The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, February 19, 1927, Image 1
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South Afi
NEGRO HISTi
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Pracifloi
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HEARD AT BETHEL
^5:' A. M.E. CHURCH
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Audience Composed "of, PromtRaees
SONGS EN^GfffiD QREATLY
Need For Fisk's Type Of School
Shown Public By
? President
Thursday night of last, week, the
largest auditorium in. the city. Bethel
v A. M. E. Church, was not able to ac.
. onmnrlntn fVin lnroo prnu'/l of
Fisk and the quartette by Dr. am
Mrs. R, W. Mance*
The success of *the rally for Fisl
was due largely to the uniting effort:
T^of Mr. W. H. Harvey, Dr.' R. W
Mance and Attorney N. J. Frederic!
who have daughters, at Fisk. Prof
G. A. JohnsOTF, able principal o:
Booker Washington High School
Mr. A. IS. Brown, the superintended
of the National Benefit Insuranc<
ates and former students of Fisk
' Mesdames D. K. Jenkins, N. P. Rus
sel and Miss Green, a teacher in A1
len ^University.
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$esiring to. hear the Fisk Jubilee
^ Quartette and to see and hear the
* man who is bringing things to'pass
? ?at Elsk,. Dr^-Thomas El$a- Jones, the
'* president. The audience was of the
bek. citizens, white and colored, their
ibeing about three: hundred of prominent
citizens of the former. ThoTen(latinn
of the various songs by the
quartette showed that" they have been
carefully trained and the so'ngs were
thoroughly enjoyed,
After the musical program Dr
Jones in beginning his talk said he
realized that many had come only
for the purpose of enjoying the musical
numbers by the Quartette and that
a?" the program was at an end it
would not be regarded as bad manners
if any should go Tjefore he begun
his address. Byt the President
was wrong in his surmise. Seemirigly
the auTIulnce had come,not only
to anjoy. the magic-but to. haar him
for not a person departed. Dr. "Jone>
then begun' perhaps one of the most
soul stirring addresses heard in this
city. JLIe_told in simple language of
the work in which he had been -engaged
before going to Fisk; of the
. conditions' upon which he accepted
the presidency; the failure of those
conditions, but notwithstandaing
such--failure. Why he stuck?. Most
eloquently did he then picture the
conditions which called for such a
school as Fisk. As he unfolded these
cuiiuittuiis anu iiuuw upuu LIIC i_anvass
5f the imagination his drean'
of the future Fisk, it could be easily
felt that he had captured the sympathy
and well wisher's'of the audience
When he had concluded, he was given
an ovation. The Reverend W. C
?_n~T Kelly, who-accompanies "the" party
and whose work it is to see thai
sympathy and kindly 'feelings arc
=^=-v translated into tangiblethihgs.thpr
took*charge and announced that one
thousand dollai's were Wanted fron
Columbinas for Fisk. .?
The .large audience while yet, il
.. . seemed under the thrill of Dr. Jones
masterly apeal, without further urg?i
ing?began to- -give -cash .and- pledge?
and soon the sum of. one thousanc
; twenty-dollars over. Although t.hf
local colleges, Benedict and Allen art
^ in the midst of rallies for themselves
' - yet they showed a liberal spirit, par
) ticularly Benedict, most of whos<
student organizations and the vari
ous teachers were liberal contributor:
While in the city Dr. Jones was
the guest of President Antisdel bJ
Benedict, while the Rev. Mr. Kellj
was entertained by. Dr. and Mrs. D
K. Jenkins, the latter a graduate o1
African
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J-MEBTING IN?-?-j
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"Knights Of Toussailit Will A-^.
ward At Least Ten Scholar.-ships
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M. Mr HEXHON^: SPEAKER
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11 Representatives Of Many Juris1
ftietfons Of Order To Attend
Meeting
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1 \Jacksonv^Te, Flu., Fely. 18?It war.
annwmt'fvl at thrv-Xa-Uonal Office of
I the Kmj5hts .of Toysafcvint, today that
' j the Order will award at least ten
' i scholarships beginning next year to
1 Negri? ytfitrrj? mU'iu'atul women in the
'LPtvidy of Negro history. '
L - , Speaking to representative of the
! Palmetto Leader, A. Fitzholm Wal
lace, founder find grand supreme rul- 1
r er of the Order said: "It is hear{. ren':
ding to ecnhe tTr^nrntact with college
: men and women who know^so little
' of "Negro-^islory. Negroes should
' give mory, study to tho work of Car'
|Jer (i. Wnodsipi -anil other Negro his-'
' j Ionians," for, as he said r/'ftHs only
- hv knowing Wyrn history will the
.Negro, 6?71 himself. No .race can rise
' any higher than its. ideals, quid the
r )aef;g"i'u^!.u_ lor Aogro KlCiUs must Oe
' ound "in past achievement's nf._Ne- ,
;roes. *: '
| The national council meeting of the
" Order wttl tie heLd fri Jacksonville,
February 21-22 at the Knights of
h "Toussaint Castle, and ' will take up
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matters of national importance touch1
ing on the educational and financial
program of the Order. T,f
- * Mrs. "J'lavy McL'oo^J Bcthune, presi'
dent of Beihune^Cookinan College at
1 Daytona Beach, Fla. and national
president oT the Federation of Colored
Women'.. Clubs wiTT "be the nrinci1
pal speaker at the national.council
' meeting of the Knights of Toussaint,
which will be held here, February 21?
' 22. The meet ing is taking on national
.proportions in view of the program
that A.- Fitzholnn Wallace,
founder ami grand suyreme ruler of
" the Order gxpects to bring to the
council. Representatives oLthe many
!_ .ini'k'A'tlun^??which?the Order is
' operating will attend the meeting.
' Among others will be Dr. Alonza P.
Holly, former Haitian "Consul to the
( Bahamas. Every preparation Vbeinb
made for the entertainment' of the
delegates who will, come to Jacksonr
vTlle.
Seymour Carroll, soufhern field secH
rotary of the American .Humane Education
Society ot Host on arid Colum'bia,
S. C., will be the principal after'
dinner speaker at the annual banquet
at the Kirkpatriek Tea Room at {he
Richmond Hotel 'Monday evening.
Mr. Carroll was here several Weeks
V hgo, and gained a widcTfiold of friends
' as a fearless and humorous' speaker.
Mr. Wallace stated this morning that
' he had received a wire from" the Hu'
mane Society -field worker that, he
would be present and speak. . !
Mf, Carroll will also , be heard at
the Tuesday morning-business , ses1
sion of the conference at the Temple.
' by public opinion thru publicity." '
Many have expressed a dosiie to hear
* him. ; !"
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CARD OF TltAKKS
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i We sincerely appreciate the ex~
prcssiohs of sympathy arid the many
L kiii(ine.sser. shown n.s during tho ill.
- ness. and death of our beloved hus
band, Robert Brcwp.
_ (Mrs.) -Robert Brown
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BSERVED A1
"COLUMBIA, S. C.? SATl
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AN WALLA
THE FRIENDLY "\7
f CHURCH!
C Wurch Organized Jan, 18(>i
?W'it4i Rev. Arthur Ward ell
As Pastor
CELEBRATION l. '.STS WEEF
ProgFiim Interspersed With Ole
Time Hymns, Sung With A
Religious Fervor
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The week bt|ginning the 3Jst o
January and ending: last Sunday nigh
whs what- might he called a "Bi<
Week" for the First African Baptis
Church?rrt?Beaufort,?of?u liicii?Rrrv
Tames A. Wilson is now pastor. Tie
week was devoted to the celebratioi
if the tilst anniversary of the oh
church which wifts organized /antrar^
1st 1805, With Rev. Arthur Waddel
us pastor, ami who served with \yon
dcrful success for 28 years. The ex
program consisting of short~Talks b;
the older members reviewing fron
personal knowledge, the early his
tdry ol' the church, manner of eon
iluctTVig"" services, the character am
ievotioh of.tile"early oflicers and lead
ci^ ariilci dew i lirtiiiii, ulLthi' Ohinxl
bnildjng at that time. The progran
was inlerpersed with the singing o
several old-time hymns, sung to tune:
ti.d u illi a leligiuus fervor.~that n
l'uusecl I lie sp'-i* of the large' audi
tmce to a high pitch of . Christian en
ihusiasm. Deacon II. G. Fisher \va:
maste^ cer monies-./' The program fo
Tue.-day^night was in charge of Mis
Mabel "B. Williams and ca
NJUl WHO CyetllL n\- "?> ymimf ygmjw
i f the church,'and consisted of pap
or?.contrasting:, the early clays of th
church with the church of today
with appropriate solos, duetts- am
chofifsds.
"Wednesday, Thursday and Prida;
nights' stirring, sermons were preach
ed'by Rev. J. W. Buddin, pastor o
Wesley 31. E. Church, Rev. J. 31
Jackson, pastor of Grace. A. M-. h
Church and RevI 31. B, McPhersor
Pre.;iding_ Elder of the .Beaufort Dis
trict. On these nights.' mui io \Va
furnished by the choirs of. the re
spective churches of the city. ?
. Sunday whs gala day. The' weath
it was ideal, a real spring day ii
nid-winter, Rev. P, P. Watson, o
Col. ndda. S. C., State Missionary
a former member, deacon, clerk an*
pastor of_ this church, preached th
anniversary sermon to a capacit;
audience.?lie tvas at his best ?tni
spoke out of the fullness of hjs hear
to the edification of the people. Thi
service was attended by the Facult;
and entire -.student body of 'Matho
.School for girls, who rendered sever
al nu'isical numbers to the pleasur
jyid delight-of all.
In the afternoon, at 3:30 a congre
irrrttnn paeked the large auditoriur
and gallaries assembled to hear an
participate in the very interestinj
and appropriate program, consistini
os special musical numbers, the his
tory of thtr-Snuday Sctrool by Mi's
I.lix.a M. Washington', the 2nd aimi
versary sermon of the pastor, Rev
Ifickrfian, pastor of Tabernacle Rap
tint Chmvh and tlTo. history of th
church for. the last 61 years bv th
clerk, J. I. Washington, Esq. Th
pulpit was graced/by- Rev. Watsor
Master of Ceremonies, and Revs. Bud
din, - J nek son, R. T. Frazier, Jus. A
Wilnon, the-pnntor, Rev.?Hiekwar
All of the city churches were wel
represented in the audience. Re\
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RI)AY, FEB. 19, 1927.
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,CE MAKES!
"BlilTlbH SECRE- J
?TAIIY FOR INDiAr
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rl inies As .MiuJi As Skilled
Black Men
L RACIAL QUESTION AHGlLU 1
' Whites. Not* Superior To All '
B acks?Some Being Highly
?* Educated .
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t Lord Olivier, former British -Sec
r ivv.Jtiy 01 ciaie ior, inuia, writing in
t The Nation for Feb. y, analyses and
- .Muicn.ns the "Shivery" imposed upe
yh'tlie native workers in South Afrii
I y a system of law's and industry (
1 based?entirely, upon exploitation of
jr lie colored man. White men in "the ,
1 South African mines. Lord Olivier
? -yowls-out-, are paid "oil the average ~
- about ten times as much as the black", ^
a 4-oveti- oliiHed imtiv?=ma<?hine-operatorsy
receiving only^h maximum' of 51 ^
i cents .a tlav' f
- :'<JIJtc minus, "declares Lord-Olivier,,
"are^ o|er-capitalix.ed on a scale, at ,
. on .'a Uasjs of underpaid nativcf lai_
bbr."?Luul OliviuF-fUlltHlUl^! ^
i j 'Some annlonists-argUQ -that-as-'the
f white man racially superior to tlie' t
s black he is justified in seeking to
. ' rn.ii'iil.iiiT-his position he* prevent ino d
- the native from attaining equality .
- with him. . That sort of self-dccciv- j
s ing pseudo-Darwinian claptrap is inr
dicative of the kind of argument
s used in defense of the South Afrij
can whftejj labor ' policy: It is' clap??trap
Jicemi.c, in tl->; tiist [ihtl'L1, nut ~
. all white men, on any scale of hue
man valuations are superior to all
-"-bliick, and a great many educated ,
3?black SuutiT"Africans wliu show iiiure^.
i intelligence in regard to the essen- 1
y tials of "this question than whites w'lio
. thus argue ... ;
f - "If the attempt to maintain the re- '
ju'cssionist and. color-bar theory ,
T. should be persisted m, it "is not the
i natives'that, in the lone von will lie *
_ defeated. I4t is nut Jthey, hut the
a white ran1, llutt have shown the fast
symptoms of degeneration?a degeneiation
entirely due to their own per-' .
_*-Verse" social theory. The native is at
n present desirousf and disposed to af
d'npt* himself to the life of European
. civilization: r-nd if white men worthy ,
[1 "of That civilization continue to as- |
e -sist him to do r6, South African so- ,
y ciety wilt develop on stable lines." > ]
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h 'Mims Klljs captured IT hijf audience <
II at Allen Urtiversity Wednesday ni^ht
r. with a reading- She is widely known
and the audience warn well pleased t
Bv LUHT
lOLINA A. &
.AST? CALL
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SPECIAL PROGRAM
??EACH DAY
'rotrmms Containprt Sr.rnr^ \rt. ?
dresses and Readings 4;rom
Negro Authors
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Voir him - Portrayed' ' Progress
aDf The Negro Alortg-Thlcee v h
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Beginning Mogday, February 7 and 1
'ent inning until Friday. '.February 11. 1
fecial programs, wore rendered by t
Indent., at A and T fy.lle-'i-.- in. lh? ]
h-ervaneo ?f American Negro His-' 5
nry?Week. Tho*e?programs con-.;,]
aincd addresses, songs, and read- 1
?fi'tim?Xegiu authors and about i
\egro life. Each number depicted-' <
lie development and decided prim-th \
rf- tin; Nogin here in America during- <
he vows. I'oHewiinr. emancipation 3
The \vn<7le jdVyj?rara was Kroughip'
o a climax when'dh'Friday evening.at
^ -o elo.ck . Professor Kicliard B. liar- 1
isun appeared on the -chapel plat- ;
orm and read in_ his -characteristic i
1.- IIi.r un.'ttng heroCs and. hefines.
Tn His p:-(erv,SsJ. in .>dii.--i i i.m, lib 1
mature and -art. i :
.-..Never before,- perhaps in the hfs h
:ory of "the college has suGh a well- ;
dalmod "an<l * wcll-evei-nted pm"-nn. ]
P Negro History Week becdl"tiroITght"~
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i> ?i ruiiiuy, i uc; ueneoi uenveu W'US \
>oth informational and inspin^ipn- <
L'o sny^tjuit tlvc reader. Kmh "annuffdv-"
nstructed his audience will nietfh only
c? impress the fact that he received '
nuch applauding, during "the. entire
program.
That the flgogpani for Negro His- .<
a>ry Week was inclusive is evidenced
m the fact that it portraved the his
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:.-ry and the-prngress _pl* the Ncgrtv
d i p: all lines, a'few item's of Vhich <
're the folI(S\vi
1. The Negro's opportunities versus
lie ar. i'ie\emeniv siin o 4-t^h 7 -
2. The development of his press..
3. Ilis invention^ and _other a'liiet
tmciliLs alullp- nidus: rial and comnieivial
lines. . v.
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I)R. BROWN PASSES BOARD. *
lh\" William T.co.n Brown, son of
Mr. ami Mrs. W. A. Brown, HIM.
[Most-ami street, this city lias success-.
y"TrTT'-^-llTTh(T JVnnsylvariia" Istate
loarH'-apd granted a licence to prac!
i.'? M.cdu ir.o ami Surgery in The Colli-"
monwealth of Pennsylvania. T")r.
Grown is a graduate of Howard Iltgh
School and Alien 1'nivcrstt.v, also
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Lincoln University, (Pa-) lie reroived
his M. I>. l'roin Howard UnU
pointed resident physician at' Douglass
Memo) in! Haspjtlu, Philadelphia,
Pa., where *ho- served one year. He
has just completed a post-graduate
course Cardiology?and has tiecn c^~
jeeted.to, the stalT _ot Douglass Hospital
and assigned to the departments
of Medicine and Gynecology.
with her appearance here at the unix
ersity ih_u_wy,ck.? She snent -thawoek-ehd
in Columbia as the- houseguest
of Mrs. Richard Carroll of the
Hai'hann ille llnnd-i. Miss .fcllis erimu
vw v-,.,iu imin 1 Ol'K I liy.
This is her second annual tour of the
South. She was horn in ,Virginia, "Rut"
h"V parents moved to N'cw Yortf that
she might enter the nnhlic sehrml*
of that eify. SW^as-ir^nitKfuf memher
of the Abyssinian ftaptist church
of N*e"\v York-, of which the Rev. A.
Clayton Powell.-iB the pastor.
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T. COLLEGE
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5c A COPY "
rm City
hi Europe EELLS
OF COIIN- ?
_ TRIES Olt- El ROPE
Delivered (id Addresses in Eng- 1 *land.
Scotkind^ Germany, Po-v
land And Russia '
4Ts 0 COLOR PREJUDICE"
'o -iely Of Friends Acts As '..
?Host And Receives Pickens* ? ?
IVaise ;j,.;
New York", Foli.* 11?^William Pick ns,
Fie ld .-Secretary of the National
\ s.ociatmn lor the Advancement of T
olnrod Peo.ple returned the^ day be- '
V>'re yesterday 6n "the White Star
Mficr, 01v'nrpi<\ frQ*m- his European
nur in the course of which he de-~
ivercd?GO?lectures?m?England and '??
Scotland, and stvu';c. in Gerniany, Po* ~T
am','and Russia. 5?;\ Pickens said
10 had boon- given full opportunity _
n Russia to investigate the regime
>f the Soviet Government?and that
here was "absolutely no color pgpju- ?!:rc"
in - hat country;He declared that
rc-va?kahle things in Europe. ~ ~
lli' British Empire," said Mr.
Piekon-, at the National Office qf the
\T. A. Aas~C- P., 60 "Fifth Avenue, as
it_prese:ul-_constitutcdTS'has' about?S? ' 1 ,
qlored .^pe.'pte -to every white. The
on ' of tin1 British people JTV lu*~?"?T~7T7r"
1 -studying (felor -and -race-- prob
cms oT lhe vC"oriel more than any
>t her peoplo-ever before studied such
''i'1 iiqnie.?Thyc . were glad to leant
Tie tiVuir about the X. A. A. C. P..
.'specially that it represented . co-pp:>
rat ion hot w con \yhite and 1)1 ack toT
^vard a csmmoti goal of inter-racial
-coord. I' had- about GO lectures in ..
England and.'.Pcotlpn 1 an''. T f.yivd
the English wore not as slow to ap
nrocia'te. a jolte as they had. been reported
to- he. I found African, students
in the universities of both Eng.
an i S-.. at land*. J,
"T? Germany. : ""
murage with which the Germans are ^
rebuilding their industry and com
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inercc are amazing. Berlin, the cap-.
i'ul, G rtill one of the cleanest and ' ;
most t orderly cities in ^all Europe. I
The requirement of ihie peace treaty .
Lluit^twrmuny scrap her arnvy. Tiaa
lessened her burdens, heavy as those
burdens? are. But wages are miserahly
low., it'.makes an American ashamed
to feel that at home his fellow
citizens are wasting what tp the . < ^
Germans would be luzuries and that
ihe Yinest inteliec ual people of Germany
are cluing without some of the1 V,
-napvyst 'convenience.; of an ordinary,
American humc.?Tho uproar in Ger- ?
many about the colored troops in the
Rhine was mainly thp work of politicians.
The people were much more
interested to hear about SouEn~Caro- t
' nn. They packed the l'russinn Igeis^lat.ivc
build illg to hear about condieus
irt the Southern States. One of ?
ti.fi -soberest men in all Europe to- day
is the Gorma*w~?- ?1 ? 1?
Russia :? - ; "A?;
for Russia, though they, need
an efficiency expert in niost of. their "
government offices in Mcj)f<i|Q{w to save
time St id money, the Makers, have
dbne well in ten years ful^d? with tovcourso
poverty and the syjftp^pri of
poverty, namely stealing and \nmo ?
[ bbery. In Russia l>eggars~and thelft
arc the natural efTect of poverty, as
in most other nlnooa ovrnnt in Cfci
oago when- lolihery seOms more ITk<e .
is no violence in^Rnsswt'. Nw city In?~? "
Europe seemed more' free from disorder
than Moscow. I was given full*
opportunity to investigate govern(Continued
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