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VOIUME X Meridian, Mississippi , F1RDAY JANUARY 6, 1933 NUMBER 22
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Rev. Wm. David
Kirkland falls in pul
pit while preaching
Rev. Wm. D. Kirkland well known
minister in the Me'hcdist Episcopal
Church, while preaching last Sunday
night at St. Peter, Marion, Miss., fell
in the pulpit.
ms FALL WAS UNTO DEATH
According to reports Rev. Kirkland
was rushed to the Hospital and given
the best of attention, but he died with
in a short while. He leaves a large
family to mourn his passing.
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT
MAKES APPEAL
Rev. Kirkland, at the time of his
death because of the depression and
receiving porr salary, was carrying
no insurance at all according to reports.
It is reported that he had saved a por
tion of his earnings and deposited it in
a bank, but that bank failed with his
money in it and has never been re
organized. This, with many other
handicap. This caused this death to be
one of pity. Rev. L. E. Johnson the
Presiding Elder of this fallen pastor
is making an appeal to friends to help
bury this mmister who fell on the field.
The Weekly Echo wishes to ur/e all
persons who feel disposed to give from
a 3c stamp up for this cause, mail it,
send it, or bring it to the office and we
* will gladly receipt you and publish the
names of all persons who contribute
through the columns of the paper. He
fell by the way trying to carry God's
work on. Oftimes the Negro minister
is a peace maker in the community
among both white and black and we
feel that we have white friends who
will contribute to this cause. We are
reliably informed that a white friend
at Philadelphia, Mississippi donated
free of charge a truck in order to
carry the body from Merid'an to his
home at Philadelphia. This soldier
died on the field. Are you willing to
help in a case of his kind 1
Editor
HAVEN CHAPEL SUNDAY SCHOOL
1 Accord ng to reports the Haven ChaP
el M. E. Church Sunday School has be
>run a successful year's work. 1932 was
closed with satisfactory work for the
year. This school is reported to have
organized a Teachers’ training course
that is doing effective work. More
than 20 accessions to the Church were
added through the Sunday School, 1932
The Temperance Society is being or
ganized. Mrs. Ada Meadows supervises
the cradle roll department, while Miss
Olivia Cole has charge of the begin
ners. Miss Emma V. Thornton has
charged of the Primary and interme
diate department, while Miss Katie
Burnett and Mrs. Martha Rhodes and
J. Weidman head the young people
department. Messrs. Henry C. John
son, Jas La rone and Mrs. Lauri
Henson head the Senior and Aduh
Department. Mrs. Lizzie Boyd anc
Lillian P. Jones are active in this work
. . The School reports a total of $72.91
disbursed during the year.
Reese Jemison, Supt
Mr. Johnnie Eugene Porter has re
imed to Jackson, Miss., after spend
the Xmas holidays with his mothe
. id sistetr on the Asylum Heights. H<
,,;J1 resume his studies in the Sopho
mre Class of which he is a member a
ickson College.
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Back To The Farm
By Kelley Miller
The earth is now blanketed with ten
inches of snow. The Farmers are ex
periencing a depth of depression even
1 beyond that of their urban partners
! in distress. It does seems to be the
i height of audacity for me to sit in my
'comfortable libraiy on such a morning
as this and advise that the Negro
should seek relief on the farm.
Manhatma Gandhi, the philosopher
saint of India, finding his country
br und hand and foot in the clutch of
European machinery, advises them to
eschew technogracy and revert to the
more prinitive process: s of agriculture
and the spinning wheel. No more au
dacious advice has ever been given by
a leader tc his people. His advice is
based on that old philosophy of pru
dence: “Where ‘tis hard to combat,
learn to flee.”
In my last release, I pointed out the
gloomy prospect of the urban Negro.
WThile in present numbers, he might
linger there and find some sort of
minor place of meager subsistence and
comforts, yet there is there no pro
m:sed land to fulfill his hopes, am
bition and aspirations. The urban, Ne
gro, like the under brush in the forest
is shut out from the sunlight by the
overtowering surroundings. While he
may be sheilded and sheltered from
the stormy blasts he must pay the price
ot that protection by being destined to
an emaciated and puny growth. No
human group can become robust and
vigorous by being brought up in the
shade. Every vigorous and robust
people must find a place in the sun.
The whites are now abandoning the
farm because of the hard conditions
of existence. They are filling up the
cities and monopolizing every avail
j able avenue of opportunity. Belonging
I to the preferred class they take what
they choose and leave the Negro only
the leavings. In order to survive in
this industrial conflict, we must learn
to out work and under live our white
competitor. This has been the secret
and method of the Jew throughout the
ages. He has thriven on what the
! Gentiles disdained. Every time the
white man abandons a farm, especially
in the milder latitudes which furnish
j a congenial habitat, I would like to
j see the Negro take it up. He should
i value what the white man surrenders
1 just as the Jew has worked his way
to independence and competence by
dealing in cast off clothing and second
hand junk. The conditions on the
I farm are indeed hard and exacting.
: I* is utterly impossible to maintain the
! urban standard of living. But sub
sistence is possible which is more than
I can be said of the urban Negro should
' depression and unemployment hold
cut as they now threaten to do.
I On the land, the Negro is on terms
1 of comparative equality with white
| competitors. The ground will yield
1 with equal readiness to the persusasion
of white or black tiller. The markets
are color blind. Whereas he is hope
lessly out pointed in city competition
in the country he has an even break.
In the city he is suppressed below the
level of white competition and is re
legated to the lower ranks of manual
and menial service. However thrifty,
the waiter, the domestic and the hired
hand worker may seem to be, he can
never be of first class importance in
the general scheme of things. Pro
prietorship develops character anti
power. Tlie independent farmer is cel
1 ebrated in song and story. But nc
muse has yet inspired the pen of gen
ius to extol the cook the waiter and
the scullian. Every farmer who owns
| or rents his farm becomes his own
proprietor and directs his own energies.,
A iarm is a tool of protection through
which the owner makes a living. The
city home is dead weight hung as it
were about the neck of the owner.
This is especially true of the city Ne
gro who has been weighted down byj
■ extravagant homes and placed under,
a burden of debt under which he must i
sta.'ger for another generation. The!
farm, I know, is also mortgaged but
some way is bound to be found by
he state and general governments to
• lessen the load of these farm incum
brances. .
I am mo overnight convert to this ,
doctrine. I have been preaching i; for j
forty years. I have watched the in- j,
rush of Negroes to the cities with much ,
misgivings. They are attracted to |
these glittering centers as the moth j ^
in the glare of the electric. In J
thjjs urban movement, he imitates the | c
white man without intelligence. The
white man leaves the country for the
city because he finds a better oppor
tunity. Whatever opportunity the city
affords are his. But the poor mis
guided Negro has no such advantage.
He too often finds his last state worse
than the first. | j
Some thirty years I exrolled the ex j
periraents then under way at Brilev, J
Oklahoma and Mound Bayou, Mississ- j
ippi. These bold enterprises have had ^
their ups and downs during the past ^
three decades. And yet they still stand 1
out as being perhaps the boldest and j
most creditable effort of the Negro
leadership being perhaps self direction
along the line of associated endeavor.
Philanthrophy which has been lav- '
ishing millions of dollars on Negro 1
welfare might do well to turn serious 1
attention towards the race to deve- 1
Icpement of rural foundation which
alone seems destined to assure him
an important and premanent place in
our industrial and economic scheme.
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BRIGHT LIGHTS LURE ST. HELENA 1
FARMERS j
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New York, Jan.,6—(ANP) Life in St.
Helena Island, just off the coast of ,
South Carolina, would be all right for
the inhabitants, believes Dr. Clyde Ver- j
non Kiser, white, if there were more j
gaiety. Living there, even without ra- 1
cial or political problems, is too dull, he
finds. His opinions arP included in a
study of the Island which is published
by the Columbia University press.
The population of St. Helena has
dropped from 8,285 in 1900 to 4.458 in
1930, or about 45 per cent.
“Racial, religious and political pro
blems have played little part in the
migration from St. Helena.” Dr. Kiser
declares. “St. Helenians do not en
counter hardships because of color, j
They are independent land owners.
There are no conditions approximating
I peonage, nor is there the yearly trek
Ifrom farm to farm so frequently found,
| in the, cotton and tobacco areas. Al
though poor county schools exist. Is
landers have access to Penn Normal,
I Industrial and Agricultural School, an
| institution unsurpassed by any of its
kind in the country.”
i Many of the inhabitants who have
left St. Helena now find their homes
in this city.
BOY MURDERS BOY
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| Lewisburg, Tenn., Jan., 6—(ANP) In
a fight at a dance hall Saturday night,
Marshall Ledbetter, 18-years-old white
boy, shot and killed James Moore, 18.
The fight is alleged to have started:
over a debt.
J. R. E. LEE RECOVERS FROM
ILLNESS
Tallahassee, Fla., Jan.,6—(ANP) Pre
sident J. R. E. Lee of the Florida A. &
M. college, after a little more than two
months confinement in the Strong
Memorial Hospital of Rocchester, N.
Y., under the skillful care of Dr. Scott,
specialist in Urinalysis, who operated
jpon him, has returned to his desk
and is carrying on in his characteristic
dly vigorous style.
President Lee met his teachers last
•'riday in the second general faculty
neeting that he has been able to attend
his year and thanked and congraxu
ated his staff on the splendid manner
n which they “carried on” during his
ibsence,. He specially commended Vice
’resident Bragg and Business Manager
. R. E. Lee, Sr., and "the Deans of the
arious divisions for the part that they
fanned in smoothly operating the
chool over the two month's period.
ALLEN CHAPEL
Sunday will be a high day at Allen
lhapel Church. Sunday schobl will
pen at 9:30, Sam Chapman, Supt.
’reaching will be done by the pastor,
lev. P. Butler Mrs. Johnnie Glispie re
ports that the Presiding Elder has made
iis visit and it was highly enjoyed.
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’RESIDING ELDER RHODES HOLDS
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
According to reports by Mrs. P. But
er, Rev. H. D. Rhodes, Presiding Eld
•r of the Meridian District A. M. E.
Church has held a successful quarterly
conference at Allen Chapel.
They will conduct a 10 day meeting
n the near future at Allen Chapel and
he public is cordially invited.
Miss Rachel Smith o: Washington,
). C. a competent graduate of Madam
Jausby's Beauty School in visiting
ler mother, Mrs, B. A. Booze of 3823
South Street.
Muss Smith is having many court
esies extended her while visiting her
nother.
Miss B .L. Brown, Rep.
Mrs. Clara Amiker, of Chicago, 111.,
ipept the Christmas holidays with her
;ister Mrs. E. F. Young, Sr.
A turkey dinner was prepared Mon
lay December 26 h by Mrs. Yeung.
Those who were present were Mrs
flara Amiker, Mr, and Mrs. R. W
young and Mrs. Francis Alexander of
Jackson Miss. The guests expressed
themselves as having had an enjoyable
evening.
There was a house party given at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Uler Trus
sed Wednesday night 1611-29th Avnue
a* which time a delicious three course
■nqnu was served. Radio music was en
joyed. Those present were Mr. and Mrs
Sibbs, Mrs.Mattie Bell Henderson, Mr
and Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Bessie Kim
brew, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy. All ex
pressed themselves as having an en
joyable time.
NOTICE
Give us your local news not latei
than Wednesday Morning to Insure
Publication in the Same week.
THE WEEKLY ECHO
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FINE WHITE GUARDSMAN WHO
KILLED COLORED BOY
Savannah, Ga., Jan.,6—(ANP) John
L. Gill, white, a young member of the
I Georgia National Guard, who shot
i Lawrence Gilmore a colored youth, 18
| years- old, in the back at the local
[fairgrounds, Thanksgiving Day, during
an automobile race, was found guilty
of involuntary mansuaugher by a jury
j in the Superior court here Thursday.
[Judge Mcldrim sentenced him to six
! months in jail and (o pay a fine of
| $1000.
[ Gilmore who was on guard at the
[fair grounds, claimed that young Gil
| more was one of a crowd of Negroes
who entered the enclosure through a
hole in the fence without paying admis
sion. He sought to drive them back and
when they fled, fired. The bullet struck
the lad in the back, hitting his spine,
and coming out through his breast.
Four witnesses testified to the shooting.
Gill's young wife and four year-old
boy were at the defense table during
the trial. Young Gilmore was the son
of Mrs. Emily Stiles Gilmore of 5
Stiles aveune. J
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QUITMAN i
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Dear Editor: 1
I want to report through the columns! j
of (he Echo the generosity of our white . j
friends at Quitman and else-wherc. |s
The Parent-Teacher Association of f
our Schcol, Shiloh, purposed to make j
up a Christmas tree for the children
of the school and Community, especia
lly the destituted ones. Straight For- <
ward members of the P. T. A. felt free <
to solict from our white friends Yule-;;
tide gifts. All of which helped wonder- j,
fully in decorating the tree, and bring! ]
Christmas spirit to many a child who ,
had no other means of receiving it.,
And which is more the Chicago Mail, ]
Order Company has proven itself a ,
neighbor to us in sending to us the |;
contents of the following card. I.
December 21, 1932
Dear Miss Bartee:
We have received a great many
i requestis like yours, and as
we are not able to help every
one who has asked, it has
been necessary for us to
tell many persons that we
cannot be of service.
' But we believe that you are
going to be the means of help
| ing many people in your com
munity this Christmas, and so
we are going to make a special
effort to help you.
You will receive a large box
of candy within a day or two
to give to those who will have
no Other means of receiving
any. We are glad to do our
little part in bringing Christ
i mas Cheer to your community.
Season's Creeting!
CHICAGO MAIL ORDER CO.
I We greattly appreciate if we may j
use this method in showing our gra-,
titude and hearty appreciation to our i
white friends and others for the Christ
like spirit they have shown us this
Chritmas.
j “We as a race miss many blessings
by failing to ask" says Prof. J. M. Hop
i kins, principal. Lula Mae Lewis pupil i
j of Shiloh School.
| Little M.iss Kartherine B. Terrell,
daughter of Mrs. W. M. Terrell, arriv
ed Sunday from Kcwanee where she
had been spending the holidays with
Miss Telda Mae Lockard. Miss Lock- j
ard was the guest of her parents dur
ing the yuletide.
Trainmen Die And
Suffer Injury As
Train Is Wrecked
Decatur, 111., Jan., 6—(ANP) Lon
don Simmons of this city, a cook on
the Wabash railroad, was seriously in
jured and Engineer John Rapp of
Springfield and Fireman H. L. Meyer
of Decatur were Killed when the Wa
bash Flyer enroute from Kansas City
to Detroit was derailed after vandals
had tampered with the track. The
.vreck occurred near Jacksonville, 111.,
md officials found that a lodal had
leen filed from the switch, the switch
turned and the red light which would
lave warned the engineer extinguished.
Iuskegee Faculty
Seeks Runaway
Sen
Tuskegee Institute Ala. Jan. 6 (ANP)
esse Whitfield, son of Mr. and Mrs.
esse E. Whitfield of Tuskegee has
een missing since September 8 and
iis parents are anxiously seeking him.
he boy who was 18-years-old, five
eet, ten inches tall and who weighed
45 pounds, has not been heard from
ince he left home, except for a letter
rom a boy who reported seeing him
n Evansville, Ind., enroute to Chicago.
Members of the Little Fats society
Tub were hostesses in the evening
lunday January 1st., entertaining at
delightful dinner party. They were
ntertained at the residence of Mrs. W.
A. Terrell on 17th Avenue. Club colors
vere carried out, gold and blue. Their
;uests were Messrs. Josephus Kim
>all, William Crockett, James Luster,
fames Lloyd, James Bishop, Earl Col
ins, John Abney, Theodore Faulkner
ind John Pippins.
A real wholesome menu was served.
[Tie Club will meet at the home of Miss
_K-iura Pierson. Sunday January 8, at
1:30 P. M. Members only.
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Inspite of the very cold weather
Sunday morning January 1st., The St.
John Baptist Sunday School was open
ed by the Superintendent B. Brown
with large attendance. Prof. Burns gave
j real impressive review on the lesson.
The Supterintendci*%s brief remarks
were enjoyed.
A short program will be rendered
Sunday A. M. January 8th, preceding
the 11 o'clock service. Solo-Annie Lou
Mosley-Duett Miss Essie B. Page and
Mrs. W. M. Terrell. Reading Mrs. Mag
gie Terry-Selection St. John Female
Quartotrt.
NOTICE
The Negro Civic League will hold
ts regular Bi-monthly meeting Mon
day evening January 9th at 5 P. M. All
members and friends are urged to be
present as matters of particular im
portance will come up.
Dr. L. F. Brooks, President,
C. L. Lindsay, Secretary.
VISIT RELATIVES
Mr. J. J. Holman of Topeka Kansas
was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. H. B
Leach, his sister and brother-in-law
some few days ago. During the Christ
mas holidays he was the guest of Ne
well Chapel Church. He left the
City December29. He expressed him
self as having spent a pleasant stay.
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