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' . ' e * .. ... _ ... -.3 < . - VOL. IV.?NO. 49> ' 3 S ^Mental Abili - V. _ - of 7*1 ' . liM I wF ?HQ9 I I W^SS^^.f-'--'' .-*iMtt|^^^H Wj?i ,*.'V ."-. . |m -.I ' jjK W 1 Thp ahnvp pirtnrp^bTlrnm ~Hvp AU: gust nnmhpr nf t.hn "Dj-.ng Clerk' the official organ of the "National Association of Drug Clerks' in its tc gular. write-ttp^-of ?Who 4sHVh0 it Pharmacy," and is the photo of Dr Marjorie Frances Butler, the first colored woman from Columbia, S. C., tc graduate in Pharmacy. .. ' - -' o Dr. Butler is the youngest daughtei of Mr. And Mrs. F. K. Butler of 171( Wayhe street and the third and lasl daughter tb graduate-from Ituwirrc University,-Washington, D. C. The other sisters, Mjss Ruth E Butler having received" the degree oi A. B. in 1923 and is now Latin teac h . er in the Booker Washington * 11 igl , School of this city. ^ "The second sister Miss Edith C .~j tu. J?? - - * A/UVIVI icvcivcm me OI' A. X5 in 1924 and is English teacher ,ir the 2nd Ward High School ol tharlotte, N. 0. ? ?*> Butler since passing the Board in Charleston, S. C., in June has been practicing in the Drug Store of the late Dr. C. C. Johnson, Aiken S. C., but last week resigned this position to accept a position with the Ideal Pharmacy in. Roanoke, Va. She reported' for work thot'e Nov. 22nd and seems pleased. - ?. r . Besides her qualification, because of her high marks in her profession she is also qualified in a busines waj : - -having taken aeourse-in book k-eeuing under Dean F. C. ReulJ'orn,. while a student in Benedict College. I? 1 _ . ? a r explorers African Widow Dies in Jamaica / New York, Nov. 30?The' N. A.^ A XI. P. leams that Mrs. George Gren ?widow_,n? the Bnptisf mission - Wry and Congo explorer, has just diet ual- Jamaica, where she has been li he u r for some years with her tw< omics-hters. Mr. Grenfall and his wift seccreaT"?on -the famous little?boat -seethe Peace.'' Mr. H. \V. Peet, o " Drj^ckepham Kent, England writes: ? F ''Grenfall, after the death of hi: first wife, married in 1879 Miss Ros< Patience Edgerley, who was of th< \ African race. Her family had livei for several generations in the Wes Indies, but had returned to the Came (Continued on Page 6 WORLD UNITY MAGAZINE WANTS WRITER'S WOR* V- Ma-ai "WirV, Ufnr 'tfl tinnnun leyT Managing Editor of the Worli Unity Magazine, informs the Nation ai Association tor the Advancefhen ? -?_of Colored People, that his magh zine is about to inaugurate a new <le partment called "" Youth And 'tip Modern World"1 . 4 '\'ji ~?^?In this department articles will h published by college students and o thers representing .various race&_an ."nationalities. Mr. Holley writes th N. A. A. C. P.: "We are ex?ee(iingl ^pxiousin tTll8 department the arti cles representfng~the best thOt Of th young colored people." DO YOUR -1 Hi i Mi 1 - r- v .> v . V . " m)C I ??=? r'. ties Races Differ ! - ' "7- ' ' Aexowling to Car' -| * negie scientist Schenectady, N.-:if-, Noy^iO-ANP? 1 heories long advanced by Ant.hropoligists, that there i? no mental eliffereoces due to racial trails, were contradicted here vyednesday by Dr C. B. Davenport of" the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C., in a thesis read before the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences; -which - -h as - -j ust -'cloned a?thnw-dny session Dr. Davenport presented a report of an investigation he had made? in tracing the menial which distinguishcd the white, brwon, and Negro races dutj to the genos anil ch romps bates from which they spread. According to his findings lafttr sub~ jecting members "of" the vfhite ?and black races to certain psychological, tests, "Races differ ,jn innate mental traits as really as they do in pnyslL Q!il i tiiii)i.-ii.4^j?wbop fiilUdooder Negroes and whites of the same social status, education and, occupatior are compared the Negroes show, a su pe.riority over the whites in at least certain parts of the Held of sense ' discrimination,, notably in inusica! - tests. In ability to retan and lvprp^ <Uice a serlce of figures they seem .ceiual if not superior in th<> whit<>? . hut in tests involving spme organif zatioii, foresight and planning the whites show a superiority." 9 * ' African Chief ReI ceives British Life Saving Medal ??? ! New York, Nov. 30.?A thrilling res; cue of wrecked steamship passengers , J ,on the West African Coast, abbul >20-miles from Lagos, in Nigeria, has ! brought to an 'African chief name* ? Olabi, a silyeji' medal and diploma ,1 fl'Olh th6 Liverpool STupxvrecR one lluniajie Society. , The facts in the case as reportet 1 to the N. A. A. C. P. by H. W. Peet j in England, are as follows: * 4 The Elder Dempster Line Steam , snip Ustiogbo, ran ashore in the nigTii In the morning, the ship's lifeboat containing four European, the-, chiel engineer and some of the Africar ^ erewp'managed t0 get a line to thi shore, but the boat was broken ju[ by the heavy surf. The local Chfef Olabf, *then swan out on a '-plant and got the line ashore again; A second time the line broke under th< strain. The bract African then gol " a canoe ih the face of many dangers succeeded in bringing off tht? rest o ~ the O^hogbo^H -passengers, two-atri time, his boat being smashed to .pcic es in the" process. . ' 3-. . The -Elder Dempster Line made known this act of bravery to the Li "iverpool Shipwreck and llumane ^"o ^ Tiety, foul at lis October hioetlTlf the Society awarded its medal and di ploma to Olabi. The GpnTpany ha: .reimbursed him in the sum of fit [> I " i pounds sterlin'gfor the loss of his o. ... , c-aone. . 1 . t : High Rating Giver A. & T. College I "i fs?one of the Leading Land-Gran ^ Neggro Colleges 1n Country~imrtiV in praised for, Excellent Course of Study. -Iteccommend State t Put up New Library and Gymnasium a Greensboro, N. C., Nov. 30?A higl rat frig aniongs Negro Colleges of th c- nation in given the Negro1 ^gncuTTu i- ral and Technical College *?W Nort d Carolina, located in Greensboro, in e survey of Negro colleges ar\d uni y versities in the state lately made an< k published by the. bureau, ofL educ'atio: (Continued on Page Six) TOLIDAY SH( COLUMBIA, S. C,, SA Ski ATTENTION COLOIIEI UMBIA AND RICE ? * ' I We Earnestly appeal te every \yofnnn. to help us make January 1 that we Jiave ev.e+^h;ul?It is the" i us. by Congress; and we should sh . . together and demonstrating; art. ( Jnesu?TeTenaran(i .mingling our" Cod. for o'ltv pvivileiyes and aehe We also invite every colored ci the Assoeialion Monday, night, "^ o'eloek sharp; for thcr-purposc and electing etlivers of the day. Time?MONDAY X101 if. UKC. Yours for W ' < .. * Li til i ^ 11 :|yV 1 . > ^omrmssioi Conduct o I - oii^Doorr I i ' i ABUNDANT, JRI, BUTE PIAD TO" 1 VESTRIS HEitOE3 ; i *Kcy>' York. Nov. . "JO? -Abundant tei- ; ' bute'is bciiiu1 pai<J..lu..l4ic ;m ' <1 nrdor.^ and bearing, the bra. ?.\ry and obi/- j dlenee of the Negro me'nybtfs of.the \ crew of the Lamport aifd- Holt Steam shin, Vestris,- which .sank oil' the : j i i Virginia Coast with a lo-s 'upmard . of 100" lives. Yesterday. ("harics i!. i _ Tattle. C. S. Attorney in the Couyt I j ' of Inquiry, commented,, as follows-at'-1 ter the testimony of Joseph BoxhillJ one .of the Vestris firemen: - -?:??-!? a_ "I have seen in one or two quarter:-, | sofne days ago some cf3th%au of .the ;; colored members of the crew; I .think j i it ohly fair to say th;it*. s.o far as fit Irttmt' . - 1 1 ' ' >< natv -l H MTllKlllun, I IU' i testimony just given by iMr. Joseph-];{ | Borhill tpday is Typicul of the- eon-} ^ ducp Of the colored part of the crow.]; X'ol. only >lithli t.iri..n....?indicate that they showed *iu>;. insubordination I , ^ or .cowardice, hut,', on the contrary,]. the evidence shows atlii'mat iyely that , ' they obeyed orders and stayed in the, . stoke-hole as long as anything eoiiid | } . ( = Jie-4<mCr.and that snhsdgiienl 1 v? and - I- know this w ill ho" fin-Moo- .- ii [ihi/cd 'by the.evididHe-^^-'j-JoT .id members of the crew displayed real- .heroism L is-dragging people from the water in ' tt) the.life-boats and supporting help1 -fuss persons while in the water. 1 ' think it is only fan 'that this statet mcnt should he made at this time." L . The feature of today's session o! , ^ the C-oui'V of Inquiry was the teslimony of; I.ionei J.icorish, ,\'e:,;vo Qturr j.: tornrastir of the Yestris, and het;o o: . the disaster who> -himself saved ti?. tor (if Publicity of be N. AC A. ('. P. who attended the- ni.ornihg session o! - the(.Court of IiVquiry, writes:. ? -? "A?lit tli' Irlanlf? ->r> ,...li... i ?: - v S|M?CI .L.| f ly on the sLiiiul at t.lif Cmiil pf I>j _ * quiry today and in a clear voice told .J .the story of the sinl>in.ic. ul t'lve_\V.< tris. Lionel I.icorish was at the . wheel of the ship while the Tist grow . stedily greater. lie stood l?y for orders arid carried a message front the Captain of the ill-fated ship to the carpenter asking him to stop the . inflow of water at the port and half-j waiting the captain's" orders?uytiLL near the vefy end. and helped prissen-ji ^-thy-^hlp v.-ns so fai I'lne tl I it M" BESS' OUTLOOK ~ ( FAVORABLE h . ^ ?* . I e New York, Nov. .".0?N. J. 4*$der"1'cfcT Columbia, S.?Cb,?attorney, who h has been fiKhtinjr for the release of a Ben Bess, colored victim of jf^white! - \Voman's perjured testimony, who has ; d already served 13 years of a thirty n year sentence, notv writes ^the Nation : of Colored People that he is favof>0^000'0<*CfOO<?^V>OWOO^CtO'OOWC>^ 3PPING WITH le&BJKaeo?* ?^oo<v>ooooooooooooooo ' - ?-t? *??-*1 .... r?. _ - " tto ? >. . ' . , . " 4.. ' . * \ * TyiiOAY, ui;c. nnhj. ?~r~ 1 . ' ) CITIZENS 'OI<t- OLILAND COUNTY! true Amcvi<fai) Race nvan ami , 1D2.0, tlu> a real est Cok'Uvation unly.day nationally conci'dodto ;o\v. our appreciation l?y conijna [ r{iftsiHunship, atrri?.'ulturc,.cla-, \"1. t's in. D.iaitiO nikl inm or lu ivcniovts.. . . lisiori lo attend the lnootin.ir of l)i f. .'Jid, at B^ThYrwirnH. iit *~:of completinn" ih4h, nev+iuMvts-? This is .your meeting. lie on 1 ij?AT,8 O'CLOCK SUA UP. success,' . JI. COCLTRY, President,' v Coin Memorial^Association. ier";tauds led " Ship , ;h' could stand on th,? tletkr He io< siud tluv strhps holding number 11 iieiiosix so that it won Lcl lloat when oo st'ennu v went'how n, himself .slid iff the deck into'the v. iter, and swam iv.a\ front the shin so as to avoid '6V..U- drawn ihvon by' the suction. "AYTion ho turned around t,,' look, he stehn'ur was R*nie,- ?>u't: of sijrht in jonl he had loosened .was lloat mt??indie water. . He swam to it,, not oars. resetted twenty- of the passengers md trow and kept his lifebont a4b>at vitb shifts of three men hailing all -ight until re.#iie came the next m'oin Mr. . . . i ' "Lionel Lieorisli corroborated the statement of United States Attorney 1'uttle tlrat the members- of th6 crew tad. stood 1?y orders anil done everyh'r.g pes. ible, until it was seen that "hither efforts were hopeless to .save he ship. 'Those, "efforts .-of- the crew JV.Tu'ued bailing' of- water out of the \lt:amer? nianniiip,' the pumps, and vorkfog m,; the stokohohr?unt+1: all" lands were ordered; on deck." in its acioum^iast oT the vs.tinion'y' of five Negro- fireman, Joseph Doxhill, the New. York Evening Post said: "A youthful Harhiidoes Negro to!;ty inn fated* naively, with "complete ii'-'.(.;ll'c('iit-h''i'on?Tiesfr, n fa le "nrfTFmfirk^ dde di-Votior. to" duty \vhich"-hrought '' rth from -'"'United ''States ATtorney *. * . * * futile an unqualified tribute to the real.-heroism* of the Negro members i'. 1'W new of.the ill-fated Steamship Vest risi ' "Joseph BoxlVill, a (ire-man on the essol, which ' sank . olf -the Yirjrinhx I'npos, November 112> with tlie loss >1' HI lives, described in. the warm, aotic Ktr;!ish. of the Wcs' Indies he "yf:<? I*iwtejl S+a- -?s Commissioner O'Neill an! the i\'<lenil. Itnptiry Board; pe; sonal pftTf ill the disaster. "in vivid civntrr.si to the conduct of nine utlieel's ai'.d ..men as -described ,.t previous se.-. iotis -of the impiiry, -be??\ iiu.'.ji?\'i-,'rvo explained c.nx in, int-Iv loiw -he had remained in hew.it. r loy't'd cntrine 'room until the very . last monj'ont and how he wotild have continued to-stny there if any ojlieer had ordered him. "Alter the Vest pis. sank he swam about for 'twenty hours?he*"" had thrown-nis 1 a i achat woy fi e- t TA thi'ewn his .lifeboat away in order to novo more freely--from- raft to raft, doin -- his host to sfive iM;<?|de and lightimi- down' the 'di/.ziness' Which came over him as" he saw the bodies rho u ,'itei?? ? ? aide outcome of the cn?e Ye. orick says in his lot.te.v\to the N. A. A." C. P.:" The of Ben Bess was arpued * in the Supreme Court Monday November 12th.. We. are now awaiWn.e the decision of that tribunal. At any rut,. Bow* has hud' his day. in court, thanks to that Spent oveani'/.ation* the N. A. A. -C5. P., which has iriven auT in the 'effort to see that justice be done. "As soon a sthe. Supreme Court has rendered?it* -de?jsie?V J-i*haU?le-t_you knoW1." ' ? / " , .' OOWOOOOWO'OOOOOOOO'' oooooo "THOSE: ADA '.* ' 1 .?*v .. ' ?, i ^ .... .?:???- - - k V JL? ' - ' ' 1 : *?-?-: 1 : Fact-Fmding * fer< ' . j ? ' ??1? Young People Plan hmovat.on Summer Sunday- School Methods to ?-he Pushed-for?Cleveland,?Qiiia. Session > >. . i'levelamU Ohio, Km^'^Q.-rjMore db .unite and enlarged .plans are now I under, way for th dnu eSayShca__St:! unttbt' way for the Sunday . School v'oipgressifFliftt was awarded to this city.by toy d'.rec lot's of the Young ?.M.oveinOnt?in -their spssioHht Id in . Nashviile, this month. The ItwV Ernest Hall, D. D.,pastor of the I'lTsl Ml. Xipn~BTrptist~t3hurch, hay-ah-J ready called the leading ministers of die city together in a conference looking toward the enlargement of the Sunday School Congress plan as it _u!fects the local* group. Since he is ai part of the great- machinery, being the conductor in charge of the Bible Conference* Kxtensioh Section; and since he has boon identified with it Tor a oiimlu.i-nf years information as .to the needs of the conference exec, ed that?trf any 'other local pastor where they have met in a number-of years. Sitcli is the opinion oT well informed Baptist leaders on thy subject. The Congress secretary, Henry Allen Boyd, located at. Nashville, who has served for nearly twenty-five years as the motor power behind this group of young people, is expected iu visu viuvcianu cany part of Ueecnvber, a's he is one of thcexecutive j committeemen of- the International Council of Religious Education that is to hold its session in the Cleveland Hotel in the early part of December While _ti.? i< hovel l'r. Hall believes that finishing touches will he pu.t onl some carte airrapfgpacOtt,because j t-hvy are planning :o *fir.\c at., least, live thousainls in attei\da.i :o, actual j (Sunday School workers an-i It. Y. 1 1'. C. mombord. The Sundry ! Congress slogan, "Every' nfcmhcV jmt |of every fjnvrily in snmpSiriiilin-S ' .ri.i . -will also he the general, theme t'-*"i ;-out the week of this intensive^ study Fourteen seejiortsj with well- trains conductors, two uniformed religiou brass bands- and an entire regiment Of Bo.v Cadets,, supported by loca1 <T.<rcrs of three hundred vioees^-arC just? some of the things that ITr. Hal! j says will hi; put on in Cleveland. The coming of the Congress Secretary h awaited i?ngerly hfrre. because Dr. Hall is planning, so he claims, to i have-vhim addreSS" a meeting contdsjting* almost -.exslusively of pastors, j Sunday School superintendents, teach j .rs and B. Y. P. U. officials. "The \ innonncc'hient as to the exact time of be meeting is to be made later on," s;\vs Dr.?Hattr??- ' ! Novelist Devotes Prize to Promote j Turnip-Growing 1 (Pi-om ihi> Frflitorial Dent., the John Day Co., New York City.)If you were suddenly to receive j ?ilir?,(?00 what would you do with ?t ? Itfm n/ Katharine Holland Brown, 1 winner the' Woman's Home Companion-John Day Company novel congest was presented with the donor's | (heck for that amounts hundreds of ' stranprrrs Arere quick to olTcr suggesr , lions for its expenditure. Most of !tb?. sneeestions were to the effect minu uu.ii- v?iiiii?s ?li unjjers ue Klv~ Jen a portion of the money, One begged'for $5,000 as a .provision for his old age, another wanted ^00 for her ; daughters tfosseau, still another ask ed for $1,500 for a trip to Ftrropp. But Miss Brown had her own ideas. Interviewed upon the eve of the pnh Mention of her pl'ize-winning novel, "The Father," Miss Brown was per suoded to outline some of the things j ! she is doing and is planning to do i with the award. i .. (Continued oh Page Six) 7HRTISFD IN ' ' . ' J. * ^ ' ' ' . * i: y s. . . f ' . . .. I ' * ' 'f .:, . 5c A COPY -?* ; * Consnce in April :' \ . t -* ' . . '" DATES CHANGED TO BROADEN SCOPE ? "P^rhaiff; N. C., Ngv. 30, AN^? Tl\u. sornnd meeting of the Fact Find ng Conference will be held'in Uur-, - ham, April 17-19, 1929, according to 1 . an arinuoncement mad ethis week by J. E. Shc'pard, president of the North Carolina College for Negroes, and . * who at the Ih-st conference was elected pe r m a n erttc h a i r m an. ' ."The change in time," said Dr. Khophrd, "hits been .made at the request of numerous "organizations and individuals \vh0 felt that since the ffrst-Durham-Conference in a? un- . ' precedente dmanner had grought together all of the". varic<J groups representing thl;?different?schools ofq ; thought among Negroes that it should be held-at a time when there will be . no conflict with any other national ~~~ gathering, thereby permitting?the largest possible attendance." 'The Fact-Finding Conference held last -year attracted wide and favorable attention and out of the interest.-..? ing and helpful experiences it afforded-.we are ^planning for the coming one. _ ?"The .program committee, the members 0f which, are Dr. Mordoeia \V. Tohnson ~of Howard University^ Dr. George Haynes, of the Federal Coun' il oj Churches, Dr. W. E.-- B. Du Bois, ~C. C.. Spaulding, and niyselff are endeavoring for this coming .meet. ing to avoid presentations whch are the opinion pf any single individual. iiu ii.? ? . . ?? v jj?i?n to get me collective. ihougnt? ?<from scattered sections of the Coun try on the varied problems which af ioet t.hp ra<;f?f compare the same and " present-ft to various outstanding organizations for further solution. It is planned to do some research work . ' so that the subjects as they are laid before the conference for discussion shall be -in form to make possible final opinions. The program will be Hwmmeetf-ait a later time." V 1 The program will.be announced at i later time. Those desiring specific r>. formation about the conference can secure- it by writing Dr. J. E. Shepard, Jpiitham, N. C. PUBLISH RACE FLELINGS AMONG STUDENTS ;' New York, Nov. 30?Two groups of" university students, one in^Vest \ lrgima and the other in North Da- ~-^= kota, have becyt in ode the basis for .. a study of race feeing toward niirior.ity groups in America, by .James M. Keinhardt, published in the Survey North Dukota furnished 28 students for the test and Morris Ilarvey College in West Virginia 21. ?"Thin otudy is to limited In, allow. any broad conclusions," writes- Mr. Iieinhardt. "It does indicate however that the prejudices against the Negro r'acfe ai'U Stronger among- the rising generation in North Dakota than in Continued on page eight FAY KING PRAISES HERO -?New York, Nov. 30?Fay King, fea ?_ ture illustrator and writer . whose ??" 'ri"""'" n:'ji yiivor of _New York City, last week paid full tribute to Lionel Lioorish, the Negro Quartermaster who saved 20 lives ikn 1- ~ ^ O J. - - 1 ' x win _ wiu w retk ui me ?>icamsnip Vestris. In her drawing, Fay Kin*? incorpor ,atcs the following sentiment: "It is not. rarr. rrerd or color that counts in life, but man's humanity towards , man,,. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in a letter t0 the editor of^the Daily MirHWi?expressed its- appreciation?of?. - - - Fay Kind's feature. THE LEADER 7 .. "" *. " ..... " " ' . / '