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Saturday, July 17,=1926. -X
s - B Gov. MeLean of North Caroli- ,
na. in response to the petition}'
and plea of hundreds of that ,
State's best white people^ has
-commuted the death 'penalty of^
Alvin Mansel, convicted of al-'
leged rape, to life imprisonment.!
Now, lpt complete justice be*
done by giving the 17 year did!
boy a fair trial. " 'J
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While in America the greatest
, , ? ,
encuuragemeni nas oeen given i
colored people to operate farms ,
as their own and become skilled i
mechanics, in South AfriyA; the,
-^T"!bar the Negroes from the skilled
trades and from becoming indev.
pendent farmers. What a-queer
" -world. ? < -?? : ?? p
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-To succeed Bishop Gregg who
refused the presidency of*How-,
ard University, the trustees have .
elected Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson
of'Wnat Virginia, . jau. Jultmuu t
?is a man of-iheJhigfost training,
possessed of a brilliant intellect^
and of a forceable character. |?
With the support and coopera-j
tion of all, Howard University
should enter upon its most glorious
period.
"u,w 1 "i"' White hoodlums' at Mte-mi,
Fla-, bombed a $400,000 school,
building' that was being erected j
for colired children" because they did
not like the place where it
was located. It's too bad that
" the education of those'cri*witrials
1
have been sancgleet^dr-The
thorities ought proceed to re- ,
build without delay. To "give
up will be abject surrender of
v decency and intelligence to vi->
- eiousne'ss and ignorance. ' ? . !
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President ~?Borno, the black
president of Haiti, after being
wined and dined at the" White
House by the President without
any outburst of anger by the
white press, entertained at the
west noteis 01 trie country _and
shown the highest courtesies ev-'
erywhere, has sailed for Haiti.1
The thing seems /peculiar,!
strange. - We are waiting: with
bated breath however, to learn!
ju>jt what documents he has
signed while heW. The whole!
Thing is uncanny/
? y I
_ We see That'tolored people org
still engaged in the foolish stunt!
of presentirtg petitions and resolutions,
to the President. Led
by W. Monroe Trotter of Boston,!
quite a dele^ftion appeared be- j
fore President Coolidge and pre- (
sented a petition signed by 25,-(
* 000 colored people from all over
The country asking that he by
executive order abolish segregation
in the various departments ^
of government at Washington.
The President as usual respon-1
ded by promising nothing. Can't
."colored people realize that election
year does not occur until
^~?-t ??' ''iiif.* ?r? '
GONZALES ^ j
AJfften a white man dies at!
;he end uf an active and positive
career and is truly and genunely
mourned by all citizens,
daek as well as white, there.can
3e no doubt but that such a man
>vas one of i God's noblemen,
kh a character was Mr. A. E.
jonzales, founder, with his emilent,
brothers, and publisher of
The State. While Mr. Gonzaes
yvas not, perhaps known personally
to many of the Colored
citizens of this State, yet they
oiew him t0 be a man who enieavored
to "do justly and to
InVP niOI'PV " TVlof ia fxnn Vkio.
V ? V ...v/AVJ,. A A1W 1/ AO 1/A UCj 11 lO
newspaper is ample evidence.
As a result, no newspaper, perhaps
in the South, certainly not
in this State, hasi the influence
that^The State has with colored
people. More attention and consideration
is given to that of
any other daily.- To the
thoughtless^ that may mean little.
but to thooc who really and
truly have the welfare of their
St^ite, section and country at
heart,~ the significance-of_that
fcyill not be overlooked.
?A crpflt and useful man has
fallen and the colored citizens
with,their white fellow citizens
can and do mburn sincerely the
death of this distinguished Carolinian
and * American.
O
HELPING THE NEGROES FOR
AMERICAN SAKE
Julius Rosenwald, the philanthropist
to^whom th^NegVo owes
so much, in jjis speech of Welcome
to the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People at its annual meeting in
Chicago last month-, tells why he
is interested in the improvement
of the Negro. He said: "My interest
in^the Negro, is only a
phase of my interest in America,
and such things as I have been
abje to do for the Negro, have
been done primarily for America
Atnfrirai, rannftf ;.PEftgim
so long as 10 per cent of her popu
1 at i orr-4s~deni^d^oppoilunit yy_
Mr. Rosenwald . is not only - a
philanthropist but a Statesman
with a patriotic spirit. - What
a cmiltast is his'views to that
of the peanut politician whose
only object is to get some little
office for himself ! "Keep t he
Negro down or in his place," is
in' traded He has not
the braitas to see that he or his
cannot be bigger by merely-denying
opportunities for improvement
to his black fellow citizen
or cheating him of the justice
that is every American's birthright.
Mr. Rosen wald^fts well as others
of his calibre, knows that no
City, State or Nation can be at
its best with one-tenth of its inhabitants
ignorant, vicious and
discontented. Knowing this and
enwald does not hesitate to do
what he can to improve the submerged
tenth. He has poured
out millions, not so much for
the Negro as he does "primarily
for America." One
patriot - like Mr. Rosenwald
is worth ten thousand lip
patriots with little brains and
Mill less heart.
O
THREATS TO ENFORCE THE
14TH AMENDMENT
In his usual interestinig manner,
Mark Sullivan, a newspaper
correspondent of marked ability,
discusses the prohibition problem
and the Negro problem as
some would relate the one with
the other at the present time.
The article deals somewhat with
threats on the part of "wet"
States or sections of the North
to retaliate on the dry South for
the Volstead Act under the 18th
Amendment- The "Wets" threaten
to see to irthat, because of
this stand, the Negro citizens of
the South be allowed to v/6te
freely and unhindered as con-j
.
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,^iiff.
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THE frALMET
templated by the 14th Amendment.
Mr. Sullivan takes up the
pnHprpl in hpVmlf of the South,
asserting that no where in that
seetion~tg the^l^th Amendment
violated. To buttress up his
contention, he quotes at length
f rom-^ an trticle contributed by
Frank R. Kent in the Baltimore
Sun. - In that aticrle one reads,
"There is no restriction . . .
whatever upon the right of registration
or the high privilege
of voting applying to the Negro
that does not also apply to the
white man."
" We know not where Mr. Kent
lives, but if he will come to this
State, the writer, who happens
to be a member of the legal profes'Von,
will jshow him some
n j i __ i ? _'i i jV _i
L/Ouri recoras wnicn snows inat
Negroas^ fiilly qualified under
the law for registering and
known to be qualified by the Registrars,
were refused registration.
He can be put in touch
with hundreds of Negroes who
have been refused registration
.but who have not appealed to
i the Courts. We can present to
him a brilliant i^oung colored
woman who is a college graduate
of one of" the best institutions
- nf thir ^totp qnrl nnw n
teacher insa city school system
and holds a first grade certificate
yet she was refused registration.
But why,go on? Mr. Kent was
simply writing about what he
thought not what he knew. '
N. A. A: C. P. CHICAGO CONFERENCES
IDELY REPORTED IN
'1 J. PRESS
"IJVithin one week of the close of
| the 17th Annual Conference of the
N. A. A. (J. JP. recently held in Uhica'-go,
clippings from newspapers..from
all parts of America, filling four huge
envelopes, have been received by the
National Office of .the Association.
^Despite the fact that the Eucharistic
Congress wa"S~heId in Chicago about
the _same time as the Advancement
Association's Conference,'the N. A. A.
Q. P. received more publicity on its
; 1926 meeting than on any of its previous
Conferences. The Associated
i'rcas,. 1 Uc United Pi ess, -Thcrfkmsolidated
Press Association and other
news distributing agencies sent detailcd
reports to air parts of the country,
and the deliberations of the meetings
were carried by newspapers in
practically every city in the United
StfttOB.? .
Especially significant is the fact
that Southern newspapers reported to
a~surprismig extent the proceedings
of the- Conference.. .Many... of. -these
reports were favorable, but some of
the Southern newspapers apparently
became frightened at the growing
ried editorials attacking the Association.
Among such attacks which, it
is felt^are. the-mosUsignificantLEroofs
of the Association's growing power,
there appeared editorial comment in
the KnoxVille, Tenn., Sentinel and
the Winston-Salem, N.< C.^ Journal,
The former, with unconscious irony
says: "Let this Association expend
its millions in the North where troubles
are continually arising betweer
the races, and let the peace of the
Southern States be undisturbed. . . ,
The Southern.Negro "and the Jloutherr
whites know how to dwell together tr
peace, and the Southern Negro is coming
into his own in the South."
The Winston-Salem Journal Jieads
its editorial comment: "The Negrc
has much to be thankful for and mucl
to be proud of, but the National Association
for the Advancement of. Colored
People is Responsible for neithei
the one nor the other." The editorial
which follows attempts to argue thai
Negroes would be wiser not to insisl
upon rights but instead to accepl
the place to which th,e white Soutl
would assign him*.
On the other hand the Association's
activities in behalf of justice for th<
NegTO brought forth highly commendatory
editorials from other paperi
such as the Chicago Daily News anc
the Chicago Evening Post. The form
er published an editorial on the daj
before; the Chicago Conference openec
ends an editorial headed "The Tentt
American" as follows: "Tomorrow th<
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People meet in convention
in Chicago. That admirable
organizatidn, which ably champions
the rights of Negroes, teaches the
sound doctrine th^t justice demanded
and obtained is essential to the welfare
of the race. Chicago, which hrfs
a large and progressive Negro element
in its population, is glad to
welcome the 'Association and to commend
its useful and enlightened work'
The Chicago Evening Poit not only
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TO LEADER ^
Of course, no Southern State^
has a positive law contrary to |
the wording of the 14th Amend-]
ment. After all, its notwhat
one says that counts se^raueh,
but what, he means;
If the 14th Amendment did
not mean to give the Ne&ro the
right to freely take a part in
choosing officers of the government,
what was the use of wasting
time for its enactment ?
That of course, was the object of
its enactment. The test then to
determine whether it is violated
is, can the Negro, as any other
citizen, vote for whom he pleases
in any and all kinds of elections,
I anrl o.llu Viimonlf uiifVi onir novfii
uiiv4 wiij iiiiiiQvu ntiii aiij po&
that he chooses ? ^ If he can, then
the 14th is not violated, if he
can't, of course its being" violated.
-T?~
r ?Even-though ail-that is true,
thoughtful Negroes will hardly
relish any attempt on the part
i of the "Wets" to tamper with
the^enforeemehT bf the 14th Ai
mendmont out of spite to the
r South for insisting that life Vol^tead
Act shall stand. If it is
: not^ right or expedient tcr^en,
force it?being a part the Constitution?it
certainly ought not
, be made a football-out of^lnips
ly because some fellows are d^,
Siied their grog. The South, right
i or wrong, is going "to do about
i as 'it pleases anyway, "Wfct" or
" no "Wet.w~?~
. published an editorial welcoming the
Association, to Chicago, but. printed
two editorials during the progress of
the Conference. One of these appeared
in the Literary Review Sec,
tion bf June 25th, speaking of the
contribution Negro artists are makinig
to American^ life, while another
editorial appeared on the following'
I ... 11 ?mi A'..': '
uaj ncaucu x. 11c x lugicua yi u ivavo t;
This editorial highly commended the
Association in its work for justice to
the Negro and in" its efforts toward
settlement of the race question.
Greatest publicity in conection with
the Conference was given to the
speeches of Clarence Darrow, Theodore
Roosevelt, Moorfield Storey, Jae.-,
Weldon Johnson, "and to the consideration
of raising a one million dollar ^
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___ UREUQION" ~
^"We often talk of 'ligion as >a thing
that's full of pep,
That violently or unawares into our
lives was swept*.
some as fighting tools,
And all who contradict their views,
L they brand as wordly fools. ?
' , J _j . * .
1 "I* got mine underneath a bridge,"
says one with vim and power,
"It ran all through my being like
a sudden thunder shower."
' Then suddenly another stands and
" claps his hands in glee?- .
"U, yes," he says, "bless your soul,
God's jet his .chillun free." .
. " - . .
His brother starts a "patty-foot" and
raises it higher and- higher,
Until he gets it going good and
sets aunt Sue on fire.
From this side whirls a sister, from
the other side a man,
And now there's not a still limb
s in the whole inspired band.
r The pastor, saintly like, steps out
' to bring the "house to quiet
^ ^ As-if he were not the one who
^ _ started the "whole man-killing riot
t Collection starts, and each saint gives
1 a nickel Jo the Lord,'
And spends the week in gossiping
J and devilish discord.
For me, not ther Tedigion that will
' make me scream and shout, M
' But the kind that shapes ray pur
pose and will help me live it out,
' The progress that we make depends
' on strong, true-hearted men
. Who arc hot evinced by screaming
5 but by sacrificial pain.
j * "CONFIDENCE ,
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r Some people will help their friends
when they are obliged to do so, but
( they are not ready or willing helpers.
When Martin Luther, the great" reformer
was on his way to the City
of Worms when Emperor Charles V
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THE SEAR
* _ . By W. FRANK
T
For some months, the Searchlight ;
has not made its appearance in The 1
J pelled to contribute^sdl- his time tyid
i energy to his work. We never could
put our best into this column, be- ,
"* "* _ _/? ' '
cause the best cannot be produced by ]
1 a mind which is so generally restric- |
1 ted frojn writing by other duties. We j
believe we have done some fairly y
good writing in our life, and as soon (
as we launch whole-heartedly into the j
field of journalism, which we expect j
to do ere long, we are going to" show
you something |if it is in us. (
Editor Fredreick Is Right (
The time has come when we_owe it {
to ourselves as Southerners to cease (
regarding Northern Negro papers as {
our- standard of- journalism.And .
surely most of-us have been guilty of. _
"Suclv== ' .. ? ? =
Editor Frederick of the Leader, will 1
have the sanction of every Negro (
writer South of the Ohio and Potomac i
on his'logical editorial irulast week's^ -i
paper, "Negro Business South, Not. '
Nuitli." * ? . .1. J
'EreTy-"\v<rek. sonur-Northcrn jour- 1
nilist effort essays fo "champion" the 1
cause of Negroes in the South by *
broadcasting some unheard of. coridi- '
tions. ^ "These false alarm are cal- 1
culated to do more harm than good o <
us of the South and it is hi^h -time 1'
that -we ask them to let us make :
.known our own grievances. > ^ . 1
The Chicago Whip miorop resents '
the Southern Negro business man as
to his relations with the Southern 1
white man, and Editor Frederick takes 1
issue with this western DaDer in ?!<
masterly way.-? ? ?? J
The pot of racial hatred is boiling 1
very' low in the South now and we :
Southerners eleve we are capable^1
of taking care of the situation. But I
it seems that only the papers pub- '
lished in Chicago can find in the South '
what we do not see ourselves.
Lynching ""has almost ceased; mob 1
^rtolence~~has "utmost -passed -into This- H
tory; white stnd colored people are t
coming closer together every day and r
a new stage in better understanding 1
yTear by year; and the most hopeful 1
sign for the future in that the grow- j ]
ing in respect and consideration of i
each other. J' " * * il
Verily the South is getting better c
and the North is getting worse. And 1
th? calamity howler and "refugee" JI
who left the South fdr Chicago ?oifie
I had summoned a great council to try 1 <
him, some of his friends tried to per- ; i
suade him not to go; they said that 1
he would be put to death, but Martin ' j
Luther had confidence in God and i
he said it there were as many uevus j
in Worms-as^ there are tiles on the vt
roofs of hte house, he would still go. j t
And just so it is'with you Dr. White j
yotT'flfsftfied to get the-'San- '
I ciay ocnooi congress ~tcr Columbia. 11
I AH "the Baptists said they wanted the (
[Congress_in Columbia. You didn/t <
get It th&t ttTrreamtalV the Baptists' ~i
said they wanted the Congress in Co- 1
lumbia, so you tried again and you did
get it and it was a success, and after i
you did get it your opposers preten- I
ded to help you to make it a success
and at the same time they were
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SESSION BEGINS JULY IS
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I- r or further in:
. ?j Miss Alice E. V
f " ST. AUGUSTI?
8 ..(A Junior
| ' RALEIGH, NOR1
8 . FOUNDE
g Affiliated with the American Ch
Augustine's aims to prepare capnt
8 positions of leadership and responsil
i 8: ENROLLMENT
jg Courses offered:?Junior C
Academic ar
Accredited by the North Caroli
The St. Agnes Training School 1
: 8 Memorial Training School for Churc
!8 cohnected with the Institution,
j 8 It is flQped that it will be possib
; g the fall of 1925. To accomplish tl
8 gaged in raising a fund" of $600,000
; fi ditional eTufoWment. ^
The President, REV. El
WfiafiVnli * rfri.
1
S?tar?tey^J<?^17, ^1
CHLIGHT 1
: williams :r; : ..
<? * 4???>? & _ -?
years ago should come back and stay
ong enough to see what a fool he is ?
making of himself. ' - r'
. President Mordecai Jghnson
, It is a very high honor.to the South
and the race that Dr. M. W. Johnson
las been elected president of Howard "
University. Morehouse Cfollege in Atanta
rejoices that one' of. her sons
vas the first of the race to be elected
;o this important post. We are.comngl
There was a time when the M.
E. Church would have no bishops in *
\merica. And there was a time when
he trustees of Howard would elect
io Negro president.s Indeed it is
?reat to be living in this age when ? *
;he whole world is coming to its sen,
ses. ' ' '/ . '
"Rev. "Bowman's Travels
Perhaps' this sems a trieial incideat V
;o comment upon, but do you know,
lear readerj that fev* people really
apply' themselves-to-what hpv
, - - ? - - -."v r?. ,
^ee or h"nr. Now?many of~Tra~~have
>een to New York, (Chicago and even
the blue ocean, but wej-eturned
inmfl-j>nd--had nothing th "sayaboift
.vhat we saw. About the biggest thing
i returning visitor says-of his travels
s: "I had a good time." If you want .
his Writer to enjoy himself, let him
:ell you afcout the customs of ocean
travel htr observed frum New Yurk to .
Savannah, or the quaint streets' and
people in .Chinatown; or the sights at
Coney Islandi/.&nd so on.
' Rev. W. R. Bowman of/TColumbia,
Iras crossed the -Mason-Dixon Line for
bis first time and he~toI3 more about
Chicago and intermediate points in the
last issue of The Leader than _many^
people? who live in Chicagd could tell
you.' And such an article'is interesting,
whether you have been to Chicago
or not. It is the careful observer
who .writes booli- and gives knowledge
which otherwise we would not have.
The. writer has just retained f&jm
Valdosta, Georgia, a most interesting
ittle city; which perhaps you hear lit*?? le
about. It boasts of* the following:
The largest inland sea-islan^j cotton
narket in the world; the greatest tobacco
market in Georgia; the most
t>aved .streets of any city of its size
n America; the home of the proposed
Woodrow JVilson -College; it is ?
ailed the "Vale of Beauty" and claims
to-be the only Valdosta in the world. -iC r"
ncidentally the writer was born there
"With apologies to ftev. Bowman.
loing all that was in" their power to
Tiakp it n fnilm-o Kni -<-:u
. .. ? ?. ?. uui uuu a cmiuren
lad been praying and .GodwilLanswer ;?
nrayers, and it made the devils mad ?
tnd all he can do now is to .
U4- t he-people of Philadelphia that at- "
ended theCongress in Columbia. Their
mly wish is that the Congress would
?o-back' there next year. - "*
So I will say to you Dir. J. G. White,
iet the devils howl and you preach
jod's word and pray for those that
3atTle.?TKe better class of people ate" ' ' " '
with you.
So I will say to you Dr. White fret o
not yourself about evildoers; if God
ae for you, who can be against you?
Mrs. Annie Williams, 831 Burns St., Philadelphia,
Pa.*
state; department
:ATIOff-' m - - ^-~^r
ictive and helpful course of
teaching force. " Board' in
rites. . *
>, ENDS AUGUSTS, 1926
"C. A. Johnson, Direetor.formation
write,
^ebb, 1247 S. Fant Street, ' ;
Anderson, S. "C. ^
saaasaaBi
JE'S SCHOOL
College) * * TH
CAROLINA , |
D 1367c-' . 1 /
lurch Institute for Negroes. St.
4e youth of the Negro Race- for
bility. g
1925-1926?502. 5
lollege, Teacher Training, c
id Vocational.
na State Rnnril nf ?
_ u \#t l^iuvatiuil. ' y
'or Nurses and the Bishop Tuttle *
:h and Social Service Workers are [ '
le to provide & foar-year College ^ ^
llefe_Department as Freshmen in 5
ns purpose the Institution is en- :*
DjGAR H. GOOLD, M. A. \ -