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,w" Hip jjjalmrttu IGeabrr published Weekly / j? 1810 Assembly Streets-Columbia, S. C. ( I! iond class matter by an Act of Congress., subscriptions "iTear $2.00 Three Month ?.. $ .75 B [jfcantln ? 1.26 Single Copy ? .05 foreign advertising agency r^yuuin, ? . V ,, OaiUUJ/Al, U L ?> T. 411, I THE. NATIONAL SPOTlJfiHT ThT National Spotlight is * focussed on Columbia B i? wegk because of thy ovciit? thar wilt~ have tulc-1 It place at Allen l.'nivrsU.s bo To re?this editorialI -eejs the public" gaze.- I.he? I onnnon emenf sea>n at Allen is of unusual significance this year for | any reasons. The main reason is that, it is a >riod of transition in the schoi l's history. PreyiI int Sim's successor is to be chosen because of his living been elevated to the bishopric in the A. M. J U Church. Bishop Sims has served in that posil-On for eight.years, and leaves behind him a re-' >rd of achievemc-t that makes the, choice of hi< I:Accessor one of grave concern. It is understood I tat many men of splendid qualifications are under J Jnsideration. I", Another per Client reason* why Columbia is sun is.that^ltwo of the three prelates who won Vy many authorities to have been, the most epoch ^BTttking in the Chuuli' - uu'eer? " > " > * "Ul IT he administration of 'Allen's affairs. They are ^^^ishops Noah Williams and David 11. Sinjs. Bi>^ I op Williams is the presiding bishop if t-he Sev-1 J nth Episcopal District. He made his i'nitial bow blackamoor," as the Negro is. fa e.tiously'"called Tiy~ ;he Rabdisian Mencken. ^ The first appearance of reference to the Negro ;8 in the first article, "What is going on in the World," by Mencken himself.. In this issue he is Joing a bit of reminiscing about the Major NationHkl Political Convention?the Republican and the DeHmbcratic. He pays the Negro the dubious compliHtnent of being better l?ehaved at the Republican HConvention than are the whites at tin 1 tentorial ie Quadrennial affair.* Here is what Mencken says Hanent the Rep ibl "The Ropqhlieans commonly carry th'eir liquor Bnetter than the Democrats just as they commonly ?rear their clothes better. One seldom sees orte of KifVirm Rrf.ivplv fVw?. u.^11 i?-i Bdrunk in a hotel lobby. Kvbn the colored y?rothron Kamong them are considerably more refined.than the fWhite Democrats from the RihLe Belt. These color L?d brethren, by the time they reach the convention all, are nearly all honght^jrnd "ircriTl-for. ruid here is nothing for them to do save to vote as their ^purchasers order. They seldom make speeches, and |[|aver engage in fights. If one of them pulled a Kfcsor at a Republican National Convention the iriHkcoBum would he sufficient to ruin, him." Negro appears again in a satirical ".Fournal tourin Amerl a," by .Moc i^rB^gnn.- ln t?w 'Of Bhis descriptions titled "N.oirfcer, Nigger" he, toping IHbl easterner depicts his reactions to his first being, Introduced to - Jinn Crowism, southern, .style. "In Bwforth Carolina" he says "we see for the first time BllSW Jim Crow laws work. Trolley swing inter thr city square, pious sentiments printed on slats that Kresemble tongue depressors. The niggers take cats in the rear. Drinking fountains stand hear the curb. One with 'Black' on it; the other 'white.' Mr great anger surges through us. Hell, we'll show Bfikom? We approach the fountain for the blacks. MfcrfflilT. hoyyever^ to bend over it. For we are quiet In George* I'ullou Jackson on "The 'Genesis of The Negro Spiritual." .Mr. \lackson is a Chicago I'll. !>., and professor of German at* Vanderbilt l"niverstty arid founder" of the Nashville Symphony, Orchestra. The June Mereury - is--interesting-t-o-usw, PRESIDENT MILLER F. WHITAKFR i . . ; Siiuo the death of Robert Shaw Wilkinson rovor. el and esteemed president t f State- College .speculation has been rife as to what man- should succeed .inn. Marry excellent celueatia* were men tinned?as, possibilities, and as being available,"'It was the incere hope of the people of South Carolina that 'he best?possible' chore s bottle! be1 made, tharthe.ducational interests of South' Carolina bays anil girls should sutTer no sot-bark. ... . . It is riKT.m-m-inf to us that the nowlv riot tod nrc-ident of Stato College is a young man who htvf so :< himself dui'ihg his seventeen or more 'years as a member of the State'Colk?ge faculty that not onls lias there been no reproach brought upon him or his school because of his actions; but rather has he-gained the good will and confidence of practically the entire citizenry of Orangeburg?white mil colored?the students-and faculty are endeared d him be a use of his gentility and depth of human understanding. ' ' ' l're.-ident Miller F. Wh baker has wrought well 1. -Tn" in~~-.ii hVtnV "if "Snifc." I Ms Work in hrick- and -I m- mill mnvtti 11 through his bluo_ prints and students trained under hint stands as a physical inoipi-; nuMit to his Capacities. As he emerges into the larger life of president >f, t he scho til J lis indelible impress wil 1 he ma de u| > m tin. h.:ni< inr.l minds of 'those dear boys and girls who enter State College.' He is .the third president jif State. It must cause Miller some slight hit of trepidation when he thinks i f the illustrious personalities who have preceded him in oll'tce; but that net'd not flaunt him. -The young Wilkinson .icrhaps felt likewise when he stepped into the dfr<hni'< nf tin, scholarly Thomas K. Miller, hut wlicji ta)>s we refill Orangeburg that would be a credit to any small school. A competent faculty aided him in caring for the intellectual and moral wants t' his charges; and a fairly large and well-content 1 11 " i 1 nt fiirvly hml been gathered from the far"thost ends of the nation.' r~ ?? \Ve wish President Whitaker "Clod speed!" and feel that even -greater" stride's will be made during !ji- admini.-tratiou than were, made during those. o! pu le es s or. .Mr. Whitaker i> a incnihcr "t'jtW lcL'ired ond the essential thine for the race today is to face that fact and eet together. It is very expensive for a poor race to do too much independent buying and planning. Each one-legged man must to cooperate with other one-legged men. The "Negroes have just one foot to stand upon and" that is the "job foot." Without jobs Negroes con do nothing! The depression has done more to drive home this stalwart fact within a few months, than this writer has.been able to do for the last five years. Negroes are really and truly making some "one-legged" thinking. They are realizing that the "Big Negro" and the "Little Negro" must cooperate or die. The Big Negro must blaze the trial and the Little NOgTrr most fallow oik J.usL as those two one-legged men were driven by sheer necessity to get together and pool their common interests and meagre funds, so the economically one-legged Negro race #s being forced to do some cooperative thinking. Coopar'ation is not something the Negro merely wishes or desires, it is something he must do or die. Within the next thirty days hundreds of young Negroes will emerge froYn eur institutions of learning with degrees amL diploma-. They face a world .where the black complexion sells , short on the curb ot public opinion. It is fine for | them and for the race to realize right soon that in I spite of their preparation they are essentially "(jncleggod" economically and they must cooperate ?r face a problem that is mighty hard to solve! Last HE I'ALME'lTO l.KADKK7 week my class in Scciol Reform made a trip to Fulton to see a cooperative, store conducted by Ne.groes. The director, Jlr.Tightner, showed a business shrewdness and siigacity that was inspiring. Ho made a survey and found that (500 Negro fanu1 lies live within, the immediate vicinity, of the* store, but there ?r<T only eight families joined ilt the cooperative ell'ort.?These eight families?are making |.history. They are doing some hard one-legged "thinking. They are doing the only thing that pro' mises some sort of economic salvation lor the Negro race. When eight families cooperate and 502 Vfamilies indulge in "two-logged" thinking, although I they have onl.v one leg. niir problem stands out in l.risting proportions. The Negro's great need is for I mill*.*, ''..mi i.........i" . i.;*..t : \MU-IVKHI-U VIltTllMIIKi POINTEDl^NTS j f BY (jcOKU.K A. SlN^LKTON ' I ' ? 1 The \yeekly text: Yirily, verily, I say tmto_you, He that helieveth on me liath everlasting fcife.. St. John (5:47. ? ~ " * j The weekly trot: ' v I "1 see the powers* of darkness take their flight; | I see the morning break.'* . faith is required for Bronze folk in America to 'se L iSpringfield, Illinois. Memorial Day,. l*J.'h?. tireat ^ the morning" break: /Instead of the dawii it appearsplo. lie bight. ' , ? j Memorial Day."?What does iV mean to you? Y.es, 'you fought to found America. 1'Van Boston commoll to mot-/ y.. I- i ). -.r.i : n i Ii. ..1 ">Dl Mw'fift, . 200,0U0 of your people, Kith and Kin hclpt Lincoln sa\e the Union and giye' the race Freedom. That is wfti'rc you come in. Jjje World War' meant little , for or to you. Many lies, sweet lies were told by . governmental officials, pulpit and. press, you believed thepi. You boys went over there. Many like .Merry-Wether. 6f (.ireehwoob never came back to-be insulted and maltreated. _ ^ . ? But you are here, wiiat of the future? . When-the next war conies you will forget the injustices -which you face daily?and rush forward to stick boynets into the bowels of dark-skinned Japanese brothers. 1 a-i,..- ..i t. f brotherhood will forsake tho cro.^ for the rifle, - Inrmldng-planes-^tttd Subimtrtttes. ~- - ?? "r Mifnrorial If a y is a great da> ITir you. Aleans nToiT-lliaii |>u11 iiH-* a To wl'lowers upon grass covered graves. ? ' j Your race needs to do sonic hard, straight thinking. You have 1101 the spirit of pour At'rioan attces1 tors who prefered and welcome the maii-eating sharks in the dark spates-of. the Atlantic to slavery on. the ships of the middle-passage: j A\yful fiasco at St rotor College last week when the president refused a tablet. to Tjie memory of John ' Brown presented by t he X. A C. P. The war is 1 not?yet?ove r.?Vmi?buys and?girl> read hisS lory with your eyes open. Very- loose, careless. and. sloven- .jouriZulism on the part of the. Amsterdam News of N. T. result' ed i'n l he paper of two weeks ago slating that Bish1 of \Y. D. Johnson wa- suspended along with Bishops .'Joties and Vernon. The current,issue tries to make autend. Your papers.are too prone to he yellow. -J?The?A fug. Air.erit an of this week?gives?an "A. I M.- K. Kleetion Sum-vary" and'says: "Noah WiJI liams, St. Louis Mo., lie eampaigned over the- eounI try in a. new'-Ford." This is a pure fabrication of "j H'lllf ainliil ii III- ri-p-; r! i-C< ln^y^mnnoering proclivities. . Douglas' National Bank of Chicago is defunct.. Sad. The- church still lives, mum ih?> o. i.? ..w.w ? .v -> x'm in meat quest u> make '.Morris College ,t!u- : huol she is TH^sndTtoTT under the guidance el* president Pins'on, the .itlde successor of the master haildet\ Dr. .J. J. Suuks. Pres. I'n si n report* shewed that ? 17.128.tili_. hail passed thru l is hanils for wliirtr'evevy cent was ac-~ counted. An'aide;'faculty had a cepted 2() per cent reduction in salaries and more. than MOO salients lia<l h'-.<n < it died, with mere, than On. graduating from the-'various departments. The student hody 4^- * I was the finest looking- aiuT hesl hohavol hody we dniTp^Trrn-rttnHch.on ilii< torty. ' The wlnde faeulty was reelected and the policies nt' the president were iinnnum nsly, endorsed and In- was given free fiug'iis to deyclopa the kind of College- thit the age- ieqj.ii res. I need not ?a> ;i word ahout that queen of women. ?"rs. I'iiiso), who not.only ni titers the whole school hut teat lies a elas;-a task thitt is surely t o'luiieht ur it fly one-yet uncomplainingly sluvcarr'ys on liy' the s- ide -of her hiishaml. " v The pre -t jit needs of the school are more monthly olVerifig.irfi'om the sU'we at ' large. With each chhrch sendlng-in monthly f>0 cents woiihl 'guarantee the salaries of the fa ujty. The hu.ih'ing program for this year talis for a new domito v for the h"'y*??to replace the one which was hurned, a teacehers' cottage .for the married men on the facultv. and flu. cancullaiiAn ..< #ai ?..* standing debts both mortaged and cuiTcift expotjs^. To do this $^0,000 are urgently needed and this is the {T<TaT "Trrr TFTe simmer unit tall. Kvery DoyaT r<over of the College vill be called upon to give and get others' to give. The greatest effort ever staged by the Baptist of hie state i now on with the S. S. and B. Y. P. U. Department ami the Woman's Division meeting in June, plus the mighty rally set for Thanksgiving Day, at which tjme the trustees hope to present to the Baptists of the state thouiOw clomitory debt "-fr??n uhiiiil n-ith oiyipph money to pay the teachers at the end of ca. h n*onfh. One great united pull with Morris Colle ge as the ".Middle, Matt" will more than lbf-et this expense. The trustees further -hope to add a vocational teacher, a fa+4? and trades--for t-ht^ 4s?yS and-girls. The pay of this teacher' will be . taken card of by - .-friends.? \ ? We want several churches find schools to take a room and furnish it as will he done by Prof. C. A. Lawson who suggested this idea. (Jet ready and get sot for the greatest effort yet launched by the Baptists of the state whose Expansion. Program ya'ls f r a little front many and much from. none. With the ?tVo con vent ioits bending every effort for V, / " _ ? J $5,001) each, and the able field work I done l/y the president, with all the | 'churches sending in donations, with' ; many furnishing tuoms, on Thanks| giving Day, 'President Pinsofn will 'i present to the Baptist a new boys domitory, a teachers home _and a --student body of 500 happy boys ai)d girls. '' . , -| All committees were re-elected, all j officers of the trustee board were re - ? -1 Ti ~ 'J IT_1 T T? I tutnu iinu ni-t, /j. rioinies, u. r? Boeder ami Prof. C. A. Lawson were " mimed as a Steerege Committee. ~. On to.Morris College with your boys and girls. The -writer carried a few last year but already he has lined up several others for1P.'i2-:53 term. L: -^-1. UNION NKWS l,roff. (J. \Y. Bolden visited Bethel! -Churrh Sunda>?morning, he was -at~ Bethel 21 years ago on the 5th, Sun- ( day in May and remarked that his i friend, Mr. Kit McCocl that he was in company with on that day is now j '/.v.'ping in his grave, w lie aLso j hialle a splendid talk" at Sims ILigh t Sun iay afternoon "and . left early ^ Monday morning for Orangeburg where he will spend the week attending the t omniencement of Cluii- .j lin University. j Key. I,. 0. Bownn-.i accompanied ( ""by Rev. W. R. Bowman, his brother, : leit Monday afternoon to attend the j Commencement Exercises at -Allen j University, Columbia, S. C. j ,liev; Melvey of the Zibn A. M; E. t Church will preach for Rev. L. G. a Bowman on next Sunday night come i ?J 1 n K i?d I SUMMER $ Beginning June 13?E >* Program of courses coverir ;? inetruetion. Competent and ;[ ScbiioL College and Vocational '{" ( al of certificates and college (1 For Bulletin, write 1 THE PRESIDENT, i I J ^ " Saturday, June 4CIt. J93Z h's week sending out 21 boys and ifirls, 11 o'irt 'the class of 11?;12 that is i credit to the school. M ss Nellie Bookman of New York City is vis ting her aunt Mrs. Senore llill on JVlcBeth St. ^ ? ' '1 he wc.nanless weeding that was at Corinth Church last . week w111 be repeated at -Bethel CJiurch. on June the 14th. Hev. J. M. Dawkins and son will preach live nights at Bethel begining Mln slorial Alliance will give a reception for the Union and Union Co. teacheVs at Sims High Friday at two oVh.vk p.-m. The Alliance will meet at Bethel Church next MrnTdny~TmrrttHi); -at--U'n-oVlock. '1 hose worshipped at Bethel Sunday are:Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Jiles, Mrs. Charlotte Garw of Jersey r" N. J.. Mrs. Lula Young of CcluniInis. Ohio. Mr. J.~p. Sartor; Eastern'. ~ Ct., Mr. G. W. Bolden, Mr. Thomas i'oung, liVtle daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Manogum, iTMra. Nellie 3ookman of Washington, D. C. Miss Uorvoy Mt Dowel 1 closed a SllC- , essful school jterni in Chester, last veek and is now at home to the dei gut an iieiu,many triends. Mr. Jiennie Williams departed tnis life Friday at 12:30 p.-tin. ??i-was-?I . juried .Sunday at 3 o'clock. He leava? Avil'e, six children! two sisters, Mrs. ..'Carry Rice and Mrs. Mary Brown, four brothers, Dogan, J. D. I'ortor and Authur Williams. Rev. V. M. Davis of New York City spent he week end at _tho home of Mr. md Mrs. V. A. Dawkjns on Enternise St; _'rol'. Marion C. Douglas closed a sue- _ essful school term last week with larentiy Rev. anl Mrs. \V. iM." Douglas >n Pinckney St. He left Sunday for Albany, N. Y. Mrs. J. XV. Walker of .Try-on, N. .C. s spending the week end w;ih Mr. ami iJuunas on .8 Hamlet zr. : 7? ? : ,Villlains,-Mis. Annie Rice, Rev. R. ~?:?Q "ntiiv^d jin [,aee ti 1 MEETINGS nights of Pythias and Ian the ' ~~ " nd.on the following dati*s. Matters re Order, will be taken up mid dis_?Every Pythian ami OalanYhenn ?* jrami Worthy Councellor Kir P. A. ids to represent him at these meet I.- Brown, \v: 11 'accompany Sir Frank retinKs by appointment. ) PLACES: P LA CE DISTRICT" DEPUTIES eorjretown ?' -- Mrs.' E. Ford h'wnffidvni'g ~ "~MrftT P. L. KeiU Uken . _ r:..... Mrs. J. Jaoksoil 3 'olumbia' Mrs. Staiks s 'amden Mrs. EA Meyers loc-k Hill Mrs. E. M. Witherspoon lewberrv Mrs. Daisy B. Cannon L-tiderson s... Mrs.. Nettie Taylor bb'eville __ Mrs, M. L. Pope Ireeitville __i_ Mrs. C. Thompson partanburp: : Mrs,, A. L. Barnes 'nion Mrs. S.L. Humphries 1?_ or other districts later. Wat.h the possible to be present. It is urcrenth every possible effort, to have each ,'puiy will kindly notify Sir Frank in F. II. & L. toper. Grand Worthy GnLinrellor . . edimrtnls. 1). 1)., ti. YVr <J. ' ' =? MEETINGS ^alanthe- - 1 PLACES: PLACE DISTRICT DEPUTY mjLL ' OLLEGE \ SESSION- I Ending July 16, 19821 f lg a wide range of special ? Experienced Faculty. High | I Courses leading to renew- X legrees., a $ STATE COLLEGE if Orangeburg, S. C. ?