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W' . - "" : '' * ' ?"irwR The Palmetto Leader Published Weekly By The Palmetto Leader Pub. ICoT IS10 ASSEMBLY STBEE1 COLUMBIA. 8. C. __ Entered at the Post Office at Colurobia, S. G., as Second Class Matter. TELEPHONE^--7-. ?????? 4B23 N. J. FREDERICK, Editor A. B. LINDSEY, ?Managing Editor J. B. LEWIE ..^.Fraternal Editor W. FRANK WILLIAMS : Contributing Editor ^ HENRY D. PEARSON__City -Editor GEO. H. HAMPTON, . Manager ? W. N. WILSON ?Traveling Agent V SUBSCRIPTION RATES: GASH in advance;*One Yearl?i??$2.00 Six Months 1? T726 Three Months ? .75 Single Copy ?r~'_ : .05 Advertising Rates given on appli~ cation. - " the current issue must?reach this office, (if out of town) not later than Tuesday night. "City news by. Wednesday night. ^^Saturda^MaylS^^SSi.,, Colored people were mobbed . at Cataret, N. J., by Hungarians, Poles, Germans and other foreigners. Think of it! Foreigners beating up Americans whose i blood has been shed in every - war for the welfare Of this cquntfyr=Trnt'lh^ybe" native white 7 Americans'set such bad exam ples4 that one can't bo too hard on the foreigners. . ;.u. ' Victor Berger, the -Socialist Oongresman from Wisconsin said a mouthful a few days ago, addressing the House in support ? of his anttlynching bill wfcen he said, speaking of the failure to enact such-a'law, that it?^ls one of the major crimes of om^ior on- the part pf the Coolidgp administration." The enactment of such a law was one of tlw ?plank3 of the Republican plat ' form for the 1924 electionT^usI put there to catch colored votes that's ajl. . r r"-i- ,r-^ David Belasco, the great theatrical producer confessed s fault that is. all too common tc white Americans?"Six months ago," he said, "I admit freely 1 thought of -the black raee~a* one poorly equipped for the fight of recognition.". Then he begun to study and ,fiinds as he says, "the result has be6n startling in the extreme for, while we have been applying the standard of a generation ago to the "Ne, gro, he has been progressing upward jn the human scale by leaps and bounds." Jv V ~ .Tn Burlington, N. C.,' reeentfy - - a colored barber operating a shop for whites was hekUup by a ' highwayman just after: closing f? his Shop. He was shot in the abdomen hut not killed. He was refused treatment in the local hos, pital and had to be rushed 40 "liiiles away for.mpriiral attention; suffering grat agony meanwhile But for the long ride and jolting ? with great loss uf blood, the phy ' sician said the man might Have lived. Race prejudice however, would not allow him to receive attention in the- hospital at Bur? lington. Great country this with its churches and-schools. ... f . ? We cannot agree with the esteemed Baltimore Afro-American when it-says in its splendid editorial on "Hon, George W. ? Murray, that, speaking of South Carolina, "Here of all States do we get a close up of the extent to which racial oppression may go, and most of all the weakness of the group (the Negro) itself." In the first nlac.f. thp rnlnrad man is not more oppressed in South Carolina than in the other s. ?-Southern States. In fact, if what one reads is to be believed racial treatment is decidedly is the first time that we havp seen it in print anywhere that the ^colored people of South Carolina have shown a greater weakness in anything than the colored people of all the other ficationa, Brother Murphy. Perhaps we do not know our S^uth Carolina aa well as we thought-. ?^-0 CRIME IN SOUTH CAROLINA Under the obove caption, the University News, a paper published by the University of South Carolina, reviews the criminal conditions of this State. In the Circuit Courts of the " State there were, for 1925, a total of 31552 prosecutions, according to the \Vhekly. Of this number, 1,816 or 51.1 per cent were white and 1,736 or 48.9 per cent were colored. This shmving~is t.hp more remarkable wheh it is remembered that (iy the colored population of the State is greater than that of the whites and, (2) that prosecution of Negroes has always been more-, vigorous than that' of the whites.- But jmight not the second reason,be the explanation of the preponjderence of white criminals for jthe year 1925? Might it not be the.reason for the great increase Of-crimes among the whites for the. past 10 years, the increase being~~87.8per cent, nd a decrease of l^per-cent among the colored people for the same 1 period ? Tn the past, the law has dealt leniently witTi white law breaker?.. Indeed, an opinion seems to have grown up that the criminal laws were particularly for Negroes. Because of this,'the Negroes, knowing that they would be ruthlessly prosecuted for violations of laws, have learned to obey, the law. t The jwhites, on the other hand, knowling that they would just as apt ;as^not-be excused, have learned ^gpntempt for the observance of ^ihe_law and don't mind-taking . a chance. The article of the Weekiy'^^qulte an" 1 nteresting ' one. Prosecutions Ijy poupties "andraces are also analyzed; In " that, The iNegro snows up bettTO ,also. r The well-known fact:?tho' ^-disputed in some quarters-?-that Vas are the whites, so are the Ne^groes, is revealed./ In those ^counties where the per cent of rjprosecutions for" crime among 5 the whites is highest, there altso is^it highest among Negroes ; uoes that mean,^anythingTo the white citizens of the State? ' There may be something afl|ter all in the old saying about j"teaching by example rather than by precept." M If the review of Criminal conjditions by the Weekly points tc [anything, it points directly tc ^-this fact: law-enforcement is nc ?'good unless it is done fairly and ,[squarely, paying no attention tc '.Whether the culprit, is whitp or .[black, Jeyv?or gentile, protestant or Catholic. The unfailing 'prosecution of black law violators shows what vigorous prose jleution will do, if a 10 year de? i crease of 16.6 per cent means -anything. : ?O?li. HYPOCRISY AND BUNK IPT CONGRESS Representative Fish of New York introduced a bill in Congress to appropriate $30,000 tc cert in France a monument in honor of the colored soldiers of the'93rd division- Southern Democrats to a man opposed the bill; all on general principles but the reasons given by some in their 'speeches are a model of hypocrisy and the last word in bunk. Take this ,as an.example from the speech of Representative Upshaw of Georgia: "ETvery man . black -or white, who offered his life for our country deserves a monument, but- let us-buftchstrch monuments to our defenders, not as white soldiers, but as A-. meriean soldierB of our con^mon flag. This proposition to go outside of t}re plana and speci ? ?~?j _ __ THE PALME1 monuments commission which has spent three million dollars to place monuments to all American soldiers in France, and appropriate $30,000 for a special monument to four.^&peciat regt-ment* of Negroes commanded by the gentleman from New York, Mr. Fish, is unfair to the Nejgroes themselves.. They did not fight as Negroes they fought as Americans." For many years ^ rnany thoughtful Negroes have been pleading against discrimination. They'have asked'to be regarded simply as citizens; but this bill segregates their patrio tism and labels fheir hravpry. rlt -proposes, in supposed political friendship for the Negro, to . build what has been called a Jim Crow monument in France. I ;ha\T6~lTeard from no Negroes in my met ion svhu ask for it thoy prefer rather the prouddistine"tion of being called Americans; Let us not discriminate between -the defenders of the American flag." Think of it! A speech lik?_that from a Representative from Georgia, or any other Southern State, iiL behalf of-^ihe rights of colored people as citizens and Americans. No colored i cOOLIDGE SIGNS > SEGREGATION BILL rPresident Signs Rill Segregating i? Bathing Beaches in the" -Capital I - ?? I COLORED RACE'*PROTESTS I I ' jBOv'ple ore Urged to Write For Favorable Location for Their, Bathing Beach ' 1 - * ' Kev.q.1 Thomas, President of the : 'Washington Branch ?of -the N. A. A. C IL,?reports?thiU?despite?earncafr pruieslsji?President Coolidge " has ' signed the. Bill providing for segre' gated bathing beaches in Washington, li The N. A. A. C. P. is appealing to r Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, Lo see to it that the colored bathing be^ich, is located in as favor.i-ukle. a- placi'-;u?.-t,he AvhiU*.?The-Wa?h= ' ington Branch of the Association inita 1 le ter to Mr. MiHdtin. i| v "Since we have lost-lour fight at-gainst governmental segregation, we appeal to . you . to defend us from the natural consequences r: of the system, ' namely, inferior situation and facili' ties. This can be done by a provision in the appropriation act for placement. of the segregated beaches. The same "Beautiful publTcT~3rivewuy orT which i the white beach is to be located should be deemed appropriate for both beach' es. The spurious argument of building the colored beach at the germj ridded Buzzard's Point, 1 am sure, will ;'not deceive you. The proposed white . beach ih our spacious park, with its va-A"5tpci.ches.of pleasing shades, will ,. nut be near. the white population, so we. fail to^ appreciate., the solicitude 'for giving us the fictitious proxijnity > to the 'colored population' simply vo , no fi a*V? iUh. y n?>.|. ...1 .1111.1 LIII1I|)H.-JL rupor ' I eprese rotative Madden isChnfrman of Ijihe Committee on Appropriations in ) the House of Representatives and i colored citizen's nr" "'-go'* nrritn Uim* jasking for favorable location ?or the J colored bathing beach. 1 MT. PISGAH A. M. E, CHURCH ---"T' -NUTEK?: Special to the Palmetto . 1 Greenwood, May 14.?^Our Spring Educational Dri've crime off in M*. Pisgah A. M. E. Church last Sunday. - Nu.group of people'in any church in our group could do better 'thaiTTfrey did. We have our work arranged in jgroupsi AVhen one group is vitally '. active, the other groups are planning , for other activities. Thue the cO'-ope( rative principle is established in our ~ work. ? ! | We shall meet our District Conference at Troy, S. C., when it convenes and old Mt. Pisgah will go over the top. , The pastor's subject Sunday morn~ Tng was:' ifThe Christian Home?'Its | Place in the Life of the Individual and ine nation." Sunday night our greet Mother's tDay services were a complete success. 11 tis regard&^xlas having one of the . rbt st services of its kind that has ever been held in Mt. Pisarah A.fr M. TrChurch. " "Y Sunday, May 9th, Mr. and MrB. ~ Charles Hurst, Mrs. Sallie Harmon and Mrs. Julia ^Tiller, all of AbbevlIIS spent ^orae time in Grenewoood. They spent quite a while with Pastor Long and his family. We were glad to sea them and we truly hope that th?y will call again. [TO LEMPER ~ ' ^ian pleading for his own people^ could havev put it better. But p it is not so much what one says ? as what he means that counts. i( We can agree with all the Repre- b sentative says but with nothing' y what he means! Mr. Upshaw 8' does not oppose Jim urowing col- ,y ored people in anything- He|g knows too that colored soldiers,'f although the most loyal of Ameri F cans, did fight as Negroes. If j ^ not, wny were they separated c from the others in special units? ^ There were no other special u- t] nits. It is true, as he. says, that u "thoughtful Negroes" have been'd and are pleading against discrkn--^ jinat.inn, hut, dnes it cprsp? . jthey'ask to be regarded simply t] as citizens but are they? Sure- ti ly, in justice, there should be no q discrimination "between the de- ?! ' fenders. of the American . flag/' ik - - I VV ill the -Kefifesontativti help to |end ^uclrtJiscrimmaTioh? It hel^ doesTnot think there is such, let!c? him just visit some of the hos-'d 'pitals where the sick and "tfiok- (p len are and jisk them. He need.v mot bother with the thousands j [able to go about their daily tasks.v jGitizensd Americans H No Jim ji {.Growing!!! And from Mr. Up- j11 shaw. " v- , V- .\\ eekly Comment , jk ?b The "white folks nigger'.' is not of a j necessity a Negro who \s light skin- 'r For that^ matter;-such tuj'iiig- h ge'r" may be as black as a crow.^lotv- ^n jever^the type of "nigger"' in question tl lis oner of the mmt thrnfrrrniiH uni. d I multi lhar the XSegro raee group has o 'to deal with.' lie manages ta worm his way into all of our churches, lodg-J es and other places of race activity.! I Wherever he is, a Judas is there. He jean be counted on to work his stunt j of deception and rascality at all tirues (and on all occasoons. If. honesty pr i ;real truthfulness ever touches him, J .?it is by a mistake. He is a Judas a-' f-r filing his brethren.?Like Cain of. dltT"^ he is riiarked. Any one who -w44-l ob-'c serve hin\ closely, can find the goods *c he has to sell. They are deception, ' rascality arj^l fraud. He never has, ^ any busindfes-wbrth while of his own.'1' It's hfs""Business to sell your, business. ^ To do this, he grins his way into vour; he is your friend Alter h< ,, 11| i, >u il i , u ;it doing this, he then becomes a sue -her:?He gels_Ull that" he can out of ^ you. When hethinks.fie has enough to sell, lj]je. Judas of old, he meets hi;)'1 wholesmo merchant in Negro hatred P and says to. him: "Say^boss, I have ^ -found out all that you want to know j ..about the "nigger" we .was talking v T vicit nil Villi 1 l.'iut I know him now. Do yo want to know _ him?" He~gets_a^"Yes lets hear about that darkevJ'. Now 4Hi* Jimmy of deceit and rascality, begins his dirty work of damnation and dirt against, may be, one of the best men of his race in that place. '* Tie has n grown envious of another'-s -success a and in order tcrdestroy"him he'takes this method of lining up .he forces of hatred and destruction ahe'v t h:ni. ' L We have such characters .in our min-. istry, in our churches, in our ? " moms and in all nf thft walk i of life;>J among us. A Judas in the schpol: ~ room fights jus as hard to get a school, from another efficient teacher as a % JAuiao in tin. miill^ll'V fr. fr?? TI " another church from an efficient min- ^ ;ster. In the case of thfc JudasschoollJteachr, he hangs arnunH school looking for faults. If he can !j --not find any,irv ivicl Imagination-in-, (lamed-with sclf-seekinfl-ajiil jealously-; helps him with hir [imfii-nw ..r lyln-jff?? He th enslips t othe white^upt. with" R a long-list of wufc ?rinat*K'? -tea^Her. He tells this^ white " bout his or her weaknesses, of^bt*Tor her immorality, and tljat the school e is mis-managed." Sffyshe: "The only | " way to^ave'that school is to give it]^ to-the"or to my friend here. My friend here is well educated. He. is 8 , alright." Now, if it happens^ that:^ this friend of* his?is onrr of the most1 immoral persons in the community.^ He the -goes out and gets others of his . P kind t6 impress the white school head s with his side of the contract of lying. Well, what hapens ? He gets fl splen-1 "cTTcJTy equipped man or woman out of a place in which he or she is rendering signal service to their group so as to j j put another there whom he or they X n r? nan -v<- ??' wtujiK jwrpose mat ' may,,find expression in. his or their (< dirty minds. j J Wheravar you tooeh a while HIUTT^ how to put one Negro out of a place,' \ you have taught him how ^ put ymir- < self opt. ,-< r '1 . < ' ' * ? fc 1 "J i ' ?*? * . n ^ We have a deal of this going on < among us today in this section.. ! However, the Judas-preacher, type 1 isprriay be, the most dangerous type ' that the race has to deal with. He < stand* for one thing when he has al- ! '?** ** ..yT ' , eady determined to do another. He reaches with great fervor the power f the truth and then tells a lie. He wears to a fellow's face that Ke~~ >ves him, and then plans behind his ack to kill him. He tells you to our face that he Is interested in your uccess, and then slips raound among our mcrnbcis and?attempts to or- " anize them against you. 1 This type usually fights the transer system in the Methodist Church. Especially do they hate the so-called I or t hern transfer. It is an .open seret that both they and their families rou!<T be in a better condition if htey ransferred, elsewhere. They are more ban ovqr-ripe where they are. The n savory" reports about their. course . f conduct are such, that the church s in a dyings condition because of bem. But few men who really know . bem want'them in their homes. Ei-, ber the transfer or the cat's fur th&tf. ies up with any of the Judas type iA uestion is cnnc Tho iuov ? ?? ? ?' w manage the type in question is to eep him out of your home, confidence nd business. But his danger to the ; uce is "the live hy-the wits- method^ y-which he Can grin his way into the onfidence of those whom he means to eceive. Somehow this type of Judas leather, is jfrom his viewpoint, always intensely spiritual. Just as soon s he seosaeharch he wants to shout, ust as soon as he enters a pulpit, he rants someone to say ,"Amen.'' And Sst~as soon as he can get away from he crowd, he must see Sister So and o. If anybody or the world is ever aved by .this type it will be an acident. Well, what ban be done aout this'sad state of'- affairs of which II have a knowledge? Answer^ The c-ligious bodfies among Negroes that ave in .hand their religious training, lust weed out the inefficient men in hier ministry, and place the stanard of intrant-* intri it an lii|jli ll-nrt-: thers of the type in question can npt et into it. ' , __ AN APPRECIATION -By O. A. Parker It is a fact that some men live Ion er and larger after they are dead . nan when they are livipg and espe- " ilaay is this true of constructive .'aders. The reason is obvious, they live so ar ahead of their constituents, that hey are not understood in their life ime, George .Washington, Lincolnaad her* that timo nor npaee ' arm it mp -t6- mention, ar^ hv fitr : reater men dead, thap thev weret ^V5: _ _ ' . . . There has been more said and -writen about William J. Bryan and the HnClples for which he stood since is death than was ever'Tieard of in ts life,, and tms too, by those that '?r<T prejudiced toward him during ie life-. Among the Bishops of the A. M. E. 'hurch in die past, I regard the late liahop Clraaelle as one of the greats'.'. Of cturse comparisons are oiotis and yet when ii came to e^ecuive ability he jexcelled by far any of pe T3. The affairs, of ourvphurch,, nd school in the State, the adminis ration ntmmng stand as a monument I "> his ability as a leader of men. Let | he Crifies say what they will or may I is name must~be" recorded with those 1 f Allen, Paine. Turner, etc. who gave I i African Methodism a noble heriftge. t J ?. ?? Of course I am not a recent conert to the administration of the pass, BV me Hisnr^p in hls Hfe it mi stand by the principles for which he abored now?I am not, one of those 'ho feigned his friendship during his ife time and cursed him at death, I j_ evere his memory" now and I pray ioil that I may never be so circum- | erHjed that I will be reluctant to peak of him in^thP'highest terms,! hshop Cbapfifle has .-inspired . more ) oung^men in South Carolina in the Church, than?any Bishop that has' ver been to~S." C. 'He was indeed a; friend of the youth. Austere at j Kings eccentric, yet possessing a j reai neari, ana a lovaDie companion- l hip and a yearning desire to see his Ihurch rise to higher heights. In my next letter I will give my uniased observations of what has transired in the A. M. E. Church in S. C. ince'His demise and what will ineviably follow, unless something is done o stem the dide. ? f 4 40+ 4 | \ ' WHEN IN COLUM] | _ BROADWAY L EVERYTHING 3 AN IT A L FISH am ? - ~~ ' . IN SEi | ^ i_ : , D/W. WtM 1108 Washington Straot, ' . C3 ? ' . ~ n - .-M Saturday, May 15, 1926. ( A Musical Treat The Event of the Season ' * J _ There will be a musical contest at Salter's Memorial A._M. E. Church, 22Q1L-Washington -Street, Wednesday . . J night, May 19 at 8:15 p. m. Th6 contestants will be St. James Choir, Chapelle Station Choir, Emanuel Choi*, and Salter'? Memorial Choir. This promises to be a great treat in music. ' ? Dr. Sims of Allen, Presiding Elder Vance of Salter's Memorial and Rev. Long of First Calvary, will be present , and will make short talks. Come and enjoy an evening of, pleasure. A prize will be awarded?" the wining choir. i . ....... Amission 10 cents.. , Mrs. E, Alston, Pres.; Rev. A. C. " ' ' Brogdon, Pastor. . . - Ministerial TTninn Nnfao The Interdejriominationl "Ministers' TTninw wflf trt fraffiilnr IU :=z usual rifflfffthg piece, 1st?Calvjitf - . Baptist Ch'iftch on Tuesday, May 11. In the absence of the President, Dr. Adams, Di\_ Long, the vice-president called the meeting to order at the appointed hour. Dr. Dillard in his usual impressive ? manner conducted the devotion. _-Ihe^usiness-of-the Union completed, the order of the day was called for. This being a subject to be opened by Dr. Watson: "How can Christian Unity be best Taught and Practiced by Ministers?" Dr. Watson . /. presented beautiful thoughts in discussing the subject in very effective . -? style. Comments were made by Drs. Elliott, Long, Dillard, Stover, Boykin anj ?mith. Revs. O. J. Robinsoh and J. iP. Cornet, *he b6dy and made brief remarks. The meeting was enjoyed by all. TO THE BAPTIST SISTERHOOD OF SOUTH CAROLINA: GREETINGS." My dear Co-Workers: Only one and a half months remain^. before our Thirty-gip.Ulli Ai>Rual~Scs sion at Corinth Baptist Church, Union, S. C-, June 24 to 27 inclusive" Knowing your deep interest in Conventional work, I wish to'impress upon you that never has the need of rendering service to - the Convention, by making friends for it and raining^? money for Education and Missions, that it might carry out its helpful The great Commission?"Go ve ther**""? p^pin<r?*~fa ~" as bindulg upon us la^ay as when uttered by -uui QavfflfTTrG&lHee, this is. a work in which you and I have the great privilege of sharing, by assisting in sending and supporting piissionaries. Last ,year we only \ raised four hundred, seventy-three dollars and forty-eight cents <$473.48L for missions, both Home and Foreign. In view of these facts, let me urge upomyou; my fleSf sisters, to increase your contribution for missions Bring as..many pieces of fancy work to be .? sold for missions as possible. Every piee esold lastyear, netting forty-one dollars and twenty cents )$41.20.) We trust that every society^ and / every District Vice-President is at } work. The need of ait increasing Beneficiary Fund is urgent. The amuont due for beneficiaries this term, must-, be "paid and sufficient funds to payfor our girls next year must be raised. The Cora S- Boykin or Boykin-GiL more Fund-is- designed to meet this , ' great need. OAllnnt ? ? J ? ? 'ei'"*1*1; U CI Util, OIlU raise money, now arid let us strive to increase our donations for all phases of the work. RememBer all old Societies must sen?( in tencents per \ month^Jor^eacl^ of^^their ^mem^ers^ newly organized society may have two delegates, by paying three dollars ($3.00) for eaph delegate, and may donate apy^'amount-,-over this they desire. ?Tj^e^Pastor,-Tnembers and friends of Corinth Baptist Church are pre- -. pleasure to our coming. ' Let us go up, unfurl our/banners and take the City for Christ. i to attend, should send in their names as soon as possible to Rev. J. S. Daniels, 8 McBeth Street, Union, .S. C. Efforts 6re being made to secure reduced rates, so a*k for a certificate when buying your ticket. Yours in His name, >, ~ * CONNIE H. JONES, President. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Woodson * wish to announce the birth of a daughter, t^orn Wednesday morn Mnv 19th 1ft19 Tnhooftfi Qfroat Mother and daughter doing fine. ~ ,1 BIA, EAT AT THE DAIRY CAPE | | RT AND TIPTO-OATH I fl 1 GAME -i 1 HWHT ] | ? IDS, Prop. f Columbia, S. C. !