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Bjfr: PUBLISHED WI Awembly Street, O afro ^ Kit Office at Columbia, S. &Lrr * ^ SUBSCRIPTIO HS?L-? ? $2.00 Th B?ir-. 1.26 Shi r FOREIGN ADVERTISI1 ML*L. MFF CO.. 608 Dearbor HwiiMQta At tha rata allowed ^ 1 tUpubliah brief and rational 1 Hfeft tlbay art accompanied by th< B are not a defamatory natui Bat Noticed. Rejected_manuac]u tr Express Mone; Imetto Leader. or the current 1 1*1 desk of the Citynews, local as and Editorial .JVSATXIRDi r takes pleasui ennial Session >ciety of the A irene here June mbia has been Lvrly .short t,im invention of the i will be heldlr it Columbia anc re this distingi irs that there is Htuiuja convention than South Cai South-Garoltna than C Bjridemally, the Secretary of Missic fl. Coit, is a South Carolinian^-; I BPVomen's Missionary Recordei I Bar en t Mite and Women's Hoi ^KlMrs. S. G. Simmons, is _aj Be General Offices in the--A. I Bbia Is the home of Allen Uh fl BfcciionAhat bears the name oi IfcMefcfeodism, Richard Allen. PKrations of the Church in He most beautiful church strir I Metropolitan Behel A. M. E. CI fl|; Sumter streets where some c Bv Carolina has made many lai Buhurch. She has priven birth t H flfl men "who~ever~saT~OYrthc~facr fl flw ifnind are the late Bishops I Btion and founder of Wilberforce P?-hr,rt defender of the riprhts o | Bwteer and Christian gentleman B flaarnmentarian and fearless exe fltaplogian and educator. Thos Bgnua H. Jones, educator i Pishop Rontributions. Rfese facts in mind The Palm Hftbuld not give the impression Ike the aid of the Chamber of Rto the General Conference < I Relina's Capital Gity. Theri Rtake care of that great bod I am?/ Rf/ WHAT THE POST C Rnraveling about in your- own Hpta are many pieces of statu public edifices how often doe: Rhaihcr they be obelisks^ busl nhlflf andykre representative buildings, or pri' RSjMEn Columbia a profitable I ft tt close range the monume Hp^EoTgrounds artd VI el nil Ktaeaningful monuments ir R??onzaIes monument al Rbeeta* If you haven't r< Rpftecommend that such 1 Hopf inscriptions and,mc I Bpphig over for a few Rjtda in memorials. Wh pne inscriptions in the Ipigantic Post Office buil Btodgeen those letters tl Kr had it occured to us t He Which we discerned w &J& Read these word; M# all this or more to : WfcX' a" F'TttBMonffer of sympathy ^ jaMFWOlt of parter! friends Of the lonely ' BpM of fhe scattered fat HfcWargor of the common Hjftion reads: ^BratE-of news and, _knc prtuwant of trade and RAlttOtor of mutual acqus HpNMee and of f t Jwill T B these ideals that It By those ill tiding KB those who rea8$ wft of the scatter v. - ?, ; IEKLY ilum^Ja, S. C. L Publisher. _ . C.,' as second class matter by an >NS rse Months ?$ .75 ~g\? Copy . ?i05-<G AGENCY TT St7> Chicago, m. = by law. , e.ttrra nn mihiect* of general lnt names and addresses of the au? :e. Anonymous communications pts will not be returned. es "- pt^L r Editor _ ....... Acting Editor ssue must be very brief. and Palmetto Leader not later than Is personals and social news, by t ' , Phone 4523 ^Y, JUNE 20, 1931. - - ?- MISSIONARIES. ? e in extending this Special of the Women's Home and .frican Methodist Episcopal 29-Jnly 6. ' It is of unusual chosen for^ this session in ig that will elanse between _ ' General Conference of the fCleveland, Ohio next May. i South Carolina will leave uished body of womon^Gem-no better State in the land rolina and that there is no Columbia. ^;. >ns of the A. M. E. Church, 1 and the Editor-and Manager 1 r, official organ of the Wo- ' ne and Foreign Missionary j resident of South Carolina, i I. E. Connection.' ? iversity, the only school in J fjlie far-sighted founder of There are several edifices ( Columbia and vicinity. ~ A- -t ctures in the' United-States * lurch at the corner of Tay- ! ?f the sessions -will bo held. \ rpre contributions to the A. , :o many of the most distin- i irli of Bishops:?Some who-]-1 )aniel A. Payne, Apostle of M University, Henry M. Tur-'] f man. M- R. Salter, polish- < tufHyerA?4h4ftffl-W. EecketMj ,e who carry on today are IJ *nd Church statesman and ( a the bench and recognized i heso are \nri few of-Sou-bS^ \ etto Leader thinks that Co- , of beinp: too ambitious did h Commerce in extending an h to hold tho 1'936 sessions in | s .is no question about, her 11 y now. and recent and" con-], ann frrmvfh within the next 1 wf.T 1 . . - ? ; 'j 1 FFICE IS. ^ - , M i city ar.d in other places ! 1 ary, and inscriptions of all ! s it occur to, you that those | ts, equestrian or what, have|, of some ideal; and that then vate either, are placed there j j day might'well be spent in |< nts that are to be found on t; y.?Among the mor.t inter- 1 1 Columbia, to our way of t the intersection of Senate Bftd the inscriptions on that1 ? )e done. ' i inuments occured to us re- f V minutes in Washington, a j ile walking North on Mas- \ upper right an|i left-hand ? fling arrested our attention. J lere minrtrerts of times be- * 0 stop long enotjgh to read o as am attempt to tell what ? 1 and judge for yourself if a t-?-?v-? _ - ? and love ' h il '} a i tl mly : tl M'" , . ' . - 1- il o wledge ; : ^ industry j e lintance t! ' ' ' < vt " ' * V Ja not the intention of the g apt sometimes, creep into S ffif editorial whd fail to Use p td family, or as the servant ^ % k* I p r ? ? i -'? . . ?afrvrf.'J . ^ \ > _ WE ARE PR< A release sent out from Atlan the public that on the afternoon that school when the first gradu :areer was sent out. When the time ago that In Atlanta's Unive Morehouse and Spellman College /ersity, graduate and profeaaio Joubting Thomas' who were hug Mlity of such an arrangement. versity has given her first degr tor's degree" To quote, from the release: " ftnhrmhim- S. C-. has gone fhe dis to earn a graduate degree from month terminated its first year degree of Mas lei uf Aits ^a.s con in Howe Memorial Chapel ... in versity faculty, students, and a itors, including President Frederi din}: on. N. Y.. and Butler R. W who was graduated from Atlanta The Palmetto Leader feels nari his parents and Columbia schoo was just a few years ago when Jc College. While at Bendict he ^ Aside from his excellent students ger. He was among that militai so largely responsible for bringir teacher at Benedict, often spok< field. It was in the field of hist for the Master's decree.* Mr. B tude- of Georfiria -Towai'd Seness Leader extends felicitations to A1 this far with her plan, and expr instrumenfeaL in-solving the grad worthy studentr " * __ between the lines -;7 BY COBDON B. HANCOCK "Dr. Macintosh a professor in Yale University was recently denied citi-1 i^nship in1*the United States because tie refused to grant this great coun'-j try the last word as "to wl etner. oV not he should bear arms in case of war. He felt that he could bear arms, if he thought the war a just one; but n case he was not-convinced, of the righteousness of our cause he reserved the right to refuse to bear arms, j Th-s striken us as n most audacious issumptipn en the part of the learned professor. For anv one person to issume that his particular judgment should take precedence of the cortec;ive judgment of a nation, is rash, if.i n fact, it is not positively the acme ! >f bigotry! If Dr. Macintosh is per-.) nitted to accept sonu of our require- j nepts for citizenship and . reject.! Uhprs- then cverv citizen of the | Alintw r All t it 1/lrlfr. TTTTrt 1 .ivc. It might be w. '! for Dr. Mac-j [ntosh and those who espoused his j ?ause to know that this country was j Tought-rmd paid-for and dofo-ded by , >ipn wVig_jlad_ no choice save to make | he supreme sacrifice. ~Yg~have tier-j Tiitted Dr. Macintosh to flaunt a i :1ause so sacred would hav been j national sacrilege and certainly it r jvonld hate been hrr'ahintr. fai'h witjhj rhose who have VJ.ghne West' ifl tit1-" Fense cf Pur grea nation. Those entimenvalists who averred that Dr. i Macintosh has l)een unjustly treated ' Forget that being a profess*, in aj argfc university in no way immunizes j >nc to th?' obligations that have.wade 1 rations g.cat ftr.d civilizations iplenlio. The price paid for this countrr-i nas been to great tc let even great iron say on what terms they Will hi1-, orofesso'ts in a hunTTred Tales or umple 'black men from 'the Mississippi Delta, they should sign ''the dotred line" if they would enjoy the Fniitc of the sacrifices of men who nave laid them down in death on a nundred battlefields to the end that :his country might s: /vive" and wax mighty- r mong the nations of the >arth. What has Keen boug and naid for in an nation's blood cannot ae handea to aliens on te ms they night in caprice prescribe This 1 'ountry is justified in showing Dr. I Macintosh, as it shows the humblest S'egro from Georgia, the dotted line! One More Battle Won News "accounts have it th^t the itatue of Jefferson Davis, has been ' . . \ . daced in Statuary Hall among the treat of the nation. It took two fenerations for Davis to go from Richmond to Washington but h- made t! This writer has oft^n rT-id, that dthough hostilities?in artns ceasedvhen Lee surrendered to .Grant at tppamattox, the South was mot whipled; for it set about the vindication of its cause, which if has done thru ut the civilized world. In spite of " ur national orators who on festive, ccasion aver that the "was Is. fiver nd the nation is reunited,' there are iany evidences that the v/ar. is still n and in almost every battle -the louth emerghs Victorb The South , as brought this nation around to cs way of thinking, and in the last nalysis 1* is a, way of thinking on he Nerrro auestion! Strange to s?v hat the South today is lrfmany \Vays lore lfheral than the North, in that i offers the 'Negro? the economic pportunity that the Nortlr withholds, n spite of the fact that during the ' f thrf North presented nnpnra]lfd conomic opportunities to the Negro, here are evidences that things e ightening at the North so far as he Negro is concerned. The dispro-v ortionhelween unemployment among ha Negroes and whites is much -renter in the North "than lTT the' louth and theTe are evidences that a rolpngati'on of this depression wHI ggravate matters. The South is iterslly deluged witv, application for oaitions by Negroes trained in the"' .. . - J 3UD OF JOE. ta University last weelc informs of June 3 history was madtf~artr ate class of Atlanta University's announcement was made- some reify-plan, which would make of is, and of the then Atlanta Uninal schools, there \vere many ely skeptic |1 as to the practical Now we find that Atlanta Uniee, in course, beyond the bacher rr~ t v. ai J- -i-.m ? hi ?iuocpii ^viexctnaer caney, oi tiHClion of-beinpr the first pprann Allanta University. wTiicTi Ihis^ "as a pradnate institution. The if nvmnrl nr. ATr fioiloy of eyprOISPS the presence of the Atlanta Unilittle proup of distinguished visick C. Ferry of Hamilton Collepe, ilson. of Boston, Massachusetts, * University just 50 years ago." donahly proud of Mr. Baileyvnrnd1-mates feel proud of "Joe," It je was a student here at Benedict as a leader of student activities, ^hip. he was an athlete and a sinnt element of students who were lp about some healthful chanpes M 111 i i - Mr?B -history^ e of his unusual ability in that ory that his work was done for alley's thesis was on "The Attii.bn? J1845-1860." The. Palmetto tianta University on hflvfnp pone esses the belief that, she will be uate srbonl nrnblem for manw n North but must turn South for opportunities of livlihood. Livlihood is an important matter! Some weeks -ngn the A-fciu>?in_ "taking the. 'Gloomy Dean" to task stated that thte war was over. The "Olooiiiv Dean" in i^? ply. expressed doubt as to the warbt being over. If the-Afro will do a little thinking on what is behind such -tri I' i 111'. 11 f .1' ,T?-fr?i.rnn Flni-ic' nntranpn into Statuary Hall, it will be less dogmatic in'its conclusion that the war is over. Strange as it may seem, the hope of the Negro resides not on in the North because it is the North, j but in an awakening in the South that is indicated by a liberalism among "the bp'tter elements of the New South. It might be well f^r us to remember that the South is still winning the -wfHMHid- tte-3eff-iu^un Daviifc-incidgnt<s just one.more evidence of this fact! | Bp Bm N Rev. R. R. Wright, Jr., | Ph.D. j PR. Wright was born in Cutbert, Ga.,1 April 10>, 1878. W*as educated in the public schools of .his state. Haines Institute, Georgia State College (A. B.. and A.*M.,) University of Chicago; (b. ij., and A. *T.,) Unlversity of Pennsylvania, (Ph. D.,) the University of Berlin and the UniHc was converted in 1801 and joined Bethel A. M. E. Church in Augusta, Ga.; was licensed to exhort by Rev. S, D. Roieborough in 1898; li- j censed to preach in 1899 at Savannah, Ga.,' by Rev7 T." N. I). Smith;Joined the Iowa- AnntiaLXonference under Bishop Arnette in 1899. Orrlained deacon in 1000 ni Minneapolis by Bishop Grant. O/dained elder 1901 at Chicago by Bishop Grant. Pa'stored in- Chicago, and wns at time the assistant pastor to Dr. A. Carey who was later^made Bishop. Was the sucressful pastor of Ward A. M. E. Church an. is now the pastor of Jones Tabernacle A. M . E. Church in the city of Philadelphia, Pa. He has been editor of the Christian Recorder, the oldest Negro newspaper in America, for more than yeins. Dr. Wright was all hut elected a bishop in Chicago at the last General Conference and those who keep up with the trend of sent'ment and opinion in the A- M.< E. Church, prediefr him to he Among the first to be elected at the General Conference" in Cleveland, Ohio. w ? Dr. Wright is ripe in experience, having "Had-Contacts, that perhaps, no other man of his age and experience has had. He is one man who hAft & rennet1 Uonal program. " : . l._ ./ ; v "A School of Opp< X Who Wants t i T ? ?? Harbison Agricultural and Industriol Instit X beginning in an eleihentary school at Abbeville, Academy. It was taken over by the Board of W its first president. The name of the school was ' y liv-honor of tho lute Samuel P. Harbison w ^ and the purchasing of lands. ' * After Rev. Amos had rendered many years o: 'TTlO Duanl'uf Missions for Freedmen at this time <? Young, who at that time was pastoring a church jga After President Youne's annoinfmenf rv.- .-k Carolina, a town within a radius of 12 miles of on a tract of about 600 acres of land, the gift < tbm ?r?ction^of three brick bialdiii^ t^ _ adni noqrar" :?? t ^ ' ' " " mmmm m *" ' 1 : 4 ADMINISTRA' rr a During the twenty years that the school has today consists of 4 brfck buildings, all modernly < other houses. . ' v ifie situation is convenient arid beautiful and <* quietness, freedom..and exemption from the influe '7 Agrfculture-has becjr made nne of the main--f< ^ Mr. Harbison the school has come into posession the - science of agriculture but are given the prac 1 tation. - . ? ... Xj While the boy It getting his practical knowlt ,X self in school jind also helping to raise the food tl Plans are now being made to erect a trades y taught by competent instructors. A first class dairy is also included in the plai future. The Farm Home Scheme Plan has been adop are to j?e sold on easy terms, to worthy families. The Institution offers a course in the Englis X in agriculture and a vocational curriculum. X Thoroughness is stressed in all departments. School opens the second Tuesday in Septeml For further information?address* the fire *? ? jp|jiajgjgrafEJgfHjaiHizjHiaiHJajaigiH|gfgraJZJHra^^ rThe Mutual Relief and il of South A Colored Home Com -You Should Insure W RF C AI LSF, 1. It gives employment to Neg 2. It is a Mutual Company, op 3. It over Twenty-five Years ~ 4. It owns it Own Office Build 6. It is Safely managed. 6. It pays its claims promptly. 7. ItTias over 150 Polite and 7 3. It 1? Your Cumpany. The Mutual Relief & Benevolent Association is a PREPARED The Assurances of J?rotectlofi with This Company Ipjl 1. Pays promptly when sick. [HI 3. Has over $40,000 deposited with the State Ine . every policy-holder. 4. Our health, accident, %hd straight Life Polici and Accident t f Iffi tto $10.<Hh weekly benefit Dea^^<mefffsnV^o.W to $500.00. With these pany the benefit oT yoW pStTonage. : MEMBERSHIP WANTED! At least 10,000 this Campaign ends. ^ there is any information-deaired?ln re gar . of our Agents." Help us to make this a preat State Institutio A. W. 8IMK1NS, Pres., Edgefield, S. C. THEODORE R. VO PHONE 7186 ~-- T Oa^rzgrafzjzrzfaizizraEf^ '. ? '*?."* \ - - ' \ . . -7? : "V ' ' ' ' .. '.."ft. r T" T-r ? WW^.I ! .! 11 ' .' f " _.* ~~ j*. * ? " ' ?~? 6 ' .? .? : ~ ? Saturday, June^0, 1931. ? ????? ???? ???< Drtunity For The Boy==r%? o Make Good." . X;?,' 1 1 X.' ute, now located at Irmo, South Carolina, had ita ?* S outh Carolina, in 1886. It was then called Ferguson ?* Missions for'Freedihen With Rev. Thomas H. Amos as????! ch anged-from Ferguson Academy to Harbison A. Col- _ ?8a_??= no donated much, money lor the erection of buildings I . - f ? rh cccptabTTserVlce as president he saw fit to ~ ^ l>f th? m.ntu full iinnt^ the shoulders of Rev. C. M. ^ _ in Rock Hill, South Carolina. ====t! . ' ool was moved to its present location, Irmo, South V Columbia, S. C. The school had its beginning here ?? >f Mr. Harbison. He gave money at this time also for in l'itratioh building, president's home and a power &vt. ' Y ? ? ? 77T f X Y 1'J.UJN iJUILDING it ' " - T% b een at Irmo It has made rapid progress. The plant ;q uipped, three teacher's cottages and a number of X is sufficiently distant fronr^die.dty ^ai^to secure nces.that ordinarily are injurious to student lifs. ia tures of the school. Through- the-generosity of of over 3000 acres of land. Boys are not only taught tical side as well, as much of this land is under cultiV >d ge in farming he is at the same time helping him- jL ia t is required to run the school. . A building where all the leading trades will be properly * X ns for the development of the sch.ool in the near > ted in connection with the college plant. Our lands ^ , h Bible, a course leading to college entrance, a course J . . Y : . f ,er. siJcii^ \ ... , _ . * _ _ y . Si . 1 1 , Benevolenf" Association | / Carolina . L pany For Colored People | ith Your .own Company | r" to men and women g erated by Negroes for Negroes. "? ' C ? * - ?"**??? gl r.,. ? Old. ' . g' V ing. ' .j_ 9 Refined agents. ', - " _ South Carolina Enterprise. FULLY ABLE AND fi . TO PROTECT . . g 2. Pays promptly atf DEATH. ^ t? i. department as a legal reserve for the protection of e > es are the most liberal written in the State. ,Sick E considerations in mind, why not give your home com- G r**'" new Policy-holders ehould be on our Regiater when J js to our Campaign. Call at Home Office or see any ^ n, as it is outs. , / * E ^ - W. H. THOMAS, Vice-Prea., Columbia, 8. C. E UNGBLOOD, CenyrnT Warmer r- rG = '' . 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