Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fABirOUH PtOriUhMl ?Mkt| by The Ughthouee PtiWUhxti Company. i 4?y Mairdtn Street, Columbia j South CareUa* TBLIPBONB %-lftn Metered m second daa aittor (a ^ Pwt Office m Colambu C, fader the Act ot March l. llti. D?fli iidli Mm MTIMJ ? ADVANCE: Owe jm ADVJUUWMO HATES furnuhad on raquMl Make chacka payab a the lJ|hthrwwa PublUhlai Cpopasy and not to IMivtMi Mm E MoOnty ~ iOMVOB .'nTMJHH iutiomal Mruttwumrwi nmuurrm imrrro wwcrarena, an - |ggj5$S'i5r=S-Kl-3K ^ ^ '' ' _ 'f'V - ; las Thinking And The Gunter Cane , Laat Tueaday niirhl an inquent wa* conducted into the AuyuHt 16 "murder" of 34 year old Willie Gunter by city nffio-r J amen Clementa and the only witneeae* t<> appear wore thnae conalderoriun the aide of tin- officer. Sc?**d4ahl |>rior to tho inqueat Mr a. Mary Jane - Gunter. 29 yoaYold, wife crf the aiain ma^. hadcatted? on coroner William A. I'lojtt and had delivered to him the nemea. addmeae* and phone numbern of aeveral wit MPeet. According to Mra. Gunter, coroner IMott told her t. .. he would send a "policeman" to notify her when the inqueet would be hefd. But nhe never received any of. | fkial notification, fleeing a mention of it in newspaper* and hurrying the ecehe but none of the witnaM? attended and when queationed afterward* aaid they were waiting for a notification too but never had any. | ~v li may or may not be the duty of auch instigating orncer* 10 noiuv pereon* wno can *nea unuauai n^ni In CMW it would be better to put in the record* and forbut whatever the caee, simple thinking, .honest thinking, suggest* that all pnrtiea thereto be eummond to public place to recite their venriona. While we hate to aay it, had Gunter been whit# the witnesses would - have been mnnded tip by <? remember thia incident.) V Fortunately, the verdict of Juatlfiable "murder" by the eoroner'a jury mini lit4,4 from the legal reeorte. -t? It fa. however, a stimulant to the thinking of people who think and can remember. It appear# to be a verdict retnrned after rather indifferent preliminariea. Some of the wttaeaaea were aa near at the telephone. Why Some People Commit Crimes Oh the week-end some 200 or, more armed white* ?taged a gigantic man hunt in Orangeburg county for a 50. - year old aharecropper - colored of v course who had peppered his white landlord with btrdahot, and fired on two officer* who had entered hie ahanty (a run down and decrepit shelter) to lie in wait for hie return. Officer# charge hito with having rushed to hi* shanty, procured a gun and shot at the landlord after the latter ? had whaled him with a board for not hitching a team ; fagt enough. - \ a ltxfa this kind of conduct among the bose* which provoke much of the inter-racial crime charged to Nefro**. Aside, (t Is despicable conduct but apparently one from which there in little immediate relief. v * . J Dismissed Teachers Can Work From several part* of the state come report* that core* of teacher* and 1040 college graduate* bottled up In the sever* month old ntate investigation into the February examination* are finding ? **>' employment in other stated. - One Informant report* that the new graduute* are : finding jobs as fast ai-they apply in Georgia and in North fr... . ?-Carolina. It appears that Qoorgia require* mdy^VoHeg* credit* for newly-born teacher* and that both ?n that state and wmw part* of North Carolina officials are * thumbing their no*e* at the South Carolina certification plan (for "Negro teacher*") and hiring a* many a* apply. Should the rsae be established aa the fact it i* alleged to be, then South Carvlin*'* state government i* accomplishing nothing. Moreover, there i* now the possibility that should stling teacher* with there.poinding lnw*uit for reinstatement?those dismissod or refusal certifi-. caton-.the state of somebody, perhaps iSptrict "and coutt. ty boards. will have to pay all salaries due these teachers who held contract*. Whether The teacher* ,wm k?il of , not. .. The- mdfevve Th ink of ihe Whole affair the nii'ir wr are convinced that the state action was foolish ami the product of little foresight and wjiadom. incidentally. we understand that only teacher* who Ky up and join up In the lawsuit w ill tonefit. the plan ing to km only Ifl behalf of those paying up. This action ia calculated .to keep from befit ting teacher* who are tempted to alt and wrait and let other* fight for them too. Pictures In Reverse *'H (hiring a hearing IH hi* court the other day Columbia : police recorder John I. Hire belabored a. Misaourtan for a crime against an elderly Negro because the defandaut | camo from the nam* state as President Truman, whom ha blllad as a civil right* advocate. Uta incidental residence reflects In no* way on ICr. i - Truman. A day or so before newspapers told at some ; ' , Dixiecrmts in Missouri. This, too., was no reflection, on 5 Mr. Truman. Mr. Rice knows that in Columbia, and in 8outh Carolina. not all of the white people are IHxierrata nor are they all opposed to President Truman and civil rights. They ere no better and no worse than they sre-even in Missouri. Nothing wm therefore gained under the verg ' bal splash. It waa but poor horseplay. Communism No Danger In our nick of the, woods, and among our people, there la no danger from Communism. We aee and know Communism to be unAmerk-anism and ary therefore bitterly opposed^! it. Else, how can one explained the repeated bebukVlPed./'oinmunistk' organisations which have attempted to pain foot held s in our backyards? . But there k a Uapger in th?Buqpir^>fWtofTom f the Ka Kubt Wan and intolerant officeholders who trade | on race and color and who eee^t In 4Mb God has annotated them to save the white raftt \ \ f. ' . ' . ' T8I l M.I MORE POUO ; MORE NEEDS NEW YORK ?There art M more polio ra*r* if* mora a plKM today ' than ,?t any " g other ton#, in United. Bute* hietory That ta no rraaon ^ why It la coating a lot ) mora tnonrv to ?am Uh patient* rm ;A;v;:' Medical expert* at the National Foundation for Infanjj| tile P?raly*l*. who huve been ' charting thr thrgrta of the polio vlrun ai nee January A firat. dated a change in the Incidence' pattern of the dia eaaathia year Instead of a wr-e. ..f .h?rr. .-.an enlrited outbreak* in itpn'lflc lor all . v tie*, ar in former ycer^ MM* has brought widespread incidence't<> almost every air-lion of the country , they da , , : * _ I ~ At Cpwtfn^f Ifrnftquartera. where report* pour in "from II )miU of t he nation 'round thr t iInTc. two large mapa - tell the atory. wl Dr Hart E. Van Riper. Na-r~ tional Foundation medical director, pointed to the map where cluatera of pina, each with a number oh ita head, indicate the number nf IMS polio raaca "That'a fcati1 year." he explained "North Carolina. California,. Trxaa All hit \ heavily ?n the country'a larg* - eat epidemic aince 1916. Thoae were the 'hot apoU' i I art year". He motioned "to anothar map,' thia year'a There were \ imk nut ipoir. mocx oi tim map looked like a porcupine's . bark, with ptas indicating ce*e* almost every where "That's why this i year's epidemic, will fust hundreds, _ ot thousands, maybe millions r . . , * more last year's." he explained. "So many citrsa have polio that thair nurse* can' not b* sent out to rural tactions where staffs are short Equipment 'we wers able to , borrow from area# where incidence waa low last year is needed today for local pa ticnts. New equipment, main , ly respirators and hot pack "" machines. has had to lie provided, constantly * for our mx regional equipment dcpota.' Ttir d seas* is changing In other re?pect?, ttH?. Dr .Van Ripef continued.' 1 ' You can'i truthfully Vail ?n 'infantile1'-- parwl.s Us.'-^--he said. "It is becoming less amf less infantile, sinking more apt! mor* adults^ each year, rfiimiuK'i inv 01 i'?*r? lit III falls in thr below-10 age group"/'- '}" In 1U11>, IV Van Kipcr add-.' rii, only 3,? per rent of ?ho vt< turn were .over 1ft year* of age. Tlii> r(>?i' 7 pri cvfli In I'lM), 1ft iM-r cent in IIM4, and 2ft pf-r cent last year. Kiglo tir-nts were oyer 20 Thy ec o not my protm-ni fo? SRttlf patient* I* cvoii more ?r rliiui th?n for c hildren, for fn t addition to RMeUiiC the high V. "h)rdk'?radulta may suffer low of earning power for Irwin period* of Ume. Many hav?. t?een aided in full or *n part by National .. Foundation Ch.npter*. The National Foundation's r?-?t>urcc* have been furthrr tapped by increased medical care coats he Mid. "This is tiic lugh coat of living in its mo?t literal venae--the amount it coata to keep a vutm alive so ha may i a toyac," he declared. "Our r records show that on# year's treatment for a patient nuv cost *2000 inr more. Tor a rw porator patient the coat often runs to 110,000" The coat of car- in. dollars if Irw - important than its coat in human terms, he amphaaired. Y ' tV. Rather than curtail any part of the. services made poaaible through March of Dim*-, funds, the National Foundation is now asking for dime* and dollars to help provide continued care for s<;. patient# throughout the Unit' ^ 1 id 8uhi. -' Send your contribution to r 1 - qpLJO. carl of y^ur local gogt office , - ' J ! i?.Y/ - " ' v- j i 'V.V.I I ? ' ; * ; HTHOUSK and IN FORMER, C K HHjU i' J, I ? Br n BP\iJ^^B- I ra? I # 1*1 I ^ HT V \ B NEED FOR T|ie Strange Laws O A* hockjng aa waa thedia XtunOJ lltn MMlip * rhtmiui guard In the Eaat over art tton. committed the brutal murder of an Ineuran ca agent laat month, it was dwarfed by other revelation* ' the caar h?a brought out thua for. *r Tho cerrihe . ved aiayer, An- ' w Irrw Roberta, Bh V Vi Sr . by record. their and haa tommMted that of a ed taxi rob driver abou^z^^ year* ago How he roar up to the poaitlon at Caatovcr ta a riddle and' when it ta arrived there ia certain to bg mm inter re ting diarloeurea which have been burled for many For several year* wt have had < omr to our desk man after man who had finished sentence on the Richland county chaingang, who toM of brutal beaftng. of inhuman treatment by guards and the "Imag" Four <? fivr' years BETWEEN The Idijfic Of Perfoi 'Recently llw Richmond Relx?U, u pr<?frsric>naT "TTKVrtWtt team of the American h-agi*-. vigned "Cannon ball" Cooper, a once football great at Virginia Uruon University- It must Im- remembered thll thw M W <h>itv m Kichm<?n*l. V* . (tirnirr eapito| <>( the eon tederacy and i?ir uf the xtrnn|hi>l(U of ientiment# j twiU'. thr It3vr prejudice in 1l;i-hiiiorui,-w luW n?b't !p?.it- Ul. J?i.-,') T ' III I *- nt'Vfttlirlw vr? y deeply .F>Ui1 1 U I n lln?mi l 1 hhrr ?of this otherwise- fin*- cit> CaniK'ti ball Cooper i? one of Vitcnia umon'i ail-ttnw f?Hit 1m 11 lirt iih and lnh *tu.s?of his u'hle4ic prow ins, when |tk;hrotim) KfbrU, a [irrvmu>)y ?U'WhUe outfit, \vn? ready . for a fine- Negro footballer, the lot fell oil Cooper and there rWl be little doubt that CiKiper mil fill the bill Heret t? a Ne*ru i/t a southern oty t>f prejudiced antecedent* and traditions breaking the k** for the professional Negro athlol. Two jrears ago when Brooklyn and Cleveland were playing cxhutatioo game* they had a Kumr scheduled for Richmond. which ?<*t tubqucntly called off on the score that |t would not be "safe" to play Jackie Robinson. heres Branch Rickey arvl |" his clan accordingly by-parsed Richmond on their northward trek It waa thia wrtterS pleaaure to sM last -summer in the aam? park than waa chwed to Jackie, and see rune young white* of aemi-pru t in** play run* Negro** of the ?mr rlaaa. Finer ipc>rtimaruhip and comrade? y than that ditplayfd betwtfn Omm whitn would bo. difficult to . find. Both Negro aad whit* spectator* hoc mod to ta^jr . ' . i .* .' ,4 i . ; r { . r ' , 1 1 I ' ' * " : : . " 'j nil MI UN. aC T/W CHANGING f White Men go we recall Mttng the body ? of ? prisoner at th?Aramc> who had been shot after allegedly selling a shotgun from on* of two white guards and rmp tam e of less than, 20 feet) and missing The man's body indicated that he had been shot in the back axul also that .the slayer had pressed the barrel ; of the gun against his chest and blasted into ft. The dead man had nobody to intercede into his by pa tied rights and the slaying wrnt into the re: cords ? the chsingang'guard reported (This was in Richland count v and from the camps Robert*-directed. ) The South Carolina penal system, fyom the local level up, i* one of the stinkers m the state. liy ?ome quirk, and u a general rule, only colored men are put { chain* and on the fang*. there being but fsw exception*. Theae man suffer all manner* of inhumanities and though they weep and wall a# beat they can. they are colored and the top people heed them not, ll*trn not .to their pleas Now and THE LINES I IIIAIUC the i?rrt?*\" .hieh 11>?- Nrjjio T>?o fine uthlette atmosphere Now cornel th??' encournj; ?ntf n? w? th?t ? Neftro h.?,< tuvn siiiHec! to pl?v for '.he Hicl?n*?n?l Rclh'll Jlist .is' and l><rbv n.ni T.hontp mrt ;?nd I'rt'Br iind. Nevect mlv are giving gotrd ..iii'oiint of ' th< martyr* hi' the iiiiouri, so i' iiiixm h II Co \vill certainly give aictnint of his .Tevmrdahip The point of this rrleane im, \i rlnrmam'e ! * the Kfe?utr p.?rt of CAfniMtigntng for the right* of the rmi> It 1* true ^thfTr must bv> those.to 4rgue. ii.<i the brilbiini career of t)r Dubois has amply dcnnm. *t rated; but the fmal determtbant of the Negro's statu* ts not in argument but in performance. No amount of.argument could have availed had not Jackie Robin*on delivered the goods- Joe Louis has -- become ? fistic idol not because he was a beak- buster that landed knockout blows thai were decisive irrcspec-1 tive of whether those blows landed on "white or black jaw* I Jackie Robinson has done and Is doityc m the baseball u-iirM what Itw* !j?ii. w?? ' dune *n the pugilutic world and the world ia crying for more Now come* Don New- . combe ahowmg that Nrgroea ran not only playl bww like Jackie or field like I.arry Doby but that ihey Van go out u? the mound and' out-pitchwhite men m given situaikna. Aa thia ? written ? Newcotmbe haa f'fuahejd three straight ?hut-out wipe. |g i of th? outstanding pitcher* in the major league*. awl thia m apMt of the fhet thia ia hla V I : . j ' I ' ...... ! . ' . .. ' ? . * I .**" ' ' / m 1 .t ? TmjV syjI w &A> w*Mim^r a / * v Bf % I o v. ^ ?> m^M B> JOHN H- McCRAY ihen ututtmni like the Roberta caw bring about ?.__. rULHVl of .red (Kf? Thia: ocyVttr* only-after a crime T\aa 'been committed against some white persons by men whoee recc rda match thoae of gangsters. who some nimble-wit- .,. ted politician, or hit under- '? ling, brings to the front, put* a gun in his hand along with .i.? badge and a blackjack and hires him to keep Negroes to lhetir place No matter the ability of a Negro, no matter his perfect living record. ha"_,, akin and race blackball him. While the Robert* case was being broken another Incident occur ed near week end _ focussing light on another phase of the penal weakness. Down m Orangeburg county. ? report* told, a cpnvtct, Joe Frank Logue who wa* one of three accused murderer* in a Spartanburg case a few year* hack. <waa *rnt down with the state * bloodhound*, of which he ?* keeper, to help track. thi down ? Negro. It seem* that the worn- the white man the better fitted ho is 10 k?H>v Negroe* straight for the l?w Yet, "the blind cannot lend tho blind." Kith, lly <;OKJX)N H. HANCOCK r? first yo.ix in thr big lraugrs wv Sat, hoi I'utgr, a has-been ., h| grrttt, ipiti hed his way into ' tho big time tr tho evening j)4r <-?f s great career Argument >in w mid me Ha v. taken l\ug . 'In to tho major* had ho not been ' g.*><, No amount of .irguieg 'l? rqi < ould have la tiled D>'by or . i " wl .Ncwcoiitbt' ??r Jackie or ritoil;|).?>n Tho logic , of pot . humane,? is tlw- only of/or- _ ^a tivo persuasive w hen Negro, > gr, ? i;I .ill, ,i upon te i'i'inpoti do, w.th White then. '**i tra Tht* week thousands and aii thousands of young Negri*-*? ^ ate matriculating in >ur in- (j^ ?iiiutK>n? oi higher learning. ral There >? no lesson they need sw( t*? lei?r n so much as the one herein emphasized that fine. argument in words 1^ its place, but the real determinant is not the argument in words but argument in performance Then more fundamentally is the queatwm of the almighty dollar Even Jackie and all the rest could pet form unless they attracted at the gate they would not have had a chance The dol lar ?n<t ?He performance are bad-fellows in thi* TwonUolh ^ Cmiury world Watch Your Aid By WHIam Htnrjr Huff One rtfVjvfs his hardest knock*. How strange it. is to say. From those wlyim he aided. They throw mot I of the ^ocks Along hu rugged way. How soon one's good is faded How toon must bleed Ms feet WhW ads his fellow man He drinks the dregs of ?or^ : - r? ? While on the poatern seat . By reason of the banHe sits in ab)ect borrow " Tv. ' t ' /? /. " ' ' ' . ' .' +'..'i -I j t . . . - I ' . - ;v-. - 4 _ SATtlltt>AY. ^WTKM?tEK IT. 1W In Editor*m Diary THE SCRAPBQOK Friends Who Watch With Our Side ' V ,.;J. ;j-_: . . *v? ,' *\V''' . . Into our scrapbock this week goes a welcomed letter from two Jewish fhends who add, thetr indignation W jura because of the racial huMimns method of athe Sunthmr laundry and Cleaners'here, discussed tn our <Jd L'olumu last week. Knowing them us 1 do. the businaaa fan put them dowrfa* n sale* . They stand with .all wifferinu neoidCand have a rather \ u i?.u> dislike fot thoae who wave the racial flay incidentally, several wiVes telephoned after readme the column to sa^y nothing more goes to this laundry and that is what every self:respecting Negro needs to do. The. laundry admits to operating a curb service,* but limits this to w hites. It says told tlQplojrMi get the bundle of a Negro at the curb is to practice social epuality. H is time to dramatize the difference between dollar equalit*. in.l -?:-i b\j aim iMA mi v?iu?4i%x* -An" >(t a pi?wure to near no# and then from those who already know the difference. I>r. HiKKinM Written In History I-as* week the South Carolina AM Y. church dedicated a men's dormitory at Allen University and named it the Higgins building, in honor of President Samuel H. Biggin*. beginning his tenth year in office. Thus, our scrapbook gets a note it will specify as an example of the hopor which can.comto those w ho labor hard and get the task done, the record of Dr. Higgina, whose name now is fixe<l in Allen's history. And he deserves every bit of it. 7.; >>" , . , .... :_ 'Daddy* Grace Puta On Show Charlotte police estimate that 35.000 Negroes lined ._ ? the strict* to see the fabulous Daddy (Jrace on parade TheiV were the usual bands, colorings and sideshowiah spectra peculiar to XIrace's House of Prayer; But we arc unable to blackout several scmpbook jottings' made a few weeks ago when "Daddy" cAme to Columbia. The rel*>rt WAS that he made some. Negroes get up from their seats whan a few whitss caroein. We wonder whan wB our people get wise and when will they shun these little ranky-tanky def iters of traditional worship. Is God approving this brand of "religion?" 1 IIU I I ? ' ' ! ' i ' The other day we talked with,a hard working mai who thought hia waa the only problem of its kind in the whole wide workl. He minded hip own business, worked like a slave, tried to help hia community und bring up his children rightly. Then for no sensible reason all of a sudden he discovered he waa being talked about and that he was being talked about wrongly. At first, he got angry. He looked into the matter and now regrets that he did. The tales were being told by hia brother.in-law, a rather ne'er-do-well, and on whose side hih wife now stands. We put in our book for him this old truth: wagging tortgue is the death of good friendr." We know of many cases like hia and always ra member that, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words cau never hurt me." VICTORY IS HAILEDT DALLAS ?A no*' victory in. A committee of eight atudaata f battle. against Jim Crow in 1 ??d by Mi Jom-% ?;td J. H. Marcher education waa claimed ton. a profesaor at Samuel Haw * week by the Southwest Rc- ton College, represented the grv>nal otfiff of the, NAACP as duatc ichiKil apphoanU to n rman Harnettw.s accepted at j?trrView on April 2? with tfc* 6 University/orTesat Madual^ Gowrtu>r hool at Galveston to becorrw f fml Negro stu<V?-m of the 7J? * * Uiu?.?lty. ar-old university refused to ikmv? the applicants Donald Jones. NAACP south- of lh? ?roup We represent Mt -.1 regional secretary. louder if of the 1000 Negro seniors hi Teap forty one. seniors froiri Texas as college- who have evidenrad >itro colleges who applies! r?i their desire to extern! their pre- * . r -on 'TasT April TT Tor p*r*! ??-into professional fields,'* in to University^of Tcxax gra- a >(H'ktMnan f?V the group de,ite st hool*. harled Harnett's i la red. "We come to you, Govattmxxion as a "major stop in *e nor. nnot a> t>eggars seeking alms ht of Negro students for *he bu: as free citizens of ,thr State uui educational opportunities of Texas claiming those things lich are their Constitutional rightfully ?>iur*. but which we ;ht" h*Vc l>ng beer, denied* Our The 21 year old Harnett, who business here today is to-, as* its from laxkhart. Texar, wa- y"u help us enter the graiduated last June with a H S duate schools of the llnjve.aii groe from Samuel Huston C'?l?' je in Austin. He had a B-plus.^ A law-sun filed by th?? NAACJinscript and had already been against the University on behalf repred for this term by Me- of Heman Marion Sw call of Hoorry and the University of ?ton. who socks admission to the ic.ago medical schools. A yet*- University's law school, is" am* fi of World War 11. Harnett pending before'the United Stoma ved as a pilot in the air corps Supreme Court and will probably . th tht.*r?knk of flight officer. be heard thia fati. GROWTH OF POUO CARE TEAM 1938 . 1949. bmmmm 8<8? * ' ." ' '' i .1. - '.}'' : ' /^?^flpR i 1 ,? .. ., . ... . ? '* - i I ? ..., ; ' i . \. ;^wQR^ ":i ' V> ' - :