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? VOL. II.?-NO. 4J. r CM ^ New r .'? ? ?' THE COLORED " STATE FAIR A --Greater and Better Fair is The Slogan?'Everything in Readiness. ?_? v SRN!> lXnTTR W$?BX3SB? Present Indications Are That There Will Be An Immense Crowd Here. The annual OtnU, Fuit? biggest event among our people, showing something of every thing we have ~?prcrdtfeej 'frum a game i rooster to a collection of articles in manual arts? will be on display when the gates of 'he Colored Fair swing open next Tunyilliy mftfning rr> mclwmn ? thousands of visitors coming to Columbia next-week to attend the fair and to meet new and old aemiaint ances. * to witness the athletic feats and" see .the rapes.? r- Tho fair will be inaugurated atrteTT o^Iock TuSdmL. morning-and the offi^ ciaU ' will all be at their posts of duty ready to serve all whoT":ome. Exhibits will be placed Monday and V Tuesday. Mafiy. of the exhibits at, the white -fair will remain Jjn tact " so aa to give the colored visitors a ^chsntC to see them and to add to the pleasure of the fajr. Into the week will be crowded?man^. things A " choir -at a Jthoosand of the sweetest voices in the state* horse races, hog cattle and bench showB. band concerts, foot ball games, midway"shows, ?circuit acts, etc. Everything Being Put in Readiness. Socrctary Green Jackson is one uf the hard worked officials of the fair; His board *of directors is' backing him splendidly and the leaders 01 many of the most progressive^cbun tiea are pushing the fair this year as never before. In speaking of the r=rbig demonstration next week Mr. Jackson said: "I have never seen - anything like it. It is the result o^ ? keeping up u system of advertising' that meanH much. We are making7 flrialarrangements for the biggest fair ever seen at the fair grounds held-by our' people in South Carolina. The leaders in nearly every county are cooperating in a manner that is commendable. Aiken County, under toaa 01 ine Dest race rn*^^ar? erei t wwi. t Loverr X^^pl^Bsal6titlB^v^an ?p* roc uutxiiuii ui ur, mil, wui.nave j an exhibit- larger than -ever. "Also Greenwood, under the leadership of' Professors Hilyard, Richland and Fair field will have county exhibits as will many other counties in the " State, There fg' ?? so TTTirny tcusOns j to believe that individual exhibits will be more varied and larger than ever. "Both Mr. Fair and Mr. Longshore have billed their circuses. Mf. Fair comes Tuesday and remains over . until Wednesday night. His excur* sion will be here to witness the ... great singing-eontest. which is a fea-?ture at the fair this year. The singing contest will be at 2:30 and at 7:30 each afternoon. Big choruses^ with be formed 'and the contests will be "Mr. "Xongshore's " train reaches ' her# Thursday the 28th to witness the annual classic betweep Allen ahd ? Benedict. This game will be better, Vjtli? em ae^both teftihs -ate in fino forth and hav# added some powerful men to the % line-up. They will give the vi&itprs'?g fine?unlet laiiimenl The gamo Fjfiday between Booker Waskincton Hi and Florence Hi will be just as interesting and will draw big crowds. This will be HIGH SCHOOL DAY at the taW awi to see 5,000 achol boys and girls' T tjjfire ?to" get the spirit and meaning of what the high school is doing along certain denHIte lines. They are com ing in large numbers. J "We have closed a contract with h the Shepherds. They are coming RY JAM . York Clt 1? JSTfw * ? P 1? ? : ' ' ' ] ' 1 1 l TT ". . i~","~ Not Informant Upon Lowmans Negro Pastor Denies He Re1I1I11U I iwl Plllvl _____ ? < ^1 : LETTER TO SHERIFF * Aiken Officer Withholds Name of Signer, "Well Known . Man of Morietta." Denying that-he had requested or otherwise-instigated" the raid in the spring of 1926 near Monetta, in killed, a Negro Baptist minister of ?Columbia, the Rev. J. M_ Myers, I&QUght to The State yesterday corself and J. Edwin Kerr, of Aiken, since the- three Lowman Negroes, of Sheriff .powardf were lynched at Aiken, October 8. __i Mr. Kerr, in a letter to The State published October 13, said: "The Negro preacher of the Baptist church near the- Lowman home had-written ta the sheriff to stop the Lowmans from selling liquor to his congregation, thatrhe was to have a big rally at his--church?(on the?Sunday fpllowing the killing of Sheriff Howard) and wanted the Lowmans raided." * ?he minister said yesterday that by reason of this . statement in Mr. Kerr'g- letter his own influence as a pastor had been seriously affected, since he wasin charga-o? a Baptist church within a sone's throw of the bowman *premise? and his people quite generally had accused him of being the informant against the Low -mans. He denied that he had given information1^ the authorities or had svugfit m any way tnetr -intervcivton. Following is the correspondence.? Mr. JTftines^Edwin Kert*. 'Aikfcn.S.^C.? Dear Sir: " .?~ ~~7 The State that you refer to the'sherIff having Keen written" to"by a Negro Baptist preacher requesting that the sheriff stop the Lowmans from selling whiskey to Mia congregation, etc. ' I am serving -a Negro Baptist, church within a stone's throw of where this - tragedy happened and have a pretty -good sized and loyal congregation there. By. not, naming the preacfier places me in a bad light as my congregatipn will blame me as being the preacher in question; there is no other - Negro Baptist church within about three miles of my church. - H I will appreciate your advising me the name of the preacher or a statement hereunder to the that. I was not the preacher refcred to. I wish to publish this letter in connection With vn'nr ?Kfl foment Tt pears to me that this will be fair to ,mer aB yo,u can readily see how such ^ report* could. and would affect me with M congregation and friends, prompt reply. ? * ^ ?Thanking you in adv&hCe for your 1621 Gregg St., Columbia, Oct. 13. Please reply here:- 7-?-r Rev. J. M. Myers: In reply to the above 1 have seemed fiujn OheiflT Robinson the inclosed statement copied from the original letter, which he would not permit maor. anyone else to see. The letter was sent in by a well known man of Monetta, just who, the sheriff refuses to state, though he has the signature~oT"the letter. I do not wish to harm you TjTT^BT WOT?,"W any other good ' ' > ,i ~?' izens Com t". 'IHH^I : \ col ... . . 4 Annual Co ..._ . , . * . )nn Mr 1 GREAT IS^ J THE N. A. A. C P. J. E. Spmgarn, Treas^ of N. A. A. C. Pi Issues an Interest-? : tng Siaiemem. BUSINESS METHODS USED This Organization is the Greats est For the Negro" Race in ;1 America. Z ZH. New-York, October 16?James 'Weldon Jonson, Secretary of the National Association fr the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth-Avenue, with approval of the Board of Direct' ors, today made the following public statement. . ? On reading the attack on the National Association fpr the Advancement of Cplored People in the Pittsburg Courier of October 9, -1926, I wondered what inducement would lead a colored editor to put himself in such a position. 35: . First, he put8 himself in the poai.,. tion of publicly proclaiming his ignorance of the Garland Fund and its relations to the N. A. A. C. P.^despite the fact that the Association has sent out on this subject during the past year over twenty-five press-re-r leases and these were sent to the-editor of the Pittsburgh Cunrier as jqfli as other papers. The editor pretends to have "investigated" the Garland Fund. No invosticntion rvf th? Cnr. ' land Fund has been made except that a representative of Mr. _Vann telephoned the N. A. C. P. for fur- i ^'formation and waif "courteously referred to the Garland -Tund head- quarters where ftgtires vrtr0 : given in good faith. ?? As to the "dissipation" jof the Garland Fund, the Fund has been entirely'expended or allotted at the ex-. j press request in writing of the donor of the Fund, Charles Garland, who asked that it be distributed as soon as conveniently possible. The Fund ' will probaly wind up its affairs within the next year or two. The administration of the Garland Fund hap re- ! ceived the favorable editorial comment i of the New York Tima^ and thc Neru^ 1 York Wot-ld in their -issuea of Sop- 1 lembe* 2U, 1 yub. In addition to dozens of social, ed- ' ucational labor and other cause8 giv- 1 en money by the Garland Fund, there were gifts to eight (not five as stated I by Mr. Vann)) enterprises conducted by or .in behalf of colored people. ' Those enterprises are: The National j Association for the Advancement of ( Colored People, including The Crisis;- the Urban League; the Messenger; the Brtherhood of Bleeping Car Porters; the Trade Union Committee~ Organising Negro Workers; the Vir- * ships at Brookwood College; and^a j subvention to Professor Charles Wea- ] ley of Howard University for publU cation of hts hook on Negro Labor. | After oomnlmlntng In hi* f Ka ioeno a# r\nfat\?*? A ? v??v V4 wvvi/Vl auv/Ub UVW much money Negroes received?en j unreasonable complaint, since the a- ^ was less than five per eent of the ^ Garland expenditures?Mr. Vann now i proceeds to reverse himself in his edi- j tortsl of the following weekend com- _ plains of the small amounts allotted ^ to Negroes. a --As to undue hrfioence exerted by t himself, even i?_ I had wanted to . "Loot" the Garland Fund, as Mr. . Vann implies, I was the only Negro j on ine uoara or directors and I ( should hardly have been abla to in. j duce the other members to abtt ma , ON IQH ' Vorl UMBIA, S. C., SAT PDAY, OC r * inference i ' ; ^? I kj t/ \JtxEna AL PROTECTION Two NewTYork Citizens Emphatically?Condemn the? " Lynching nt Aiken. ----DON'T gTOP At AIKEN Says the Authorities Failed to Protect the Lives of Theke Three-People. Brooklyn, it. Y., Oct. 16?Robert Lo?r- son-in-law of Ex*SenatinWilliam M.Calder_and Republican HUtrii'J u n/I?C^ L'^a?J-1 Celler of the uptown district emphatically "Condemned th e lynching of^ a woman and two men in Aiken S. C. recently. Mr. Lee deplored the deliherate failure of the protect the lives of these people. He cited newspaper reports, which indicated that the sheriff left the jail without proper safeguards, although knowings Lo* thethreatening conditions. He insisted that this was just one reason why .federal law should- be passed?punlshlhgr? the crime of lynching. Congressman? Celler, who also said that the anti-lynching law should be pased, declared that "among other things,- ik- >g?suggostedthat"*hll self-respecting American refust to stop at Aike*v-&s a winter reBort, These people have forfeited all right to- patronage and' should be pariahs by the rest of the country until the wrong' is expiated. Rev. J. C. White Visits izMajorltv Ban. Church Pastor of Zion Baptist Church Columbia, s. c.. breaches to the Congregation of Majority Baptist Church. Spartanburg, S? C., Oct. 20.?The death of Key. T. Elliott Hall, the Pastor of the Majority Baptist church Spartanburg was a shock throughout South Carolina and was one of- the saddest deathy-hi the history of the : state. He was dearly loved by his people and had built a confidence with his: people second to none in the state. ; 1He was called to the pastoraate pf the Majority Baptist church three /ears ago and now has built one of, the largest congregations in South Carolina, and nearly ^completed?a1jrick church when finished is esti-1 nated to cost $80,(500. He was laboring fearlessly-against rtir and suddenly in the midnight hour :ame the sad newa of his death, 1 ftflJTe ~werg~butTew persona to be- ] ieve this strange tale. It Is only lifter missing his presence-1n the :ommuivity for thees past days that1 >ne can realise that he who was so' >f his own people. He through his fa{t;h in Jehnvah and bin ntrwinn* reaching had saved many soula from | he gates of Hell, and he who was earing a large family and caring for them out of the fullness of his ?eartr has..gone to the great beyond. ?The congregation mourned With leavy hearts. The doors were clossd and the bell Mr the tower that ised to <call to Ita members each Snn- ' lay fafled to ring the udual call: 'Come." A sad time in Spartanburg t was ^<> the members view the srape hanging on the door that * ? vmvu uunua i,um vrs^eay ox i faw eights mso. ~ B,~rj-.g*^ Like sheep without AwiWrf *? ^ *' ' 'r'w^-.r HII ^ i JWPBWP*^A?'/Kxifr"*fc^ffPCif ^ MM fTKi th#W UMH T. 23, 1926. , - Htfe Sessi .? , ,._ !._ ? tiU .. ."^"" ' 1 " ^ ANAIKEN? "" * EDITOR WRITES! He Replies Tartly for Aiken to The New York tftngreffi-' _? man. .^? ,? == WRITES- ABOUT AIKEN Editor Kerr Says City was Unk aware of Lynching Until Next Day. ? -tvr-t*/. rr^Tu? * v vtiu uuibui ui x lit; >3IttlC . The newspapers are c.arrying the | gsts thafr ^Americans refuser to stop at Aiken as A winter-resort. They (the people, of Aiken) have forfeited all tight to patronage and should be treated as 'Pariahs by the rest ?ofvthe country untft?the~ wrong is expiated," states Mr. Cellar. . As a truth the citizens of the city of Aiken were unaware of the lynching^-^-the-fcowmims-ijntiPtheTfolhjwi ing morning, and - were?'fearfully shocked at the brutal occurence. Why^ should thev- h*> ?n nB mob murderers ? It is not so many years ago that Aiken county executed a black man ii -- - ; iu? mo uo^niiiL 011 a wnue Jfoman rocidcnt from the North,?who had " trusted him as her "guardian" at the famiry home. ~ The winter visitors pf Aiken come here for the dear blue skies,, the healthful air, the glory of the land that, God in His great care and love has given us.-andthat Sherman could not steal. - ?Daily they stroll the strppfT and- = woodland paths of Aiken with fortune in jewels "" their finger_< and at their throats. They walk unharmed unenvied and (respected...When. Fan. Aikenite goes to New York,- the great metropolis and home of Mr. Cellar, where innocent workmen are shot down in. cold blood on the main highways for a handful of coin, they [* generally . leave their jewelry behind and "tote" their money in their socks! . . . -' . The Northenor visitor need fear no harm in Ajkent we have no thugn nad-no bandits* and-our peaceful, lawabiding Negroes are held dear in our hearts. Aiken has bended herself to build one-of the--finest-public schools in llieTlale for. tne jiegru children and there*" are more Negro children being taught in the county schools today than white children. The Negro, citizens^have hundreds of them, their 1 own homes, their pianos and their radios, not to mention the hundreds of autombileg and flurishing ftfrms. Aiken, like the rest of the South* gladly assists the honest Negro In hi? ewrinaww *?.*.! v ."-?Tn_vr_"_. " ' cfi ..f-'"- tiau wut Negro citizen are fast learning that"! those of their race who go" North 1 generally return with a cheap cane. a glass tie pin and a brass watch after yetTr' or two of hard labor; a 1 few gcwguws thai M half b&je ol coi|" ton at its lowest price cpn->buy. Let own door befor^ he attempts Jxt boy. . cott the grandeur ,of <5od and the. in- ' born chivalry ofJbixie^ - ' " ^ - JAMES EBWIN KEKET " Aiken. ? . , s ; ??The suite.'?r* ... ? ' ,i .... REV. J. M. MARSHALL RETURNS ,'.va Rev. J. M. Xlarshall of St. George, ?L C. has returned ftem 01. Amtua- ' tine. Fla.. where he wan Invited ti\ , conduct a ten day8 meeting for Rer^, . 1 'I ' " V ; i COPY ions- AtlC dlcat^ES Jturdtttof'Proof IN-'Lies WitlpASE ? 3BB P- n..;!.'-^-..!!! The -=^?;?snnablo Doubtjo^n^ / _ " V'- >' IN CASE OP **A: . -i?? ? -' 1 ?f\TTrUT ? ?~ New Trial Ordered For ?Hr McGhee and Herbe., _ ? McGlrt. Ul H Be - al taw The defense of ?n ? 1 ;' "affirmative defense" and ? ~? relieve the prosecution"1 oi 0 j Ut-n bt nrnvitig ^ ble doubfeT the uieamuw < - . fendant at the place of th - -1" cases *"here hn P^aencetwnfrr were ^ary W.renderZhim respo s. C., on supreme court of South The same, holds in an opinion harffom jail yesterday, reversing decisiiJ. Since lower court in the case" offcavewbeen vs. Charlie- MeGhee- and ~ "more' - . McGirt. a of 1926- r1 The two defendants^ Mil twelve McGiil, were convicted ir 7 ~ county of being present tyears, '-*<? - ? ' ting fire to an occupiey the Na? i?TiFrrti> i f ^ iiil mil I " Ghee, subject to a mortgafiere have sured. . he United McGhee-""and McGirt pfly 100 a \ ^ guilty setting up the deftthose Vvho tibi." They were~Convicte' with ^the fenced to four to eight ) per cent. prisonment. ty women, - From the conviction th;hings oced to the supreme court, 'Union exfjid?ring ?n1y *hnt judge's charge in which yer of vieclaredthat the defenog" olce. ~ From-? an?affirmative defense to hat of the by the preponderance of IftfiO -.and-- - 1 ?. Tence, reversed the Jo?er_ and--TQZ~? ' . J e red a new trial of theige .being Tr'tUT : "The rule -heretofore number of respecting the defense _of omitted in - * supreme'court said, 'hag bthere were stance as follows: The Alaska and prove' ?'hpvnn^ a rgnanna ;-i? that the defendant is gui^olved ipvglved in a crime Who-iod 1921? tual pre?ence- is aj^CesailTne in $he njpst, prove tha tsaid d$f(n 1921, 64 at the place, and at thg_ti- 1922, 61; in thb indictment.. 8. . But, as .. 'VAjL*stated ahiTli tihr nunilln nf ' ~ show the presence -of thfljr of lynch. ? beyond a reasonable doubof 1925. all the evidence in the ca?igned for has a reasonable donht tl^ yerp Tni/ renclant^was-at the place,a; But'the time, alleged in the indt Aiken, S. person? ?then the jury js :not subthis doubt in favor of th^or in both / and must acquit. tligenec had ? ?? "Tf q rvrvrtn4* ? ' a v tu 1116 cou^e mobs de- ^ is the logical statement wlered the on the subject. The fufr Carolina Z.~ ment found in th?r rases^ed the case that alibi i3 an affirmat defendsiltlili md-imivt B jak-ove* by evidence, is illogical, lajfal, went in rutej iri part at least, ae^uttggpto with the rule above^ stj^an, Demon ~ calculated to confuse^ tbjni'"-'- Kam. ?? 5lh?i- words, if tne def^ gone to a up testimony that will ijpinnrf. His sonable doubt in the mtafleld near jury, why confuse the mats mahittg ?-?= by going ahead and statute of the * an- aflWtn&tfve^ defenSffman, his * ?? be~proved by the^reat^tho yard. the evidence. There canfc?p?<*l =*. tional adjustment of thegilain clothes *? ments so that they matfvthinc else men and one ' Ike officers members the spirit of fttase into greMi higher