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Page 4 3t|? ^palmetto Uealtrr j; PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1310 Assembly Street, Columbia, S. C. Entered at the Post Office at Columbia, S. C., as * second class matter by an'^Yct of Congress.' [ ~SU BSCRU'TIUAS . One Y'eAr $2.00 Three Month ? ? .75 Aiv u?nfk. 1 OK nr of the" Palmetto Leader not later than Tuesday I of each week. City news, locals, peisouals and - * social news, by Wednesday night.. ' , Business and Editorial Phone l.*23 * . ; COLUMBIA. C..- SATURDAY. MAY 7. . p.?:& \ WILLIAM I'K KKNS SPICAKS ? Thursday evening May?Hb?an?impo; .ant event" will \ake'' place wheii William Pickens, ?ioKl agent. ??-?-?of?the?Nat i o lI?A?> soe-iu t-im-r-?I or.?\ anccmcnt of Colored'"'People will be the guest speaker before the local branch, of the Association. .Mr.t Pickens is known the country ever for his .feaslersness; and as a pi oragonist cf underprivileged minorities. Mr. Pickens i-s among the. fc-.w Negro. buMie speak ers who have something?rv - ,ij 1 lL tin ,a i'riinii r ? message coitsmictet?-*from ay'lite lephte with diverse experiences gained lroinvcontact> ;n and o.u . , of"sclu ol with the various Facial groups thro.igii, out the wormy v member of Pin Bvta tvacjpUr-a' scjtolaiship fraternity in which the world's greatest :?miduTTvuv' proud to claltrr membership. .lie wtrs~' Yaledietoriam of his class when lie was graduated, from V a I.* I' ii i v..i.w;?> l? -l. ..i i . . . gislatiae halls and in r ?itivrs v. :: . st' a'.'i?> genera!i>. This may - hiy d mo w h-.-r. it . > : va-l hied that in order to be. -jtv y. verfui vr. . tec: our interest?. wtT must ex <.-!**.> ,. tr.e :si;-.: fran. hise?we ihttst y'?*e. - -> cage shv wi; ?,? ur- Cvur:::y's i:-fV. t- ;?he.. a;, .1 . , order. th<? ct?ial"<.-d AT ". hi.. U...tl.' . -rr*?? f obtain a.lesson front thetr. that.:..ay ... : materially -a.th r.,e , TMK \ I I ANTA \\n|{I.|f I?AII.A F. r r.uW v.v ka .y >: ^'n re- A. .'< fy day; Saturday lexer?-! e?y- a? Nee:. :.? . w-t ny ev. A" daily rows-crPiy n* .:r. 1. t;y .. > t new. M.?; .'.that it-has riot.'.d'.eea at "..eea? 1 <.: -;c.. but the attentats that h:e.y "; . er. ... th'i* country hav.e rem ma. a -.with *.:.< .l.ya .'ser.ur.g local conditions. ' ' The Atlanta W rid has :.a;!~-:.c a- a "Xevl.ly'. bi-week.. : and : r: -w k i;. L;?> ,i. ; .." ! t ! : .. foresight, courage an?l intelliirvm . th,- ] .. as to how successful jt w^YY, :^i. . ar a c.a 1. v. i duct ion cost s daily, are r.atutaUy much he. :t t'h^tt they would le weekly, "i-:-weekly: r tt-i--.vwk<.\ We think the "reading pur 1-ic >h.ot-.h:, *uj ? ?: : tr..s venture and that porfe tion sh u:d not cxnect- .i at the outset. it is possible tiiat within a . wry - : t v. Atlanta World may givst;?- thoVame ^ servhes that the large dailies bring as. Through their forts more favorable newsabout as n:?. 1 ? inseminated through these press services. -This eginning-may t>e the h a! hi;:orr-^-r wj,Mn .who_writeiior. Negrom w sparei s rnnv la. : ..aib-d , upon to donate their services. There are excellent possibilities in this darine venture. " THd Palmetto I:eaderv extends* the. heart .est of ~ welcomes?to The Atlanta?World?m x r.la:iiva andSouth Carolina; and urges our reader* to-support-1 the venture."Mr. Walker, manager uf-circulation ' ( ^ i' |V " ' ? . ? " ?. Tfi f.?r this section has supplied his readers with quite i hit of informath n about Columbia and Colum-. hian-. The Vuldisher of The Atlanta World is Mr. j W. A. Scott, a young:, man not yet turned forty. We ! have si i n some- evidence in the sun down press of tnvy and* jeah usy of The Atlanta World in an attack that lias been attempted on Mr. Scott's private u> fairs by an Atlanta contemporary. That's life In WC VCl'.!? > . .. " r ; ll'A |"S IN THE* NEGRO PRESS There are some features that -appear in the Negro Press everv week that would benefit any num-l-ei til' our_readers if they knew abput them. It is too bad that there isuVsome such Uigost among us as the Reader's l>igost in which monthly the best edit; rials and columns of the month might be found, t is u genuine .pleasure for "us to ye ad the. several v hunges that come to our desk and we are going ;TTTTll cur repdcrs about a few featuies that we . Vein excellent. The National. XcAys, of New York City is the most met> ojHi'itan paper we have' according to our judgment. First, there are the editorials and "Views and Reviews" by editor CieorgW Schuyler, ^-rm-prt'c -1, " i-Ht'.'el yipe ?-.i.hnlar' .'.in and l\ kec|j sense*of literary alid artistic values, iv..1 v.... :..L \ .. i k7: 1 . J>. G. Jacox is hi.* name! -v?? I'eprov.s and distinctions he had r.One; but such ts hi- had; pave he unto the cause of hiph -rhool a-r.'\elrr e~. That Re has wroupht -v-Hfht we41 cannot be -gamssifb-He- w'sr a pioneer ' y_ xhe h;c'n s'u-4 )?r:ncipal- of the South ancT cave to Vijirinia its ft:?t accredited Neero hiph }" *.]. Wit .it decree* he put in motion a current'of thoupht that has borne fruit a hundred fold. So preatlv did his work expand that it became nocessary to erect a larper building. and then occurr i a trap.-ly. that in retrospect should make the duly constit.ted authorities blush for shame?Principal Ja x was demoted to make room for a man with a decree. Here was a builder and educated who' h'v't a foundation ? < larpe and sure that the . Wad to r>e demoted. Anv.nian who can thus' build-deserves the; plaudits of all thinkinp men and women! Jlowever. the shame for Principal Jacox's I 4emo;i..n was not, his, but the authorities who demoted him d o u >/t le s s in res pons e_ to' the wh j ms of ,those of the decree-mania. But it was in his demotion that-thr stalwart' character of Jaqox fstbbd t in bol'ie?t relief. He wa* taken from th?. school he had built in sweat and blood'; and -placed in' hnrpo of a?grammar school . -w here however,-htai " '.rk ;s nr. less meritorious and no less conspicuous. He did not prouch when struelc By the broadside of apparent ingratitude. He set himself to c lib PALMETTO LEADER his appointed task like -the luftn that he was and today lie stands ready for N'orfi Ik's shame and his own second demotion. He.has another school ready( t r a decree "man and_jj.'n0t*en a chan.e., he will start over ayrainf" IfTS'orfolk can nfford'to"' have ir man of no decrees to build urreut si-hnols for doirrn. | ed mem to take over, Jacox no doubt is ready; for in the eyes of the coming generations the name of J. G. Jaeox is going to be writ large upon the ioilvof hoijcr of the great educators of. his day. Norfolk and Virginia owe 1>. G. Jacox a debt of gratitude and appreciation thgt it is high time they were discharging. . D. G. Jaeox, we havrTm exaniple_j>f greatness undegreed that must sooner of" late r- strike the attention of all those whose sense of gratitude is not bjunted by the -rampant degi-ee-mania of the "day! If ever there was a man who deserved an honorary degree for meritorious* service, it is' J. G. Jacox who has given himself with unselfish abandon to the task of education among the Negro youth; In the Great Assize of tomoirow, if not before, the undegreed greatness of this man musa command the notice of this country. , Greatness undegreed! DRAMA GRAMS B.V Grace Vera Postles. 1 Feet Fem-positvnn*-are- very ^}wrcmf:?They cafv either mar or make a pei formancc. The lielsarte system has it that There are nine fundamental foot positions. There are three classes determined b\ the disposition of the weight of the lvody. Three of these foot positions belong in the. normal class, three in the' concentric class and thrpM in th?? mwn. -uosiiion nu emmiasis is m the toes '1' the forward foot. (Illustration) Do your .worst. *"* In thfi.fir.-t of the three ho'.mal p sit ions wc haw the weight Wine borne equally by the ball of the forward foot and- the heel of the rear. (Illustration) I will do your bidding sur. In the scv< nd normal position the weight is equally distributed over the balls of both feet. (Illustration) I .am ready. In the third normal posft h n the weigh is equally distributed over the ball of the forward foot and the t?;es of the rear foot. (IHustrati n) This is the tree- we planted this, morning. We come to the" last three positions known aeocontrif In the ti'-t?th.'- t-;i.p)i:i- i- i.n th.e heel of <he left fvot. t Illustration I/shall go. 1 think I'd better stay. In the seeotul position the weight -.- in thn forwor.t foot The X 1)1 j >11'I > i . I. n t h II ll-lll of the rear foot. (Illustration)' There v^hu-s the boat. In the third and la-t position the weight in the forward foot, the emphasis is In The t os. o. the rear foot. (Illustration) "Flee for. your lives." I"""""fis'.iufeat to fit feet." A IK KN NEWS Mr, and Mrs. Quim-y Tanksley of Philadelphiawere the .guest* of Reverend and M s. A. Ik Myliheo last week. Mrs. Tanksley* will be remembered as Miss Ida Chile*. the nim- el Kewiynd A. Ik MeGheo. * * While in Aiken Mr. and M iTan>U-v were th. 's I?av fittingly oh-eived at the various churches of .the city Sunday May 8. The morniny services were._iuutre.-tivw '.1 (he da<? ami in the evening special proy-raini- were rendered at Mt. ?Zi?>n Baptist Church anil Mt: PU^rah A. M. K. Church. The cjuartett rendered a hiyhly pleas it r.r conceit at F'manuel Al. K. Church on Sunday afternoon. May 8. A overwhelming audience erector! thv. sinyers. Mrs. Daisy B. Taylor of Orantrehury was the truest of Prof, and Mrs. K. E. .Jones on Sunday May WrU \J 1 ^T. T . . i.i t t^wi. .*i i ?, i nrrnr tt?m vi>iU''l CHUlvnC? on the .district dur;n jr Hm day in interest ~oT tTu7" Womani Home Missionary Society. Sumptuous entertainment was afforded" fhe"."The Just Us Bridge Club when the club met with Mrs. bfh P;-Palmer rn Saturday afternoc?n. [ Esa. R. M. Anderson of Durham. N. C. is in the ' city visiting her mother/ * t conti ibutiolis to tho public J)y way of i its press. . r-1 -The ' acting editor "is an advocate 'of ihe dictum "Tilink Under All Cit cumstalices." His editorials arc educational, 'logical, clear and intelligent. He has .the? grit to say what | In- thinks is right. The Leader is a ;two edged sword cutting right a%l k it for the advancement at.the \yorld, ami the .Negro in parlfgttjjjtc^ ,, We iind the Pointed Fkfinto* a mail of Ciod, who would have religion mec't the needs of the people; and not the [people meet the needs of religion. I We need a religion that will meet 'the needs of the Negro spiritually; a religion that advocates the fatherhood of *0od and the brotherhood of man. a 1 "I'etwocn Tiie Lines" is -a^vays thot provoking. '? I do not agree with everything found in Hancock's Column all the I >4 A - * * T\ A w-ole the case I could find no joy in leading" it. He told us a ft-w weeks . ego of the critics, with the "Crab sense.'.' He said in part that one , she aid not criticise destructively unless one has something .better to o?ler for what one criticises. He savs i Schuyler is a,Worth while crit ic; an J I i agree. - ' '. ...? ' , ^.'.1 I Mr. Lark. disagrees from Mr. Hans'cock. and I'disagree," frujn. Mr. ,l*ark t. whin he.-ays we need more critics in the race who are urged on by the crab instinct. Well the critic's with the "crab sense" would do just its ""the race as a 'whole has done?| fight among themselves, consequently wo don't need thorn.?: _ j We need the critic who knows how, ?wilftt? and when in criticise. : ; I 6nl\ took it .upon myself to pass my idea of the Palmettrp Leader on to its readorsTwishhn? it a greater circulation; to those who would put $2 ( to splendid use I recommend The i Palmetto Leader. IIHKKI L-. ftKKl , Allen University, 1 [ ' ^ Columbia, S. C. ('lli;.-'Ti:|{ PAR \<iU A I?1 IS , . ' ! J U.>rt>. ,\. t'.. >pent FTTiuTay here iIT~ quests of .Mr. and Mrs. S. I). Maine;.. I At the -Metropolitan A. . M. K. Z. ; Chureh on Sunday al'twruodn the O ld I 1 ''' * rotv? - and -rivt-trito -ohser-vetf j annual Thanksjrivl..^ Day Rev.. C.' [11, Strung pi eaehe i the-sermon to.an ap.tVLyciat.i'-e audienee. Mr., M. \\ j Smith was master of ceremonies; "" [ *' ' ,1 -I V Jl l-.l. WH . i". VI, rtet'i died Monday j\T the I'ryor llo>I ..a.,I ! !,? ;. f illn..<< _Alr. Will Hrown. veteran -cook* at j i'm"niiy Whiteside Cafe, died tnt j! ' TlGREEP -I SIJMMFR THE PRESIDENT, 'OvOOvOvvO./OC'OOO.OOvOOOOOOO.Cx | ALLENDALE SI % Allendale, So r Allendale County Beginning June l3tl - (Supervised by The State .O Work i* offered leading to the rem 'Tte leading tcr high rrhrmt rrrriftnrt O ??11 Send -at onee -I 8. * *o: ? ' - Saturday, Mav 11,19.'i2 * ' Monday, morning. ? , Mr. T. B. ~Gc)de_ arrived in^Tlm city Thus lay liuorning froni Niew Voi k City. \Vhere he has been living for the past "fceven years. Miss Louise Stanbaek is at home from Baden, N. C.. where she taught the past winter. Tlte closing1 exerci-es of Rfainerd Institute begin Nuiulay afternoon | May 15 with Baccalaureate sermon by Kev. \V. L. "Metis, I). D., of CharIt ston and g> through May 19, which is commencement day. The address-. I .to the graduating class will be made by Mrs. II. L. McCrosy. wife of the President, of Johnson C. Smith Uni- < , , versity, Charlotte, N. C. Twenty nine 'young nun and wo-men will receive .. i * . diplomas. ? | Miss ~Jeanetta A. Cain, of Mayes-' villi, S. C.. is- the guest of tfie uncle and aunt, Kev. and Mrs. J. W. Manouey. I'Mnlcy High School Notes j A new feature oT llie closing Of the i observed .Monday from 10 A. M. to I :5 1\ M.' in what was calle'dd* Visita lion Day. During tiie.se hours, * throngs visited the class room? and viewed the work which was on display. In each oT~ the id ra.oms~ttTe exhibits sliowe' a variety of attrac- | ( tive and pleasing things. Writing, drawing, needle craft, clay moulding"; ~"* bt ad-making, historical projects, sand t tables, health books- posters of many discriptiehs and numbers of other ^ . . articles artistically arranged .made. each room a picturesque scene of perfect beauty. Teachers and classes worked, hard during the year with this day iii view, and presented well Idled rooms to the hundreds of pa! rents and interested friends who kepf J up a. continuous stream long after -M n't link: h44 A-pr??illfr' WrOflc; Thmniendaiion and' encouragement?t*?-?? - ? g 11 ent of Education >??' I ill? UIV'H ^I'liuul. Djiuilui, 8~ "j Registrar - .8 I ? G'lfcenville, S. C. 8 J :..:.cm:.<.C.OVOVOOOO:OOOO:o:O:O^O?^O :ollege | -SESSIONEnding July 16, 1932 |~~ " ing a wide range of special j* ?, 1 Experienced Faculty. High { iuI Courses leading to renew- % . degrees. " i ' *-r L $