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W. Whi lames W<^ ?: : t f ... . ; ^ " * VOL. II.?NO. 42. N. A. A.( A CONGRESS Of ?;?QPRES^EB* ftACES N. A. A. C. Pi To~Bc RcpicscUrt; ed In The Congress Of The Oppressed Races IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. . ; ' Wifltftni PickenS, '.Field Secret tary Will Represent The As77 sociation In Belgium # New York, Oct22?-The National ??Association-"for. the Advancement of . Colored People, CO Fifth Avenue, today announced that it would be represented at ihe International Con fcroneo on oppression?of niinoiity -races-ami prop.Ies to ~tje-K?13 Tiv"Brussels, capital city of Belgium, the mid7 die of January;?^William?Pickens, who had planned a lecture-trip has been authorised by the X. A A P.. P? Board of Directors to represent rheTo .A. A. C'.- ll. at this conference. ??nr connection with his European tour,,.lectifyes aro being-arranged* for Mr. Pickens in England and other European countries before tile ^ConTerence takes place. Lecture^ hayt _ already heen arranged in-England by , * the Society of Friends in London. ? A mi itiji 11|,i ^rtrtornatlohftfty known ^"people" who have signified their -sympathy with the Brussels Confer once are Plutarcho Elias Calles, P+esdent of the Republic of Mexico, who has asked that hia -eoinffiy .be allowed a representative, General Chi forces of thir-.Xational Revolutionary Army of China; Bishop William ~ Montgomery livbwn of the U.-Sr-A.; Manual Gomez, Secretary of_the_An* ti-Jmepcsialist League; Henry Barhijssc. the n >t<-il French novelist and writer; Professor Kou Meng You'p-of Canton (China) National University ~ and^l'rilz^-lJanziger ot Berlrrf,=Ctrr: - many-. ? 7-?:?7?? In speaking of his. plans, Mr. Pickens "said- ''ilavlng been invited on , several occasions by the Society of Friends in London to make a lecture rtftpliV ureal jj 11 tain and also receiving an invitation to attend the Brus*" sels ponferenjee-,. it occurred) to me that it would he good for an or ganization like the N. A. A. C. P. to at leasfHGe .a sympathetic observer ?and?to- participate ~tn. .tin* - first effort of the 'oppressed and "dominated peo*ple of the world to confer with each \'n imim |ii i ilir I I 111' 111 liceedlngs^nC such a conference ns it is the- firs| of iTs_ kind. But the American Negro should certainly be present at the first gathering oT this kind. And the Board of Directors of thfr N. A. A. C. P. with that.in mind, -?have therefore authorized mo to attend the Conference in the^namcr of the N. .A. A--C. P. during my visit in Europe.!' * THE V. \V. C. A.'S FIRST MEETING '. . i The Y. W. 'C. AT held its first meeting in the new home recently fsecured and twated at the corner of -Hampton Ave.- and Pnrk St. ? * 'VfPho ttl('nihors oi^' UTo^nomc-.MakWlth $40.uu for?wftrctr we ~^reatl>; thank?thmri. The formal opening will be helc ' . at some future date. The membeiB are'as follows; JVTra AIipa Williama Proculnnf' ---gp ?I Mi;s. Susie J. -Butler, Vict'-Presidewt] y Mrs. 1^. J. Timmons, Secretary; Mrs |^^G, T. Dillnrfj, Treasiuror. Mor.dmncf ^fcC'-Cii?t)p?Hfrr9r Rr^ollins, E E tejJEwStler, Ida C. Watson, I.' G. Stu fc. T. J. Miles, Dorcas Thompson H^tt M^MaHan, Luise Jones and E nnounces Writing ildon JoKns( V. g ? ?-1 _ j* P. IN C( DR. R. W. ABLE J CHURCHMAN A Real A. M. E., Whose Parents , _ Were Among?The- Founder^ Of Methodism in this State c. 0 A CHRISTIAN GENT REM A5T " He Has^Hy His Aggressiveness And Integrity Endeared Himself To His Denomination ^ Darlington, S. CS-, Dot. 22, 1926? * io thv Bishop and brethren 'of the North East South Carolina Conference: Whereas "the Rev. R. W. Mance, Presiding Elder of', the Charleston - I Hr.trfct or I lie Soq'th Carolina Con--" ' j.South Carolina, and?" : 1 j WKcreas"he "has beftn prominently ' | "onnetted with the church?ami ^ehooE "?'arolina for a quarter of a century?-' acceplahly^serving j%^prcsidmgr-ckl~ er, pristbr",' college president and citi_ -;on our. State.- and ? Whereas he is conneetionall.v the most prominent candidate for the TJishpric, ' in Suth Carolina, having .i received more votes than all of the ' aspirants of the' defeated -candidates,,.; alternately running- second- in., this*, group (pages 115 and 116 of the General Confei-ence minutes), arid Whereas he has the approbation --<>f thy ministry, laity and people .of South Carolina and his labors have been praiseworthy! . "He it resolvcdi That this confer- [ ence hereby endr.se his candidaCjFfOg" he Bishopric and jcemmit itself to ' the support of the same at. the en- j suing General Conference. Respectfully signed, - . I. \V. Janerettc, Secretary, of the ; 'Conference. .I F" Boyd, J. E.' TKo } mas, A. P. Spears, J. W. L. Duckett, C. J. Shaw; N. S. DeLaino, T. J. Milesj D. O. Deas, I. Miller, J. S. Coe, U. S. Rice, G. F. Bartelle, L. A. Wells, D. J. Turpin, A. C. Sumpter, I. .1. Pruit.t, J. G. Hamilton, A, "J, Jenkins, L. L. Jackson, B..F. Levistor. N. A. Bethea and H. DcLaine. . The State Missionary Society in its _ .annual session,.last week. laDud-w^' er sixteen thousand dollars and endorsed Dr. It. \V. Ma nee for the Bishopric a ml Dr. E. H. McGill for' the -Sunday School Union at the ensuing General Conference. Rt. Rev John Hurst, A. M., LL. D. . Bishop of Florida?and South- Carolina and Mrs. B. K. Hurs^ the aimab'le wife nf the Bishop were there and *ave much impetus to the work.. Tim State is, pxoud of Bishop and already manifested under their lead_ ership. . .. ' . ? itfiSOLUTlONS Madam President and members of . the State Convention Of tlnrWpifianV ' Home an<l? Foreign Missionary Society Wf" the A". M. K. Church: " w nomas, we have been favored Johrr Hurst,-A. M., LI,. D., and his 1 aim able wife, Mrs. B. K. Ilurst, I And whereas,-his*wise counsel and lucid" investigations oT missionary 7 tVprk have strengthened- us and giv; en us a broader vision of oor work ;* and the responsibilities of the women . of tha State Branch of the Woman's . h Home and Fireiun Missionary ^oeie-. ty, ^ 7 And whereas, Mrs( B. K. Ilurst has , Riven us two or mote addresses that . thrilled and. quickened Us to a deep, Continued on page eight. fi", - ? r -?mm For Th Dii Deliver: i.'. f ' JH? TT~~ ; ??? .. tr* wi r f COLUMBIA, S. C., SAT I m MANCE THE LAWL THE "CRISIS" AN- ! NOUNCES AWARDS Awards Prizgs In The Second "Competition in Literature " And Art PHIZES AMOUNT TO S600 These Prizes Donated By Mary E. Spitigarn And To Be A... _. wjirded Octoher? 25. ' The ri*is ' Mnga/.iue 5nT" nounrcd the a\yards in its second tw4*es to he awarded "in an evening j mfinting^n'l International Ilouac, Nciv ; es amounting to $G00 donated by Amy- Ik-^Spingarn, were awarded-ris follows: For plays: $100 first prize to WilIHr Richardson of Wtirfhlngton, it. .\j. and $50. 1 second prize to EulatieSpencc of'BrooklyiY, N. Y, Honorable" mention tb Randolph Edmund* of Obcrlin, Onib. Judges: Lester Walton,?Montgomery? Gregory attdCharles ---feu roughs. ? Short stories: $100 .first prize to John E. j j\tathcus of Institute, West .\!u4-$50 | ueeond" prize to Edmund D.} Sheen of Chicago. ? Honorable men-! tii n to Anita SG. -Culeiiian?of?N'CU' 1 Mexico' and Ethel R, Clark of Mas-] ftachusetfs. Judges:. Charles W. X --* ' - - ? |~ Attei f Agents, Kej ! in . I L.ontri X - -Hereafter all communicati X current issue of the-Palme X office, not Jater than ' Wcdnc IjT order that'uur^out ot state 1*1 .papery Saturday. Write pi 1*1 UdlKT. Qihdrnso ynm- nrl-ii 1*1^- so long, as we have article.- < .{ want to publish articles "fro ^ be obliged to "cut" some of { not be more precise in their ? . govern yourselves according & ? GEO. H. HA: : .*. - ' ' \ /1vhVMV^MV>/?V?WMCOM,HVHVH Cromwell. i'octry: first prize to Arna Bontemps and $25 second prize to Counter C^Hen. ^Honorable thfentiori to Eflie Log New-some of Alahnmn "nd Blanche Dickinson -of? Pennsylvania. Tudgcs:Babel te Deutsch, Jame.4 Hughes. Essays: $75 first prize to L. R. filter of'Topeka, Kansas, $25 second' -Wold on Johnson fTTTTt T.angston prize to Anita fi. Coleman ot Nerv Mexieor Honorable mention to Jullon E. Bagley of California and Frank Home. judges: J. E. Spingarn, Mary White! Qvington and W. C, D. Du Bols. "j Illustrations: $75. first pi^ze to J Aaron Douglas of New York City,' $-5 second prize to. Hale Woodruff of. Indianapolis. Honorable mention to Albert Smifli o? JParis.?Judgos: Lou? is Mayor, Louise It. Latimer and Her. bert J. Seligmann..i* The Crisis announces ' $1,000 , in prizes for the^ear 1027. i ' ( I Literary J^. . *7" M * 4* : . b Three A jrday, oct: 30,. 1926. ENDORSF < RESIGNS POST AS CONTRIBUTOR -Walter White Resigns I'ost A^ A Contributor lo The I'ltJLs-burg Courier NOTIFIES EDITOR VANN Below Is His Letter Made Rublic Today Resigning. Ki< Po^i. tion As A Contributor Walter WTiite, Assistant Secretary of the Ntional Assocafion for the Advancement of Colored People th(fovrnado public the. fnlHyinp?... 1? M.ci i.ul1oresseri. to It. h. Vann, Ed it or,'f resigning his position - a s -contributor' to the. columns of the Pittsburgh Courior-; - ?* ? prared on the front page of The Pittsburgh Courier of Ottober " 1920, containing statements "regard;ng -my associate, Mr. Johnson, and the orgfmr^tinrr with which f ain eonnected, for which statements you have fuels jn.AimiJ?.pbncoi.iji'un . if\o\y^kg t&?m to be uidnju; mid fu'i^hm^Tn view of your telegrfin'i in ~response to my own in which niessage you admittrd that tl.ihCartide appeared wtlK j^our knowledge and approval, I am writing to advise that it will be iinpossible-for mc to resume my contributions to the columns' of The Pittsburgh Courier..' . itidn! ~ I sorters And | butors . _. | ions etc., intended for the tto Leaden- must reach this ?sdav.__,_We must al<> this-iu; 'subscribers may get their__ jt. &:n. and on one sidn'nf ihe ? ?-les and do not makeJthi'in_?jl crowded out each wctde. We X m all localities, and we will !j! wmui-gsi; i hko nonce a-na iy--v - ? ? MI'TpN, Manager.., f, " i A -7. . . ?? - ., . . . -- MISS UTILE FINCH CI YEN A SURPRISE PARTY BY NKW YORKERS ;.. A real-^ui'in'ik'C party was irivon "Miss Lucile Finch 'ftf 402?IC,?Dielceon Street, Mafion S. C. while she was in - N'0 w Yorh-atte tuUw* Columbia tr= piversity. The ' party. was arranged and given by "Mrs. .Julia Mr f hiin. ~I(> \V, 120 Street,' Now York City. :Mi\-amF Mrsr Mt^CItrin olice lived in AVtlwitlgl on,N.C. 17 The dining room was beautifully decorated with carnations, American beauty roses, sweet jtea.s and dahlias jjfjJjKin.v Colors. The Tiostess carried out the color scheme, she and the other'.invited guests wore oink ro7T and croon colored, evening drosses, the male guests wore full dress suits. "^Tng* ornciont i\lrs. Tl.v/el -pwl .sided at the piano arid well did she play some of the .latest pieces of muAn elaborate menu.was served) Arid the aurpriJed guest and other friends ^^ Jurgh < Hnressps In :d for bi a. ' *' i * - 1 JOHlNSON SPEAKS - ?t" ; ' . * AT MEETINGS James We Id on Johnson is-Giveit yJA (ircrH Ov.it inn In Pitts- ? burg MANY PLEDGE SUM'OKT Hundreds Of People Pormed In Line After Meetinir To Shake Mr. Johnson's Hands limit's Weldon. Johnson on Monday. " 11ill Tuseday, Oct is and 1S>. spoke ) irtrrcclimo.s in the city of Pittsburgh, r.iiiip- hi Carnegie H.ill hufum tliu *U- j Jl'yersjtv .ExtensionSociety; once at Pittsburgh ,Univcrsity for a student) I body. and the third tinxf; before a ' [ r-i < 'Wiled meeting .organize^,-' by. the.:. | Pit \sbtirgh Braneh of the N. A. A 1 ?<g r. - ^ - . j many -people being turned away for ; lack o1^-r<Et>m in the "Warren Church lti the course *4f 'his- achh*r?ss, wliich i ..Was dt'Vul Q'f to tbr> i-bv. V \ ' P-WMr. J^dmso+H-n-HswcTrd?trr~: firil detail charges made by a local newspaper and amid enthusiastic ap plause and laughter evp.gorj the uni_ 'Vu:h< and absurdities in the . attack leveled against the M. . A. A. C. .P. -irAft-eyr^tc~TRvpetir.c htm4redc of people formed in. line tcrshakef Mr. John-j in the Association.! -A-r-number o'f-\vorikers irt the X. A. " A. C. P-. who had not been active re cn1,!; . jytpress'ed th<nr_dt?eririnatirm-, to resume active and whole*hearted t upport of the Pittsburgh Branch ml i.f the National Office. ~^rr After a few words of thanks, Miss ; Finch ,left New York for Marion, S. ,('. whorc^sW is a school teacher. 1 J "-vRUSSIA' i , I my \\ . K. B. ftu Bois has returned to his- office 'front an European trip <>f three months. He spent a few | davs in Belgium, t*\yo weeks in Ger"many, a week in Constantinople and two weeks in Italy. The rest of the lime ttas spent in Russia ^ where Ke~ ?t-eavelletl some-two thousand miles visiting IiOnihstradj-?Mtwow, Nijni. -NrA'g'Kt^w- and Odessa. Ehv f)tr , Bo is comes hark full of enthusiasm I ins, to d<* and ingoing to write jn |-the Cri-is an.l lecture, un thc .subject itiuring the corn j?g yont- ?. |iULUNj}j) WO.MUX OF NEW JER| __ 1N N; A iA c" pI ? 1 J 23 > -The fuliim in^r ' ! 'olcgnvrn \v:is' received today at the Xatint&Jt Offtres of. tlvo National As-k ciatiun for Ure - A 4v'a neement??f .Colored People. (ID Fifth Avenue. In view of the'scathing, unwarran, ted attack of the Pittsbttrgh Courier | upon the National Association for Uui AJwwctwnt of Colowed -Peoph^ __md tin.' inti^.rity of itn offieiula, the pNew Jersey Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in session at MorrisJ iown, New Jersey, representing two [thousand women, expresg faith ih rsavfr orgapiz^tion and in" the thtyteeiyj j iiliyi integrity of ita officiate,. ? , ' ii , t T ? i ,V~ Srr: l_ ??.?-9HSS??2S9H mpetltion : -T-tt- .. ' ?? * 4 Courier Pittsburgh . .. . .. "**r . , *-v:?-. \-rt~r,. T',, = == "rs?: _ ' " r ?\m ' ' CQPY"" 1SHOPRIC ACTIVITIES LYNCHING AQA1K ?tn> rivt The ?t'suat Crime" Not TKe " ~ Usual C'aufifc Of Mob Violence ?- ?The Figures :'j_~ Federal curb sought - < Z. *." *.T V "i . . ' ' ' *.' ' Is There a Remedy?. Will It Be Found? Will The Federal Law .. ~t.ake a Hand? . .?.?...,1 (Irom the New York Times, Sunday, Three NojTroe.',.one..n woman, were ' - taken from jail at Aiken, S. C., on ~ ~ /' October 8 and lynched. The same -*"* night a__Nggm ,wa? taken from jail ?? f Dover, Tettn. and* lynched. Since ']v' ht "f JoniKU'v there have-been twenty-four lynchintrs?siv morp within the first ten months of 1926 than occurred in the full twelve months o 1-11)25. ~ . ? ~ In the last _tiiirtv-*4pJ>t- ywiwi; - tional Association for the Advancement of Colored' People, there have heen 3j5S:l lynchings in the. United States, an average yrf nearly 100 a H".i\ The lx-ire'nttn'-e of thoseaxha?^^? were- charged- -truly or--notr with, "the -. - ? usual crime'," is less.than 20 per cent. Sinc e 1889 a. total of ninety women have Leon.?lynched..?Lynohinga?ee curred in all Stat<?s of the -Union ex-' " . cept stjvep, . v V. -Ry?far, the greater number of vie- ^ TTnr"""~woiu of the hliick race. From the statistics it appears that of the persons,Jyijehed between"" 1889 and ~ TS.2 fo-"2i.8. --The' largest^" number - of lynchings, 2,S3-1' were committed in the South. In the North there were 219, the WeijJ 150 and in Alaska and unknown localitics_-15.--2?-? Law's Delay Not rInvolved ix Ij .tvXje~Cliat in Hit1 phTftvT 1'121-rthere ha/ been a. sharp decline in the ,: ; number of such criwiiK Tn t'r'i, ? ! Ptu.?ne ' W'-pe -Rnrnt-i^t TO Hitt <?i. - 1923, 28; 192-1, 1G; 1925. T8. But, as pointed out', the- first months of r.^:0 Record a larger nuit'itier nt ivnch " ings than the entire year of 1925. One of the causes assigned for * lynching is^that the people were im- ' ^--patient fff" tlfo law's delays. But the recent, mbh lawlessness at Aiken, S. C., and Dover. Tenii., does not ?1 stadt iate tips astern on: For- in "both eases, the law with due diligence- had ^ !?een put intQ._pperation- The .mobs defiance of the-Courts murdered .the ufisunei^ In. the?South?Carolina .-a.ja the emit had dismissed the case againsj, on of the ^three' ? ?'?vcu County, 9. C', for whose killing the Three N'cgroes were on trialr-wop* in April, 1925, with three deputies^-t^-- ^ llio Ruliii' nf a .minimi! until Dniium = Low man,, early, one morning. Sam I.o\v n 1 a cu.. the-latherr had -gone to a?TT mill to get Some meal ground. His three boys were plowing-in field near by. His wife, Annie, was rYintfitij? = -soup Hi .a, pot In Llie front of -The house , and -Bertha I.owma% his laughter, was sweeping the "JWL Trial Process Interrupted "The officers wdre in plain clothes ami woi-- ^adtfiQfi nr anything- shm? V ukmtify them ay officers. The two women, seeing the four white men approaching, became excited arid one of them scrimmlid, TEe officers made a break for the tkousn intn *- . Jijm.- - jr?. ? - (Continued on Eight)? ? y,.'"V - -fry .