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- Pagt 4 ~~T 3bp -I JJalmrllii Etaiirr I PUBLISHED WEEKLY .110 Assembly St., Columbia, S. C I >_2 I -4 >L. D Alt: - 4 /->? I uvfrtu tuo l vat v/iuwv a v. w lumbia, S. C., a? second olae matter by an Act of Congress. SUBSCRIPTIONS ^ bii Alontna 1.26 Three Month* _ .76 Single Copy .?6 FOREIGN ADVERTISING AGENCY St., Chicago, 111. Othcial Adver tiaementa at the rate jdlowed by t The Leader will publish brief an rational?letters?on subjects o* general' interest when they atv accompanied by the . names aim addresses of the authors anc are- not -of g-defamatory nature, , Anonymous communications wii not be noticed. KejecteU manu scripts will not be '.eturned. ~ * . REMITTANCES Checks, Drafts and .'ostal or Ex jj press Money OroOis should bflE made payable to the ord?r oil The Palmetto Leader. GEO H. HAMPTON __ Publiaha I ft. J. FREDERICK ? EdRo-f E. PHILIP ELLIS --Field:Agetr| L. G. BOWMAN Circulation Mgr.| Communications intended for the current issue must be very brief and should reach the editoria desk not later than Tuesday ot each week. City news, locals personals and social news, by Wednesday. _ Telephone -4523 , Saturday, September 10, 1938. EDITOR NATHANIEL J. FREDERICK- = The staff of The Palmetto Leader extend to the family of Mr. N. J. Frederick our deepest sympathy on account of his death, which occured early Wednesday morning in hrs home on Park Street. Mr, Frederick had beon in ill health since May, bet his many friends diti not think hib condition serious, The -sad news over the phone to the Publisher of The Pah metto Loader We rnesday piornin that Mr. Frederick was dead wa ?shook to uc indoed?: For y?nr<" Vathnniol J, Fredr ick served as editor of The Pal motto Leader and his editorlt : ?*TitingJ*'?* opv. "f.thy interest};-.:features of ourpaperi He wa-1 fearless as a writer, conservativ as a lt*a~lt.?r and had the courage -?-? of his^ffonvictions*. We shall miss h?s daily risitn tions to the office, his counsel, an his ever willingness to further the cause of his race, and ris devif.it>?-. to the work f{- Negro jou: halis and its \ynvl- in d.-f.Tiding rh.- inc. GEO.: H. HAMPTON, -Publisher. "The Old Gray*I_| ' & R*t. E. Phibp Eiiij . $ Last Tuesday's Primary _ . One of the prominent candidate?for office in the Democratic Pii ?merry?hebi?m -S<>uth- Garolmft la-t week makes a serious indictment aprainst, the same. Among other things ho' said: "I regret very much to ece our primary- d^bau'h^ ed as it was. I have been ,i 11 manySlate Campaigns. but have. never 1 seen . as much money - u.-*'d to debauch the white people of my _? j?tate, and regret it very muc^ tnat so" many of them condescendud to take it. Whiskey, Coco Cola and all other, kinds of stuff were used beside' cash money. Some of which I personally saw. It's very, very bad for our people, ar.d if the, younger .generation doesn't. rise up and step it, South Carolina m(?n of money will be able to have any chance in an election." No one regrets the existing con ditions of which that primary was branded more than the self-reipecting Negroes of this Statci lied wc been allowed to participate in that election, no doubt it would have been construed that the hungry and thirsty Negrort* were shamefully bought out and that's why the primary was so dethat hath-wc been permitted, any number of us would have votol our convictions, the same as the good white people, while others of course would have followed those whijte people? in the whiskey and coca cola stream, and also accept some change to jingle in their pockets. Only the white people of this state have the right o f suffrage? in the various primaries. They are the sole dictators of our state's policies. They are to determine the best measures to enhance Its interest. To do thrs they must be sober enough te select the beet mmx. And eioce Negroes I tl Al I ?= \ a?r n<*'iiMa?? .r ln'iii r" rfi"-' - - . > . ?c? . ; ?TTZi?L--J: :/? TT- ~s T. . lusi nanus on me election and eave it entirely to our white votrs. we trust, that they will not 3rs.-to blind their, eyes to that vhich is of vital < importance foi he welfare of our etate. The Golden Rule No set of men-should have more espect for the above rule .* than he gospel minister. South Caroina is now witnessing a peaceful p J. S. Flipper preaches and prac ice.* the GOLDEN RULE. Inruatitude is next kin to an unparionable sin. Wheal a presiding eler recommends a pastor to one >f the best charges on his district, ind as soon as he lands, his first inaertaking is move the presiding lder?-Is an ingrate of thd deepest dye. And all other presiding | ? MAYBE SO ANE THE "IF" ? Life is priniuril^-aTr ""if" prop-'T sition- There are many "buts"J l life but not as many "buts" as3 "it's" . "If" is not only a small# reposition, it is also a large jj >i opositfoni That's all lide is?U series cf prepositions and prop '-iiiuiis. "-"If nothing happens* is e slogan of all humanity. If the 'if" fails, then the "but" comes n. "I told you IF nothing happened, but"-?and there ypp have :t. If you do so and so, you'll ive long; if you do notg you'll lie. If you love me, then prove t: if you dPh't prove it, yau dbn't ove mo." If you* eat you'll getl jit, if you don't eat you'll be treamlined, perhaps a skeleton Every way we turn, morning. loon and night, we meet this "If" 'hing. There is no way on earth to get rid of "if". Do yon kno'* i. 1 A Loss To Nej ? v j1 KELLY 3 tm a ? w^finvn-f . i 11IC rtlll\:tr : van in the issue of August II7 1938 announces discontinuance af er September -30. The Johnson Smith university, under the aus pices of .' the Board of National Missions of? the, Presbyterian church, has assumed tho responsibility for its publication since 1891 Now that the university is assert:ng its independence from tho Board of National Missions it doe? not feel able to continue the < erprise out of .its o\vn financial esources. The publication under \ change of name?"The Advance" vilT be continued by another L"n:~ : Work fc'.V cb't-ed by Th-1 " resbvtvrian chufehr" It" i<~groaty to be regretted that the nam f the Af"!<' > American Prr*^>yTo~ ariii-i forward. It will he dirTi ult t" ,;..oi:'fe:...traiiiti":;, the lu>iltv ar.d er.deanr.ent which have "athored around tHo? original title ui^ir.g the past sixty years to a .eteror.ymic successor. Thi> announcement comes as a udder.?s1 i-e and a" sad disap.nt:::i'!.i ih iiin?v who. like my-l -elf. have been its constant cr o. asional readers since its begin '.ir.g.-?The Afrrieo?.American PreT byterian is the oldest existing Ne gro weekly "journal of continuous set forth ir. the first number January. 1870. as a journal. "Devoted tp the . Educational, Material, Moral and Religious in-terests of 'Kir pec pie in the SoufK ? Alb questions arising under the various subjects above indicated '.re' discussed from a Christian ooint of view. Each qurnber contains the" fre.-hest_and best news from our Southern field and from the.Church at large". ^ For the paatL .fifty-nine yea: a it has ""been a faithful and efficient organ |or propogating the Presby I trial? faith among c.lored popple. Perhaps no other 'Northern Missionary agency has' succeeded in building up a irftjrtf^trrtcrr^ely devoted following anions its cqI;orei members. It has promoted a uniformly educated ministry and held them unswervingly to religious ideals atid high moral stan dards. It enjoys an enviable record among other denominations in this field of Christian endeavor.. For the past sixty years this paper has had but two editors, the Rev. Dr. D. J. Sanders, and the Rev. Dr. H. L. McCrorey. It hap pens that both of these distinguished educators were natives of Fairfield county, South Carolina, and received their early educa^ tion in Fairfield Institute at Winnsboro, South Carolina, under Rt?v. Wijliard Richardson, a devoted Presbyterian missionary. It was In Fairftcltl Institute at the teet oi uev. wuiiara Krcnarason that I received my start and inspiration for the upward path of life., I narrowly missed being a student of Biddle which is only 72 miles north of Winnsboro, and was switched to Howard because Rev. Richardson had made some advantageous contacts with the faculty of that Institution. Dr. D. J. Sanders, completed his education at Princeton university and was the first colored president of Biddle university. Indeed, this was the first instance where th? management of a Negro institu tion of higher looming wee trene-j - , ] elders need not think they wiill have a loyal supporter in (select-1 ing therm. For what they do fori one elder they will da for another.? All they want ^ a chance. Anlj 'officer that will fight one minister t .win ngnt anoiner. ine surne : s true relative to pastor and presid ing elder. When an' outgoing pastor puts down an officer the incoming pastor need not be in a hurry to take him up. There is one thing certain, a bishop^?ean givvj a minister credentials., far a "charge, but he cannot give him the congregation. The same lo t:ue as to presiding elders and going to be more true in the fu'turn Bishop Flipper, 4is right in satisfying the people who must pa ythe brlls. This thing of brand new men coming into an episcopal district asking thai certain presiding elders be taken down for > MAYBE NOT f | tackleford) < | ? - ~ y IN LIFE of any way? ~ " * Are you disappointed whea somebody fails to fulfill a promised p. Are you" miserable when VOL' fail to keep a promise? Why haven't you th<? pob or position you want? Why are you slightly ?issatiefied with the job you have? Have you looked in theB mirror and?observed that . yourfi*. j ooke do not please you? Wlr isn't your married life the perfect Iream you pictr.ied before you I by the Presbyterian chj'ch in the good old days of faith and loyalty to God and humanity. We are told that the Afrlco American Presbyterian will be succeeded by "The Advance" wbveH will be under the support and management o f the Presbyterian Church though not of Johnson C Smith university. Let Us hope that the enduring foiindation_laid by tbe~A7nc? American Presbyterian and Biddle will continue stimulating zeal and enthusiasm for education and religion. The Africo American Presbyterian unlike most of its Negro con temporaries has adhered to its original purpose and confided its energies to religious and educational topics. It has not gone a field into the domain of politics business and industrial enterprise wliicr has beguiled so many Negro publications. Discontinuance ofl I this papor wHl constitute a mdr-l lal and spiritual losse to the"lossl to the race which it will be diffi-l |euHr to replaee. I L V-'Ii ii .i| '? "**?!?? . -V.frt; t > U - v.;w got into the business?Why don'tB' sou have the kind of hair you| .vant Of the color you would like 1 etter ? ????* ??f~ Well, my frienod, I'll just up and tell vou. If something hadn't happenea; df -somebody hadn't icne something; if you had done his and not done that?IF-?IF? (Copyright, 1938). pro Journalism dILLER ministration. For forty years these two Negro president Biddle (or' Johnson C. Smith) university has been efficiently administered under these colored heads and has been ? signally?free" - from ""out7 breaks, strikes and up-risines which form the perpetual scandal ?f tco many of our colleges and universities. Birdie university befame a beneficiary of two good ar.eels. MY*.? T r.r.?' p. C. Smith whom it honored ' 'v a.cl.aneecf r.ame and Mr. P-kel a N :th Carolina tobacconist wh f c-.d wed i: .vith. over a million B " c a' ha:t <i ..a s. J'T.nson < B "vn'ith university is r. iw the r r.'r. ft Negro college which i- ade :uatel E* lowe t to cover the field and -aw seTout~db" aNf t Dr. D. J. Sanders, the editor. an iB founder of the Afric-o American J Presbyterian appears to be the B originater of the term Africa! _to._ designate . t h e A nun L an. v- L ero. T. Thomas Fortune, edit- r? "f the New York Age atsridgeiw this to Afro American. which hasj since gained, wide currency. - Howl ever, the term Africo has a movel Tegular, grammatical derivation. I The reason given for discor.. I tinuar.ee of the Africo Americar I is that tha Johnron C. Crui'.h uni-l versity has withdrawn from the* support of the. Presbyterian church | and will henceforth operate on it-1 own independent basis. This has teen the story of most of our colleges and universities. Hamrpton. Atlanta, Fisk, and Howard were founded and^at first supported by -cligious d< nominations, but a?oon as the infant was able toa shift for himself he cut loose from* his religious parentage and proceeded to operr.te on a purely secular basis. This is not only true of. Negro institutions, but of white Institutions as well. Harvard. Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Chicago have passed through the same experience. This shift from religious to purely secular support has entailed change of religions and mora! significance. It is wide !y charged that our schools and col leges have become Oedless ~7>T~"pagan. They are for the most part non-religious if not nn-religions. Let us hope that this will not bo I-the-fate of Johnson C. Smith-uhl^ VPTcitv Knf rotVinr +V?of I will ? ? rHE PALMETTO LEADER hem and change pastors in keepng with their wishes so as to ner\ are getting in bad graces of oth ministers and laymember^ nd pretty soon they will find them elves cn slids sliding from one piscopal district to another. A ood pastor was taken from the iouth Carolina conference and lade presiding elder i"n the Pied u>nt conference over such men as '.evs. C. G. Glover, \V. E. White. . B. Smith, G. W. Bradley, M. G. Fitttanis and other such men who lade that conference. And it was ot long before the men of that Ten who labor in a conference all f their lives and make the con?iTnce, will never be satisfied to ave blue green rank strangers laced over them. (To be continuea.) I .f T MS Vli-nnno nil nnr?KTTFF3" ST. ALBAN TR. SCHOOL The eight weeks ??nmer seson will come to a close the 9th. me enough for students finishlg thew* h'gh school jurogh?this 7 .immer to enter collc*ge. Miss Dorothy Putman is ex- ; ecting to take nurse training at '? olumbia Hosnital and Miss Ma- talyn Mattison is planning to en ? ir Claflfn. .Hc Messrs^ Sm^g nnd?Johnson of eenville visited , the school last eik when they enlisted a hum- ^ ei^of voices to help make dpi the ^ ne thousand vfice chorus class j. ^ sing at the Stadium. The student body and teachers ? orshipped with Rev. "Barton and a is people at Rocky Creek Friday d isrht dur'Pf th" 'ff'-i^el The students were very glad to"IV inve Misses Virginia Humbert o CLAi . ~ Stand AFTER 69 YEAI I . 70TH S TlEFKQToay * . ... __ .... Inatruc demic t Coursei ] ^ Culture Social, Total ? Special Witts of Prof. Witts ilf to be great, but the fool links himself to be most imporint, in other words the foolne gr knows thn^ hg is a fool -until imeonc iias proven ft to him. lessed is the fool that knows he v a fool, but woe unto the fool ho doesn't know that he vs a oo'l. The education of the fool > consummated before it began, ut the wise man is ev?r. .seeklne nbtVledge."l' ~ T? (Copyright applied for) fr nd Hattie Johnson former stuents of St. Alban now living ( in Ireenville visit them on Mondky. liss Humbert is a 1938?graduftte f- St. Alban and hopes to e^tei FE# Orangebi ard tiber Bh>>?. ^ C-prrpPU. tion direet^HDy^ iaxpOTtencecF Gaining. * ; modernized and adapted to i n Religious and Moral developn -1 i ? i uucauonai expenses (less bos opportunities for Belf-boardir ion, address: IH t crtAPEu l bSw*> .,., I PL"1. ,jr'"'i|" *'-^"^j11' ij j^p, :i.. ,. ^ IS OF SUCCESSFUL iESSION, WEDNESD ^HTj: > J2)/NC . ------s [college this fall. Miss Johnson was! Iwas a member of the 8th grade! ?"* * fii. 1;?_ ?ll win pnxer cjvtfrun^. riro^ ntn, m so pleased to have Mr. Elijah Bla^J sengame a former student. Plans are now being made tqU have a large enrollment Of boaril| " Djsmao:o.or^o?jc>:o??X):o.oo;oo.o o c f MORRIS I SUMTE I - the Pride of N I" HIGH SCHOOL -I TdHERAL AF I ; ^ THEOLOG x .faculty made up of i 3 TTniv^rcjitipQ Ovarii < I 1938/ . . " I ^ ? -y-- ia fYflSffljjSiiffl RBWwW "g Kiermzzy ig provide^ for girl*. J. H. Rnnriol jj of responsibility in cH | try and*commerce. ? Opens Sept< I feEGTSTRTATlO\ SI jg Rates Reasonablie. Catal | : I. D. PI NSC 'gqowo^^aoo:oooooooooooo< urg, S. C. at Arts Cc OPERATION WILL O \Y, SEPTEMBER 14, MfaMMa?nHMMjl VUMToKl TO/Z.Y f V/?uJ J * professors of highly specialize* rrdividual and social neads. icnt of the individual streaaad. ird) exceptionally moderate. * xfex- ."*. * . >V- f*\' CrtrrtPDg <SC?\j& ?.<-:. *'7 " KJlkffOKf -?L. 0^-e/v7/Ti<e/ J aca- .. * ? * "1 > . lpht PrMicUnt . :V? " _ . ,v rf . aturday, September 10, 1936. ing students this" fall. Applicn. tions are coming in daily. ^ PA Y UPY OUR SUBSCRIPTION" ) o <.? o oo o o.o.o o 00:00 O OO o OC 00^ COLLEGE J R, S. C. L: egro Achievement, ~? - s egro Baptists 3 UCATION | V H*S ^ . _y Jj ' 1 rlCAIT SCHOOL. graduates of leading ? * j gates -occupy places | . lurclv-school, indus^ g I ^ &. jmber 15th | CPT. 1.3th and 11th louue Sent upon Request. $ f I )N, President | SPB ? - ?1 ? ? PEN FOR THE