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Page Four 3tie Paltr PUBLISH *1310 Assembly ! GEO. H. HAI Imiered si tne^ust Office hi Colu Act of Congress. <? SLUS - Oue Year ? <3.0*; Six Months -- L2< FOREIGN AD\ W. B. ZIFF CO., 608 De ,, Official Advertisements at the rate ihe Leaner will publish brief and terest when they are accompan tnors anu are noi ui a uciania ? ; _ REftl Checks, Drafts and-Postal or Expri to thw order ot the Palmetto L< N. J. EK^uimvICK II. W. BAUMGARDNEK Communications intended for the ct reach"the e'ditorial desk of the of each week. Gitynews, loea day nikht. ' : COLUMBIA, S. C., S ' ~ NOT WI1 Instances mitfht.be multipli made by..those who do not ret ~ deserve that a proph-pt--ix?? home. It has been our conter -is but a fiction and Sn-e-xetH hide behind. The person wh< liarities, discourtesies, sceptic ami-and-one such trifles in hi success of it anywhere else. Think of the South Caroli Carolina and think of those Would those who are success!" How about the failures, won As we write we think of Co tifullv .portrayed bv the Fede Una at Allen University last '^Service/" \\> wondered wl Saxon's mind, and what emol -several episodes of her .usefu soling for one to come into th so lived that one's immediat each other in showing their a The' honors bestowed upon ficient to give encouragement there is honor'to her who is ??- generali<m-even in T>ee-4?wu-l man that the beautiful Saxoi has honored itself in~honor.ii JW* _ HE In our issue of April 25. we with reference to a published 1. America!" a symposium edit in which thirty-three men wb ing thinkers express their vie ?Grattan speaking of the lav; P. 96) says: "Altogether a" intellectual content." The re\ AT -i; I vtit?i i*r.->ivu (lid IlOi _ who contributes to Ihis sym error on the part of a Negr uamo of "t he only ^Nrgrrrtrrr and said so. Last \Veek we were inform' fault, that mention of Mr, S The Charleston Messenger's he sent to us the complete re ; point the review as sent hv Negro contributes to. theldui scnuy.iler. Mr. MchuvIer_ writ preoccupation with sex." We are glad to know tbat-e not so narrow as to discoun fellows, for it is or^ly throug people are to know that rec count of talent. Mr. Didier disavows perso part. We had direct referent in which' he stated that he that no respectable person w< to read it. As we said in a p "1 had previously read your ? considered to be sort harmed t ........ a misunderstanding of 1 Mr. Didier says: "I Jiave ler, nor am I indifferentTo hi virile and fearless as a wri ability to be of Very great s< personally opposed to him. I t most of himself as an instrui "But, I further believe hin laptij vliirnlfw . ..^..1 P wv Jin wi^Jin.y , V"UI icr>,v# Ct 1111 II trionics..M.His theories revolv .tio-not a^rei' wit ' ' to him t'oo.frequently a ^/sees ..... I think that it - through such glasses. I don't " way or that he tan build him: Kive attention to this matter made, but we are more than g of IVlr. Puller's evident mtellei on the part of some papers i obviate many of these misur "0. b In the current number pf made l>y I)r. W. R. B. DuBoii ?Theatre, New York Rit.v-wh' was bestowed On Richard B. of the audience applauded thi critical group who evidently Having read the speech as pr " ^TJrrTmBois sireech- Is an |u .control tbe America!) theatr American theatre refuse dto f it has opposed every effo lettii Waiter a!; [ED WEEKL/Y - , th Street, Columbia, S. C. jn Vl)^ON7 Publisher. ael t : pa tnbia, S. C., as seconu class matter by an -At ? - ? ' ?? - -tol CRIPTIONS ' pr 1 Three Month* f .76 tlu j Single Copy .06 ~nif KRTISINC; AGENCY arborn St., Chicago. 1IL ?f : allowed by taw. gj, rational letters on subjets of general inied by the names and addresses of the au. n itory nature. Anonymous communications . t manuscripts will not be returned!" : tttatNCES" .. . - . ..... . cai ess Money Orders should be made payable eader. ? -= ....... ?-?-- ? : : : ar .. F.ditni Jji Acting Editoi ?U ! : :? 1111 trrent issue musi be very brtcf-j-aod should ' Palmetto Leader not later than Tuesday |je Is, personals and social news, by Wednes- ^ ' .O Ri Kd.tnr.,1 Phnae AS2X - ?H44 _ tri SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1931. j gr< [HOLT HONOR ' "?1 . it efTTbHkeifr^oirt the assertion so often ^ . eive afy the honors' they think they ot. without honor save in his-imrt ition tin large measure that this . ie for thbse who do not succeed to ?( j cannot overcome prejudices, famiism as to his ability, apd a thous- , c s own home is mot likelt .to make a ? ' 77T.?\ _ ~ ~ZZ~ nians who are succeeding In South whom you would consider failure's! , ul here be less successful elsewhere? Id thev- lu> loss unfortunate? ^ lia I). Saxon whose life was^sobeau-. ' ? rated Women's Clubs of South CafoFriday evening in a pageant called j lat thoughts coursed through Mrs. . lions-welled up in her breast as the 1 life were shown! It must"be con- 1 e evening of life conscious of having r~ :e and mediate associates vie with _ npreHatlon of a life of service. Mrs. Saxon during her life are sufto the girls of South Carolina that a faithful servitor of her day and ; i school is named. The Federation lg her. ">"> NOT' . . . hu> fea propounded the query "Did he err?" N'ei review by Roger Didier of "Behold Set ed bv Dr. Samuel D. Schmalhansen o are looked .upon as being outstand- iu-.L ws concerning America. C. Hartley to ik in "The Thinker" (Vol. 3 No. fr weighTv hook both in ounces and in Il's ;iew of the book that we read in The contain the name of the only Negro Af, posium. We thought it a grievous..W ? ' *'sp ed by Mr. Didier that it was not his (,f chuvlers name was not included.in 'can publishing of his review. As proof a view. With reference to the case-in Mr. Didier savs: "Incidentally, one ,1," terriblo picture^- Goorge S. mm es with his customary skill and his'.At ur-members of the fourth estate are t entirely the achievements of our 'uf h the medium of the press that our ha* ognition is given sometimes?on ac- Hal the mil antipathy toward Mr. Schuyler, d been some evidence 5f such on ms e to hisj_.review of "Black No More," me had never read a filthier book, and b>uld want his wife, m'other or sister rivate communication to Mr. Didier: review of 'Black No More' which I kin villi UMlaltniCSs to the author, rather kin the meaning and purpose of satire." i l'lu no personal antipathy to Mr. Schuv- i-^s talent. I believe-him to be stronir, 'am ter and as a thinker. He has-the,mk ;rvice to his race. Instead of being'.'re lave always wanted him to make the-jTtont of service. .''ij i to be almost totally tactless. He 's,u, messe. His-talents lead him to.-hisf--tin/ e around two conditions: economics 'f'b all his theories.?1-think sexap?-TjjV s the proper explanation of evils hei,.^, is wrong for him to see everything f.w> . believe he can help his race i-n that me self into a man with the respect and '. We are sorry that an error was f(\f , lad that it<was not committed by oneler i tua! nualitieatiorrv.* Cireater caution j n editing their news releases would ct"n iderstandings. t(? .WE SAY ' - ma '. - ma The Crisis is published the speech s during*, the cermonies at Mansfield to en the seventeenth Spingarn- -Medal [Na Harrison. The Crisis says: "Most speech, hut theme was a grim and did not like it. What do you say?" uti inted in The Crisis we say "O. K." he irrdictrhent against the forces that^"Ah e. "Not only," says he, "has the for ace the drama of the Negro problem, the rt of the Negro himself ty> find dra- did ? the palmetto atic expression on the stage, d free commonwealth of the si Hools of drama and art are clost at in the Annual Nationwide ra< a black skin may be heard; it i hools at Ponlaineb'leau, suppofl inting, sculpture and architect fierican color line across Krai erated and- even awaited--in ar ivate profit ideal and by cheap freer air of the drama, despite inoply and the intellectual mob, ht which the 1 lack ac'tot lias 1 a foothold on Ri'oadwrty." Dr. DuBois cited the instances ring recognition to the great >gro. Ira Aldridge as the two m d of the delight shown by gov The opjiortunity 'of-honoring I) our own day the only way a No iTatagg waa in the capacity of His speech Remonstrated the e attendant upon every- phase < bute to the race he said' "T1 r hope, and it has helped not thorship as in the deft and su], n!-'dcfdftrt-ascrhtTWril ten "|day m s in its interpretation by Neg ?h and delicate genius of Ric chard Harrison had learned t?i i youth, he might have had ri icertLdrama: for the sting of 1 tie come(Tvf~~hirtt~-k'd him long > d poverty, straight on toward iguage Dr. DuBois decribed 1 ^at ability "has conouered the, b ho have seen The Green Pastu hiirhlv bbishomniK irnrl fit audience and author "had ui n and his race vast well sprinjrs ere are innumerable potent inl-h mice Kill produce and interpret : cordinjr to Dr. DuRois. Mr. Har (| that his tact and tolerant phi > walks without plaint or proti Clod" said the speaker "front dent and unceasine clamor air; beauty, atrain^ this enchainin he sure its cruelty and pnin.iipiditv." I such utterances as hose benefit the utterances^arc riously in need'of many more-t hreatts to make a* statement th fferent ways.. Alhoujrh we hel itfht well have frone to Alhefi.TI oncmic emancipation of the , * -BETWEEN THE ! LINES HV JjOKDON R. H ANCOC K I . 1 A POINT OF ORDER. , c iomc churchmen luivc accused this l nblc servant oT heresy: same whites }i r that he is. "radica l" and some irrOos call- him an '"Uncle?Tom". ( ing that popularity is out of the ( stioiv, he ftn?is it easy to yield t?> 1 ~ temptai top of stating facts as t ,-vces them; and this ho attempts \ do. without very trrcat fear and* . mining, albeit tile l,i>k i> , a thaiik-.i s bile. When \vc took except ion to ; 1 Afro's ".I:ii k Ass Pershing" < ?fi ial, we were. > 1 ci-1-1;ii11 that the ro would turn aiid reud its: in fact -frX-t^'ted?to?be- "swallowed -a-Hvc''^-r had pliMincd to the host. oilj .out lily to try' to mal.o of mi Air ,i >uare meal". The Afro was not. hless and at least showed on sign "hitting helow the belt" and heise of. this, we are going to. explain few thin cvs without rancor and levolence. A . reply to the "Mealy uth" editorial <rives opportunity to . vo homo some points'tiiat may h vice tn . ?tirr'H't?ajTv'"iif>'heildfcit;'c'iliV>d ro made niUeh of my being l>orii in little .South Care.Una town by thV ne of Ninety?Six, and seeiue ! to d in that fac t a complete refut-'tioii my argument; Mat the Negro race i no'thng to gain by'calling "names". I ties iTaveTi way of not raring where y artv-borti, a fid as a baby, I did e much attention to such matters, 'Jl.AVi.U- J,rg,u.duii, Or. t.U V.l.i 1. Lily; ' st babies born, it did hot occur to j that where one wys burn was near- ? as important, as who w?.s born i re J Then too, Hishup .Turner was I n in an oXr-cart in South Carolina i] 1 often said. "11 is better to be a'j g among does than a lii.r- anion-',j %r<* !i 1V1I in \t ki-iiTTT i7TFf (! > ? rt 'oirragement t ? those born in- small j l .'Ms. The A t'n> was tie . I'irsi to j se the <|Uf ti<>M of hirth-j dace. t? 1 I \vi?h to say that until babies ( e a hand in choosing where they < to Ik hoi'M, I ;rm goi'-r to take!, de in. hying horn-'in <piiet . N inty- . " !1 "Ire" A fro further-laments, that myt ech in Baltimore two years ago J1 ned a perfectly fine w nimencement L r> something approaching a fi neral. ? is I du know, <T did nvy host to make J so votuTcr gvnduhUVs ~?T<'> 'Tt.rnr SP- "1 us thinking on the problems con- t ftt-ing them, ff they looked for | to "jolly them",- they. were mis- | en. J have long since fount! out | t ^jollification" has -its Ivmitsamj, ricaling a from the?throes j ; untoward circumstances. This writ-s j does not believe with the Afro that ? (f to tile Negro 'ace is going to j iu- through laughter! It is going j take a tremendous amount .of fun , enable the Negro to "laugh" his y out of this social and economic . x.e. The plutocrats' with full stoehs and pocket books can possible link prosperity", hut JV>t so with . poor devilsMwho live from hand, mouth. The Afro thinks t.Kut, the gro can "laugh" social .justice, but loubt it. Only a few Negroes anemptin,"; to "laugh" their Way from momic slavery to freedom. When :le Ghandi sees the plight.of India, does not get "ticked"; when thelerican Colonists fatced vthe fight in '.ependence and revolted against i impositions of George III they not stage a "jollification meeting"; > ) LEADER It is not enough, in this great *' >irit of man, that most training 1 :d to black folk; it isjiot enough 'J s not.enough that the American ; x led by the leaders in American T lire, have sought to extern! the'? nee?all this perhaps' must hey and smug, convention. But in > its all too evident pandering to? , it is astonishing to realize, the ind to gain the merest shadow ^ . : ^ ^ of early 19th Century Europe T1 Jewess, Rachel, and the great Jj, itstanding leaders of the stage; () ernment's and arts and sciences v gro might appear on the Ameri- n a minstrek?? ip ' ~ i? foibles and inconsistencies that H' Green Pastures" has helped so much in form and wtord and itJe mtn-vpl of its, interpretation. . ay be, the secret ofita triumph ro actors, and above all in the hard Berry Harrison . . . Tf ' dance clog and make faces in ches now. But his demand for raged.v and tjie-lvigh htTmor~~df Hears-"11lee~to face with hunger careless neglect." In beautiful iow Mr. Harrison through his ias and misgivings of all those res and had previously thought 1. The crux of the speech was lleashed and unbound in Harri of dramatic materials and that groat nfloi'yjvho if g-ivom tho audi drama as no age has knownV risonis in hischarm of court cay. Isophy are greatly to he envied, ist even in.his hurt; "while I. . earth and high Heaven with inlinst this throttling of the Art g of the human spirit?against-, hut even more against its.cross Iris in the nre?enee of those for made he tactless: then we.are actios:; loader?-.," It is hut. wante at n^y.Jie interpreted in several lieye t hat JJie Springarn Medal nlsey for his contribution to the I'gro. "avo" are entirely: in accord cch. a :? vhen MeSweeney .saw tin- plight <>f rcluml In* (iiil not go in for fun?mak- c ng hi* fast fit; WhcTT "MosCS srw the fflicati'on 'of his people in Egypt, he o lid not "crack his side" laughing; the *? i*v. s could not sing'the soncrs of Zion ^ iave me "tickle" the young Xagro O iraduate. a.ml make him "laugh" soial justice. No Brother Arfm, jolli- o ication is not going to save the Ne- 0 rro. ^ c It is going to take tin hardest kind O >f thinking, and even then, he will in- V illations'that there will he others a 0 rttle gloomy before this depression ^ nils. It is mightfy h-rd to. he jolly ^ vhen line w Pnniri*\*' A (l.u *' Vfro commented upon what I said in p! vply that I ordinarily do not ask op- v >ortunities to speak; but when I a in o nvi'ted, I never ask 'jdvico on what I V tin to say neither do?I lose much sleep Jcondoling Irow well pleased I leave -0 n.v hearers, nor yet do I ask.a.show of n? mi's of?those^-ymiTTg' N>gi iit^' "wtirr =n sJther "feel like eoinmittin.tr -uieide" V han to fate facts. I altvays deliver o yhat message is upon ?y heart. I X lave, long since found out it is better o stick rather closfc to f:.cts th-.n to ry to 'earry the crowd." Neither lave I a wa ' of making; one '-speck to * ivliitrs iiul.a nut her to Negroes^ What- -4 VPV 1 at 1''Allihihia has appeTTrcIE" n the columns of, the Negro pr csx11 imes without number these five'years. * Moftlrng new, but something: terribly ? ,'ital! The Afro a-veis that the war has icon over sixty years. We have our 4 ioubts - about it, and a casual glance 4 lbout Baltimore the big Jim?Crow ;own, might cause a revi>ion of his war?ending: vie|W. Says theAfro, < 'maybu. onu?anlluow-colored. workers ire jobless, but despite the depression, d* million co'ored people are employ d". This the Afro believes should J 'tickle" the Negro race?only one mil ion Negroes in distress! It is the ? nillion unemplowjed and their suffer- 4 ng that?makeo thin "Bean" glouin.Vi? There is one thing that I learned t ven in little Ninety?Six, Hhat is, 4 t is not good for Negroes to be too 'jolly" when their fellowmen are in * leep distress. The Thtk from Nine- 4 :y-Tsix are serious when six Negroes ire sent to the electric chair at once ; ind when eight cithers are condemmed *, o die together. + In Ninty-?Six the Negroes do not .J augh over such tragic enactment. The ^ \ f 10 evidently would face it tickle- ? iOmeness aind jollification. If l>eing J lorn in a large city unfits a Negro 1 "or being symaithetic toward le>s for- ?; uniite Negroes, then Negro bahes had ^ letter arrange to be horn in Jjttle J ;ownsl No! as long, as there are one * million Negroes suffering a living + loath from unemployment, and while J Negroes are being seM^t<ratt?rr death *> in groups of six and eight, tjiis 'small town" product refuses'to "think t prosperity" and proceed with t.he fun and jollification. If Jesus Christ, would leace the ninety and nine and The slogan tfoopVu by the llaier- ? go after the one lost sheep, Hhis/?tean-~ will -never reconcile himself to the tragic situation by trying to be "fun- ^ ny." Today there is a tribe of Ne thought of their own nor a word <>f encouragement for a public sTT'C'TTnt. but are forever watching---for ??ne ?; thing <?i erit ieiuo, and when thwy ?m, something they runout understand, they proceed to ""correspond" with ^ read after them, I am reminded that ^ once I saw several strange dogs me.ot and they all had long tails save one , little fallow, whose tail had been ^ I fKfc r=i -f? ? - r ^ i lit oft'. Tile other dogs wagged their I iiils but the little dog wat not to be uidone, he wagged his nub! "Nul>- ( lagging"! The AfroJa "mealy- ' nouth"?editor ml strikes?tme?as?a?t pecies of "nub-wagging*'. Aside roin occasional lapses into "nubWif^ 4 ing" the Afro is a good paper. J msmH'VVIMO MISSION NftAVS J St. Phillip A. M. K. Church The Sunday School was in full \ loom. Teacher and pupils were on \ heir jobs ?t-1,1 :.10T Rev. C. C. Mc- 1 [wain announced his subject: "Some- ~i oily4 hath touched me," Luke 8:415. i 'hrh church was on fire and every | ne seemed to have enjoyed the st-r- i ice. At .'1:00 our pastor motored > l> Shaw Mission, 'where we?had a-f1 other good feast, and biKk to St. c hrMfnig SUMMER tStatcAp Columbia, Soi JUNE 13 ? ? 1 JUNE 15 JULY 17-18 ? FIN ('OlIKSFS AKi:OFFKRK1) - * r f?VHI For (he raising and (lie r For tlu1 hiisis on whii li ftn^ A. 11.,' and I?. S. d For fligfT Si liool rredil The District Summer ? Of The Regu "7\ppVcal ion For Admir.rjon Information U i)ii J? GREENVILLE SUJ SECOND EARREST APPROVED RY THE STATE ^ Registration Regius Classes Regin C()l 'RSKS ()1 T Raising of t 1 tonewal of ( ; Registration Eee:'S 1.00 Rn; Cur further mfo ! R. h.'lllCKst Logan MRS. L. L.'^ ' 1 * V . . . . '.titJM. Ai , . (I ret ?? $? < State C & Orangeburg [ announcing sun J The usual strong faculty \vi ? menlary. High Se^nul,?Ann*and 'Prude Teachers; Also S ? Students working fur Degrees C all courses cou [ toward renewai J The improved District" Sun f also he offered. ? Special Advantages: Low ( > ment and Facilities?Exc'ell Healthful. .Recreations in the Plan. - I Dormitories ready for occip V Full information i . r 3 ; iWi A i* A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A AA v 1. OPEN TO THE 1MRC [ HIE, IMIXiIMM w n21 WAS|1IN(; ? - Minute ? J" Curb H ^ ' HARRY ; ; ; ; ;< .9 Saturday, May. 9. 1931. 'hillip. Service. opened at 8:00 /clock* I'rnyer . meeiiivt was coniueled l?y S. M. Felder,. Walter Wiliams and James Carter and the, northers of the church. At 8:45 Bro. T. D. Morant preached Tor uiT TTe u^iouncud as his subject: "Rehhlil T ] tand at the door and knock. Afer the closing of his sermon the mstor opened the doors of the church ?ju* person tame ftteward ami?joined he church i'toih the baptist t'hurch. dr. James Grant. We i mis I confess tint the L'.rd was villi Us. In our Spring Meotinir,. . vhich was conducted bv the ltev. J. McGill "pastor of the A'. M. K. Cion Citureh, who is n por.ptdpreacht, every body enjoyed him. Two K-rson's were 'happily converted; Our lH't'Unir will (. lost" on .May linn, .. \\< ire asking the prayers ojl every true ivlievt'i'?tlml ?tiuiilr?may?forever?be ? on verted-. t-allen]school] iprovpd) ? nth Carolina. tEGISTRATION DAY M CLASSICS BEGIN AL EX AMIN ATIONS roit TIIF. rOI.I.OWINti?- ?OSKS: cru'winy of rerlifiratos cert ilicatos. arc issued tfi'i'iv. School Will Be" A Part ilar Session Should IV made Now , n Kcfiiu'sl ^ !. 1). II. SIMS. President A. (i. SMITH. Director , r ~~ i*?- | ?1 VIMLR SC HOOL 5: " n -? ?*r in thk statu 2 ItU \IC1I Ul ' KlllVxTfoV " ^ .Inue Pi ? hiin- S 6 c? i:fvi'i> roll: .. % 'e#"lilicatcA. , V'oil ilicaii's nil S.T.'iO?SI.(Ml Per Week. If! I'lniiTTvuV write: ~ )N. DlllMCToil .. : v Street , . . . If! M-IWET.I.. REGISTRAR I;! TT+C1 ..sun .'Hi i'i't - . >? n\ i 1 It , S. C.~ " cr >* ollegc | , So, Caro. -jz : 1MER PROGRAM X 11 pondiut (V>ursOi< for IOletill urn!.?I l")iu l'lfonomifi,? uporvisors, Principals and ^ . . ~~! v NT FOR CREDIT % j. OF OETIFIOATEg. imor School jj^ogram wi4!! Y :-'ost>'?Unsurpassed F^'iuip- # cnl tVlvinji: Conditions-Now Spurious Oynlisium % otkttrotC Rates nn (>>M i If en to ^ ? ianiiiLJ.iine.._lX- -1 ? V on Request. VVH ,K1 N&t)N. I'uasidont. > % *> . ' - % ? .. IC _ MAY 11, mi -M1N01E.TIE ? I TON STRIP FT Service y lervin*' ? ? V MURRAY, Prop. % ?? % ?? ?? ! ?? ! ? r~ \ k