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MEET * " uwvi ' 1 ? . . ^ ? VOL. VII.?NO. 48. : iL-?? ..... |*?The Parade of Life" I John "Van CronhhiTe ?a^o:o;?o^o;o<8^co>:wo^c<-oc-c?ooox>3 Hello, Everybody: The world, we are told, is a stage; we are the players . . . living! . . ~' yearning! . . . strivng! . . . No fiction is so interesting the recounting of actual life from day to day .... the loves! . . . the fears! ?? . . . the hatest- r~.~v"the sorrows\ ~ _?the joys!.. ... the intrigues!.. ... Of such is life. Foif a few nio ments each weekrrjers peek behind J the headlines oi^Sne press ~Let's witness the PARADE OF LIFE! 1 * * d* The press headlines seldom tell the entire history. - They, tell so.' much, and yet, they- tell-so^ iit-tte d . .. Just today we glanced at a head- j line: "GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE thH , LEAP?F^ROM JBUILDING." A part of tm? parade of life, but oh, the stpry that was probably behind that short headline. . < * * * The band' starts *up! The .parade begins! America bids farewell , to Italy's Grandi! We don't know just what Musso-1 lini's right hand man accomplished j here in America but, believe you me, , he certainly is a gif-ted press agent, i During hi? short visit to America Grandi had his name all over the front pages pf the American Press. Up in Washington they say Hoover) alid Grandi got together on many i questions. Perhaps so. We don't know. But we do know th'aTfc^ certainly did make.the Mussolinized Italy more popular over here. _ * ; < ' * k . . One thing that particularly- impressed us about Grandi was his first class nerve. All official Ameri- j ca was on edge for fear some airtiFacist would attm3c the distinguished visitor. Grandi went where he would and quietly accepted the heavy mili? | tary guard that was .given him with- ' out protestations. .Strike up .the1 band! Let's send Grandi back tp his ' native countrv with^aheers! * ** j The parade . passes on! Chicago comes to the reviewing stand! In the windy city we discover that there 7s an honset-to-goodness 110 BO COLLEGE. They tell us , that degrees are awarded in panhandling and that (it is possible to get a master's degree in the "art of bumming." This year the college has an ela ? borate program under the presidency of John .MacBeth, recognized king of the hoboes.?Said he in his inaugural address. "The hobo., is ?stu- | dious?so studious he won't let work ] interfere with his studies." Like as not the matriculation will i/e large mis winter. - : _?*? ? ~ -?J Washington?comes?byi?:?:?:?ami we hear a lot of talk between a United States Senator and a Governor concerning who makes the most ^ money. But let's see how it all started. Wr '* Not 'so lpng ago, Pennsylvania's GoverTKTf Pinchot suggested that- See ? rotary of # the Treasury, Andy Mellon, purchase about one million dol-? lars in Pennsylvania's \ "prosperity bonds" to aid unemployment. Secretary Mellon promptly refused. Everything would have been all right : : if?tilings-had stopped there. -? 'Btk Settator Davis, who has no love ?for~Gtrv7 Pmchot, said- 'he- thought -itwould be a swell idea for Pinchot to put a million dollars into the bonds., '. Pinchot came back by suggesting thai both he and Senator Davis make public their income tax returns and make-proportionate donations-to?re lief funds. ; " Davijt didn't' think so much o?_this, L i f 1 iuea dux. tua come back ;with the sug~ v' ' gestion that both Jbe and . Pinchot give, their entire- incomes to relief. All of which -seems to be a lai*ge size argument wi<th two politicians makintr fools of themselves. And, if caBh basis, the unemployed will get some "REAL" money. * * *. The parade of life moves on! St. ? Louis!?Some thirteen years ago a doughboy in the trenches of France stopped two (Herman attacks singlehanded. Finding a damaged machine gun this doughboy quickly repaired it, and, holding his position against a hostile barrage and direct artillery fire, broke two German counter-ktK tacks against the American lines. As a matter of fact, this doughboy was the only "buck private" mentioned by General Perfthing in his Memoirs. But today, this same buck private is appealing to the government for a job. Says he: VAty I ask is the # - privilege of becoming a plain exdoughboy with a job to enable me to make an honest living." , . Ami Arbor, Michigan!-The parade halts whiljB we_witness a most a IE ATI :^M1P AUC 3 I : , . ? . ' COLUMBIA, ? Married Recently ??M r.". \VUliaw Lester flavis, who, before her marriage in August, was Miss Martha Lavinia Scott, attras*-. t i veftniiirfitni' oil M ^ l.-.l; I'l... ..l..... Scott of Columbia. The marriage of' Miss Martha ~trr=~ virria Scott, daughter of Mrs. Julia Thacker Scobtfj of Columbia to Mr. William Lester Davis, of Batesburg, which took place iii August*.will be of much interest to their many friends in these two cities. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were quietly married "in the presence" of a fdw of the close relatives of their families. Mrs. Davis received her high school training in?Greeipsboro, X. C., and did her college work at Benedict college. During the school year 1 t?rU)-:51, Mrs. Davis taught in the publjc school of Batesburg. \ 'Mr. Davis is a resident of (Mali's burg, and is proprietor of one of the principal tailoring establishments of that city. He received his profession al training as a tailor at Hamirton Institute in Virginia. Mr. Davis is a young man of many fine characer_ __ - T " After a reception which will be tendered them on Monday night, Dec. 7, at the home of the bride's mother on Oak street, the couple will motor to Bacesburg where they will make then- home. **' Loses Head Catching ?"-- Train uaivesion, icx., i\ov. .so?tuy ine .Assoc iatgiLNegro PreSs)?Fallin;; be-" neath a roach on a_ Santa Ec rassetu ger train Rufus ' Edwards, was instantly kilLrd. Witnesses said Edwards tried to catch the coach, but l'eil under the train when his foot ?liia head .was cif. nil musing incident: j Some months ago a law student at the University of Michigan .made, the statement that men in public of:fice when introduced to common cvery-day citizens didn't hear one word Hhn y'H7nn fiajd, , ; /\ lew uays ago vnat law stuuem had the opportunity to prove his stuteTnent. The Governor of Michigan came to Ann Arbor. He was introduced to the law student. Said the law student: "How do you do, this morning." And, believe it or not the-Governdr absent-mindedly replied: "I'm glad to make your ac1 quaintance." r__ ^?f New York! and we attend the -banquet of the Association for _the Advancement of Atheism. On Thanks'* giving day Ihlst' llfilqufc as.suiinlion t * held a banquet to protest Thanksgiving Day. Their meeting was chrhrjtened the first "Annual Blamegiving Service." The toastmaster arose t? explain that it was time to make a i list---of- the thingswere TOt good and give blame for them. That they did, iand everyone had a good laugh. . . Sounds something like a political meeting. ?... ' New York, again! The University ' Li x. - e fr-t + r 1 an kjl v. u1111111ji<i na? assets ui ^no,ioi748. And more, the yearly income of that institution is approximately $12,000,000. It strikes us as significant of something or other that the I yearly income of a colleg<? should be more than the-income of the state of South Carolina. - Well,^the music fades in the-distance, and thus another chapter if closed. But, the PARADE OF LIFP continues on! , .. . new worlds foi man to conquer! , . . new ambitioni ?.... .. new hope! . . . new loves! . Next week we'll peek behind th< . headlih^s ?ajraim _ UAX CI >ITORIUM , S.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBl .. . ~~ h Hy JOHN R. IIA) f Washington, Nov. 25, 1931?Following the meeting of the Republilean National Committee in June ol 11928, nt which time. Mr. Iloover wa? 'nominated for the o ce of resident | of the United" States, there was set ' ers Division of the Republican NaI tional Committee, with headquarters |trr-Washinj;tori,"D. C., and I was ttpked j to become Chairman of this Division, ;The organization of the division con..sisted of,_.rtn 'Executive f7ommitt.ee consisting of nine persons, an orgnnizatioii Committe. of sixty-one members a Speaker's Bureau of twenj ty-three members, a First ' Voter's , Bureau of Twenty-eight persons and an Advisory ('< nimitten of three hundreil representative men and women ' .^oports of the activities oi I tees showed that during the last presidential campaign, contacts were made in various ways with over* two j millions of Negro voters. these Bureaux, field organizers and j special workers?more than one hundred and twenty persons. 1 The work 'of this division was .considered as a very potent factor in the success of the Republican ticket and the .suggestion t nut some steps be takori t< preserve in tact the information gain, cd in this effort was accepted by the Republican Commitee. Following this suggestion, a few of thnso \vlir> Ko#1 ...I 1 ........ nuiivvu in xne nvsi campaign met and organized the National Republican League, "ami issued the following statement: ??Declaration 1 "Under Our System of Government, the tosuonsibliily .of shaking platforms ami dhv* ting civic polieieis assumed by vcrtf in p.rflbkr.I parti. to whose principles the voters art asked to subscribe, rt?^Believing a3~\ve do iir~ptu'ty 1'ealty'and with full faith in virtue ol party alignment,- we, hereby renew our allegiance to the -Republican Patty . and to further our interns there in. suhsarmo t? th.? prog, am for settings up of an Organization to b< known and styled as "The Nationa Negro Republican League" wich hoaib quarters' at Washington, Pi G." Following this program the Le.agut has been functioning in a quiet \vaj in the fendeavor to interest the Negro voters of the co\mry in . exercifcing the privileges of franchise. There has been no attempt to abuse any other organization or to disc-red -k the W(u!< of any biTU c-'.so in am way whatever. .? The League stands for: 1. Universal Suffrage. ' * - 2. Better educational facilities ir the South for Negroes. ' 't?ft?The abolish merit1'of the yn -esitl ..L'd -"Jim -Crow cars." ' 4. Discontinuance of discrJmna tory laws and segregation. 5. The same military training foi colored youths as for whites. 6- The removal of. an imaginary dead line in the recognition of tin fitness l'or promotions in military am naval service. 7. Removal, of. the. jieimage.. ;iy? tern in the South. 8. An economic wage scale to In applied to white 'and colored alike, certain sections of our cities an< iBeuer housing , conditions Ti ?towns. - i_ - . . 10. Better sanitary conditions fo employees in industrial plants. _1_ 11 Reforms in llie.uehal institu "ttons of. the-?>outh. 12. A fair and impartial trial Ir jurv instead of lynching. "13. Recognition of the Negro' ritrlu and fitness to sit on juries. -r1-f.Fair play and equal opportu nity. ?The League ,fias been interested ii securing recognition *of the full stat tut of ttB~ Amet ican Citizens, and. par ticularly, fair dealing towards all .par ties. It has interested itself in help ing to securo appointments or col ored people to oflice with some de gree of success as evidence by th following memorandum: ?residential ,Appointee??And Othe . Colored Men and Women Employed by The Federal Government. Federal" Government recognition o Negro citizens has increased contin uously during the past ten years ur til today there are nearly fifty-fiv thousand colore^ xnen and wnfrne holding positions under the Admini? tration of President Hoover. Two- important all Negro commis sions have been named thus far i >. the Hoover Administration. The firs i is the National Memorial Commission 1 giowing out of an Act of Congres r approved March 4, 1920. The pui i pose of this commission is to constru< a bulding as a tribute to the ^ N< ? groes' contribution to the achiev* ment?, of America.. , ' ? - . . J. L , HARITY M,ONDAV, ;tfo i ER 5, 1931. . iifo - -- VKINS, President rr 4une 4, 1930, Secretary of State . , Stimson appointed an all Colored ofj, ftcial commission for the study of ed, ucation on the Island of Haiti. 7"j Among other colored men and wo; men holding important Presidential . anointments and Other appointive pof^sftlOTis at present in tfie Federal Gov, ernment include Charles E. Mitchell, I Envoy Extraordainary and Minister i Plemipotentiar to Liberia; David E. U-i :i y G .ncial of the Unite:! Slates; T:< <:s A. _Cobb.-J-uiige 'of the. Miiniei." pal Court, District of Columbia; Jef; ferson S. Coage; Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia; Charles W. An| derson, Collector of Internal Reven,ue; Hubert T. Delaney, assistant UA^dted States District Attorney; Franj - i.. F. ti les. nssDV'int Unit h! Spat es , District Attorney; Washington Rho| ados, assistant United States District'; Attorney; James A. Jackson, busi'r ness specialist, in Education, U. S. I Division, De'ment of Commerce; Am-' ' brose Caliver, specialist in Education, : U. S. Oflice of Education; Mrs. Cor) el'c--Ueoke. member of?Die?district ufl Columbia Board of Public Welfare; J. W. Clifford, narcotic agent, U. S. : Customs inspecetor; Mrs. Mary* Mc\ Neil, Dr. J. H. Johnson and* Rev. F. T. A Bennett, members of the Dis trict of Columbia Board of Education James G. Carter, United States Con sul, Calais, France; William C. Hues^ - ton, asistant Solicitor, -Post Office Department; William H. Lewis, Jr., Special Assistant U, S. Attorney Gen l. n TT r> ? ' erui; ueorge n. tseauoian, assistant ,'U. S. Attorney;, William H. Hunt, second secretary and consul at Monrovia, Liberia; Clifton R. Wharton, consul at Las Palmes, William J. . 1 1 erbv. tjniiod States Consul at Nan; tes, France; Lewis R. Mehlinger,- At; tovney, Department of JustiOe^ Oli; ver Randolph, assistant U. S. Attor; ney; Kara Philips and Mrs. Georgia. S. Johnson, Commissioners of Concil iation, Department oT Labor; Herf bert T. Dotson, assistant U. S. Atr torney; John W. Schanck, assistant - U. S. Atorney. j There are at present 54,684 color ed men and women in . the employ of ! the Federal Government'drawing sall aries of $69;900,087. Dept. Colored Employees Salaries r i Greasare 5,505 t $7,111,576 ' {"State : . - ? 81 . 107,34(1 Justice ?5 53.504 s I Interior 558 572,112 -j Post Office- 28,400-. 38,500,000 ' W"" 5.914 -j 5.149,488 Navy 5,427 6}537,278 'Commerce- . 686 675.629 ' Labor 92 118,702 Agriculture 709 900,442 = In addrtion.-t'o-the1 above 3,603;-nth-" ei- colored men and women .with salurns aggregating -4,141,209 are empi <yed in othor' activities of (. | Federal Government. I I have no apology for advocating j ! the principles of the Republican Par-" \ I ty and advising Negro voters to sup1 ! port it in view of the record of the ?vDcnioer atie Progriwiv-and its program_* against the best interest of the Nc~gT07~ For instrtncP:""1 *'?"* -"~ e - When thg Democratic Party took d.vothe Federal Government in 11*..'5 1 with the inauguration of President n | Wt .'draw r'il im., the loilowtng o.'iv ces wi re held by Negroes and had been t> for a number of years unden Jiepuhf t ni) adminhliaiions:.. '=- ?eL' uLtieL Stales Register, <rf tfye Treasury." ' i' " Utiiled Mafes Re- or.ler of Deeds ?' ,, : oii.-.i Si .at?PtaU-tant '.Attorney G.i.eiiii: I UuiU'd S'.nU-s 1 Spec i:d D'atrict At lorncy, Washington. I). C. n United States ~ Assistant District . Attorney, Chicago, 111. J ?- ' t'V| ved Slates Assistant - District --.AJdo rney, Boston. Mass: Auditor U. S. Navy. Collector of Internal Revenue, New " York City. 6 United States Minister to Haiti. r Most of these and numerous other minor Negro oft ice holders were rcmoved and their places were not filled f by Negroes. lu- Congress, Democrats introduced i. bills to priovide for "Jim Crow" ears / H i <> T"\ ? 'C! Iflir.. If O 071 ro.,n n 1 ''"iw' *vv i- i hey introduced bills to provide ft r segno# :tion of races in the vari_ ous'governmental departments (H. R. n 13, 712 Feb. 23, 1913;H. R. 5,968, ,t June 10, 1913; H. R. 11, Dec.- 6, 1915; t- IK R. 539, Dec. 6, 1915; H. R. 5,7Q/ is ' Dcjjj 15, 1915) - Also to require all transportation :t companies and firms an<F persons B- vvithi-l the district of Colubia to pros' vide penalties for violations (H. R ^12,840, March 1, 1PT6. > DECEMBI " ruu (By Associated Negro Press) _>a Mrs. Jennie Dee 'Motrin, Director of Women's Industries' a( Tuskegee Institute and wife of Dr. U. R. Moton,- who was awarded tin lionorarary degree of Master of Arts by tion. of her outstanding service in the development of the department "Vhich she heads at Tuskegee ami in promoting and advancing the .siiuid aids of j home-life in Alabama and the South. To The Ministers- and Laymen of the S. C. Conference of the JVL*E. Church: . j \ _. ' ; ... i Dear Brothers: The General Conference, yl" will, in many respects, he like the Conference of 1920. so we will need ! our best men, our most 'informed i men to represent our great.. South | Carolina Conference. We khow that all loyal members j of the,Church will support the laymen and ministerial delegates who , take an interest?in Chiflin?College, ^ our Church school at Orangeburg, S. C. As ministerial delegates wo need to send .-rut h i.icn as Doctors A. 11. Howard, J. F. Page, J. Bi Taylor, C. R. Brown. N. W. Green. .1. F. F. Jenkins, H. tH. Cooper and R. F Freeman, ...... ... All the laymen should vote first for Doctor J. B.. Randolph, the Frcsident of our Church 'school along with-Messrs. I. B. English, C. W. Caldwell and others, C. II. DANGEKFlKl.l). "Lynchings And What They Mean1'?Now Avaihrntc^^" ^cuthern Commission ! sues SO Page Impeachment Of "Jud??e Lynch" And His Court. plete report of the Southern Conimi-sion on the studv <>f EynelVih?^"which was briefly siihy.nnrix- d in the ne\V:naners fomc days, ug",. has j'' -' come from the press ;nd is now ready for distribution, according to an aanou.i""c'oment from the C > ndssion's hradUuartors ill . y o(tv ^ entitled 'Lynching and What They Mean," records the gee. i.il -liudiiiefs of. the (hiiumi.-.sie'i i-i' e -i:;..t ' ion wj the 21 lj ,>lii.pe:s ,of ouch of wlii; h was studied in detail on the ground.. " Ii al-o -o,-; Inrl:i a hl bWl";' tmn.'iT.I'finC I'tIm iOifilit t i ? i V'.l ching retort! of the lifst Ihirty year.'." Among the subjects cyvore i ; re- th > number of lynching* by states, alleged crimes of the victims, at-.itud'/s and opinions out of which lynching.; ~ gJ'OW, lyjlctt Ullitll CO.u)i i i HU.loi. cR a r a c ter isticsT > f" tfiob p.<yc ho tog y and mob action, popular reactions, to lynching, and its a feet upon the commit - nily,?Tlir. corn-India r cemitter is drvoted to suggestions for the reduction and elimination of mob violence. -I A li.i-fT^ ,rwlici..n v. pi.vt tinv; ' been published and it is stated that copies will be sc-nt at,once to r.everal thousand city and county officials, j judges, educators, e'itors,* and others ' | in positions of influence. Judging by i the interest created by the prclimi! nary announcement some- days ago. 1' the Commission anticipates for the j report?n wbbspr ai tU-mand atid, ,t I favorable reception. I Those ordering copies of the report i are requested to remit twenty five cent j per copy to assist in raying the hea ! vy cost of printing and mailing. The - address of the Commission is. 7Q-5 Standard Building, Atlanta, V ' CIRCUS = R 7th : X ] :e: five cents per copy Rev. A. C. L. Arbouin Receives*- N aluralization Papers ?? KcV. A. C. L.:: Arbouin. a theological student new at Benedict. College and graduate {of the Liberal Arts eouFse-at the same school, along with four other foreigners received his natyn-nliziviiyn l.mpm November 5ih. .' kI':;' Gv,i.i onipljinento';! Reverend Arbouin for his knowledge of?the st__governmems 01 {he British and The United States, ' " ? < At IPenedicc he is considered one of the most loyal students and alumnf of the hist hut Ion. 1 le has served as representative to the Intor-aia- ? tiunal Student Volunteer Convention. . D.es Moines, Iowa; Campaign Director for the. augmenting of the Col lege Kndowment Fund Ivy the Alum- * ni Association; President Alumni Association, under whose presidency the Association took on new life; assisiant Student-TnsTriictor in the Department oT Biology^?and .wffl re^ ceive .Iii.s B. I), this^year^Raving re turned to the college to complete his Theological wbrk. He has pnstored some of the most prominent churches in the state and is now pasturing the First Baptist dress on the occasion, of his gradnation was so far reaching that a Uniyersiiy. of luyttlh Carolina professor who addressed- [the graduating class made special .mention of it. lie is also a graduate of Dickson School of Memory, Chicago, 111. The high .esteem in-which his Alma Mater holds him. is seen , in her recalling hen four years after he re-, ceived his degree to conduct the * Week ..I- J'rnv..?. "V, I7.--i.i- ? . .ivhvuivi I> JUSLiy piuiUil of Irer son. ALLEN ITNTVERSITY NOTES. \ Allen University Club Number 1 Trbv ii! the part ol hosts and hostesscs to the iootbiOJ. squad in the University refectory Tuesday evening, November 24. Members of the Club nrado shn.i speeches expressing their confidence in the ability of the team to come* ou-t victorious in their approaching encounter with Benedict/ An old timer, Hannibal II. Howard^ . reminisced over the old days when t'oHtbali way young- and trow he and his comrades displayed their wares. Mrs. uctavia I'eguese spoke words of cheer. Asst. Captain Dicks spoke for. the team, .and Coach r^amison NjmmiiseU the Club that if the boys played their best victory should come A never say die spirit was prevalent around the campus all week urior to till' <> <!%',, r?unlia?t n IV B vii tury Thursday at game lime, Miss Helen Hagan, ,,th6 noted pianist, gave, a high class recital in our auditorium last Tuesday evening before aji appreciative audience of students and friends. Miss Hagan has traveled extensively at home and aln-oad acquiring and practicing her art.. - <? rre-'ident Sims .is back after havmg been -away attending the Piedmonts Conference at Greenville. While there he was unanimously endorsed for the bishopric. On his return to roundly. President Sims was acting chair- ? man. of "the Local Recreational'Committee that put over the gigantic toiium last Sunday. He also Is president oT"Thc Columbia Forum for sor 11. \V..|Baumgardner of our fac? i ny is secretary for both organiza lions. - Professor liaumgardner has for the past two years written all the editorials for The Palmetto Lea- , deiv'For a n.umber .of jyears he has served as editor of the section "Our Forum" in the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity journal, The Oracle. The. faculty ainL-Jtuclents were . very glad to haVe - the great poet Langston Ilughes read in the Auditorium Sunday before last. Mr. Hughes pleased his audience? ; menseiy. Many Allenites were present to leTuT ^neeutrngemgnt to~ the boys Thariksg^vjng clay. An old stand-by seen holding tvhe watch was Tally Addison former star pltfyer and Coach at Allen. Tally is preaching at Clinton now and directing printing department at Sims High in Union. The College paper, The Allen Jour mil, has been published twice during tjie present' year. The . Journal IB * .-j i e.l by I,aniar Bradley of the senior class. ~~ ? *;????? t 2 The Student Council is organized \ ' and working for .the interest of the school. Ilcr.ry Mur'ph, of the Junior clnrs is president. , j