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fv ------ . - - % . -TF"^ PAGE FOUR j " - t 1^2 3lip palmpt ^-PUBLISHED 1310 Assembly Street GEO H HAMBX Entered at the Fust Uiiice at Columbia, SL BSC R11 One Year ? - - $2.00 Six Months -r-r, FORK I ON ADVER1 . W. B. Z1FF CO., 008 Dearboi Official Advertisements at the rate alio I Lie Leader will publish brief and ratit terest when they aie accompanied b thors and are not of a defamatory will not be noticed. Rejected raanu ~ -- KKM1TT, Cheeks, Drafts and I'os'.al or Express M to the ordeir of the i'a-hnetto Leaner N. J. FREDERICK ' ?H. W. BAUMGARDNER ? Communication* intended for the curreni raanh-the ediCdrial. desk of the Pali * of each week. . City news'; locals, pt aay night. i> * ? ? Business and Ldito y, ~7"" ?" CO L U M BIA, S. (\, SATl .T SCHUYLER CHAL1 j Next Sunday, December. 14, Geo 1 umIJTa ?or~hfs second lecture. Ml city last winter and the splendid him when he discussed the .subject 2:? gro?"?Since His visit- last wintc umphs to his credit. It has been is to appear in January. The first 1 : reason the publishers have decide* WcTare in'debtdto the Waver ley ? the coming .iu*t as we owed our 1 body. There is nb contemporary impress?the Avorld --with his pen t human relations is -highly valued sionS of Vital problems-cattle?his in the Pittsburg Courier to he.one nccl by any newspaper. Some of Mr. Schuyler's product I -tirles arc "Onr Greatest Gill to A thology of American Negro Lite mar.riage-in the United States." Li Haldernan Julius Co:, Gifard.; Ka merican Mercury Magazine. Vol, "Keeping the Negro in His Place No. 08. August. 1920. "A Negro ~ curV. Vol. 10. No. 7TrPT-lirn.-iry If Tncrican ^ Mercury. Vol. 2<h No. i " ceni to unTc a I i off7 MV. "SclTuy ler nrrf( other article to the American M.er that is to torn) a pan oi' a sym| Samuel Schmalhausen author of symposium "Behold America" is 1 ! "those recognized as the greatest t It is our purpose here to |K?int o tunity of hearing Mr. Schuyler i :* lighfiy. "This rs n man who has: the 14 he will throw out a "chal making the endeavor to find live tl 30- yeaVs of ago who are willing t ? lO-free: their intellects of all the make a determined tight lor con - hear Mr. Schuyler is enlightonnu -?3". BARHYMORK'S "SCARI - v. \ .. Dr? Henry Bellaman. literary-^ . commented arlerrffth in last Sirrr ?opening of fhe?stage-version-- of from the hook Jiy thai name, and a South Carolinian was awarded .. ' : role in this, play is handled by Etl famous of'American actresses. 1 p ~ Barry more Theatre a house narfu Dr.. Bellamann thinks that Miss and that the supporting cast are i sary interpretation of the life-the let Sister Mary" as w<? know deals lina. The cast that is presenting opening performance out ip Ohio __ ' , ' . the hands ol t he critics, and now outright that white acTor^ just ci He expected an approximately primitive character, meaning the use his words: "White people, th talking, vest m iim like uhito pen; the entire play was the make-ut mann is a little Wo .hard eh lhe-d . error on some of his -dedncti<ms~ place he says: "I li&ve seen a. g< have heard of many more, hut T 1 : ?dal couple knee lint" and yoiii^ th m'ony." All that w?e can sav is that- -Dr. py when he ...wrote that and faile fore sending it out for publicatic there are Negro Episcopal oriest the land and* that these clerics ar many of them are married it wo form nf reromrmv padnVir>rl in (Vin ....... ... vv. W...VII(I V'MIV HV M III lll^ ;; ft is flattering- to the Nogro tc interpret his own life. We are ? are capable of portraying- life wi vision that life embraces. The fa comprising" such actors as-Andrew Thompson, Susie Sutton, Mat tie ^ ence Muse, Cleo lies mend and ma terpreting" some of the most sul phase.? of life as portrayed i'fPsor ertr times. Dr. E. C: L. Adams a -tc^-Gar' with im aUu^hred ras" tTon. "He sensed the fact that 01 per ifiternrotatlon of the characte visited the scene of "Scarlet Sist of the people in that vicinity for a .? interpretation is accurate and her ?^ _ .1 * ' ' ' tfm ? L, . " ' to Ifoaiier ~ f WEEKL/Y L, Columbia, S. C. ON. l>ublisher._______|==BM^_ 3. C., as second ciass matter Dy an f ^ ,zzm TIONS 2 .. Three Months J. f.76 ,]V Single Copy ? | ISIN'G AGENCY * ? ' i'r ' :n St., Chicago, ill. y?. HtV wed by law. ?1 / : ''' 'N mal letters on subjets of general in- , y the names and addresses of the au. j nature. Anonymous communications ^ scripts will not be returned. ; f{ VNCES ltJ loney Orders s"hould be made payable w _?' . .. ui ^ ? 1? ?: ?^ U, Editor ni _____ Acting Editor " rissue mustHoe very bfiifT,and should "T netto Leader not later than Tuesday rsonals and social news, by Wednes- n? : ti rial Phone 4323 tr . .f N " T? j w . ' . ' " I t< JRDAY, DEC. 6, 1930. ??p?ai ? -j w .ENGES YOUTH.,- JJ te rge Schuyler is to return to Co- ^ lell do. WA re^ll fris visit, to our ^ audience that was out to greet .i "What's to Become of the Ne- Si m Mr Srhnylpr has mnnv tri-in anTrounced that his first novel ^ date was Nov. 15, but for some bJ d on January for its release. H Parenl-Teacher Association for -tv icaring him last \yinter to that, m Negro who has done more to f J* Han Schuyler. .His opinion on 1 , and his authoritative discus- tjn -column "Views and Reviews" 1 ot the I>cst kno wncolu mnscar- w' : . . i. . ' or I Cf :ions besides hi* fiewspgper ar-1 tt imerica." V. F. CalVerton's An-j rat lire," P. 405. "Racial Inter- c<i it tie Blue Book number 1387, E. t" nsas. "Our White Folks," A-j 12. No. 48. December, 1927.1 American Mercury, Vol. 17.! n. Looks Ahead," American Mer-i f, KU). "Traveling Jim Crow." A- rc SO,. August 1930.?in a recent umTT'if us that he has sold an/j10 cury and has. finished a chapter j A IkKium In book form edited by fjj "Why we Misbehave." This sj to include the names of among I o Linkers produced by America. <*> ut some reasons why the oppor- ^ is one not torbe passed over a, a message. In his message on m lenge to Negro Youth." He is e? tiousand militant Negroes under n< o make the necessary sacrifices j rubbish that fetters them and i sistency in American life. Tu[w r. ; st w w a: -_ZE LET SISTER MARY." ?< ontributor to the Sunday State c' day'_s_edition on the New Jfork 13 ?Scarlet Sister Mary," taken A 'Tor ~\vhic.h_Mrs. JuliaPeterkin, a Pulitzer prize. The leading f* nel Barrymore. one of the most w Die play is being staged at the s< 2d for the celebrated actress. 17 Barry more is a complete failure not capable of giving the neces- ??j ;y are trying to portray. "Scar- w i with Negro life in South Caro- ? the stage version is white. The 01 received a severe lambasting at we find Dr. Bellamann saving in't portray Negro life. n accurate understanding of a Negro but what he saw was to *; inking, acting, feeling, walking-- S: rhr?Tliu unly Negio quality in tl v." We believe that Dr. Bella- ? t^arrymore. cast; tie may ne in j;; ind many Negro weddings and lave vet to hear of a Negro britriHig^L (be Episcopal ring cereBellarhann must have been sleed to correct his mani/script be m. Surely he must'know that ;s and Archdeacons throughout e not pledged to celibacy. Since uld seem to a reasoning person tmony-that they had used , the ritual of their church. > know that he alone is able to aire that so called Negro actors thout regard to what ethnic di- > imous T,afavette Stock Company f Bishon. Abbie Mitchell. Walker! A'ilks. Sidney Kirkpatrick. Clar-. ny others were successful in in- j >tje, esoteric, and sophisticated ( \ no of the deepest nlavs of mod-s vanted to produce his play "Poej h with-^tr^ftiiQUU^obiee- ~ nly Negroes could give the pro-J rs in his play. Miss Barrymore er Mary" and observed the life j J l protractd period. Perhaps her, 1 critics could be wrong?? -p v * ?4 jgfrj | . .. \ ?1 V tfeB PALMETTC BETWEEN THE I LINES n i I v BY GORDON B. HANCOCK t< : - . 1 c~r?=** : r hi \Vitutodi"Special Attention."?:?^ orison- No- s ? "j rdjjw w 'study of conditions amon^ ^ le (routs in twenty-five large urbans o [egro's employment * is out of all c: roportion to his numbers. In yther tl ords, the burden of unemployment w ills with pe'culiur force upon "the iwly Negro; The League conclude. ith the statement that the case of c< nemployment among Negro calls j'or N special attention!" -The titct that- h aemploymert is a \vorhl-\\ ide phe- "I omenon has seemed to give some 01 fegroes consolation, but from the tl ery beginning this writer has teared ~tl lat there was a racial -element that teded special treatment. Herein lieh le great danger to which we. hav 41 ied to call attension. So long as T egroes are made to feel -that some H hites share their lot and that their B t fool that some whitps sharp thpiv >t {irnl their; ease has no specialsss cl ise has no special featurewlll apathy tl -id Midiffurnvw'P olum^tpr[*e the Ne I si re's at self and relief; but if the ^ >eeial nututre of the Negro's Aea- w ntion, then tRe Negro is in posion to make heroic measures for de- " veijance. It is a racial treason to 11 the Negro that he stanctst he-1 = Jl the Negro tha his. chances of irvival are the same, n the long in tt At'eJ'e hotter to toll the Negro le truth even though such t?nth i sconcerting and depressive, for only ir facing the ugly as well as beauti> il facts will* the Negro be prepare! tl > make thellght the situation - is do- -th anding of him. It is? a well-known ti ict that foot-ball coaches have to bi ?at down the_ spirit of over-cpnJenc when their teams are go "( g up against a supposedly weak 0 iponent,?On many ?oe(Ui;iionn many -A ea^er-* teams, have- overcome strong. -\V one because the latter were over mfident and did not woke up to ieir task until too late. T A few weeks ago this writer was died upon the.(Inscribed living condi- T1 ons amonp the Negroes before an SI ter-raeial meeting held in histori' Tl t. Paul's in Richmond. ft~was pointed ourt that, to. measure cing conditions among Richmond Ne :roes 'by the apparent prosperity fleeted in Negro hanks and tnsuriee companies and few profess- ~ nnls-would -not be true to the facts. better way would be find the averse iiu'onic of tlu^ average family id compare this wi'U^minimum substence standard k worked out , by gburn and other standard of living cperts. Ry this method of reasong it could be-readily seen that the ichmond Negro was rtpproaching j V economic status, that is becoming ^ ore and more desperate. This writ urged tluft '"special efforts" were *eded to meet the needs of the Nefo! No sooner had we sat down tan a white man arose and pointed C out that many whitg_jl?rsmis_ JS ere -m just?as great- economic s< raits as Negroes. My reminder ivj as' to the effect that even though ci bites ?re economieallyhardpressed F 5 are Negroes, the fact remains rat, .a whitf, \viio _.are..eoonomi- 13 illy hardpressed as are Negroes, the F ict remains that a white man who is tl 5\vn but who wishes to .rist' h&s ten C nances to the Negro's one for the tl ntire mtttorr is behind him with all A 's resources and encouragements. t{ nlv recently we set forth the "spec- A ;1 nature of the-Negro's economic fi ght in this eountry and a great wail X? ent up from those who . took con- ci nlatioti in knowing that the white A WU1 hflrt hl? trials ton! 1 Nut1 until we- + ?ally face the fact that we havfe a C special problem" which calls for B special efforts" on .our part shall ,1 e be equal to fight the occasion de-* hi lands it. 'It is the' "special nature'' \ f our problem that has motivated ur three year fight for the creation r< f a job-consciouness, thru our hold- I our-job- gospel;? I t -ia - the special I ature of our problem that motjeat- s< 1 some weeks ago a release to the si .sspciatd Negro Press on the necessi- i / of "appreciation trade;" it is the B line situation that made us deplore f failure "of the Lawntown Shoe-Gor- -f rith the dire results implied. When n ' nwakee to the fact that we have a special fight" on our" hands, and j hen- our pulpit and press consecrate p bemselves to the task, we are going j, r. r?f ^nnwliPi-P.^iit-not. A. dav he. _ ore! The Urban League is to t'- j ongratulated on its extensive and borough investigation and above all ? t should be congratulated for its c .'illintposs to face the ugly fact that v here i is something "special" in the n ature of the Negro's economic tribu- d itions which calls for "special atten' s ion" not only from the pow'ers that v e, but from the Negro himself. The s opart rs a rehnke to~The "eat-dfirrtr^" nd-be-morry" would-be leaders who 1 ear to tell the Negro the whole s ruth for fear it will make the out- 0 !>ok gloomy.?From my very heart I ielieve that if the Negro is told the v ruth and nothing but the truth he ? yill pay the price and make the fight. have faith in the resourcefulness a nd industry of the Negro far more han those who fear to face the facts. ? Vhat shall the Negro then do in the 11 ituation may nek? Let him iold religiously to what jobs are yet * e Do Most Of Your "j! rrading With Our Ad- [ ertisers. - v j 11 > "LEADER , i hand; let him retrench in his pending standards and thus become littte less pretentious in dress and "? social activities; let him do bu$iess with Negroe^ not to spite the flute 'man but 'Jo- Ijflp *?Jegro 3 live and keep ;his family in deL'hey; let him do less talking and iui e'sacrificing and harder work; et, Imre with his unfortunate fellows his rust and the waffivth of his fire-sidei ?t him be more sympatheticwith all uffering irrespective . of race or reed, for genuine sympathy must ot be bound by race lines and the le vagaries there of. The good foot all team does not faint when the pposing team makes first and Jten n the yardl line! It rises to unxpected heights and resolves ?like le French"at tne memorable Marne ?hen each soldier whispered in fiisfl comradesear the immortal words, They shall not pass!" ? Adverse :onomic conditions have hurled the icgro back into the very shadow of is?gospel-posts and it. looks like first and ten"' and on the Negro's ' ae yard line. It is just about time J le Negro was waking up to the fact ' tat the-Situation facing him is "a" special situation' facing him is n special .situated and he must win When the one Great Scorer cbnies o write against our name .e writes not that we don. or last ut how we played the game. The Negro race is coached by its lurches and its newspaper and as le opposing team ui auverse i-iitum:ances makes "first and ten" on xr one^vard line we are looking to? ! ard the bench for orders. EjQTN TED P 0 I N T S George A. Singleton The weekly text: In that day shall lis song be sung in the landof Juon will God appoint for walls and jlwarks. Isaiah 26:1. The weekly thot: 3 God, beneath Thy guiding hand ur exile fathers crost the sea; nd when they trod the wintry strand 4th?psalm?and?prayer they worshipt Thee. _ hou heardst well pleased their psalm and prayer, liy blessing came and still its power liall onward thru the ages bear, he merhory of that sacred hour." Another weekly thot: "IMuck Will Win" 7 Tho days be slow And nights be dark * 'Twixt day that come and go, oi:n ...mi OL1I1?fMllvn. nur wtti _ Its average is sure. He gains the prize Who can the most endure, Who faces issues, ? Who never shirks, - ' Who waits and watches And who always works. i am a Nigger, just a plain Nigger, am shiftlfess, trifling, .worthless part of the floatsam and jetsam of. humanity. , ,, j [y ancestors came from faraway African. . aptured by Hawkins, and Drake. fere fetcht across the Atlantic and yRTTTi "the Indies. ty skin is swarthy, and my hair is | arled, or years a tropical sun shone down upon my people to protect us. j rMj poHs. sniiflht- to prntoet rn7T~ or two hundred and fifty years in lis land, an even now. hear the faint yelp of. le blood hounds nd feel the sting of the cat-o-nine lils upon my dark fiesh. 7t the-end of the civil war I was *eed,.. battel ism- went but economic slavery, line; nd in an awful'state. -ttm- disf ranc hisetbr-opprest.?damr^rowed, and Lyncht, ut it matters not,?I am a Nigger. am a Nigger, a hat-in-the-nand figger, ly place is in the back door, the forward coach or the "Lu/.znrds' jbst, am wedded to my idols. 1 ive - in a w hite Kfrantryrsmg^wh itrr ^ngs, pray white prayers, and worhip a white God. wish . I were white, white like the iuckroes, hgn' I would be like God. er, and hair-vstraightner/' ind in the end the question raised : ~ u AL? i _ / crcmmu tnousanus o iyears ago in 'alesOne will be answered for the iopard will haw changed his spots. nr \ve the sons'of "God, and,"it" ofctfiaot yet appear what we shall be. ' Sw^et spirits-' of nitre! President {utclyins of the University of" hrb~ agr> gave the American educational forld n shock last week when he anouncetj a; radical change in the tinergraduate school. From now on a tudent ma" finish hifc undergraduaie fork in one year after leaving diigh chool. ' ? ?SUudw students witt-be-eareftrHy syscted. They will take special caur^ es and after passing a series of omprehensive examinations, will be romoted to the Graduate School.?A ery bright student will be able to ;raduate within six months. Old ossils and moss-backs are"Throwing series of fits, but that's that. After all the wiset in the field of ducation arc flounderine around tryne to find themselves. It is a groat Tpprtmeiitn?Any sensible "is" orct to admit that a student spend ntirefy too much time^ in dchool. irtiv should a man1 spprriTfour years n college? Just because his grandathcr did so. Youthful President lutchins may be blazing; a new path, lertainly he will be criticized but ho as announced a policy for a great istitution worth millions rvf dbHars " " ' 1. .. t and which employs one of the able* faculties in the world. Long since Jias this writer made th ^)oint that the present system of edi cation in America is wrong and doc not fit the vouth of the nation fc effective living. More so is it out c joim?when jt comes to your When your leader comes he too wi be crucified like^-tfie Tfe^yrsti Jesiis*,'^! because ol the Tightness of his pre lyncht, knowing that in death he wi gram he will- suffer himself to t triumph. : 1 7? Just how the present economic d< pression will' be met is a question bi in gome way lnore money must be pi; in circulation". Colonel Arthu Woods, Chairman of Hoover's Coir mittee on Unemployment has disco\ ered that there are $162,000,000 c unused funds in the U. S. Treasur for. highway construction. Were 1 apportioned to the states anil b them supplemented in equal amount thousands, of shovels'and picks woul no longer be idle. The Communit (Jnest idea Is alright so?ftrr as -i goes Ijjut It does not go far enougl Tho-only way to cure a disease is t TrAAf iTF pmdientp thp pansp WIu; men need now is not doles of ehari ty but continuous work. Mrs. Emma' E. Sims, of Thome? ville, Georgia, Miriam Tooks, of Chi cago, Pauline' Purryeaf, and chi'die of Newark, New Jersey, mother an sisters of Pres. I). H. Sims, ot All? University, were holiday guests o the Preident, and Mrs. Sims. Drs. Robert Mance, and Palme diappclle are^sojmtramg in the -eifc tor a few days. The former is son of the late^ Dr.- Manee and a grac uate in medicone from Howard Uni Versity. The latter is the son of th late Bishop Channelle .and a gradu ate -in-- medicine- from NorTHwester 1 Both of these gentlemen are product : of Alln University. Dr. Chappel practices in?Michigan. KAMPBELLGRAMS (Kmpbcllgrams Make"Their Bow t< Readers of the leader-it "Stephen Campbell. -? These are times of mis-placed em phasis with many of us. We are em nhasizing the difficulties without see ing the strength to overcome them In fact the noisiTof the difficultyTS-"; loud that the possibility of conquer ing them is a faint whiisper. The times /need less destructiv< critics and more constructive think ->rs. The insane can destroy but onl; the thinkyr can^put together. Actioi s needed,-they wail with foMed arms _and orrt stretched legs and do not si much as move tkeir_eye-lids. If ic nlfiirlit fn fliffipilltiA1 -rrrrri?obstacles- but ft is assinine t< idealize them. ? F?indn ?-ay out? Tbtn-e-ts-a wa: -somewhere. Find it or "make <ttt If. there is a river, bridge it, tunne it, sail it, or swim it. ; ; It is a poor yard stick which rreu sures a man by his weakness. My house is mortgaged for $2'? but the net value of my house ' $2,00'. What is one little fault o weakness, when a man has 99 ojtm virtues? What is one misspelled word fron *the one-whom we love, if the lettc tells us that she has recoverd fron a dradful malady? What is one ty pographical error in KmmersorJ great essay on "Compensation. These are times of Mis-Placed Km phasis. Resolutions are fine. The onl; weakness about them is, the maker i i ^usually the breaker. Today is -th lai.her, m. tomorrow. umnmorrnw 1 today full grown. Life is polarity. Near what pol do?you .live, the positive -or the?e-ga tive ?1 Too. much sympathy is being squan uered on what we haven t instead o concentrating on what we have. Th most of us have had more than w knew how to use. Selfness is a bet tor -asset than selfihness, Selfish ness .is the fine art. of raising your ?rnir beefr?and?keeping?i there. Why call out the fire departmen to put out a match? Why call th police force td kill a little gree snake ? The good white people are won doring why the courts are filled wit more .white people than negroes thes -dajw are- the negroes growing bette than the whites? Are they more r< ligious Why is it, they ask. I ar not able to answer thisj query but t my way of seeing things, one of th basic laws of nature is, "To ever -action,,there it:, an equal and op posit reaction;" that the image of th mind in time becomes the outwar manifestation; Uie creative^ power 777 tTTo TmTuTTTcTmaiio minrl cinn tn i that an outward condition is brough abocrt?III harmony -with the thot poured iiio it from the "^conscioui mind. I mean to say that oppressio has breeded a^ criminal mind in th oppressor; that the hate complex i reacting on Us owner. The negro~1 not any better than other huma beings but he has told himself fo years that the courts, the legislaturi all the laws, and the' penal institc ions were made by he white peopl In the Piedmont section, the em nent jurist Solicitor Harris observ ed that 85 nercent of those brough into court, are white panpla F.uar man has a perfect right to have th most of what he builds. The negr is not more religious but I hold- tha he is too busy as a whole trying t imijiuve um nume, cnurcn ana scnoc to lose time violating laws which h did not help to frame. Let the mak pru be the breakers. Let the owner be the occupants. The present da negro is thinking in terms of th possibility of tbr~futttrewnd is rer busy preparing for that time when i will he his turn to give to the worl a better civilization. And too, th negro does not imitate all that th great white race practices. In th section of the Slate where I Hv? ' l .. ; " Saturday, December 6, 1930. it the last term of court was a credit ho t|he Piedmont Negro. You are _!?, ie right Let the lawmakers be the i- lawbreakers. Another thing, if the ;s white people could, hear the kind of jfl >r ffctsfiel that is. preached- te the ; >f average negro congregation, thev S- wuuld nut Mhvp to Wonaer why this II great change in the courts. The IC gro Is finding UUler~uses for uenr-Trp 7~ l^elings. The negro is being taught, 11 trained and directed Jby psychologists* ?-? ie who have heard voices calling them to the heights. ? it- ST. GEORGE NEW^ if Mr. Howard Davis. Mr. 1.1 payj-j r- and Miss Lemarle Davis, of Wagner spent Sunday wfth Rev. and Mrs J. 'f M. Marshall. >' Messrs Harold and Willie Hey ward it Anty Glover and David Lemon nioy tored to Branehville last Sunday. * They has been going a lot lately. P. Look out girls. > Rev. J. M. Marshall and Mr. 1. \\. day to atend the Good Hope Union ? Rev, '.Marshall?ia- Moderator? of?tn~- - ^ Union ahd Deacon Windham repivi contort no.wl K .n . n 1 i I mvwu ?/ * nuiru. ^ Prof.' and Mrs. J. 12. lo.y'oi j?i?cl " little Cnth' rine. Allen spent Thanks, giving out of tjpwn. . 1 " Thanksgiving Day. was quietly ob=?7 ? " served Here,f It was generally, ob- ' h. served. r.* . , . . ' I ' '* Mr. I. J. DaViV-nftd Mr. D.'j? Marshall motored to Branchville Sunday. r Mrs. Texas Griffen is spending a &*= few-days hete;-she ts fronvNdw-York City. ' _ _ p Mrs.-Bearlie-Xy ns left for her hony-?? *' Sunda" after sn?nding some timy u with her relatives. Miss "Mamie Rhette and Mrs. Jo-> s Miss Rhette was visiting her mothe ~ ,e Mrs;?Maud?Rliulle. ? ?Mrs. Bernese D. Schuvler and Miss. . Jessie Hollins left last Sunday fc New York Ch" after Spending some time with relatives.' u Mrs. Fred Haynes. of Conev' Island N. Y., was here last week 'attending , the'Tun'eral"of Irt'i-aunt Mrs. Rachel Pooser. -She' subscribed for the Palmetto Leader for which we thank her very much. Mrs. Rachel Pooser, died at her * ; home last week. Mrs.. fooser, was a ,! member nf the church?and?-lived a? christian life. She leaves to mourn. *;. 1 her loss a husband,-Mr. Peter Poose * i and a daughter. '. . . ' ' { I '* ">r> of ,v>ueh interest was play I ed here last Friday between St. Geor^ J ge "Flying Eagles" and Wilson Hi 01 t r lurence. i ne game was tie to a u score of 6-6. ^trs. Mamie J. Hut son is on the s sick list.We hope for her a speedy ' recovery. ' . . ? jr ? " 1 Promptly at 11:00 o'clock Rev. ,i. - ' _ P. Washington, pastor of "Bethel A7 - AI. K.^ Church. mounted the rostrum and after devotional exercises preached an iu^nirational sermon from Cor. s 10 Chap. 13 Verse, subject "Christian r Steadfastness." >V The weather was ideal after a severe cold week and a goo'd ?many T church goers were prcscrrt at'the r services at various churches Sunday r, Sunday night, Rev. Washington a- ' - gain delivered a very touching mess sage from Psalms 40: 17 verse, sub- , _ '' ject "Alan's Place in the Universe." - Brother L. V. Mcbaniel of Sellers was a pulpit-visitor Sunday night. if Mr. P. B. Means is improving slows iv. _ ' e Miss Susie Wiliams. .one of our home on Hampton St. e Mr. Roosevelt Jones left Monday to take up his work at Sandford, N C., Mr. Jones was called home on ac count of the denth of his father. f Thursday night, the home of Dr e and Mrs? . H. Garrett was thrown e open to a number of their friends for a Thanksgiving Party. After a .. number, of game* of wtiist were played. The hostess assisted'by Mrs.-M. t--Br?llartr,m-~mid Mastei??ft:?Jit," served delicious oysterstew and ie" t cream and pumpkin pie. o Misses Mary and Katie Ellison, n delightfully entertained the willing worrkers club, Wednesday afternoon . After business was over the hostess n served jills, cream and cake e Mrs. Roth Ellebe was hostess to the .9 t~ lleln-'"- Aid Club, Monda" afternoon The President being absent; JMrs. E. n J. Wright, presided. Helpful remarks o were made by Rev. Washington and ^ o others; after^iyVftah roll was ~ called" y and member responded'with a bibleq verse. Mrs. Ellebe assisted by Mis; o "Minnie .Tones served chicken salad, ?j saltines, coffee and cake. s Messrs John McLeod and Chamber ? Birch left Friday"Tor. a njotor trip to it. Trenton, N. J. r 1 * r ^ IJ>11 i?'? s I.KES V i U~K~~KT:WS n e Miss Faul'ne Miles wai the miost. ?__a? Miss vc?Ca.-y of?.fri ili lo" 9 , V " Sarah L. Qtmttleb~uni spevl 1 Thanksgi v'*hg'~w iFnrel.'sti'-'es in Co ' lumbia. " Messrs Mi I on Gre^g, V.*'gfal' rh?yd e Prof, and Mrs. I. 'f. W. Mi" s," atI tended the "l?one<!i<t-Ail p game or r Thanksgiyinv;. ^ Miss Bennye Dean, spent Thnksgiving at her Alma Mater, Bettis Academy. The Old Folks Feast was a grand affair. Mr, C. T. Foster of Colum-_ lo bia was the speaker for the occasion , His discourse was very rich, subject e "The Three Units." The rest of the evening was spent in feasting oil ~ good eats Prof, and MrgrTr J. Stat ' livan and Miss E. Byrd witness this y affair. . ^ ?Prof. J. T^W?Mlms^waa^k <j tn the bed-side of" bis father, Mr. si. B" , Mims; we are glad to .report that he is improving nicelv. I , e 1. _ 1 v ^ ? SUBSCRIBE FOR AND READ r' THE PALMETTO LEADER