The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, January 28, 1928, Image 1
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IN CfARYr
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* Race Students Still Excluded
From Emerson High
S School JLk.
k. k. spirit prevailing
a Negro Advancement. Association <
? r To Fight Case to-Last
Notch
New- York, Jan. 20?R.' L. Bailey,
4 , Of Indianapolis, retained as attorney
!by the National Association' fpr the
Advancenletjt of, Cblored People, to"
assist in the fight against the Jim
* Crowing .of colored high school students
In tUaify, reports that the cases
arising out .-of the "exclusion of colored
students-from tVi<? Fmi-ivnn Hipil)
School have been venued to Valprai80.
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-These cases will be closely contested,
as Ku Klux Klan sentiment in paIry
is determined to bring about school
segregation and the- N. A. A. C. P.
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MILTON STARR CHAIN OF JSJA
TRES I'L'KCHASES THEATRE
AT ENSLEY, ALA. r * .
At- a cost of C'50,000 the Milton
Starr chain of theatres.- has. just acquired
the Palace Theatre in Ensley,
Alabama. This theatre?is-the tenth
house comprising this circuit of Race
Theatres which is the largest in the
- country* The Ensley Theatre will be
taken over by Milton Starr on Feb?ruary
1st and will ha operated as a
combination house playing high class
. pictures antf T.O. B. A. vaudeville.
The Palace Theatre Is'onFoI the best
appointed Race theatres , in the country.
Built a little more than a year
ago the house is equipped with modern
features of construction and equipment.
Included is a modern stage
wim an uppurenances ana equipment,
I' a $5,000 pipe organ, a newly installed
ventilating system "and many othI.
er desirable features. In the opera(Jk,
tiori of his theatres Mr. Starr is asJm
sociated with Mr. W. S. Scales, of
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, one
of the foremost rac.e business Imcn of
the South. Mr. Starr is president of
the Theatre Owners Booking Association,
the .leading- booking oflice for
colored attractions in the country and
Mr. Scales is a prominent stockholder
in this company. At present negotiations
are pending for further additions
to this theatre chain and an
uuuiiwciiicii^ ui aUUlllUIlUl UCI{U1S111UI1^
are promised for the near future.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY FROSH ELECT
MEMBERS TO STUDENT
? COUNCIL ?;
Edward. Taylor and Mercer. Mance
were elected to the student council
By the Freshman clas3, Friday afternoon,
January 13. Both Taylor
and Mance were members of the
Frosh debating team. This team won
r&xom the Sophomores in the annual
Fresh man-Sop homore debate hekl in
the fall quarter.
Membership to the Student Council
is a position coveted by nearly every
I Freshman-. Being- amambar of the
Council Is considerdM^arT honor. The
Frosh, who has this honor, lian dcjmpnd
hearing and respect of the up
per olaoompn.?? '??? ?
Harry Landers and Miss~ Efinoi
Hariston were the losing nominees .
MR. JOHN "MCKINLEY HERE
Mr:.Johnl Mcl&nley, of Chicago, is
r? the guest of Professor I. M. A.-Myers
on Pine St., while in. the city, . Mr
- ^McKinley is field agent and investi?
gator of the Association for the Studj
of Negro Life and History, Washinggr
toil, D. 0. He-wlil be herre a fen
da; ..feathering data for Dr. Cartel
| G. Woodson's publication. Mr. Mct
Sml'h University. Sunday: .returnij
I , to Columbia Monday to finish his worli
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AROLINA
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ght Cont
Los Angt
Arkansas Ir
WOULD GATH- ' j
ER IDEAS
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Party Led by Arkansas} Supt."of
Public Education and Composed
of Eight
10 BUILD $500,000 PLANT
Impressed With elf-Paying. I
Farm at North Carolina's \
Agr. & Tech. College. ' l
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Led by Arkansas' superintendent of t
publ e education a party of eight jjer- 1 i
pas from the state spent the . better I i
par' fo yesterday afternoon inspect- , 1
tig A. ;rut T. College, leaving last (
night for IVte'rsburg, Va.," where they t
will vi$it the State Normal school, "pi
The. party, coinpostal-.of high cdu-:"
ea' ibnlfl c Hi c hits' arid a?prom inertt-f
ba-nker of Arkansas, is visiting rjjne
Negro schools of the So'uth to !gath- ~
er ideas for'the construction of a state
school for Negri es at Pinc BlulIT, Ar^ j
kansasj. ;? 1
"This is the finest thing we 'have j'
--?*een-yet" vWs tlie comment of one of;,*
the; parly soon after reaching the A.
and T. campus. During and follow- (
irig the'.inspection the members of
the* party expressed their .unusual
pleasure and satisfaction over t3ie
Negro school.
"You know it has the highest"rat "
"IHff or any Scluwl for Nodious in the country?"
I)r. II. A. Dawson, state-statisciun
said last nijtht before
L?ayinjr.-,,They have many thing's out
there that we would like, to imitate
and several things that We would like^1
" to take to Arkansas .with us.-'-. '
lie" waS particularly pleased - with
the manner in which the school was |
handled stated that that the president, i'
F~f). Bluford, and the registrar and i _
business mahajjfr were three |men 1 ]
that sonic oTFcr state was going to .
take away frotiv'here unless North,!
Carolina paid a high class figure for 1
their'services.- " j'
While die was busy, .examining thfc '1
managcnient/'ipf the school the re- j'
matador of*the .party vinjted an(l >n*!
sported practically every, phase of:
tile plant. They Visited the dormitor-1
ins tKo ivne .'nfl'haa tin, If
several departments in thc. science ;
TTuildinjr, the dining?room and kitchen,
the central heating plant, and the
J . i--seHfrnPs-farm
out on route No.-Uk
The party listened in on several
. ;m.I. ^nw <^nm(. frf thi> ^Indents
= wtvaly - u'ivtik .!ig-, .mlJL.m>iHl._li| -t?he- -
^anue) training department, and laying
hr:cks in another in addition to
o work in the electrical and nucham
' cal departments.
"I am most impressed,"- said J. P.
i Womack, state superitendent of puh11
lie instruction, "with thc farm. For
11 the first time I have found a college
| farm that actually pays." A* far as
I- the school in pen oral was concerned
the caliber of the officials and the ~
L -hiirh t ype of professors at work there
r seemed^ to he niosF talked of by the"
r party" as a whole. ?5?? 3
The party left Little Rock, January
- 10, slopping over In Nashville, Ten
nessee to inspect Tenncsee A. and- I.
school and Fisk University there.
They canie here via Atlanta.
Other schools to be inspected orr"
the trip are: State Normal school,
i Petersburg. Virginia; State Teachers*
, Training Institute,-Hampton Virginia,
. State Normal school, 'Montgomery,
Alabama; Tueskegce Institute, Che1
kaw', Alabama ahd Southern Universl- "
ty, Baton Rouge, L'ousiana. phey will
' return to Little Pock, January 26,
President Bluford of A. and T. Col
Icgft greeted the visitors in his office
^ yesterday afternoon about B:00?o?-|;
t clock, leading them about hll after- i
; | noon. G. H. Ferguson and N. C.Newbold,
of Raleigh, connected with
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COLLEGE
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COLUMBIA,'S. C., SATURDAY
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inues Ai
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;fes Mayo:
isnedHon P
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Officers of J
fidelity
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Mr,. A. Moore Shcarin; Manager, *
md Mr. C. O. I'earsoh, of the South- j
rn Fidelity and Surety Company Have 1
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)?en for the past week visiting the j
arious district in which agencies!1
lave been established. As have here-j |ofore
been announced, "this company j 1
las been licensed to carry on its busi- j ^
ioss in this State after a thorough | 1
nv^stjgation of the . State Insurance^
TViJo nnmnovnt
i ...o vuillfxilj 'a < ('*=
>bly Negro company in the world.'
hat writes surety bands of all kihds.
TTiTsd will write aueldont and healthp
Mr. J. jM. Dawkins and Mr. R
pointed City Representatives' and
to pay up back dues and renew 1
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Only ; unless they pay at the otli<
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l:tin Asssomldv Xtront Pli?iiu /IK'
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i OI.ANDE DU BOIS TO MARRY ]
PORT, coentfk riI.IF.V
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New York, Jan. 2G?Dr. anil Mrs. <
W; E. Burghurdt Du "Bois, of this >
city announce the engagement of '
ihcir only child, Nina Yoli^nde to Mr.
Eountee- Cullen,,son of Reverend and 1
Mvs. Frederick A. Cullen, also of New <
i'ork. The- wedding will be celebrat- :
oil at Easter time. ' '
Countee Cullen, .the -well known 1
poet, was born "and educated in New
York und is a graduate of New York 1
University (A. B., lJhi Beta-Kappa^l
and of Harvard (A. M.) He is the1"
author of t^vo volumes of poems and
an anthology, and is Assistant Editor
of the Magazine, Opportunity. He ,
is a member of the Alpha Phi"Alpha
fraternity.
Miss I)u Bois was born in Mssaachusetts
and educated in N-gw York
and Engl&bd. {Slit* is a graduate of .
risk University (A.Ti.) and Colum-1
htA ( \ M \ nnrl i? n c*- I
lish and Drawing at . the Douglas^
High School, Baltimore. She is a
member of the Delta Sigma Thetn
Botority. _, _ j
TRAFFIC COF AT OAK AND
GERVAIS STREETS
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The police department of the city
has "put an "officer on duty to handle
the traffic at the corner of Oak and'
Gcrvaia streets. This furnishes prolection
for the pupils going out in
that direction from the Waverly
school, and will likely eliminate ac-cidbnt
that oaeur freouently at that
particular intersection.
the state department of education, 1
rame -over to nsaiat in thc inspection. -.Governor
Mortineau, of Arkansas,
was Scheduled to make the trip but
was taken sick the day before the day
len, of -Morth. Carolina's public in- j
struction, had also planne'd'to be here
but did not arrive.
The Arkansas party was composed^
of J. P. Woltfack, A. B. Hill and Miss j
Erie Chambers, members of the board
of directors, and five "others, J. C.
Coftman, Harrison, Arkansas, banker*
Fred McCulston, states superintendent
of Negto schools, D. R, A. Dawson,
rhrt^-atatlstlclAn and Theo M. Saixr
ders, architect for the new college.
(Taken from fhe^ Greensboro Daily "
News, January 20, 1927.)
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JANUARY, 28; 1928^"
;ainst J
arty Praise
southern
In State
nsuranoe.."
the object.of Messrs. bhcarin's am
'ear son's visit was ?or the puipus*
>f meetjing the general agents of tin
:oinpa?y to Kive instruction in tin
conduct of the business. The com
.any. intends that the business o
\ ruing contracts of insurance shal
jegih, February 1st W)tn a "pang."
"ihe ohiciais. were-at Spurlanlmri
luesuay, Wnei'e were guthereu 10 gen
;rul iBtems. WeunesUav- tnt-v n.ei
n CoTumoia and 1 nursuay; they nie
mother group in Charleston.
QITY SUBSCRIBERS.
,oosevelt Johnson have been ap
will call 611 all City Subscriiair
:heir subscriptions for the net
I to pay these Representative
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I. HAMPTON,-Publisher.
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SEW YOUR N. ArA. C. 1'. AL \IL
IAKY TO HOLD SPRING DANCE
[ New York, Jan; 2G?The Commit
.ee of 1U0, composed New Y'ork, wo
nen, Auxiliary to the National As
sociation. Lor the Advancement . o
Colored People announces that, fo
Dance thi
year in the Manhattan Casino, Ktl
Avenue and 155th Street, they hav
engaged Fdrd 'Dabney and his or
jhestra of fifteen, men, which has jus
L'cincluded its Broadway, and out-ol
town bookings with Kang-Tang.
Two Ampico Grand Pianos will b
oancd loc the Spring Dance throug
the courtesy of Mr, William Mofri
of. th'e Morris Music Company.
For this-dance , 86 floor boxes w.i
be arranged at the Manhattan Casi
no;~?n addition to the uuper boxe
ALLEN'S MUSICAL TROUPE Al'
[ PEAKED IN GEORGETOWN
On Friday evening, January 20t
the Alle'n University musical tt'Olip
rendered a recital at Beth.el A. M. b
Church before a record audience o
both white arrcPcobored. ThiS cOncei
was in the class those rendered b
profession singers. ':
rl ho minrtot piininnuo/1 for
orite (Messrs. Cannon and Green an
the. charming Misses Clark and Wil
liams, who surprised thcv audicnc
with their wonderful singing. Mis
Fountain, who 'sang Two soTds, als
a duet, taken from Blpssom time, wit
Mr. Cannon, was?4\lao a favorite 0
the program. - She, made the. Tug
notes with alleftsW
ed her versatile ability.
... Capt. Thomas and . hia orchcstr
played no-little part oj? the progran
Ilis numbers were both popular an
classic. The boys and girls of th
orehestra-Took- -of their parts in bi
stylo with the most diflicylt selection:
PrtsicTeru Stms- in his usual mastoi
TuT wayT delivered a well instruete
address 0n "The New Negro." H
rrrs f it.- : ~
me iiluuiii ui nw peopie open o
telling His usual antidotes thpn mad
them swallow facts as to the pre
gre&a of tlit-Negro.. ..
As an expression of appreciatio
and In keeping with the hospitabl
spirit of Georgetown, the Eurek
Club tendereaTKe^vlsttofs a Wffptio
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. I
Alaton.
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PRESS WOULD II(
KNOW FACTS
) Chairman of Fact-Finding Con?ference
Not Yet to Give Details
of Recent Meet , . 1
1 "WHERE ARE THE FACTS?" ~
Above Question * Continuously .
i Asked of Fact-Finding Cdn- .
- fi?ri?nfP**t Henri tl
-'T." on
1 Durham, N. C.?In a statement, for
| the press of the etnauv-y. Dr. James E. A-1
r Shepurd, President -of the North Ca- pit
. rolina College lol- Negroes who last CM
j inunUi was elected chairman of the ?1'
t Durham Fact-Finding Conference, rej:-ponds
to numerous inquiries coming C
- from" all sections the country re- A
questing detailed information con
1 ; ?- , * . . vj, O
i cornintr t 1m firwlmirc r\f tho nnnfn*?o?/?ft Ui
One of the inquiries that the state- a
- ment aims to answer is that of a vt
-'prominent Negro. pulicist tvho asks,'*-'
".Where arb th& .facts?" Dr. Shepr 3.
V aid's statement Hrwis*ft^6$jKaV *
^ ''From the great -numbcr-of. -inquir- lA
ies coming, from both races as to the lL*
findings. of the Durham. "Fact-Finding r hi
Conference, it appears that the piib- 1 C.
lie lodked-fohvard to the broadcasting B
of the material presented at the con- B
- 1 eri'in'i. in the manner usually char
acteristic of our national meetings, tb
The Durham Conference, however, un- ia
like most of our national gatherings C<
- was not simply 'a forum lor th<r pre^-^
- sentation of opinion, but a ' Serious [ tr
_ elfort to : determine, the present-day E'
f status of the-Ameriean Negro. From ! B<
v the very natura of the case, there-.zc
s fore, before the release of any of the)
h- material presented the fncts had care-; of
(Tffally to be reviewed both by the au- |
- thors and the, committees appointed
t for that purpose and essential facts tb
- weighed and measured not only for!
their values as facts but as to ^heir C<
e 1 worth to the Negro public.' This re- . be
h ; view is about to be Trompteted and a Pc
jj '-summary of the findings of .the con- b:
j fert'nee stripped of' all elements of t.
a more opinion, will shortly be issued
j. to the Negro press, followed by more at
,s- detailed statements.' In Addition to ra
statements' for the " press arrange-! -sI
>. mtmts have neatly been completed for vi
publication of a volumetto. contain the ,
documents presmtad-^atelfhe -meeting. ?s
n',. .u ?t.iL ...:ii f._
ajy viii.t incaita jjuuiic \vh1,uc jmuc- 1
I c'd in possession of a .jeolleqtion of au- or
. i thcntie facts regarding the Negro in
'! J America which, for theirs wide range, sc
t j CJU'e of ' collection?nrrri?authenticity, i?
will hardly be equalled -by anything
y at present available in prin." , ^
Di\ Shepard, who conceived the i{j
dea of'the Conference, was made its l'
I [chairman at its opening session. It c
was ht. who skillfully-confined its ac-. ^
' tivities within the limits of a fact-!
S m
- finding meeting. For many years anf
^ irrtportant factor iQ- the Durham Iw
, group, idealistic to a fault, the dream- a
^ | or in a group predominated by practi?
Teal, hard-headed business men such
^ as .were his-associates: C. C. $pauld.ing
apd V\. ti. Pcarsbn, Dr. Shdpard j.^a
' has place iifindelibly, the stamp of his t
, 1 personality upon the business institu-!
l otions of the South's leading Negro' "
e business center, many of whijrh owe
g their actual existence to his dreams,
j.l Participating, as he does?, as an |
-' organizer, director or stockholder in J c,
e terprises,. he has also contributed in 0f
y Targe measure to the culturalTite of
e Durham over a "long period of years". C?
>_' B&ck in the days, twenty years ago, 0(
J when, Nggre business waa in it* In- ^
n fancy, Dr. Shepard was bringing to m
q the city the leading white and Negro 4
a lecturers of the country. This, he did | CJ
h through the medium of the Volkeme-; p
! nla Ciqb, a literary Bflclcty which frtr: a
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mmittee
0 WELCOME
CONVENTION .
:>n. Geo. F. Cryer, of Los Angeles,
Together VVilhOiher
l'ublic Oliiciuls, Prepare. INFERENCE
1N_ JUNE
resident of Denver Rranch to
lave Canyon "Trout Fry'4 tor
Passing Delegates
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New York, Jan ?Mayor George .
Cryer of. Los Angeles has connted
to ferve ex-othcio' oiT a Cun-fCT
Co CdiYini'Uft' wji.c-h he- ft.11 him
If anoint, in-, ejection 'with .l'Jth
rmuul Spring Conference in tlf&t"
,y next June of 11i rm j innl A ;?r.otCoa
lor the "Advancement of Col- -ed
People, it was announced today.
111IS news Coit.es to toe .> a..uuUl *
lice, oj Oil in it i eo'.uOi ouin of. J.
, botticrviae, oi ano0.ts, u no,
gOrtliei? Nil til .UCSsls. L,. U. iiOU.MsuU
iU litus /cicXuUuer ttt'i'f Ui-l/oaued
Coliini.t McTlO llttel'es t. pl'O.U .llCilc Clt- .
C-hS 01 LOS .-liigeus in w.u..'v n. Ai i ;?=?,
i\ meeting ii'oitf June * > lo Joiy
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In ^BiitiOn to the Mayor of Los
htfoloa. ltoii. Aiiiiur l.tu.iuCe, ires-. * .
kent of the board of i uoiio Works
is consented to serve on the N. A. A. k*
, P., Conference Conumute.as liuve
on. James: E. Liavis, Civiei io police;,
on. 11. Sehwaibe, C. S.' Col/OL'ter'of
ustoms; Dr. hniury S. Cugardus", of" ' .
ie Umversity of ?outhcin Caiiforn;
Judge ArchiBali oT the Superior"
jurt; Judye Cuerin of rhn Sunrome
[>nrt; B'ishrips .1 .t Cant well. _Beam
Stevens and J. J. Mart,n; Itabbi'
tlgar F. .Manin, 'Supe'rvisor J. II. ,
ean.and Dr. Walter' Sylvester IlerZZ?
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In addition^' many oTRor .citizens :
Los Angeles *preiwnen-tdiverth- in?
[icial and civic life, have consented
scry? on this' Committee to receive
e N. A. A. C. P. ~ .
It is confidently expected that* this
inference of the C\*. A. A. C. P. will
ine 'greatest gatneung of Colors*. ^
'pj lo and their friends ever-to hav.e ?
en heldon the. pacific Coast of the .
nited States-.
'The X.-tf.rtK.- C. P. is at present
ranging with the Rock island Rdil- ?
ad for -special cars and possibly a
lecial train to carry delegates arid
si tors fro'T^he TIast tw I.os Ange-.
s, covering' points of scenic, intert
along: the way.- Representatives **"
the' -Rock Island road are'at prcs- .
it- working out an itinerary of which
ill details will be made public as
>t n a>? completed.
Ura&s.lI'fosiU(ynt of the ..
enver Branch of the Association, has
stended an invitation to all "dele*-.11' - , ' r~
itcs passing through that city, to be > b
le guest- ?tV?~the- Benvoc Bra^h at -r
i t-ii nouse on me dale they pass . .
rouph. ..
"We will arrange.fdr the ontertainmt
of all <hl;p;a^fs nn ;hat day."
rites Mr. Gross,' "having in mind
'trout fry' in ore of our <J:T;gh;fui inyons.
You h'nvo otry permission
> pass this information on., to-lall ??
dogates passing through Denver, '
ith tTurre(|iiesi that flpy notify iis ~
i due tinfe as to the probable num- ' . . *
;i lliul "U'llf he' in t-nejr-party.'!. . ,
RESIDENT OF STATE .A & ,M.
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I RALLY IX CAM BEX .
Camden, Jan. 27?Tomorrow teaches
tfroni .every .schoof in Kershaw
VUW.ty wlTl rotiio to Camden for the " ^
>unt? rally _in which .they expect "to { A
i;n the Palmetto, Association 100 per ^ f
int strong. The Association is head1
by Mrs, Elise McLester and they
*e looking forward trO a real good ??
eeting. * |l
The principal speaker at th0 teaeb s*
TOOotmR.-_here.jtohaorrow will he
resident R. S. Wilkinson of thg State
. and M. pollege at Orangeburg.
he city will go out to hear him. J