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Mitchell?Com
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Large for 12,0
Illinois Congressman I
Tuskegee Insti
Arthur W. Mitchell, mcmhfr of
aional District of Illinois will come
to Columbia June 1st, as guest
speaker of the Alumni Association
of Allen?University accepting an
invitation tendered him a few
weeks ago by President Eugene
Howard Mi-r.tll Thfl ti.-nt
of Illinois iSc,said to be the-richest
ih the United' States. ?
The Columbia "Chapter A. U
Club is assisting Dr. McGill in arranging
for the entertainment ol
Congressman Mitchell and many
local citizens are cooperating. It
is evident that a thousand visitors
?Dr. Miller F. Whitakm1. A.M.
President State A. and M. college
will deliver the address to the
graduating classes of Allen University
Thursday, June 2 at 10:30
a.m. The president of State ocllege
is leader in the new c'ay col-lege
set-up. His experience of
long standing fits him to give a
commencement class leaving any
of oui' Southern colleges.
will attend the Alumni Mass meeting
in the auditorium at Allen next
Wednesday night to greet America's
only Negro .Congressman.
The Norfolk Journal and Guide
aneaks-out for Congressman Mitel ell
in a featured story issued Maj
News In And Around
New York
By Julia Braxton Clark
New York City?Hello Everybody:?Vacation
time is almost
here -and people are beginning to
look toward New York, the city
with a big heart. Seventh avenue
looks like a parage already
with people just standing around.
The colleges and universities
hovo Ko?U? frt rtlrvCP
MTV. Ui-gUIl IW V.1VJO- ,
Union Theological Seminary1
Union Theological Seminary
held their-one hundred and second
anniversary Tuesday evening May
17, at the Unicm Seminary chapel.
The exercises were impressive and
inspiring. It was a beautiful
sight to behold a3 the 1938 class
marched in attired in gowns singing
"A mighty fortress is our
God". Then a prayer, the scripture
lesson and an anthem. The
conferring of degrees by Mr. That
cher M. Brown followed by the pre
sentation of those recommended
for the degrees of M.A. and Ed.D.
by President Coffin.
were two Negroes Elder Garnet
Hawkins and James Herman Rob'
inson that stood out most because
they Were members of a minority
group. There is so much need for
trained leaders of ttrhr Wnd. Men
that have dedicated th^ir lives to
the service of God and their fellow
mam What can be more noble?
President Coffin was eloquent
as well as InfOTmattve in sdntntAr- "
ing up his remarks to the graduating
class.
Benedict College Clu > Prom
The Benedict College club ?t
New York City have mailed out
invitationg announcing their third
Students' Vacation Prom at thi
aance casino, 150 West 138th St..
*->s. *
pressman at
00,000 People
Speaks Here June 1st.
itute Graduate
21-?It says in parti ?
Llexe. was something .now undei
the sun. A Negro - elected to the
Congress of the United~SfStes on
a Democratic ticket. There were
many?misgivings, opiniun wiresharply
divided among the proTessional
.forecasters just how Mr.
Mitchell would be received by certain
members of his own party;
That many who predicted a distur-_
bance of far reaching consequence
when he Was seated were wrong,
is now history. Mr. Mitchell had
been?one step ahead of them in
solving the problem.
Raised under the feet of the
statesman-leader Booker T. Washington,
he put into practice the
Tuskegee founder's famous saying
that if a man would Kave~fnends
ho roust first show himself friendly.
This was just opposite the approach
taken by "fits predecessor.
Oscar DePriest, who preferred the
two-fisted method.
POTENT FACTOR
Congressman Mitchell today is
a more potent factor on Capitol
Hill than ever was Mr. DePriest.
Suave, easy-spoken, the ^Gentleman
from Illinois" is every inch a
diplomat, and those who doubt the
effectiveness of his leadership have but
to look at the impressive record
of achievements to his credit
since that eventful day of Janua^
arranr ~ ~ :
Mindful of the fact that though
he was elected by residents of the
First Illinois District, to 12,000,000
Americans He was their membei
of Congress. Mr. Mitchell's record
of bills introduced plainly shows
^hat 4Ha-thinking was national ra- "
ther than the sectional politicking
of the ordinary representative.
Twenty-two days after he took
the oath of office he introduced his
first anti-lynching bill and each
succeeding session of Congress con
tinuwd to prooo for passage of t ;
measure of this type. When his bill
was turned down following a hear
inc by the Judiciary Committee in
1937, he immediately threw his sup
port to the Costigan anti-lynching
bill and his vote .was.-counted?among
the "Yeao'-wKerTtt was pass
ed by the House.
Thursday evening, June 16.
The club pledges their sincere
efforts for a night of enjoyment
and entertainment for the students
and friends that are in the city. A
good time is expected when old
friends meet. D. N. Waleh r is
president of this club and H. W.
Chappelle is chairman of the Prom
committee.
Remember the date ThuVsday
June 16, 1938.
Senior High Class
To Repeat
"DaHHy I ,nng"I,pg-?"
Pryt-aneeii Fraternity Sponsors
Returti Performance By
Popular Demand
By Otto Jamison
The Prytanean fraternity in response
to popular demand 'will
present the Senior class play
"Daddy Long-Legs" in a second
performance in fb? school auditorium,
Wednesday evening, June
1, 1938, at 8:30 p.m. General i
admission 10 cents.
? The play?was presented i-iv- Greenville
on May 18 and at the
high school here on May 20. The
cast was lorudly applauded at both
performances.
"Daddy Long-Legs" a comedy
tTV^OUFafts written by Joan Webster
has ben presented throughout
America and several countries abroad.
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Mrs. Johnie V. Stuart,
w* /-I m T
rasses in ureenwood
Columbia, S. C., May 2S-?Mrs.
Johnie V. tuart, the mother of Dr. '
J. O. Stuart, prominent physician i
of Columbia, passed away v*ry sud ,
denly Tuesday afternoon, May 24. i
at her home in Greenwood, S. C. ,
Funeral arrangement* are incomplete
at this tint*.
* COLUMBIA, A
Literary Master
And Poet
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MISS LILLIAN CARLYN MACK
Miss Lillian Carlyn Mack of
Manning is coming into the lime
light as one of South Carolina's
poets an^ literary masters of unusual
ability, according to her re^ont_
works in poetry published in
"The Crow? Anthology of Vursu"
by Crown Publications, Tribune
cunqing,?crew totk?city, mo
following poems of Miss Mack appeared'in
the publication mentioned
above: The Fatal Rose, Tutankhamen,
Sunset in the Mountains,
God of the Universe, Today, America'
America'. Thanksgiving.The
Sower, While " Stars Look
Down, Silver Linings, Oh, Fear
"Not Death, and When Spring
Comes -Trippi ng-4n".
Miss Mack's work has also been
featured in other publications, such .
as "The Christian Herald, Tlwr
Southern Workman, The Instructor,
and "Crown Anthology of
V*Re'\ "
?? ?. .1 1 ? Brief
Biography
Miss Lilian Mack is a native
South Carolinian. She was born
at Manning, S. C. . . . educated in
the public schools of Charleston
and in Avery institute; and did advanced
work in Chicago an i Nor Hi
western universities; the City Schools.-schuols-of
Washington?Dv- C.t
Wlrh rt ! M-tlii-Kaiii'd -Pf+H-. cation,
North Carolina, as government
teacher in the employ of the
United States Veterans Bureau,
and as instructor in art in summer
schools at Shaw, Johnson C.
-Smith, Lane coHego?;md Tnskr^~:
gee: Miss Mack was a winner rrr
three national contests: Won a
poetry prize in the Christian Heral<F*contcst
sponsored by the
Normal instructor with essay err?
titled "Land of the Sky". Wan a
? ?v uuiiui tu uwnm [mi/a in a v. w u test
including the United States
and Canada sponsored by The Instructor
over ten?thousand otitrants.
according to the information
published hy.tho- magazine,
The work of Miss Mack is being
giv^n wide publicity by loading
magazine and feature writers
Presently, her work is being reviewed
for the press by Dr. Benj.
Brawley of Howard university.
Further distribution of her poems
have ben accepted?and?published- as
foliows: "The Paradox" in the
World's Fair Anthology, by the
Expositiqn Press of New York
City, "The Mocking 6ird" and "The
Quest" will appear in the columns
of The Beacon Publications.
Preparing Book For Press
?The c/utcome of our native poet
is the accumulation of much data
that should be assembled and nub
lished. Carrying out this idea "
Miss Mack i3 now preparing for
publication a book entitled: Magnolia
Leaves \Vhich she says is to
hp don p. "in honor of my native _
state."
Mitchell's Tickets
Now On Sale
The committee, appointed by the
A. U. ctulr of the city to arrange
for the general entertainment of
Congressman Arthur W. Mitch?li
is now placing the Mitchell's tick- ^
ets for sale.
A small charge of 50 cepts is '
asked for "patrons tickets'.'. Tickets
are now on sale at all Negro
drug stores, barber shops and at
Johnson-Bradley. Several individuals
are handling tickets also. Mr.
Jamg L). Woodbury, chairman of !
committer -ia?ia??tW
tlck?t?. i
nwftl
SOUTH CAROLINA, SATUKI
Negro College Official
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Comity .Makes suggestions
?Naw?Yorkf ^la.v - 24r?Guarding
and Jfuidi^g/the hfiullh_o 1 studontfe
I is befoming an' increasingly important
activity among Negro educators,
according to .ny, Pmi,1?B_
Corhely who has just completed^ a
survey ofktwenty-flve Negro col leges
in tbe^Sputh. The total attendance
at the colleges visited is
approximately 12,000. This survey
the first of its kind ever Undertaken
Oft^ such a-^ytdesmmd bnii^
was conducted by Dr. Comely thru
a giant from the National Tuber.
Ctilosis Association. Local tiihercilosis
associations and health-oflFW
Cers cooperated'in the survey. Dr
Cornley is acting director of tfie
University Health Service of How
aid University, Washington, D.C
All phases of student health was
studied and, while some of the institutions
are conducting efficient
programs, Dr. Cornley reports that
others have recently organized ser
vices which are expected to go opera
tltg successfully withjn in-a few
years. Nor only will the students
themselves be benefitted by success
rui nealtn servfcesV Dr. Coinley be-|
lieves, but, in addition, the fact'
that DO per cent of them J>lan to be
teachers ni^ans that they will impart
their ^knowledge of heajthful
living to their students.
"Although the outlook appears
to be rather bright?for the future,it
seen s on the basis, of our inves-1
tigations that there are certain im~~
portant needs in?most of these in- '
stitutions." Dr. Corn lev haV3.?
?Amonir'needed additions that Dr.
Coinley believes wili -result in bet-1
ter health servy^, are required
courses?ift-'Kvgiene for freshmen,
adequate medical care for students
and improvement in the equipment
of infirmai ies. Dr. Coriiteyurges a
more widespread adoption of tuberculin
testing of en.v-cing students,
with X-rays of positive reactors,
a Wasserman test and eye exami69th
Commencement
Claftin College ?
Tuesday, May 10, 8:00 p.m.?
Senior Piar.o recital Marilyn Eugenia
Green. **
Friday. Mav 13. Senior Eiana
recital, BeutntrCtfiir Caldwell.
Sunday. May 15, Vespers, Music
department. College choir.
Wednesday, May 18, 8:00 p.m.,
Senior Piano Recital, Lois Eugenia
PTToleau.
Monday, May 23, 8:00 p.m.?
Oratorical contest sponsored by
Prof. A. -Leland Ray.
Wednesday, May 25, 12:30 High i
School Seniors' Class Hay. 8:00 i
p.m. Operetta, ''Land of Dreams J
Come Triu", Practice School.
Thursday. May 26, 12:30 College
Seniors' "Singing Out" Exercises.
8:00 p.m.. "Southern Echoes" presented
by Dance groUp and Collegiate
Interpreters.
Friday.-May 27, 8:00 p.m. High i
School Seniors' Play, "The Phantom
Bells".
Saturday afternoon, May 28,
4:00 p.m., Coronation Pageant.
- Sunday, -May 29, 4:00 p.m.?
Bacalnureate sermon. 8:00 p. m
Musical Vespers. _
Monday, May 30, 12:30 p.m.
College Seniors' Class Day Exercises.
8:00 p.m., Choral Festival
College Choir.
Tuesday, May 31. 2:00 p.m.,
Business Meeting Alumni Asso'n._
4:00 p.m.-Commencement Exercises,
High schcrol. 8:00 p.m. Annual
Musicale. 10:00 p.m. Alum
ni Reception. I
?Wednesday, -June ,-L^J.Q^ a.m..
Annual Financial Rally of South
Carofin^ Conference for Mainten- '
ance of Claflin College,- 12:30 p.
m. Meeting of Board of Trustees.
4:00 p.m. Commencement Exercises?.Speaker,
Bishop Charles W.
Flint. '
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The public is cordially invited tr?
attend these exercises. |
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Cornerstone For
Wilkinson Hall
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Orangeburg, May 24.?iDr. J. S.
Stanback of Cheater, Grand Maatei
South Carolina will officiate a t
Fins
DAY, MAY 28, 1938 '
s Urged To
romote Student Health
? ?Jnations.
Other factors that Dr.
" Cornley believes will add to the
--oflieiency are more active coordi
nation and integration of. all the
available health rf'sTnnraa^qr-vt the
-campus and "in the community itself;
also a m'ore active supervisdents
in dormitories.
" Ihere is need for more budgetary
allowance for health services,"
J>r, Co'nley rppnrU. "Thia should
! be done both by charging an individual
health fee and by direct
grant fj-om the university budget.
"In conclusion it might be said
that developments of an ideal ser-'
vice is something that cannot be
done over night. However, university
officials should begin to improve
their health services so that
within a period of five or six years
(they will have incorporated in their
college health activities many of
the procedures which should b e
found in a good health service."
?Columbia, 3. C., May zo.--L?uring
his survey of Southern colleges
for Negroes Dr. CoTnley visited
Allen, Benedict, Claflin *and
State collegs in this state. SinceDV.
Cornley's visit in February
a student health service has been
started at Benedict College undei
the supervision of the South Carolina
Tuberculosis Association. Near
ly all students have haiPthe tuberculin
and Wasserman tests. Ovet
fifty per cent,,of them have had
vision and throats checked. A
permanent?fiU of?health -reeordr
has been started and -plans are underway"
to complete the ste-up for
the coming session. The other colleges
plan to begin their clinics .
in the fall preparatory to arranging
health service for their studei?u
n>- w n rhnppi.iii.) ,pi ft
\V. Mance, Dr H D Monteith, Dr.
J. G. Stuart and nurses from the
Wnverly Hospital assisted at Ben
edict College.
Charleston District
cornerstone on this auspicious oc
casion in hearty cooperation with ,
State A. and M. College. J. E
Dickson, Grand Secretary, L. E
Ginn^ Deputy Grand. Master and
other state officers Will be present
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-StmnnEE^fiQoi Starts
Monday, June 20th
C. A. Johnson, Director of" the
Charleston District Summer school
for the next session which begins y
Monday, June 20. 1938.
The enrollment this sum met is J
expected to be the largest in the
-history of thc~srrmiTier school, and
"plans are made for a most effective
program.
The faculty will he contposed ol
outstanding men and women ir
the several fields of education. The
regular courses as set up by the
for rural school teachers have beea
carefully worked out. In addition
to the'e courses, the following
will be offered:
Activity, program, Industrial
Arts, Problems in Elementary Edfication,
Reading Diagnosis and
Remedial Work in Reading, Educa- "
tional Sociology, Chtyd Psychol
"KyTeachei'g
in the adjoining counties
who plan t0 attend should
write Mrs. M. Alice LaSaine, 16
Kracke street, Charleston, S. C.,
for board and lodging.The
registration fee is $3.00 for
the session. I
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the laying of the cornerstone foi |
Wilkinson Hall, the new State Col
lege -Library learned in honor of
the late president Dr. R. S. Wilkinson.
President M. F. Whitta
ker of State**College~atid Dr. S. R
Green, Worshipful Master, Edisto
Lodge, Number 39 are inviting the
public to witness these exercises
Monday, May 30. It is also ex_
pectecT that Dr. Ambrose Caliver
Senior Specialist in the Educatior
of Negroes, United States Qffie<
of Education, who will , speak o n
Tuesday, will take part in thes?
Masonic rites. ?
The members of Edisto Lodg*
No. 39 composed of some of t h ?
loading Negro business, profession
al and craftsmen of Orangeburg i
are snonsorinc the In vine of th* 1
Jber
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BISHOP J. S. FUPP
Presiding Bishop of the Seventh E]
State-wide Ree
A State-wide Reception will be
tendered Bishop Joseph Simeon
Flippei at AllOh University, inies
day night, Mpy 31. The program
and plans for the Bishop's Reception
have been completed several
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days ago. according to ministerial
m
information. The Presiding Elders
and h ading ministers of Staff. _L.
Will assepdiled tn rtn hr.n.vr--tA Bish- :f,'
op Flipper, Senior Bishop of the ^
A.M.E. Church and Chancellor of v
Allen University. The laymen of
the. State are cooperating.
t w >(
Fi fty^one rradnates ^
From Benedict Col-. u
lege This Session |>
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uates at Renedict college heard a
convincing address by President c,>
I. I>. Pinsom. Morris college Sum- '
ter. at the sixty-eighth annual | st
commencement exerciser held Tu^s ltl
day morning. 2tiM kDn'tkVi
awarded degta.es to the following: j m
Baehoioi of. Arts?James Alston. 31
Gordon Anderson, Myrtle Anderson
(Cum Laudf) Jessie Arthur.) -a
Bessie Mae Barber. Madge-Barber, 0
Ernest Bonner. Jessie Mae Brown. a_
Robert Butler, William Sutler,
Collier Caisii n, Rosa Lee Champion -~
Johnnie Mae Oooley, Leola Clark- 1
son, Lillie Mae Greene. Julia Mae
Greenlee. Dorothy Holley (Magna
Cum Laude) Maggie Honor (Cunt 0
Laude) Ethel Hurley. Thomas Jen ^
shaw. Ralph Mat tin. Alberta Ma- P1
this, Johnson Mathis, Jr., James ca
McKim, John McKim, Reuben McKim,
John McKissick, Jr., Rosa
MrR?p Fdnsi Miivvbv rothonio ?
McColhni!, (Magna Cum EaudeT. ^
Adel Peterson (Cum Laude). David
Pugh. Horace Sharper, Leroy
Shelton, Ulystine Smith. Fannie
Taylor, Benjamin Thompson, Annie
Lee Vincent, Alex Walker, Jr.,
Elpl Watts, John Zimmerman.
Bachelor of Science?Louis Gibson,
James1 Hopkins, Edmund McDonald.
William Albert Ross, Jr., Mi
( G^m-fcairrteTrCynTTbar.n, Robert lyi
Watson, (Cum I.au"dc). " Su
Bachelor of Dignity?Lincoln te
C: Jenkins. Sc
Certificate of Theology?Sam-, of
ue] J. Kay. G.i
J, D. MeGhee. 4e(
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News In And Around pr
Washington, D. C.
_j By J, 0. tfart
Washington, D.. C., May 25.? A*
One young Mr. William Warfleld
who won the National Singing Mi
Content (4 High School*, was a ?fueat
_sing?r on th? Radio pro
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EH, A. M.. D. D
>isro|>al District, A.M.!.. Cfiuich
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:eption ?*?^
of District
baccalaureate at
\llen' Sunday. & n.m.
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Dr. D. Ware! Nichols of Emanuc-l
. M. E. church. New Yok City.
lirmTvcr * t he Pace a hi? "i*ii te >erlon
to the graduate-- of Alien
diversity -throe o'ekrk So-drc
t'ernoon. ace <jj^n>r t_ ?Jv;r c )
(formation, ^gm-n out l\ I'resi
>nt E. H. McGill in hi- convn"Vr. <?
t nt announcements.
Allen i? graduating a large class
rain this year.' .CVdun.bi:?ns a:.!
yuth- Carolinians In g neia! will '
-plea sou- lo greet" 1 h . Nttm!- as."
h* eororoemeottu nt "preaehci. 1).
aid Nichols is a native of Cranston.
.S. C. He is the son of the
to_v?,ma,nh'e Br, L- R. Xichrdyr
ram "Church off Air" which.
'CI' CR> every Sunday b a.m.
:iis \v>ung gentleman well drives
being the wir.n"r of that
>atest. I have never luurd a
intone with as clear, perfect
\ i.r.cc?her--Tin-rt^wtrs
) mistake in the judges, to b"
ire.Rev.
Henry R. Butler, Jr.. who
is been one of the assistant pus
rs at Metropolitan A51E church
id is r.ow a senior at Ilowaid
niversity School of Reiigitfh,
as sent to Bethel A ME church
?r.ton. Md.. last week. A largurch
antWfcn able .membership,
sG a very intelligent community
Work with.
On his first Sunday's ^service
ere ,h*?the pleneore?>+4
caching the high school's baclaureate
sermon, which he did
lendidly.
Mrs, Zadie Legg ha* undergone
critical operation, at the Colum
a Hospital.?Shr?rs?reported tn?
improving nicely.
To suscribe for The Palmetto
ader, call North 5445.
Claflin Hiffhli&hts
The relatives and friends of
isses Beulah Caldwell and Mail
n Green, ar.d Lois Priolcau :of
imter, were very pleasantly erirtained
at the Claflin College
mior Piano recitals. For each
these, Miss Caldwell, Miss
ecn, and Mitfs Ppoleau, the color
prosenaatiom' of the music
aduates in recital, May 10, 13th
id 18th. respectively.
Each showed remarkable .skill, __
it ncrt only skill, interpretative
rtttty, presenting at will, with
iwless technique and musical
msitivtfty, work# ranging from
ozart to Debu88ey.
Claflin college has long been
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