Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f *AGE-FOUR^_ 1 * ' ? ? \\ i ? ? ;?Ml 1310 Assembly^ .... ', ?- u. "' Business and-] Entered at the Post Office at Colut jrj. ' Act" of Congress. W' /-.SUBS H, Om YMt . T_... .. %Z ^ Six Months ^: ^ 1 ;l yr < Official Advertisements at the rate The Leader will publish brief ai interest when they are accf the authors and are not of . ' ' . . municatioris will not be no returned..~7 ~ ; REM Checks, Drafts and Postal or Expr . " _ - to'* the orfer ol ?N. _J ^ FEEDERIC K_ - _ * W. FRANK WILLIAyis l" HENRY L?. PEAKSON J -t?> GEO. 11. HAMPTON ? ?t^omVnuii.cut.oi.s ii.ici.ucu tor ii " shomuye^ta-^iie euitoriai ue K ox ?ay ol eacn-weeK. City news, ioca day mgnt. """COLVMB1A, STC7, SAll r'.nncrrpes: hiw moi* i? ? it? 7i sent in nis annual message, ai piaying pontics?not looKing < Since the enactment of, th ? dollars have Oeen cviiccteU in i . been imposed tor its violatioi as tne tirst day the law was e \ . The intjgraciai forum met forum is. composed 01 ^tudeht Sity of South (.artdina, unite College, 'ine object.pf thes problems of race relations an standing. -Purely, such meeti These young people will be tl" all arehere and are going t , v^.. . view-? All whites are not r worthless-1 and degenerate.. the greatest things in ? __ JL According to the report c Certification, Department of ; schools for White teachers 1 were reported as attending i the ten summer schools 'lor 1332, but no auditions report* where. Colored teachers at states should see to it that our personal knowledge, son ance at schools outside of th - : Louis B; Mayer of the Me pany proposed a few day3 a portray? among a number creed or race. * That's good, made and~adopted before D. hate and misrepresentation c * the infamoui "Birth of a N* '' Buy Christmas seals and * . dollar spent in that manner i ~ CONGRESSMAN 1 Congressman. Geo. H; Tin! <?r~ of having . Congress investig ored citizens'of the Houth" tl America. He wants Congres "T" ' and the wherefore of the vie ' ,ments-of the U. S.-Conlrtitul f this proposed iifqu4ry;and is " side'' of the subject. The C ' however, f-rom an angle tha "Said he, "Negro disfranchis< whole country than ft is.up . ment and the nullification oi " .. ~ eYrTarid Wosfefn "states are . ~ tioh." ~ And 4f-any~attentioh be from that standpoint. Cc gro as citizens when the stre the Negro is a citizen.and exj ? ~ ' form the highest duty oi a ci be, stdp as many of tjie ene " "7" What care itabOilt- whether to say about whether thore whether his money t houid su son why, but only his to do ^ Congressman TinkhamJs_ the South has become politic the slaves and making them ?s political purpose, he was rati 1?a pape,r citizen he is now co words," the political power oi . .. cent, by his freedom. The < tion?-not the disfranchi.sem care nothing about the: situa nial of, this American right, in wtaich intelligence and u^ no more consideration is gr receive.. . Though Congressman Tink , we have no hopes that he v interested in human rights, il vv calf. ' NEGROES MEAN That the colored people of ??: - ? shown by the report of the S eentjy fited with the* State ! *is shown in,two ways in pai i? to dig down in their own pc X.? which their education oiigfttond, by leaving those commu vision is maae ior tneir eauca i mil l ihiitgrl grit, ^rf-thetr poe , the sum of $415,80f^ This ef r a Sympathetic chord on the j ~ % ~st trie same1 time contribute* r formance of its dutv in comna very much, only *1,273,857 1 mon tax fund. That", of cot these extra contributions. P led by the fund established 1 tettn Unifor EEKLY JstreeV Columbia, S. C. 4 Editu^al Phone 4523 I mbia, S. C., as second: class matter by an CRIPTIONS ,00 three Months $ .75 .25 - Single Copy -- -.95 allowed by law, ad rational letters on subjects of genera) mipanied by the names and addresses ol a defamatory nature. Anonymous co latticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be ITTANCES r-:-; ess Money Orders should be made payable the Palm^y> Leader ..4?------ r---'-'L Editor Fraternal Correspondence .4Correspondence :?--L-?? , News Editoi ' ~? L__?.? . ManaggJL ic-tmreeiii-issue liiusi tie vei-jM^iei. ant, ihe raintetto i.eauer not. later than iuests, pergonals aritf social news, oy \N eonesJKDAY, DECEMBER ToT927~ i)th "session, President Coolidge hat | nd'the memoers are now engaged in >ut lor tne weiiare of the Nation. - ? e_ prohibition law"forty-two million ine.s and ZZ,6oU yeai*f> sentences have i. And yet pronioition is as far ohnacted. - at Benedict College last week. This ;s irom Lutheran..Seminary, Lniver,and* Allen fUniversity ana Benedict e meetings .is^the studying of the d bringing.about better race under-; ngs by tetudent-s-mu'ist- rosult'in good. ie grown-ups of tomorrow,, awd vince o live here, Why_jaot"get the right nean and cruel nor are all Negroes Understanding, alter allr-^s one "of [>rld.'?!??1??; ? ? a a , ? >f Mr. H. B. Dominick, Director of State Education, in the nine summer were enrolled. In addition, 165 summer schools, in other states" In colored teachers there were enrolled 3d as attending summer schools elsetending summer schools in other reports are made of the same. To ie colored teachers were in attende. State. 1 v ? . - - - j- ? -??; tro-Goldwyn-Mayty production corngo that moving pictures should not of things?ridicule of the clergy, of ./hpt top bad the proposal was not \v\ Griffith made that purveyor of )f as good a race as is in Arfterica? ttion." . ^ 1_ . 0:' m m . "Tfelp stamp out tuberculosis. One s .a-good investment in health bonds.' riNKHAM SPEAKS OUT. kham, of Massachusetts, is desirous ate the wholesale denial oU-the- colle right to vote as other citizens' of is to inquire into the how; the when >lation of the 14th and 15th Amend,ion. But -Congress knp^-s all about not really interested from the 'Murk ongressman approaches the subject, t may for a time attract, -interest. anient is more'of -a fraud^wn the Ml- the Negro.' 'By his disfranchise? the Conatitution. the 'great Northdeprived; of theii^Jegal represenfamgress ia only-interested in the Netss of war is on. It knows then that lects him?yea demahdj?, that he pertizen, that is, catch step, and if needs my's bullets as any other citizen. :that same Negro" has had anything should have been a war or not, or pport that war? 'Tis not his to rea01* die?or both. on sure grounds-when he say a t hat ally stronger by the emancipation of citizens on paper. As a slave, for D(1 as three-fifths of a man, while as ;^the Sooth Avas increased forty per Congressman doesn't like this situaent. The intelligent colored people tion, but they do care about the* deIt seems th^dyMais is the one thing prightness comt for nothing. For yen than viclousness and ignorance >.. * .. v, ^ ham attacks from an unusuah-angle, vill get anywhere. Congress is not L is too much in love with the golden TO HAVE EDUCATION the State mean to have education is tate Supervisor of Negro Schools reSuperintendent of Education. This ticular. First, by their willingness ckets after paying their taxes, out nities whene but precious little proition. According to the report, they kets--for-school movi.siim brer yean, tort on their part seems to have met )art of many white people, for tHey1 t-1^75,057?TtTe~State, in the perrison with this spirit, does not shine; being allowed them from the comirTe^ is why it is so necessary for 'hilanthropic agencies did well also,Dy that prince of philanthropists?I r.?, ' 3 j v. ' -V'. ' ' 1 THE PALMETTi Mr, Julius, Rosenwald. Last yea pils was less by ten tnousand tha off is due, the bupervisor conclude! trom tne butie?the-faiiing-etf-bt this conclusion is sound, is prove* city schools did not show any appi been the case had the Negroes si: trict to the towns and cities. Ri greatest number of "unfilled farn rne ones too, observer.the SUp< poorest school facilities. if -this- observation means an; plainly that if she caffes to keeprh she must provide -decent schools children. If communities' that shortage want to recover or even tor education has got to be mad and improvement was ne'ver strc than it :is today-?and they are g< satisfied; either where they , are feature of the whole situation is who realize th^t-ignorance is ign< gence, it makes no difference in i that reason, they are insisting < well as whitea. , _ fc i | Pointed Points j| 3 tJy George A. Singleton x iSrtrl IVIW0 QCfip tyTrer* 3 1 . \> : -1 Politics. American" citizens -sho(uld become more" and more interested in the op- ; eration of the government. The old south developed a statesman class which ran thjtiga up to the War of the Rebellion. Today it Ti not much > betttfr.?Ydu aYid the poor whiter" mother are left out of tlie equation, , and ignorance helps to keep you out. | or an arilstocra.cy it would make no difference, but it is a democracy. ' Incidentally som^ years ag0 the writer heard a distinguish gentleman say, .in?fcep?County, "Democmcy means hmaniilfihiion oi tne classes." All who are qualified must help elect the public servants, not white or "black servants. Your people are too easily satisfied?ignorance makes them so. No man is good enough to rule another without the other man's consent;. then good government is no j ,. adequate substitute for self-government. When . the registration- hboks_i.ara ?pened, go down and register then . when voting day comes cast your -ballot for th~????? Rrtvw- nrta I .... B iriay say that your only opportunity is the Democratic Primary. Vote in hat. The victory won by the N. A. A. C. I\ in the Texas White Primary will' not be worth" a""finker's damn unless it is exploited. The one party of the South is its one political evil. &eep -.your eyes upon the mayoralty election in a certain Tennessee towh. You remain quiescent until the president .ial election comes around every four years, and fret btfsjf, bat you are not th>tCYCStsa~rnJ local' politics- * 'your interest shoirnl For you it does not matter who the! president of the | L'-niu-d Statos is, but it' dooa mater '"who your Superintendent of Education, Alderman, Mayor, Prosecuting I attorney, Chief of Police and GovernI nr* n vo T P i n v?af Ui <-?V?Iw. J v.. A* Ml Q JIUU Jlltll-llllllUfU officials, you suffer and the president ~wITI"~hot ~ open his mouth. But if . anyUiiiTtf - .huppimod to,. American oitf?.ens. of property in China ojf Central America he will sfind forth the army and navy. You may say what you . will or may, and pt'oach about -sticking our swords in the golden sands of -irofeV-ahd the gathering "on the banks of sweet deliverance," but so long as the United States is a democratic nation it is obligatory upon you and iimperative that you interest your[ stives in politics.; Richard E. Brogdon | According to your great editor, Mr. Frederick, the new pastor of Bethel ; is the Reverend Richard E, Brogdon. ' Columbia bis a new asset in him. i Mild, gentle, courteous, bland, suave, [refined and dicnified | ^ don" as his former students will ever regard him, lias lived a life in South Carolina worthy of emulation. Some of us have watched his rise, and we hope to see him go higher. He makes no noise; he is not a ballyhooist, but delivers the goods. - ,Ip_point of cbaractor and ability he is one of the staters outstanding figures. Sub Rosa, the "Y" School of Religious" Education ni Chica is a Columbia and Allen University affair. Mrs. Jenie Sloan-Lewis is a member rof the Board of Directors, Rebecca ; McCants-(nover is the regiatraar, and the facuItiLia composed nf .T?mp? w . EichelbcTger arid the writer in these ' column^. Reverend B. G. Dawson, Orleans, now the past of Quinn Chapel, lends hie influence. ' ; . ; ? - tT. S. Rice." At the next session of the North East Conferenrd, A. M. E. Church j the committee on memoirs will re- | port the demise ol our friend, U. S. 1 Rice. A motion that a blank ?age in ] 5 - ?^ . Miilirifrt tV 3 LEADER r the enrollment of coJored pu- 1 n the year before. This falling 1 3, by migration of colored people _ emg-m xne rural schools. Tnat 1 by the fact that the town and -eciable gains,, which would have mply moved from the rural disLiral communities that have the is and empty Negro houses" are ^rvispr. that have poor or the ything, it tells South Carolina er colored farmers and laborers, for the training of the colored are sufferiog because of labor " hold whart they have, provision e; The fcafeion for education >nger among the colore^ .people oing to see that that passion is or elswhere.**fAiv encouraging the growing number of whites >rance and intelligence is intellivhat person it is found, and for an education for alb^-blacks as the minutes be left to his" memory will be passed. Again must ate. say that death is a stem fact of this *# 1 ?- . ? It was a year ago, Christmas Sunday, that we were with him in the handsome. "ML Pisgah, Sumter. We talked about "The Star in the East" and when we returned later in-the Bprlrig h? with others remembered ' and greeted ua ..with "Hitch your wagon to a star." He was our worm friend and proved his friendship. We wrote him a letter, which was never answered, and will not be answered until we meet "beyftnd the river." ' Wo will never forget his Christian family, and pray that in this moment of sorrow they may see through the Hoavenly Father's love. Thousands of people whom we have never seen will read these lines as they read about Tena White-Horry and Pompev Sharper. Tn ynu it is but a reniliulur that soon an must strike their , tents and march to the nifu nolo eli (il * ?A * v.?j v.iuwui, niicic Boiina immortal dwell." Mt. Pisgah choir in Greenwood used to Bing "We are going down the valley ~bne by onejj Going toward the Betting of the sun." . U. S: Rice has gone down the valley on this side, but on the . other, in company with spirits of just men made perfect he has ascended the hills of light. He has followed the star. A Burning and Shining Light. T Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom in a masterly funeral oration over the remains of Bishop ,1. N. Ross in Allen Temple, Cincinnati, characterized hifh ' as "A Burning and ..Shining Xight."* A great crowd of prominent visitors -paid homage to the distinguished churchman. The sermon was only as PonoAm tt .r.t,,.nH?yiu vt?u yicncii, Vtie CO,H| eluded by saying "He started up the steps, bur the chariott came down, the heav'ens bowed and he went ufT?1 These lines are written tn tfye Union J " SUPT. OF N, C. NEGRO SCHOOLS REPLIES TO DEAN r.WFC.r. fiV STATE A. & M. COLLEGE ... ' | ? Editor of The Patypetto Leader, Dear Sir: _hr Jr~ZZ~ ' Recently a fiHend of mine has sent-1 me a statement clipped, he says, from he does not indicate the /late. The statement in question is by Dean Howard D. Gregg, of the State A. & M. College at Orangeburg and concerns the accrediting of colleges by the State -Department J6f Education of vr?_*u o 11 - 4wim v/uroana. ab my name appears in the article, I hope very much that you will allow me the privilege -?f-a-reply. I may say at the outset that Dean Gregg and I are friends and brothers and there is.nothing whatever personal in his statement or im my reply. There is no-doubt that Dean Gregg has written exactly what he believes and it is entirely possible that he could have been satisfied thru dorrespondence, had I been given the opportunity but as the case stands now our correspondence must be thru your columns if you will allow it. . It is probable that most of the questions raised by Delan Gregg can be answered -by an explanation of the purpose of North Carolina's rating of colleges and a description of the extent of this activity and the method used. " . : All of the public school teachers in the State of North Carolina must hold certificates Issued by the State Department of Education on the basis of the creditij they have received in ? ? r? >t.trr? m-.ii.mi or college;' Two lm-j portant matters are determined by i these State certificates, viz: tha school, grade in which the pel sun may tefcch j and the. salary which he or ?he shall receive. Thf in if be entirely fair to the individuaT ap- : ply for lioense to teach and at the ? same time to safeguard its boys and girls who be taught by these i Individuals has created in the State I Department of Education a Division 1 k " 1 > of Certification. A part of the duty of this Division is to determine what class of certificates ipay fairly be issued to prospective-teachers -und-iL is at this point in the system that the need for rating schools arises. Contrary, then, to Dean Greggs's stated opinion, North Carolina is not the field of rating colleges as a service to Negro Education generally but that it .may determine as nearly as possibly thg quality of instruction being givqn its future.citizens of both races: Nor does it "claim for itself {he honor of covering the entire field of Negro college education, *. On the contrary it rates only those colleges _ wftose graduates or ex-students apply for North Carolina teachers' certificates. The eocception to this rule being that, occasionally a college through its officials applies to the State for a rating, anticipate ing probably that some of its graduate will1 lw awkltig v-empluyment in the schools of the States Natural ly, this means that colleges new the State would all probably have "been rated by-North Carolina ? gglleggs* while colleges at a distance might not. For ih'stance,. few of the Texas colleges are represented, among the teachers of North: Carolina and for that reason there has been, no occasiorf that more than these few he rated. A word regarding the method of procedure followed -rr.ay indicate something as to the fairness of the ratings. In the first place the North Carolina College Conference made up of the white colleges in the State1 has, with some few suggestions from the Negro colleges, constructed two sets of - prnieiplerf?one determining 9 standard four year college and the other determining a standard junior couege. These regulations are very likely hot so exacting as those of some of the regional college rating accnpinmnnii hn? 7>7. repaid fnifm-nhly With simHfir setS'oTprinciples created by other states for the same purpose. For- applying these principles to colleges Withi&the State there is a board of three men who actually visit the college? and apply- the "rr.Hasurd" on the grounds. For colleges, white and colored, out side of -the State the method is very different. When a person applying for a North Carolina Certificate presents credits from out-of-state colleges The Division of Certification througntt??Di> rector, first investigates to discover if the college has beep rated by one of the regional association. "If it has, then its rating By the regional association is accepted. Unfortunately for the Negatf colleges most of the Southem States ore in*'the territory 0f the aouinerrr^tsaociauon ot Colleges and Secondary Schools and this Association confines its attention to white colleges and white high schools. In the case, then, of Negro colleges injtl^ jfjUth and white colleges not rated by a regional association, the Director of Certification sends the college president a questior.aire inquiring -very specifically about soch matters as the quality of training of the faculty; members; the number and quality , of the library books and the provision for improving the library; the amount of productive- endowment and of regular contributions Stable-sources ;~the value of the"science equipment in the various sciences; the requiremnts for entrance and for X%- * " siuuuauun; we size and' quality of the student body; th^-consideration given to graduate's by standard graduate" schools; and other such matters. When a college official has made full and honest replies to such a questionnaire, I think Dean Gregg would agTee thstT rating given a college on the basis of its own replies is hardly a "wild guess " It .'is the writer's opinion that in the main college "officials ar^ entirely honest in^ replying on these questionnaires. . Dean Greggs ig entirely right in saying that if the replies are not favorable the school will receive a low rating and, as explained before, he is right in saying that many colleges ar6 not invited to make,reports, the invitation depending upon whether or not th^ State Department must make a rating in order sue a certificate to some individual. Once a school is rated the rating stands until the ? ...?..vavivii| vii uaaio of substantial changes, asks that a new questionnaire be sent and a new rating given- A- .recent. regulation requires that these colleges be examined annually to assure that they are maintaining the required standaids. However, ar\y _ school will be considered for a new rating whenever it requests roconnirlrrrntihn. Now, aft to the publication of the ratings. It should be explained that the SupurylBPr ot wegro High Schools fortunately has nothing whatever to Jo with the rating given colleges by the Division of TJertifloation. Disfunction, as explnined by Dean Gregg, Is to serve the Negro High Schools of North Carolina, and he it- very grate . '. AV.I ?.* . s.; " j ' * ,, .p, : . ? y * Saturday, December 10, 1927 ' ful that^Dean Gregg feels .that "this- ?! is being very efficiently done." As a ' ' part of this service to the high schools jir seemed necessary u few years ago j to compile the ratings the State had I given the various schools and col leges that the principals of the high 'schools might have in hand an".in-,. J dex of the-quality of. an applicant, as ' determined by the State Salary Schc jdnle. On^ can fasily see-that in the j employment of teachers this wag a most important aid. jHowever, it seemed only fair that the heads of the schools concerned might have the information so that they might inform their Students as~To the salary and certificate rating they" would re iceive in a certain state, 11 tney cared [to seek a position there. With this exception which is plainly stated upon__ each copy of the compilation of rat. ings the writer cannot see how any : further infurences should reasonably bo drawn from the loprn-t -r. nor why the sincere efforts of a State to safe- > guard ita teachers and its boys and. L. girls should be questioned. , - . "May I continue this statement a tit tie further and call attention to one or. tw.o statements which are Connect- ; ed with the present discussion merely because they occur in Dean Gregg's statements ??? f?? . 1.? The North Carolina State Col lege at Durham has so far'only, three yeurs of college work and has had no graduates.' Tljift school will not be rated finally until thp spring of 1929. It is hoped by- that time the college - may meet conditions- that will justi fy the State in rating it as a Class A institution. . i ' 2. The Division of Certification should not bc held responsible for any * individuaT advertising which any college may receive. ~S. Cheney Training School has ' both a two year and a three year course and. is given full rating for ^ these in .\orth Carolina. ? The Wmston-Salem-Gollege- is? ftfour year . institution receiving full noting fur 'its four years', work. 4; Spelirian College has not for several years been operated jointly " i 'with Morehouse College and there- y fore the two schools must be rated Tiepartely except in the case of students "who received credits, under the . former conditions. This is also true r of Virginia Union arnT Hartshorn ex cept Hartshorh is now confined to y high school work und UpiQn is a co-. ' "educational institution bv a change of O . " * ? | ! charter granted suing two or three v years ago. '" The Harvard-Radcliff situation is not' analagous ~ ,{>. pean Gregg's statement seems to indicate that the Atlanta Colleges all give each other hour for credit. I This, I doubt, but granting that this >. is the case ,there would still remain no reason why North Carolina sipuld not 1 study these colleges .individually and l rate thorp according. to. the jreaulta.. . 6.1 llamglon and-Tuskegee are not by dny means in thG same class as colleges. North Carolina gives both schools, full credit for the number of r yearir work done. * 1 Very Sincerely, . > " W. A. ROBINSON, y -Supervisor?of- Negro?High?Schools, State Department of Education, Ral-'* I fll oh v?r? ?; ? VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE JN NEGRO SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CAROLINA _ I, ' - - ; The agricultural teachers at Barn. weJl?_Dunion?Memorial Orangeburg; Darlington County -Training, Ilarts' ville; St. Allnn Training, Simpsonville and Marlboro County Training, a special effort to beautify their school grounds. It upears that i}i fhe five schools mentioned the greatest^ impravements have been made at St. Allans and at Durtion Memorial.. Mr. White and Mr. Johnakin and their boys are to be congratulated for their excellent bgeinning. Chapters of the New Farmers of South Carolina have been organized ? at Timmonsviile, Dunton Memorial, Johnston, Chapman Grove, St. Alban, and Mountain Grove. In some of these schools there are, several boys who will qualify as improved farmers. It is hoped that there will be a number to qualify as Modern Farmers at the"Boys Conference and Contest at State College next spring. In order to be eligible to the degree of improved firmier, n boy must be a membelof tl^'e vocation^ "agricultural class, must have been a mnmW nf . the class one year and saved or pro- " fitaETy investod - tweTity-flve dollars. The agricultural trnrhcrn riri hn1r ~?~ ing their yrtr^Sila to save money as Well as make money. Any school th?rt; wants an agricultural teacher should write State College, Orangeburg, S. O., for information. - . "At High sehf ol graduates who waiit to qualify for positions as teachers of agriculture should plan to enter State College next year. 1. JOHN P. BURGESS. { 'f,