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E: : .... Page Four ~ ^ ^? tShe palmei: / PUBLISHED ._-431o Assembly Street GEO. 11. HAMPIN fcntered at the Post Oiiice at Columbia, Act of Congress. SLBSCKll One Year i--.- >?$-.00 --Six ALantlis. . ? L-p FOREIGN ADVERT . , W. U. Z1FF CO., COS Dearboi 'Official''Advertisements afvthe rate alio I he Leader will publish brief and ratic ' Teres!"wft.NrT tnors and are trot of a defamatory will' not. be noticed? Rejected manu " ~~ T REM ITT. checks, Drafts and Postal or Express ^ to tne order of the Palmetto Leauer nTX FREDERlClT~':7rT^ '** u. W. BAUMGAKDNER Communications intended for the curren reach the editorial desk of the Pai of each week. City news, locals, p aay night. v' Business and Edit "TolV-MRIA. s. sat w~'?' - 1 ?r" ' ? j A BISHOP'S s Last Sunday after his sermon ; dy 0. Ransom 'made a^suggestn n much towards the enhancement o ' . ' rhis city and throughout our Sta i forum he organized in Columbi _ '-arid formulating some'definite po ;ult ural and political phases of o That the Bishop was not merel; ply demonstrated by his record o .ropolita.il cities where he has liv< ing Bethel in New York he was ment of civic and political.rights Charles Street in Boston his reco +-. in Chicago he organized the fir si ganized among Negroes in this c Bishop Ransom is the kind of c n the sky when you die" is alrig A'hose taste is known is mundane If the many clubs and straigh their aid a_ forum fraught with Jrganized at the suggestion of E ? J OS I AH MOKSi: If thereJsjtnv..man in these I n turn out to hear "en masse" wh fs Dr. Josiah Morse,- of the.depar oplty in the University of South ( ' = a brilliant and-forceful" speaker, i - forcefulness that impels one to li V-i i o e i nno vi t v 1 Tlirt rtio n. i i l o oil 11 1*1 QltlWl I ? ' v 1 1 I C4. I 1 t> It ?"l I ' he goes! "One does not have totgb to a ; Morse talk to glean the impressi has to read some of his scholarly tides in the,State that weigh p sionately am 1 in thplfghTTrfsct Dr. Morse has on. the tiring. twin evils of oppression and dis and we ha/.ard the gtn'ss that li " long time t<> gome; and when he will be* much better for his havi wounds. This man C in speak at Ihe, j ~.noon for the Y. M. C. A,, and Mrs. .Ynnie R< ITd AYest on. who is< to heighten 'lie ruhural leanings ?he nece5o=aTy~to runrrhousands noon at -ladO d'elock. ' I)r. Morse ami his problefns. - TH K HARMO We were .partieularly 'interesle< Awards*that were"recently anno to note^ the trend followed by tin courage divera movements by the those whom they consider groat en The Harmon FrMihdation reeon " . ward consists of a..gold medal a small when compared with the ! mong-ottr group who may not at fhe wiiinox this y.-.-n- uiv: Hall .b iusiness: James Langston Hugh ^amnholl, aeririilt ore : Charles S A. Hunt, education: Henry- C. Ah Three of these awards are of up . son is a ?>n of the late Rev. \V. I Allen University in this, city ea Many are the Columbia bovs and fact that once they ran the seal mon Award winner for creative arranged a .collect ion of spiritua "The Green Pastures" cd'nducteo has served to brinp.him more int - that Hall Johnson's arranpemon used by his. choir,, under his dire* the artistically cc-alive. marvels lonp time bet h t he conductor o "Hall Johnson Choir." Colombo Lahgstcn Hwphes who was ju lege has published three books, novel. His books of poems are "Clothes To The Jew." Mr. ifupl >*? lid example of the achievement i ? - Tire-award in c I n eat ion wli i"( h /alley Georgia is- of especial sip T t r i" ? * * * ~ lenry nuril WHO roc^IVen ID* ^pi: eant achievement of-any Amoric vork that the Harmon Award w ;e.v Is deserving of any medal 01 or his. significant work in or^i jroes. The Harmon Foundation -hat merit universal approval. I ' V- V | m ?. 1 ; to Ceafigr ~ 1 WEEKLY , Columbia, S. C. DN, Publisher. _ I S.~ CM as. second class matter by an HONS * ' Three Months I ! .75 1 Single Copy -05 1SING AGENCY rn St., Chicago, 111. wed by law. , jnal letters on subjets of general innature. AnonytnouT comniuiVic'a t i(5fi1T iscripts w ill not be returned. \NCES loney Orders should be 'made payable ?Editor. I Acting Editor it issue must be very brief,, and should metio Leader not later than 'Tuesday trsonals and social news, by Wednesorial Phoi\e 4523 CTTUWY!^^ I (KiKSTiON. :tt Bethel Church, Bishop Reverwlvich if it?is heeded will mean ? our status as human beings in te. The Bishop suggested that a for the purpose of discussing licies along the lines of ethical, ur life. r talking through his hat is am--. f achievement in the many meL'd and pastured. While pastoiva moving spirit in the proc'urefer his people, while laboring at rd \va?r no less significant; while t Institutional Church to be or-; bun try. lerjryrnnn who believes thai "pie~j hi ; l,ut thai the only kind of pie . pie. - J t thinkers of Columbia will lend good to our community may be ishop Ransom. AT RKNr.DK'T . , ited States whom Negroes should o.never he- is to speak, that man tnie.nt of Psychology and Philos'arolina. . Alt hough I)r. Morse is sten to him again and again: but nply radiates sincerity wherever segregated place and boa"r .losiah on that he is sincere. One only ( magazine articles. or_those arroblems of race.and life dispaspntT rather, t hair iisemtnt-scienriv" 11 lie I'.'t' a long time iluln ing t lie crimination .011 account of race. to will vet ho found there for a" leaves the firing lino the world* ng tired his shots and borne his Renedict e-hanel tomorrow after-. \V. C. A. in 'Hiis. indefa't igable epmmuni.tw worker 'vcr on the alert doing something of her fnllnw citizens. It shunldwas novm; one to disappoint. His. N AWARDS. 1 in the accounts of the Harmon unced.* It is always interesting rise foundations.that seek to en offering of prizes and medals to t along certain lines of endeavor, tjv gave seven awards. The and a SUM) honorariumL-This is s'obe.l prize hut" there are few aall times find 1?400.qui'te useful.' ilinson. Music; Aljion I.. Hnlstw. es. literature; Thomas Monroe Dowell. religion. : ;? usual interest to us.?r-HalJ John). Johnson who was president of rly during the present century. ... 4l. :.i * L. * ? iumiu? inne priue hi irti*! i s under t he tutelage of a Harurk in music. Hall Johnson has Is and has since the opening of I liis famous choir, which work 0 the calciirm light. Critics say it* of spirituals and the tempo' tion in singing them are among j of <iui' age Johnson ha* for a f a famous choir known as the' 1 is proud of JHall. ,st recently graduated from coltwo hooks of--his poems and ,one "The Weary Blues" and "Fine "I no ic o t'nn r\ tr m n >-? A r? 1 / :%-? IV.' ?% ,? ill (X11 (lull tl ronth mav- hct^ out for itself.troos t fr Tfrnr^A-.rTTun^ wt" Fort nifioaneo hocause in 1020 it. was ngarn Medal for tbe most signifi an Negro for the same piece of as given." Of course Albon TTol~honor that might be conceived mixing cooperatives among N(5. we think, has made selections j .. i Tin; PALME!*] BETWEEN THE ?=?fcfNESBY CORDON B. HANCOCK Treat Conference on Unemployment At the Hamilton Hotel," Washing.011. .A great gathering of expert .eunomists and religious leaders from til parts, of the country. A grave Uiuuspliere pervades tFie whole setting. Jtws, Catholics, Protestants, Negroes and Anglo Saxons. A few Asiatics here ana there. Everybody wears a look o"i seriousness as the opening hour arrives at two on the after mum of the . 26th. The stabiii .al ion "of . 111|flo5ivtf?it""at'-the-opw^ ing topic antrthere was deep silence as .Mr. Smith of the great Fi let-are Corporation <?f Boston arose to ad dress the audience from the subject, "What the employer can do to stabilize employment." He said that creasing in-thi3 coup*'? and that of the three types of unemployment, seasonal. technological, and cyclical, he-seasonal is the most difficult to handle, lie thought that planning far ahead would help the situation and thought that some form of vocational training would help the unemployment resulting from technological development. Mr. Moehler of Cin-tdumai-tuld. "What the ^tlunicipalities od scheme -of' organization and pointed id bow unemployment had been 1 oduc-ed "and eared fur in-_siich_cities its?Ciueinnali, Rochester, Cleveland and Indianapolis. Mr.- Loifur Mag-mrssou of. tiie International? .I.alxu JU'ici spoke on the international a-ptct.s. itL.thc_pr-Qb.Lcm of unemployment and pointed out that every firstt-ale nation had its appropriate unemploymen problem. He said that only by planning a world economy instead of national. economy, at u country, could the-incidence of unemployment .no reduced. One of the most engaging lectures of the conference was delivered by Will am T*. Fostr of thj great l'ollak Foundation .of Newton, .Massachusetts. He pointed out that tlu-re ha-. been within recent years a relative decrease in wages a-, in anting Jo Sb.OUO.OOO.OOO and said tp .t Hur Tfuest IWrr- was not a matter of moral but of mimL He felt that ingenious minds could settle the problem and that-these minds had not already been engaged was a great surprise. His confidence was based up n the possibilities pf the humat; . mind to solve problems. Wages and Hour >< discussed bv Mr. Frev of thy American Federation of Laboi and be curtly diagnosed tjie present 11.ci nnniiir >1. ni l ss.ii.in as due t.> the lark I of balance between pro (its and wages aftfi- the economic doctrines-of--Karl, i Marx and Hudson. He further contended that"-with ut.Hi more equitable ( disti ibution of the . national income -there was nothing lo' indicate that -Hie C' imtry-TTTTd tlieTT(7iT^vouTt^ooir n i o\er! - .Mr. Froo's address wal \ cifuibtisly applauded and from ull i in I nations tin audence was in svmf patliy with the wage-earners. ticorge >oiile, 1-alitoi' Til" The Nca Kepublie brought .forward the assertion that there .were foil?*fundamental -nrrd??1.--? the world again t u pi- sjierity nameiy. materials,- machi nt---. mom-v- -and menr -He.-held 111111 tii(1 ;irti'ci'!t liopi co ion was euuse.d by certain monetary matter. I)r. AJbhn It. Commons, world-famed economist . i tiie I'nivmsity of Wiscon i n advocated unemployment insuranee with great intellectual acute iiA.-.-*. *11 <i uiiu u i ui uiitiiipd^aiuucu manner lie drove home to the hem ts and'-iiea<!s dt his hearers the ease 01 iiHjoijilnyiiten; insurance. * After nine "Ti""'ur.< "f rtTiT"lT;"Y)'do.-t 'kind of think jig mi < ne uf the most ?v.xing questTiTiTT -known ^ to .our tnilu-V'Ud civi-: iit'ti.?LuujL?hits ii"t?bven/ on."snot-ch"'and orat- rv would li.- :w mil ; of" place in this conclave as a manuscript would he at a Georgia camp | meet itig. Vvften" white men buckle hthomselyes down to. problem solving I they do not orate; they think and stimulate th.',ught and not feelings. They make m- attempt to "carry the Towd" hut ii" there i$ a thought in tiu neighborhood, they carry .that! 'From the way "they, seem to take i charge of things their methods conttv.i-nd tliehisclves to thoughtful men. N'egroi haw oratyl entirely too mur!i ami t ?i !o. g! 'We need fewer orators and mf re thinkers. This world, is run with thought, and not with oiatu?\\ and if the present depres si on. does no pvuv than convince some of our drnxirrs that what the Negro lm\e served a heavenly pyi'posv. The -Xngm en? "ciury the ei'owd'fT>tlt the white man carrie*- the pocket-book and usually the crowd comes on later, leaving oratory preferring a menu ard instead.! ? L ()ne._?\l)ii, Kdgerton suggested that the world turn to Clod and take the Bible rid The Constitution as blue pi li t: for building a better wot Id t 4'r'Hii the w ay the tT-wf-war a ppalvt'tly am used, it did nottak.* che uggestion' seriously. But even so is it With-many who claim to be serious it- matter? moral and religious, they !;.k< certain parts of the SehipCnes -< > ionsly?but other parts "they treat witi. indidei'rare. They are lung, of liue hut short-of charity of the gold-, t r rule variety. An array of speak/ : with Senator Wagner of Nov Turk h ading evaluated -the public Works and c nstiiiotion nrmrrnms From all indications these programs were good as. far as they go, but there were overwhelming evidences .meeting el sed with the entire delegation totaling three' hundred participating in a dinner at which was discussed as a climax to the two-day conference The Moral and Ethical Implications?of?Industrial?Developt merit of the Nations and tbe problems arising. The meeting was one of paramount importance and was permeated throughout with a gravity ro leader ? of interest that this time j'of* depresI sion demands.' At luncheon the Negro and his plight was discussed of ftilemployme'nt fall most heavily on the Negro. This writer "insisted that there was a color "factor that required "special attention" and the committee for the most part concur- . red, after renorts from widely diverse sections had been heard. A summary of the conference would be something approximating the following: - i ~tr The present plan? of relieving :1 by carryip" out building programs on. public works is hardly "a drop in the bucket" in the face of such enormous '1 problem. 2. Jhere is little reason to be- 1 lievc mat tnc nresent depression will "stran rfttt.-' Ohc-~ftfr the outstanding 3 impressions of the conference was that it will take a long time to bring the nation to anything like ts hereto- 1 fore normal industrial status. 3. TlW- JJegrcriS' getting the worst of^ a bad situation. Without excep tion Ifn??proportion?of unemployed far in excess of his proportion of the 1 population. In dne city-he~is only ten per cent of the population -bui-is more J than 50 per cent of the unemployed. 4.There can, be no permanent relief until wages form u larger proportion of our national income. Faulty dis tribution the source of our economic ills.: o ' . < 5. Unemployment insurthrce as -tt- ~ POINTED POINTS?= George A. Singleton - * : ? The weekly text: Good'words shall 1 gain you honor in the market-place. | Good deeds shall gain you friends I among men. Las-tse.- . tu ivi-i-'- thot: I never could be- ! lieve that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden". i Rumbold 'when on the scaffold.) Keep your eyes on Liberia, Your , minister to that country has had his ] salary incrcast from five thousand to ten thousand dollars. This will allow him to live as a minister ought. Tn?the meantime?a?recent authori- tative report reveals the fact that i slavery exists in the country who..e name signifies freedom.- . Don't get workt up about it boepuse .slavery exists right here i:i you- own country. Slavery?of economic, serfi dom and dark ienorame. On the | other hand Liberia has the advantage ] of being noil-lynching. Lynching i scents 10 he a eoncomitan' M tJhTistian civilisation. Why not when Jej sus went the way of the cross? In an issue of the Columbia Record, Jan. 29, the leading headline runs: i "Mob lynches white man for killing) till 111 funiilf killed by-white Nordiesv?On -1 htr-f rorHrpage of the same paper one .may also j r oad:-.J'Thr ee South Carolinians a warded Carnegie Hero-Medals; One L-j' Negro." 'r* -th'om wo-are risir- " All lynching is not for rape and all I crimes are not committed by nun- j Nordics. According to an Associated Negro I Press di?pntch Dewey R. Jones, edi- ] torial writer for the Chicago Del'en- | dor has been granted a scholarship i bv the Rosenwald Fund which will ! enable him to oursue studies in journ- I writer Congratulates his fine friend. ] it should not l^e difficult for Chieagoans to <*ef on the Fund, sinc^the, I - '' ' ' ' after your end i of Mr. Rosenwald's interests lives ' in the "Windy City." Sneaking?about?Fcllowshins and - j Scholarships one is reminded pleasj antly of those ''competitive ^scholarj ships" offered?veiii'ly-' -by the L'ebuo j ed and has failed to discover where (the conmetition comes in. If the ar-. plicant has a J"pull" he may be selecl| ed but the League Fellowships are hot awarded on the basis of competition, "and you nw^ lay to that.'.' Dewey_ls worthy- and we are sure-he ' yvill make good, even in Columbia. Journalism must not be taught in | Michigan where he was graduated I some years ago. r | South Carolinians take notice that i the Harmon Award for Music has j been reccntlv given to Hall Johnson, who arranged the music for "The Green Pastures," a play \y>ieh is-tak^f ing Broadway by storm. >Johnson has also publisht a book of songs. It "was advertised a few weeks ago in | the Book Section of the New York ] Times. In addition to urrangirtg the j songs and music for i"The.<xreen | ginal songs; "Hail the King of Babylon," and "Hallelujah, King Jesus." Lets give-him a big hand,. | The Pittsburg Courier, reporter, ' wnu preparea an arucie last weeK on the Harmon Award Fellows needs 'to j be informed that Hall Johnson is al-j so a product of Allan University. He attended the college when his father, the late ?>r. W. D.* Johnson, j was President. "The writer reme;.,ers how Hall Johnssn, labored at his music daily from morn until night. Now he has made good with "the big time."?Btimewsbapef reporters 1 are not omniscient. Professor John R. Hawkins, Mrs. L. M. Hughes and party, had a.very narrow escano from death a few days ago when the professor's automobile refused to mote across the railroad j track near Petersburg, Virginia. A fast train approacht and tbe occu- j pants nao presence M iawa to spring.. from the car which the train completely demolisht. Professor Hawkins' is Financial Secretary of the A. _M. : F>. Church, "bank president and lead J in** layman. Mrs. Hughes is President of the W. H. and F. .Missionary. | Societ" which meets -in Columbia sometime in June. Dr. S. S. Morris, Nashville, Tenn., j was seen in Columbia a few days ago. he was the house ~uest of Bishop and Mrs. Reverdy C. Ransom at the Kpis copal Residence. Dr. Morris is Sec retarv .o^the Alien Cbrlstiun-Endcavor League of his church. 1 Ie ^ ha* just returned from an extended :vtidt to Berlin, Munich, Parisf Rome and several European "cities'. In Berlin he attended the World Conference of Christian Endeavor. Dr. Morris ad- j dresst the students at Allen Univer sity and u>sisU*d the lasi nght . 1 the "Week ol' iVayer." lake many he is being urged for election to the episeopaey in Hli i^Svortlty. The Bronzeman mr^'izine for February carries o.i its "Bronze\ Beauties" page lovely photographs cy Mrs S. R. Green, wife of the nnpuiur and eflfici.'ni Superintendent of the Good Samaritan Hospital, "and Treasurer Garrisen, teacher n the city svslen. nf srh r>u o?vi cm.,a.. 11:1... the Waverly .School.: She is' a. college graduate fpoi?rBenedict College, minister to that country has had this and daughter of Professor and Mr-. h if A. .Myers. X previous issuf of th? Bronzunian -carried a picture, of Mrs. Willie Johnson, President of the. -Culture--Ckihi?: The writer listened to two excellent sermons last .'Sunday morning. The first was preacht. by Rev.erdy. C. Ranioti^at Bethel-A. M. E. Church in the morning, and the second was delivered by Harry Emerson Kosdick in New York City.?The former talkt about "Walking With Oaf."-and the latter about "Trust-in Clod." Strange coincid<?Jpl sequence. Tiie>e two men represent the flower of the Amerifnr pulpii. , '* *" - >?: "THE l.ONtihlT* AEC;MI)ES AT TEN!) SCHOOL THE WORSE OKl' l THEY AKEf To Tlie Editor, The Palmetto Leader. Pernjit-me space in the c dtunns oi | your very valuable paper to commend you for printing, on the front page j of The Palmetto Leader, .the .salient' pdints in Dr. Wo.cdson's address- to the race, during Negro History week. This article should bp published on the fiont page of -.all Negro new.-pa pers, and eonspiciously displayed in all Negro magazines. It would not. be a bad thing to have it printed .in pamphlet form and distributee i? the race throughout the country. Of course Prof. .Woodson .did it I RTSan to'say that "the longer-ai! .Negroes attend school, the \v i:;sc eif they are;" he simply meant, "the longer most Atgroes- remain i t I, tinworse olF they and tluir raei? an," for this is "truly true" of !>';>?-t o-f us! I trust we will all read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the truth of the statements of this race-conscious his- j torian and devoted leader :iii)nnr us The case of the Negro Ph. D., tit Howard University, istypienl of .air" so-called?"most?learned."??"cduen ted class." Prof. WoodsJn is right! we are heing educated ~awnv front our race. \\U Ul'l- Hl'lHtf Tllllghl I .<1 Ik !h-ve t),d! our race Is really an inferior race: The majori.t-- of the "mo.vl learned" of our group seem to be ashamed ol their riVcttlieyilb not' wa'ift~la~1)e" called Negroes; they wtTThave nothing t*> do_with Negro folk-song. Nigro folk lore or Negro history! Like the Ho ward University Negro Doctor of Philosophy, they feel proud yj' the fact that they "know nothing abou.l the Negro," and that "they did not go to school to waste-their time stu dying the Negro or Nogro history. ' May I be permitted, to quote Dr. \Y ooiison "7rT Ills 1 \ remarks : We should emphasize] the importance of the reconstruction t*S- tin curricula. Both Negroes and' whites' should "ho taught the l'U'mimI truth nt tlie cnilili" ty of-4wui.e^gi j students especial-, status of the people among whom t|ic\J mast live and ninve Tincalled?intelligent?ekess-^cnnimt' ris c higher than those far down. ThV teamr^ers and -rod carriers will get. their rights at the- same time that professional men get theirs." I am in hearty accord with t)r. Woodson's final paraghapii. "in tie scl ;?Is Liu-re >iionhl '.ft.,.' c-ul'-, ses, in Negro History, bitf also iii the osophy of the race. Ikoaw-o these things have never heard of the work's of Es-Sadi, and knows very 1 iIt 1 about the rising Negro writers < f to-day! Negroes of this type, then, do not cooperate with the .churches, they void welfare orgnnizoti ns. ami urprtses. in fact, they gi\e back practically nothing to the tpeople up on whom they live as leeches." \V'hiU: gro 11.story al Winters lnUitute of te A. . M. E. /aon Church, Warn n, Arkansas, i stressed this point, ??ty church, and in the community. Long live Dr. Woodspn! Long live tho- -editor?of?44k--Kn+meCtrr-Lendcrr? and other racc-consci. us leaders! May their tribe increase. Key. K. A. Abbott New Orleans, i.a. a iii.kssim; in disgjilsi: All sickness is not unto death. Sonm years ago, the hand of affliction \va* 4?4d?upon?mri?which?caused?rm-?trr remain two years, three nunths and twenty davs in a hospital. There wore moments during that period, \Vhen dispondency crept in and many tunes thought that my end had come. i\evertneiess my an notion was not unto death. The .greatest blessing.-, that ever I experienced in my life, Wn> durin that trv'v?hmir .if'affile-; tion. By it I was extremely "blessed. I would have .gone astray, said Israel's second King. This art'cle is being written that it might be :i) en-, couragement to the human family at large and to the sons and daughters of Ham in particular, in-this hour of universal economic- depression. The whole world is now siek with the universal disease of economic crisis Saturday, February 7, 1931. nd unemployment. Seemingly, the inhabitants of the world are troubled and confused on every hand, wonder-going d.o be next; but the exercising of faith in the knowledge in <-ds to d?e conceived. There- wtfs once a man who was an invalid, His affliction was not severe enough to keep him in bed and yet he was unable to, do anv kind of physical labor Sitting around in his home from day to day, unable*! to give any support to the home on account of his physical handicap, his wife became tired and impatient, of his condition, as onie wives usually do, said to him, "why iK>t go out and work as othei num. I am tii'od ol" seeing you sitting .;routul." At these wmUs Jie became discouraged andf went out into the --through--whieh?n -4it41?-?-?^ stn aid wo luffed its way. Sitting dowr. n the brink of this stream, whittling a piece*of string, and looking dohm into the .quiet sparkling water, his eyes behold a beautiful high clasj fish.'which he caught and carried it in to the house and his wife cooked it and they both ate it together. The next day he went back to the stream and- saw two -more?of these??fishes : which lie. caught alarried in to the house and-which his wife cooked and they two atq those together as. they -did the one on the day, before. The next day this man went out and investigated and found out that farther siietini wus a lake, and?above it a niifhty waterfall, from ' which these high class fish swimming to fnredge and tumbled Over into the lake. Upon -this discovery the man went to a, died Dollars to get his fish on the market. Having , been successful enough iu. iiey has been made to fe fund his. friend the loan of the ($100) oih- hundred dolars. Continuing this put suit, enough money _was made hy vhich he was. abled to go to. the hos l>iial from which he fully regained lis health and returning bought in that - whole region surrounding thi lake and water fall, from whence he became a millionaire. His physical handicap, by his wfe, which caused chc burden of dispondency to fall heavily upon his heart, were all the di iving needs that rallied him to his . , blessing in disguse. If it had not been for his affliction, his wife pernaps, would not have .spoken diSCoui aging words to him and probably?1m would have never--sat-on-the -brink' ? of that stream where he saw and ob fain blessings 'right under his feet. The lesson in this story may be cooperative to the Nations of the earth in general a n d t o the Negro race in particular, in and under 'lie present crisis. Who knows but that the universal 'depression is a blessnig in disguise, from the unst't't) httiid of Jehovah, ttpdn the nai ions. Was the Egyptian bondage of slavery a blessin" or a curse^' to the Negro race? I leave the question to be answered by the readers of the i' '| * 1 ?Hut God moves-ill ;i_ amcst-cripus AvayT-I4-is wonders-fco-per?'? form; lie plants His footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm. Any-' livng that will remind--the soul of its .-in: . is mercy.?In this jiuriod of ec ? .noiiiic crisis, God is showing His .to rev to the children of men. But do t hey luvuw it??Can? they see it? i? > they realize it? The three years famine in Samaria, war. for the pun i.-hnient of sins, and,the showing of now n; i> aumg ine people back to (iotl. he IVthe kindling of His wrath i?'?Vinst them in utter destruction. tlljl 1 miemph.yment gitiifitimi - i.<1 tile economic depression particu iarly in this country, be the means of -TTPtkimr?Hie? Negro -yet out^of .thia*. i. "f <ii sih",.d""--y *?"d ?^ni- no . U|&oi the' brink of independency and s-elf reliance, and look into the stream ? mrnt and ?ateh the fish of coapera: ion, and racial enterprises, and raci-. -** ?iotrv?!*t,?from which is our only ~ "JHT'0 for the t-conomic thsease depressing us, ai\d bur~only hope for fi naticial prosperity? The wife of the other race is saying to us, "I am tired of seeing you sitting and hanging a-' round, why not go out and work: !>uild, -organize and produce as other _racvs." In this--last statement I-do not mean to overlook or to ignore what has aTready been done by The Negro for it has been stated by -Pres< dent Coolidge. that the progress the Negro, has made in such short time, is t h e marvel and wonder in these modern time?? but only to invite, farther possible development, and -tin* I'tnuiy things that still need to he dope and can be done. May thl3 he an encouragement t(T Palmetto d.eudcr?readers. ?* R, A. Fishbume. . .... * t ! > BROOKLYN. N. Y. NEWS K Xlu^JS.ug?Lr_iS bower given at the? Old Folk's Homo was quite a success l'hoy received 1,154 pounjls. A program was creditably rendered. .Miss Julian Hunter, left Brooklyn to vis.it hor grand-mother at Whitman, S. we hope for hor a happy trip,r _ M iss Rolie Putman. is able to be out again, after undcrgding an opera ti m at .St. .?ohn Hospital. She wish es to thank lier many friends, for - t ''oil?kriuhu'ss to her. ? Mr. and Mrs. A. Wilkshire was the dinner quests of Mr. and William Henry Sunday. ^iss Hattie Fletcher and friend, Miss Irline Holder, "was the Sunday evi nine -''Sts of Mrs. Beatrice Hiil - We had a happy surprise a few weeks ago, Mr. James Anderson and Mjv.Tteft Hunters ai Laurens, S. called to-see us. We were* glad to have-the boys to call and hope they with sortn call again. M'v Mutt Peterson of Chicago, III., I caled Sunday to see Mr. and Mrft. W. TT Simpson, tilso Mr." and Mrs. W. M.? Henry and family. Mr. Willie I.oC Owens snent Saturday night as guest of Mr.-W. B. J Henry. . T . , \