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Tuesday morning 9:00 o'clock Oc
pT lobcr_24th the Colored State Fair So_ I
cietv so to sneak touches the button *
and the curtain hriSes, for the 20th _
time,- annually exhibiting in a most
pronounced way, the capabilities, the
- achievements and thP progress of the
-colored race for the lost sixty years
of its life, in this part of this country
For centuries, torn from his hap^ .
py_home- across the_-deep. blufi-^sea?- _
from a condition of freedom to that
^ of slavery, ..a slavery in which even
the "souls of men'' were thought to
have human masters, the block man ^
abided his time in o most fitting
way, such as has caused monumonto?of
bronze and stone to be erected in
" ninny: places oyer the south land,
~ by his fOrm er mftstefs, as testimonials
to the heI*oism and faithfulness ^
of the black man, in those dark days.
Felling the foresf^fighting",thO~
wars?everyone in which his country
CS
his been engaged, digging their can1
als, damming their rivers, erecting ..
s
" their cities and making "the southern '
fields blossom as the rose," has been
the biir iob of tho colored mnn for
centuries; done well in story and. st'
song. As a free man, he is placed ^
sfdy Jjy side with his former"masters,
the greyest people in material things ^
the world ever knew. The white i
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man is exrtemely loyal in race love ^
and racial unity. Against this per-,
v feet combination," that all peoples a
must possess before sticcess Can come, i
the black jr?M must make his way. ..
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All but exhausted by the struggle of ,
. o nluries, the question of the hour is %Y
-AVill l*e pull the grade?" Only.the
thcu^h,'es3 gives' the _ negative answer.
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We are facc to face witfiT a new
conuition. in a most pronottrtced way
comes u test at the Fair Grounds
Tucrfday'tnornirrgr j^gtjpbcr the 24th-. C1
Will , the race get fully'even fair rep- CT
?-presentation at its own- State Fair? ii|
*- Their culoreJ~State Fair fioccty. has
put the' queston squarely up to the "it
l_ race, for every preparation has beefr^fo
nlade for its complete entertainment st
?* '-and Euti-enjoyraenl, in Chlumhin for , f.t
the week of "the 24th to the 30th. cl
On Tuesday, -the 17th, like the ti
.'. ha nth- of magic had touched Hie
grounds and building,' the white peo- C
order for their fair. No sign of work
- to be seen, "the workmen had done N
their duty and Retired, the exhibitors
and concessionaries^ alter * having
7 <*r\to7>oTl IvfTVTW ft iVTtAW nftd M-?r>rw '
fi j / n*vvu g? Wtj UUII^, apical CU 1 IJltfxt?
.. /. diness to-meet the spectators, In true
'' . -State Fair spirit. It takes Clcmson, m
occupying1 a spadcj running one third B
the length of th<T steel building and ft
its student body coming by train loads 1>J
. quuliy as well Represented, ,quite a p'
tew Vijp-h schools" and other colleges tl
Mk- eerne^lty ^c^'bi^afing, the State of b'<
B South Carolina by an appropriation of sc
ten thousand dollars and by making m
Thursday rof the--week a holiday; aU "hi
this as a side help to the promoters tl
to make a Fair that will represent m
themselves and impress their yout h,i
- .mpr'ess his real worth on the world, . I
inspire himself a fid appcffr repress*!- tative
to posterity? Its leaders-must 61
answer, by leadership. 1 aT<
Sobth Carolir.it, We think, is the W
nnlv. in tSn T r? 1 V?n
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? v-o? ?? ? .4 rV* j t > v:-v ,j? joh, as*'!
i v- . ?i?- r7 ' ' -'. years h<
asr<v i ) ' y .liay.'!'. Ai;;h ' ;;ani?a- J tc
tlon. It. perished .;ui .. ,acYal weak a's
ness. The present institution has,?
to a now generation. -Will wo hand ri
down?anmathing worth while? No j
?_ aaA "an nlnving .of tho. hand., m
can see humanity in all of it shagpi- w
. _" nessr moving to and fro without fo?_.| rl
ing inspired, every fiber. -Tuesday Am
the 24th to SgtnrriaV th^_30th. will :C
show that in the colored man there -tl
are the elements of a great people. <!i
Sweeten than honey rn the honey
*comb, to the thimty' heart; it does V
TT~ 'Vhe soul real "goo3,'f"io meet the true a,
) race m?n, who will come all the week, u]
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SDUCATt
Oli SISGitiixJATED
HKhil SCHOOL
ssociation F ifjhta Attempt Tt
Build Sth -or r <;r ""itacc" Pupils
with City Funds. F
RACE PEGP1.E AROUSKD
aiv Sclitt?'; .alien To Hi
Fcu^M to 1 Bo Cast. Ditch
Says 4-oral Ptiesi(!entr ' .
New York, (jc;. 11 The "Nntiona
ssocifition ,'foj. tin? Advancement ?
ilerc^t~rTOpltv;~r/.) F,:'A\. Avenue, ij
rhtjnp: in the courts.the attempt tt
tablish se}iieffated: hi^h schop
ftiii-y. Indi 'r,:)- in ci- lorenee Ijn tit;
trike" -rut'-J lvu" K1u" Klan-inspiret
udents. w,_ '
The Gary Branch of the N. A. A
P. sued outTi writ of injunction re
raining^thp- use of the city fund;
r a segregated -school," four, uttor
vy&-be!m; as. cm K.t d in the conduc
' The xase* The attorney as,.repsrt
! ly Jelia V.. "jtusse'l, Presider.' <>.
0 i: T, T ' k :n <a P., tel
ndersQii, r,. rlcR li. M'ason^ C\ fc
iirroli : . t i*"'.;\\.i\l* TieKinlcy Bit
Cn. ?!' . Ik; V ' ?*. ;.? informed th<
alioflai t Usee dim. c.f the 22 colorec
u'dcnr > m Gig' nliigh School. 2
ere.now in'attendance.
Mr. Euss*!' . k, <i t 11 tho eoldtei
huol skuatioir-p.ini intended to tigh
gregalion Id The last ditch. Thi
, A. A. G. P. Branch, with the coop
aticn of tlie Xj-tonal Ofiice has tak
1 the-lead ih the fight and has thi
iQpcu'tion'.of civic, fraternal and rc
gious bodies; -
A teU'."v:i:.' i gkvr.l v" koi'dav a
ie National Odice from William. Pic
&ns, -in-Clary k"i, a..sls>t in the fight
atcsT^dary iij./a.ti n -ease von'uci
'dm I I.'u'.'.iuy?Way,n
aims too njjcn^^iqVjudicc for; fai
ial in, -Lake County.*'. . .
The Xa:lonn| Gi.'.le uf'iliu N.A, A
, P. will render financial assistant*
> the Bj,;;nt'h in this c-:?te. *~v
< A. A, C. P. W'iNS FKIilT A
GAINST WAfjIIlN"GTONi).
<X ATION ,
New York, Oct.. 14?Ne\?d II. TKo
as," President of. the Washlngtoi
ranch "of the National Associatioi
>r the Advancement of Colored Peo
le, reports to the National1 Oltice, G
ifth Avenue, that all 12 colored em
loyees who l.nd been segregated .1)
ic Department of lhe .Interior, liav
icn ovderoitibi.ick io their old and un
igregatcd *posts of duty. Mr. Tho
as terms the order "unprecedented
ic most stubborn ntan in the Cabi
A 11 ' ! - -
cv, /hi atpiu ?* iisiiinKu?n is at"
aiming the \ .lory."
-lite virL?iy >K.tinwt segregation ?'i
io .Interior DeiuirUnent comes a? th
')! "f-nu inco ? ": a j <>csi7sent campnigi
iSJirieercrl by the. N. A. A. C. 1'. ui
?ri tho TcO-doi 'irn vf Sfr. Thomas
ith the cooperation of other bodies
in ih'- course . {'the campaign, Ml
ho ma: several I im'Os called upon Hu
art.Wovkj So. i( .o.:y Of the Inieriot
> present. protosts In person as wel
5 by letter, again it the segregtftioj
roe isj- doing. l~- ~
Thouf'inds of ?such will be her
CXi - I'.'roHL.. (feor^ta .hdHTffPtf
111 com<v-dro~?*r'.'E1n fTrnTelothes am
d.ing jri fine cars. North Carolin;
aotner.s men. with Soutl
secret order r2jaroro'ntati veg Thjar
ay evening at the Elks* Hhll, come
Vasbiog4??.- wut Assembly _ Streets
r:ti _-a? t. - ? * ^ ? * " ?* *
rui you ue trie re : J will. Ket
II be there* when thc curtain ?c>e
p.
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3RS PAY
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- James William Witherspoon of Lau?
_ rens s Author of "A- Ureaiii, of-..
^ The Muse."
r lAvailable KLast of.-jlcW bof*) Nov. 1.
~ The "laiesi Aottt rihtt .":m L . iseprrir
litcyiture is a book of p. . ... - by J.,rot*
William Witherspoon, poet, minister
and public- school instructor of I?ui?
rens. The book represents several
years of poetic..efforts and is a splendid)
piectt of art. It contains far a?-born?a?hudrgd
poems, suitable for
llmost all occasions?"running all the
111 v;av." savs bis birfirrnnher "from
11 .roftouking humor .to"Soul-stirring pathos
and deep tragedy."
By repdin^j this work, one cannot
11 all life as contracted with enste and
e despotism.. At once, eloquent and
mysterious; atrain Suscop.Hye and
pmctieal?hut throughout there is ah
vheeflShnt flow of music, mellow and
f [ trffpirTng, of the must nv'i 'tio ItltMl.
Wherever recited or read, the po
' res of JTr. ,Wi.fherspono haye had a
?" '>f >o!01,?d employees.
0 .
The colored .press. of tho country
-allied,- almost* as a unit in this". <yim'
\ .>:n. nnd t Vin K. A. ;A. C. P. I was
'' aide to present Mr. \C'urk with copies
f.f newspapers from every part of the
t/nitcd States showing that sent intent
was united against the practice which
j had been inauguraed in the government
buildings.
Significent ot the effect of the N.
^ A. A. C. P. campaign, is the following
extract for a dispatch from Washinge
ton to the Savannah, Georgia, News,
-j wnicn Btatou:?
rtfr 1 -"Kx'friWAIIon A', ! . -t,t hr In
n ! thje^thick of the political situation as
^ Ky gpt>fin1^a?.tiv?ty in this oitv and ma
Chicago. Prospects of :nr o ! of Ilerr
hert Itoover for the i r' -v-v Ivv-c
i, heon affected this v :i n l: n of
s the National Association for the Ad9
\ancement of Colored Pcopl,, through
investigation af alleged segregation
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J.RDAY, OCT. 22, 1927.
wOpa
TRIBUTE
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WITHERSPOON 0.
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ia Negro
Writes Book
very popular appeal. South Car'offn^
has never before produced a poet of
vhlur who- has so n.osteflypertrayed
the sife.iiings, asperations and hopes
>!" h.s people.
N \v.i,'apers''throughout the country
..avo been glad to give him space on
heir editorial pages; and ffie Anderson
Dgily' Ncws Mail, and ^he Greerr=~
| ville News regularly carry his contributions,
giving prominence to the
\ same.
i Notwithstanding his poetic ability,
-efforts?kvr-Ae+?been?confined
'alone to verse. The-book contains
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| j?Vi'U |lC4^C--0 wx csntt) a illlU WUI iny
] savings" and throughout is beautiful
ly. illustrated. School teachers and
ministers should not be without it.
Everybody should have a' copy of
.J his splendid book. J000 copies comiHp:
from the press. Several hundred
already sold by subscription. Size,
ICQ ptiyes; substantially bound, in
cloth. Send for your copy. Price
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Hampton Publishing Go. 1 .
int.O Assembly St., Columbia, S. C
and racial discrimination in the Pension
Office under Hubert Work, Sec-1
ret ar.v of the Intertor, ~*5HTd-to be :
! closely olligned with the cirndidacy of :
the Secrelnry of Comme'fee." ' ~j
The N. A. A. 0. P. reprints the
; above extract, not because its action
but to show that the campaign has
registered fn the minds of politicians
Secretary Wor's memorandum end.
ing the Department segregation, directs
"that all the employees in the
: Pension Bureau, both white and col*
ored, affected by the new organization
"in (he1 Tucat 1 ffcTafilrVsgrgnmeTTtT^
they formerly occupied."
Secretary Wordenied . thirr segnc.
feeling 'that there was any ao!
- ailed segregation intended in the
ehanws complained of, because such I
| a .-feeling would militate against effi.
I ciency, the only purpose -contemplat|ed
by the-change."
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no ruco.,
TO DR. i
.THE FIIEE AM) .VfCKI'ii^i '.VN .I
. CIENT YORK KITE MASONS Oi
COUTH CAROLINA TO ,(<)> :
I VJEPffl' HERE ()(.' r. 21 - J 7.
The Free and Accor tc 1 Ar.cicn"
York ftite M?isons of Snui'h Carolina
will meet iu Ooluml^a.S. (K27,
The informal opening of . 1-Jn
Grand fcodpre will bc. held in
Baptist church. Monday eVenim-. a
R o'clock. "> ^ r--?; ;
f Ff<>7. TTTT. FTnFEnvy. '<Y~"'
*V._' Ar-'?l. nil. ? -
ui me iurii rwie .viaxir.s .in .*vkj: 1
j-Cat*oHnn will ah nr. J-'i-t1 r of C'r
: monies. All sessions t&ereaf Vr \vi!"
! b0*eld in tlie X).(WriT'\'Hi-.N' ^' tin'1 1.
! Program on. pnpe 0.
|VICI01S KI.AN , t LK( 1 l.,\ Iv?
; TACKS N.A.A.C- P. rx wrST
VIRGINIA
Nt\v York. Oct. 14 TP.6-vitrnvhus.
fight made by foie National Ass< i
I';on forjibe Ad vuncemejit of Cob i t !!
* People JUpon .the an" i-in'orni im in
laws proposed in Nivrt!n't. rs 1P
of which were-dofo/itcih h?.s c !
the Ku Klux?Khm?in' n?i ?
; national distribution a circular v-ie-^
j idusly attacking the.X. A. _jvh- (\ P.
J and asserting that the X. A- A. C.
! Pi encourages the Negro 4> frY'let his
| eyes dwell in lust upon, -AgonigiP-of-tbe?
i white .iitce:V^ t"'
I Conies-of the cireillnr \\t---rr ii'im il-i
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' ted in West' A'irginirt during .'the X.
A. A. C. P. membership..drive theio
and one of thean has boon forwarded-lto
the National Office by a member
of the Charleston B uri'-h. la th
j amphlet .the Klan in the foU^wijig
I words admitR?spfnisoriiig the antij
inlbrmarrjage bills whplh Hie N.A.
TAT~O. P. \raf.~ntft>TTri'7t?'f i ;,; :
"To preserve America ?;nd to sny/
Americans! , from mongreiiou.iun/'tLt
Knights of.tkb Ku Klux Ivkm has
openly sponsored an.I is>rttnrinr..ihwthe
passage of. laws hj^very Suite.in
the Union u ?ikin>f^u a felony .for a
\cgro to maurfa white pt r-on. V.\
do riot hesitate to say thor(! is Tm 10O.n1.in
America for any mil. or \vri
man who. believes irr or teacher the
i A i Y i tl O* nf <ni>' !\1 a?\/1 1"> Kl. < v
y.v^vv. ?UI. ViiV i '11 o'
nad inferior ..racial -jchar art orjsiie^otlie
Xegro.- Do you believe with tlx
Negor association, that it- a Negro
man wants to marry a white woman:
rr^should bo xi matter of ipdivkFni
choice';' if you do America would
bo bettered. by your leaving it.*'
As to the Ku Klux Klan attitude
toward the Negro, the circular is fcx
plicit. It states: "The Ku Klux Klan
does not fight the Negro so long as
he does not try to force himself upon
us as our social 'ckji'al. Tie must .be
brought again to realize he is of an "
-iafmoiL-race and a lamer standard."
We tench the white man'it .is his duly
as a member of a dominant rate to
keep the Negro. in Ids own ineial:
^phdre." 4
In its circular, the Ku Klux Klan _
quotes irceiy releases- <>r
the N. A. A. O. P., citing the X. A.
ing th^ Supreme Court's -decision! iu-Jthe
.Whjte Primary and the Louisiana
Segregation ca.?es, as a menace. Tire
R'ii Kluv Kap circular do es with
what is".virtually a threat of race
\\'dr, as follows:
Tan We He Saved from a Rac? War?'
"For years this country, hlu been
rushing headlong into the thvoes-ofa
cruel racp war. The- only
foi'-Tf ha t .q^?hy_^
hope that the white man of America .
will awaken now to the trend of the
times. _lt isTTTtgh timef'"- <If?^ hi: < ?
| wan to stop a ftn-'b'r jnm.K) of the1
Neerroj The Ku Klux- K'?in once saved
a people from .the terror of -the
I black race, and if .this natioty-i< to
Be saved now it will be.through the
Ku Klux Klan, the only earthly sal- "
| vation of the WHITE MAN."
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24th?27
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*EDFERN^
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:/r RECLNT
~~~~ CONFERENCE"
i'j- 'i.i 1?I Mm) in llghalf ftf His
i nicivnt Service us an Educa.
t<;r C'ovciMift Mafiv Years..
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MAKZ ML., i iON OF SON
' c;- Shares with. Dean
u*(itcrn Thai his-Noble Son ~
Will He Fotfnd^
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The <. ' hiVvrric'ti presidents, w deans
! i vi ar>: of. colored.'colleges in . ;
i*. Morris College,Slimier;
luici s,h to consider matter's re;
: ' credits and high
ti i . ns. At the close of
" . n ;j timely.and worthy ;tri- 7""
\y;\s paid l)t?in Redfem"t)f Bene.
dicl College, on behalf of the conferby
1'rcsi jent Wilkinson, its
. h-tirni r., who referred to the State v.'jc
1 elation bv all classes of
Uocloy Kedfi-rn. for his efficient and
: tcT'ful service us an educator cov- . ~
! I v p io ! of years, Special
?;p.; a-o> w:i.< placed upon this career, ?
t?n-tr: n'bb.- for the high ideals, lofty - I
! r.ipi real simnliehyrundaunted
and fnithfu'l devotion to the
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human welfare which char
v vus made to the recept^*^
ill ;.n;-c tit I'r.ul K. Kedfem, the^rfiissTnjr
aviator and son of Ifpetor Red.
tVrhs, \\Jio made a v^kfint effort to
OnH<<frtered course of
: r. r: vqns a.fr jt^Trrcnts; fearless of
"mi omrir.g .Jtffneulti?*; daring hurri"jmcs.
1 hK^autied.by jungles, the ,*
-de j/f-disease, wi\:\ animals and
\jA.w .- savat-'c men; with a burning
' ..i : ci : .i f-!ijii' to tne advance- "
r.t tu of acv-o science thus broaden
XvChues- of social and economic'
nie'reourse between the nations of our
A o.torn ilcmissphere. ? :
.The cont'ovence shared with Dean
.'a nt the abiding confidence that ' .
" ,, ill . n.ilikL-unn -will he res- o
?wi, : 11 ixj n i-.-cd the hope?that
. hrjatgh .the care and guidance of a ^
i'iiins IVdvirli'liCfl' tVint watiiliat
spavt-uw full, Paul Redfern will
vc.t i'i-nirn t<> gladden the anxiously
-vw-finn hon-ris of.interested ones and
e\cn:iMlly cauf-e the father to reji'iie,
>aylng: ' For this my son was
'load, and is alive again; he was lost, 1 \
au.l ii Xound." ' ? ' j"' '
\V1J.P Pi BUSH NEW MAGAZINE
A '.Quarterly Magazine for the Home
Depart ment of-Baptist Sunday
i Schools to he.Issued - v . -s._
- [itn iinuiu. Maga7.iiie pah>
lifhed ijiutr.terly, will be issued by the
X .iienal Baptist Publishing Board's . .
Plant at. Na.hville, Tenn.p beginnig- .
with .la'minry, 11)28. This new Dubli
' E wng announced by the Secretary
of the, Board, Henry Allen
Boyd, lust week, lie 6t;ated that the ?
miuii cri.crits for the Home Depart J
nient .and the demand on the super,
inter-dents and visitors of this branch
of'the organized Sunday School work,
TrrTr~hooo)uo so exacting that it was
defined' necessary by "this Board to
issue siuh a publication. It will
'-.-op from the presses of the plant
nil in other. Periodicals. It adds
or to the long list of publica*
hoye-thirt the National Baptist Pub- ?
I 1 h. ngTThYftWi Is pufMg <StTt ' **
quarter in its Front Line Sunday
The S' Cr-^nry states that this mag*. '-y 1
trmc \y;P. be brimful of real help- ' *
+,nl notorial calculated to inject new v
li'c into schools that have been hitherto
d-ivmanVbecnuse "Every member i
out" of every family can. now be.in
some - Sunday School," he declared.
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