Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.. :.V t , ^ 4 :* ,s' , ; ' : \', v~ :V ' .. 'm;~" \ I VOL. IV?NO. .fl5 Federation N Remar .# "~r- - '' 7 " HOLD MEETING Mrs.^Marion B. Wilkinson Kloct en nonorary rresideni?i>lrs. Etta Rowe, President MAYOR WEfceOMjBS TO CITY $7,500 Raised to Complete Fairwold Home For. DfJinijuenl -Girls, Near-Fayce, S. C. . ' s? * ; * r? The South Carolina Colored Fcderated clubs'in their final sessions Thursday morning at - Rock Hill made a. mazing and remarkable reports which showed that 'their efforts and enabled them to complete the building of a Home for the Unprotected (iirl at a cost of $7,500 near Cyycewith no outstanding building indebtedness. , It was brought out from reports <. ' that came in that the colored women i by - assistance?coming?fi"im?fri< nib . merchants, schools,, societies,' churches _pnd individuals were able to raise all this money and gone ahead with the [ - huihJing^of thi^ hjmu^^whsWr hov< g Plans to assure the maintenance ^ aruLugkocp of building and earing for pos^J wHere each club 01; group of girls were read which contained a "pro . clubn in the state orprariintioii, aside from their regular donations, was to G. O. P. SEfc HOOVER SEIiECTElV AS REI'UHl ICAN STAN 4RI> BEARER Kansas City, Mo., June 10 (AN.1') By an overwhelming vote the Republican party, in "session here, decided Thursday night to pin their hcipcst'trfi :;.~TT continue the power of -the- p;*rty- in k this country on Herbert Hoover, sec> retary of .commerce. As presidctoc! t ' -' the selection was made ,on the first j ballot. It did not-j.take any "experting" tto determine bejpre hand that Hnovel would-'be the standard bearer of-the * Ga-and. Old Party and the man to pleasure arms with Governor A1 Smith rt , ~~ . or any other democrat. It was "lloov I er first, last and always." The reported concerto atod "o ll'ort F- to stop Hoover failed to~mator iali'z: and when Frank O. Lowden wiHuli'dtv from the race in the parlance of tin street "it was all over, but the sliout *'ng" and there was plenty of shouting lone when Hoover was nominated 1>\ ^ rJohn L, McNab of California and con. Hv tinued as state after ?tate ^declared for Hoover, Only three .states refused to give Hoover a vole. Mississippi, under the lead Hof Perry W. Howard voted solidly foi 11 oover, as did Tennessee, Arkansas HLand South (jar a linn de legal inns,?ul B'which Negroes wore conspicuous H^There was one dissenting vote froir ' Georgia, but it did rtot come from Uncle Joe Watson, the old war horse I? from Albany, Georgia. Uncle Jot HI "switched his allegiance ,to I.owdcr H; when he arrived, here and his daughW ter, Mrs. Sara Watson. King, worket ^ assiduously iH the LauVlen headquar ters^ but-when Lowden withdrew, Unhave chosen to dub "his first love." paign for Hoover and also succeedet in getting a plank' in the party plat, form urging: the passage of a fedora law against lynching and the enforcement of the constitution of the United States in its entirety."" PROF. NICK A FORD RESIflNS Aiken, S. C.?Prof. Nick A. Ford tor th6 fr&fet tW6 yftAfs prhwilpftl rc " the -Sehotteld tnstitnte, tendered hi: resignation as head of the Scftodt to day.?Mt. Ford's resignation to quickly followed! by R. P. M. Cuning ham, one of the teachers and per * sonal frtend of the young principal. Nothing could be learned as to thi wholesale "quitting*1 at Srhofteld. Mr Ford suoeeded Mr. J. A. Hull of Wil berforee University two . yesrs- age '\J.a i.- J- ..V,. v.~v A I. . ' ? SIjc | lakes ~J kable Report adopt a girl'nt a cost of $160 yearly. asm by the entire body. " ~ flavor J. B. Johnson on Wednesday niaii; at M;; Prospect Baptist church Welcomed the colored women to the . y on ln-half of the eit'v: Rev. J. T.j , Wright for the "churches; wife of Rev. T. M. Robinson f<*r the Everready cUtb fo-Rock Hill were others who de- j Ivail for I;airwold and The__Christmns_ 1 Tree, a unique invention, brought, in 'j.additional funds. for iJLhe .. Uo.me for. t'npr. tectcd girls and fittingly closed .! ihi; Wednesday. sessions.^ . - '!!?' lafrt item of bu*im?ss for the ! morning sessions were the election oi' alVicoYs. -A new rule was proposed at this meting which "permits U nifcm-1 ler i.f the Federation to hold only one <n?ce and that for only two terms,] . he. treasurer excepted. The . following ofTicers were elected for one year: ?14+morV.?-y-Fresrdentr Mrs. Marian F. Wilkinson, Orangeburg; president, 1-hti: H. Uowe. Orangeburg; first " ,t\;o president, Mrs. Ida Greene, Florence; Vice President, Pee Dee Distr et, Vrs. Maggie O. Levy; Vice Pres don't,' Orangeburg District, Mrs, Marin Mcnafeor; Vice President, Sumter District, Mrs. Heifie Usher; Vice Pres T. Thompson; Vice President, Charles ton District, Mrs. Jenneatte Cox; re curding, secretary, . Mrs. Serena . II. i (Continued on nage eight lhoSver / . T ,! * HAWi\1N*N_ SECONDS- HOOVER'S HOOVER'S.NOMINATION Kansas City, Md., June 20 (ANP) ?In 11 a effective address John It. 7 Hawkins, delegate from the District i .f Columbia, and financial secretary ??-the A. M* E. .Church, seconded the -nomination here Thursday night of. ilerhirt Hoover 'to be president of [ be United States. f Stressing the fun. '.amenta! principles of the constitu' '.ion ol' the United Stales as well as ?-ealling attention to. tht duties ahd re. spon: ihilflies of the president of the . -ountiy, Mr. Hawkins said that he , (V!t -Herbert"Hoover was eminently filled to measure up to that great "kVski Mr. Hawkins made a splendid . impression in the lire ntlTtUWS" UT?r . j'.- uninl ahd won the hearty applause of '.I.e. audience by his striking yet .' simple eloquence. He served as a mem . j her of jhe credential committee also. . Members of the committee were E. J. ' I Tidrington. Indiana; C. P; Howard, jT.ua: Mrs. Grace Wilson,..Jndiansr 1 j I'. WM'.is-Cole, To B. Nell, Knnsasa; I Seinio donos. Arkansas: Morris . Illinois; B. J. Smith, Minnesota, and ( '. 11. Hftlloway, Kansas. 1 ' President v' ark op senkca h-- "com.kge resigns u| ? . I Seneca., -S. C., June 21?iRcaching i.-his office shortly after nine o'clock 1 , this morning. William L. Clark, pres. ' ident of; Seneca Junior College for ! theipast eight years, announced that . I he"" had sent his resignation to the I hoard of trustees of the college. When asked for a statement, Presi. dent -Clark said Tie hald nosfatemerit ^to- make at this time. He refused to ;--4iseuss his plans for the futurci I Mr. Clark came to Seneca eight years ago from Morris College, where ' he was dean of the college. He is a rvaduato of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va., and is a native of Barnwell, .O. Under his administration many things have taken , place at Seneca; the school having r hcen changed frnm"' ait Industrial school To a tumor oollece. Several t teachers. _nrc empl >yed at the college, r r "President John Jacob Starhs?of - Morris-College, is a former president :1 of 'Seneca. He- was followed by Mr. -j-Cordm B. Hancock, ndw of ViVginia 2 Union University; later Dr. J. W. PertingUm of North Carolina became - president. 11^ was succeeded by Mr. >. j Clark eight years ago. . ,. . ^ .... - - j|A I ?yk ,., j, I, I , la line COLUMBIA. S. C? SA Dates of J Fair 1 The patrons and friends of the Colored State Fair, with pleasure received the first announcement of the coming fall event this week, in a nov-ol form of. .advertisement.?A manuiactured Palmetto fan on which is printed "October, ^3D-?31, November l-2-3> 1928" as the dates for the South Carolina qotored sttate fair, Columbia. At t hetop of the fan are the name? of the officers: J. H. Goodwin,. M. D., president; vProf. J. K. Blanton, vicepresident, T. A. Wiilliams, treasurer; Prof C. G. Garrett, supeerintendent and Green Jackson, LL B., seci-etary Following these are the names and ad dresses of the directors, along with the officers, who are A. P. Ha per, Jenkinsville, S. C., E. J. SSwyer. Ben. nettsville, S. C., W. M. Wallace, Whit mire, S. S., Rev. A. W Hill, Aiken, Si (\, Wm. King, Darlington, S. C.; W. S. Watson, Ridge Spring, S. C., and. I. S. Leevy,. Mrs. L. J. Rh ics. and Dr. D. H. sims, all ot Columbia. Across the center of the fan nppears the following Appeal: "What are you sending to the South Carolina Colored State Fair, "Columbia, Oct. 30-31?Nov. 1-2-3, 1928?" These fans have been largely distributed?in?the??burchcs of the city and throughout the county, and each out-of-town director, above named, was -sent-liberal supplies for distribution,. So appreciative has the pubER^? iS STANDA1 t ' . MENCK EN VISITS "COLORED SECTION" OF CONVENTION Kansas City, M.O., June 20 (ANT) ?H. L. Mencken, editor of Mercury and columnist ol note, in search-of news about the convention, prior to the* actual fireworks, made a trip to the section in itfhich the Negro delegates were quartered. Writing the following day in the Kansas City Star he described his impression as follows: ~ ? -"I found that the dark brothers were divided exactly like their white colleagues and that they suffered fro"hi -the same lack-of assured hearty leadership. Bilt at all events I found some intelligent men, among them and especially two-. One of these- was^ A. L. Holsey, secretary of Tuskegee Institute, and the other was Claude A. Barnett, director of the Associated Negro Press. A ' "Neither, it appeared" was a dolegate, although both were agitating Tn~ftVSr"6f Dr. Hoover. Their reasons wereTdund and they stated them clear . ly and .forcefully.?A.t the time of the floods along the Mississippi, it appdaredr'DF. Hoover had come nobly to the WQcito of pie. Left to the mercy of the native Ku'KTuxers, many ofthd colored refu. . gees would have jared ftadly bjit Dr. Hoover insipfH tl1"1 tli-y H~" succored and to make su,re of it Mpoinbed_ eminent Aframtfricans to look after them. So Messrs. Holsey and Barnett had come to town to agitate for him. 'It was a pleasure to meet them after suffering among the white morons. They remained the most in. telligent men I have encountered among persona officially attached to the convention, one?United States Senator and five hootleegers etfoept" "ecli _ . 1" STATE COLLEGE COUPLE HAVE ELEVEN POUND HEIR i June i?, urangeDurg, u.-?While the graduation "exercises at Claflin were in full sway on May 80th, there was born to Prof, and MVs. Philip M. Harris, one of last year's June cou pies, an eleven pound baby boy who - now is adding more pounds and developing rapidly "on Stat? ,College - campus, the residence of the happy family. The proud father and mother are overjoyed at their new possession and have named the boy in honor .of .the grandfather, Master William P itler Harris. Mother can now be found busying hsrssl/ with har duties about i , , i . r- l /? . v : i . '? r J. ^ ,.1 . .. a H5 ?t ' ' v' , 3 TURDAY, JllNE 1 State Announced Tic been with this Toini uT altvpf^j tisemcn of the fair, ifnt'il already 1 numot'OUs requests Ure made at the ~ secretary's office iHr' addtiorial sup' plies. i?The patron* of the Colored State ? Fair are"human beings, and as such their wishes sire human? hnrw# (hn'.rS j-ribjccts of. the . greater number will 1 j selves afid have a jolly good time? a .real good time. To gratify this ever Jpresent desire the authorities are se[ the very best and -cleanest-Bamusements available. Ii) tfrianging . I the fall meet ings, several have .already'. I I fixed their dates, so as to not enn. fiie.t with the dates of the Fair, Octo- I i ber 30-31 ind November 1-2-3/ TCTulo ! others have selected these dates, in 1 fixing their meeting in Columbia, so they "can attend the Fair along with ! their meetings, nad get the benefits i of the reduced; rates that aire on for ! Fair w.eek. (\ i* If it be found necessary, the summor meeting of t^tg. board will be advanced Prom late .Inly-to earlier in the month, or in '.Tufttf, However all the necessary arrangements have been practically made for the great J'fall' event, . the board in February meeting .'made' provision for htis. m , Tickets, entry car4s-andhlanks, pre^ ? miuin cards and all advertising mat| tor will be ordered out in Vtye time, 1% ' th^ board- already empowering the- M ^ (Continued on page eight ?1- _ V mBEAREfc ' RESOLUTION URGES PLANK TO 1 PROTEST RIGHTS OF NEGRO 1 Kansas G?4y-, 'Mo., June 20 (ANI') ?The text' of the resolutions pre- . sented at the Republican National Conimitte by a committee organized j from visitors and delegates here was . . *11 i ?.>l" as follows: > _ ? tii') Whereas the provisions of the con- ,, i-l Ma stitution of the United States, viz: the fourteenth and fifteenth amen !? bis mcnt-% are being openly and flagrant- [(, t ly violated in this, to wit; that the- j 'colored" citizens of hte United States. ^ 'are being deprived of lif# liberty, ( Iproperty,?and .the. .pursuit of happLLL., , ness, and ?? ?_i; . iter j Where as an arili-lynehuig bilF has j ' Hieen repoatorlly defeated, ami * -j Whereas thcre^ appears to be a dis- j an< position and eoitcorted effort on the;vj, part of the LiljJ White lenient of t ho j ] j Republican party to elminiate the |,js t fhilnPAfl pitlvftM K%r. j} I I-""- '""of. timidation and chicanery,? and ~Whereas peohngela-aull b^ing prac* OV ticed, and. "* Whereat)?there?hiej,l>een diwrimi- nation on account of race and color in the classified service under the rules and regulations of the civil ser- r -vice laws in .respect to appointments } ' when positions have been won by com- 1*\ pL'titivc examination,?and j Where as segregation and discriini- '!ni i nation in governmental departments- nu> in Washington, ;1>.G\ are still lieing n>0 I practiced. NoVr HrCrgforoj k. is j Resolved, .that we, the "Undersigned 'on | committee; Appointed at the open s u I meeting of delegates to the Repuliliran National Convention 'and citizens Sl ^ of the United States, rcnrcserrting ? the colored voters ahd citizens of the "T United Slates do hereby petition the Republican X'ntioroyl?Concent ion?aft lls.s . Kansas City, Missouri, to encouch the _ following in its platform i !. Jea ' bof Firt, to protect the colored citizens-., in all their rights, civil nnd political.' . Second, for a strict enforcement of a. no* the 14th and 15th amendments to the ' ? I A. ..... I* A cwnMiiuuuri, 1 n letter arxi m spirit. 11 Be it further, Resolved, that the ^ Republican praty fro on record as protecting all citizens alike in the TTsrict enfercomer.l fef rS^l service Jaws of the United states. - 4 . - ? . . ?' ^ pc?! the house while the frrchor is on the scl faculty of the summer school nt the coi Stabe College. ? ?? r irrp Trie mother and sister of the recent Mr bride have been spending a few days on and helping in the car* of the new to h*tr to ? - -- - - - *** - - * * -4-> -1... . ' " \ .rv 5 DR. C. C. JOi Masons Loi .... .f.. ?: - -Oi . Charles Cut let t Johnson o'u l)ies Suddenly From Heart ' si Attack ^ UN ERA 1, IN (OUIMRIA J| mi . s?.? V.r .""[ar Re Laid To Rest in Randolph :s emet(.r\.? Sunday*. A ft it neon * vv:m n?h.. hv,. f i \ ii i x xhixf 1 . ? j *' ' tr.. Ch^rly?' "Oatlett Jultn < n, who"'Hv twenty** iyju years has Keen the ami Master, of FjFce and Accepted I'i Sons. of. S m'.h Carolina, d cd on J-C. :dhesday afUnvon,' June "JOth at hi: homo, A '.-ken, S; from' h*a.t'te aek which t nde his usoTul ami ye lorahlc career' sudd nly. . | lit. rhe funeral, Services, will be held v"f GAlumUia,' Sunday afternoerve.t d:liO hi look. Intti'mor.t irr liandohph-certte-1-pr y in the family plot. L'hc Grand T.ocirc F. A. M. will lie ' M livened in cxiraoi dirYu*y~ session,1 ex I the Grand Master will' be buried Co .h the -usual. Masonic honors. . | ti Dr. Johnson v. as a pi: neer ainonff s< race in. the medical ? profession.' South Carolina. He was born at ' : i:it too i :m!oi.i, first d a a gi ? ? lT S I \Tl ( III I l l: I Sl At M i'lt .. school A'ith enrollment of teachers Junie. by the four hundred .mark .was ex- fh ?? Ow. n win?LLU?l i ik" 111 r?v Wti% . t.-vum aiuw . t' :v State .College, opiurt^i'""tier-sum. Si r. session aiui l roke alL pvevjous t'o ords for .opening day^rogistvatiwn. be Phe whole of Monday there were g lines to register and to be asned courses of study which will j, d toward C.dVge degr ees, high ' ^ iool, normal, and agricultural di- ' jj, mas, all .of whi h will ctfect thelowing of -certificates. From pros "hidicnti rrrnr -fht??re. i.Ttvatioii?rrrrl?? lignm.ent of co.rscs will require o days' and. the enrolment will, j ich six hundred. All Classes with rin work Tuesday. It is probable it an additional force will be draft- ; into service to care for* tho ovor_rf ? lv of rr>c:.<\ rant <a " ' ! or Vtany in.the gr up ''re planning to 1 jn ;in wqyktfir College ctedit whiefi ors a nc\r-fentnre :T? the develop-' nt and training of te. rhois for tho 1 m rensinc demand fm?letter quad- ;s, itlona.' 1 1 1 ' ~ Jfv rhe summer school faculty is com- . F! <?1 of gv.td'mtas of the lending ! lools in the educational field and of ning thoroughly. equipped in tiyiin- j it. r and experience jttf tftrHlrffl* work. 1 re my familiar and new fares appear or the faculty. Tho summer school is gi run five weeks with six scKoqI day.; j wi e??h week. " . tu jt, . ? , i - ; 1 ' ... ? J ll.UJJsljUll"' 1 ' - - - 5c A COPY ^ I ~I ii IIIP i II 11 in i , se _ _ .. nrI Master 'aftire, Va.-;in I860 just before the ? tbreak of the war. His youth was ont in4 Washington, D. C.i where ho tended the public schools. Af'-er " ' mpleti-nir.= l^is, rublie schooling he alriculatcd at Howard University id won his "Bachelor's -tfejgree in H5.. Three years later he complet- .. > the medical course at-the same- Z?; -!it-.i?inn with the M. D. defitr.ee.. iter "there was conferred upon ^him <i .degree of A.OiP. ' Upon the complctioii of his course r. Johnson located at Columbia, S. . and was the fust physician of s race to .pract ice in this tffty. Afr practicing in C" d end in fet twertty ?ar.s he moved 10 Aiken where he A since resided. Here he had a d practically, retired from activeaciifer? ? . " Dr. Johnson organized-the Palmetto edical Association-. Hr was medical a miner fo?~Several tUTge insurance mpanics and was a frecjuent con ihutor of riawevs. hef.,vr> rondienl (Motif's-of thi^ and other states. r Surviving Dr. Johns.on are his wife ? id' children. " w .ORG IA STATE SI MMER SCHOOL* TO EE BEST IN HISTORY Or COLLEGE ~~1~~~~ r .Much interest surrounds the various noureements which have been made ,?? f 0 President Benjamin F. Hubert of e Georgia ~STate IndustTiaDCCrHege- -.? "i? time to time concerning the r" - ' limner School, June 25 to July 28, r jjiosc announcements indicate the st gummei^school in the history of e Georgia State College. Walter Hill Hall, the boys' dormiry, Meldrim Auditorium, the aeamie building, and Farson and Bogg's ill, the two girl's dormitories have Lbeem thoroughly-gleaned and put -* first class condition awaiting the ming.of the summer teachers. The1 T~ rjoug^trados and-industrial buildingst?r-^ iVf also been renovnti d so n<5 nrr> ;re to give the best service possible irinp: the term, ;t A).plications are coming in daily id although the summer school incased nearly" five hundred percent * st summer tfVcr.the previous sum.*4 . . : or, there is indication of ^>n even e itor increase in students this sumer. Applications have come in from ftctically every ticorgiar-= - ?? !Tm OTe Carolina?, AlaTSrjma, and One of the strong drawing features ~T the summer school is the fact that is lo'cated-enly fivo miles-from Samrah; the largest port nnd the secid largest city in the- South,, tho ?^ eatest rosin shipping port in the orTd and a leader in the shipping of rpenlino,and aotton j