Lighthouse and informer. (Charleston, S.C.) 1941-1954, August 04, 1951, Image 4
^^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
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^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;
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