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PACE POUR. ^ ? The Palmetto Leadc Published WeekiyBy The Palmetto Leader Pub. P: . , . . ? 1110 ASSEMBLY STREET g?-. -. - ? ?- r?- ... _ . c COLUMBIA H P ' " *' ' ? Entered at the I'ost Ottice at Col Ma, 8. C-. as Second Class Mai TELEPliON ? ~~ 5 N. J. FREDERICK, .i_. Ed A. B. LINDSEY. __AImvugmtf-E<; J. B. LEWIE Fraternal Eii W. FRANK WILLIAMS ^ ? Contributing Ed HENRY D. PEARSON City Ed SUBSCRIPTION UA I KS; CASH IN ADVANCE. . Om tW ? ; f ix Month**: ?Thraa Months SingU Copy *-j-7 ._ ... Advertising Rates given on af cation. . * . "V ' ' , , V Jv ' . .... Communications intended the current issue must rei thle office, (il out of town)" later than Tuesday night. ty jiews by Wednesday nig .*?&" 1 ~? . Saturday, January 15th, 192 Poland is fa&L_he?oming . xneri?anized.>. She lynched t of her citizens a few days ag ' a Georgia gave the,country 100 per cent Americans, oth wise known as the Ku K Klan Now it is doing its d estto-bring forth another br< "Ttnown as "The Supreme Kii . the originator expects to ret with his roll after a little wh Columbians can well be pre ??-el?the Johnson, Bradley?e Morris Company Undertake This company has recen moved into its owr^ Furie Home, which in equipment ? not surpassed by any estabhh ment of its kind in-the Sta V"', It is modern in. all of its i ? pomliritJiits and aftl3tic61iy _? raiiged througTibut. - -:-* - Senator Blease has by aT, solution offered by him asl the, Senate Judiciary to ? whether"or_not one who-has"" _ clared opposition^ to the Com . _ law pursm *at='==T~~ thereto was not disqualified : a seat in the Senate, "if. tl Committee says "Yes" and be acted upon, the Senate wqi , be depopulated by about cu third of its number. _ ? ' For the past year, 2763 c ored men were arrested by 1 nolice ' while there were 21 white men who faced Ae Jud, There were, two more coloi than white.. Last year t whites exceeded the colored. course, "colored people are i rested frequently, when a^wh man would not be bothered ] the same thing. That must ? considered' in connection w: ' the figures. . However, even that the number is too great That is certainly not kind ~7? Senator "Caraway of Arkans to intimate that his colored f low citizens will not vote unl( they are paid to so do. 3 seems to forget, just how gre Is the number of his own pi pie who receive pay (acti "money) for vottrrgr- But real Senator, is that" the kind training your folks have be giving the colored peopl Most human beings act as th ' have been taught, either by p; ?P ^, TO THE GENERAL SE BLY The colored people of t Stateneed?not merejy want an institution to care for a provide suitable, training i _ thSir "delinquent giirTsTYbuha provided" suitably for such 'your boys and girls aijjjl the c ored boys. Just why have y so long neglected sucjfr girl Indeed, as between. boys a rSrirlsT'do" you'not tliink it m< . important "to care for ' sn "girls? Of course, they may i be as profitable to the State from a dollar and cent basis Christian duty point the wa Certainly, there xan be no i gument against the establis J ment of - such an institute * are you contented t o puM. dollar against humanity? Th Spr^r'--, A .?,? >*?? ,-> ? rr--f . -- r?;;.-0: ^ ' . , t-t a - . >r_ such institution^, are wort! yon have already- established ?Q and maintain. Or do you tak< the position that colored; girl; of that kind are not worth-car ZZ lag Ior? The Colored" Women' -? Clubs hake been trying fo um_ years to do- what the Stat Lter- should?have.. ere nawdone?es 1523 tal lish and maintain a place fo ^ these girls. Be fair Eegislators i?u>r SS something that ia needfu [itor for the colored population. A] annnol la oil xvn r?an tyiqItc Vni to Mil ?? v VV411 AVI j"tor have the government. You cai iilor refuse or give just as you pleas* ticet_ and we can't, help ourselves.? ' -Or?? V* g J ; ; ' ' * , 1.25 1 >.-L.jb Last week there was argue* 0f> in the United Statse Suprem* ,pij. Court a case of unusual interes The ca-se?Nixon vs Herndon? ?, arose in Texas because of i f0) law duly enacted there whicl . absolutely prevents a Negr< ^-Trom affiliating with the Demo nur cratic party, as a democracy n UP understood and defined in tha thern States. It happened tha 7 before that law Dr. Nixon, -col =5? ored, was allied with the Demo A-! crats and voted in their so-call ;vvo! ed primaries. Of course, in, re . _ I Vk 1 4- * t 4- 1% /\?v . n 1*A M ???V% n 4 4- V\ 'O. fcWjtjr tlicy itie IlUt wilttl, I/IICJ pretend to be?nominatinf - *? primaries?but are In re&Htj I an arrangement wherein all of 'er~' fi :Ci'Q are elected to office:?Tlw j sole objects of these so callec ^ primaries throughout .the Soutf it makes Ho difference how int telligerrt. -cultured or-- wealths ire j - ; ile i REVERSAL ASKED OF SIX )ud MONTHS SENTENCE OF ^?NEGRO IN NEW YORK ;rs- - r - ? tlv : -H : . ral r?' ' is . ' : . ' _ 1 New York/ Dec. 24?William L Patterson, retained as attorney bj ap_ the National Association for the Adcase1 of young Colored man, James Williams, sentenced to 'six months ? imprisonment for breaking a window in the subway during an altercatior ha^ appealed_ilie^case asking for reJ|*l prompt release of the prisoner. Ar3 , gument on the case is to be heard or December 28 in the Appelate Part oi * ' the Court of Special Sessions. _ Mr. Patterson in his brief points 1^. out that, the only witness against the colored man was a policeman, whc gave inadmissable testimony in the form of opinions and surmises, after admitting that he did not know anything about what had occured tc cause?the?disturbanco. The only statement by the colored defendant, ?e,; tfot solicited by the court was: ? "They' don't tell you they threw me down the stairs." .? -H ?Of ? ; 9 ? Mr.- Patterson points out in his brief that the presiding Magistrate was: withouF^power to sentence the defendant under the law; that the e.? vidence given against him was for the most part inadmissable; and that the,, punishment for breaking a window in an altercation in which the colored man was presumably defend* Of ing himself?from?attack?especially >as considering that he had never before ^-1 . . ' >*ei" been convicifed of a crime, was cruel iSSI and unusual. Mr. Patterson sugg&sts He that the only explanation for the Mag istrate's action is prejudice. His 20- brief concludes by saying that^lthe punishment already meted-otffto the ;Jy? defendant i8 in access of , any punish?f ment merited by the facts, and (w.e) !en respectfully submit that this learned Court should discharge the defend'Oy ant forthwith. ' re M- THE; WEEK'S EDITORIAL: WHITE PRESS he ? if"~ - ^ [or (From The Record, Seattle, Wash, ive December 6, 1926) Of "* ^ ol- ' " _ OU rid Need ^or A Federal Antijfe Lynching Law rch ~ iot - , ~~ Lynchings which in the last tw( mr years have shown a gratifying de y 1 cline, are'again on the way up in th< ar- United States. One. of the most hor jh- rible crimes in recent years was th< )n, triple lynching of three Negroes ir h? taken from the jail and killed, al tat though one of them hpd just been de ' * ... ?* m tWE PArMfrm k they may be, from having a 8 voiee m^their own government, I: "While the United States Sue preme Court has a. habit of hops ping,' skipping and jumping - wnen questions involving tne ? rights?of colored people as Ar meriean citizens come before it, e it is difficult-bo see just how it - can reach any othep conclusion^ r but that such a law is Contrary, '? not only to the plain provisions": il of the Constitution, but also to n its spirit. Of course, not much u attention is given to .the'spirit a' of laws when the Negro is cone cerned but here the letter of ?-the?Constitution - is violated. Our government is-ono of the ? parties. If a Negro therefore Sa prevented by law-from affiliating with any porty he. chooses i can it be saidjhat his "privie leges or immunities" are not t "abridged?" Certainly no oth-' - er citizen of America is so a treated. But To go further, can i it be said that the United States 3 is seeing to it that a republican a "every State when a government t of races is maintained ?^Every t knows that thatris the only - kind of government that exist - in the Southern States. Were - that not so, is it reasonable to - suppose that some blatant denjr 7 aeoerues who crrace the halls of I Congress and know nothing j>r T"do-nothing but heap abuse on - the Negro citizens of America < v would be. there*?Ag&in> lot us J 1 hope that the Supreme Court ' 1 will have courage and uphold f the Constitution. "even though * the weak Negro race is nlvol ' clared. innocent after trial, and the ' J other two, one a woman,^ had been t granted a hew trial. -It is alleged - that the police officers were accom7. plicfes in this crime. The public au- ' thorities of South Carolina were as ' usual doing nothing until Walter t' White of the National Association for ^ i the Advancement of Colored People r' and later the New York World goad- ^ ' | ed them into action. It is yet too '; goon ta n^dlch thfifthprp m cmirflgpj1 1 ehough and decengy enough in South 1 ^Carolina to bring the lynchers to jus- * '} tice, ,7. ; ' ' ' 7 . ;. { ' i - Not to be behind hand in crime, ' Texas reports a triple lynching for 1 asons unknown! Two of the victimo|-l a man and his wife-^were burned to ? [ death ih their cabin. This is in the ' country of the Fundamentalists who 'pride themselves on their religious * ieal." ' ." 7 ZT '7 I ' .. In view of these facts and others * like them, it is high lime to revive ! agitation for a federal anti-lynch law. JLt would, of course, have been better _ if the States had taken care of this matter. A federal law will not be self-enforcing. Nevertheless, if A' merican citizenship means anything it means the right to life as against j-1 ! the mob. The United States is bound jH - . *? f? I | to guarantee that, to .its-Negro citi- 1 1 zeiis. Undoubtedly the previous agi- 1 - -tation for the Dyer arti-lynchmg?billyJ ' in Congress was partly responsible j 1 for the improvement in the South. I This time support should be, given the bill in earnest, There is no room L 1 ' % * f9r section feeling in this matter, 1 1 nor can the North, in view of its own I race ridts, assume a holier-than-thou 1 attitude.* All of us as decent citizens^ 4 must get together to remove from the * United States a disgrace which is s not shared by the most backward! peoples on earth. . ? t iff::-::-. ? I 1 7 2 COLOR LINES THREATEN s I DIVIDED WORLD,'SAYS * BRITISH PUBLICIST 1 t fi 7??7?:- v . s \ ' -? ?. i New York, Dec. 24?The National t Association for the Advancement of c ^Colored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, has 11 . received a clipping from the "Afri- j c can World." Quoted from an address . ~ delivered in Capetown', South Africa, . by the well-known British publicist, Philip Kerr, who warned "his hearers of a world divided on color lines in,' the next century. "Th e African | World" paraphrases this part of Mr. J Keer'g address as -follows: "There was no doubt that^olor-wan? entering more and more into the in-! The Asiatic was becoming race cons-* cious and color conscious*? The Afri > can was tending to do the same thing. - "As?thoy knowr color was an in - | ; gredient, if they introduced it into - politics or society, which acted as an ( ? irritant. i "Undoubtedly it would require all , i the stateamanshin , that the world __ I po33tess'e'd to prevent the world from ( '{lining up on the color line# in the ', * " ; ? " . I , - . . . . ' * 1 * . n y T.fCADTO * 9 next century. He said that in every 1 country in which we had people who had got_tq deal with color problems 1 or to consider that aspect of the ques- i tion, if once they allowed internat-1 ton?i )<uiivi\.3 vu uvcume urgamzea on culor linesthey were introducing an element which would be far more-dif- ^ ficult to deal with than any of the sort?of?racial?feelings and passions which divided countries on a minor scateT" There was no doubt that color was going to be one of Tmost " acute problems." DETECTIVE ROGERS WARN- J ED TO KEEP OUT OF t 1 AIKEN-^? -j " New York, Dec. .24?-Reports have ? come to the National Association for! the Advancement "of Colored People,' j G9 Fifth Avenue, that,W. W. Rogers, j South /Carolina state detective, *n~J j vestigatbrfng~the Aiken lynchings, I. has been warned, under threat of j dpnth to stay nnt nf Ailran T .oral , newspapers state that Mr. "Rogers re- f ceived the follbwing threatening letter: j . " *' "Yon-had better stay out of Aiken, as we~^do not need you to meddle in our business, for if you do not stop j what you are doing, we will., get you ^ as' we d'd T.nwmnns So wnfoh V?nt ivery civilized person in the United \ States should do. It is idle to' call >urselves a Christian or even a civiized nation, while we refus eour col>red brethren not only that love vhich whidhuwe are directed to show >ur neighbors, but the ordinary toleration' to which every human being | 3 entittled at the hands of the merjst stranger. "The year has shown abundantly that efforts in a good cause are re- | \ ivarded, Lot us double and redouble i >ur contributions and oar work that, mother sixty years may not-pass Be-]? and stay away. Your friends." t Mr. Rogers continues his visits to Aiken despite the threats of death G Lo himself. The cases are to come before- the Gr&nd Jury -whose terms- begins January. 24, 1927. ?Dlanie for the lynchings is specifi--^ I :ally placed- Upon the Aiken sheriff and his deputies in an editorial pub- lished in the Corrway, S. C.Herald, ~ which say3 under the. caption, 'When Officers Fail." "Before & is over the people of :hls State will no doubt know that :he lynching in Aiken County must / ae laid at the door of officers of-the C aw. , * r "Aiken has a. sheriff in name only. 1< Sis deputies were in name only.? ~t /'If the sheriff and his deputies had B rnearit-to enforce the law, the N-eg?<he fury of -the mob in one-way or F another. . -?r? "The name of Aiken. County is riiined, and her officers^ are more to alame than anybody else for the re- _ ;ult." ;? v" * > ~ > "' . . 7 7 ' ? 'J * VIOORFIELD 'STOREfY HAILS c . . c COURT VICTORIES DUR- g ING 1926 _v_ o T / ' g h New York, Jan. ?.?In a vletter j( ead at the Annual Meeting, oh Janlary 3, of the National Associatin -fl "or the_AdvArtc5ment oPXolored Peoile, 69 Fifth Avenue, Mootfield SlQr..^ ay, of BoHtonr-ther-.Pfeaident of thP-pi Association passes in review the im- j 0 jortant legal victories won for the ^ s'egro in the courts during 1926 and ' irges continued and increasing sup- q >ort'of jits work. j, * After listing and briefly describing t< he various important cases before^ he Supreme Court of the United y states" and State Courts, Mr. Storey ~ ;ays In his letter: . "It will be observed that Vve are un- f, lertaking t0 'assort and defend the vhere he will, to vote like other citi- e] :ens, to freespeech and the right al- pi :o if he is innocent not to be held . fuilty. and punished. w "Uur suceess in other matters has ^ >een excellent. What is more impor- j ant still is the fact that those who m vould hold thh Negroes down, who voilia aeprive them of their rights, ~ low understand that any attempt of hat sort is going to be met' by pro:eedings in the courts backed by :ourts our rights are safer than any- f vhere else in thi8 great country._____ "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is . ,he strongest organization in "the li :ountry fighting the battle, and it is mtittled to the support of all those vho sympathize with the cause, as - ,/ .-'/,v- >-VV^ - 5 fore the rights of every colored citieert fn this country^ shall he as far at)ove question as are the rights of his richest and most powerful neighbor.." CRISIS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES $2,035 LITER A* r R?-AND ART PRIZES IN . -V?.. K '* vv V V New York, Jan. 27?The February ssue of the Crisis Magazine will.contain "announcement of $2,035 in priz?s awarded in litcralnro. ond art, for ilays, poems,. essays, songs and designs for covers for The Crisis Magtzine, announced today. Tlie^tfonors" of the prizes are as folows: Mrs. Amy E. Spingarn, $600; Urs. E. R. Mathews, $125; Carl on of Colored Women's Clubs, $100V Sight Colored Banks, $400; Eive Colled Insurance Companies, $360; ;even friends of The Crisis; in~honor \f \TT r>1 i ii. #nl-n vimiics ?t . \_inesvnuvi., ^9U.. The closing date, by which alL mater submitted- mugtbe in^ the hands >f The Crisis at 69 Fifth Avenue,' is Hay 1, 1927, excepting in the case ofhe Chestnutt honary award, :and he awards will be announced on Oc-, ober 24. Rules and regulations govind drawings are printed in full in ?he Crisis Magazine for February. " sends $50 for work of n. a. a. e.~p;T i r* ' . * ' ' : '? ' Ne^ York, Jan. 7?The National Association for the- Advancement of Joloredr People, 69 Fifth Avenue, has eceived from Bishop John Hurst a 2'vter enclosing ?50, contributed to he work of the N; A. A. C. P_ by the Florida Con'erence of the A. M. E. /huwhT^"1! Ins is in ^dilItion-rtp??50" __ helton locals Sunday Rev. Rhodes electrified his j ongregation?,-with a' wonderful dis- ' ourse. The A. M. E. members to-1 ether with the inhabitants of BelEm can truly say: "God has sent one f His messengers here." Mrs. heresa Clements presided at- the oran, while Miss Gary assisted by otcr choir members rendered- excel;nt selections. * ?Belton Rosenwald )School overowed with a vast amount of joy on j londay -morning January "3, 'when ne of its efficient, 'tcachers-came to , er post of dutVV after severedrmumtfaa f f indisposition, namely Miss Ifattie louse. The faculty of Belton Rosenwald raded School is planning a Musical ( anuary 18, 1927. We ask all friends j > be present. Come in droves, come ! i-doaens, bring yorrrTriends and all our cousins. Admission 10 cents. Prof. R. P. Alexander spent~the! Imas holidays in Columbia visiting riends. We were blesseifall last week with gmrtifat-weather. itmade the teach rs and day workers feel more like erforming their duties than ever. Mrs. Rosa Beck has resumed her' it ?ii - vi n. iii tuv; uupcweii uisvnci, alter nving been closed for a while. Minting. We arX n position to deliver vorkjwhen promkrck?Special attentcfrTTo out of town . . . J vork. A trial will unviuie you. V1 """ r ... _ ^ 71 ?. -j ^ > -. . . 'aturday. January 15th,' 192? _.. m uoOb I'HUM', _ to4ob ' Chair Caneing ami UtyPToWeritig - Furniture Repairing and MattreHM RepoVatlng. , * _\V. S. TREZEVANT 1019 Harden?St.. ?Columbians. 1 ; r' III SYSTEM. ? ? ?????, . __ ? Columbia, S. C., effective Sept. 20,1926 Vrrivp No. Between No I U'UH.ft,- ... 9:T>b u 31 N. Y*i-AiipiiStn iff 10:00 ? 4 &2-p-U^ -A-uunshi.N. 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