mindn, the latest effort ofj* Vtlanta, Ga., the "Gate Citjrofy he South," as she proudly I )casts. takes the nrize. At. thf*' )ehest of inefficient white barbers, Atlanta/ City Council has )assed an ordinance which would prohibit Negro barbers from! serving white patrons. All th&t. Smains.tp make this monstrosty a taw is the signature of the Mayor. ' That he will sign it is hardly j o be doubted, for he will want1 he votes of the white barbers ind. their friends* just ?3 those ^ity, Councilmen who danced at -bc^oraek ~6f~thcir' whips. 'The4 olored barbers and their friends can t vote and therefore any: treatment given them Can be j done with impunity?another; )eautiful illustration of why col>recT people are better off with-1 out tne oa>uot as tfteir white ' 'riends will take care of them better \than they could them- j elvc^! , r The reasoiv of this "fair and list" law is the prosperity of he colored barbers serving white trade. The largest ajid most1 nndsome barber shop of this cind in Atlanta is that of a col>red man, A. F. Herndon. Be ause of the service'given Jiehas iecorhe quite wealthy and the ^hite barbers don't like it. They could-stop therefore by legis-j ation wnat tney cannot prevent1. iy energetic -intelligent and >;ea*ing ?<H*V1<56. ,r"~~ ===r" Tho hypocrisy of the law is hown .too in t-he provision that 10 white br-rber shall serve coh , red patrons. How some peo-l, >le can do something without1 tarting a - laugh that can b(T~ leard around the world is a myster.y. Of course, we hardly hink that the Negroes ot Atlan^T a will acceptTsuchx' joke withrj. >ut testing it in every Court in; Vmerica. But Atlanta, oh Atanta.! . rllNTITERS' UNION OF SUM3TERVU.EE PASS RESOLU-j TIONS ON THE DEATH OF DR. J. H. ALSTON. The deceased John Henry Als-i on born of humble parentage, vhose father was an able minister, was an individual-o^-axtra>rdinary personality and an afablo friend. A large concourse >f friends from, the surrounding vuuty- and all of the?colored >hysicians of the city of Charleson together with the white phy Ji^ansoi nis native town were ) re sent af Ms funeral. Hv_Coi? of New York My, a friend of the deceased, vas asked to go to the City and | teliver the eulogyy. He spoke >f his life and worth,and the!" narvelous achievements he had vrought in his native town. Dr. ohn M. Thompson read the Obiuary. Dr. W. H. Thorne anlounced the telegrams of sym>athy and letters of copdolance vhich were also many and a set if resolutions from the Ministe ial Union of Summerville. Resolutions Wheree>3, Die late Dr. J. H. Vlston, the noble leader of men. he sweet spirited Doctor; the tireless worker for humanity, h? big hearted friend to all, the~ nan of the hour, and the Neheniah of his day. ? . * 'i * 0 % i . . k . r - TO LEADER 1st. Resolved, That we tender ,Or to his family our heartfelt sym- (Le pathy in their hours of grief and S. sadness. . j Co 2nd. Resolved, That we pray i Or Gbd's rlchestBTessfngs uponThern Fo in all their undertakings and at am the end of a perfect day that Nc little ramily will meet to part no ^ more. * MtS Ministers' Union, Summer, 'fai yilje, South uarohna. Han Signed: M. A. Hollis, Pres.; mi P.E. Mingo, Sect. . |a. r History. .. |E. - \ v" ^ TVl John Henry Alston, Doctor of Medicine; born January 17, 1869 5.1 at Charleston, South Carolina 0 the first of twelye sons bora to Q a uev. Antnony Alston and sytvia Alston. At a very early age he ^ r came to Summerville, South Ca-, ' rolina with his parents where his! / ii * ? ? *** iaraer iounaea tne mrst tiap- ivn tist Church of this City. js.1 Dr. Alston finished the local Mr school of Summerville and his S. preparatory training was re- les ceived at -Cookman Baptist Po School, Jacksonville, Florida. M. From there he entered the Leon- Mr ard Medical College of Shaw U- Y. niversity on March 20, 1893.! tor After graduation he immedi- ^ ' ately entered in upon the prac-'^g tice ofMeuicme iir nis^ home r town. He was the pioneer Negro ^ physician of Dorchester County and one of the oldest Negro physicians of the State. 1896 to Mary Judith Bamfield ple of Charleston, South Carolina. ^ j From this union was t?orn one daughter, Rosamond Alethia Alston, who with her mother sur-'p vires the deceased. As the re- 0psuits of the untiring efforts of ap{ Dr. Alston, the Alston Graded School was founded. The construction of the?buiteHhg was ^rC started July 1908 and was com-1 pleted for occupancy November Q 1910. This school has proVed-^3: a "blessing to the Negro youth of ' * this County and adjoining Coun- ^ ' ties and an undying memorial " to the memory of so public a e spirited citizen. During the influenza epidemic jV. in Summerville in 1918, Dr. Als- t 1 ton almost alone took rare of the stricken of both races, working night and day .unmindful of the " " self-giving service to humanity . For such service the Am6rican Red Cross with headquart- ^ with a^Medal of Honor. |.to In 1922, Dr. Alston founded )0J Arthur- R.I.oe Hospital This was the realization of the ideas of Arthur B. Lee. It was Mr! ^ Lee's dying request that Dr. Alston carry on and foster such cer an institution for colored people. ;|)CT In the last years of Dr. Alston's j'al< life he devoted the greater part j of his time to the perfection of wa the nresent institution and at the time of his death was the!P" President of the A. B. Lee Hos- ;^n pita! Association.??________in No one can gainsay the fact that .Dr^.Alston was the great- j est benefactor of his race in the 12, history of Dorchester County. iTh Undoubtedly through his ef- by forts-more was done for the up-jadj lift of humanity and by his ex- ] ample muctv -was accomplished! ? to maintain and keep a most j ~ "amicable" relationship between f the two races. -- f Telegrams T?f Sympathy | Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gadsden, i.? City. Rev. and Mrs. E. L. Bas-X kerville, Charleston, S.. C.,Dr |$ Mrs. Bryant & Daughter, Ashe- X ville, N. C. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. % Robinson, Darlington, S. C. Mr. ^ end Mrs. Frank Kelley, St. Augustine, Fla. Dr. and Mrs. M. O. JI Dumas, Washington, D. C. Pres. 11 John M. Gandy, Va. Normal ' School, Petersburg, Va. Mr. and ! Mrs. B.C. Johnson, Charleston, 'T S. C. Rev. W. H. Sinkler, St. Ste-1 I 4 > phens, S. C. Rev. W. M. Jackson ;; Washington, D_Cr-*Mrs. Hi L~ Bampfield and family, Charlotte, ;; N. C, Miss Asalee Mitchell, New ;; York City. Misu Isabel Herlong, p State College, Orangeburg, S. C. : Misa NaU Houston, State College, f. 'v / " ' r\.;~ " % <r angeburg, S. C. Mr. Samuel e and Family, Monck's Corner C. Mr. R. A. Ready* MonekV rner, S. C. Mrs. Sadie Smitji angeburg,; S;. C. MissjFbre!k rdham, Orangeburg, IS. C. Mr d Mrs. Daniel Hogan ,Syracuse !W York; Miss Myrtle TeaJ igyncy Institute, Cheney, ra \~and MrsTTTohn ' Hilton anc nily, Washington, D. C* 2VTr d Mrs. J. R. Robfnsen rud Fa ly. Syracuse, New York. Rev C. Griggs, Augusta, Ga. Bro H. Coit, NeucYoxk City. Bro omas H. Alston, New Yorl< :y. Bro. Jeremiah Alston. New >rk City., Miss L. C. Laney, lines Inst.,. Augusta, Ga. Mis* rq Fugott, WQ.-t Chc.der, Pa, . Louis Noisette, New Rochelle -?7= ' ? \ * Titers of OtirHenre ss Julia- B. Leslie, Charleston, n i*f.. n r t-"i 11 1 __ o. mrs. iyi. r. rengai'ey, iny, s. M. R. teeBetV,' Charleston', C. Mrs. Emma Nelson, Charton, "S. C. Mr. and Mrs. C. E gue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs, 0. Dumas, Washington, D. C S. M. E. Mimms, Brooklyn. N, Mrs. M. E. Craft, Washing1, D. C. Dr. and Mrs. R. S lkinson, President State Co!;e, Orangeburg, S. C. .Mrs, )TES FROM THE riic .Ministers' -Union- nvd esday Feb. 9th at 12 o'cJoclCtSl ! First Calvary Baptist Chlircd [lev. E. A. Adanr-, the Pro i e assistant secretary. Rev. J Washington, read. thoAninut-e> he last meeting, \viuch- wort Droved. ? A'he-following pastors were (sent: Dr. G. T. Dillard, Re? E. I.omax, Rev. E. A. Adams. v. D. G. RoMmon, Rev. X. S. ijf.Vi/Rpy^ H. W. Loner ar.d Rev, P. Watson... The follqwimCvizirs were prePrefzT. I., ckett of Benedict College and an 1. H. Al-ton of Aden LnFsity. Prof. Duckett called 1 he ention jaf the pttstors lo the rd Annual givTierirpr of the Ider Bcyjf Conference" which i convene, in t-o'um'na on M 27-28. The sessions wilfTiC d in the., chapel -at. Benedict lege.U He" asked the co-operan of the posters in caring for s boys. Each pastor agree i provide homes for ro many TsT They will bring the matto the attention of their conDean Alston invited the Union take part in a musical cont at Allen University for the lefit of the school. The Union :l the mat\*i\on the tah.V for rther -Consideration. B it: it s suggested that Dc.-n A!. i permitted to come to the Ion and select from the Urn i any who wilh volunteer tc g.U T-b is .Concert.1wilLcome. oil )ut March 1st. The Union agreed to meet at o'clock and adjourn at 1 ::>0. e benediction was pronounced Kev. Lomax ?>:ul the Uniot) iourixed. ,-i Rev. I, E, Lowery, ReporterT V V VM1' V' \* '>*1* ' V li. A. i>j ....V- Jjry Uicauiutf,..M . iiulh l/l?-ai;cu Ui.tl i <JI UliU UtJilV Vi . 1112 Washingia*) ?u.. iJ ,MhM>*Jh'V!'m5'' W*,??'?*% ?*??* i'I /?? , W;IJJ;N IN coi.r^ BROADWAY EVERYTWN.O SAMT FISH ai IN SI TV W. WLC 1108 Washington Street, ! ! , * , J ' * ' \ 9 ' Saturday, February IS, 1926. ^ f" (>F/riISEMANE BAPTIST , i UNION AND CONVENTION T The Cetivserhane BaptistTTJn- ||" 'on held one of the very best ses- h ' ;if lIl> Brookland Baptist j Church, we. have ever experi- ? rVi. enccd in.the histoYy of that body Saturday was a rainy day the ' ^ en live day, hence we. had no ses*.ior of the Union until Sunday. For c ine davs must be dark J ^ Our Front Line Sujiday School was ccnclycted by Supt., L. C. Mm* ' CpcU of the New Brookland Sun- \m'> day School and Supt. Bookhart Cqf the-St. John Sunday School. d?Mnuy helpful,talks wcre_niade_. yB_-. | bv the various mp.mhpra.nf the JMJ "Union. ~ id At 11:30 A. M., the Missionary 1 Sermon was preached by the "1 ' _Pjr^ TI. T. Hampton, pastor of I iTcrip.'s of Zion, fend St. Matthefcr" 1 No. 2." Bro. Hampton proved J himself a workman which need- ' eth.rbt be ashamed for greats 1 wa"s'The''praise everywhere of " ::Tje sei*iioiL__:, In .'the afternoon, Dr.'* J. C. VJiiic.and all the host of Zion , ident of this Union, from its orr-'inzation till now. Rev. Bro. ' ns work as he had so much to ' - -o. Tli.yUnion elratefl Rev. TV P. Peterson, President; Supt . Booklutrt, Vice-President Lie. ... ~ ' - . \.y. i.. mmvell, Secretary, Key. E. T. Hampton, Asst. Secretary, Re v. J. M.. Myp-s, Treasurer; . Doaeqji, RobertsJjf. 2nd Calvary, I r A <t?l]Von ninel1. The F; irwold Home Jjirls sang ~^B idiful double quartettes.jM B . j-Mrs. M::r!.in made a splendidfl ! ch kdl'ng of the needs of thB ainvold School. \vmour Carroll made a^^^B !''vc--t on the importance?7 of Humane Education, Jt was in- Bfl j. - 1; us 1 i v e r. n d animating; ~ ^B [. -?. >ViH?am D.rtobinsoir the jfM 5:'I'dcnt-n, ct - gave several . of fl B T Prof. f. L. Duckett, ably re- ^^B rro.'CViirg Benedict College. ^|j| . 1 J. W.. .bhci]oy tatlco^ oT .the '?-M ' vk of 1 he Baptist State Con- '* '1 vcrftibri; ? . fl 7 Mr. I. S7T7eevy, ftferchiDnttail- "^j , ' ? Prince made also a rousing p-a'k-;-n the Needs of the Fair- a \1' 1 So' ooh B T -r r;7.00 was Collected in the r.f: crncon. ~t 'j bo rr::i tension 01 the Union 1 mill-he v/i;h-{he Temple of Zion ? J Bc'.l: t Chtu'ch, four miles north ? \ ( " Columbia, Rev. E. T. Hampton ' ? J ' Pa.-tor. ; J " .* O - .vial tin . oc l nurman % >i Licctrual Contractors , n ' li;:lnsi:d and bonded i'Kones 6723-8854 ? i i ' - i 1 .*?!? Columbia, S. C. LQCivEU ^ ouu\(; - . - ; ;; ' \ and Dyeing - . * < I'iUv-KsjU. Vvt Ciiil J I *> iumu ooii CoiiJmtrta,; a,X. H r' IH! V, r,\T AT TJIE ... DAIRY CAFE, t * VlTV V N1) 111 '-TO I ) ATE ! I id GAME ? :: ,t ? 2 A SON. . ; ;; K)I)S, Prop. ?:;? Columbia, 8. C. ***