Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ' ~ fc, ' "_"V' >N (El 4 ? LIGHTHOUSE and IN-FORMER, COLU " . " ... _ . . *r.. ? . rT """ .'->? rn f Published weekly by The Lighthouse Publishing Company, Incorporated, at 1507. Har' den Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina TELEPHONE 2-7079 . rLrr-TrT?:.-.!,. ^ : gj^ . Entered as Second Class matter *n the Post Office at Columbia, South Carolina, under the Act of Marfli 3, 1879. JOHNH. McCRAY .... . . EDITOR W^SUBSCRIPTIONR?Phvahl. in irivanee?": ^ ' 4 y?ealr, $3.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1.50; per *dpy, 10 cents |fc ' Hiding Behind Communism Iutm.1 Ltl'Mll 7ITT71-~ITTTT ? - .. v?/.? V??v? HMWUIKW guaius KtUI LU . patrol the section in Cicero, in. which had seethed under an attack" of a mob e3imated ~ at more than Q^lM&ipElsrffiH - all white after a Negro bus driver had leased an apartment > and njoved furniture into it. ;. The mob appeared to chase the Negro out of h?s home. There was some violence and " v an official charge that Cicero's polidi department"" had abetted the disorder. By week-end, it appeared to have subsided, the Negro tenant announcing he would not move his family into such apparent dangei ami wuuld Tile a huge civil suit to .recover dam|:v;-ages. But he and some others believed ? the fracas was inspired by Communists, a view ^ . - hinted also by Wjalter White, of the NAACP, 'vestigatioii. It seems to' us that such a charge is not L only faloc, but lidiculuus.?In Chicago and its vicinity-a war against Negroes trying, to T- . . move out of the dilapidated and abused houses on the Soufh Side, has been going on for some time. The home of Dr. Percy Julian has 4>een bombed and attacked more ' than once. Just^H few days before the Cicero episode three Negro delegates at|..."tending a rally in Chicago, who were taken L in by & white family, were literally "runout" of the community, and as late as last E> 1 fan this writer noted the tension in Chicago | . over a housing war, which was an old tmng W1-1: . i'-'itHiiwl. 1 " [ .. The Communists may be guilty of many ^ . things said about them,-, but we think the * bombings. (stoning and even mnrdom of |F groes in Chicago, in Birmmgnam and many other areas of this country are too vast to be the work of a.handful of people, whose every move is watched by the FBI. We think the p? Cicero fiasco was just.another in a building F up mpism wKi^lv must soon or late come to L 'decisive head.? ?-?-? ? Why Not Tell It All t'x ; Rep. Joe Bryson is whoopingly applauding South Carolina's present frantic, and posBfeV .sibly futite, efforts to improve educational Bp opportunities,-or acutally to improve the status of jimcrowism between races, and is shouting obviously for the benefit of any R/.v" . northerner who may not know that evarv UlUlg UCMIlg Willi . I I iiKtMi IS 111 (If spurai 1<M1, and because Xcjn*?>es are forcing the issue. Why 'doesn't he tell all of the story? Why doesn't he point out that South Carolina has never dolie, is not now doing, and .will p.: never doijustice to the Negro until and un& , less it is beaten over the head with a fedora' f:'% court Blackjack? And that Negroes are 'f: , rapidly putting"the blackjack into the hands l-V of the courts? S?*/? * . jC'.'s " , . > Mr, Bry'son lavishes-affection 'upon federal Judge John J. Parker for ruling that so :1? long as' facilities are equal the state may "luxurize" in segregation. But this view is I;.' not original with Judge ParkerThbrhTbes he t claim its authorship. The point being raised M -j,. . P|C in the Clarendon case is what must, happen when facilities aren't equal, and cannot ever . be equal. Bp1'-" > .The upstate congressman also guesses. >* -. . that "outside meddlers" have been coming !hk. r : . into bis* state stirring up race trouble over A-?.. the school issue. What Snakes him think any outsiders, living in relatively, and ac $ r tually treer areas would want to sacrific ? their freedom to diddle around in South ?> * Carolina? Truth is, and Bryson ought to know it or admit he doesn't know enough p* about his people back home to bq in WashjTa. ington representing them - the whole issue w being, finance'* ?"d preyed from South Carolina, and by Negroes, many from his v own district. / * Why doesn't he tell all the story? Or must we force him to admit the truth later after cur .work is finished? 'MBIA, (TS. C. Pafl^(| AD VEK USING KATES furnished on application* / Make checks or orders payabler-to The L ghthouse Publishing Company, Inc., and not to persons representing it. . ^ National Advertising Hepresentative: Interstate United Newspapers, Inc., 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. CLOSING SCHEDULES: News, 12 noon Tuesday; , Advertising, 3 P. M.;Tuesday; '*" ' rnot og r a$fi s,10"A.M. Monday. We Demand Much More Governor Byrnes says~tftstr the two and ono-half year old investigation into toucher cheating between 1946 Hnri 1949 wdi- - be ended, by November 1.?His iUlmlniitratloii inherited the project front the*adir.inistra t ion?of ?x-govornor J. St-rom Thurmond, whose advisers are said to have disagreed with undertaking the investigation ,and the methods used in it. But Mr, Byrnes doesn't indicate whether or not the state is any nearer a solution than when it^began. The chances are it isn't and when t*.<? investigation ends, all that will?havo?been accomphshod- will?bethe punishment of admitted "smp&l-fry," the heaping of bad names upon Negroes, and the head-most sources yjet concealed or covered up. "We think we are correct and just in our thinking when we say that our group should demand more than this. The state has tried. to blame only Negroes 111 the'cheatlng'charges, closing its ears to a legislative announcement that cheating among white teachers was observed, and its eyes to the answer lists it acknowledge- were in circulation be fore test sheets were distributed among Negro examiners. It even picked out its own scapegoat, jailed him and took him into court. A jury disagreed. That one pooped out. " We said, two years ago, that Negroes involved in the case were the victims of some higher sources, W-tTTjavciT^ be?n diMr proved. We saM alan that fhonUng huc\ been going on long before 1949;" we have ^ ViWnaH HIT. . been upheld. We also said thai while white test papers may not conform co the same key used to we^d out* Ne^o teachers, they mi|;ht conform to ""another. We haven't been disproved. >_? * . Perhaps one reason no more success has ^been mrdfin the probe, which has cost beans of nmnev ho* hoon the inrlinnt mm of one foremost boss in the department to 1 ret over wlu^.The Lighthouse and Inhnnuu had to say, and its attitude. Well, he can begin to fret some more, because we take the view that unless the matter i,s logically chared, we think the state has lost a lot of money for nothing, either because of the bur.cling,- or the inefficiency, or the co\e? ir.g up by som.ebbdy in the case. Must Have Tough Look !n North "Carolina. a farmer accused- of looking at a young white woman from a distance of 75 feet, has been convicted of assault and sent encwl to two years on a road gang. The .man says lie didn't see the worn a until she faced him in court. She claims he chase.1 her through somr. woods, which lit denies. Hut it is odd that he first fared an attempted rape charge, reduced to assa 'later, ami was convicted oil the evidence ai bar. 'Our conclusion is that he must h;.v been pretty tough to look upon. Dancing in Georgia I .ast week s edit ion of (;<,> n"e - go i J he?Statesman?c;iri'ios?a?r-epi'ir;* , a tare from The Pittsburgh Courier of , v. e _k earlier, which shows colored and whi WA.ACP delegates dancing at a social TdfalT tlurin/r thp'42nrt oomu.t v.\ Am . . ----- im:i;unij in Atlanta. We think The Statesman is right in noting that the incident, carried or. under the stat, lie ot' the late Gene Talmadge desecrated Georgia and are shocked*at the brass of the offenders. Shouldn't they do as the Roman* do while in Rome? The hemes of the de?pnrtcxi Gone Tslmmlge must woW. quiver if anger. . ' The very idea! Negroes dancing with whites, of all places, in Gonrprin urid hid three blocks from the stronghold of Gover nor Talmadgc. " - . 'Liberty and Justice F< < To The Editor: / I4ach year the- fourth day of July, I hear .these words, "We hold these truths to be self evident, tlia all mon nrt>? oreatecj equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certaig inalienable rights; that among these are titter liberty and the pursuU of happiness " Whenever I hear these words being read with ihe True feeling ~of-tfrgir_ineaningr--nr- lump a'ppeaj'.s-Mi a depressed, /feeling in my heart, * because ' from all that I have seen or experienced. those words seemingly were not meant for the American Negroes. ; x tlow can American Negroes teach their children .f^e true feeling of the Pledge L/ Ailn. giancc to the Flng'/^' pledge allegiance to the rifig of fHT" United States of Anicrip;i. anH to the Republic for whirp ii stands; one Nation, indivf-ol.lr with libert;."' and justice U1 all " LIBET'TY AND JUSTICE FOR ALU? The leaders of our government are making an effort to negotiate a lasting p\oace, especially with the Chinese An authority An Asia says in an article, *'What Asia'ns Want," taken from the June 27, 1951 Christian Century, "I arn interested .in America, not only because it is my country but becau-e at this" moment* in his tory u-i? Tiro th,? ctrat^^ir cpnter of the world. Whether we would be or not, we are. It is very important, ..therefore, tor ?us as Americans, belore we approat h the peoples of Asia, to realize and 1a nc^p1 fact ? that.\vc -are for a moment, 1 On This School Isstre-~~~v T0 The Editor: There is much confusion concerning the Negro and schools and I wish to ask a few simple questions on this issue. Did our present state of being originate from being segregated in schools, or did it come from the lack of education? Is it tion? Our statesmen are blundering off this country step by step.. Is it from the lack of education? ICs been in high ge?r since 1920, afr-d it seems that none has Ine V/1^.0om to conceive" it. If "you?srml?bnru puis nil is? through schools and cuic is intelligent and the other unin?telligont, ennnot tliey buth..get a aipioma ana the unintelligent? - one get j?n ?s trigh mffice ?s as the intelligent one? Can fires be put out by W. McK. Bowman More About SolHiei It seeing thai my la-t <" ?>!nmn started a e.hsin !'< "anl reartion. Some ,,f the readers tolvi me 'hat 1 was too eiatieai .4 ehurehes and tht m nist.v. Tl \ said that it u'lv.gh ;,:iu to.;' i not take n;v cadunw, ^ ^ ^ ministers. - v.vr ... ,v ... r ? ' !eel tit at to eb.i: -nd place when : - i y ; : l."?! ! t. , >> > ) rj; i fare. As f<'!' * it c. asm i.; :' < r. u ,-ir j ;t> m: nastry. ! he o.umn w cis in'! infant !nr a oping ntit ism I'm! as a pr i-ld im "to- r.vike 'them take .'tarn or: a v.tal part 11i our h!e here. At)a "0.-, f'jr'cr *.if.si;i. 1 t',;nit p -a? m : Put .on !.i persons tint tia s V ! ' t c:m;i i.. . 11 : i . : : ?-uvo. Thp^rt ai u ;;y ; i"m 'Uth if l!iasi' v. ii i p >mt Up their laylt- -s far the institutions t(, correc t their faults, or if you think the . critic is not lici t, then point out the good ' P > :'t that the ( . nd.-se.i. : '. i anothf v i , ! v ; \ 'I! 1 v. c< ; 7 " n?),l hiU1' hick o;?,i ?t7?~TT? t lieni. j Io point ; i > . a', i.; the same iAuo < : ' t r..a.-. p wit's rep- fP u i ha* ! -a men were selling P, their freighters dope uh.i m.o\.ng pi si tntcs out f their daughter.They aikep me. "Is'th;/. 'lie type of mer. f wan* in (,'hri-ti?.n names: 1 McGec Victim To File JACKSON. Mias (AN'St Alleging that Comniiin>st.-> Slandered her during tHe five vcar Night of Wiiiir mcGoc. tv man who < (intended he had rape her iA Hot home in 4/fuirek M+s-. 1 this week plans to file a million t, dollar suit aiurm^l the?Com munist |>arty in New York federal court. In a prepared statement, she IH^uR " : "" >r All'? hope and trust, only? the most hntrd?people -p t'n? The one big reason as given by the author. Pearl S. Iht k, in "What the Asians fount." fol tows; "l support> Washington has done us more damage than can be repaired? our national capital, where man of color comes and cannot get into a restaurant or into a hotel. There is nothing that we do there that is not known in Asia. I dare- ? say the people of Asia know more of what haj pens in our south and in Washington than f you and I do." The lump comes in my throat and the depressed feeling in my heart, not from pity for my race, but to think that Great America with- the greatest pattern tor mankind to Jive by on this ^eiLCtll _is .sacrificing 'ill V*t?nniion orhrr rnrf ?j inn en/?n 11 A j A/V.VUUOV, \J k OVf,l HVIi, i iivv .hatred anci pre] Ud 1011. Tim Darker Peoples of the world are more concerned as to how the Negroes and other minority groups are being treated in meriea than they are about the principles upon which democracy was founded.- More pra< lice of the principles of democracy to all of the people of America will mean more than the billions spent trying to buy the people of the world for Democracy. , . May God give our Politicians and World Leaders vision, widsom and Strength to guide unselfishly fTfe pi lnciples?of?Be-? mocracy, that people all over the world may see in Americans the true spirit and meaning of "Liberty and Justice for All." ? -JuUu-tE. W tlliams? Spartanburg kindling fires. Wars have not ended wars so far; issues have not been determined by battles that resylt in unconditional surrenders. Our present day statesmen can't discern any furthc* in the furture than the .next election. which has caused them rot to perceive that the world^-H un ,/der revoluticiw- ami.' lias Ueen since 1 f>14; it goes <>r>. What' have these statemen accomplished since 1920? All their ef forts , have only, caused confusion to beoome deeper and deep"Crr and?more complicated. Do WO noi ""riimTFaTp rmVrn millionaries tha-n eyer -m -ther~ history of the world ,and yet more -misery and poverty fh?n? ever before? John L Hunter 1120 Arlington St. West Columbia s And Recreation? I think that this com pa rsion unfair to the enUsted nv .rust ;o its unfmr to 'uhv all Negroes by the "Untie Toms" you |;n<<w\or to say all N'? evor- are"Tho the vvaterm :ir .M e.at.": *, t ran shooting. i ui . mouth members <?f our race that .VQii sei- po'.'tril ved . on lire screen and in the papers. It is ju t as unfair to <-rit.c;/.n an! lump the v<- r.a p scrvi"-m m :n ' ?V- o : 1-p-r > . k'. ; ' : : u : S ep .i n .. '> ', . 4 ; : . K ? ; K. Sa. t ' ;U- . I ' -i ,t--f ,! ! :.-a-i 'in- ciujun an : .l,n : '1 >,-" T;YJt-: T f 1 ' P i' *'I ir.il t .1 in, t - ii '! the ' U>u ,ir., ' " !*;: < . i u' I hit thai thi.-' wa . o. >ine to i ati r s-imc comment.;, so I cleared it first. The thing that hi tir-'i n.a nu- is not v/hd* " ' ;> ' .ra hut what are ' 't n'- to a'o ?o't S-nri: tar t? '.! that I faih.n' to m >n hat Man's cnuH Sv P:.; V. an i t; it the IIS <> -jvjii-.i sufr.c. . I . \ fhat tin- whte . M f } i1 v e Karl wood F'atk ami a s'ah park in walk-, ir.g .1,stnee. hut riid this stop the Christ i an churches? No! Aga.n 1 ask whst are we going to . .tlx<ut it? Shall we pull 11 I W i ill .,,111- 1' M p 11 , . >hei;.: and refuse in, \ip?any-? ' " ' ' v d! a i gi ' out and : i"i ? Miesc evtljj. .1 :st --* to vnjux?ttilmums!?tvj?i ^ " 1 11' ?' n in i.'! ? am." . . , I I I ',,1 C 1 _ 1 . mhu i i ,.j>' ounaii;> nignis over V.W >K 1 :!".D en \,.ijr dial. "L. i u wa!< fight and pray," ? Suit Against Reds i;;-ntend,s fh ' ! wa, realty poured n >i i x). , ; , ll4 j reputation after a demon str-it'on jji J"~t*~nr! b( To " M. C T cxc'.ution. The vyi\U\Sn la&j a i n.! at the white woman attorney . 'r McCoe, i i rprr < tiling t+o-?C;vit Rights Congre.-s, which oig.nizciton xhc.'yay- is a front of 4he Communist party. L . * ** -y: ' ; "> : ;-V' 'VvV . .' . "'[mW&fi Ayi ~**^*ir>5ffii^catr*' i>ffTBMBHBB! ' IjjK"1 John H- McCray !km? ! C harleston Mess? For several weeks Charle Depending on where you ra 8?* virtually a fist fight betweei didates who face each other in a second primary July 24, incumbent mayor W. MrG. Morrison aria state senator O. T. Wallace. \ For several weeks both sides down there have been "feeling" me out as to whicn side I felt offered the cause of liberalism and progress most. I with held comment before the fir>t primary, largely because in it was former state representative Nathaniel Cabell, rank Dtxiecrat if there ever was one. He was elminated, so the issue is now between mayor Morrison and senator Wallace. / ?__? 1 find that the ovetfwhehning majority"^oi -Charleston Neggoes prefer the senator, and from "what 1 have-observed and knuw, they Havtf made an excellent and solid ohoic. ' It takes "guts" to haVe bucked the Morrison machine even now. Mr, Wallace,, long before it was all right to be dac-^t in South Carolina,- took his stand on the siue of labor the common people, took & stand against Dixiecratism back when it was fashionable to do otherwise, and has given Char, leston county Negroes about the finest consideration they hav^?ever received from any'TTtatr iir public office. 1 in id oniy two arcient- oacKers of Mr. Morrison, one of "them a former NAACP branch president m Charleston, whom I shall remember, for fighting for those "l ush-mouth" scholarships *he mayor's eoun.il handed over to Negroe> t\v0 or throe years ago to stave off a leg^yl figh* against the college of Charleston. The other is n former \A.\( P hranch president at Newberry, who to have thanped font- since he was sent 1" ' hallos ton to pastor. He surprises and shocks me. ' * ?,T:1 Mo-vvr: i .'.Mi p. attempt"- t, hi: i over Ne Moss II. Kendrix r -Wm 'NEA Convention ? to th-o r it\- of the tinWerr pr^^^^^^^Ohailengc Accepted" The National Education As>ociatior, wctlds large ' and most influentml-organization of t-vichrn and ' ? lueat as. ha^ust com lude'd its 63 to annual meeting and :tOtil representative assembly fa-.t.:r w ; FTu Morula group as well ITS those i'm* South and other sections. .Sw-w g- 'j"K iaut ol iiaA JLiiancisco^ at.'L'aaca ddti.{'act that these delegates comprised the largest ' ont.eg., ill ot ofld< al Negro represen'utun i v<a ju re at the birthplace of the United Nr.tr. ns, where it expressed its rededication to those fundamentals that w:fl safeguard and promote education. M r:' than three thousand offieia, delegates (Mm here -representing the teac hing proj.^s. (Ttr f the Great American Nation. About three per cent of those delegates, approximately ninety p<-rsr?ns, were of the Negro race. Most of them di_u?;h I ...,I ream/en Negro teacher group, vhdo a few "time in the white delegations from other ten Negr(, -tate delegations which cam" from Georgia. South Carolina. North Carolina, Virginia. Maryland Kentucky. Tennessee, Alab?rm and Arkansas, as representatives of new affiliates. Frv Pr George W Gore. Jr., president of Tallahnssoes; Florida A nna M College and head of t*T,T*r^ >r? If > f f r% ">? T* ff& O T* TS ** ->*? * _J,W\ r ^ Tpnehers Association hofh disleoee . A,i? . i? *rp'* x- -ii,? ?' - y V" ' inivtTinini, nvor.ipo rondrr. whatever t^at form r*v> '? u 111 lllu'lv?nnr-fInn-ihrr nowrworthv?imiv^taWo "if r,iirh?stroffofl? : ^ofuallv. onlv ahnut throo out of rrb ore hundred drVfratos hero -woro frotn tv>?* V%v" ??rrmrnt of tV\o triadilng' Trrofocafnn Bar.V t' V . i. iv J / j^n ^ ? H^R " .. " ? BE;rvf|i| I !.-' ' ' * ' fi*' 1 *.j.'$*-. -?$k9 -V^f " " " * */ ' "?1 " ' ' ' ''^4^ i Up Last Year iston has been in the throes of a heated, po- 1 *Bt~ point treing around the office of mayor, ise the question, as an outsider, you can' stage i ardent supporters of either of the .two can- J ; ' ; > ' "'tipfelffig gro voters with the "I gave you Negro police * offices," but why did the same administration try to wipe out Charleston all-Negro fire station? Losing this battle, itTiad to do something, and. ^ just before election year strikes out to coax the Negro ballot. ; Moreover, last year, Morrison was in a ttlgh , seat among the Dixiecrats. That's one reason Vo why Arthur Clement got so little support *n .Charleston. No Negro can afford to support a Dixiecrat, at any price, and retain his self re spec.t, ^nd his interest in the general progress of the community anci the cause ot. democracy. yj< I gie^v up in ClmrlCTtuu, and for years pined wr a white officeholder who would take his stand f. for the good of all th? people, mtw than : the good of chosen ftiraK- It was not until I moved awaythat Senator Wallace came into powerrbur.5:* it has," been- gratifying to-follow hi? career'add j to note how independently he ha* disi'harped. j the duties of his office. - ? I am certain that moat of our people "Will ponent in the first primary, but must havefuller support on Tuesday because the voters behind Cabell aren't likely to back Wallace. My only regret is that there are" two or three turncoats, who don't see the rising sun before them, and. " who would have all of us mess up down there,. ^ as we messed UP the congressional primary iMj vote last summer. } ' ... .-JSS It is time that Negroes stood together, voted A t cind made it clear that they aren't going .-Ad t iu. a D xiecra.t and klansman todfcy, and turn \|| : -n.'. nn'.und and lover an(| vote for'him tomorrow. :/:^ 1 . y:r0& Challenge Accepted - It's a.;ong way from Clearwater, Florida, Gate. 0: her wise, six or seven years fa but a >tory of aDtf-year old organization. However, ' and time, lies an interesting story which I r- / r* x' uur laed, however, there was S. W. Curtis, execu--. i . * ' '"vRj tive secretary of the Florida State Teachers As.sociation, a Negr0 group recently affiliated "with ^ the NEA. who led a delegation of^Negro teachers ?fi"nj FUuida. ? : ' . Mr. Cur is lives in Clearwater, Florida ? a long way from San Francisco. So ^distance wa*Ja_ _ the past seven years of NEA history that Dr. Gore gained the distinction of being the iiist "eifl Negro to sit us an accredited state level delegate from the South. J. . ?. . 1,4m -K ;i*y This educator's native Tennessee afTordded him that opportunity, when the NEA affiliated state association, by courtesy, gave to its Negro cHftBi- ' t^'ipart associotjon a delegate seat. A compromvsf ; condition of circumstance brought Dr. Gore tt> tHi< convention in the role of anther "first." it* r vvas the first group of Negro ibhgut , *n_i9MML state wise from Florida. , .... ' I considered the present c of those j^PMp , ' Negro state delegations at this convention both comprising and challenging. To most teachers, the desirable arrangement would be .to have only one organization of teacher# at all levels. This s the position of the position of the American ^ Teachers Association./sponsor of the new NKA policy and self appointed chaperon Of it* e**Pution. . ... ..j. - So the present arrangement, WM*h ATA de mands must he only "a temporary and trfrimilimu al expedient" ? not a block tp the oneness of i professions! growth and cooperstloriMn oortelnly ? A Anftt *V* ??AA124** v 4A ** V ""V VH?iOO| vut VIII/ ?COHV/, wr I IVII H| .jne is not compromise ?t el), ft is-challenge* OMMitMrel