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1 * ? LIGHTHOUSE and IN'FO^ - ,i,-- -" J -.. - ~/^AW^ Published weekly by The Lighthouse Publishing Company, Incorporated, at 1507 Har ;?den Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina?TELEPHONE 2-7079 1. . ^ v ?r-r? . Entered as Second Class matter in the Post *y:--;<rr" Office at Columbia/. South Carolina, under J the Act of March 3, 1879. % JOHN H. McCRAY - EDITOR SUBSCRIPTIONS?Payable in advance?: * -1 year, $3.75? 6 mos., $2.50;-3 mos., $1.50; ?-per-copy, 10 .cents A Bit Over Zealous d .Suggestive of a bit of over zealous ir.tei~ pretation is this headline from The Carolinian (Raleigh* N. C.), atop a story covering the recent federal court hearing at Charles ton in the Clarendon County anti-segrega_i Kriw school"ftiiit; * . "High Court Say Education Unequal Decry System." \ * Only lawyers for both sides have spoken thus far. / *." ' .v.'.* Volume 15, Number 1 With this edition,. The Lighthouse .and Informer begins it.* fifteenlli .year of pub?? liohing.?As old subscribers Know, this newspaper is a combination of three newspapers, The Peoples .Informer of Sumter, oldest of the group, The Lighthouse, found ?ed at Charleston 13 years .ago, and The - Aiken Journal of Aiken, youngest of the .-L -trio. V '' , J ' ~ Interesting in reflection is the fact that / the pushing ahead, of the South Carolina -??-Negro, The-acquisition - of constitutional . . rights, is synonomous with the rise and growth df The Lighthouse and Informer. ^ - This is true in the first state-wide effort, that of equalization of teachers' salaries; it is true in fho right in vntn n- r>nmnnrpfn, - i and is true in other endeavors. ?? A serviceable newspaper is Invaluable ih the people's movements. We: have tried always to be serviceable and firm and resolute. Our position has', been an expen? sive one in some categoriesTTor it is~weir ; . known that those opposed to the extension of rights to any group try as a general Tote to aiiiflA nnurono ? ?" - ' >- " opujjti o ou^mmig inese fl? '_! JtijftlZB. y: , v "7 ' . ' ~~ ~ However down through the years, road:: era have noted in our advertisers columns * advertisements from firms and services which have used our pages, not in support ~r- of editorial opinions, but as an excellent these are satisfied. Each year's end and beginning we think of themrwh<y1nclude th^ Atlantic Coast Life Insurance .company, Fielding's Home for Funerals, . Taylor's Bakery, the Lincoln Theatre, I. Bash, Crescent Cleaners, all of Charleston. Each, of these has been advertising every edition for 14 years, one or two missing not more than two editions over the period. The list of subscribers who have been with us from the beginning is too long to cite here. But all of them, and they are of , . both races, help keep the newspaper going and are appreciated by us, and will be the moije appreciated generations to come. , =?Columbia Doesn't Tolerate If an MP sergeant w?ere so abused while in custody of police - at headquarters - as is indicated, both from his statements, and the preliminary NAACP investigation, the matter should be placed before city.-counci .. t and chief of police L. J. Campbell, both of who have made it clear as of record that such incidents will not be tolerated within ' the City of Columbia. m There is something hideous about a human being's ,abuse so that an organ is ruptured, as was this soldier's fate, something which rubs the emotions the wrong way. _ ; A number of residents are riled over it, maybe with or Without iust ifiratinn tTTTT best solution is to bring it to official atten tion, yet all of the facts, do what is war^ ranted to appease it and the necessary insurance to prevent its re-occurence. With Us Now _jg ^ , I Q-Pie VIpoo a time in South Carolina, it was next to being atrocious and ungodly to have it known that you?a Negro?favored taking white people to ,court, and having a r7 showdown for the rights of your race. - ,This no longer the case. Now, seeing how '' grand it has been, how glorious it was to be nut then' fighting, though?you fought ?! most alone, everybody wants to get into the * act. VI am with you." they'lbsny. If they are you can find out quickly. See if they have an . : ' ? ? - I'*; ' vl:'. ' . x . 77 i K8W.."-* ?*-! ' ' - i ' * * S ,-W MakedWj house PublisniQ|^| Tpersons ?0p^ v ? ^????^11 ? |l ?^1?I I I ? I >< ! .Ml - National Advertising ket*Fesei).taliv~eFTnterstate United Newspapers, Inc., 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. CLOSING SCHEDULES: News, 12 noon Tuesday; Advertising,?8 1*. M?, Tuesday; Photographs, 10 A.M. Monday ^NAACp membership card going back for 10 years, 'Are they registered? Do they stand out boldly ? Or are they of the "I got to take it easy" with us variety? _ A Tribute Much Deserved This coming Sunday the State NAACP organization has scheduled a public tribute to the parents and children in Clarendon 1_ _ _ /? i vuunly who, aner two years 01 nam work, persecution and hardships which haven't ?been made public, "had theimday jn- court" two weeks ago in Charleston launched a brand new approach to obtaining equality under the law. hew iNegroes. thus l'ar have ht?t>n abb?"177 hold, themselves together for an attack 011 a discriminatory system. One by one they have had to retreat under pressure. But not so with Clareitdon county. The more opposition, the more .attacks.upon them, the firmer and more determined thoyL_hAeiLrrixv and the end may yet justify the means. There will be of course flattering speeches, citations read and pats on the back. - Jiut deeper than these Pan ever be Is the, fact that under the skins of these people beat the kind of heart not easily stopped, one moved only by God's right and a .. strength to see and seek that right, without ?nr>d hi*t"r?mss anynnp Suggestive of Thinking :,We do not recall when, and maybe A ME ?chnWh leaders can, AJleh' trnTver^^ This ever featured a commencement speaker who ?wasn't an outstanding leader from wilhlir the church itself, untit during this year's closings. " * ' world known figure, under whom President ?Samuel H. Higgins of Allen studied While a student at Union Theological Seminary. And Dr. Sock man befitted the occasion. The enlightening aspect of his having been -invited ?and apponring;~ is that the^AME church was born out of protest, led by the denomination's founder, Richard Allen, from whom the university gets its name. The church, as a general rule, has heretofore closed itself off from other religious faiths when it came to performances such as Dr. Sockman participated in. And this now may be. significant. In recent months Allen's chancellor. Bishop Frank Madison Reid, and P r e s i d e 11 t Hoggins have shown an enlarged interest in the world community in which they live! Roth have emphasized the. importance of world-living and broadening of horizons' to include all groups of human beings. ?It could 4to- that the appearance of Dr Pelentan before this hithov1flf, "a 1 inosTertirely "Negro only" institution is suggestive of improved thinking. At least, we would like to think that it is. Someone has said that a bigamist is a person who has had one too many. '1 he young man asked the young lady he was dating for the first time for a kiss, to which she replied: "Oh, 1 couldn'f do that. - 1 have scruples." He quickly rejoined: "You needn'l be st^red-of-gwinjr them to mo br?uiiim' Ihe ill Toady' had them twice." The say that a "sense of humor" means you lauyh at something which happens t<? somebody else which would make you mad as the dickens if it happened to you. s . Hardly any woman reaches t he atfe of TO without having been asked to marry, at least twice - once by her father, once by her moth of ft The best trained irrndimtp.UimwH -hi*- rHplpma into the waste basket and proes into the w or 1*1 to learn what he didn't learnjg suhool. ? ? xmr?r\ nrvn a 1NLLU fVJK \ ' The Emancipation Of 1 Instead of toiing a < h p n v their shoulder and fumng a s bout the Negroe- \vh(< era o g ually reducing .iiutLius .7. practices based ' ii racial V. u ground. whr'e pe-pic. parties g arly in the South. . tigra l.> happy these changes are s i;-..: < place, because th.c white u is 'much more enslave ! to la*- p than, is the N< em . ? Has cns?.av - - 1 as' much out of jj harmony with today's civibza- ^ tlOn as tbe horse and hu^i'v r or the old candlelight of a hu > dred vears ago 7? Lgf. look at?a row of?Tie S pressures bel^ against a sou*h- c ern?white man.?which?rrnnpe' n 1nH n "I fi-eil'if.- 1 p existence and a veritable lie f; In the first place, he is honest t< at heart, wants always to bo ' s good fellow and carry a good n name. He believe in hi< C" 1 t< his church and his fountry. In h this respect, he is the exemp- fci lary .citizen. d He is progressive ?n busio"s: p he's industrious an,j ambitious Rut when confronted with tiv h "Negro" question, he chang < f< character completely. i>r -d p least gives the appearance ' ^ <loing. so. He wa< ind n (r"h".T'' T t~j while t> Idhre Mvmt . ? ? with a ra< ial. Mipcri ; ty 'T -p mar,v times hasn't a woe v,n tl KENDRIX K< Support The Negro Co ATLANTIC CITY. NJ- An" " appearant t- here as -peaker Alpha Thcta I.amha, lot al tor of Alpha...fraternity, in .t> j annual xulut ;itiu? mooturp mc an opportunity t..< i?-f; : t I III1IIH! t int rr-TT t^."- I h;u .-have , the development tV Ann-raj's largest minority. Further, T h;el the npoor pose the su|\#ort of the No- p gro private college. I have < <>o< 1 ti> this conclusion" We .ire t our private colleges arvl tie v jm i i the assistance that the 1JNV N is giving. 1 In the early days of t^eC.-! ^ lege Fund movement, I :mi>l c admit, as some of mv reach ^ will too. that I hari some mis- J savings aboivt this cii rv * effort th,at came forth from the V thinking f Tuskc^c' Fret s CHANGING Phe White People ,'hito v hilci said alou(| ,< |-4 trv* trect. '\Mama, there-' a rvgCT? ' r- As in- nr?Ws. his associat' . - -* < : : . rhisper, biMii themselves toother in * brigande again-: ae Negri . the Jc\v. the tri'e.gn r. the Catholic. And hry t p penalties again-t any \yh'it * i.-rs' n who peTs oi;t vrf the f mnsti r-mind and suoev.i" acc. Tin- result is that though he ^ " " hanges his mind after gat1 < i iU v ..lid?i}' t;t-1 r-?hr?' ani'ni?r ape his false role.. Should tie efv hi- peers- nnd' assoerites e pays through the lo.h; of business: -he?tt;?ostroei/e^' : >>iallv; his?daughter, his sons, attle the -neers through t< ar? nd their whole social outlook - dented, iirst because tin ' /ou.dn't he what they didn't are to be. And, it co>t ntv dollars and onjs. tort'. I'M I ho riu iaVt/M outh, the white man. categor: ally as dooi as the Negro, ijt Txed more than necessary totlihlir ortiionti.m and for noblio vejbtie-_. Both pay for two sy-?ms of these when one woyla iifliee. In establishing. a bus: ess -or a servire. he ha^ to go a the expense of lncreas'tv; lidding eost- for partitions. ft. r aro cooking pots and set . >< ishes. where one <s all needed ?r what he had :n nv.rul Then, uj comniiiitity living, o pays again f<?r be lias to : ? ! every day the contempt r i s ' <lnrk-skinnori neighbors, oncler about thorn and fnrevi i "v bend fbackwards t r, vo ' . ,v-;|lv -i . !' v/hrd inn-, i- tk'W link ho DMMENTS liege Fund Red Hill." A.v for the others, the y were ' " 'Mi c,,n"?rn t . >?? 'eft thrtt the states had T t TtT'.fi. v. and. t .ereFT," ' ' ' i..; '' > '' j i h > f ! i; n 1 i i ~u- ??^h~ -'rtM n 'V-.'vhd f?t+ro?i>i v.i'r : ol'rge t*. W s on! >f business" attitude. It .a-, nd still is, shirid by many Most of the Negro milage hat o\idc(| a half, renturv .11 i'ere private cellegc-. t ,nd e ? LU LLu. >? U-rt <1 men and women and y 111> orted by the n.tkob and"dinuts rom the Rund.iv ' y nd Up. s(ii11 p'1:1.1 pt'm <>py. A1 n'' 1. t elthont an <1 "ptmn. , ;ro state Miporb-d olletres <>' odav were or.vately -.rear, zed To the knowledge t t'n s vriter. Mississippi's' Aleejrn iUdlogo W4*4J- Uve on I v -Nee r-* tate. institution known as oIlrge~TrTrnwe d- inceptw>n u". ler tate suTutorf. -prior tn Unto aekson College,. at J at ks?>\ dississippi, now a state in-tit oi|rces until twelve or thirteen ears *ago jhd /pyL -*w/v o Tr-/* t By John H. McCray It is a wonder that rhurc white men don't wind up in the "bug house" than d<v because ior--ito which they must pa.k the pressure?the fal$e be'hav' attention throughout their lives is chough To Truck tne soundest brain. With the Negro, it is entirely different. He ' doe-n't have U worry about being ostracized il iio fights- fur. ^hangeSj. He cannot get any farther awav ir>:r the whitv man than now, anci he stands to suffer the more il he is found against fighting., Mure imd ni'iu\ recent 'v whi'e men have confided to Negroes that this gradual Temova of pi'o.curing custom* is mean ?ing a smoothier and hqpniei life for the white people. Fn instance, ot e prominent mar is angry with himself now Jot having stood opposed to Negrr voting. Now that voting is t fact, he is happier a*\<? a pMhtd er citizen. This matvsr is ne longer on^ histnind. Another hopes that school segregation will he removed. Opposed to this kind nt change at first, he will "be much relieved when this problem aT - lows both races equal chaneef to develop and learn, and ?arl shall no longer squabble witithe other. At heart. the white mar wants to do right. But c us too' forbids He dares not to ilial lenge the custom lest hi; pen alty is unberable. Therefore he i-' d( veh ping more aor..v< i at ion for Negroes who do to* challenging because, at last h' i- seeing that the ehaUeuiitc portend an emancipation r~ v. t /-?- _ t - uiiiiM.il mini h inrrii 01 sic'ivc r> much \vor?e than that-once in ' HictOfj upon -\meriean ' J?vr<T : Bv M. H. KorrdrW ? > ' 'bany. Fort Valley rnd Tvavanal . were all started by private os religious gr.iip^. Alabama State College. at Montgomery, Flor irta A and M at Tallahassee Southern University, at Bator 'b ii"e. ;-rd South Carolin t'eVi-).;.. ^ Ornnt'ehinur other rvanmle.; of private!'. initiated t vtitutiens This piece-'s not designed t< debate T-i Negro college a m e.. Cnrh r.ly. we can build ; a-e \< hi h would without ?sub-l.irliMi "The prtsif ior iiai Amc":-"?. never needed tfi< Negro "allege. Still the fac remains fh\4 m 1900 these in rdntions pta.fi.ated lnfi harh ctors. while fifty years late; thov issued 13.10ft such degree n one graduation season >ly venture" would place fl! fx reenf c,f ..ur nat on's Neg-i * Mlloi/l* MPOI / O ? *-? 4 1% i ilunini associations of the N'^L'rn rrfffejjes: Some, of oui s> t cut :!:itvlir tz porsonalitic: jn v - ? us f:r?I<Is of a tivity or< erndintes of the private vol which comprise thq Unit cd N< gr,> (.'d\ ?o Fund >up ~ To nnmo a few? Congvessrhar William L. Dawson, Fisk University; Walter White, Atlanta University; Mordecai Johnson Vim ,'rous? College; Trumar k ... ... . : i ?.' . ?' *; * \ * r^t: . ' .?. V / '* '' V* . ' ' -r~z?..;. i i. j^ryrmmm^ jwEEKLYSE They Have Not Failed ^ By Joseph A. Breiff "Hi * Yett (jorVt really -realize, tm-~ til you. se^ your father dead. Tlien for a while it Seems that - God Himself has eHed. fall from the heavens, and the sun fetop giving its light. You - feoffor a moment that something must happen like .the earthquake and the darkness of Golgotha. -Your father was only a man; hut somehow he represented (although you did not know it until he was gone God to yttu "But lie did. Impossibly, incredibly, he did. And all at once you stppped taking him for granted; stopped taking fatherhood for granted; stopped taking God for ?granted. ?? MEANING UF KA'l'HKKHOUf) Suddenly you saw that yourfather need not have been your father. You saw that he need - not have devoted a "lifetime to lovmg you and oaring for you. Above all .. (heairt-stopping thought!), you realized that God too might have Chosen not to be your Father. Thun ;>n?avalanche cif under-? " standing Ihundcrr^ upon you. and vou knew something x ' \ ' the eternal meaning of pa. ternlty. It seem- that God trusts us - . WEANTS 'N' A Picture Of Tranqui By \V. M. Bowman ' . In these days of strife and I division, with divorces and war f un every side, it may be true that there is peace of some kind in?the world.?bill we sadrlnm see it manifested. r? TJh ye;,?1?- -r know we r a lot of r about this- of v' i peace; we see a lot written a) bout the unir ^ i vorsaf desire ! for peace! Yeti we see IBttlefl dene in *jv ac?^ - ilve way to " ' promote that desire. It may sound-startling;?but? it is a fact that two thirds of ?Tr>ar*r'npo" 'n the- United Stutes of America end in the ^ djvorc^-efnjrts. Why this is true? 1 no expert has not b.een able to trace it to a definite cause. I reckon it is just like race i ... ... prejudice. we cannot trace it to any definite cause except^ that of ignorance. Th;s writer always likes peace and harmony but not at price. I like peace and harmony but not when I must be a coward anj let others i. ample A person?asked ruy a few days ago, what I had against shows. I told them nothing, except the show I would like to see is always' at a jim crow theater .and I will not walk up any second flight of stairs of second class citizenship just to see a show. I can hear you saying now. "Bowman what does that hav tu do with your subject?" Well. to ieii me uum, nomine ex1 eept that when a show tomt-t to town that. I want, to see, there m tin in mo: bw^aiw"? }?have to?war?nuninO?desire.? , Gab-on. Sr., Atlanta University; Carl Murphy. Howard Univorj sitv -.Thurgood .Marshall., t.ineoTn of Penn.; Mary Bethu*oe, p-RnrtuT-SeMt'.a Collegeand otlt-? " FFs! ?????????? t I would suport the thirty-two . UNCF institutions not merely 1 . fnr what they have done in the r past, but more for the job thai - they have before them. They are in o-sencc moral fortresses , V of the AmericafY concept of ] life They ran jxiint fTTe" way to a ^meaningful democracy, if , rhoy are financially able to f n'a'ritain thrni<cIves. ? 4 Of va?t importance is the fact ? 'hat they are free of the shifttrig sarxis of political thought, which in mo-t instance* drive hlllL lillo thi-\. hparfg r->f tho areas t > which have given them birth. I The private Negro college rep-* J > resents & strong bulwark of a- < cademier and eyprassive freedom j ' ?and thefr {leadership gives ?j TT?~ - *1 *' I -U I "" .==aM !? * l In Fatherllness ? ? r*?r^k and that we do not fail Him. It means that He placet in our poor hands His tremendous title of Father; an^ we do not " spoil it. To this day,' tho word Father > falls npbty ori4he-?tf- ttnd into"?the heart. ' ' A It mjeht not. It might be the most hateful word ; in all-languages. -J But it la good. It is not un worthy of God. STANDING IN GOD'S PLACE And. that is because, what-: ever else rr>en have failed in,, they have not, by and large, faile^i in fatherliness. They have stood fairly well la the place of God for their?Ij sons*. And their sons love them. And bless them. ' Men wonder, when fathers are dead, WhelUei Lire? sun will ever_rise again, and*. , after due thought ,adore God' better for having known God's associate fathers. - . "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Irinfldnm rnmc Thv \yill be done on earth as it is in hea- ' ? f * ven. . . I Mr?Rrniff. the author ol UClb IN OUR HOUSE. America 'f* Press, is himself the father of a lovely jfamJly of. seven children. ? COMMENTS lity ' | and there is no peace an<i tran- < quilitv in me.' Now to get back to my subect, 1 saw a picture or*~pfeace and tranquility near my home a few days ago. I walked out In the back' and I saw birds J singing and providing {or their loved ones jM a quiet arid peace- Um ful setting. I came around to 1 the" side of the house and J jjiuughl to-myself how mat would be if the entire world would work together the same way, I icduued-the cqualiuu to M the United-States of America: I nougni now 900a 11 would M a tf tt? nation drop in vagbgationa and came togetfr- . M *?rv, I reduced it even further: I thought how great it would be I if the South would eliminate it* I -foolish prejudices and work to* 1 gother;?all?the people. ro-. gardless of race, color or creed. Then I thought that I had a far off dream, but I am certain that this ig* not a dream, because just as I passed the house I saw a young coupe sitting on ' \ the porch with arms around each other, not talking but just sitting and enjoying the cool refreshing breeze. What is so unusual, you say, about seeing a young couple with arms aroumi each- ^>ther? Ja not tfeu is. true, but this was a young married couplej and usually ayoung 'married/couple is either biting each other's head off so t0 speak, or they are trying to company, so wnen 1 see a young married couple enjoying each other's company, I ap ' _ i- ; " v.-, plahd. If you could have seen this picture you would have said that this truly was the . ijj picture that one would like to today. u "Let us watch,?fight,?ami?? pray." :? -*-36 JC- .V;7 J vent to this freedom. Your support can keep these <K>llef?eS free and save them for ? the USA. V ;/>: * High Court Won't Interfere TIT A C'Tiiit/irerwf ; ? ^ % MM wvAoriiiNVjivjr* (,Alias) me Supreme Court ha> refused to -oview the trial of Clyde Brow it. North Carolina convicted of raping a high school girl and lentenced to d^ath. Brown's appeal contended INejnwi weie t* limJnSloiily excluded from the Porsjrtt County Grand jury which In- . dieter hi*n. Brown was alleged t? have ?*> ered the radi^ shoo of Thamar 5. Clifton in Winston-Salem on rune 16, 1950 and raped Clifton* laughter. I ? ritroniifi J^/M