Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Warns sjn zITl VI I hp Nat ? A v %r% v " 1 1 f + ; ?~p . - - - . ? ? ~"~"v .v.7" -v 'J.1''. ? Mm * 1 . . ? w- " - ' - "~7 JCAETURED AND THEN RELEASED 7 North Carolinian Who Shot, "Colored Mechanic In Mass Arraigned for Murder ' LAWfYEHS INTERESTED Police Headquarters Telephoned j National Secretary, as Soon . As- Farley Arrived :-Cambridge, Mass., Sept., 13-?'Today ?whit?- native - of North Carolina, who "7"' fatally shot Jblmcene.'Crawford, Colored a fellow employee an. the Atwood Mc-. Manus Box Factory here July 13th, will be arraigned for murder in the criminal court. .Captured and Released Immediately after he fired the shot. ??- prejudice, he escaped,?A|ter-^two . WOfllff, Ba>f F F ThAi?p?nnJ pwgjdent, headed a delegation of the Greater Boston Branch of the "National ?_ __ qual?Rights?League -who indueedMayor Quinn to ask the City Council ; tu ufTi'r tr_$a00.00 ixnvaid fur delectiun erf the fugitive. This led to his arrest by officers at Wytheville, N.. C.,the serving of extradition papers, release .gil huljeas Corpus Jinfnrg- Mass. uflLr cer<s arrived. tTTenhi^ re-arrest on rt> monstrance by our Governor, a second trip by patrolman Maherand Lieut. Cfradv. who "fended Farley into jail t here last Friday. . y ^ Farlev had been secretly., indicted "for murder three-days after his served^ on him, arraignment occurs tothnror tomorrow. -- Leadinfr-Color^d -lawyer*- are- tak ing an_iLntprest in his "trial and con viction ol li.rst degree murder. Pert ice headquafters" telephoned National secretary W. M. Trotter, Friday_as_sooni ,r as Farley arrivecT r_ WILSON HIGH SCHOOL MAKES GREAT PROGRESS UNDER ?PROF. J. W. "KILLINGSWORTH ?-^-/Florencer Sept. J 7-?Wtlsort High School has made great progress unUei lliu luudtffeUty uf Prof. J. -W. Kilingsworth and opened with a .farge~ enrollment, Monday morning, Sept. 18. ? Quite a picturesque scene vas _ "-witnessed in Florence. Crowd* of -MeftUnd women-?nd children were seen making their way to school. j\x. v a. m. mr. nan, wno nas Deen janftor here for over seventeen years, -?rang- the bell, which meant another opening: for Dear old Wilson High. . The liries were formed and the regulapTrratch frrto~thir chapel followed. Many patrons and visitors were in the audience. jgjj monies. After greeting the audience K6V. Tft61fritts presented the Totlowfrrg" visitors: Prof. E. W. Howe Mr. Lee * Roberts, Mr. C. "W. Perry, "Rev* N. W. ~Greene, Prof. C. K. brown, Jt., Prof. Runth, Rev. <^. ft-firwtv Mr. Brun"Sorr-Gibba, ^and Rdv, M, M. Brown. F-nch gave vej-y enrmirntrinor rnmni-lt. ??;?and talked along educational lines /in general, after which Prof. Killings T /worth" made TUs'lumunl aihlima. /Mr. James Miller an alumnus of Wilson was presented by the princi/ pal. He made a splendid address and exhibited such enthusiasm that we can truthfully say that he haa not forgotten the Wilson spirit. rnl ? ? jLim.iitrw i^utucia auucu iu Liie iacntty arei Miss Ellen Davis of Newberry, Miss Lcanna Harvey of Charleston and Miss firunetta Simnag of " " ?"-X U, _.' ; " ^ .r~* >n Gi r . ; .. ) TJ - -! - 111 - -T ..l' .. * * .- * ifthern Se ional Bi Bfcl.' J? l""1"'r 1 5*S=gs?".|IIIJ " I PORTERS v- v. ' > \ ' THE WHr WALTER WHITE SPEARS OUT .7- V >; * ? __v_iLv_ ItrHetroitj Declares White, Not A Clergyman Raised His Voice During 9 Months The Negro Is Becoming Increasingly Skept ical-of "Prof ession\--of "White Christianity gpfeaking frpfprg the eleventh- biennial Session of TFTer'NtvlioriaT Con ventoin-ef?Congregational Workers Amawj ColpzMJEnaDkJnJMmiL-re2 lently,- Walter White, Assistant Se-" cretary of the National Association -"or- the -Advahcementrcf Colored People, delivered a scathing denunciation of the attitude onjrace relations of ChrtetTan clergymen in the V\ S: In the city of Detroit, declared Mr. White, not one clergyman raised his voice-dining ?1 rre mOpths ?Iw whieh colored people were threatened?and attacked culminating in the case of Dr.. Sweefs. defense of \jiis.. home; Clarence Barrow visited the -colored Y. M. C. A. in that city and declared that he could and did* drink now just as he did Before prohibition, the Presbyterian clergymen nmet^and denounced him. \ Mr. 'White further Tre'vrttpd tKo white branches of the Baptist and Methodist churches in--the-South- as recruiting grounds for the Ku Klux Klan and asserted -that the Negro in America Was becoming^ increasingly' sceptical of the professions of white Christianity when these were consistently unaccompnaied by any action in accord with the - doctrine preached. received by a mixed audience of \Vhite and colored, clergymen. ? . ~ ~ T" Birminghamy-Ala. ~ W. dvillingsworth, assisted by- an energetic ; faeylty, the -school has .xrovvn by l?ap?r and bounds. : Our determination is to-pdt the work over. ?Frances Jenerette. ENDORS'EM ENTS OF DR. R. W. MANCE, FOR THE BSHOPRIC W 1928 ~ ? ?r- ' Columbia, ,S. C., Sept. 14th, 1K26 To our esteemed Editor, Southern Christian Recorder ?Again I write while In a very pleas"erf-the-A. Mi E. World. ? ? uur esteemed msnop John JULurst is aT Teadet. and churchman indeeed*. a cultured and refined christian gentleman and now deeply ingratiated into th6 esteem of the ministry and ?lfut-y -We ttre blessed to have such ft loader guard the destiny of our church and school life in. this Staae^ancL^e lor ih6 ftfiSplG'anti L'llUlfh ill these parts. We are also glad to have the modern president R. W. Manc^-, ex-president of Allen University in the State again alter a few months rept from pi?rh tvnnr? Uhnrincr f/% A 11?*\ where she rightly belongs and. stands (Continued on <Tw$) iHMBMHMHUmm <r- | iPPSt O COLUMBTS7S. C., SATURE X . I'MOTHE rE CLERGY MONROE TROTTER ^ A REAL HERO The Most Fearless Agitator .... Against Race Prejudice and ; M Segregation in America a ? A REAL RACE CH Ai)IPfOiy He Takes Up the Cudgel And - Faces the^'Btggestr Man ^>r Concern In the Countrv - By Lillian Lewis Fuertado. j F?I doidtknow?whether it ii known 1 as generally as it should be .that this } year is the jJSth year of the existence | j~nf~the~Bcrston-Gtrardtan- and the-2bthj year,of steady and untiring work day circulation by Monroe Trotter. "Well you know it is issued every, week and i ynii knaw that ginno thfl..lngt wqr newspaper -material - -and" newspaper-1 labor cost lots and lots more 'than it j |did before, consequently, the Guardian; it lnt^ and Jots more each week' than it uaed to, and the amount of money that kept it running then is' not nearly enough to keep it running now. _ ' '*, . - . 1 say this because in its 25th year, it'seenis^Grme that in the face of increased expenses,- a "national attempt to make fitting contribution _-l?r ' the v a splendid test of the valueof%his r^publication aa a race <gfgan,-^thc^only 1\. _r iL. i.:_j ' Lute ui ciiu num. 3 : t \\e have many 1 newspapers, some' splendid ones, but we have only one mouthpiece of Monroe Trotter, the against "race prejudice and segregation; that we have in America. This is a broad statement, but when we taka our condition seriously, as far as persecution and injustice and small* recognition and crowding out of chance?and oportunity is concerned. "o one cdn dispute me. when I sav. _ that without an iota of pnwardj^-,^!cringig iVlonroe Trotter takes up the cudgel whenever it is needed ancL faces the biggest man or the biggest - concern in tho country, and whan he faces them, we need have no fear or doubt of- his-loyalty to the cause he i< _i > ti _* t~~ nas to pieau. ne (.ukos long trips to - sua tho rtutn higher up whoso bidding the little otie^ do, arid whether hd will ever be repaid financially,-he does not stop to consider, so anxious, so earnest is he for the redress of" the wrong, he started out to make an attempt to Xright. t Think of a ,man doing this for 25 long years, witTTouF - vacation, nnthnnt proper rest, evor, - -turning" tin* wheel? of Wrt for the - ing .worn and .tired-and yet nnt dnr. ing to rest, lest the injustice or the segregation shouftf grow in the mean time, and he* would be caught ofF guard nr" asleep at ^the-watch. We have" no other man jilfet, like this out of "the""ftvelve million nf hr So J, claim.-dhat. a bigrl50?>st~~irRd & ' irtjrsrrrphis of readyeaeh in this-23th year of grind that must be oft times heart sickening as well as body Slt'k- ' ening, would compensate a little and would certainly give a new lease of life to this man who is more than an , ordinary man in his position amon# his people. He is a real Ohumphm, orvd vaii 1/nmu HAW fVioir OHAW for a champion. > I have worked side *by side _with him for seven years and- have , , : - - ainst figh .;.ll|?; 1 k^-in rchina jjj - - -> - . _ ,_ *. * .' J y >AY, SEPTEMBER 18,- 1926 mirr. MEN ARE THEY MUST" Senator Ashurst of Arizona \\"ii 1 Oppose Skating of Col. Frank, ; "L. Smith of Illinois.. ' WITX ElfJHT TO TH iv nwiiai Th Congressman' Sniri "Sqnnfnr Ashurst'Shouldt Not- StaVt Something he Cannot-Finish'-Taylorsville, JL1I,. Sept. 10?Defiance follow Senator Ashrust of Arizona, in his announced intention of' opposing of Illinois,' should he be elected senaluiv, was vblC'ed by. Congressman 1'hos. S. Williams of Illinois, as spokesman for the Republican state central committer ywtmvlay.. Tl>o addi-pus Was tiie first of ?Ahc .Republican campaign, making the beginning "of the light of Colonel Smith foy election. ^ "Senator Ashurst of Arizona & quoted in Washington dispatches as saying he would... formally object to the oath being administered.to Colonel Smith," the congressman said. ''Senator Ashurst- should not start something he cannot finish Twenty Democrats front Southern States now holil^ seats in the senate becuqje a majority of the legal voters ot those states nave been disenfranchised,I-ot' have been prevented -from cast ii tit?Ui+llut .... tv.Vt.\.r dattorrr "Free"elections ji). those states' are unknown. Without the vufts of senatoi's --eh"s<-n-irt?this?mahtter, -the-Bcmecrats could not muster a corporal's gUard in. the" United State's senate, It is an exhibition of sheer impudence fur_lheso people, to undertake to say who the more than .'5,000,000 free and umntimidated voters of Illinois shall or shall not send to the sonatedl- ? Colonel Smith .is. expected back today from Xovr London. "Conn.. where he recovering from illness, sinca he-u^stiiied Lefdre. a senate camjiprd his, lUpmulilnre of .anre than $250,000 in winning -'the Republican nomination from Senator-William H. McKinley. "Members of his organization predict he will enter .-in ncmy 'speaking campaign. ?The Record. watched him. -.Ho does things in the manner of all fanatics and reformers different manner from the indnl^ent rest ol m>. ^flmr1?cnticli^p- his" mnnnor Wo ^ujrUiidy diatb iuj nitkimn of lh? results of his.Avork. They have certainly been a back-stop to lots^-of ^meanness and nnrrowneya on the part of our pa If iace neigh Inn's. If a?tomrtiilU'O "frwH?the?various .States would make the, links of a chain organization for big recognition nf :?5 years of servitud^ to a neonlc. composed of men and women who acknowlcdge and appreciate it all, I'm sure a large sum of money (I don't call a few hundred dollars a large sum of money) could he raised pnd donated" for the continuance of the issuing of 'the Boston Guardian?Sho -*e.st of Monroe Trottgrjs life? ~ 1 ^ j , " . ?^ ?* .' 1 Board's ' . / ll WORK OF THE " T:, F^STTEATT [Henry AJlen. Boyd, Sec., Tells : - Done-By Board -----i . ==- = ^JLIAXI^i-tiOD FOR--SVG(^ESS1 ^ *> ' . ' V . ? Q* I ; 1 Tomho, Work of Printing Plant j~ ;Founded by_ Father Nearly -| Indianapolis, fnd^?(Special)? Milj out" the United States nidctrinating Baptists at homo and abroad in their ! tenets and principals was told here' w the National 'Baptist "TTo rive nf Ion "lof America in Tom'lisnon Hall by Hen. ry A. Boyd,.the Secretary of the biggest Negro printing plant owned, operated ,-rnd controlled'fry !m": (the world. 'The Rev. Mr. Bo'y^ gave; facts' and figures touching upon the| work of the Institution fo'unddd by. skis father nearly thirty years :wa hl<> 'ahio presented a resume of the work (accomplished in the Twenty-first an-1 ntia^sessioh of 'the Sunday School Con part : ~ "Divine Providence h^s J^d us safely, through another yegr^ work. We -thank ' (Jod -for_JJ*< loving ,kindries!T " and tender inercv. We wish to thank : till' Bhiird HiOlhhel's llld'n ulualk ami collectivelvr and the denoniination as a whole, for the part they played in bringing a measure of success to the" Institution that we have the hpnor -4-o-serve as secretary. We wish there -fore.- to submit the -following. The Late R. H. Boyd u Wiuo- IUC HOC dC IIl%V CUIIlIlldllU lO ! pay the deserved and proper tribute to the founder of the National Baptistv Publishing Board, the late Dr. R. H. /Boyd, who builded more wisely than lie knew when he laid; the foundation for this printing, publishing and man] uf'a'ctiH*iii{r establishment. Farsighted leaders. Christian-hvarted. midtttefcers,. 1 experienced businessmen have all ijoutwi-iii ouu acclaim as. k were, to lu-ivL him honor and praise He has gbnc^down as one of the "wise, safe huildero.?Dr is -sufficient- therefore, ft5T^ rus to pn-s him this compliment; although he has boon gathered to his [ Father, we feel that if , he were here j he -would-rcgivg it modstly and contin ue on his constructive program. t??' Personnel of the Board Xo change whatever has been made in- the pe rs ontd rrf~the "Nati.uilat BajA11st Put i|-hin'jrn Board. Itr. J. P. Rol>in;'?it of "Little Rock. Ark., the v< l1.eriTTiTe'i"iwTi3>u"i ~rfouitm-i?lmiii?Mtinn 1 fr'n'Hitnrt "n-nrt?Killimi", ItfJUlM IffC' ^Clia^mTTiV." R'ei. Ci.-r-fe?HavW oft "^a-Kvillo, Tenn., pastor and churchman. ib.Vhe -Vice-Chairman. The other members "are Rev. J. A.*'Brown, . ('hif'npy Itev. II. -A/'Alfred. Sfash: villc, , Moderator. of the Stone, River Association, and pastor of Mfc. Nebo pTTpTTVt Churchy-Rev. 11. M. Burns," Nashville; Rev. E. R. Carter. Atlanta, "frnvT?Ff~nf-- ttrr "'Friendship-- Baptist Church; Rev. E. E. Campbell, Austin, Texas, pastor of the Ebenezer Bap-: tist~Chnr.eh, and President of the Gen. eral 'Baptist- Convention of Texas;. Rev. tP. ir. llarding^iashviHe, PresiiTleivt of the Baptist State Convention of Tennessee and pastor of the 3rd Avenue ; Baptist Church, and Henry Atten Bcrd/ Xaftfcvttte, Temr. | *. (Continued on Page Eight) , .. / ' mel Smith i Reuort A < . ft ' ' ' * * - V . ? ' ' " : ' . 5c A COPY . ^ r?' irEMENT '* '* ' ' ." ' ' : * - .V '* - * ' ' . ~ . .. - "*~ . * *; * BETTOR PAY AND CONDITIONS .viso Demand,a I.ivini; Wage, ; Shoftej Hours and Better fj \ Treatment JZDP POUTEKS' AND. MAIDS-- ? ? _r Want Relief from Deplorable * , Conditions Under Which Tlie>? Have Been Working _ L_ : ' -r?? " r-t. ? New York City?Today, A. thilip : Randolph, General Organizer of'the j Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Portefs ' 'issued the following^^trltement:| "One month after the institution? of a nation-wide referefiduhi--?TTOnrg Pullman porters and maids by. the 7? Brotherhood"oT peeping Car iBoriers," I we are in a position definitely to ; state that moot of the" 12,000 pui ters ' ~ I and maids have signified their desire | to "?vg the Brotherhood represent them in their domain! f.?r o living wage, yhuitel iiuurs and better treatment . "? Among the thousands who have already ballotted gre' some, who, whifc -wit yet niimUois uf ilie Brother HTTTTTfT^ are, nevertheless, in complete agree ment with its aims and demands, as . .... shown by the replies they make to ; the questions asked in the referen- . dum. Returns are. stiir cominj* in from aLLsectiona of the luuntry. We~~i cxpeclf that \vithin the next three weeks -every man and woman in the ~ service will have voted .after which ~the Bi ulliciTiatrd "will institute acMLion calculated to_brinj?.ta-.a_h.ead_the _ _ ... now year-old fight ;of the porters- ~T j and1 maids for .relief f^?-the deplorble Conditions under which they have iTJeen working." The Week's Editorials \ . .. 4From the Norfolk Journal and Guide, Nrofolk, Ya., Sept. 4,-1926) WE -STATE' IS.-POWEIiLESb TO ?t- DLNIi.II LYNCHERS ? ? ; *? r? - -Propnnentg of -the- Dyer AntiLynching Bill _still_ perilling in Con. ?==gt-ess have- persistently b?*?d their ' -?r. ccfr.tehtirm?fui "tlie~ neeil uf federal' legislation- to deal with lynching?on the grouuds that as a general rultfnot only has the. ineptitude of local aytlvritii ? in dealing wiOi this crime :? been .glariugly manifested. but that - , . the hj\V machinery ol the States in -which lynCh-law flourisho-: most' is :? impotent?to bring .the. lynchers to? justice. ' '.* .... : -. ?i:. \ Opponents of the Dver Bill have just as persistently countered with ^the contention that the competency~v 7? j.TynchTng is' Unimpaired'. Southern^ [sailed every intimation that tfce l|tws of. their States were ^inadequate or. j indifferent in respect to curbing this .T-~ [crime. Now early one Sunday morning three weeks ago, the town of WytheVjlle in. Wythe County furnished Vir- . ginia with another lynching, and deT'eloprhehTs" relaf tveTo That affair have ^inee furmshcd the advocates of fed oral anti-lynching legislation the most (Unassailable argument that has ever been put into their mouths. Here are the paradoxical developments: following?the?lynching,?good?Virginians, .including the, entire State' press uinanimously demanded that ?vo?v thing-, jlawfully and humanly possible be done' | iionunuod on Tage Two) ; - i'