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_ I VOL. VIII?NO. 38.. - . "" Crowds Atter t. w. Mayor Harvley P PROMINENT UNDERTAKER AND FRATERNAL LEADER HAD Greenville. S. C., Sept. 8?The fun oral services of E. W. Biggs, pi'4ni inent mortician and fraternal lcad"r . were atended by a host of friends i j > both Negro and white, from, all over the stbte. Growiis stood outside | while 1500 paeked Springfield Rapt. _ Ghurch where the last rites were conducted by Rev. ,C. F. Candy, Rev. A. C. Sumpter, Rev B F Ak-DowfH and Rev. H. W. Stewart. Brief talks were made by Mayor A. C. x'-v-- -:- > ;"> ' < ' ' - "> ..' '+ :*: . "^HS??$a2kv ; jR^ijMX-y:j&ffig wpflffiM THE LATE E. W. BIGGS Conway Williams and Gordon Fisher: Honorary pall bearers were Dr. O. M. Thompson. Dr. S. S Lawton, Dr Warren Coope^ Dl- C. R Graves. E C Murray. Will Gaylord and W. E. 0 Payne. Mr Biggs became ill suddenly-and was taken to the hospital, after an. X ray examination an operation for appendicitis w; & performed. Peri tonitis and other organic, complica ?. tiohs .set in from Avhich -He died Mon day night, Sept. 5 at eleven thirty. -? E. W. Biggsj was b6t'? at Ttubc.i ton, Georgia, October G, 1880. lie was married to Miss Lydia Washing ton of Columbia, South Carolina fromthis union came two children Miss Edna Biggs. A. M., Columbia IJni versity and Hopson Biggs, A. B.. Johnson C. Smith University. He leaves a wife and two children to* survive him. His training was re. ceived at jTuskegee from whicl^ he received an honorary degree in 1922. He wag second vice president of the Tuskegee Alumni Aslsociation. The President of the South CaroHna Fun eral Directors-. On the Board of Di rectors of the Benevolent Hospital, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Phyllis Wheatley Center and a state leader in the Masons, Pythian1-, Odd Fellows fend several other Ne gro fraternals. Mayor Harvley'g Tribute I am here this afternoon to join with you in paying respects to a man who was a friend to all?it blattered not whether you were rich or poor? it made no difference what your race might be; it made no difference what your religious faith might be, if you needed help and your cause was wor thy, Edgar W. Biggs wafc a friend. It was my gcod fortune to be thrown in contact with him for many years, firfit, in an official capacity during the eight years I was con. neded witftiheeity government of1 Greenville. He was at all times ready and eager to do all that tf'tUv in his power to help his home town. He was truly a civic leader, but he .. had a greater desire than this ami that wfl? to help his own peopla. wlio I were less fortunate than he. I nev ^ er knew a man of such unfading cou* tesy' and kindnees of hearft. He spoke ill of no man and was ever ready to extend the hand of charity and good will to all. * ?- - id Funeral of n Biggs ays Fine Tribute If you will excuse a persxiial ref creuce. I wont to refer to our busi lolations with each other. Dujw ins a period 01 aim i! ? \ years. >ur business 'iaancl'mns ijio into thou sands of lid!. i.s, ,< u ..curing -this whole :in,? June was. "'-\q a udl'ci jyre oi my l- ind I.i t..t'oit lis. When you do business with a man for years, you will find him out. You wili then know his real -character, My confidence in my departed friend was uajiiivitcd ?Ids Word was his turn: i nuu ^iiiki inm i 111111 n i iiri vaiu. BETHFNE-COOK M AN FORM AL . OPENING NEXT JTESI)AY ADVANCED RATING ATTRACTS INCREASED ENROLLMENT * . Daycona Beach, Fla., 'Sept. 12? Betluine'-Cookmnn College will launch into the new academic term in tie ri.V-'t public assembly of the year next Tuesday, September 20 at 12 o'clock. The formal opening, will be. preceded by the registration of local student* nn Saturday) and by cii" trance examinations- and the regis tration of out of town students on Monday. Class, work will begin at 5:00 A. M., Tuesday, the ifay of the formal opening. The public assembly on the day of opening has .become at BetlvuncCookman in recent yeans second in importance and spcttacular etfect to Comencemont Day only, among the big events of the yejar. On this occasion, splendid musical features will be supplied under the direction of Prof. W. A. Sykes.and Mrfc. W. M. Brown, instructors in music at the collegi'. Many prominent out of town viteitors are expected to be' present. President Bethunc reports the Digest and most interesting- group of entrance application!} in the history of the school. The. great majority of these are for the college department. The Junior" College and Teacher Training Departments prom ise to break plT-previous records for increase. This is attributed to the auvanceu raung given ip uiu institution /T5t4t term, whereby it was fflac'h! in Class It among 'Junior Col legos and Graluatc State Certificates were issued by the State Department of Ptrhlic Instruction to those grad uates who plan to. teach. A large group of students and sev eral teachers have already arrived upon the campus. Coach II. J. Jones neld his first football drill Saturday, '"ftftpfpmber ~jfr-~"All college Freshmen and First Year Normal students di. reAed'to report Friday, Sept. 16 for special preliminary instruction an! orientation appropriate to incoming Freshmen. f ; Students will, find at.. Bethur.e ^ Cookman this year exceptional op portunjties for courses in Music, Eda I cation, -Seience- Art. Library Meth . cds and Citrus Culture in addition bo the usual academic courses of hign school and collogiate rank. laltwi I r~" ' TT? 1 4 COLUMBIA, S. C.,'SATURDA v* ? . EDWARD Exalted Ruler .jNLtnhaitan. L o Grand Esteemed Lecturing Knij Rulers of his, lodge now serving five term as Grand Esteemed I: son of Columbia. South Carolii nrous Brass Band conducted by Columbia. r. . ?National Benefi . . ' ' J* September 11?In an open letter to The Tsegro Pi ess. a representative of the National Benefit Life Insurance Company has asked that the Company be -.given a chance. The | lott?\r makes this request on the basis that the company' has begun to make adjustments on all claims. Checks are now in the mail for several policyholders on the. adjustment basifc. The open letter is as follows: (Jive Them Their Chance ' " Much, has been said?abou)t The National Life Insurance Company. Tea niMuh ban been, j.iid that UjllUito eonfdse the minds of the policyholders of this Company by portraying only the dark -side. Allow us to admit the stpte oT insolvency in which this Company v.as found when a petition for Receivership was filed* by an officer and departmental head of said Company. We would love to explain the cause * of this insolvency, but; since we want to be fair, we must admit that a ftue explanation cannot be given until we have the full-actuarial report. We understand that a,..i audit of this Company's affairs is no.v being made by actuaries -anil certified', accountants. Let us be patient and await thus repoA, before we brand men as thieves, robbers and absonders. , The Standard Ilife Insurance Co. Whitc Law Hotel and Masonic Tern pie Building may have been some of the main causes of this Company 3 fiasco. We--res peeled and loved N;v tional Benefit when she rendered assistance to these organizations and lauded1 her ?s our greatest race tvi terprise. The Rultherfords were j business genuises, the personiticatl n ( of integrity ahd leaders of men Now, their acts were those misnv'.ij agement. fraud and speculation. Tint ^ Rutherfords are literally called thie^ es and robbers. They arc branded as Jtyfeco'miiig general to the tune of I "Put the Irascalg. in jail!" This writer agrees that, when .it has been proven that wrong ha^ been Mo i lY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1fl22 HXn^W,. ^ A-i *' *y ' . r^ 18pj9M p:: i^HHgjBK ^ b-'/.T'jL^^ J9 ' V ^/Ji-y.-t'H Hi v;'^H W. SIMONS dge No. l.j. New York City and ?ht?One-of the youngest exalted his sixth term and 3rd consecuecturing knight He is ^ native la. IIis lodge boasts of the faAlonzo P. Hardy also a native of I m w-t isks tor Chance Selves. . The Supreme Court, holding' an Kquity Court in ihe District of Columbia, halted unnecessary litigation between factions and guvf* Nation:! Benefit a chance ol' redemption for the sole benefit of its policyholders. 1 he Negio press should, hah unnecessary misleading : propaganda and edit*, rials so that policyholders tnaj, accept, with minds not confused, the . b tsi that can be obtained from a very unfortunatu condicion. The National Benefit Life Insurance Company, oikp'.ating .in .,a Re ceivei ship, has a program of Mudin cation lor the benefit of its policyholders that's meeting, thus far. with " y'reat success. If you do not care to epcourage them, neither .damn nor hinder them. For the sake of the "would-be" 'sufferers, the policyhold '.oL'ers. "Give Them Their Chance." LATTA NEWS' The O. H. B. and the Voluntary Clubs headed respectively .by Nesbit Bethea and John McNeil" ate two of several auxiliaries of Weston Chapel working [over time to enable the Rev. S. ~W. Fordh^m to meet confer. ,cnce claims. ?L | The remains of Josephus Da vis, son 01 new J. uavis. v-neraw (Circuit were brought : down from Washington. D. C., Friday where he died at a hospital from the effect of an operation "for appendicitis. Monday placed in T). Lr.'Shopman's Maruiary, and was funeralized Sunday afternoon at 2:S0 by 'Rev. S Wr Fordham. A concourse of relatives and friends witnessed the. tad occasion. A literary program including a debate on a live subject was rendered Sunday 'afterncjm at Western Chapel. Some of the participants .were Professors J.. II. Guiles, J. E". Williams, Messrs Walter Allen Garfield Owens. Walter Sanders, Alex Hently and Misses Tfattie Wright, Alma .Alacii,?Alice.?Alien?ErnestineFladgcr, - Annie Edwards - and Louise Davis. Miss Rosa J. Fladger was mistress of ceremonies. | To Mr. and Mrs. Carlie Piatt ] was born Sunday at high noon a I finogfri. Mother and Jmby are doing nicely. J Rev, amf Mrs. J. M Jackson, (their daughter, Madeline" and I Mrs. Covington of Dillon were guests at the parsonage Thurs' day. 1 ' " ?i PRICJ j Why We Specii tinn af AIL A ml yet, despite th's'' higher j standards. and the ever .widening in- , -;eiesl in. and deslr.- Id;- higlur en i- ^ cation '.>n the. part of the Negro ' j youth of tic state, there are ffious- , t amis who content theins>larv? with j 'lie meagre prcpuratiun and in most s .'{l-P, With an- inferior iyjie oi tram t nig. while -countless thousan' s with j a hurtling '/.'al and amhitim nr.. .h- t :ii?'(l the opportunity for Not inal and Teacher College Training for their, r life's work. A recent publish'"! report < f the i is Jesse Jones EiiurAtional. Director | .confirms us in our Educational pir.-'d eranl. The report revealed tiio ^ startling information that.there-are 1,000,000 Negro children of school ^ age in the South who arw receiving , :d education, while-of the o.200,00 ~~>?to?Tt?\ ears?of ag.'-. only... .III.- pt i ' cent are attending school; The rem , edy to this deplorable si&t" of aT- "j* Nil's appears to be in training and j -educating -thoroughly and effieiemdy-'more and better teacher* who will | I cope with t'be preset illiteracy as it exist today1 among our group i:i the* South.? To. this end Allen College has- gone >n record of building up a.College of ^ Education Worthy of the name. At i 1 present the College is headed by" four * instructors'who-have majored in the ^ field of Education at some "of the leading - Northern Universities. Be- f1 side the D??an who received his Mas i ter Degree in Education from St. '1 ; John's' College:~Brool<iyi); Prof. \Ym. ^ Augustus Perry of 'he Columbia Public School rystem ani who has ~ I,"" P"-' gl.-l.Ill-It ,, 11 1-1 . Ml Hill I card . University is instructor ofLCtb i serration and Practice Teaching. Miss I Charity Mance, graduate from How a ard University ,and a graduate stu 11 lent at Columbia Unnversity in the field of Education has been added to faculty. Miss Mancg will offer, courses in Class Room Management, Educational Sociology-. Educational Psychology. Mi^s Dorothy . Gibson, a graduate from both the school of Fine Arts and the school of Educ-a- '1 tion of Boston University will offer ,1" spch nc\v and attractive courses as t Life Drawing, History of Art, His V tory of Painting, Water-Color. Meal t Craft.. Modeling. Free Hand Dr-a\y- I ir.g, Perspective. Philosophy of Ed |C ucation and Visual Education. - r The College opens Monday, Sep- C teniber 10. A large enrollment in all Departments is expected. We specialize in uductjtion because ot i n?' pressing need.? - . .. _ |c SCHOLARSHIP t -? . * ' s The Home Demonstration Agents of South - Carolina, by a suggestion of Mrs. Mariam Paul, supervisor. have_ decided . to give to one 4-H Club girl, who r has done outstanding work in } her community. * rj Because of length of service ] in this work, Mrs. Francics. i Thomas, Home agent of Rich-1, land County has the horfOr of i having- thVfirAt?recce scholarship. , j Miss Elfreda Brown of"Lykea=-i <nd, S. C. a recent graduate of : Booker Washington High School has been selected because of the , splendid, work she has done for ; G years in the- 4-H ^Club. She will specialize in Home Economics during her four years at i the college. We wish her abundant of success. The scholarship JOor 1933-34 will ge to Charleston County. - - r I ? ? ?? ? K: FIVE CENTS I'Eli COT'Y. aliz^ in Educajn College I'rominent Kdu_ ca'tor MassesMiss Martha Sava;.o.\ Ihree year.-i- an oulMan'ilfji'r.- I'ac or in the educational I'&e.oPSnnV ' : i ^ '1' ^"1 its j-in iv-h-i |n ' 11j in 1 ~ .vJ VJ H ell JJt'N'.'iri U!.' I fV iftvrnoon. Sept. <i*t j.- t>i\? . >11 South .Sumter St,. Her death was the -eulminatt>_f. tie i-o han a hair century of u-? iul service that made '~tln entire itzenry adore her. bbih .white md black. One of the public >avayre-Gtoyer is a monument'.' d_Jior faithful service. It. was lamed, in part. a< a tribyte to loble deeds.?FurtTn i te-t iruern ~~ d' 1 he esteenV and r- ]>> i t 1 "cat vas hers is yncouclied in a s? s;>uion"from the Citv Hoard -'of ervice." Miss Savage was borri in Char eston and degarLjur long and uccessful career as a teacher in lie public schools, in 1877. She cas the first principal of. I.in-' oln Sechool, now an accredited? ligh School. She continued in ctive service until the beginling of this year. Characters like hers rarely . k'alk thru the pages of histor^v Characters like hers create order lit of chaos; and it was her .node?character and genuine probation that transformed the ducationahlife of Negroes J. his community. from an iuian-' ihle nothingness into a tangvr--'???>|(> ^rpethinfr r?t" u hl,,U iamecook City is duly proud. Funeral 'ervicecs- were held ,t 4 :o0 o'clock Monday. after. * loon trom Mt. Pisgah A>M. E. Church. The services were con., luctert by the Reverend J. Renham Walker. TRINITY M. E. CHURCH Camden,. SEC.?East week rrinity hejd her anmfal revival neeting. It was the most soul ouching meeting' held. here, in ears.' Every body attending he meetings soiil was uplifted, lev. Nathaniel Harrington eonlucted the services< several lights. Each night this -spacious hurch was filled. . . j"M/vMariah Baptist (hn re It Sunday morning Rev. ,T. lb iovkin- conducted a real good Id Cirfte spiritual service. It eemed as tho the large congce_ \* ration was as one. There were even joiners, six were baptised.* Jackson High School Jackson High School opened ' I uesdav morning wit h an en ollment of approximately six TM- . IT.' 1 r>. ^ 1 1 lunuifu. i ue nig.n ocnooi. (io>artmont has two new teachers, Ur. and Mrs, Walton of OrangoDurgi S. C. . The grammor school department has its same teachers with the exception of me; Mrn-; Ma?,on w]>o ? Dresept. Miss - Louise Ttelton rs fitttng her place until Miss Mansion recover from her illness. Mr. John Pickett Jr. left Tuesday to join the faculty at Emie l^eott High School of Rock Hill, Sy ^-p wherc-he will he the- pro-? -feVior of mathematics and science, also coach of dtheletics. Miss Essie Louise Collins has returned from Florence, S. C. wherfe she was the house guest of Mr and Mrs. R. J. Wilson.