Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'M '' ' ; ' : G. W. HAY^ -J VOL^llI?Nb. 25. nmr s' HnMK L DRIVE STARTED State President Urges that Ad-j ditioual UtTiU'ls he Aiade tor Fairwnld [ . --- . : | over siaoo reported; Sunlight Club of Orangeburg Leads-witJi_J[{ep.ort of Over Thwitai^iKiI)()llais - Charlton, S.- C., June 17?At. tliej three days session of-^thxr^SOUt h__Ca"7: rolina Federation of C'oiorecl Women's jClubs which closed Thursday afternoon, June lGth, Faiuwold Home forj . dGlinrjtTent gtrh>?was 1 he foremost ^ ~ thought. For it more, than ?1000: in cash was reported for; the address?.! es by Lieut. .Oxloy, Dr. Sylvia Allen,! M iss j Mabel James, and others pointed; for it all the "discussion of the morning and afternoon centered. On the first day, club reports hi' the morning ami Fairwold drive at -night occurred. The first public ses-j sion of that night was addressed liy i Airs. Susie 1> llnil.'i-, I'ity , t ion president oF-Charleston. More I than .$.'5000 was reported by the var-T l;??! r.'..:?. ik . .wv... v Y'M. CI4V- ^ with the rjunlight-(j[liil> bhih";ingadiinjk leading with a report of Tg Wednesday night will be- called' the cream " of the iunvontioil days" considering the thoughtful, .instruc tive 'aml "constructive talks ami addresses made. During the morning session the Junior Girls of .the ..or. ganiztiticyx interested the large"group ?of 'women' in attendance with ,'ui jn-~~~ structive and interesting program of song and oratory. Little Ernes?^?Uno-JoyJorr-u small girl - Of nTfieT" shoyved mastery in the art of elocu'tion and recitation. In the aTtertx?n Dr. Sylvia Allen, white woman physician of Charleston, gave a most important. discussion oil the subject" ".Meinal Hyi'iono" evi-r hopwl til- 1U4-*-writer. At the" night session Lieut.: G.\!ey of Kalcifih, North Carolina,! the colored executive member of the' ,?North Carolinaj_\Vejfine Do.iril -lLat'iiz: ""a scientific survey of .the sociological problems of his State and informed a l'U'll'n oi^lL.n/.A AL-'\' *: ..iiMivmu in yiu progress ana ; aid that the ^late government, of North Carolina was pinking and giving its welt'ai^- agencies. _ Thursday was the closing day. At_ tSe muuillig session Mrs. M. B. Wil- i .kinson, beloved" .State president, incensed wifh needs of a Girl's Home in South Carolina for delinquents, urged that an additional effort. Jje-i made in behalf of Falrwold, and out ___olI this request LlituN? eftmc'" fr~om her, hearers a _tx>tal~in cash and-pledges to he paid by July. "Oth nearly 1000.; In the afternoon at the educational: - 'st'ssrnTrTFoT' Asm fuVdnnVMi M 11 n I' ? K.- Howard, Miss Mabel Janfes and Mrs. Carrie?Thompson read papers! touching on the various, phases of Negro achievement. Miss James who; (.. ' wrote -on "Negro Business" %uulc >t|ch . ~T~K comprehensive* and elncidatirjg stir--', _vey .that, her pttper was- unnninl'ously Voted to be p| iotOvl i? pa'?pt?lrU fni-m and sent over the State. , She empha-i ??siseth-especially till' Work of Colored 4 - ' _ ..w?r>J>u|/t.-in iimi periodicals in the t?.past IHe years. Mrs. Wilkinson, was again elected state* president. Itei last rcmarks-f lnsing^the session r, were work to have every civic, religious, ' ?fraternal and iiitei i Ut'lal organisation \ H assist in the building and maintain-] ing the home for our delinquent girls which the State' as-it its duty has. V~ failed to (Jo7 Mrs. Mary fcarle, daugh-. p .ier oi Hon Thomas K. Miller, ex- j I president of Sta'te i College, Orange- j ^urg^ kimiiy conwentey *to-^trnrcHrhe ] | State in> the interest] pf Fairwold.' | rgqucatgd i tn flTvn thoir ?cordial - ir-i * ception .and hoa+ty- financial support [ in this effort., . ,'. " . .. . . CAB HEi 1ESELECTE] INI. V. V N. A. A~C w. r. li:i: charged- with swindling rorniw-lli :.G ;>! "YourTlib L'o." I TnTlii U l.y ('f; ?n(I Jury on : jScvirrnl Char ges ?? UNPEKTt KBKl) AT COURT "< Lit \Y;i Form it Head and Mov- injrl'W: o (if Chk*a"iijoV First VJCai) Co. Owned l?v 'Netyrocs"bh.ii-111., June 2! (ANP) Wal- . tcr 11. Leo! former Jieud of live Your ' ' % I C'ah (Y<n*i>;:tti.\\ was indicU'd on sevoral oKarjios of omhoy./.lomt'nt, here J hy (lie Ciiaml Jury,' \Yo< In vs<lily aft or- j uooF, The jury oxaiiiincd the .wit-J iVossos :r; ] i m ri n < -o-Mmwt?Ml'. Loo, and rolurmd the ind-it'tnionl within a short' ' info.- Tho duty of tho trial has not I _ . ^ jr Tho 1 iltdr ohafstes x>( ohealhvji and/ ?wii}<llintf and onihozy.loino.nt of thej funds of (ho r.)rii])anSL_tojyc'lhor with" ril.it , r ,..1... . i > ii 1?1 > 1 - ,u H !l 1 1<; wniieH|mpahy which "topic nvcr" a. cor- . '." irat; have l>(cn'Worthi Jioiisainfn'' (>i: dollars. Tor the paltry .nun .nJl vOori were 'ajjrain hurled at L the former president . and. "nloylnpf I' rt'i'" 1-1 ( hn-.iL 111' ;l .oowo-S>any, 'owned end fibejaled liy Xe- 1 <rroes.' 1: ?Ihinntt tIn;, test i.mony?of the wit-~j* uesses and his Ic.rnU'r 'colleagues. in i husinors.- Mr. f.< e. sat? unperturbed ; mil at t imes assumed defiant at ft- J stale. . 'ILe irtcivs-r ,,f the popirhtccr :a W turns do the trial' it self .when ..it s ivixi:''-,! i-vi-ral ftdim-r" will ho_ hioupht out of t he dnrUne/.s into the ti" Tit. ? si MMi i; y< IT1 M>i. si:s.diox.7Tr^ = - i:ns at state collkcie - Three. HtmtfK?! t'auhcrs registered in the Mi' nie.r si i?m "of-t"he State A. and ?d. (.','.'llef*,e .ve.lorday. The rcjrlslrati<?u's he. continued today.^nd?U'^dnr-vdny "and all indica joins", arc Halt the emolinient 'will ^ reach tip- nOO mark, aceordinj? to informati a received from the president's ' oilieo. : ? .under the dire< vi'Ui_^f-TTofc.s.:or"IIo\va.fd (!rectrtr of JXfrvard University. dvvf?ry phrTrav Pt>t4re . work has been worked out .in detail. schedules woll avranrcd a far?lur-:--trtreti<o 1 of eoiuai- es was naure !>y ::M incoming teachers yithout -any. trouble". ; The. folh.win.ir is an exhibitions of the schedule of eours.es and instructors: Kduention. .T, I>. Beck, CJeorgc"luwn; John It. Ihirgess, llurlong, Bu- cannon!,."J. A. A1 yersft .Scjonec: McL?ltee, Mtens and ^uhnnkin;?3iathc- ~ aaaLu.-^-'-X^-tA- \Vtrrrtry; f" [ ;1 ^ h B. F. Cox, and 1 lickman , ..Economics: Cisirtllll.T ilttd' v oH'pian; History and' Civics: Myers and Sjn-nccr; Agricultnr:i) Sidy.ni1 i:,iyiH'<L-Attd. Ufnfft~TIe" ligiuus Kducaf ion:R. K. BrogTTon; Do-, mestic Science Klack and Colonoin The. daily routine of the s-unimer school outside of the oiliee of the director is in the hands of'.several com. ' ' nutteos.- ThOse committees are: Clu.<5-' ,? ? ; ;?;?-?? f H >4ificiition - i.n il (:I'.u u ir rm^3pann, Burgess, Gardiner and Beck; s Lectures? and Program: Myers, Grant,' MfGhTTT " TTn t L KimAHZ-'. . J.'i1Mi.v,I. Sharp, Gray and Amlersu'iL;_Recrca-? turn: Hickman, Iluvlonpr, Henderson, kin, Ifaynos, Brogdon, XVhnley and j Spencer. ' / " 1 ...... \D INDIC D TO CON( fctlm* ?r ?\ ' VjuULMlilA: S. (\. SA 21 BMM DSt 1 ho .* " ** 'rotest* P. MF.F. PRES. C00L1DGE ; SENDS GP^teTNGS I .el tor Addressed to .1 nines WeT . vu*. i > u:<vL mill ?jiii!lotiii i iaiM> IIII;II ' Grade Work of N. A.A. (A !> ORGANIZATION feFFECTIVE ?-' . * *T ' I Would Like lo Repeat and Emphasize Last Message^tVT' Congress" Says President -Indianapolis June 22,President Crvolidjre has sent at warm ^letter ol greeting to the 18th|. ^nnual^Confeij untie' of the National Association foi thii Advancement of .Colored People winch , opens here tonight, and in hi; "high regard, for thq most 'Valuabh work" being. done, by the Association President Coolidge in his letter states .hat " your organisation, moulding as it does able" and' sincere men ant women?white as well as colored? has been most effective in its etTbrts to secure for your 'race the rigljt; and privileges that are the tommoi heritage of us all." In hbo letter" transmitting Presi dent Coolidge's message of greeting his Secretary. Everett Sanders states' his gratification that the rac< relations eonfeiren'ec is being hold ii his native State of 'Indiana and th< nope mat increased good-will will he?the result -e-f-it-s proceedings. President .Coolidge's letter, wRicl us_addressed to James Weldon John son,. Secretary of the National As soeiatloll A >lr mn.i inn n? iTp fnl: ored People, is in full as follows: . ? Tiln .VVIHTK iimisi-:, 1 Washington, June 8, .10271 . "It is always a pleasure to express niy high regard for the. most valuable work being done by. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Ami, .1 'thank you for the opportunity'of sfendintr :i to be read- at its Eighteenth Ahmual Conference. . "f~ "When we recall the history - -of-4-ho colored ma-h-in?this eoun* try, the lone: period of his bondage?during which he established a record fox industry and fidelity ~ -?when Wo consider his lack of Educational and QtJtnjjViopportuni- _ ties for many years, \ye cannot but* marvel at his advancement. It has been steady in the face pf many discouragements. We find the colored man today "not only an 1)u j tor taut factor in our industrial and agricultural development, but successfull in business and showing -skill in tl>e professions and jn the arts. That his achievements and standing in our communities will continue to inr . crease is certain. To,.that ertd -f he' should receive - yydfl* Tfeyistarice that'1 itjay be*<givpn. "1 would."like to. repeat- and emphasize here what I said in n^y IikI Anninl Yjn.r-n ye tn (Tirrrgress. . "The social Well.heiny ef """ country ?'i*equires our constfnt effort for. the amelioration of race prejudice and tho-extennkm frrPrtt (dements**of equal opportunity and equal protection under, the lawd which are guaranteed by the ?v'liininnuiiin. 1 riu r cuerai government especially is ? charged with this obligation in behalf of the colored people of the nation. Not only their remarkable progress;_jLheir devotion and their Joyalty, but our duty to ourselves ?under oui claim that we are an enlightened people requires us to use all our power to? protect theni from the crime of lynching. Althmtffh -violence nf ~ttrfs klhd hsrs-Tcry much decreased, whtlc _ any of it remains we carmot Jtre-tify-neglecting to make every ef-? fort to eradicate it by law. "'fhe-Ueuculuui 01 iho colored race under Government encour-.agemcnt isf prroleecling successful(Continued on Page Eight) . ^ *,V Y :ted fof " v* 1REGATION fto ? Tt'RDA Y. .JI'Nlv. 25,4927 ught At s Ban C tinc, cm -j MUUJUFlbilj}.- ~ I STOREY WRITES j Principles on Which our Liberty Rests AViji be Upheld by ~ - "f ftttrVs; Kil yv Lt'tH'r : COURTS. NEGRO BULWARK I Mr; Jstorey >avs Ne.uro Should Use Vote?Calls Aiken the </'Plague Spot" ; Invliana-polis, June 23 Mriwrfield [ ,i Storey. of Bostom? former President. .j of the ..American Bar Association. and :i National President of the National /. Association. l'OV .the. Advancemmit of ;! Colored d^eople, ihTif message read' at t|tho opening mass meeting nf .the ISlI) rj Annual Conference here l?hst, night, . I Called attention to two victories of ^ j the Association \y/>n this year l?or' fore the. United States Supremo 1 Court as evidencing,- the protection . aiven to the \emju4rr1 the courts of f ihe land. Air. storey, who \Va.s sec 5 j rotary to Senator Charles Sumner ! j during the. Reconstruction, could not | make the journey frtmi Boston to . I Indianapolis, because of his 'advanced (j aye of 8:> years, and sent a message , | to He read. " ! * " ^ '"We. Havf? had fresh evidence this L year," said the message, '.'that the ? principles on which our liberty rests I will be upheld by out*" courts. The * attempt of New Orleans and the Su.t ! preme Court if I jouisiana- to over_rul o the. Supreme Court of the Uni_ tod States- and main-tain a kegrcga. i ion 01 rlinaiu e?a pitnul failure when its advoeatcs-U-ame before the court. ' . 1 "' . . "The attempt of Texas to exclude-1 colored Democrats fi'p'n _ I*emoCrat.ic caneuses failed as soon as it came to the bar of the .Supreme Court and. the door was opened So that colored voters can take part in the government under ^'hich they live, and now it is. for them, to use their power. Negroes Should lrse^Vote~r "Voters count. People who cannot or do not vote do not. oount in ] making the Taws under which wo live, and 'it is encouraging to sec that rsome of the political contestants in I a-' -r i... 1 j the Sout hi are beginning to realize ' that the colored vote .is a force which -1 can he used and which is large enough | to carry many elections. Sooner or ! o.t..? ...in i.? ' luiu-i iiii'ii? win lji: \viiiu* 11ii'ii tmw xious.to bring. out and use the colored vote as they have t been tosupress it." Aiken, S. t\ "Plague Spot" Kefeirinc to lynching in the South ~?*nd. parftcularly to' the lynching in A g 9 ^ ^ * . . message said:"The proud- nUt-SfatW of' South - roliniL found its Governor. its marts. force the law against a giarup of well-" i known men in A&en, uliu 1iad mill'| dered ,three_ Negroes charged with [fed, and two "others wore 'relieved from conviction by the . ShprortVe 'Court and gi-.-inft"^ "n" " ?The ! New York World, after investigation j by. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, day I after day published the 1facts, the evi 1 dipnce was convincing. Rut the grand -TJuT> closed their cars and obstinately ! refused to indict the murderers. The | country cannot tolerate plague spots | likk this and evcEy man .whq values j his country's honor must: do all that 1 in. him lies to end them." A*k* Protection of Negro in UvS. Criticising the somHrif ?fleetsand soldiers" fo protect Americans abroad, while the American Negroes . - (Continued on.Page Eight) . *t*M ... ! : ' -?-- ? AL CHURCfi r 7 :>.v iV., - , <*- , 4. :fr 'V ? r? - ' < Recent >fi Conv IMENDED1 . NOTED i;i)i - ; CATOR CHOSEN . / , ' ' * * George W. Haynes, Ph. 1)., Held ^ Pa'-(ion of .Moderator at He- ; j _. ?cent?Phtirch^Vfeet?1? ?? FORMERLY OF FISH , Race Speakers at Meeting- Io-eluded Drs- Mordgeia Johnson,. Haynesfand Harold Kingsley Guorlgo K. Paynes, iJh.-L>r, of ~Xt \v .. York City, was elected assistant mod- h erator ot the National Council of The w 'Congregation C'hui^-h, at it's recent e biennial meeting hem in Onrahtr, Nel>.,; I> 3Iay .25 to June. ki'l-'.rjT .Uv for five years has lfueji secretary of n the Commission, on the Church and ^ Race Relations'of the;vFyderal L'uun-. \ cil of the Churches of'Christ in -A-! merivn. t Formerly he was professor it >f socitrtogy at Fisk University', Nash-, tl "iTle,. ^Vni), He holdo degress lrorrr?it Fisk, Yale and Columbia, . jc Dr. Ilayoes was also . eelctcd a "s< director for the unified Congrega-1 lional Ho*\e mission boards, anil he is j serving a six year team the Com-j mission in Inter-raciia Relations^ of j of America. j ^ -- -Negri? speakers on the program of (he meeting in OmallU, Hk-ltuled l^r. j ^ .liaynes who .qonducted a forum "Ra- ' ial Readjustments;" -President' Mor- j * decai Johnson, Ph. D., of Howard U-' . ..... ^ | lj nivei'sityv Washington, D. C., . who1' T) - poke oil "The i'uune At'-the Neg.ro:'. and Rev. Harold M. KinV lov of T>. hroit, diretlpr of Negro work .in the! ' North for the Congregational church extension boards, who spoke "on "The ' Negro in the North."? i Resolutions which &?ve adopted1 ^ regarding-race relations, included a strong denouncement of-mob violence' and lynching and an approval of the; principle of holding meetings only . lit places -where all (Relegates could receive the same accomodations and ^ *tri;;ftment. In approving this princi- k. i ll took a stand similar to that wnieh ! Tin'sbeen taken by the Federal CtHyi-1 ill erica, Y. M, C. A.., Y. W. C. A., the j' Methodist Episcopal General Confer- . once and "other bodies. . _ _*.' T Among the Negroes atteprdmc: the" National Congregational Council were [ j six former assistant moderators: Rev. j W. I.. Cash, New Orleans, La.; Rev. A.*C. Garner, Harlehi, New York Ci-j ty; Rev. Henry Hugh Prartor, I). !<)., a Brooklyn, New York City; Rev. AlJi'red X.awle.ss, l\, 1L,? Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. C. \V. Burton, Evanston, 111., and () Tiev. Harold M. Kingsdey of Deroit. j, \" White, ("hirtigr,; nlinooi -secretary -yy of the Amei'k'atr Misriunary - Asso a'lion; Ret. 11. S. Barnwell, Atlanta. ""[] Ga.,. superintendent for churches in o -Aluhamar?1'imth Oaiulina, aiul Torn 7i nesee; Rev. 11. II. Dunn, New Orleans, j n superintendent for ch'uregies in Louisi-j ti ma. IHfr'in.itiippi and Texas; Rev. E. ] n 11.. Phillips, New Orleans, field sec-j a rOtary for Sunday ^school extension, j }j Those elected to Commissions in- ? eluded: Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins c Brown, principal ^T..rni-t i'ul ? Institute. Srdalia, N. C.; Mrs. Harriett Lawless, Atlanta, Ga., and Rev. i t, P. "R. -DeBerry, Raleigh. N. C. to the .. Commission on Iintcr-raciaL Kela- ^ Hons: Rev. C-S. Lttdhettcr, ,Charles-. -s "Ion. 8. C.; to the Commission on E- * vankoIisin. ' Rev. W. X. PcBorrv. D. F>r. >Inss., -vvas elected ~ a members of the Federal Council of I c Churches. . ' " | " N -rf - ' . * LEMENT I COUNCIL - , -V t" .. -..J. . .w.. _* ? -..** . ; ' ' 5c A COPY _ ' ; --- ' -- - - ~ , 'V ention US TilOl KAN1) . - ~ H ? STA(jK PARADE . v Jem hers of""Women's Auxiliaryip Parade I Votes! ing Ban _ ?+ -oh .Meeting y iLSON _ATTA( IWS ORDER )lfcss Parade Thpotrerh'Harlem " ~ And End at -iiiJith Armory rT= . W here McelinuWas Held ' -Xivv Yoik. .rioe- ?(AXI') More, b^n ten thousand Elks and .meme!'r "1' the y. ' mi-iiV auxiliary, staged mammoth, parade protcsl.injr.the ban. laved _it_Li convention uve. Iteen held" in New Yorl^ City, hut 'hich .}. Fin ley Wilson,.- exalted rulr of thy order, dei-lared t'ould" not t'-iu-lil yincleV ihe Grat 1 eii Law \vb}ch . - rohilnt.1- X i11.11) K!k> from using the. L'Ka-lia of the' oray inzatipn was ree..;le<l hy-J-ttnc 1and the injunction; aided. j.-wnun uik me, paruue wnicn wouna . s way. throujrh- Jiarlcm-a-nd ended at >c 3G0th Armory, a protest meet rjr u as Held and prominent Kiks from. onecticut, Massachusetts. New Jer- V i>y .and , New York spoke.- . I.KATBS TOK INDIANAPOLIS Dr. J. (i, Stn.-iYt. president^ of the- ? icii! -branch of 1 the N.. "A-. A. C. P. ad Attorney X. ,'J., Frcder ick?? :?? he-M-iy iii'u riv mn?frn?I ndi aim polls; ;? idiana as rejae-entatiyes of the loll branch at the Kitihtoenth Annual onference of the . National Associaon for the Advancement of Colored eople. _ . - . Attorney Pj:?iioi ick is pi oyrnnVfTted > speak at tii<* .Mass Meeting .Thurs-V:" ^ ay night and at IJarnos M. F. Church undny mowing? Mrs. Stuart," nCcommiiCiL Dr. .stuart* oa tln<--tptp-.- ???ITY PAVINt; I'KOUKAM PROCi:iJ)S Njj'ELY ______ _* rV Day alter'd;ry the Cplii^ntiia street nmoveniem .'mx'gruni 'is moving: ipidly 'toward completion, hastened y those lnammOlTi ktuor saving.and me Conserving "machines used in the -j ,.V ? t .... I 11... ration lor paving. -Smno work ha., been (fullO^-orr-all or K-designated 1J blocks, and on ' vtWVy^of these - work has been . fin-. eil, save for the application of the The West compuny ulL Chattanooga, en.,' which is doing tin- construr oil work, has spent' many thousands . f dollars in new equipment for this . >b. But, near the Southern shops, t l-.anrei and llnrden streets, stands a , mechanical masterpiece- for in- . reusing eihcieticy in paving h? The pinion' of engjnoers. This, an ashpit plant, was designed and built ,v--JJUL,head ol the contracting?ftrtfiT o doing the Colnmliia work. While ds plant is .got vet in?operation; le site presents a busy scene. A iant crane nnliiud.-:?rock and?sand win a Stream of railroad ears. This mchine,-dipping a yard of the ma rial at a time. lii iiln a?chute like? ~~ inchinc, from which material is then utomatically weighed and dumped ito?t-rttcks rmrl sent to the paving iaehine>r out on the streets of the ity. . ' Efficient Mach ine . The l;ig excavator, a slow and uinhersonic looking maehiwbut due ( great efficiency* now at work on . laribh street, rips out the old street urftuav. gpcmLiiigl only hotffo a the ' 'ork that would requiro weeks if' (ine by muscular pqycc'r ?This nflichinc^?with .a big -shovel ~ 1 iCL 1 ? it .1 uiiiK uuum, proirijaing trom a ^ ab mounted' on a large tractor-like ^Continued on Page Eight)