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Prouit 'me Palmetto Leader-^ Published Weekly EK ' -fr . ; ~ The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co. E" ! f. 1310 ASSEMBLY STREET COLUMBIA, S. C.J_. j Entered at The Post utuce At ColuuiTPl F* PHONE! 4523 -rIh-^-PREl>ERlCK,"7zr^r^fiditciA. B. J^INDSEY, ?Managing Editor 1, n T.r.WTR Fraternal Editor W. FRANK WILLIAMS L Contributing Editor HENRY D. PEARSON-..City Editor GEO. H. HAMPTON, ..? Manager SUBSCRIPTION^ RATES: " ' CASH IN ADVANCE. ? One-^Yeern^r? 12.00 \ Six Months. 1.25 **? .v.. nr * &ux?v iuviuvuo - ^ - ? ? w ?? 8ingl? Copy Advertising Rates given on application. t Communications intended for the current issue must reach ^ this office, (if out of town) not ; later than Tuesdays night. City news by Wednesday night. ? Indianapolis, Ind- has passed on eot those absurd ordinances .' forbidding one Tace from living rrrTn disl i lt'1 u. rflpp 7~" predominate. Of course, it is -aimetLat_the colored people. The colored citizens decided to raise . $5,000 in six? days- to fight this unAmerican (or should we say American) law. They did. The -FiirVrt jc, on! It is said that courses" in race relations to aid in developing in-~ ~ " ler-rncinl ro-"pnt*atipir~aiie ww being given in "6.0 Coyeges. That's a healthy sign. Th$ solu^ tion of the so-called race problem is dependent upon education - . more than anything else.^. Igno rancp never has solved anything T". ' 2nd never will. Is not there danger of our. _i schools and^colleges pladng more : ;ernphasis-0^[ muscular m^enden^iy by way of the athletic~fiekt than on intellectual excellence? The race, we believe, is .more in the need of trained brains than ^ in hrst l-Ums fuut ball, bano ball and other athletic- stats; ~ ? = * * Luther Burbank, the "Plant Wizard, died Sunday at the ripe age of 77 years. Although for many years he has beenf performing miracles as it were in ? t.ho plant wo^ld. yet many peo pie had never heard of him until a few weeks ago faer armounccd that he was an "infidel." This world- howev-eiyjwmild .be. much better off with thousands of ? more "infidels" on the order of I^uther Burbank. To prove that the Negro was an inferior race, resort, at one * * ?-?.? time, was made to thd?i>ible. I .? Did not God curse Ham frbm ?"whom -it- wa&-Qontended the Na= ? gim descended ? This pruufhuwever seemed to have become a little weak^ so now science is called upon, but real scientists 2 are discounting that. Meanwhile white legislatures are devising every possible kind of laws to prove what'Biblical and so- cal led scientific proof could not sustain. 'the Negro however ~corr= ~tlTvues his upward climh.? . O ; STILL AT IT?THE STATE - : FAIR i * . When the State Colored Fair Association met last February and voted to mlitualize. we had our doubts then about a surcease r -of continued abuse and knocks on the part of those Few who , h'ave"Tjeen for selfish purposes opposing it. It is a fact, and : ' well known, that everyone of %r- ?... * the chronic knockers had some kind of a -personal grievance^either in the form of ambition thwarted or by a severance from the treasury of sai<TAssociation. K" " Of course, they try to impress folks that they are kicking in the interest of the "dear peepuP* hut- thny y?T ftWfty witfcjjfc that since none begun to find m fault until they considered them- tr ^lves wrongly treated. Recent- se ly, "The Light" and the "Re- u corder-Indicator" /havev' burst pe [forth again. "The Recorder-In- g? "dicator in a recent issue under- -ta Takes to express a few senti- gi ments based on ignorance of the cii daw rpgarding amending a char- pi fter. It . seems to think that in gl ^ whole lot of bunk and foolish- pi ness should have been passed 'aj and sent to the Appropriation ta Committee. To see how foolish'm .that is, a reference only needs ai be made to Chapter Fifty. Ar- th .tide I, Section- IS- Code-1922, ,w (Vol. 3. The 'TSecOrderTndiea-to tor" which - seems to be the pi -mouthpioce?of Dr.Wilkinslon. ii says that he left the meeting ci I in disgust/ Dr. Wilkinson did tf not say why he left, hut as Edi- w to Roach seems to ^lways know p< his moves and .motives/ and so tr ,states them, \ye will not dispute. C< We are sure however, that' the pi :Dr's- disgust will pass away af- be ^ter?reading the citation above, si , which deals with the manner ~b of amending a charter. We ce . wonder if Editor Roaeh-dcno wsJ why ite was "absolutely neces- p( sarvr to vote to mutualize "injai Order to get the $15inXTSppTTrprh- < (ation from the legislature?" The a telling of that will be feaTlnter- ft dsting. Brother (Roach. How- v< ever, suppose all of us lay aside pt the little hammers", stop bickeriing, cut out insinuations about se ++^FreKty==an4- let's pull for ajoi great organization?one that (tl ' wifl really be a helpful-agency gi frtr ft^ir p^Aplp, jti ~?- la . ??O? ? } 1 ' - - * A COLORED MAN FOR r' c CONGRESS b( j In ~St. Louis, Mo., Attorney je Homer G. Phillips is : being si .-backaiLJi^ the colored citi/pris-in for Congress. Attorney Hill- a lips, is seeking the seat held now w by Congressman L. C. Dyer of st | WE BUILD THE LADDER BY Ti WHICH WE RISE , " lr< ?By Rev. J. P. Washington In contempJatirfg on building, the first thing must be taken ~ i under consideration is the kind p of structure that is to be erec^idvj? | The next thing is, a plan must" be had"; aftenXhe plan is gotten, | thp nVatnriais a'iid labor.must be ' 1 sec ured. ??? | The durability of the" building j] depends largely upon the kind r>f rpfltm-iak that ai-P used. The I foundation must tie?welf laid ^ nr thn building is not safe. The, writer, rememl^&r^^hce hearing < iJudge Harris t colored), of* Chi-; cago say, when he wafe a boy in Pi .Oklahoma City, he was walking?1 down the-street by the side of a id i white gentleman. As they walk- ti jed the white man pointed to a oi ihuge structure saymgr^Do yon y; !see that building 'r ' "Yes" v\as.k' | the fenlv. "Well, it has, to be n torn down." "For what reason ?"p3 j the colored boy asked. "Be-,A jCause^there a crack in the; i foundation."**- > ? i IS Everj^ne will adritit, that if le he is to ascend to any great C( " height in lite, he^wilT Have to1 build his owrr tedder. The per- cc son who waits and depends up- ai jon another to do for him the ,1 things he ought to do for himself G never gets very high for discou- tl ragement soon sets in; and when st this is done, his ambition is frus-de trated. . . ' , jtl Irrlayirrg the foundation, there-a^ are three main pillars to be con- ol sidererf, Education. . and Moral Cn e. C?u*. The reli- ej tgion of the 1 XV*A d Jesus Christ d' ought be the "somnum bonum" ui of every individual's life. Our f \ 'education is incompleted without- tl jit. ? - |fc The greater degree of intelli-'s* 'gence, the-greater-aervice .should, be rendered to God through fal-jai len humanity. Evey one is the fi< [mn*t?*r nf hin fiiturn; thia being} ' ^ - * THE PALMET1 Muf.vnphing Billfame. The ai ajority population of the dis-ir ict is perhaps colored and there ci ems no reason, why with the is nited support of the colored a lople Congress should not a- g, lin be graced with a represen- 01 rtivfi of the I"Ynl racial <>< oup in Amayica. The cplored js tizens of this country need re- ei esenlation in the national s _ stature, in fact; 4hoy need re-^ A esentatives in all legislative u jencies. It is a sad cotlimeu- ~~ ry on democracy that eleven illion -citizens- -ol this country. (H e not represented in a body U( rnt makes lavv? for them as S. ell as nil ot^er grPUPS that W akp up t his country.?It io frim~|ft y idle to talk about their belg represented' like all other ei tizens by the men wliu are nowj ipi*p_ takp thp soiithovri qfotooui ? _ ^vvtvtivi ii utauco , UJ here about 9 millions colored fc jople live. Would anyone in S uth say that any-member of ei angress from those States re-|A esent colored people ?_ If there; p? r such a one, judging from re-1 ilts. it were better for them to'F e um ein esentecl - as they arc ? rtainly rips-represented. From time to time the colored iople are lambasted, ridiculed ~ id damned in the very halls of p rmfrrnvg, anrfrfhpre is nO One to p t least call attention to the' ict-t-hat in polite society, it is ^ ?ry. ungracious. to. denounce a H"son who is absent. ^ Yes, the St. Louisans ought |C) ind Attorney Phillips, Chicago j ight send one too?jas soon as b le very able and efficient CoTPTp essman Martin B. Madden re- t] res. New York-tried , in the J TT~7rtTrM Trm^vn t~~fy7rrn gTTnWTrt^rb~ ? I JJ ie great, necessity of having a olored Congressman, has not icn fully realized. The Negroes are citizens, sub-', :ct to all the duties and respon-j^ indues imposed- upon citizens) i&'enerab - They-should become ^ ~T>art of\the Government fro ? hich they owe and give uninted loyalty and support. , 'lie, he must .Set up his.goaj} irly in life ajya then build the idder that will enable him'-to }ach it". ? A [T.1,.1 it i | llrf nnnf.Vir.fi Uv Q gle bound, - IJ We build the ladder by which we rise; ~ rom the lowly earth to the vaulted "skies, We mount to its summit round by round." ... .. n : -lb lTvEr keynote address * AT x \ a. c. p. spring.i" vors r IN CHICAGO ^ . a Dr. John H-aynes Holmes, C astor of the Community Church,*7 f New York, and a Vice-Pres-H. lent of the National Associa-'? on for the Advancement of Colred People, has accepted an in- 17 it at ion to deliver -the-opening.^ i-'.v note address on Wednesday ,Cl ight, June 23, at the "Annual pring Conference' of the N7 A. I 1 . C. P. in Chicago. Dr. Holmes,? s known thruout the United'^ tates as. one of the most fear-j^ is and eloquent orators of the,e: rnntry. f . ? , " ' . 4-yAnother speaker who has ac- 1( pted an invitation to be present ad to speak at Thfe Chicago Con-I^ ference of the Association is.i.Y ountee Cullen, foremost among rc young poets of hfifrace, now * ;u'dying at Harvard. Mr. Cul- n n has been asked to voice at le Conference the aspiriations Bd to tell of tho A^hipvpmpnta ? creative Negro youth. Besides plaiming to send del- ? ?ates to Chicago, and rndTvTuals expecting to attend are C rged to forhn groups and to tra-,ti 'el to Chicago together. All h lose who plan to be in Chicago'C >r the Conference are urged to p iWd their names at the earliest'\* pssible date to Walter Whitejs] tthe N. A. A. C. P. National [t :e," 69 Fifth Avenue, New York ls in order that proper housing I a ";r: . '..rr ^ ay? ; - v>.-TP *y . ' Trr-^-r - ^ 7/,'/ *OTBADEE id transportatkmarrangeroentalay be made.?As lias been the istom at recent Conferences it planned to provide for as many ddresses as possible by deleates during day sessions- In rder that names may be incluc|-1 I in the Conference Program it t important that they be sent irly to Mr. White." i.fi T. Collpypfth^eryes Nejarro Health Week" : , Greensboro, N. C.?Negro health Week was fittingly obirved by A. & T- College. Dr. P. Sebastian, CaHege physician j as in charge of" the exercises >r tbp week." 7 ?F Beginning with Tuesday on, ich successive day, some phy-j KUMan r>r hpalth spprifllistadressed the student-body. The dlowing men participated: Dr. . P. Sebastian, Dr. J. S. Tankrsley, Dr. G. A. Gerran, Mr. J. . Rogers, author of "From Suerman to Man." lorida Conferences Of A. M. E. Church Sends j N. A. A. C. Pi $300L_J The South, Central and East lorida Conferences of the ?~m. L-Church_have ^ each appropri-j ted $100 and sent their checks )r thatrstrm to the National As 1 __ Dciation for the Advancement f Colored People, it was announsd today. Bishop John Hurst f the A. M. E. Churph, who is i3e-a member of the Board_ojf directors pf the ^LrA, A. C.~P. ransmitted the checks. Itate College Announce - V Debatincr SrhpHnlp Orangeburg, April 10.?The ebating union of the South CaoHna State Clollege ^manifests reat interest in inter-collegiate ebating as well as inte&ihigh shool debating^ The member^ hip of the Tri-State Debating ,eague consists of Virginia Normal and - Collegiate Institute, r. C. Agricultural and Technical College, Agricultural and lechanical College of South Carina; while the membership of le 'lri-Ligh SoliU^J Debating .eague is composed of Avery [jgh School. Charleston; Haines [igh School, Augusta and State ollege High School, Orangeburg Incident to the Cup Debate of he League, State College will TPPt Tnllpprp jn de ate- at OrAngehurgt,,A&dj 2p._ if>pt SoiiFFi Carolina at. Orangeurg, and Virginia at Petersurg. ' State College'High^Scbrml >ebating Team wilt.meet Haines .t /Orangeburg, and Avery at harleston. Th^se contests will e full of interest, and will mark he last appearance of_Misses !urr and Patterson of The negaive and Mr. Ratley of the affirtative. The three "students menioned above are members of the oilegeTHass of ZG. The composition of the teams s: ^College varsity, HarryjAi :atray, Andrew Evans," and /aymon Johnson (Alternate) :>r the affirmate; Robert Withrspoon, Ernestine Burr, and laude Patterson (Alternate) Dr the negative: PorHJ^High School teams, the affirmative tde drelg_Mg]rie Burch, Sidney /illiams and Lila Mclver *(A1jrnate) ; negative, William Har:y, Timothy Stewart, and Pinkey Davis (Alternate). "Nesrro Health Week" Observed at Claflin (McGhee News Service) _ ; Orangeburg S. 0., April 10 ? Cooperating with the big naonal idea and effort to improve ealth conditions among Negroes laflin College presented a full rogram " for the week. The reek'a program opened with a pecial health talk, "Christ's Atitude" Toward Health," Lu llnr tudent body Sunday afternoon t 3:00 o'clock. Featuring the . " * - ' ; rtVttrii.rtl idi,6 > .? v?* JS f *' 7J s ": . i ' . health movement was [the establiKhment of the dental clinic ' by Dr. F. B. McTeer arid a medi.cal clinic Tby Dr. S. K. Greene, Wednseday, April 7, which was designated as Children's Day. ?Tn addition to the practical health work that was done on the campus, adtke?s??were made each day. Mrs. M. E. Amerson jipfrtrq-ivfamria^r^-oh-"Bnlancod-Diets as a Preventative - of Dis^ ease;" Tuesday. Dr H D Rowe spoke on "The Relation of Unsanitary Community Life to Disease;" Wednesday, Dr. F. B. McTedr, on "The Relation of I)eTn?*U 4-~ r> TT UU .? x^vtivc 1CCtil IU X UUi il^ctlIII | and on Thursday, Dr. S. R. "Greene, oji "Prevalent Diseasesr Their Cause, Prevetion and Cure." Editor Carr Addresses Students of Allen During the breakfa&Oiour of Allen University, Monday Apr. 13, Hon. J. J). Carr, Editpr-inchief and publisher of the Asheviite Enterprise. made an address to the boarding faculty and student body- In his address he strosf od how cecontial it was for a student to apply himself to his 'books. He said, the world is in L Hemapd for men and women, I whom are prepared to render f valuable seryices to" the^worldr l He told of how a prepared" man ; could render services 1 where a jlarge number of unprepared men would fall. He also stated that ilm l - * " * ' " tne aay iQi^unprepareci-memana 1 womein are pa?t. He t^old of the gigarftic work he is doing to help the struggling students and the jobless graduates. He said, a student can do just what he prepares himself to do. He also told of t,he many Conventions that he attends in interest of helping to elevate the Race. Snmennp hfls adeauately_giv-^ ,en him the title of "Fighting Edjitor." He is a deadly enemy to immorality and unclean leadership. Thru 4klfl columns of his periodical he fs constantlyJighl-. ling these social evils. - Because Iof this, he has won many.ene'mies. * j The Race would be much bet!ter, had Wore Cans. " - . i r Atleif-Represented By Dean Thompson" At Conference ?Allen University--was represented by Pi of . II. B. Thompson, Vice-President and Dean of College "of Liberal Arts and Sciences atjhe Dean's Conference, which' convened at A. & T- College, Greensboro, N. C., onJthe 26 27 of March. The purpose of this conference was to harmonize the work of Deans, that they may Iwork together in a Systematic way. . All educational institutions that give College training were represented, from the District of Tnlnmhi'.! tn FWiHa and as far west as Arkansas. Between 25 \ and 30 Deans were present to represent as many colleges 3nd universities. During the Devotional period, ^ B. A. BL : j?^ ? _ TAILS o Dry Cleaning, Pre \*; Hats Cleaned and , 0 " For and Deliver. <! 1112 Washington St., Ph 1 < < < | WHEN IN COLUM : BROADWAY I EVERYTHING 8ANITA < > } FISH an I- IN SE r' ' ' ?. ~ [: i,? P. W. WO* ' > 1108 Washington Street, m>m? hi im< Ill iriitf" i *' 'irtVi SH i - ;r:.''v --'A ~?Saturday, April 17, 1926 j Monday March 29, Dean Thompson briefly told of his trip and cf visiting various North Carolina Colleges and Universities- aR . . Shaw and Johnson C. Smith. He told of the excellent work that the educational institution, pri- ^ vate and public, of North Carolina is doing towardjhe elevating nf vOnth, . HISTORICAL SKETCH OF CORING HBAra^XHUBCH- ? I UNION, S. C. Read by Mrs. A. E. Corn well During Church Anniversary April 1920. Corinth-Baptist Church was organizedTi) the yearT868 at Hie ** ' ~ home of Sister Jennie Hardy. Thn ia nnw ^nwn as the Carson Home on Carson Street. ?Rov^Featherstpn? of ^heater, Sam Knuckles of Union -Cnnntv and _ several other ministers, whose -naines_we_cannot recall, assisted in organizing the church There were -about twenty-five _ members that first drew out from tho white Fapti?t Church _ where they were members during slavery. '|'hp ilniy ..nn urnrn PrnfliAr Giles.- Woodson, Sr.^__Thomas.Houston, Jame^ Studeley, Jas. >Studol?yr .Tames Hardy, Paul Austell, Sr., Columbus Farr and Nelson Garner; In 1S73 they bought their first Church building where the Union Cotton Mills office now stands. - . The Trustees-were;?James- === Hardy, Giles Woodson, Sr., and Thom.c,a Houston. f Tn thft year 1873 thev "palled \ Rev: Sam Fox of North Carolina . . % J for their pastor; After three years of seviceT they then called Rev. John Wallace- He served 16 years.? -r* In 1893 they sold their first ^bnildinpr-to^he-JLInipn Cfottoft Mills Co. and erected" nicTCfrlirch???= building we now have. * There? has been eleven pastors called to serve..the Church: Revs. Sam Knuckles, Sam Fox, John .Wab lace, David Gordon-ManifeeL C. Wr Whitehead, A. it. Robison, J. X. Tobiir,J. . White, T. C.?- ? Phillips J. S. Daniel, our present pastor, whom we are meaningto , [hold for the next decade, thq Lord^ being our helper. ??- ' I Thiols correct so far ife I can remember; ; ? - Respectfully submitted, (Mrs.) Adelaide Reynolds. 0_ ZLi.1 o_ I ivicii uri cx . i nurman _ ,, ? *t~ -r-n ? - ' ' y . * * Electrical Contractors LICENSED AND BONDED ^Phones 8723-885? ' Columbia, S. C. iOGKER - lb miNG ? :: issing and Dyeing . ... ' . < i Blocked. We Call % 11 ione 3*14 Columbia, B. ? BIA, EAT AT THE ; ;" ~ DAIRY CAFE ^ v RY AND UP-TO-DATK d GAME | J ASON. ^ ODS, Prop. Columbia, S. C. ; ? * -=?? '