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t ^,irTXJT7 II7X717I/'T V' XPUM'--l L«.=™. u-j i r1 r> Vv CL,iVJL 1 ilv^llv/ 'tz?zSo£Zz»~\ .1 News Weekly. j , th«n 10,000 Rtmdwa. f— Published W eekly at 2508 5th Street - - - -= =* VOIUME X Meridian, Mississippi , F1RDAY JANUARY 6, 1933 NUMBER 22 ¥ 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. I 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. _ I BRIGHT LIGHTS LURE ST. HELENA 1 FARMERS j --- ( I 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 _ | 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. _ ’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 I 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 - jj QUITMAN i - 1 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. —— -* • 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. SUPPORT the EC! > / WERTISERS ► %_ ■L (aKSp ! * w * • "• jjf ♦ . • • - > , ffi l :■ VIM