Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? I " ? \ ?-LIGHTHOUSE and INFORMER, COLUM i amn , i: :' . ' : ... . _ ; , . / t ' : '"* ' " I . 1'' I ^' ? I ., Published weekly by The Lighthouse Pub- I lishing Company, Incorporated, at 1507 Harden Street. Qilnmhii. ,t, Smdli TELEPHONE 2-7079 3 ? ? . ? ' r Entered1 as Second Class matter !n the Post Office at Columbia,. South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. . ^ : ^ " JOHN H. McCRAY IZT^ V. . EDITOR SUBSCRIPTIONS?Payable in advance?: ( 1 year, $3.75; <i mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1.50; 1 per copy, 10 cents Then, We'll Go It Alone- 1 _ ( The number of Negroes living outside of s the South" who arc giving comfort and re- . i?' h prieves to t he demagoges and despotic, puny politic iaiM duan^jfuiu seem?to be oh the " increase. Southern dailies turn up ncrw and ;| then lull of rcpnni ^ Ish^mv - writers, 5 who <? <? nnUiin^ ?with nOl'Olld?C status down South for Negroes, and who see ) the South solely as a land of opportunity 1 for Negroes. One of 'these non-south dwellers, a Misi ' Marjorie McKenzie, a Washington lawyer, ' (we think) and columnist 011 The-Pittsburgh 1 Courier, took us of South Carolina to task 1 1 J ( for attacking the Plessy Pv. Ferguson su 'preme court ruliifg, which has served as the-basis for jimcrowism these lust 53 ui 54 . years. . Because she lives in Washington, where 1 the? fiirht ao-ainst. iimcrow lias railed for so many years, it is shocking that she should V- appreciate being jimcrowed and exploited. ( And being an attorney, it is amazing that i she has missed the real trend in recent anti- = , jink row. suits on both the educational and 1 transportation level. - ' , c The authorities doesn't think the "legal time is ripe" for an attack on jimerowism i per se. She thinks the Supreme Court might i be put 021 the sp&t. The Supreme Court con- i "feists of but nine peraona^ There .are -more?1 than 10 million down here who are on a .. much worse spot. She thinks the high court i may have to web a.fuller interpretation of a t decision she hopes might die quietly. But she overlooks the fact that, like soldiers, unlw^eea^alna nr wmnvnrt hllVI =WgTgr"j die." They stick around for centuries. ( BlA||Lpore significance to ua is the in- < (Hcation. that her oninion reflects that, per ^ J tnfpsTtoo manybfhe i~Negroes North and j beyond the South who are linked to its .soil 1 : by heritage, who briive known its exaction;T ' gj'; in blood, sweat and life from us, lack the courage to remain here and fight, and work i to bring this section into line with the finer meanings and working of democracy.- Yet. "3 they constantly pat us on the back. s.?v r am with you." When it comes the time to put up, they are found ducking into the . company of "uncietom,"- the Ku Klux Klan, .the demagogic despot who all'cry "The time * ain't ripe." -? We of South Carolina thinks we know what we are doing; and we are content to do it. If wg_jdiould be proved wrong, then ( the suffering and cost can be no greater than^ what we bear now; than what we have "* borne all these years. If the McKenzies don't elect to go along with us, then we'll go it alone. v What Then. South Carolina _..A? has been expected for some timiytm? anounpement during the week states that the NAACP is processing plans to establish full equalization on the graduate and professional level in South Carolina. Actual work may begin hefnr<- nettle/nunr is made tin Jthe pending Clarendon?ease, which allegedly gave rise to the Byrnes Jimcrow Tax, and effectutation of the new Jjmcrow school plan, being developed by a new commission. So far as is known, the. State hasn't had time to formulate plans for equalizing fully on the higher education ' level, apparently content to fall back on the puny facilities, grudgingly alloted South Carolina State College. If, and wben, this NAACP push Comes, what can and will South Carolina do? It na* managed to escape resDonsibilitv for medical and dental training by a sort of "bootleg 1 ging" .scheme of quietly-given out of state scholarships. There is no question but that such expenditui-s*^are iMegal, and the best that could be hoped for under these' was-_a little more time. has escaped the problem through a ^ hastily added "graduate schoo!" in Orangeburg, and a law school, on which it boasted ~-r.. -t* had sncnt S200.000 for a building a few months ago. North Carolina had built orte [ ; .y'./ ' U S,--*'. : : ' : ' ' jfe' ^ . ."r-' '' ' ' . : ' 1 1?1 [INFORM?? \D V KHTl^liltJfl M (lake checks or oioere^H^j louse Publishing Company^ persons reprcsentin^^i^^^^^^ National Advertising Representative: Inter tate United-Newspapers, IncJ, 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. ?LOSING SCHEDULES: News, 12 nooi Puesday; Advertising, r 3 I*. M., Tuesday Photographs, 10 A.lVI. Monday, 0 yeaftMHto. -i The Supreme Court tore v town, as it tore down the ^cTTtore* 1" lav iehool iu__ 1. i'-xas and the "eoloretf- graduate ichool in Oklahoma, Maryland, Virginia, eut With (his M'\v pmhlimi liwH" V? oiii]M my moment, is South Carolina preparing t< idmit Negroes trr atkmf its __stale-supports ichools, or'lsTt planning to t'nul other moan. if spending tutilely, and needlessly, the tax avers' money to do what it knows it can lot do? Certainly .'"South Carolina cannot, find tlu noney with which to construct, staff aiu ipcPate a medical college for Negroes, , Military college, nor a college for Negro wo nen. It cannot, in fact, afford - nor - i onipctely equal system on the elementary evel. Raises A Very hood Point On this page this week Rev. YV. Mckinley Ikiwman reports that \ Negro churches 11 olumbia have done little or nothing to pro lide wholesome facilities for colored enlist sd men at Fort Jackson, as has' been don< iy so many white churches for white enlist ;d men. \Vre think a check' will find Columbia no' ilong among the shirkers of the duty an< noral obligations of the church. And *thi: s an indictment, one a newspaper ought no nave to call kllenttoh tec It suggest hov antisocial, how woefully lacking in enro nunity services are 'most of th Negri hurches, how far behind the times they are Nobody has been more critical of th apparent moral laxity of enlisted men ii )f_community morality and .fidelity - hav< lone little but talk. We don't .save souls m [He road to hell lrTsh uniting them, by.fttand tig aside and heaping verbal abuses npm Wo stand at-their sides aruTTondJ; uiij libit liand, - - - ? .And we don't improve community mofj.I ity either unless and until we"-provide diver dons which are proper and wholesome. A Survey 01' The South The- Southern Regional Council, with ot I ices in Atlanta, has just released a survc i?t municipal workers in 16 southern citie? / ? .^.1 4 1 1 . v wiumi u'u or supervised Py Harold (). IV Witt, it discloses that 10 states in the Dee; South employ 5,51)0 persons in professions' :4erte<il. skilled, "semi-skilled ancF unskillei work. Air. DeWitt is on leave from the Ur ban League's division lor which he made th study. Of course, the t hidings do nothing mor than indicate trends in this direction ove the entire South. Though firemen at Chat leston were included, no report from Vn.m one South Carolina city is included, and i would be especially interesting to us and t those in other states and communities nc included to l$now what is going on right ; round us. ' < While the survey does not indicated w aiapeet that the ntimber of employees ha increased in recent years. Fives from new it will be larger. 4 Such organizations as SRC and the Urba League have done a tremendous job of e> ploring industrial possibilities, of the Sout especially, and have brought to light certai invaluable information few of us had acces to otherwise. And neither has had the sip port and hacking each ?Theirs 1 not Hicndv tlU'Oi'y. hiit the hare facts wit which to work. Indication that times have changed: TV six year old daughter doesn't ask daddy f< a penny nowadays. She starts with a quar er. and usually runs it up to a dollar. The only.time a man can truthfully sa he is the master of woman, is when he able to explain what's on her mind, how sh arrives at conclusions, and what makes h< a cooing dove one minute, and a clawing r n scratching tiger the next. ? jm to-usupportiflJ^B pby ruejs in the pub- ^ HVHHpPPf^ii. -J^.', iui.;>L.U L'i-ablc," , "uTwriat, of Oeh-u sc, there is ser- ' i.ous u.fTercn .n of mind. The question beiore the eumw;u .' I1?\v4?e4hee-the Souths uuai ! tern of . cdli lit ion denies the 1' eqliul protection ?f laws gunrarit teed under lire Fourteenth A- J niendment. _ The controlling o' pinion, bv Jud&e Juhn J. Park' i - od?LLmJ?sr ;j r,i;,ii i..d,?,? . , 10 equality id rights xu ?. ! preserved. .is a matter <J le^is. lat've policy for th several states', with "vyhieh TTW; Federal v- courts are jMAvdwS^s to interfere.", This r> .i"jjlVinnatton ol" ^ The. 'Teperate .fey? equal" do.trine Vnui by the Supreme Court in *he I'lossy ease f""' <'! i Ityii. \vl. nine tsi ut n <. lina defislon points out ha' yt t to be set aside. Now wfiett her - t-he Sipnnim "C-rui t" is wi in.:; Pi c; i r?' mil?m-a pi...?nh.ol remains - to he ,-een FFi tar I 1 U. . ... . I ....,a i>n J.!').ted ground, to rule only whether educational futilities _. and p^-t-Ve a'.tuully- provided? i the condrtutional -tipulat.on of . equality. The ])i 'wMc th'er .Si.-r-'jeiudion as ai. 11v 11 a otnia! i ii; tquahty war ' ! been met head <oi, anj. here the Supreme Court must sooner alter Uo.e 1 up to a hist or ie <halleuye. The ?uj.mg .-in Charleston is unquestionably "prkctioal.".' It --appreciate*, a.s was a-dmitte i by Ill, stale that Were sch---h: are \V. McK. Bowman Missing A Grand 0 *? i When I retired Monday night I had another column all ready to write about, and had resolved to yet up early Tuesday tv rn- _ L ing and finish At to nteet the Tuesday morning deadline. ? Inter. 1 t? Usually, I ~read a Kit of. local news antj skip many featured He^Tleily newspapers. Howevni. this; linitt.?thn. Iwuil. ? lint' of' an article struck niv . 'fancy, so-4 road :t. , l . , \vat; 1 rn? Trrt.oli ~ was written t'? .,hi'v; that (">)liiinhi;; vinnity had u 'no all nut ? try-:fj{* !u||nv;n?'.vrtr.c-e-.mr M't ia-..!; > -. ! nc: i.1 .?/ -!; . rv,i > mi n >twt.i<>mai; at K ti. Tho" laid a-'U- tcjIcT of th< i11 ' " ditto.- at tho K'ft. too roa > *.vatit of i a- *.'a n I SC) t-. :in the oity. Th? a. :t t??id w!- '.? i iuivohos of a!! 'faith.- and i, n O!;. |! Kl 11 o {i i Writ' <i i! i i; * , pro vvcio wholesome roiioal. n for whiti -ervicrmcn-. Sumo hurc"ios wi'iv iiilm.n and: v. dually; sanio acted collect ve.v The thing that impressed no- moat ufn>; thut -ill 11', v nvoi.< J sonic1 efforts toward tie- problem, the Ni'^ro ehurehes being an i-\rf 111 ,i in Tbr?I'..: i ,i o the Jewish faith and every other one had provided a place when- the -oldiers of their faith e could go. Nothing had been done among the Negro ehur hi. to provide an.\ ; eo eat ior.ai fa " cilitTPS-for Negro servicemen at I[ b ?"<?.1.0 ! ; ai:i 1 W'jiitlVi why When 1 entiei/c Negro ohurehc's, L.jJSo cr.tieize myself. There isjJ^dare PERS T ANTS PAPKR Wv.-pf the HarUvi?t .(No. ?) IJraneh of the NAJWP disiu>ved your paper In our last meet it ing and arc very mucn inspired by it W,. wfiuli! ]iko to h 'v iniii'P of ourJ?' in th;> sec >- tion t() road ann c n :ij> v. t!i * LIFE AT 7 By Ray Lawrence The "Unitcj States .now the 10 loach r of ,the (Christian World. >r is preaching 'Pea' ? ' but its heart i- not wholeheartedly in the first plage, the United States has some little things like nhtir_ ~ lynching n "wipe out. put the _ educational system on a Dentociy ratio basis md to create a law whereby .. r .a i may not be cast away fren his job or refused to bq hired xicause fdee is BRed a b i >^pHVa cd scparato-b gainst 't . I'd pujalic edu:utlUh is to nnivc rnr support of the people through tljeir-legislature. it must ji>>t go contrary to what they etc em the best in lorest*. of their children." There h a 1 i ; lit LI rst.Tlr hi On,i.l lnpfi.rnr iVe policy being formed "np.t in racm) or with doctrinaire disregard iiT existing conditions, hut in realistic approach to the situations to which it is to be applied." In mm opinion. there Is no J ust iev in eompul-ory- separat.on of the races. It. may well ! i" 111, it i a i .''in1 cIl. it dii 1-tli'h wilj strike down the doctrine of segregation. There havc^- been nota44e- advances 'ttq lOTTTTy t-v>> iti I lull HU'IU "f lie?i iiii'l?. v..n. |)nmrni?->;va elimination of Jim (.'row transportation, . ndrnrss-on t,f Negroid to professional schol.:. Most of thi premiss -has i rim from Supreme C'uiu't decisions. and nnwhoio did calamity result-. Wo Or.n appreciate 'lie va.-d ddTicult os in upsetting the patterns oi an entire region, and *vet at> ~ec with these words from Judge J. Waties Waring's minority opinioti: "Segregation is per se inequality." "Any system hascd on the color of a man's skin is nil-American an?j wrong;. pportunity for the Christian "servi- cnu n h gn. except the Taylor Street U SO. so far as this eoluuinisi could learn at Tuesday-'s dead Tine. The uglv picture - on; in contra-t - is that nothing ha: been done by Negro churches individuall or collectively, foi the Cream of Americar .Youth" out at the Fort. Consequently, the - colored service in. n?wlio??*?wo koii.I?prr**has no p!a'/o to go, except to the USO mentioned, unless he i: fortunate enough, .to know snmi one in town, and- knows hin piu'-.otuilly. a grav.. > hailongu in ihi> X. :> Christians of Columbia. IT i: no wonder lU-hi- vwe -sen-our -?r viyemc-n frequenting juke joints-,-dives and - -places nf t+ rcp ut It in-' dawns .11 nu uTve you "-co many s? rviruiHr into space. They Anne { ; .o Christian homes - no clou >* .- io they do not vrnrrh t > g . t, ' :,e cnii . t enable e.ro. s.i 'he just . '.and aioiiud. i;e!ing eeiim and lost. 1 low tc; i'ii1 :h? . 4:.; op e ah at. a profes-a ,i Ch;;?s! tan? minister- who ride aiqu i:i .1 / .. I,n....... I \ il i.luK .1, I . I I V w ? l l. | l U '.fhrys.ltr, new C'r.rv." .ef Folds, etc.. h-oking so sail 1i u Something should bi clone about this at once! Wo can wait n> longer. Mu wo turn thc.-e men away win may Mwn! :ce their l.ves. if noe \ loavav; them to stand the streets"' Mu<t we !cav these men tile >>n the streetto hp proved upon hy tin- rv: forces, in our community? I say NO I recommend tha we meet with, the Fort's chap lains at once and work oopora tively with them to r inorty Liu terrible eondjl.ioj.i_. Your columnist is hoar l racl Sunciav. 7:15 A NT and 11 1 1' M.. over radio station WTv'OK 42.'<0 on your <UaL "Ixh Us Watch. Fight an. Fray." O EDITOR 11 _ A; secretary of be J;>ran ! hove hern instruct".! t > wn! .nul learn if it is po.v, t,| . \ have 50 -*opir> nn tvin.i at on next meeting. We p. an to d pose of these copies and gathc as many subscriptions p Mbit at the time. Mrs. 'M. E. Iti . ar.b; i Hart-ville ^ GLANCE to be sure, it was the J Oth an niversary of the issuance of F,* ectutive Order fW02 by the lut President Roo-evelt. establisl mg the Fair Employment' Prac t ccs Commission The twin .inn: vol s eries pr< vided an opoortunity to rcmin Americans of tim achieveme/ i f Die wa.' tiinc FF.PC. and t higH Cht (he need n?r a no executive order ret stahi.'shi t tie FEPC. Here is a double opportune -f at^Ob ; ..' : - * ]H^- ? * + . i ?-?*JL <,r _ \ t f '-a J^hn H. McCray : ^ Must Be A Jimcre J We planned to devote t ; j|S The Pittsburgh Courier, ir VZt _ to write, last week's copy < HraH /% JIIIS supremacist Hoy V. Harris also oil the subject of the Clarendon suit. While both columnists take different approach1 es, the arrive at precisely the same -opinion, though Miss M^Kcnzie's coUld be construe^ tc >e inference. 1 i. ?? The lady, a Negro living in jimcorwed Wash; ington - the City Dr. Ralph Bunehe wouidn'1 live and work in - -ays "The time ain't yet ripe UV Httaek lacial jminuft'." Harris, the ursi round 1 verdict in scribbles: "I feel better I couldn'l help but sit on pins and needles for weeks, while U+*?South Carolina Negro segregation' cose wa* pending before? a three-juxlge court." M?ss McKenzie doesn't -ay so. but one suspects she'd als*. i "feel better" were the Supreme Court to refuss. t(, rv\;ow i!U' case and the lirst decision is ter r r M1 ILUWll i ' Hams undertakes to pen-lash. Judge Waring s .-qy;ng he knew he "had gone absolutely crazy: and pouN -honey alt?over?Judge George Bel j Timmcrmiin of Bate-burrg, of whom he says: i? , 11< l ore who would, let politics--or anything cist . v >v;?y his judgement. He is one of those rare T Tutr* : TuaTs hot one of those long-haired vv 'd-Vyed radicals. who want- to change every tiung " lie thought Judge Parker was "wishy \va.- h\" hut was swung over by Judge Timmer man., and this m*M is thiding; Harris says Tim meruro- wrote the majority opinion. The opinicn .,nd d'? ive (.tears, the note.that Judge Parker dk I'n.e writing. Now, Mis- McKenzie shakes in her boots les PI cissy, v. Ferguson rises again.. - as if it could to undermine the other rulings on jimcroiyism Fwr a layman knows the Supreme Court, ha! iu*t ahc uf killed Ples-y v Ferguson in. the grnd SMoss H. Kendrix The Convention I, Insurance " Association while still fanning it 1 * the Memphis Worla and Lewis O. Swine ler for their two de ade-service to Memphis ! When final inventory is taken on this annua convention, it will likely be found that it has beei the be-t attended session of the 30-year-old as soeiation. Led bv Norman O. Houston, NNI> proxy and Golden State Mutual head-man, mor than sixty companies bad representatives at thi 31st annual session. ' Over ,at Atlanta, the city was all dre?sed-up ^ for the 4annual conference of the Nation.i Association -for the Advahcement of Colored Pec n pie. which brought to the Gate City for the fir: r time since 1920. While up the coast at Dover, proud little Delaware was entertaining the -Na tionaj Congress of Colored Parents anfj Tea' her The PTA, observing its 25th anniversary, hear n weUnine address by Governor Elbert-Carvel -i wJ>ieh it was challenged to continue action orr~fl theme and motto?"Every Child an Equj ChanceHorace Mann Bond delivered the kc> note address for the convention. Dr. Bond asked the nation to capitalize on hi ? role that the Negro can play in counter-abhn l- hen Curtain propaganda inspired by Russia t prove jhe U. S. insin< ere in its delations with th colored- peoples ol the free world. The Lincol 'J (Penna.) U persident feels tbat brown faces i it h igh place*: abroad would assist this CfTort. ? Top action, as 1 saw it at Dover, was the NCCF ^ TAC acceptance of an invitation to join the Wf men's Joint Congressional Committee. WJO ^ maintains headquarters at Washington, virhere i .studies and ''chaperons" federal legislation aflfed ool.unal welfare. The 1TA ;s it* first Nf member-organisation^ m. : ^ ' f Jjllf? '<Pf^~. . I ' *+ j .1^ MM i I I ^ ' ?' V; ."- . ; '' *^3 ' ' ' -"A m Paradise -? w ' I?H . his colum i to Attorney iUarjorie AicKeiizie ot j~ i lull, but in the mail, just as we were ready of The Augusta Courier, official organ of white J. , whose weekly column "Srtictly Personal" is uale and professional school cases, in the Henderson and the Mitchell cases. Moreover, Judge , Waring nor any others of the trial judges thought the case wa> improper. The majority ruling . .. simply alleged, in order to wipe out segregation, the legislature would have to act. Truth is, she had no argument, and nQ point. Her biggest atp?ti action?was" strrgTiYg another "time ain't ripe," and delivering a significant message to southern ^ . Negroes we should not well. * ? j.i. ^ We had always thought we had firm, fighting TC friends up the line; people who felt we should enjoy the same rights they enjoy, people who saw Anitr -a as much bigger than sectionloi the t country. Miss McKenzie telis that we are wrong , ^nillihffn vnhitei , thnrn nritinp t? ' <** keep the Neg^o in slavery and a Mr. frfobpdy - 2S iiave plenty"of fricnd&~up the way. " ? *TTT ' ? w _ - 1 I A <r-% _ X~ T TT ^ V * ^ m I i we suppose mai ?qy na^ris, merman law J ; madge. John E. Rankin and the other southern bigots/ wtlt aopiau^ MTss McKenzie. Wa suppose .''-W t hut honest white southerners, who Tnhor hnrfer >-J the severest hardships - even harder .than those suffered by Negroes - people like the Wa'rings, like Carey MJcWilliams, like Dr. Frank P. Graham like Dr. George Mitchell, and many others, must drop their her.ds In pity and wonder how tough i can Negroes make it on themselves.; . ' Hut nght now, there is a paradise in ji >*cro"W> ? ism. for a Negro on the one hahd; for s. Dixiecrat ".'-a t and despotic political boss on the other. Both 1 :lii whoop and shut in harmony on the same note. & Neither can be separate^ from the-other. But : > s take care lest the paradise be shattered and the -. crow plucked. . l'? **>' i Circuit rtime is convention time, and it-tends me on the last few days. I have had stop-see-pump Views ions in convention. Memphis was the latest stop. zzing with reception for the National - Negrc 1 $ ' Vv.nenever the NAACP meets the fireworks are tu be <>n. Atlanta was no exception lu this?? j line, although must ol the Association's delegate* a eepted it as the mo>t neutral spot in "the other man .s domain." It was definite, nevertheless, that ^ the Association had come to Atlanta to sound its buttle cry. f ".3 Key noter Roy Wilkins, NAACP admirustrativ ^ assistant, NAACP chief counsel Thurgood Marshall, Philip Willkie?son of the late Wendell Willkte, an^ Benjamin Mays?Morehouse College I president, nil pointed t0 the death of segregation the immediate goal in the Association's drive ^ ,l to ivsure fuTT citizenship TTghts for the Negro. a. , "Big Chief" Marshall, fresh from strategic con- ferences with the "Big Forty" of the NAACP les gal staff; announced the Association's intention to I & II immediately appeal the Clarendon, S. C., S(hool 1 ' segregation suit, which was lost in a two to one- r ^?rtmnt brfuie .< federal ennrt p.'inel At ChSfl^tOn.' r'" Then he outlined a "five-point legal program di-- . ? rented at segregation.. TMarshall announced these^ legal attacks to be in the following areas: education; public trans- ' ; R portation?fwith stress on street cars and buses' health, housing and recreational facilities;" pub- , 1 lie gatherings; and all pla<es of public *acc6mo- " > 1_ cJetion. These interest-areas supported Roy Wilkin's demand for "full and complete equality.**- . i ho NAACr considers its current activities to ~ *- abolish segregation tn schools, kindcrgarden thru university, to be its chief defense or democracy. C Likewise, it deems its .steps in .the equaj educa'K tion campaign to hiVd been take-Qi in logical t- quenc>. So from Atlanta, the nation, especially ttrraa. '. u ': v.