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Fife 1 * I 5Jl|r JTalmettii Ifoaftrr | PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1310 Assembly Street, - Columbia, S. C. Entered at the Post Office at Columbia, S. C.j as second class matter by an Act of Congress. SUBSCRIPTIONS ' One TreaF___mz__-. $2.00 Three Month ... % .76 Ux IBonUu ~12*~Stng)2 Copy .06' FOREIGN ADVERTISING AGENCY W. B. Z1FF CO., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 11L Official Advertisements at the rate allowed by law. The Leader will publish brief and rational letters i on subjects of general interest when they are ac- ' eompanied by the names and addresses of the au- I thors and are not of a defamatory nature. Anony- 1 moils nnmmiinipnlinno u.SII 1 D- ' Kjmam out a mockery. The dispatch alluded to the contemplated 1 caption to be accorded Kddie Tolaiu the Amevican who showed his-heels to th<? world's' greatest sprinters in the 100- meter and the 200metor races in the tenth Olyhfpaid being held at Los Angeles. Incidentally only Tolan Js a Xegro. Primarily he is a member of the American team. All Amei'ien i.? aide tn sliuWulll lbr. chest a intle ? niore" .t)e ~aK?e~ rrT~TolTink -iiwt?tnnd?feot?t oo?if- -youmust have; it that- w&y.) . Back to the TI'MMS. We quote: "There will "be a reception committee,- designated by Mayor Frank 'Murphy, at the sttaion when Kddie Tolan comes home?from his triumphs in fhe~-Olympic tiames?trr G$,lifonnia. "The eyes of the wcitoii:ing omul will be on I-'ddie, but pddie.s eyes will be. on the typfeal Southren mammy whose toil over the wash-tubs made possible his success?his mother. Mrs. Thomas Tolan is proud of her son's athletic triumphs, but she is prouder still of his determination to be a physician. I'ecently she has been. s.olu provider for th^family. She has worked hard?and i ~ happily?anil her hope now is to keep it up ..until Txmo can finish his scientific training in Germany. j 'It's- worth-it.' she said of her t<?9-. 'If my menfolm could only find jobs I could t*ase up a bit and a mighty big load would be off 'Eddie's nund.' ' " . "Shortly before Kddie tan bis greatest race s)iu sent him a telegram. 'I couldn't a.ttVird it,' she says 'but 1 had to tell him not to worry lits head about my troubles.' i "Mi*. Tolan was born in San Antonio, Texas, fifty-five years ago. Her father, born in pi ivory, was a Union soldier in the C'i\il War husband is a cook." "I" * r ' 7 ==="" There arc many important lessons couched in that press dispatch. Suppose , tin- TPlans had reT mained in Tex:^s: Kddie might have been just as Z ~-ftFffr-nf- foot, jtii-r fl. nimble of biain. but he never j ' would have become a member of the American I Olympic team; nor would he have entertained hopes of purpuing his nredieaj courses in (lermairiv Ilad Mgs. Tolan remained in Texas it never would have ~ been her lot to see her name appear in a metropolitan daily newspaper as Mrs. Tolaff." Doi7bfless San Antonio in a u?otlrolia.vp-yit;|ihv( imhBTAOI , Sari Antonio in just as proud of Kddie as DtftroitI is, hue unfortunately race jyejndice rentiers such i places as San Antonio incapable of giving decent) ? exprc sswin?ti-i ?i ' ' - ? - .. oviuiiH in.*.?.\uwii.?lot ?nut,. despise tho depths from which a,ny of our great have -arisen for f-heoretieaHyr 'this -is the1 land of equality of opportunity. That Eddie does not ex. peet to vest upon the laurels ho has won as an atihlete betokens a sound mind. A few seasons ?ago other nnlios wcr just as widely acclaimed as is tjhat of Tolan ..todays- hut if tlnur bearers . havp not made, good in .some other?sphere?of acti. ,vity those nanus are hut ntc.mqries. May success ^ttend Eddie's.. f-iltur.e activities,* and may the mother of Eddie livo to see her hoy win many victories in the race against death and disease. AUBREY SHUFFLES ALONft What lover of clean, wholesome amusement is there in these United States who does not recall that epoch making musical comedy success SHU.F FLE ALONG and those droll and clever comedians llVTiller and Lyles? Who is :t that docs not sometimes chuckle to himself even now when he hears albaster comedians copying the stuff made famous by those sepia boys on stage and ether? Well, Aubrey Lyle h'as shuffled along to some other world. Ho has spread his last ray of sunshine in the flesh. Those of '-is who would enjoy his unique amusement contributions must now resort to tho phonograph. Tt was our pleasure to witness the performances of the -number one company of SHUFFLE ALONG : some thirtcen?rimf'.; mill if"^?]iriVTriiVit n pimfintrff Itself, we feel certain that .we should see and hear it as many times again-; because we, in our ignorance of things theatrical perhaps, regard it as tho fineftt stage attraction every presented to the American public. This evaluation on our part is matie r ?* . . .% . ? largely on account of the inimitable performtanc* of Aubrey Lylcis in his roles of grocery store part ner and. Jim, Town police chief. There was rto! soul inspiriting humor in those roles a,s interpreter ty the diminutive Lyles. He and Flourney Mil lor forced a great pair of comeJiaits; and wher coupled with that pair1 of musical geniuses, Nobh Sissle?and Hubie?iilahe,?they - (javt* -4? the stay* world an ever to be remembered attractions It is regrettable that Aubrev dirxl h?<t wJihr _ . v v% 1 ?v. un vvmiiin tauic ! Mo That the people have shown their apprecia I tion by tlieir patronage is to tlhelr credit, i J)id you see the art ay of pulchritudinoifs femin'i Lnity .that gdaced our back page last week? Wei i tlhe place to see these beauties in person' Is at th? ' CapTTol Theatre at the binie anhounced in Till -HALMKTTO LK.^DKH.?There f.? little doubt ..tlui when;-the Hollywood impresarios gain an . eye-fu of our Coulir,bia beauties' from the pages' of yOu l?a,per that you may see some of them gracing tlv -screen at thtr~Oapitol and other theatres of evei greater fanuv There is no real reason why som ktHfi-p or i ium stiir tthnuld not'Yinil h?o- way to liii things in*the theatrical world, ejccept that some dis coverer of tajent and beauty need be apprised thu such exists in Columbia in abundanc. We believe that more of these contests sljuh ai aTe Ixnrrg conducted at the Capitol Theatre am 'sponsored by Columbia merchants will have a salt tat \ effect. ? -o-s. _ THfi LINES "j??? BY GORDON B. HANCOCK LEVELING I P AND DOWN Th? . u: .t. vci.tu icaacfs 10 lose their sense of .values to .in exte.nl of understiipating the grave situation thai confronts a race whose well-being is at-the merc> of a iace that is largely prejudiced. The worl of thi* world has not been done by the very bril liant men nor by the very dull ones, but by tin average man. More attention- must, be shown thi; man in the nation and in thc race. It is unfor tunat? for the white race to measure f.U progres; by the boulevard and not by the slufii^; it is doub ly dangerous for the Negro.. One of the main re a son this "minor prophet" incurred the criticisn of the unthinking "writer" wa?s because his whoh philosophy or life is addressed to the condition: atfecting the average Negro rather than the'"ex ccp.ional prosperous few. Now comes President Hoover with the, suggestion that We have a five-day week in order to.mak( more jobs available. Some years ago we hoard a radical ? 4 9 t TIIE PALMETTO LEADEfe ? AMI SO FORTH ! The honus marcher- should ask the Negroes if ' they, want some Urst..JiniMl -information as to how" I dear Uncle Sajnic changes his atitude from \Var. time to peace time! It was- "our country" during ' the war hut the white man's' country silice .he war. < 1 In war times Uncle says it w'.ih open .arms; in ? ? peace '.inie, with his boot heels. - I i M ^tnnild in. i in. pr: wis of most men that Death'< shall come around the same corner that pruspci - -j ty Has been coimng around fen- these niaiiy months. ] 1 somehow synchronize "loss of appitite" with loss j ' What this count ry-needs is some "specialist" trr! of jobs. Strange that a man out of work never . suffers from "loss of annetite." j, 1 trim myself to the fctorm of time; I man the rudder. riof the sail. 1 Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime; e Lowly faithful banish fear, ,v r_ Right onward drive uijharmul; Tie1 ["'i1. " M " '"Mi 1>w' '-guise. is near, ? And every wave i{? .charmed.-", t ?Ralph Waldo Ktnerson. Kddlc Toliin i> .ilu1 iKiine that is on the lipr. of R million of denizens of-earth at this writing, lie i--is <h.? 1"'y of your group who has startled the world j with his blinding spctjd m^fTic (Mymfpic coiitestsTnring staged oi\ the l'a.itTc- coast. Not content with first! place you also captured second with MeU;alf. Well dues the Pittsburg Courier call it "Toland and Tolerance." This ought be nrn object lesson to Ameident. - WJiere-41 r man , has. biuiin .and ability do not discriminate against him simply because he ?happens to wuir a Bronze skin. Hero the churches may learn from athletics! Re- ' e cently in New:. York City an Episcopal congregation tried to force segregation among its race members. North, South, East., or West, at the. Tropic pf'Capri-' l' corn or the antipodes' segregation* in -Hie Christian Churuh is a rellection upon Jesus and makes re1 ligiona .thing, of the. devil. When religion has to how -to 'coeial expediency' . and take its orders from. secular powers it is in a bad way. Religion ought be Virile and dynamic , enough to take high ground. In spite of the 1 nvUi tant' bishop of Georgia the-"resolution ado()tu.d byi _ the Methodist General Conference at Atlantic City with reference to Christian brotherhood and common decency W11.1. 'BE CARRIED OUT. Piofossor Ira T. Bryant has publisht Ids first is-, she of the AUonitu since the General Conferences ^ It is taken up wholly with his Quardrenniaf report. I IT also c.utains a full photoe'iap"U- Aiew of the ~ . handsome buildings owned by the Sunday School , Publishing Department* The. Secretary requests t that the picture he framed and put in a conspicuous i place in the local Sunday School room, This will I bp done by many ."sumlay Schools. To "be sure the advance of a church-'Is not to be measured solely in leuns of luiildiufJs, machinery, and equipment. Bui. in this moderu age- of applied ""science ami methods, t 11ui1111n nt Is?necessary. In the Mays of the A postles, and early Church Fathers. T the SHI Id lit .* luml u .i,? At Aluviindriu there was a Catechetical School which" m&rkl the J beiginning of .formal religion^ educat ion in the Ghristhe Church. A fid 'the Sunday School,. which dates from the Eighteenth Century ami Hohedt Raikes'; has lately be come a hiirhly specialized, organised, > ami departmentalisi-d institution. t Sunday afternoon September 1, tit three o'clock ] the Pointed Pointer will talk over WTAX, and for . the entire week lie will he heard in the morning ' devotional I hour under the auspices of the Spring- , field Ministerial Association, Springfield, Illinois. The management of the Chicago Cities has dis- 1 _ cVinvpp.fl T?f?gt.iy llern>by. 'Following his dismissal < . the former boss of tile'pennant contenuers had lots ~ ^ to say with -reference to the season of his depart, ure. The. previous day it .was revealed that Horns- ; ~ "by had been reared 11T the atmosphere of Johh Mc- *" - Graw. His ball players were mere puppets. When McGraw left Giants this writer commented and . said that this is a day of democracy. Ball-Players cannot do their best where they are > hrowbtaten and spied upon, Befct results are ob tained where there is mutual self respect, sympas thy, and love, both for the one at the head anu for - the common cause. ^ The best discipline is that which results from a r. keen desire on the part of the team to win. No, * ? till ATT A NEWS N The home of Missi Caroline Know c In was destroyed by firc of unknown c ?i igin, Wednesday night while all 1 jccupants were at a revival in pro * jress at Andrews Chapel M. E. Church. When the fire alarm was t ' i ei'ii in hi- iiiidt't of ? powerful ser t lion by Rev. S. W. Fortlham, uhe peo ' >le became panic siricKen aiul a mail rush for the-opening followed". The L r. tiding anil furniturc were amply pi uivcleu by iniftirance. Mrs. Catherine E. Holman is in j Colutnba on business and vacation ^ While there she be . the house ^ guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Swygert . on Heidt St. . . ~ \ The fourth quarterly conference s of Dillon district was held Saturday afternoon at Weston Chapel with Dr. J. W: Murph, P. E. scholar, thinker, orator, logician, presiding. After the ' fr.'in the varous departments of the ehuich were called for. This done the- conference adjourned. 1 Sunday at ll;3 o'clock Dr. Murph 1 delivered a message calculated to be ' his best effort since he became the ^ best of this district. With such a con * .xcrated Gospel messenger and ieader of men, "Dillon District through him is bound to return to her own, , Mrs. Cruni % McFarland of New York, arrived early Suiday morning lor a stay of two ; weeks, with her I. t for scientific and technical trainm Y ? ; i ?: - : : ? . of . y For further information addn 4 ' THE PR | ST, I PAINE C AUGUSTA, < :l $ t'nttmraliy ?ftne -phy+vK-al?pla X Ruth's most attractive wint |jl , Excellent moral and -apirUuii X Emphasis on high scholastic j* A well balanced extra-currici ? > rv_ STANDARD ACCREDITED COU SCHOOL EXPENSES UNU -o| For catalog and other information .;?X- j"!"*"*1 v Y r-? - ^ X Bethune-Cools Y X ? DAYTON A BEA Y Y "A School Of I Y '* ? Junior College ? x r High s t _ x t * Fine Industrial ani Y o Music and Phvsi > Individual Cultural ] Modern F ?i> Efficient 1 ? -? ? High Chr X Approved *n a Junior (College bj ins Agencies. T MARY McLEOD BE r I ' ' ' Saturday, August 13, 1932 *? -? ?r CHAI?PELLE STATION NEWS Sunday was an unusual day for ?Vrhurch. Sunday School was called to trder at 10 o'clock by Supt. Collier. \fter a splendid study of the lesson v? had a very interesting review. ... At 11:30 we were indeed blessed o hav with us again Dean Fi'.eparick. He preached a splendid ser lijon. rnia Deing communion Oav Ve took a text to sfuit the occasion. j'ound St. John 6:53. Theme "The ffgnificance of two great excepts1'" " At 8 P. M. he preached another- 1 * plptadid sermon, "The troubled lea*!," St. John 14:1. Those that ~f lidn't hear these two sermons cerainly missed a treat. The Dean is f wonderful preacher and knows vhat to say, when to say and how to " Ay it. . Wherever that "Man of God", is to jreach you may go and feeljassured >f hearing a serme#v^that will be 'o you as bread that is cast upon Jie waters that will be seen for many lays. At seven o'clock Sunday evening league wa,a_ very spirited. A splen- ~ did disfcussion was had. Several of ;he adults took part same as the rKildreii The League will meet at 6.30 inv'jead of 7:00 please "encourage us by? your_presence. ?- ?w At the evening services Sunday we were graced to?have quite a few /isiting friends among them were. ; Mr^. R. C. Chappelle and Miss Ethel Gibson one of the instructors at ' Benedict College. We are' always pleaded to have v visitors trust , uhey will continuee ,o come. ' Do Wnd Of Your fradmj? With Our Ad* rertisers. " .. , .. ni.i.F.fiF'. I 9 X E5SION I ember 19, 1932 h - - ? x wlufi' deC>?a ?? Agriculture, v s. Teacher Trtunjng, Businessi y Arts and Sciences A y de range pf vocational courses "***lent faculty, splendid facilities *j* ig. Reasonable expenses, T r1? -r~ J ? ?: ;?I . . ess: *f .ESIDENT, . | _ \TE COLLEGE, t Orangeburg:, S.-C^? "~?~ OLLEGE GEORGIA I ill Im'ttteiL in one of th? ? er resorts. $ 4 environment:. ^ achievement!" " " " r liar program. y RSES COLLEGE AND HIGH- $ SL'ALLY REASONABLE. ^ write: A E. C. PETERS, President A ?????^ " 1! f ;man College % > CH, FLORIDA % x Personality" 5! ! Teacher Training * chool X Y ? ' t Y d Manual Arts, '. t cal Education A Y ? i Guidance Environment ? ;" acilities - & Faculty istian Ideals . ' A _ r State and Sectional Accredit- x THITNE. President ' % ^ ? + 4