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* FOOT ~ - The Palmetto Leader" Published Weekly By The Palmetto Leader Pub. Co tliu tun ml it uiic. must reach later than Tuesday night. City news by Wednesday night. ^ J?' ' *Z _ ??1? ?^ days' pay will be given for 5 w_. dftys^^Wbrk. ^NowTdon't rush. Ford is one employer, at least, - ?? who is hevPr short, of. workers,. * what, makps; n 'grpnl ionHoi' > ' h ' We heard last week arOllnd the State Republican Qpnvcntion so much rot' and bunk about a * "great 'leader" thai a?e" would ",,I... ? be glad-to have the thing 6x~ , plained. " ' ,. -tt; Columbia will soon, no douut, ^ vote' upon ?' paving program* How many Negroes are qualified to vote? If you have not registered, you cap't vote. Sure: r T~ly, every man-or woman who pays taxes ought be. interested' _ enough in this to vote: Fh^von have got to register first, if you have not already.', " r?~ ?_ Tunnev easily whipped the jnf-|f nrnip sey. It was evident that Jack was not the Dempsey of old, Dempsey knew all the time that the first good mah He fought would lick him and that's the Wills. He did not-want to a colored man champion. ; That's ^= EVER READY IN DANGER "During the height of the .. Moorehaven flood, a voung Ne? ^ gro boy stood on a bridge over a drainage canal, - with tears coursing down-dns. cheeks^ res??Mied eight whito -and?twxdve . Negro children as they were ? swept along in tho flood beneath him. --Hts^ristg avpv0 lpypil.hT" lacerated from his rescue work." -^-Associated Press Dispatch, ?1 September 22ncLf 1026. Too btkl that the reporter .ofi__-!' this heroic .deed did not' give to ~~ , the world the name of that boy. Moorehaven, as it will !be reno 11A/-1 ' * iron A 11 Kil4- niii,' Utt v,c,iiGU,W \a CWI KUt Wipcu UUt My .the Florida hurricane. No doubt, this boy, like every other 4nbab^ -itant of that town, had his nerves- tried by the experience but like tiidft-To he was, he for? -got self and onlysawthattircre ' . not stop to think that perhaps sonre of the very little whites he - ~waa raying would puihaps-.bg among those whorwohld be his mbst cruel oppressors later on, or^ that the fathers or brothers of; some of them miglit have been among those who had beatah a rift lynrhod?fris?OW?, lQl - right in Southern "Florida where . ' the hurricane was most anient, i maltreated and lynched than j ; perhaps in any other-section in j -s America. No hhryrmpg heart had no time for such thoughts. ?Hatred and vengeance had there no resting place. And is ft not 1310 ASSEMBLY STREET * roi.IlMBIAr S. C. ^ bi?t S. C.r-Hti Second Class a Matter. ' '' li ' i ? ,?? ' TELEPHONE _T 4623; N. J. FREDERICK, A: BrUNDSEY, -iManngin^ KtHtw ,J. B. LEWIE Fraternal Editor W.- FRANK WILLIAMS ?? 1 ... ' 1 Contributing- Ektito*HENRY D, I'EARSON-^City Editor ' GEO. H. HAMPTON, ManaLfcf - W. N. WILSON ^Traveling AgjenV; . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: I' ' CASH JN ADVANCE. :? Oft* Year ?T ? R(t Whml tiw . 1.25 " Th?aa Mnrrtiia ' * .76 Single Copy .06 1 Advertising Rates given on appli?cation. ^ '-f?~~ ? 'T " ~ - Communications intended for mh-S^ : ever thus, everywhere in Amej rica with the Negro? Where duty calls.or^dSuiger, he ia there j doing his part. Maybe, one~of i these days, our white fellow Americans will tfully appreciate the-doyaitvv worth and nsrifnlness of the Negrofand sh v it in. a greater degree by ..according, him ungrudging justice and a ! decent place in the scheme of American me. 4 : ? ?-0-=? V brsiyr not boy scouts AMONG NEGROES? I . ' The big yearly conference of ftfielTTexeeutives pf the Boy Scout, organization was held a few days ago,-at Hot "Springs; Ark. jl/rotestants, Catholics and,Jews a-lf met Cin^a common platform , to'puy tribute to the movement i Evidently thc^ Scouts?mean I something in- the development ment of the -young whites, why ""withhold The effort from the Negro? White America cannot and never will reach its heights With black America ^hanging Tor its feet as a weight'. , All men policy even if hll idea of ehrisI lian duly is left uul altogether. Bishop Thomas F. Gaylorr-ofthe Episcopal Diocese of Tennes'see. ih a letter to the-meeting' j-that -the wlutes owe to tfreftTselves. Endorsing a movement i to extend the work of the Boy Scouts to the Negroes, he said: "We owe it to our, ehildrenlto sue to it that the black pebple among wh'oni and with whom they are^to live and labor, are HMIWlll' ll'illl min-'jl u) lirnluMilL' mill I rrv^.v ??.VAA "ivi MI tjvauuuiuo WJiu efficiency of life. And ncrvicc.^ ? Of cuur.se that's pifttlng it "on. an absolutely selfish basis, i bii) it H trim mr. i 11 In U1' r If 'that's tho only basis-that can stir white America, then jgo to it. : What tho Nnprn needs is?fcruo development,. Getting that, so far as he fs concerned,?it makeS no differencgwyhether the motive rbe selfish or Christian/ Let's have fho-Rny Snout also any and all"other agencies that make for a clean upright existence."- , - v * ?tNIQlE KKPTTBLICAN m? "7".' " 's"-" aoum i.aronnn nas a K-p-pnntir.-m organization?thai-' all it is?t he-likes of ^'hich cannot be fourrid anywherfe else America.?The head of the or ganfzation is called, for policy sa k n, -^Chairnran,"-but in reality he is an uncrowned King, Czar Kaizer, ^or anything else that can be thought of that stands far absolute power. Indeed, one aver-enthused delegate?a min is.ter of the Gosnel too in -44^bState Convention last week likened the chairman^to God Aldogizing The present Ghairomn-h jll say.' it reverently, Hut, not even God Almighty has done more for the Negro than J. W. ToLj heft." . .. ~~ This organization 'is unique then ip the fact that it has;a chafrmap-that not even the-omnipotent yTIod of iteayten and i Earth has done more for the he has. -But ! ted for four years?just like the ' President of the Tinted States. ?Ehft four year temrvyas devised, especially for him by a rule sob v 11 M i i_y, utautt-- ?i IM.I iin,)vnn'(.ir ana woo __unjto the man Who dares suggest a change to cop form with Republican practices in gates from Richland County,! Messrs. Hawkins-and Frnderfojr; ing in -favor7of-K?ch^ a change, and Lord bless your soti!fvbe-j cause* of that, they found them selves as welcomed among the faincn as would 5e a case of ; 1- THE PALME1 seven years' itch?and make no migtake, those henchnnjn and;' retainers were in complete control of the convention. But the uniqueness does not stop here. The foully ear Chalr. man is also tho National_C.0rtimitteeman. Now. v'e gods, is there any place, in America, in any political; party where the two ipost important and poweri ul offiees lind ? resting place in one and the same man? But set*:--with .What Machiavellian cunningness \ the thing is arranged. Thp rule was" so made that 'the t ime for the electton of the Chairman and the-time for the election of the National i Committeeman' should not happen at the same convention, in .siead/like "feast is ii;ast~antfl\Vest is West, and never the twain shall meet," the arflangcj inent was made. Of course, i such a system has created an" autooruti No Negro" of jntflHi f 'X- vv 1 THE SEAf ' - ; ^By W~FRAN 1 -t: ' ? this time of the year the Vtublic. | is geneitilly interested in kn&wing I there. Many Caroliniaps are enrolled I in the i^Udge? of Atlanta, especially [."'inti' .SnTfnini 'tlino Tn^llino tlie WMlL'f [ will broadcast-news of the colleges, p?AH Twhorils life-open and going at full blast-. Clark was the first college to throw wide her doors i<> i lu?yt? who seek knowledge. Spelniaii \va^ next. -A-rhnrta, Mm cIiuum.'., Jlui :is Brownl opened about the same time. ~ .' If you hfive pot "visited AUanta_j5Quj ?I?in\ have it ooweptioii uf?Mpujlltlill Tollege for girls. It Is l'ichly en-1 jjtfcfrl'.-llld is Iflcilnvvlodtf.nl In ho the-. greatest institution For women of" color in the world. Thtwo are about -15 hu ge In ieI; buildings beautifully.: situated (in ' t In- prettiest campus in Atlanta, .the leathers number about 45 and the students average about !'<M. ypelmini was n uurd fur T.im ra JSpchnan Korkefellci* .wife of the millionaire. Tliey are heavy donors to the School. ' - : ?- .. Foot Ball .NoWLliurmen will read. The schools ovt'cjthij. u.i.v tue out after big gamt? artl in tills ctt.v ? .1 hi a will be the first visit of Howard Criddefs to.the Ttn^Soi^th. ~~ '_'r? <' ; .Morehouse will invaded he knst and meet Howard on the hilltop. It is head couch has a year's leave of hbAHWU. In .illiil,^ -il I Vilumliiit, iwnl jie^ . Wt'M-. lLnnpnur-_Iii!go1?Clarke;?and oinei^-^;tii. jiavo made jdioii exit.. Tuskcgee, !si member uf th<] S. I.. A. A., will pi-ay Lincoln at the Sesqui in October. A special, train will ^leave Tuskegtfe and Atlanta for the biff iiU.cr-secfir/hTd same at i'hijudelW. , \ z j VClarke is expecting to defeat At-i liinta and Moredto^se this year. Iti is] reported that ('"lark und Atlanta" have imported several- stars from Texas->colleges. If this is true uri jfL'ljl. lililL Pi Ire Will meet, an jromov-" aWle 1'uii-y when the two teams chish. Through the Constitution Building The writer -Ti.Td TK<; ptTeib*par? AC. going through the ('onstitutidTv Buil-1 ding -last Saturday. The Atlanta; tWHhrticnr, kmuyn ?Ts~the 'TsFandzTrt^ Southern I\'b\vspapcr," is i)p]>li<hf.,ri "h thi.-j building. It is a great nowsJ p:fptTr plant, taking all seven"floofsl .for its enormous production a[-t>ewsr In the Associated Press rotfm were a dozen men receiving dispatches and hammering on their typewriters. I got in three \Vords with Sam AV. t?. II /lL ' oiumi, t*ic-sxe<it couimnlst. I wanted to see Frank L. Stanton,'the great 4>uf-tv lull he u,is 111^ 1 ft AW?ttVe .pan numb -t-be- Yiiv'-- ifrnivT" nmT^hjany other departments of the paper. I. could hot count the Linotype ma=_ chine's, hut I was informed that there are'thirty-three. I saw the funny" "paper in-^the making, -I met a colored-na^ri who is one of the Staff pho togiapli?M s. He-is said to be the only Negro photographer 011 'ft "tvhitc news paper in the Sonth. Say what you please about Georgia -makers, hut'" them ai'tr some'as fine peoplp of. the wlntre race in Atlanta sis ^ofl will find Tn Massachusetts. I have ney.elr. seen a finer -setr men and women anvwWrn It.*., v~~ ^ v.?Mii mujr iiUVU with The -Constitution. They "treated -us -^white." " * Know Atlanta? - ~ ? Speaking of Atlanta it is not (a typical?Georgian?Otty nut?ag?you ' rro LEADER 1 gence><thoughti and ind&pen- | donee is wanted. OnTy-the fel- < lowLvfho can IxTsoft-soaped with ] "expense money" or S?ip? ;oj;her < form of gratuity can- hope to < .haye.any standing in the organic j nation. ? 3 fefcaQSe of such a system, the j "party&4s?noit attracting the < ydung, intelligent -Negroes.^ iThey can't be interested enough ; jto register?and there are thou-^-; j xands-1 of such men and women ; ; in the - State. ' When they are I urged to register and take a I! part, thdy tally shrug their~H TKouldersand say, "Ohwhat's ' the use?" * ' i 2 ?- u T"t. :1 Yes, this organization Lis Uh"^j unique alright, made so and j; maintained by the Negroes who I; get nothing and are not going wh-ites in the majority^ no sQch1^ fintneraey wrmld fiTT" tnWntnl^ !' und' that*" we11-vnown^ tCHLIGHT ?fli K WILLIAMS r ? 1* > >* alike). Atlanta is~^tm^v patterning-'j after New York, hence not much time^ i .. .,lWii, 'H' J to ?i 11U \ ic ju vtit: t, Ay,lltll /Vllalllq lj ^ filled with Northern interests" and ? Northern people. AtTanta is a manu, . . . . .. 'i luoturing uuu msuiouung point,? *yjTu live south of Washington And >) Gint-innatti, a great percentage of the ^ things sold or used in your town 3 were shipped from Atlanta. There is 4 -ua?dillerenco-between Poaohtree in Atlanta nnd _Broadway -in?New?S York, except the length of Brokdway.^t Only. a very few cities in America * Iia.vtr.more. skyscrapers than Atlanta. 4 There Is one More, the nurt rhiilding, ^ "which iauks sixteenth ;n gj **in *? country.. It is a citv withtn_ Itself, 'i 1,000 people make daily bread in its offices. All the moving pictures you jjj see are, shipped from Atlanta, the .* distributing point for the Southeast, 'i There are over 600 factories in At- 4 Janta. Atlanta has 150 passenger ! tniinj daily. The SutitheHl tllOtte op- '* crates "62. The Pullman Company. ha<* opened a $3,000,000 plant here. 4 There are many things about this 4 city right at your door that you don't !| know. Atlanta is three timorr larger^ ;han Savannah, four trnieg larger *: -than Charleston efid spven ^infes larg. 4 er than Columbia>?-. jlJ If yoii ^yjint Tto-see Now York and JiavenV enough money to take the ? " P, tr> A-t|n)itn' :ip,l con thn Snn'j tterii.New York. ' ; NEORO CRIMINALLY EXATTUE- ^ RATED SAYS DARROW IN' , > - ' HMtJNTtrfcY*^ . tl N.. A. A. C. P. Press Service* ""ulj Writing nn "Crime and the Alar'm- $ -- ists"?in tlm- Oc tuber?Numbeir -of { Harper's Monthly Magazine, Clarelnce Darrow_ poihts out that the crime of >' Negroes is vastly exaggerated, '"the *j colored population," declares Mr. Dar^**' -raw? "itf charged with a share in the !|. commission of <*ritrie kuite out of pro- '? portion to their number. This, too, shbuld always be considered in c(^n4j { .nnrtinn with thu ftiul that ,lh TKc^ North they live iir industrial centSrs~~3 and in restricted, crowded areas a"nd?J .yolored people, owing to race preju- 4 dice and floveTty, are much more -j the whites." I4j fl -ATTORN h V *KEDEKl<Jk TO { -MfArVE FOR LOWMAN TRIAL, ????? #?.., .Attorney N. J. Frederick will % leave for Aiken next week .where he ~wiH_.be' engaged in the~trial of the ^ Lowmans which is expected to he 3 called / sometjime during the week. ? The Attorney has secured the services % h!nf i^ifw'I*^^^rind^n'oli^th^""^'.^ 1 J Tik friend^ who desire to help in th'e expense of this Attorney tp se/id '{j j whatever contribution they tan to 1 % him-at once. - " '* * " ,/ ~ - "S I"'.?, ,.,r Martin ~ Thur^ierti' | _j ?*?13 ^ 1 . LICENSED AND BONDED | ?: . ~' "-"f; ] 3j 1'. -A' .?r *- | Phone# 8723?8854 r Columbia. S. C. ~ j| iM>||MiMi^|iiMaiMiMMw[^M<i=^ii;ai^Satiirday^Qct^ 1926 MATHER ?11 : INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL | L. BEAUFQRT,South Carolina | . ? A School Home for your Daughter f I: Training forChratiari Wbmartho5<i I ' ? Happy Home Life-Good Food?Out Door & { Exerciser-Base BalL-Basketf Ball?CareTuI In- '{. -v_ ?tructor*-in School Rooms-Third through 4 ? Ninth Grade-Preparatory and Home Econo- I jmik- Couises|-Music?Religious 1 Training. : ^ ? j; Your Girl's Opportunity for a[ -Christian Educatiori ^ ? k ' . c_i_ ~_i ^ _ c ?i . r?w.i ? x j jciiooi upens jcpicmuei' z / tn~ | i?-j^eiACDGC^LY, Principal f^7 M? ?? ?0V? ????? ft O | An Accredited Institution of the A. >1. K. Church and the State of TSouth Caroliitar? Beneficiary of the SI;\jLcr and-General \ *? ,. 1 Fjjiif.atii)nul?Hoaicl PiuuIh ' ? J ? I Offers exceptional opportunities To the 'Negro youth. "Has fine farcili- ? J _ . ties for the following courses;- ~ ? Divinity?in Dickerson; Theological Seminary. . College of Arts and . ? . Science^ College of Education (Toucher Training). High School. X , )' Homo Economics.?*?Conirncirial. 'Musk'. Training School!"~? r l()rA1T':i) 1N ANATyttACTlVK SKCTHiv m? roij^iA. S.G,?^ , y\w - Ihofvaaurhd stair Is-compose,] o[ graduates of loading Colleges and ^*V VTO \ Universities of -the,Country. -One'of the decent additions is a Pro| fessor. of Science in the. College Department. . - JEM . | Helmlous?1 -Intellectual-?/Physical Training* are condoned to propare^pSk for leadership. " &" -activities-ind ^ocial life undii utiuwisimi vtV-otvo thmr W *harp of attention and Turkish;- pleasant diversion from study. XTy ! An ideal place for y <>uTrg-metutud-\vmiien".to he. ^ ; U0Q4 Students from SCven States-Were 4n AttrmTtnnre T nc^-V*^ " 'jjftt- "7^ FALL TERM begins Wednesday, Sept.chi.h6r . l.rv. All -stu- * aents expecting to reside in the dopnitOi'Uft-nre requested to forward 'SI \ a deposit of five dollars fop reservation of rooms, fie fore September tf j2t> ? . 12, 1030. Apidii'uUomr aro~~ebming im-rnpidh mid the trustees and.^B \ " .President discourage promiscuous mviding tim ruty?Deposits Will .iBT be.refunded if the applicant (Joes not matriculate, othenvise it"will 'JA be applied on the applicant's expenses^ Notice Extraordinary?Graduation from the High School will take place this year ns usual and a uoiitifiertte will lie .iujihI'M Pnr tDr- ^unr * 'flflfrr? DAVID ui'.iNKi SlMs, _l.. ~ iflSITOT7 JOHN IIURST, a W, ? President. * Chairman" of The Hoard of Trustees. ^ vvvvvv'/vv'!' ' I-?^vyvv,X,vvvvvvvvvvvv';">>X"X"!,v,X";"X"X"i|j^ I yA Door- Of Hope : ^ ^ ColorectRace. ! Two things there are that-never rcturn-Uinu' .|lll*laiid ncglecfeft^np portunity. Spring and Sammor A.J-a ... x ,Jjr> _ Mjiu >t inter, liiuinerent qjWfceV7*1' | to persons ant! seasons, time-moves on. 7 _____ ^ rfl1! - Time is carrying YOU to a future lilied with bright. prospects, of ?j> | an Oj.d age of poverty and regrets. You cpn't dwadle away a winter ? ! without jeopardizing, u future. Every hour' wasted now bends your di- A rection more surely toward the junk heap of worn-out humanity. W | What you get. in this world; depends wholly upon your sell. What "X ? yon do with your time determines absolutejy what you Are. No one ,o| can help you if you will not help yourself. Vou have got your own -fK fight to make. To earn more, learn more. 1 3^'j! You know which way vou are | - inmli wind ur fmwiHYl, nnd ?jn ? 1 tiffin rim eluiaf*?^vrvo^7ni prt irvri-if y.01 A,yd' M"'1 < """ y'"- ?.ik nnssou .? and can leiuedy them 11^ iULl. WANT '10. j You are the architect of .*? ? vour own fortune-?An liUUr a day s'pbnt-fn acquiring knowledge, will ! V , save your future. y ' 'JR r Every hour .spent in "getting knowTeclgo ^ a step nearer success, >? | Every hour wasted is LOST FORE VEIL Thj: world is full of oppor- MK ? tunities, The_suceessful man of-the-Tntnreis" getting ready for his jK future today. He fs distancing YOU hoeausa ho ombraees-iivory-op^ m ' ?puitunity to improve his attainments, while you stand still. j ?You need stand still no longer: von niH Climb If Von will. Hatnn Z I"*--today, tins very hour, the makiir_uf vonr-fufwer- - Are you able to fifl y ! -a- bettcr-posltnion if the opportunity presents, itself? The average X price paid to typewriters and stenographers is front <i>lH to $35 a week, y ' | This school offers-you the conecting link between the past and the fu- ? ture. It offers you the opportunity. of a sure looting on the highway % ' of PROSPERITY. Grasp lis oppotunity. DO IT NOW!?Graduates L axe^ assisted-4tr-leeatc in desirable posiilbns. Til INK OF THOSE f "TIMES when you Rave yearned for a fiitm-o?whVn you have Frnwh -* ? ^ impatient wiili the harriers that seemed to hold you down to such a 1 narrow sphere of life?when Jrou hear of the career of^Un. acquaintarit X whom you know to he inwardly no more capable ?jian you. Jt is a ?* '' mnttvr of 1'FVEl OPF'^ ni.Don'Pifvi'i v nu_ . : v. .. u. JL . mv; uuesuon |Si mn y<>? V ' i rntintirfl wiHV'Vtrtii^tyonditTOTr'Hnil IJIb.^Ij'^'IVlhrjJw future. Orydp you A ?Z want nrstgp--etft-Xuau_lJiti crowd 11114, caoat-tor more than y ,"tl'"11' [ 'r In'rlH'T ^v'"r'l"* wTTTTTTtr^r iniy day nirtin to.y^n .' 1 ?M Remember, there is always room at the top, and this seEdoT ^ift' help you to get there. This school will perfect you in a,profession that *** r-^-tiS golden with opportunity. . -y , v - - -1 X? It Fits You Ff>r Siit^fh Anywhere- j| *' Wimia ydu' like Lo make your resulenecc in busy Cosmopolitan New "Vork? -Would you like to live in some quiet old Southern City like { ' New Orleans? Would you like to live in some hustling western City ?7 ? like Chicago, or San Francisco? Would you like to live if! t*"j rpiwint?A ^?? old National Capital?like WushlngtOh; D. C. This great>chool will v " , enable you to choose your own location. There is unlimited demand )' ' ^jjir typewriters and stenographers every where.?Settd-fn yuuV upplica- . J Hon.'? ?? ; ' 5; j=rzr=r^-?7=?Do ItNow! I > Time, usually required to-Complete the course-in from threo tS.gjx" _X \ months. " The course contains: shorthand audi typewriting, penman- y *?^ I bookkeeping commercial Taw, letter-writing,"dictation andpune ? tuafcion. X | This College yill open "Monday, September G, 192G. - . . . V WILLIAMS' B^SfNESS^HOOE^X | WILLIAMS, Presidents L. | Booker ^ p ?H l n ir t n tv 1Tt'"Box 5Columbijq S. ?. I