Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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; J PAGE FOUR Published weekly by The Lighl ??130T-Harden Street, Columbia 4, So TELEPHOh ~ Entered as second class matter In SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYAB1 13.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos, $1.50; al ADVERTISING RATES furnished v to the Lighthouse Publishing Cor representing ,lt , ? John H. McCray ,v,r. v; ?_ NATIONAL ' REPRESENTATIVES t INTER Mi rotH AVENUE, NEW YORK IT. N. Y DEADLINE: NEWS AT NOON TUESDAY MO NEWS ITEMS ACCEPTED WITHOUT MEMBER ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS. I . PAL. rEATURES --- ? .-j And What Is ThpDif If announced plans are eari now to suggest that they mig old teacher examination matt before long, - Anil while we would not ui ?* the courts might consider, i present for Iconskieralioir to hut viaiiflli'/n f hi> murliul ?ii beaten announced intention* primary repeal acts pf 1944. *or school teachers. USMK^e: phrase borrowed from qf legi: J rigJtt-efr-NegTaus "to vote in _to. ^get^ around" spending^! group of teachers would huv ules of pay now-scrapped as 1 opted. We recali that attorneys cords and boastings in handli banishment of the white prim of" similar evidence as :o the certification plan in the same For example^ ust as one g< members o f. the legislate proof act to keep the ballot in SOr~in office boasted just tw< refused to authorize any pla teachers until, as he boasted terest of white teachers.1* ? In the halls of the leiriaJb putfTic"lftf era nces on record a tification plan " dhd also, . woedt a summary and disclosi forgotten and which oversh: ' the charges-here and there_ ? possibly ehekCecT^ One of the supporters of th< in the legislature, boasted tha colored teachers of a million < f\:: ause wtey^eftme^n-the main state maintained Dy prefers ^cnntir.w. >inrt II... I.HHIm, t r; r on an imported examination white teachers. . .-r?<- ;?is not this the issue witt might concern themselves? ! ter. the so-called cheating v either side any ^deiiunciatior volved, who are more to be j ? sidering the odds stacked agi And had the state made ai nounced, to determine how a uted over the state almost c examination itselt, especially not then - reached a singh would be more sympathy for tire episode is a blemish and tuted. While the state exper edly to "save" it from a. parti groes, it turns Around W k teachers at sub-standard wag of any guilt and holding them which after all, is the greater The Danger In Beiftg Anno f Vli_Wn ITmo n nif !<<< tin-it nap a liv this eountry upon whom the n and whose business thrived b< creed, group and description ? _ bility to get -things done, but story because of stupidity and of the white race. Too impressed with his del gan debouncing certain of his private*and God-given privileg gan turning to others for thei: campaign against him was so ularity, and worse, that for w many years. The community and went to his reward. - . Negi^es, especially those dc people to keep themselves in 1 field of .service, should not fall grvefTtb biased criticism and The gr?at woe of the Negro, h trafficker in bias and prejudic is the fid adage to be remei bad in the best of us, and so m that jf doesn't behoove any of hs.Ty Our heartfelt SymDs Our heartfeljt sympathies ,ar Hampton; publisher of the Pal and nihSf nt ?1s.. fin,i passing of their mother, Mrs. ! . day, and whose, funeial was cc We didn't know Mrs. Hampt of the close relationship betwe a shining example of devotioi . spirt and hope for Publishing a newspaper for viced by The.Palmetto leader an<f nfirye^wrackinpr business, guidance. cdWvfort and inspii Standing woman's heart can b all of that for her son. And CV:': V.. %dr.. : ," ~ m;- .: - papr = :?:? ?^? 1'-' ; l thouse Publishing Company, at uth Carolina rE t-707? > the Post Office at Columbia, S. LE IN ADVANCE: Onefear, ngle copJ 10S* 1 >n request. Make checks payable npany and not to individual* - EDITOR -PUBLISHER 9TATB UNITED NEWSPAPERS. INC.. ADVERTISING. ? P.M., TUlfiDATS. THK KIUHT TO EDIT TOE VALUE. CALVIN NEWS SERVICE. CONTWEMference??^ i ied out.- and there is little ht not be ? the nine month er will be before the courts ndertake to suggest what tior what attorneys might the courts,-we cannot hel]> milarity between the now 5 of the South Carolina and thecerti t icatkm-ptim .3 ; a i re ucsigneu, tu use a simple >1atdr. "to r''1 'rninul" Ihi.? a meaningful fashion,-and itT amount of money each 'e drawn under the sth^rihe present system was admade effective use of ryrrg the case which ended in ary. There is an abundance intent and purpose.of the _ > vein. overnor called together the . ire to try a court fooiwhifce hands, hi4 pTeiLecea= j years before that he had n for altering state aicf to I, the plan "was in the iri A ? : itur-o dtseff-ttnTTlTTtFt7 the" is to the intent of the ceron record of Greenire which ought not be now adows in importance even jplLn^f ew-leaoher?. having 2 certification plan, yet now t the present system cheatioilars a year, and that befrom inferior colleges the tnno -fnr "M arrvf\na/.nliMtnrl? ^4?vv J.V* AlVft [ HT fT; ^JUiUA "with whiulrto fSTrru5"\velI as had the better equipped V i which South Carolinians Some nine months later af re~ have yet to hear -from i of the poor teachefs in)itied than condemned con iinst them. ~~ *~ i honest effort, and so an, nswers were being distrib>ne week before the actual since the examination nad ; colored proptor, there . the state. As it is, the enhas mishandled and prostiids taypayers' money allegicular brand of roguish Neehirer many of-these same" es, thereby absolving them i up as "qualified" to teach, concern in South Carolina. Critical ,, ing in an average town in eighbors had compassion jcause the citizens of every idmired his industry, his awhose ending relates a sad bad judgment. He was not usioned importance, he be1 ~r 11. Aii^uiia utxauau uj. uneir :es, and one by one they ber trade and needs. Soon the strong that he lost his pophich he had labored fnr an t was glad when he passed spending on the rest of the Dusinss, or in a particular I in line with those who are examples of intemperance, lis perpetual enemy is the e. And along this line there nbered: "There is so much uch good in the worst of us lis to c.ritici'/e the rsut nf ?? ithy PYtflnHa<lJA 1* ? ? ??muu w MCVIgC II. metto Leader i? l^olumbmr fly on the occasion of the Mary Hampton, last Krimducted here Monday, on personally but did know ten her and her son, who is n every mother should inthe clients in the field ser And otirpapfir is a touyh ~ fn which a man needs the ration only and underling. Mrrv Hamnton was' ?_has now-de^crted. - : ; r,-: ? < - ~ ^ OVER THE | fT/\PTryAM HuRlzON ^By Jacob B. Johnson . Law And Order ,S.ome of the vets here often speak of the mass confusion ' and dnngcfff" various bttttlc fronts enuring the last" , war. ' ' 4 " Old-timers woh live in the area in Waverly betweeh~Har- J den and Lyon or Gcrvais 6ts. often referi h i? i' i s'k <>,f .one's life and undue ex posure to injury, and assault ' and battery. ~~ bike?most Taw en fore e ment officers the new Negfo pohe-r-trran have done'excellent j- b., of improvement by appeals to the fear-instinct. SucH improvement, unfortuiVrt.t*. ly, cannot be regarded as tinai solxrtion- to matters more deeply involved. Clubs.. aad guns may for a timfc si rye good purpose. But deep these people uiv sears inflect-* id by u hostile white community thut. are - bound to mcit. fears, insecurities, and % resentments that may create new, even more dangerous cntHure-. j1 The aim of law and order hero has t<>o 'ong been that V.r nhysfcally dealing with ex- 711 "sting^evits without thought th rs to the, factors of group tr life ..which create and perpe tuatc them. AIT "Burma n< liua*Is-'-' 11 suit from fru3ti?ited, disillusioned - men and wo- . r men who live in substandard '.onics, secured .inadequate in(. ine. DOOl- modionl gprvifw |lil_ i'td inferior ' edlU'tttlonal fa? 7Iitie> ami teachers. It is no wonder that such people fall prey to frauds.and resort to -i. prostitution, crime and deli- . | quencv. Such are legitimate outlets for insecurities a?4 ? ?pci^plexities. ? Us?'*>f mere wielders-of,he club to curb what is the end result of narrowmindedncss and inequality does not * 31 assure -.peace-loving citizen* ^' .that Ukir home.* n 11H Will be safe frnm hit-*** ' Wattes and Negroes must do' i rqpre than suppress. They ? must Understand the sources of jlUms and their counterparts, and take to wipe . out practices that produce them. ? - " ai Words Were Kind ^ To The Editor: el I was overjoyed to see my "oicture and to read the many good things that were said aoout me in The Lighthouse _irQct?io,?11?made -nte feel good to see how the S. C. Conference of NAACP has re grown in the past ten years. cl It* was my nope from the d< very beginning that it would " be oL great good to the Ne- n( gro and other races in secur- r<ing our equal protection as American citizens. oI In may work I had-dark days Sometimes but' I rem-? embered that the darkest t>v 3>?*ur is-ttttt-bufure "dawn7 ^r I trust you will think of that too and keep your head se when things go a little wrong wnn you. just Keep your head m and things wiii turn out all right. " 013 Cheraw - SP Levi G. Byrd tic 1SI nFSTlTLITt: A?nOAP ? To The Editor. an I most sincerely hope you .... ab will forgive me for writing -fr< to you, a perfect stranger, and on asking a favor, but I really ha am in dire distress. ? to I am an American Negro, ev born in the City of Savannah, Ga. of rather poor parents as and during World War I, I ^ came to England, where I so have lived for over thirty ^ Tour yeftrs. I managed to to build up a fairly successful th, business growing forced Mush- on rooms. G< o n r> n nr\ n fV>? ' ^ >.11 me miv ???u, a an -carried on the best I could at an great odds, and under AV- ah "TfTffie difficulties, then at the end of the war I found my- nv self facing absoulte ruin, still Co I fought on, trying to save my w< little business. I appealed to the American or Government both directly to fai Washington and through the 1 ha American Embassy here in an England, butit_-sc?ms?as if, ih -ars^soon as they learned that pe J wag a colored man, in some mysterious Unexplained way. co I have been baffled about from one department to an- ?r 20 other for over eight months. ' D ^ I * ? " a \ I ' *> ' > ^ ? ' . x ' * 5 , : : , X * . - THE LIGHTHOUS NEED-FOR i These Are Pitiful Sto Storks of .the" countless .imbtTTvf 1 ed c tYcrT, to whom lis state probe, the mock ials and questionable pun- . hmwvts-have" affected will : vcr be tol^ in full. Here and there some of them have |p('" ment in other duced salary ia there is the host of vetctns to whom this persecutn has been a catastrophe, id a pitiful ending to many jars of industrious work, ean liTuring^tlK ltun yems as ty" drew pay in script. The other night we heard. : a heartbroken teacher who ad but two years before her ttire'ment, whose certificate is been suspended arid the ily consolation she <l can get the^ wicked shr.ttling back id forth from her superinndent and .ne state departont'g offir* m In our notes are cases in hich gun-packing .members ; thc constabulary have onred classrooms and hauled achers out and off to be in- r instigated, and this beforp lildren she taught. Why is BETWEEN 1 Interracialisnv Not A In matters concerning race lations, things are rapidly uyiging for the better! Evi hces are multiplying on 'ery side to indicate that a >\v day is dawning in Tare da.ions. Newell Dwight Hila great of yesteryear, \c.e said thai nothing is so 3vious as the clowness of rr trpwnrd progress; and 'tn Jesus, the Man of GaliF, said that the "Kingclofn God cometh not with obrvation" The^ finiteness ?of- man ~~ akes him impatient and at nes despondent over his rrt nrrk upon the world. In j ite of the southern reacinaries and their reactionT1 the South is gradually id so far I have not been ~~ le to obtain any assistance Dm our Government and ly informed that Congress s not made any provision to assist citizens in distress in _ iroiJe. I am desperately in need of sistance as I am now on the ^ ge of <|estitiJtion having Id my home and even the lt-hinil wmi?iiujiii oji m.m. ~ W wmwwmwp * vm?a a w?v iv ??U ?k) try to keep from going t?^ e work-house, which is the ily help that the British jvernment would give me. d not even that unless I i totally without food ?r eliei. I beg you to make known y plight to our American >lured people, who I am sure >uld help me if they knew I have written to the authities in Savartnah, but, so r have hear nothing. I ve no relatives, or friends, d ! am r*?allv u/av??? ah some of the displaced Tson of Europe. Any kindness would be wel mely received. R.E. Fernell 1 ST Sepulchre Gate ^oncaster York*,. En?Urvd ?< ? * iE and INFORMER COLUMB1 kT CAN TVmiR. PRESIDED (OU,BOY5^) HE AND MY PAL CHANGING ries this humiliation, and ernbar-? assment ne cessary? These inWhsttgatoivhave .for the most part treated teachers us com-, mon criminals of tie- havrt? order, with the exception that the base criminal gets his opportunity to a trial before a jury of he. peers ' y>-him tlxoy ? hfiW TwTnn liu larih of (Jover nor Thurmond, Superintend ent Anderson, Dr. Smith and their associates Would this nave oecn mc rale o? white teachers? Fact is no effort was made to police-wjjhte teachers duiiug. tin examination and apparently ho effort is being made to uncover the obviously white source from which ' the answer lists came. I hate t^sayJlLhiit4ustnowrar"~T''npp.v thm I dec iini not 10 teach school irt South Carolina som. 14 years ago?upon ? finishing college, but -on the other IfoitL regret I didn't for I am nJt able npw to lead a general strike "in protest, a step which get the support of every walk of life, would do the thing necessary to show our indignation over a plan to trample again on the backs of cal power? * When this thing started' we declared against cheating by the teachers. Now. wp take it all back and explain that at V the time cheating teachers of .any group weren't fit to in[HE LINES b Total Loss moving towards fnore amicable race relations Negroes arb doing things and going places that looked impossible two decades ago. The most startling thing about the Negroes' advancement in the South is there is - no great -opposition, onie~a beginning is made. The things that we once thought would cause a moral and social cataclysm, are received instridc, and nobody seems greatly upset th? reby. The greatest trouble With the South-today is not its unyielding traditions, but the TtTCk of men and women with sufficient moral courage to take the first steD. This lack ?rnui ,il courage is just as pronounced among ^Negroes ag among whites; for the Negroes of this country Who see the changes in the South and of the South are afraid to recount the progress being made in race relations and ?^ it remains for the enlightened Negroes of the North to afcjorth the advantaged position of the southern Negroes in mar j respects and that the northern Negroes fire teady to admit that the South Too holds fine possibilite. the future of Negroes is salutary, to say the least. Some weeks ago there Was raging ^?controversy over ?? who was the firsr NegrO to become a trustee of the community chest of a southern city. Somebody thought that a recent appointment was the first; and somebody 4 else went back to the thirties; as a matter of fact, Richmond had a Negro trustee a^ early ^ 19*4 and every ye.if since thn a Neirro has sprvwt trusted. It was not without significance that Richmond Times-Dispatch, along with the Chattanooga Times, was heralded as the newspaper, ^htctr fftosT fairly treats of i ? (h ?' A' ' , > [a, h- <v" ' * jV\/we-wethought /maybe, if we had .wa united "states" i here in our a own country rk we'd get along better, too! By JOHN H. Mct'HAY struct our children. But the state districts, have entered into"an ~ arTirrige merit?' un ci rr which the- teacher, goes on 'teaching,' though she may be, by -their recorcU guilty. She is allowed a permit, teaches the -a?ie children and class, the difference "being that the district arrfl stale. cheat on?her ? "iJay^fattcning their own poc-l<i-t^T~Ana .?ny teacher wTTdTs so low as t>> "stool-pigeon" for the white folks can get a certificate to td.'ich o\ir little' childri n how to behave for and before whitefolks. we learned from a. reliable source that it is frankly admitted that removing 500, or 800 teachers imposes, a hardship on the aplored. sohpols, .."but that's nul my problem was thu snappy?rejoinder. It? Is somebody's problem, how0^017 ami it is deeper than the pay of teachers, than even the employment of teachers. These are pitiful stories we ought remember. We should not bow before schemes and plans which from all appearances intend only to deny many of u> honesty and a fair chance before destroying our entire lives/ UufTea^hers'"are being handled for riding ponies in an examination; they are being used as a souw-e of free labor, -?cheap labor-cheaper than could be obtained even with the "get-around" plan to duck cQual salaries. :> GORDON B. HANCOCK sinuations and disparagements. Almost every day, race news items are carried with the finest kind of references. It was here in .Richmond r- 13 , > 11 ? ~ illill l^tliuiuil UU11 vl former Virginia Union footbull great was given a place -nn the Richmond Rebels," a white professional Football team wa^ championship possibilities. This writer saw him play his first game and saw him make his first touchdown and saw 10,000 white and colored fans cheering to the acho his football exploits. Qnecouldnot- tell from the cheers which race Cooper belonged To- the Negro or the white. Richmond more recently haj made anot*? her worth while gesture in race relations. Branch Rickey who opened the door for the Negro proU 1 11 ? T a. icaaiuuai ua^cutfu piayers xo sell their wares to the big leagues has been invited to bo the speaker on the occasion of the launching of the community chest drive for a million dollars. It is difficult to believe but it is true that with cummuiii tv chest experts abounding in this great land of ours, Richmond chose Branch Rickey to shoot the opening gun in this great community chest drive. Richmond knows too well that BrrrrrchTUckey is to thousands of .Negroes ^here abouts a n idol; that nothing could please Negroes more than to see their idol honored hero in Richmond. Va., "down where the sduth begins" that Branch Rickey today is the nation's finest symbol of democracy in actum; that by - haturing such man Richmond is showing its heart to the nation and the world; that there is daybreak on the horizon of the times and that Branch Rickey may, serve a moiAi midwif^ to thr traveling South. Yr < l . _ * . . . V ! I * s "t ~7 v - *'}. " ; - ' SAT An EUitor's Diary " THE SCR People We Seldom R< _ For a long time we have km and terianlrtHlmers, the farm exploited citizens in this sect There arc exceptions~of CP as not to affect the picture. For the most part they are farthest away from knowing ests and, consequently, are he , Now and then we hear of g ? example, following oxrr meOtir y we talked with an alert.eyed who had, some time ago, take] ington and had brought an er c^ops and the productions by that it is illegal for-landlords' over what theyadioose to the^ is .'that they, lost so much bt Just Like We Envijsic Our "N?4id For Changing" lot of.readers to call in their i terns we noted longest \\as tl city of Columbia recently ree . and we followed through and The rpg. costing about $1,5 Catholic woman not of the col s u ggest i o n s 'and points raised demoristrated* as it was beipg A Dofl To Arthur Cl< ?Two of ihe nicest and finesl to know. tbe last 15 or 20 yes Jr. of Charleston and Winfre< two are now holding the .top common ft 'Ids, the appointirn week. Both ha\*e been faithfu important cogs in their field not have happened to nicer gi and. know -ihev-^ai-e-goiiig to t DEEP SOU! Editorial Of The Wet T By Robert Durr For quite some time I have ?beehTxmvic'trd that there- is a . vast ' difference between working and being worked. I am equally convinced that voluntary 'ttesumption of civic responsibilities and having to be begged and persistently persuaded to do what one . should do and voluntary addressing oneselflessly assisting in meeting human needs, determine -the degree of evolvemnt of groups and itidivi ?-? " r^7~ "What Makes For Good Ci tiaenahip" is the title of an arresting editorial in point appearing in a Deep South weekly. I qudte: "Ar? Negroes good citizens? Do Negroes tal^e their citizenship seriously? Are Netfo . citizens, who habitually cry for more "and more recognW tion of their rigfets as citi- zens, aware of the duties citi_ zenship imposes0 If theyare. aw&re, are,they willing to shoulder duties? "In the main, we think p.ii of these questions can be answered in the affirmative if <>ne considers the collective aDDroach of the-Neviv.~gfnTin to the community. In their collective approach to the entire community Negroes are less givgnjo reckless disrcgartTlor the rules, the regulations, the mode and customs, than other elements of the population. They are generally, interested ip questions that affect the entire community; they exercise the r ght of suffrage in a large a proportion as other groups^ * when given the opportunity to exercise this important right they, and their leaders, are most often found on the liberal, the progressive, side of public questions; they have no noticeable inclination to indulge in subversive or disloyal activity. This is all an exhibition of good citizenship. If it stops there, how "THE BULB Sf < , I I ,. *__.. :~j.? .* i " URPAY, OCTOBER 29, iffjg APBOOK I unember / ; ? J >Wn that thg Hhar^roppora 1 hands are about the most urae, but these are so teyf~ the more illiterate and are i how to potcet their interavily explited. ood news among them. For it? in Saluda county Sunday V < 76 year old sharecropper ti his plight direct to Wash- V* id to landlord stealing of illiterate farm-croppers. -\ edTSharecroppers will learn to sell their shares andpay ?fore. investing in a three- . r 2 med lt To Be column last, week caused a ipproval but one of the ilat a certain church in the I eived an expensive cajrpet j confirmed this one. 00, came as the gift of a orcd race. We feel thai tin* in that column were being^ " .written. ? ?*Mr. Mundle " 1 t men it has been our honor ars -are Arthur J, Clement, i Mundle of-Columbia. The rings in their chosen and j 3nts being announced this ' 1 laborers and .have bpen of insurance, and it could jys. We are happy for both - .A -ontirrue our buildihgT "H SPEAKS ;k . . . . ! . " . ^ ever, it is .mostly passive iitizepship that but half lives up to tl,e *ud American concept of the (good and full) citizen, ____ 1 Citizenship has an aggressive side that must be exhibited pther than at election time. This aggressive side of citizenship has as its goal the co ntinual imp roving of the ~ community. It requires- of the citizen vigilance, something of the crusader spirit, and the ambition to make > his community fl ?liappy, safe" land delightful place in which to live. It in? volvps approach of three parsons, and programs thatcon- * xribute to this goal. It. involves, too, disapproval of tboqe who, for selfish reasons, contribute, in any w<ty, to the op- " posite of his desirable foaL' **When the Negro* is measured against this yardstick of citizenship, one wonden how good a citizen he real- . ly la in his owh restricted community. How much effort does the average citizen da- _ vote to cleaning up his own neighborhood? How many Negroes have had the tenrSerity to report vacant lots covered with weeds? How many have called the city health department to" complain of stagenant pools of wir ter? How many organizations have taken it upon themselves to improve sanitary coo ditions in Negro neighborhood even on" "a voluntary basis? How many neighborhood garden clubs are there? How many groups, of any kind, have taken it on themr selves to improve Negro com- ?? munities in any way? 'The sad answer must be, 'a very few', and those have been hardly effective because they have failed to capture the popular imagination. Organizations in the political field calling upon the general community to do for the Negro are well enough supported. ~ ' v - - T- - , agacatsacsaatsgsac' 1 ? r > . CATCHER" ' ~ i ~ ~~?. .- '? ~ ' ?1 ; - - . ->