Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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- 1 > _ ; , , = r? ??;? J T* w?T ' "*' " ?' ' r ;> L . _ PAGEFOUB ^ ^ - . '' (pc mmhouse h* i *g - r**ai?oma Published weekly by The Lighthouse Publishing Company, a 1507 Harden Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina TELEPHONE 2-7079 Entered as second class matter in the Post Office at Columbia, i under the AotoLMareh ?, l&TO. . SUBSCRIPTION^ RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: One yea i? WBfejHngs f2.30;3 mos, 11.50; single copy 10c. f*\. , ' ? . '* . ADVERTISING RATES furnished on request. Make checks p&yabl to the Lighthouse Publishing Company and not to individual representing It . lOhtt H: McCray ..V. . EDITOR . PUBLISH* NATIONAL REPRESENT/ TTVE8i INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS. INC MS FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK-17. N. Y DEADLINE: NLWS AT NOON TUESDAY. ADVEKTI8INO. I P.M., TUESDAYl WO NEWS ITEMS ACCEPTED WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO EDIT FOR VALUB. MEMBER ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS. CALVIN NEWS SERVICE CONTINE1 TAL FEATURES And What Is Th^ Difference? f If announced plans are caiTkxL?ut and there is little llow to suggest that they might not bo ? the pim* month old teacher Examination matter will be before the courts before long. ' And while we would not undertake to suggest what the courts might consider, nor what attorneys might present for consideration to the courts, we cannot help but visualize the marked similarity between the now ~ beaten'announced intentions of. the South Carolina primary ropeul acts of 1011 and the i ei lil icalion plan"" * for school teachers. Both were designed, tu*use a simple phrase borrowed from a legislator, "to get around" the -v right of Negroes to vote 111 a meaningful fashion, and to "get around" spending the amount of money each" group of teachers would have drawn under "the schedules of pay now scrapped as the present system was adopted. We recall that tive use ot Te. cords and boastings in handling the case which, emled-in? . banishment oTThe white primary. There is an abundance of similar evidence as to the intent and purpose of the ? r certification plan in the same vein. For example, just as one governor called together the members o f the legislature to try a- court fool proof act to keep the ballot in white hands, his predecessor in office boasted'just two years before that he had refused to authorize any plan for altering stated aid to ^An/tk rwtt 11 "i I nn U ? J ^ ' ? I - -- 4 4 * 1 1 j tcatntio until, an nc: DUUSltJU, LI1U piilll ,\VdS 111 XflG 1II? terest o IT white teachers/^ In the halls of the legislature itself there are the public utterances on record as to the intent of the certification plan and also, on record of Greenwood, a summary and disclosure which ought not be now forgotten and which overshadows in importance, even the charges here" and there of a few teachers.having possibly cheated. _ J - _ - One of the supporters of the certification plan, yet now in the legislature, boasted that the present system cheat> colored teachers of a million dollars a year, and that because they came in the main from inferior colleges the TTinintnino^ hy pr-nfayprmn Vn[riinnn nnln?nd teachers had. not the intellect with which to fare as well / on an imported examination as had the better equipped white teachers. . . - Is not this the issue with which South Carolinians ?anight cofkern themselves? Some nine months later af ter the so-called cheating we have yet to hear from either side any denunciation of the poor teachers involved, who are more to be pitied than condemned con sidering the odds stacked against them. . And had the state made an honest effort, and so an. r~ noiinnoH, tn Hntnrminp hnw nnswpw worn heiny distrib uted over the state almost one week before the actual V examination itsell, especially.since,the examination had not then reached a single colored proctor, there would be more sympathy for the state. As it is, the en-' tire episode is a blemish and has mishandled and prostituted. \yhile the state expends taypayers' money allegedly to *;save" it from a particular brand of roguish Negroes, it1 turns around and rehire many of these same I'--' teachers at sub-standard wages, thereby absolving them of any guilt and holding them up as "qualified" to teach, which after all, is the greater concern in South Carolina. / The Danger In Being Critical Once there M ^tjy.pn living ix^-At^^r^rnr town in ~ this country upon whom the neighbors had compassion and whose business thrived because the citizens of every creed, group and description admired his industry, his a-? bility to get things done, but whose ending relates a sad story because of stupidity and bad judgment. He w&s not of the white race. Too impressed with his delusioned importance, he be? ?gan debouncing certain of his friends because of their private*and God-given privileges, and one by one they began turning to others for their trade and needs. Soon the campaign against him was so strong that he lost his pop- ularity, and worse, that for which he had labored for so many years. The con mi unity was glftd When he passed and went tohia rewurd. Negi^es, especially those depending on the rest of the people to, keep themselves in businssjor in a particular field of service, should not fall in line with those who are _ given tb biased criticism and examples of intemperance. The grgat woe of the Negro, his perpetual enemy is the i JIC ' ? ... iraiucjter in Dias ana prejudice. And along this line there y is the $ld adage to be remembered: "There is so much , bad in the best pf us, and no much good in the worst of us ttmt it doesn't behoove any of Jjs to criticize the rest of OurJifiartfelt Sympathy Our heartfelt sympathies are extended to George H. Hampton, publisher of the Palmetto Leader dtr Columbia, and other members of the family on the occasion of the passing of their mother, Mrs. Mary Hampton, last Friday, and whose, funeral was conducted here Monday. ' We didn't know Mrs. Hampton personally but did know ? of the close relationship between her and her son, who is L a shining example of devotion every mother should in. spirt and hope for > Publishing a newspaper far the clients in the field ser Viced by The Palmetto Leader and our paper is a tough and nerve-wracking business, in which a man needs the guidance, comfort and inspiration only and under*' standing woniwifs hearrcgn bring. Mrr^. Hanrmton wap all of that for her son. And f^he has now departed. fe,. ' ' * ' kfr? , ? " -V'': .** } \% . ' * r- ?7 r1-; * . ' OVER THE HORIZON By Jucob B. Johnson lt Law And Order Some of the vets here oftei speak of the mass confusioi J- and dangers of the variou ?battle fronts during-'the las ? war, r? Old-timers woh live in th area in Waverly between Hai ' refe^ ' the r i s > of .pile's life-and?undue.. ex pus ure- to inj-o+y, rind HSSanl and battery.* -w- Like must law enforcement .officers the new Negri policemen have done expel let d--job., of improvement b> appeals to the fear-instinct Such improvement, unfortu natrly, cannot be regarded a: filial solution; to matter: -more- rteenlv .imfutveci.-Club! a.nd guns may for a tim< sexve good purpose, But deei in the hearts and minds o , these people arc scars inflect ?d by a hestilo white com mumty that are bound' u incit. fciii's'v insecurities, am resentments that may create r,i.'\v,?even amrt-?rhmgcrrru: creature.-. . hero has too 'ong been tha of uhysica'lly dealing with ex .sting -evils without though as to the factors . of grou{ l:fe which create and perpe tUiiie ?them. AM "Burm: Koads" result from frustrated disillusioned men and wo men who live in substandarc homes, secured inadequate iri come, poor-.medical service: - and inferior educational fa -i 1 i11 e>. and teachers. It is m wonder that such people ful IM4 i\t? t / \ ^ t? O I 1 r- ft f 1 m .a ft ft *? 4 . \jl jl- v iu 11 auud uuu icaui i li prostitution, crime and deli ?* quency; Such arc legitimah outlets for insecurities am pc rplexitics. Use or pip'rp wipldfis.nf -.he club to curb what is thi end result of narrowminded ness and inequality does no assure peace-loving citizen that their homes and childrei .VI11 lie mile Iruin harm v Wattes and Negroes must d< more than suppress. The] must understand the source of slums and their counter parts, and take to wipe ou practices that produce them. Words Were Kind To The iikiitor: I was overjoyed to see m; jicture and to read the man; good things that were said a oout me in The Lighthousi v,Oct. 15. ' It made fe<? Conference of NAACP ha grown in the past ten years it was my nape from thi very beginning that it wouk be of great good to the Ne t i gro and other races in secur wg our equal "protection "Hi American c.tizens. In. may work I had darl days sometimes but I rem embered that the?darkosi hour-is just before dawn. - I trust you will think ,o: that too and keep your hear when things go a little wrong with you. Just Keep your hea< and things will turn out all right. Cher aw Levi G. Byrd t DESTITUTE ABROAD To The Editor. I most sincerely hope yoe will forgive me for writing to you, a perfect stranger,, am asking a favpr, but I really am in dire distress. I am an American Negro, born in the City of Savannah Ga. of rather poor parents and during World War I, ] came to England, where 1 have lived for over thirty ? four vcara. 1 managed hi build?up a fairly successful business growing forced Mush rooms. carried on the best I could at great odds, and under ex treme difficulties, then at ihe end of the war I found myself facing absoulte ruin, still I fought on, trying to save my tittle business. I appealed to the American Government both directly to Washington and through the American Embassy here in England, but it seems as if, as soon as they learned thai J was a colored man, in some mysterious unexplained way I h?vc_. been baffled about from one department to another for over eight months ( ' 1 , s ' i _ ?. T I " : THE LIGHTH< i NEED FOR /These Are Pitiful t Stories <>f the- countless number of teachers to whom tr- ?11) i t a t p?pTv>T>>~\ the mocik 5 trials and questionable punishments have affected will ? nevrr be told hi full. Here and there some of <" '~ ? them . have . i % been able to I v-' h M Wm get employmcnt in other j states; some "vet^l> . rans to whom this persecution has ?een a catastrophe,. ^ and a pitiful ending to many years of industrious work, e ven during the lean years as thy draw pay in script. ??. 3 The other night we heard of a heartbroken teacher who had but two years before her retirement, whose certificate 7 has been suspended and the only consolation she can get is the wicked shuttling back and forth from her superintendent and" the state department's office. - In our notes are?cases in' which gun-packing members of the constabulary have en tered eluasrdbms and hauled teachers out and off to be investigated, and this before children she taught. Why is BETWEEN ? Interraciali??i Not ? In matters concerning race . s relation^, tilings are rapidly changing for the better! Evi? dences are multiplying on i ivery side to indicSTe that a new day is dawning in race rcla.ions. Newell l)v>'ighi hi;? s [is, a great of yesteryear, once said that nothing is so t obvious as the rlowness of our upward progress; and t ?even Jesu*. the Man of GaltIce, said that the "Kingdom f of God cometh not with ob1 servation" ? The finiteness of man X _ makes h?m impnlipn! nnri at. [ times despondent over his outlook upon the world. In spite of the southern reacp" tionaries" and theiT Traction ism the South is gradually and so far I have not been 1 able to obtain any assistance ! from our Government and J only informed that Congress . has rtot made any provision to to assist citizens in distress in > Europe. ? I am desperately in need of assistance as I am now on the Urge of <|estit\Jtion having sold my home and even the ^ ?mm w?y K-TT-tr CA to try to keep from going to tbr~work-house, which ts the i- only help that the^ British Government would give me, and not even that unless I am totally without food or shelter. I beg you to make known my plight to our American r- Colored people, who I am sure would help me if they knew I have written to the autht orities in Cavannah, but, so > far have hear nothing. I have no relatives or friends, i and I am really worse off L-_ 'ban some, of the displaced * i .nrenrt ^/ c1? m a i>vu in f Any kindness would br welr romely received. ? R-E. Feme 11 201 St' Sepulchre Gete Doneaster Yorks, England f ? I ? * c ' OUSEjrnd INFORMER COLUB ' *!. * ' ^ *? - CHANGING Storks ' ^ \ 7 this humiliation and embar assment necessary? Those, investigators have for the mostpart treated tya.ch.ers as common criminals of the. basest order, with the exception that the base ci unmal gets his opportunity to a trial before a jury of his peers whil^ they bow before th<- lash of C?ovcrnor Thurmond, Superiri'te'ndy ent Andt niim, Dr. Smith and their associates. Would this1 have been th<_> fate of whiteteachers? Fact is no effort was made to police white- teachers during tin examined"" nn/Lr??appall niT> -nrr-rttori is being made to uncover the obvious7" ly white source from which the answer lists came. I hate to say it but just now,' I am happy that I elected not to teach school in South Caro~TTna sonm< 14 years ago upon finishing college, but on the otherirtnet regret I didn't for I am net able now to lead a Unnuenl r ifi Irr* ? frvuvAm 4?? ptuitot, O .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 Negroes in a quest for politi-_j_ cal power. When this tfiifcg started we declared against cheating by the teachers. Now, wg take it all back and explain that at the time cheating teachers of any group weren't fit to inTHE LINES ; A Total Loss ... moving- towards- mort-?ami? cable race relation-. Negroes are doing things and going places, that looked impossible two decades ago. The moSt siarumg trpng auout the Ne glues'" advancement in the South is there is no great opposition, once a beginning is made. The things that we once thought would cause a moral nrrd^social Cataclysm are received instridc, and nobody seems greatly up. .. set th< reby. The greatest trouble with ?rfte South today is not its unyielding traditions, but the lack of men and women with sufficient moral courage to , take the first stejJ. This lack of moral courage is just as pi onouncpd among?Negroes? as 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 set forth the advantaged position of the southern Negroes in manT respects and that thenorthern Negroes are' ready ? to admit that the South too? holds fing possibiiitea for the? future of Negroes is salutary, to say the least.? Some weeks ago there was raging a controversy over who was the first Nefrn In become a trustee of rhg cum-? munity chest of a southern s Jty. Somebody thought that a recent appointment was the first; and somebody ' else went back to the thirties; as a matter of fact,. Richmond had a N? gro trustee* as early as 1924 and every year since thn a Negro has served as trustee. It was not "without' significance that Richmond ~~ Times-Dispatch, along with the Chattanooga Time#, was Heralded as , the newspaper which most fairly treats of - n f * * ' -V_. . ' ' 4BIA, 8. c. . ' " . )ent\/we-we thought m [maybe, if we had :a...Ja united states. organization^ t- here in our . .. a own country get along *\4' * * . . rVy^ JOHN" H7 7McCHAY -tract otif-children. But, the.. <?i'ute districts have entered into an arrangement unci; j- which the teacher goes oh teaching, though she may be, by their record, guilty. She is allowed a permit, teaches the swnc children and class, the difference being that the district arrfl state cheat on her pay, fattening "their own pock*4s.-A4id-?my leather whd> is so low as to "stool-pigeon" for Jhe White folk's can get a certificate to teach .our little children how to behave for and before whitefo'lks. During hearings this w<okJ - we learned from a reliable ? 'source that it is frankly ad- " mi ftod-that removing 500, or 800 teachers imposes a hard- " ship on the colored schools, "but that's not my problem" was the snappy rejoinder. It Is somebody's problem, how^ it Is jjkipti ilian the pay of teachers. tKan even , the employment of te&hers. ( ( These are pitiful stories we ought remember. We should, not bow .before schemes and plans which from all appear- *? ances intend only to deny many of us'honesty and a fair chance before destroying our entirp livcs.'Our teachers are being handled for riding ponies in an examination; they are being used as a source of free ? labor,?cheap labor-cheaper than could be obtained even with the "get-around" plan to " duck equal salaries. By GORDON B. HANCOCK race in the news, without insinuations and disparageith hts. Almost every day, race ~ news items are carried with ' . u ? f . 4 i.: i / t lilt* iuit'51 miiu ux reiercnces. It was here in Richmond that "Cannon_Bajr'jCfloper a? rormer "Virginia Union Football great was given a place on the Richmond Rebels, a _ white professional Football _ team was championship pos? sibihties. This writer saw him play his first game and saw him make his first touchdown and saw 10,000 white and colored fans cheer xng to the acho his?football? exploits. One could not tell from the cheers which race* Cooper belonged to - the Negro or the white. Richmond more recently has made another worth while gesture In race relations. Branch Rickey who opened the door for the Negro professional baseball players to sell their wares to the big lea^ gues has been invited to be the speaker on the occasion of the launching of the community chest drive for a million dollars. It is difficult to believe but it ifl tn?A fHait With community che?tt eKp-Ms ? 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 Branch Rickey is to thousands of Negroes here abouts a n idol; thai nothing could please Negroes more than to see their idol honored her* , in Richmond. Va., ."down where the south begins" that Branch Rickey today is the' nanon s imest symool of democracy in action; that by featuring such man Richmond is showing its heart to * the nation find ther world; that there is daybreak on the * i horizon of the times and that Branch Rickey may serve a moral midwite-lo the traveling South. ^ 1 "n \ ~ ' . .. / ' . v i ? J.'* I ., An Editor*fj &iaru THE SC People We Seldptn For a longtime we hav< and tenant fanner#, the f There ;*rc exceptions o i. as riot to affect the pietu For the tnoat part they farthest awaV frorii know ests and, consequently, ar Now and then we hear ri example, following our an we talked with an alert.e; who had, some time ago, t i-ngton arid had br60?ht a crops and the productions v , Sonic day, he says an, that it is dlcgal fori landlo . is That they Tost "so muc cent posf**! stamp. Just Like We Envi t Qur "N? ed. For Charigii lot of readers to call in t!i terns we n^ted ldngqst -vvj city of (\>rumbia recently and we followed through The nig. costing about Catholic woman not of th .suggestions and /I omon o 4 r* f -r? c* *4? tt^o n W II v-tu tio it v> rto U A Doff To Arthur Two pt the nicest and f to know, the last lo or 2( Jr. of Charleston and Wii two cire. no'W holding the .--coRitrifin fi lids, the appal: _.v week. Both liave been fai important Togff ln their"! not have happened to nice and know they are,going DEEP soi Editorial Of The * By Robert Durr For quitt some time l-havi beerr convicted that there is ? vast difference bctweer working and being worked,- ] am equally convinced thai voluntary assumption of civk re?ponsibilitiis and having tc be begged and persistently persuaded to do what on* .. should do and vuluniary^gcT dressing uneselflessly assist ing in meeting Human needs dutempne -the degrer_of evolvemnt of groups and individuals. ;7 "What Makes For Good Citizenship" is the title of ar arresting editorial .'in poinl ?appealing lira Uwp?Souil weekly, ' shin seriouslv? Are Ne'zn citizens, who habitually crj for more~"an4 more recognition of their rights as citizens, aware of the duties citizenship imposes? If they art aware, are they willing tt shoulder duties? "In the main, we think al of these guestions can be an ?swered in the affirmative i: one considers the collective approach of the Negro grou( to the community. In theii collective approach to th< entire community Negroet are less given to reckless 4*3" regard for the? rules, re guiauuiid, niv. 'iiwut" clllQ VU5' toms, than other elements ol the population. They are generally, interested in questions that affect the entire - community; they exercise the right of suffrage in a large a proportion as other groups when given the opportunity to exercise this important ? rightr they, "and their leaders are most often found on the liberal, the progressive, side of public questions; they have no noticeable inclination tc indulge in subv< rsive or dis* ?activity. This is all an exhibition of good citizenship. If it stops there, how W\ ffOJMOM . ^jjj^j . "THE BUIal * \ ' * ' * SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2>, I RAPBOOK Remember ' >. known that the sharecroppers 'arm hands <are about vthe most -/{ I nprtlnn OW vlvll - * - * %~* T"^^H f course, hut these are so freer .. ' I e heavily explfted. ' L/ f^Tgnmlm.iiiii npriffng them For -^eti ntr in Saluda counts Sunday > '.'1 yed 76 year old sharecropper A 1 aken his plight direct to Wash- J n end to landlord stealing of "r~ ; A 1 by illiterate farm-cropper?. \ olored sharecroppers will learn, the workers. What amazes him i ^ h? before investing in a ~threeisioned It To Re ng*' column last week caused a eir approval but,, one of the i- '* . ' is that a certain church in the ,.r - received' an expensive " carpet and confirmed thia ope. $1,?00, canie as the gift of a _ _ e colored race. We feet that the* ised in that column were being ~rrz~ eing"written Clemeftt- Mr. Mnnrilp? inest men it has'been our honor - . ) yfears are Arthur J. Clement,'? ' ' . ifred Mundlfe of Columbia, The top rings in their chosen and - ?niments being aftnouneed this thful laborers and have been? Teld of* insurance, and it could ir guys. We are happy for both to continue'our building. > \ JTH SPEAKS Veek Y;'.'ever, it is mostly .passive -?iti- ? ^enship that but half lives up ' . to the full American concept ' ' of the (good and full) citizen. ? * e ' , * ' - ' ^ [ " Citizenship has an aggres- C; I r- Vsive side that must be exhi-' " v , - btted other than at election j - time. This aggressive side of r citizenship has as its goal the continual improving of the . r* v .??couumuiity. II requires;. cmC the citizen vigilance, some-. .>. anH IHa amhitinn1 tn ,-his community a healthier, . happy, safe, and delightfol . place in which to live. It inL volves approach, of those per*' i sons, and programs that con- x . s r-=? tribute to this goal. itiinvat t ves, to9, disapproval of those ltT tribute, in any way, tp theop- ; ^ posiie Of Ms deeirable god. \ "When the Negro, is measured against "this yardstick of citizenship, one wonders how good a citizen he real, ly is in his ow& restricted \ community. How much effort t " does the average citizen deY vote to cleaning up hi? own neighborhood? How many I Npgroes havp hnH th> t>mp. > rily to report vacant lots J covered with ..weeds? How many have called the city * i health department to coini plain of ?stagenant pools of wa- > ter? How many organizations . ' have~1akeh it-upon themsel_ ves to improvefcganitary coo- ' t ditiohi in Negro neighbor- ' t hood even- <SB a voluntary basis? How many neighbor ? nooa garaen ciups are tnerer ; How many groups, of any i Kind, have taken* it on them selves to improve Negro comr munities in any way? t - 'The sad answer must be, , 4a very few', and those have been hardly effective because they have failed to capture the popular imagination. Or- * > ganizations in the political field calling upon the generaL l community tp do something for the Negro are well enough supported. ~ " ' ' -9 \ B SNATCHER* ' ''/J'."'^0^ * . ; ' . _ ' '-.p : =? ??1 - ; " l * r-~ ' JZ . . " . , -H" > * ?- - ? ~r ' J ? ' ' >i'1'! v- 11|->' ? * ~~t- ' ?r * v y?i V ' !?& ' *? .'X: /v'