Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' W ^STH^^APE^^^V ^ DEVOTED TO THE II / ' INTERESTS O K || U| THEM^EOPLE^^jl X ?--- voLii?No.ro. ' ? ?? "NEGRfl BY R. SHAW mil emsnii ? ibiiiiivvn PRESIDENT OF " -?^STATE COLLEGE '# * Miss Mary McSkimmon Delivers Address of Hope and Inspiration To our People TWO KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ? : J 2,000 Teachers Attend?Address Of Prp'a. Wilkinson Published - In Full One of "the keynote speakers yes- terday at the annual convention of the Palmetto State Teachers' Association was Dr. -R. S. Wilkinson, of .] > College. ' - Miss Mary McSkimmon followed _ " ^L?j~ . h i ?v- I?ii I Ik (m R. S. WILKINSON^j ^Palmetto State Teachers' Asso_ * ciation. , ;J . ' " \Dr. Wilkinson with -ah address of ? hope and?jnnpiration 'to our ppnple . The Leader Vs^givinp: "the address at President Wilkinson to its readers and to the teachers who did not at- i tend the convention. The address of < the President of State College was j ?8 follows: J : . An attempt*.#! traemg our eduea~ ' tionaT~prog~ress in south "Carolina dh- * til recent years would be as fruit- ( =4cju au teoking-tho trail oi-A_?ar4tfie^through the Atlantic Ocean.?The first notation of a school for free-Negroes in the State bears the date of ~ 1740,?thirty years before the Reyv lutlon. it was estftbltnhod by a Reverend Gai-den, at Charleston, mission ary for his people under the direction this schol was closed for reasons difthe Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 1764 of the Society for the Propagation of ficult to determiner Inasmuch as a on the subject "Negro Education in subsequent, speaker will address you Charleston Prior to 1861," I shall leave outstanding details of the past 1 to him and trace -lha._.t.hrenrls recent-!1 >y wnven intn thn fihro nf nnr educaXional progress by contemporary records. improve primitive Conditions in our,1 Previous to 1917 meagre efforts toT*" schools were instituted from time .to time, but In general brought poor re- ^ L aulta . because of a static public con- 1 ^ sciousness that to "educate aruraT1 Negro was to spoil a good" field hand-" 1 State Snuperintendent of Education, 1 y J. E. SwearingXon, realizing fullytha < jjmporl of this?situation referred "to 1 ? {f cautiously in his T917 Report to! ?v?*>vJ,ei*siature ag call attefli^00 a&ain to the status of ' Negro scho#!8' the situation of these 1 1 schools demaW3 careful discussion. !'| Nearly every our cities and towns suppoi tR^BPc'ent? well-organ?tzed schols. Th^fcroblem ia> there* 1 fore, entirely rund^,In my ?Pinion , It tonghes vitatly om^Pn^mental ' dustries in every f4>rm^^ The- money now expeiM?^ ^or ?l9P?f0 ed^^ton 1? largely Toasted becbiirc^" the absolute incompetency unfitness of Negro teacilprs. For i jj^yearS the State has supported the ; Negro college at Orangeburg, and ( graduates of this College are quickly jj absorbed in the trades and industries. Its department of normal training r could be strengthened with great bsneflt tb ths public schools for Nsgross. It must undertaks ths^gaininr of (Contiiluod on Pago Four) gel; TRnnp<; WILL NOT NEGRO LEADERS GIVE COMMAND Birm'gham Provide Segregation For Negroes in Municipal ?_ Auditorium GROSS INJUSTICE, TO RACE No City Ordinance Demanding Segregation Untif After Race^ Meeting Oni.~ February 8. Nashville, "Tenn., Mar. 12? (AP)?National Negro religious leaders last nijght announced thai Negroes Would not participate in the~ International Sunday School Convention to be held ir Birmingham,* Ala., April|rl2-18. Negro leaders tookj-e^ceptior to the adoption of a re^qlptin by the. commission iof the' cjty oi * Birmingham whidh provided that Negroes should be segregated in tbA mivrjjpjpal auditorium ll llllll w'rtMltnni-tAv. ?-4-.. . A resolution adopted at a meeting rof Negro spokesmen said: "We recommend that-all our people remain away from the Birmingham session of-the international convention and have nothing- to do-with that particular session of the council. The deciding factor in coming to this conclusion w&3 the fact that we learned there was no city audience demanding segregation at the auditorium until after our meeting of Feb, 8 and we felt S gross injustice had beerf done our people." i? In issuing this statement, Dr, S. N. Vass, chairman of the colored section of the international council 'of religious 'education, and secretary of religious eduConventiom, (Negro) and Dr. J'. A. Mart,?^1 ? Morris College to get $100,000 Endowment Fund Thru Negro Bap tists of S. C. A meeting of the three heads aof the Baptist State Conventions viz: Rev. J. S. Earle, President of the Educational and Missionary Convention; Rev. J. C. White, President of the State Sunday School and B. Y, P. U. Convention; and Mrs.?Cornie N. Jones, l'resid6nt & the Wumtn'a Missionary and Educational Convention of South Carolina, together with Dr. R. W. Baylor, Chairman of the Trustee Board of Morris College and Dr. J. J. Starksl-,- \he President of Morris College met at the office of Morria College Sumter, S. C., last Wednes^ Jay, March 10th, and went aver plans by which the Negro Baptists of South Carolina would raise $100,000 fund to endow Morris College. The three state executive boards will -be called to meet in Columbia m Wedr?1")', Apiiil Irithi tn ngran to these plans?and they will be sent jp to three annual bodies which meet in May at Georgetown; in June at Union and at Anderson in July. _.The financial-drive will begin August 1st, 1920*. ? CAROLINA FERGUSON ANSWERS FINAL SUMMON& News reached the city that Mr. Carolina A. Ferguson died in Jersey City, N. J.? on Wednesday morning and that the body will be brought to Columbia for burial. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Columbia was Mr. Ferguson's home and it was here he spent the major portion of his lifs. His many friends in Columbia and .the state ol South Carolina will ba greatly saddened to 1 tarn af his deaifc. if ? -- ?? COLUMBIA. S., C., SAT NOT NEEE ATTEND SI TEXAS SURVE ST. LOUiS GROU CONCERTED EFFORT BY 21 GROUPS Residential Districts With Detinitely fixed Boundaries WI1ITR it. E. MEN LEAD The Organization Is Composed Real Estate Men, Merchants And Business Men '[ A.cont'd'Icd oflfartrby 21 organs 1 izations in Hie City of St. Louis, I Missourtr to establish _exclu1 siOn of Negroes from residential Hd\slricts willi 'definitely fixed hoiindflries/is being met by the 1 local Branch of the N. A. A. C. P.. which has organized a spq1 rial mmmiUpp to obtain merri,l?o.>v.. wml i i i m finirii tn mnnf n_ 1 mergeneic.- 'as they may arise. | J ernes II. Tanter, Secretary of the St. Louis Branch, writes to 5 th^ National office in New York : "1 "There has been instituted pro ! paganda to prevent the Negroes from occupying premises in cer! tain localities in ?t. Louis^ Boun-! ' daries have been formed and. a ' perfectly organized effort has Lheon^established to accomplish ' these "aims of . the whfteTeal esV| tate agents. Twenty-one organ-" ' izBtiom have banded themselves with well laid plans to keep the Negroes from purchasing or rent ' ing houses only in the localities they have selected for them. This organization is composed | of real pstate men, merchants,' end business men oFevery pro" fession. i he agreement as. laid out, or in other words, the con-; -stitntinn of tl^organization, is in our hands. . . .. . . The : Branch) has authorized a comj ' mittee. and that Committee has ( worked out a plan to comb the | City for membership and defense funds to be used as emergency arises We have something like 30 organizaj tions. AH are willingly desirous of working with the Associa- j tion's Branch." _.x .Uouisiana Segregation Up To U. Supreme i w. Court. ! Dr. George "Wn-t?fMr PresH dent of the New Orleans Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., reports that the residential segregation case, or i gma t in glrrtrhat-City-on-which adverse decisions have been ren cierea uy btate uourts, is now - ready?for?presentation on appeal to the United States Sujpt*PT?P Court' in Washington, The N?'A. A.-C. P. wih~baF?rltjr! ; fight in this case on the Louis- j ' ville Segregaation Case, won in' the Supreme Court in 1917, by! Moorfield Storeys President of the N. A. A. C. P.t in which the '.Supreme Court held that ord?' nances of States or municipali; gregation were unconstitutional, j , I Th?v New Orleans case origin-^ , ates in a Louisiana State Law, dii f ., Erecting violating the Supreme ' Court's decision, enabling the '..City of New Orleans to establish I ' J colored and white zones, into - which no citizen-of either race! . could move without unanimous; jconsent of the other group. ->-r- - - L^.,4rHfkh hiifai^ vAt irtfri tto M URDAY'MARCH 20," 1926.T 1 i " ,-j' >ED TO PE JNDAY SCH :ys homes of nn r> %. r? m.-*-.- - ra DHRTWimKOfcb - PRESSES ASSAULT CASENew York, N. Y. Mar. 17? The Brooklyn Branch of the National Association?for?t-he?Advancement of Colored People has armounced-its intention of pressing charges against Patrolman Thomas McAuliffe, who is ac-~ cused of having beaten and threatened two women because one of them, Mrs. Estelle Benson . 39| ? ' w a i! In^K HH C. A. LAWSON < President of the-Palmetto ' State Te'^heV Association. ? :?- ' : 11 a colored woman h&jl.refused tcf j go out with him. The white pa-j^ trolman was arrested on charges j of felonious assault and held in;i ?3.500 hail which was furnished ^ by a bonding company. Mrs. Benson's complaint recttes""that the patrolman stopped | her on the street and invited her ( to enter-his car. When she re-j^ fused, he punched her, knocked' 11 rii-i n ,p?ll -herr.down^4ra>gged-her across the! Street and threatened her with J his rpvnlvpr"^second CuiIH)laint~| substantiating^ Mrs. Benson's charges was made by Miss, Ce.celia Tlioulaer^vhite, who went? to h&r aid and was herself struck b O. D. ^Williams, Secretary of . i the Brooklyn N. A. A. C. P.I 'states that Stanley Douglass, an .attorney of .2QjQ_Broadway will^ DVPQQ fVlO V* C.vrrno onrolnof ^n r4 v??u-i 6V.O U^UIHOL LI1C fcJc*- j ptrolm^n, and that the N. A. A. C. P. will seek to have the cafe I * 1 5 taken from the jurisdiction of .the magistrate's court to a high- j re court. Civil action is also To be instituted in behalf of Mrs. Benson a-gainst the patrolman,V, ORANGEBURG MASONS HAVE j ANNUAL ELECTION. I _ : ^\i ?Grangehwfg,-Sr-C.r March 6,?Edis-j* to Lodge No. 39, Free and Accepted ^ Masons, had their annual elections * here oh Tuesday nightwhen the following officers were elected: President R. S. Wilkinson, of State College ^ was made WoT^TupTuT Master1? Frctfce D. Kenerly, local merchant, Senior ^ Warden; S. R. Green, local physician Junior Warden; J. W. Kepper, State ^ College professor, Secretary; W. W. Williams, State College instructor in Blacksmithing and -Wheelwright, ' j Treasurer; .L-Dr Rhodes, Chaplain, A., n HaynesP, Tiler; J. A- fierce, Seniorjc Deacon; J.< W. McPherson, -Junior'^ Deacon; T. D. Small and J. SfjDick' c son, Stewards. The trustees election ^ was. postponed until the next meet- s ing. li The local lodge is'composed of some ^ of the best citizeflJ^of Orangeburg a and has the-enviable reputation of j, being one of the beat and liveliest j lodges in the State. g ._w-? ' Ay?Ir. * - . A.. NLT ,V - . - c- * raDet EB {EVENT L OOL MEET BOTH RACES TEXAS CIVIC LEAGUE SURVEYS zu rer.Cent Owned By Negroes Should Be Destroyed Says.j^ Interracial Committee? There Is. No Bath, Toilet Nor Water In 66 Per Cent Of Negro Homes Examined-r.i , t : ; __New York, Mar* 15?Elmer Scott, Executive Secretary of the Civic Federation of Dallas,; Texas has sent to the Rational1 Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a report on a survey made on housing of: both Negroes and-whites in the t City of Dallas, by the .Dallas Interracial Committee. . ?The report statesThat: "In the' lace ui. appalling ubslacles, liume* ownership a-nd respectable home! and household conditions are fuly evidenced by the facts . . There is no evidence that the Negroes of Dallas seek residential quarters among the whites^ "in order to be among the whites." The thrifty and self-respecting Negroes' only endeavor in this especi is to nnd a place where n peace and iecuritjV-witlL_and _ 'or their own people, they may ] iave opportunity for a respecta- , lie home life with the. common environmental?privileges?and } conveniences which belong to de- 1 cent living." ^" "7 The report finds that a frequent cause of friction between |:he races lies in th exploitation 1 if the Negro_ by readers, often.,! -vhite ^traders, andUhat the Negro is exploited by "shacks unit for habitation," which "pro-1 iuce shocking revenue*r?-^that4 nany homes have no convenien-,' ces, are left in bacTTebair, and; hat: "In purchases the Negro 1 s frequently mulcted in his pur chase to the extent of 25 per;( cent or more beyond what a J tvhde purchaser would pay." 1 Almost 20 per cent of the hou- 1 ses inhabited by Negroes are in } such a bad condition that they * should be destroyed, the report^ mdsr there being no bath, toilet 3 >r water in 66 per cent of them < 1; : i lc JXctiiiiueu. j* The survey, twoard the eXpen- < ;es of which the Negroes contri- i )uted $125.00, is regarded as an * mcourag.ing effort on the part of I iJSouthern City to discover and 'ace facts besfring on the rela-*< ions of the races. - ^ r ' r? ; j _ s Harbison and Allen Tie ? - - 1 iame Called Acconnt Darkness ] 1 ? s Loonc, Allen's Premier Unable to Hit f i Irmo, March 12.?In .Harbison Colore Park, March 12th, Coach Perrin j ind his gang ran into as much as they , ould handle when they met Coach trchie and his peppery squad of Har- t >ison. - But after much determined ipposition tljey were only able to reak even. J. E. Hall hurled the first! ix innincs. usine his submarine and r lad Allen at his mercy. Sol Koone, ( tllen's most noted stickman, was not c ble to lift one across the fence. r Hall and Vpnce, the opening battery ' tald Allan down, aftar which T. H. t lope and R. W. Steele, eloaed the ;ame seven to seven. i ^SUBSCRIBE ANI^ * ADVERTISE?Cur^ rent, Social lind General News. " ' o 5c A COPY OUTH ? RQLINA , j YNCHING ATT ACKS 2 RACE GIRLS ONE 11 YEARS OLD THE OTHER 17 Recently 1,000 .Troops Were Called Out To Prevent The tt Lynching Of a Negro NO TROOPS CALLED AS YET Both Girls Identify Young White Man As Their Attacker As Attacker After ArresT ~' l,000~State troops were calk'd ??IHJlV A. MYERSExecutive Secretaryof the " Palmetto State Teachers' Association.. ?,.i ' . ?. 3ut 'recently to prevent lynching .? of a colored man accused oV murder, a white man has heemarre^year old colored ginh.and attack upon a 17-year old girl, accordjtf^ to reports received by the- Na-^ tional Association for the Ad7*" vancement of Colored 'People. To date no call-for troops has ?' been .ynj: out to nrotect the white rapist from mob violence. -The Lexington tcirctcrrn local white : daily states that the young man was accused by two :olored girls, one 17 and one 11 year's old. of forcing them at the poit of a-revolver to accompany im into a laundry, where he tofe^ )ff their clothes, and assaulted ?, :he younger-girl. ?A doctor who-ocamnicd the /ounger girl shortly after- the she bore traces of" having been :riminally assaulted. Both girls dentified the young white man?* vs?frherr-attaeker, after he had )een found and arrested. The attack occured 6 days pri>r to the hanging of the Negro vhom it had been Necessary to )rotect from a mob with 1,000 state troops. ' The National Association for he Advsncement of Colored Peojie lias advis^(!ll5!f5!,=ES?tlWiitWll ? Branch to bring all possible presume upon the State authorities . ,o enforce the' law equally cfainst the white criminaVr colored people having stood for aw enforcement against the eol>rcd murderer who was con vie- ? _ ed in court and hanged. INUlltL! The Manlesa Wedding which was __ cndered at Second Calvary Baptist Church by th? Junior Missionary So:iety last month, wjll be repeated by equeat on the 22nd (Monday night). rhe admission will be the sarhe as _ w>efore, 10 cents. "" ~~ Rer. T. H. Brown, Pastor ' Mrs. S. A. Pond, President. ."1 " * -