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^^ral reaction to the appointment ^ffiell A. Johnson of Columbia to the WK&q?Educational?Finance?Coiiiinissisn?tsP guch as to indicate that his people do not E=_._? want his services in that connection. If-he has any reopect for their expressed opinions, he will submit his resignation to Governor Byrnes and the commission, and submit it forthwith. ~ ^ . r It would be a tratredv for a nmn wb.? h;?^ labored as long as he in his chosen field to spend his last days in absolute denouncement, and in the apparent role of~ opposrnjr -? the wishes of hin people in their tight?topfull citizenship status, operating as he must. as a sort of agent for their enemies, against Typhis people. . ~ 7 'mt Wie do not undertake to ferret out the merits or demerits in the accusations made against the former Columbia supervisor; but, we do think that were he to refuse to Be ifi&JfrSj:' -i -**r * serve the commission, though we do not doubt he could fill its job, he would display so great a bigness as to win everlasting gratitude and praise from even those who now criticize him. We think the principal target in the dis /j. puts is the purpose of the commission, which is in fact but an instrument to perpetuate ? ; r . jimcrowism''?the very thing Negroes are attacking. It is natural that they should be T violently critical of any of their own number Pr--4 -^who agrees to use his experience in the com WJ v ' mission, and subsequently, against his own [ people, ^ Li |n resigning, too, Mr. Johnson could malce it clear to?politicians?and?governmental leaders that the day on which , one Negro ^ Yould be hired to do thrir dirty work against Kttg.,- v-Arther Negroes is a thing of the past, Jj. C. A.yJohnson deserves, to be written in R the record as oner who loves his- people; as * one wha is proud of their accomplishments and struggles for recognition, he will refuse j^_?^ to serve. He doesn't need the job. He wasn't pT "pressured" into accepting it; he is present^ ly being paid by an all-Negro college, plus earned retirement benefits for his tenure o^ . ver Negro schoolsJbere. Ministers Take The Lead Columbia's Interdenominational Minisi . ' ters' Union, last week, took the leadership in rejecting an appointment of a Negro to the State Education Finance Commission. basing their objections largely upon the manner in which the appointment was made and their evaluation of the type of service | the appointee can be expected to render as jdfrx his people prefer it. The union has also spoken out forcefully IK, on other matters recently, one being the conditions at the local bus terminal for Negro travelers. IB This is a good sign, especially in the ap^ fcijjjjfointment matter, for the state had hoped |Mp it could again ham-woogle "colored preachers" into its getting around schemes, even dnduce them to take oyer the Negro schools. v But the ministron are now awake. They realize how hard has been the load on their jf?-?memberships all eady;-having to operate the church, and also to provide privately educaBjp tion on the higher level where the State has Bpy shirked its duty. Were it not for the heavy on thfl chiirch00, 1h~ fc.. ctnHV'hon thomselvo.n could onionm in heifer. the community, and also afford ^or their ministers. Bhjauded the stan7TTa?en T7y ihfcj^Jteid, who defied ^?an, who aliyre AME HSlisiunJ^C^^Wr^nc., and not to^jjH persons representing it. Hduiml Advertising Ke 1>r esen taCyM^Jjgtfb|j*M Palate United Newspapers, Inc^^B Avenue, New York 17? New CLOSING SCHEDULES: News, Tuesday; Advertising, 3 P. M., Tuesday; ' ev?r Photographs. 10 A.M. Monday. ' T lums ==?? Sh ' don'i jimerow gehools, - suck - !blo,pd throug'h t he "H "jimcrow" school (Byrnes) tax from >- the ** ' wroi poorest people, and work to".defeat oir pro- tJUt gram for the. only kind of equality there Ho i: can really be. Any .Negro working with it, Ll* i i SOi,ri( works against his people. * nou. NO Seeing The Light? w or Remarking upon a federal probing 01 police sp,r slaughteroT Negroes TTTitscftyTThe Rirming- _ Whs ham World, edited- by tlie sagacious Kmorv !an^ . . ;? i , uttl (.). Jackson, the city s most hated man -on jOVp (Hull) Connor's list, says: "The situation is so obviously .Mm! wrong that the citizens, themselves, should demand an investigation'of their officials ?without waiting -for-Washington to take the ! initiative." / When the World's editor wonders why The To Lighthouse and Informer's editor is "the p, bitterest in journalism today", it is for rea% t F soils such as-he observes in his own city?in- <? . "justices,despair and inhuman treatment of mioi human beings by other human beings, is The~ tion: * WH o World admitting it sees the same light? Neg poin Wha Wasn't He Better? ^ Jog .Despite his courting and kissing of the quos - Dixiecrats while chief magistrate of South ture Carolina, who is there among Negroes who us a - , "pi will not say that former Governor J.StVom Thurmond was not the better of South Caro- that Una governors over, the past six years? \yhi< . \ . . '? * . f- ? olin; Were It Acting tn t'aith? .Were South Carolina acting in good faith, say . were it honear Tn its expressioTTs of dofng fish what the law requires and what it can and him should do to improve-educational facilities him. for Negroes, it would, before promised court dldn action comes, .open all institutions of higher Mr' learning to Npgroes and adopting *injrl.. ~system on the higher level. Were South Carolina to do this, it would can create more sympathy for its program a- wat< mong Negroes than all its questionable aj>- c'rus pointments and closet meetings with a few frqn Neown^s wtin mi?\' ni-nmion K11+ ^.. -o* 1 " i-** v?iim\; uv?t tdu lICVl^L <1gain deliver the race for a handful of pennies. ? i And Passing Of The 24th ^ /Last week the Army announced that it was ' f>f breaking up the historic 24th all-Negro In- ^rea fantry, stating that experiment had disclos- ,H,C ed that Negro- soldiers perform better in ,n' mixed units. The breaking up is to be completed within six months. I hat Thus, the Army at last has found to be true -iiru| what scientists and Negro leaders have beer- unh telling it for decades. Certainly, a Negro or any other citizen does his job better when he ^ is not hampered with the feeling of inferiority. He. then, has nothing to do but his work, into which he can put his whole mind and spirit. Those who may wonder about "credit" for i U 1 ? r vr * ?? ur m se-r vKemen need nave? iN no fear. Chances are they will still stay on | top, if they.are of that stripe. "The land may. -uvpm change, hut never does the nntn." The prioriofrTT-lth passes on. in a new pdorv. t*rH ; , , - ? ? i .im " * K'tV not. Wonder ' why-1 hero are m< Neyioes in-t-he-- ?^ . . . . UO ritorcement and m\estnsatioii sections of tfrr South' Carolina OPS setup? n !v , _ , J puo -v. ~,P<'(-t Much o* the major history among South scar . Carolina Negroes has heen made within the fekhist ten years. Not much of it has been a n EFfTdd?"Jwwrvrr:?rrrrrt thrr?erft stamtR to feU Jersey Joe Walcott rerm I Mfefefe|M|^y^am ^ . v?v r iH wherU food ybody." ; 'hen he'd be an.-^enng ;clf,"I tnld he* ie wrinjd^feLer brow. ."I t see how? *^V-V. f there isn't *food." aid, "then . that'/ what's rig. Not too mgny people, too little food. The thing t<? ? grow more food ". KIWI r+TT mirk "I'.UT : people say there i-n't eill land." TRUST IN GOD shook my head. "That's an It to God. That's saying t!,at wings His children into the Id and condemns them to vation. , It'> blasphemv. it's wrong is not too little I. but too little love. Too c love of Clod. Too Jitt?o of people. Too much greed. LETTERS I The Editor jon reading of C. A. John; appointment as assistant ). R. Crow, Director of the e Ed.uc a t ioB Finn nee Comssion, the following quesj quickly oniric t0 mind: it benefit, if 'any, will the ro receive, from the ap? tment of Mr Johnson? it has Mr. Johnson done in past to assure that Negroes iouth Carolina TtTTn accepthim without protest or tion-would insure our fuinterests and would bring step closer t0 our goal? to accounts I have seen of Johnson are tu the effect he is opposed to the fight*h the people of South Car* and the NAACP are for _c'ducatipna.i. jfrredam... It 3 oppns^J To bur eforts, how he protect our interests? ~~ jod fishermen often say that the be-t way to < atch -is to take a BIG-tfisli._cut up and bait your hook with The-South Carolina' Negro ,'t SLEEP that one either. Crow and Mr. Byrnes can't Mr. Johnson a? a bait for We cannot be caught as lall Fry" any longer. No> we ufTord to sit idly by and :h ourselves being beat ? s the head with P branch i our own tree. (Mrs.) Fred W. J u !:> >.v Advisor Youth Counrii. MA ACn erson LBOl'T KLAN MEETING I'ho Krbtnr*" " : >opie a round hero have been tly eoneerned over the welof our editor sin> e r^adabout Ins v i > ft to a klan ting. am happily a^sining them their fears aic u lnecehsarv that he t> qudo. well and a rmed. 1 lerhert- C'raw!i J d t Dn STRAIGH' by jrur lilW. Yt iRK 4 Global)?Tl r? ro press arjd Negro, lrad< r some tithe now have been e ed.t >! >. and reporter^ o." metropolitan ores-; iml illy hy rnrr, persons s.ai:;' t ),,,*! rT;?nrriiv":r ""V. Some df t!i |, 'It. '? one- I ( >! ;. i ; - 1 1 ' . uti fto-Tr ' " \ . ' r . . > . : ! r" '"Si" ' * '< ' .'J *'.?' ."I t hi; t bv :()' !! t . fv; ?' 4 ' i 'J s as >' ": *? 11 n;i! i ' v. , ': in th it( the pn^l icr to lojfll Bran Pro to where w^rV ^^rne people would Mr answered. "If thev V^S^I^t themselves be tnugnt nowto work. Just open your gcoprnphy. Look at the empty farmer- and rani hers- would do with them. Imagine hov Christianity would transform India or Africa or China.?o.* Rus-ia " problem is Relic,iocs "You mean it's a re!ig?ous problem?" "AM human pr"bh ;n,: an- irliginus problems. Christ s'TIod i-n't lie?" "Certainly," she efti-1. "Then we have It ~nri the word of God Himself that if we seek first after Chx! and His iustiie. all these other things will he added unto us. Look. honey; Hud's not- a pretty ?-titimen I. that's t!ie flat, unqualified promise- ail 1 pledge of Almighty God." ^ O EDITOR SAYS STAY AWAY" To The Editor: I read in hist week's Lighthouse and 'Informer where vou and a" Claude C\ Stewart. Jr.. went t?> ii klan meting m Lexington county, and I wish to offer you some advice. We know newspapermen have t(, pet around to all kinds of places in order to pet theiV ?rrrrrr-?We ami: iTia 111?VMlr doinp your duty. However, to uthe editor of The Lighthouse and Informer is more than just an editor. He ancj Mr. James M Hinton are the lifeline of all of us. and we don't want anything ever to happen to -either- run? of you. ' __ Srr-f-^yiM advise thaPyou stay away from these klan people,._If. you wanf Vhe news of what's happening in them send nnc of your reporter-., and stay home yourself. Them klnn people would love to do something to you_and Mr^Hinton. and if they did they would know thixy~ivid hit us a serious blow. Let the klan meet all it wants to. It ain't going to do it much""; longer. In the meanwhile, you stay in vour office and edit thi-news .and -top goifng around giving us heart trouble. I though; I \M>ul dgive you this advice because being an old Lighthouse reader I know what the paper does for a good story. I want a good story every week, but I don't want to read a. good klnn storv in somebody's else paper. Bon R. Williams C 'ha rlest > >n K t v's Note: Kvprossed voncern over me t ditor s prfscno at a klan mooting are untimely and entirely unnecessary. These meetings aren't taboos for any itizen and it would help tiu cause of democraev greatlv wcia more: Negroes to attend t!i<>-e in their mmmun tios. By .>0 doing. they would prove the 111?e!vc* f:... .1 e [ k.,in:sin. and ''lev Wou.d also < 1 j oe tn.'U > del to -elect another hate topi r AHFAD S ADAMS t,? ? t "ii w -ul.! .!:j j -s .;tn , ;. v ' P 1 ati-.i , a i.on - .\Y_,r .. ' M ' " ' '-1 > ' a" ' > ' " ?*n? i; r .-.v.n'.; v: .! ?-4?< t? : " T7 C'"t . :t iin'v'.v i i. tr hnt *1"1 *1 ' i i ' >1 * i' i?* 11 > . i.i- i ii'? ? t'lf_ sc;nvh t.. ;i J,n\\ If ,n. u?PLi 1l'?uI'?U-U 11 II < > '*1LI '', i?r1 ? -t-*? port.11:; t' '.:if c<. > jt.* i'1 I'..-,.;. < 'i 'wii ("> ; < ? v.'.iii' I ;i; __ Idt.ntifujjJ^ n v. t ; p : I ? M ^ : ^Krstcm The i n Mrould feceni a dctri John H. McCray tWho Was Fooling This time last year thos a Governor, James F. Byrn jui;ns on the Supreme Cou of State, would usher in' an no other Governor had dor The rcasontng-^W3s that, now in the shadow: t he v. hiiiir.huimi political .leader. with no imibi tions otherwise, would settle down in the oiVic an(j write a great chapter just before he took hi departure into Eternity. He wa, "high class," liberal ancf' "interested in the colored people we were tokh Just the same, so few Negroes voted, for hii that reports following the primary in which h was nominated were that he was sad because hi election wasn't unanimous. Negroes had remem bered his opposition to a Howard University ap propriation many -years ago, and his lining u with other Southerners to defeat anti-Iynchin and anti-poll tax bills. They also recalled how h I d to- -a.vr them the trouble of a 4ong an expensive fight for the right to... vote, while.. ..h w:is r:il:i;ig joe smlln n vp.il t'dalK. Jut. tampui ing wTth the same right of the1 Bulgarian people many thousands of miles away from South Caro lina. One word from Jimmy Byrnes and Soul Carolina wyuld have given in. His first word-wa: "Give me your vote." They didn't, and one yea later mo-t of them fed justified in the positioi they took. ---It _ai pears, too. that many of those who wer whooping it up for Jimmy Byrnes last year amon white citizens are also Surprised now at the tur: of events. Those who were, quick to Apologize fo the threat of shutting or -riling schools befor white teachers in March, saying "He slipped tha time but just you wait," arc now very silent an unheard from. However, there are a few wh think the Byrnes "jimcrow" school, tax is jus the thing; they are discounted for two re1i>ons first, they believe it good because they think Jini my Byrnes knows all the answers and what' honest an(j best; secondly, they haven't the -light est idea that he borrowed the s; heme from Her man Talmadge of Georgia, and thal_jf, th<^ Claren don case i> lost, it will have been but another ex Uavaganza.-the -slate doesn't need- an^ won't b able to use. Already. Jimmy Byrnes has been wrong on tw points m the case. He hailed the majority rulinj &Moss H. Kendrix Shriners Sponsor I have reference to that organization's Talen and .Beauty Bagent which wilj have its fifth an nuul running when the Smart Shnners tak 1 io i n;.i i w ? ... t.. 'Now?V. 11 k?' ' y ^ ' " '> < 1') - "fi *?. their 52nd' convention stand. This corner has wit nessed two of he previous talent-beauty contest. l..nti( City staging of the Miss America finah Minus the big time promotion and nothing-short of* Broad way dressings attached to flie AtlahtC.ty ? r:. . 1 can -ay that the Shriner- are nothm 'r ;' ,;i ; -fr, ' -it :'iat h.g?m r rv ni?ih A H. r t rt o uId huv.. A ft i r i >; i ] yoar> < '. .p'-rnt i* >:i a tua'lv th S: : ::i . o " ,nV ,n < u: aaninw 'I1 li-'MT . . ' : 1 a M - A::v: a. thr Mti: , : : T'nhh t mud ho n i . : >i Am:> ~'TTnh-'d h- I i' :> J',..;' hid ! v ' h?-St ;i \v;)\ hi p. a l ' ' n -1:n ui id. * ? . i\ . ... "H'l, T i! i w. ma. -1 til;' Shi n<) < vent Then c;inii' 15 ' m <A )K""" 1 M i d' 1'' ,'Pv fuM v i tpmeoint io f h-j.-k .'f tim Shrir.C'V hndoavor. f.v; t'V ] I ~h~ t h;it ? g! Villi? a S'Tl C 7 T ~~??rr' r11"h*- 'wW w< mlil _ullic;t'\yis , - 'v mm Jo flisji'av thivr talon t.\ : - ... . "iiml*-r -u> h whu'.t.'iumc circumstance Km, jtutior. of the S!iv rry Talont and Bonn pvvk : ntvt!" i" forward nv.'vc rp th iiJMfcT. >vr rroeram "f 1):". Ravnmnd K. Jartmor jt V- who hot anum Imperial Potentate of ? > ;d Detroit in 1999. when the now dynnnv and magnifioant organization. it i< said, had bu t HIM active momhrrs ftn H a Hrt'Uk if Ml full nf debts. I still see before me those -1 wont y-twn ho-ut ful and talented young ladies whr. nnrtioi*vd?' he 19f>0 Boston event However, 1 know that Wi S 1 ^ ' > * r?r ? - Mtttacr ? ~r? ?B E __ J^-lJMQraalM ^<oy^tf^*?frMHq^MHHZB5nf 'tJT'. "" * ; Whom Last Year? e "in the know" were trying to tell ua that as v es, the retired politician who had'had brief sort, as War Mobilization Director, as Secretary era of- con servatism and progress, .something le. 5 at Charleston as "unanswerable." Thurgood Marshall r>nri MAAfP lawvprc an.u'oroj it nrnrrMxtiu - , : r w.... .. v,* \. . t? Secondly, while he was telling superintendents. s of education he doubted an appeal could be filed > a oefore the trial court relinquished jurisdiction of the case, Mr. Marshall was in Charleston filing . the appeal. . ' n Another grave mistake the venerable governor e has made, has been to allow bitter animosity to s prevent him from getting together with NAACP * - leaders on a general program for .improving - >chool futilities. We do not thing the NAACP is . ' P anxious to haul people into court. In fact, we g know of severar instances, one or two in South - ^ e Carolina, where, the organization worked syrnpathetrrnTFy arid cooperatively on school matters. e But blind bitterness on his part has given rise to T a situation in which this poor,.state is liable to have to try to do what it is unable-to do?in other j* word??to try to fight yhat it cannot be^t. Mr. Byrnes has adopted a program Hostile to the Ku Klux Klan. It is one South Carolina should have had .-/ears ago: nevertheless, he has broken ? a section of its back. But the order os again rising up. Now, it has hrfade number one on its agenda c the breaking up of mixed schools should courts decide jimcrowed ones shobld go. ??__? Tin->?arc cum: lg in to help the Governor, so they say, the same thing the order did when j former Goversor J. Strom Thurmond launched j h-'s States Right movement. We wonder what "friends" of the Spartanburg t chief magistrate have to say by way of explana tion- We wonder if they still plan to stick to Jimmy's coat-tail? s One other thing: We notice, too, the report that - "in order not to embarass him," a section of the press has clamped a censor's lid down on stories relating Negro t ivic moves and answers to parts - of the Byrnes' orogram. Were all of these things e known one year ^8?? Was it known too, that "pmcrow taxation, wilhotn xhe privilege of at1 0 tr rinp one wordV was to come along with Jimmy _?, ? Bvrnes' F.ra in South Carolina* 7 Talent And Beauty -The Shriners (AEAO Nobles of the. Mystic 1 America and Its Jurisdictions, Inc.) are to be nt job that they are doing to promote the glorimerican womanhood. t Jackson, Booker T. Alexander, Shriner Imi perial Promotiodal Director, all of Shrinedom for e that matter, would want me to remember i!,i-' '"''.v h iv winners received scholarship vai'iU (:>v their participation. St 11 the major emphasis that the Shriners ed. This project is fostered as a feeder for the Or- ' fii i- . Fubeivulosis and Cancer Re>earch Founds "?Bo n i! inw the first?action of?this Founda tion when die ks in the sum of $35,000 I'.awn upuir its ?urce< for contributions t- 'wains t'r,e prevention of TB and cancer. K r,< - :i t'v usnnd dollars were contributed to r :o. . tit-r:( ;.] ! Society for The Control of Cancer; 1 ? ' h. a -s-ijo.'HV)- tyrant"?w-n-<~ mndr^-tu FrcpdirreriL?t !' ; Wilmington, D. C., for the establish- ; ' f .i'j c t ;rr h clinic ftn tuberculosis. In ac- . ' ! o?V?: tee AXCC grant, that Society's president J announced that his agency would use the. money to :vu * to g \*r voting Negroes an opportun'ty to c lot; r rant cj\ ' -.? n ' . . j I hope h? he in Gotham when the Shriners bring t' : fan; v wears and beaut if ut girls to town. 0 Th, parade; an.1 ! ghter activities-can always Hf- ? Toi tTrrre plrrrtv gm>ft fun?thabb. parted the convention, no the seri'oujj ...sjde, those Shriners can alsTT put oji the sTeornT The forecast has it, tnfet n there will he action on su^^^TfalVrrattpr^ 'h^ edp ucation, health and housing. e These things I shall &atch while looking for thflL c _Shrine'r girt-who may be another Joe Baker or - ^ ' Lena Home or just Mary Jane, who will make hgr own name. Incidentally, the mothers do not hav? to worry?"Ray Jackson's '/daughters'* will have > ; x their daughters as well chaperoned as the Philv 'ndelphia mint; i - * 1 \'v'V* ' '', ' V 4 _ . ^