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\ "T"- " v , 4?LIGHTHOUSE and INFORMER, COTX W:- _ . r . uoiished weekly by The Lighthouse Pub lushing Company, Incorporated, at 1507 Har den Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina TELEPHONE 2-7079 . ???? ? ^ i * Entered as Second Class matter !n ttie Post Office at Columbia, South Carolina, undei jS. the Act of March 3, 1879. . / ' ' . ? ii? , . , : JOHN H. McCRAY _ EDITOK " SUBSGRII^IONS?Payable in advance? 1 year, $3.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1,50; L per copy, 10 cent^ Honest EfforisTRcsf Tfciee TJ |L A IhoughtfuLciGzen-at OrceiTviTTe^wTrs kind enough to send us a brief two-year summary of a general, but systematic interracial efforts there to improve facilities foi colored citizens, along with other improvements for the comunity. What Greenville has been attempting isn't , exactly news^to us ; nor is it news to readers of The Lighthouse and Informer. Since a survey of that city about three years ago by the Southern Regional Council, whose findings and recommendations were made available to the public at the time, studied L. interest on the disposition of shortcomings and efforts to correct faults uncovered have kept many people aware of the city, b; The "self-axamining" summary which has come to us lists a great many projects thai began in 1950 or after the SRC survey. r>. Many of these have been advanced appreciably, some just begun; some are yet in the planning stage. Rut considering the overall magnitude of the task Greenvile set out tc , do, thus far it has had remarkable success F and has done itself proud. Full information as to what success the city has had with its 'Big Idea"?we believe?may be obtained from the Community Council of Greenville County, P. O. Bo* 1085, Greenville, S. C. But a few of the ' ^ changes over the little over two year period irifluae: ' Additional - facilities Kii^Negrogs fm at >peneral Hospital, where Negro physici aim 'min now practice; Capitalization ot the BC word "Negro" bv the Greenville. daily. iiewa. papers; a cleanup campaign in the Gowei Street School area; in parks; YWCA paid |*;7 worker; participation of Negroes in numerous religious and civic meetings; a sluin clearance program; restroom facilities in at least two stores for Negroes, etc. These are just a few of many things undertaken. There is no attempt of the Community h* Council to evaluate the wholesome effect n"' . . k this biracial, above board and honest, effort has had on the beneficiaries. Rut we have observed it; and have commented on it be fore the issuance of the latest summary. We think the happiest Negro communit\ in all South Carolina today is at Greenville Last fall, following a visit there by this writer, we commented upon the spirit of th< It Will Provide Better Servit As announced elsewhere in this edition we undertake this week to provide for tin readers a finer and better-serviced news paper; if our additions and changes an - successful, this means that South Carotin; will move even farther out front in its pre sent leadership of newspapers in our cate gory. Today, The Lighthouse and In forme; is the most?often quoted newspaper of it: class and type throughout the South, whicl makes us proud, and is a tribute tqfhosi who have supported and helped it thesi many years. New March of Dimes Techr About two years ago an Arkansas com munity developed a rather unique method which worked very well during a carnpaigi _. 1 -1i? / il ? r - - ? iri oenair 07 me annual March ol Dime fund. This new approach was simply an hou long collection period in carefully organiz ed sections of town in the early evening Mothers and housewives were the center o it. They were asked to leave a light on tin front door during that hour if dime collectors'Were welcomed to stop there. The re suits were wonderful. For the first time, we believe, the sann *?method wttt be usect hero the night of Jan ? ? uary Slr between 7 a*d 8 p.m. Mothers mu housewives are asked to get together wha little funds the family can spare for th block collectors who will work that hou and leave a front light on so that the col lector will know to Rtop. The use of th light is to save time for the volunteer work course the ntne of the home. 6 fMBIA, S. C. Saturday, Janqarv^ 1*), 1952 Sllthousc nK INFORMS? . ABVfcJKilSING KA'l'ISS rumisnrfT tm ap pPcatum Make checks or orders payable to The L prbt house Publishing Company, Inc., and not 1 persons representing it.National Advertising Representative: Inter state United Newspapers, Inc., 545 FifM 1 Avenue, New York 17, New York. " . CLOSING SCHKIHJLnooi Tues(Ui?+rr=^ftif\wtisiniz. .'I 1*. M.t Tuesday Photographs, 10 A.M. Monday. delations I onic \ citizens, of the close cooperation betweei the two races, of what appears to lie a solid backing of the Negro comunitv by whit* Greenvillians. We found no bitterness; \m heard of none. All Greenville Negroes noo< do ? it seems ? is to let it be known the? wish a community fault corrected. - The en tire-commonity evaluatcs~Tf and iT 7T7s ; i valid complaint, with both races workinj around the conference table, they explon it with available resources. The white eiti zens don't get angry and hunt out "ring i leaders" among the Negroes. The net r?sul has benefitted the community and today ; Negro in Greenville will tell you quickly he: prouder of his community than the whit est white man. Overlooked in all this present day bab bling- about Negro unrest and aggressive ness, is the fact ? exemplified at Green ville ? that it doesn't take a whole lot t< 1 make a Negro happy. He is growing, an< realizen that ho rtill bnn miniv iinin1 year of growth ahead of him. We have observe< i in many, communities and places the desire willingness on his part to work along witi the resources .of his community and grov along with it. In no instance where goo< i faith and honest efforts have been the resor 1 of the ruling folk has he not ghne alonj ^th^Th^ tTrogram. Tn other instances, wher deceit, hatiled. conniving, dishnriPsK' nm 1 even ill-temperW contempt have, been- thi ?J. nebuff of h iff pleas he has turned elsewhe.r for help ? and has gotten it. ' Negroes, more so than any other poopl we believe, want peace and neighborliness 1 They remember yet the privations and suf : ferings of a fiuman being, considered no ! exactly human ? just a pawn and a whin And just as they are satisfied with the ef forts in Greenville ? being a full part o these efforts ? they can be satisfied in eve ry other community. And they will be jus ; as soon as some white leaders change thei thinking to the extent of saying "Come o .in here ad let's work this thing out. It' your community and state just as it i mine." instead of taking nasty, punitiv * attitudes, usually starting bad relations hi i fore the Negro finishes presenting his pie; :e In our quest for an improved comnvunit > is also a search for those services and tiling nsTiTcTi will .,lro improve the Negro---- in ,r of his phases of living. Thus far, as a groin we have gone far in education and religior 1 but we haven't gone quite far enough v? in it consciousness 01 tne importance ? business. This aspect we hope to driv i* home around South Carolina in the immet * iate months to come. i Our enlarged stall' will he able to pr< LI (luce more nown of I?n a 1 and slate im? i-? & and provjde wider coverage for the bond of our readers. lique To Be Tested We think our people in Columbia will r< spond \<h'll ; however, it shall be interest 1 inpr to tabulate the results. The "Mothers' March" hour ? and t.lui r is it name ? is beinjr handled by the Jae and rlill club, itself composed of mothers. 1 An Example of How Youths Can Think c? During the week students at a Columhi high school (white) voted out smoking, dc in# this all by themselves,, and without th L. suggestion or influence of adults. The fat = ?must he shocking to manybidet's; wTrn Th; T? day like_to hover protectively over teen t agers, thinking these not yet capable of d< e ing some sound thinking Pf their own. r We think that this incident ought he a le: . son to parents. It ought say to them: "Gi\ the young people a Chance, a responsibilit of their own where they can think an evaluate practices." I I ; ? ' *' y V . WEEKLY SEP ^COURAGEOUS IS THE WIFE By Rev. Joseph Man ton NOBODY EVER SERVED G'xl long without courage! We arc n->t talking ahout s headline figures, but about or; dinary people and the tragedies and the courage in little lives. Often it takes more courage 0 to m-et disaster in your own living r'om than it doevs for sonic* iuvtiona4 *h>er<> in his hours of crisis. Because in your or' deal there is n"' dramatic setting to r.mimi von that *?ypp.-^ <mc is looking; i.v> electric excitement t 1 make you forget danger and lift you abo\o yourself or your family will ever know. y.'h"?i [ 1:1:.I,".L-on-.? 1?w+U? ?toil ?-t+?( t il.1 aui us??tiic?mo- ^ ??^--lher wii ' k~e^her hmnp?g--^ ing despite a husband who is a drunkard, and f< r the harm ho docs that hom. were aim vt h>tt''r < 1 Oiitt than drunk, i> COURAGEOUS IS thv man , who 011 his job silen'ly swnlJ"ws in.vu'ts and abu-e. n't b >. k' can-" h(' i - afraid of the boss. __ but becao-o h" n eds that j"b : for his fatnilv. C'>urage lu> are those who r sincerely go on striving to fi * serve" G??d. though they so'm- / time- fall, even though. 4he world hangs round their nock the sign. "Hvp<erite.*' Gamma Xi Chapter Toast Charleston's Charleston ? Ganuiui Xi Onic-t g gu Chapter of Alpha Kappa -or- v rity opened the YuLetide sea- a ^ son in Charleston, Dee. 21 at the' I 1 YMCA, Cannon St. h s 'l'wenty-lour charming seniors v 1 and their escorts selected fr?-m t , Avery, BurWe and Immacuvat'-h b Conception High School were in-1 is trodueed to society bv Basileust \\ v o * ->- 1 bcptima xAruiM'll wiutk. i :ie a 3 snow covered ro-trum with, a: * backdrop t,j heavenly blue from's* whoch shwn ashini ng silver star" u e made a fitting ye-ne for the dc- j c ^ butantca to match their bow. P t, Each was gowned in white net C pver taffeta <>f tinv ruffles with I s e_ * i fitted bodices, net stolen ovpTj b their shoulders and long white 0 gloves. Nosegays of white flow- 1. erets dotted with red with n streamers Of red ribbon enhanc-'g t their charm. ~ :N ( The personality and pobe.'i vivid throughout the evening r showed the results of thc Charm J ^ Scho?l which was conducted by ] Sor<>r Huby P. Cornwell and h< r 1t committee. Among outstanding > y per?or.agas who addressed t o j. U "Debs" were Mr . J Wat-s c, Waring. wih of the noted judge g and' Mrs. Kvra Kuhar of the s Parnassus Ii<>ok St irt who >h ws { 1 a growing interest in young f people, als > Dr. Catherine Me- \ b Cottry and Mr-. I,aufa. Buchan- ' nn. . . C The escorts o? the "Debs", ,n j tails and white tie-, were e?'?r.ch- f ed in manly qualities by D:. t Jo.hn F. U^prhru:pni f T,~" a-graduate 1 V: k l::n?vvty -f h In the receiving hn wit}-, the I 1, oftio-rs the chapter wore Mr.. t d'inJ Mrs. r K.uilkii'T "f r (l Nashvillo, Tenn. t t h us-, gue-ts f of Dr. and Mrs J. A. MeFali. Sr t The soror- wore garbed in it 0 y lf' "Do Enjoy Your ileal. But Th To Eat It." * lMONETTE Courageous are those who go on praying when no answer tines back and their prayers seeem to go into a dark empty turvnl, and Heaven seems to be a Wall of brad's; because in G?>d's own way, in God's own day, the answer will come. COURAGEOUS IS the wife who enters marriage as a virgin and remains with her husband for the sake of her little ones, arid in -pite of a -pousi who even taunts his wifc to Iut fart nbout an-nh^r woman. ? No matter wh-re uch a wife lives. * whether, it is ' the slumor the -uburbs, the address is Calvary, and Christ the King r cognizes the vinegar and the < gall, (ifef't'-n?kis1 of Judas (lint i k1- ami. bJtmys. ~ C uragciu- are those people who have come to know hqjfib reav? meat can empty the heart of happiness overnight like an cmty cup, but comfort and resignation are slow to trickle m ? people who may hav Inst :i lovrrl nnn in # r 11 r.l circumstance* but do n?'t therefore. L_>iC_taiih! COURAGEOUS ARE those people \vuo have humbly streVhc el . ,ut their arms to cm. brace the Cr'^s, and find that their ;u*ms are around the Crucified Himself for from Hi- -wounds come V e trans. fir<i<m f?r our courage. of AKA Women Pretty Debutantes ally eolored evening gowns-oth corsages of pink carnations nd ferns tied with green ribbon, 'he decorations of Christmas oily, mos-. icicles and red hclU .hich with the floor lamps made hie auditorium a fairy land of gr ieautvwas the work of Sorors . t) ;abelle Coaxum, Pauline Hollo- ^ ^ay, Sadie Long, E-ta Manigault nd Cynthia MeCottry Smith. 1 1 After the grand march, the oority song was sung. Dancing ntil Lung? after midnight was?m njoyed by all. Presiding at the unch Bowl were Sirors Hnitin? Irecn and Vorde>lle Green. The to ouvenir programs were made W1 v Sbror Jessica P. Br%n. Tl^e debutantes were: Miriam jv h'ss, Frances Bogans, "Dolly Boneur, Vermeil Bryan, Mary Buress, E<Rth Chisolm, Cynthia larie Coulter. Elestine Drayton, __ >auline Fludd, Susie Fay Gat- l'? ett. H?len GofT, Sui>an Greene, oU foai nette Hamilton, ShirleK- w< lart, Bondell Keith, Ragina se C lb, Jerwrous Mack, Margie n< -lcFarland, L?\'drne Nod-on, dt lllen Pinckncy, Shirley Richard- or n. Felecia Scott, Marie Stagand Th-elma Williams. Their vv scort Ar.dr. w Bland, Jr.. Isaac /-?] Hake, Charles Hr-wn, Benj. * Irockington, Frederick Coaxunt. #< Vm. Clement, Paul Edwards, rhe??d"re F ?st-r. Raymond I Iman. Th i j 1 a - Holm's, Jr. '->t lnhard JnmiCm, .T:u-iO> Vfoul, " ' ep-m?Nr^nitt.^ K >t)rrt Mill- ^J ' well, J?i Richberg. Carl Stent, nt t '''tirird?Tm vr.?H?ti*>; " ?Wi'tv "t,?ft la/el Sander- and Wm. Wright. ... Chnrleton? Mrs. Albert Kieth, rrnttrrr- rrf??Amanda Kleth,?M" urnuyrly Teen-age director at S( Ce Coming, St., YWCA passed b( i Clrand Rapids, Mich. 1 I f-ra . * Cf - I II \v e Street Is Not The Place r .._ ^ * v V Civil Rights Law, Would E P!" $^gBBgj?&<|| John II. McCray ' ?3? This Question Has >- .' ?KJ^flf The less tolerant and inf< ^y^^iepv of Negroes isn't worth the ^BSrm "A Negro doesn't appreciat W ^eRro w'^ Ret you in bad v gftj| you", or, as somebody crack -41 ound fighting for him fine mi 1 a. f u i rt /^n xiff*A^inr Ul t Vl P i nere are iocs ui imiigo mv?6 * oes as a group to day; there always, has ten and always will be. Nobody pretends at the Negro is any better or any worse an any other group. And the - fact that ~>d made both hell and Heaven convinces e that He never expected all of His create vs tn wind up on the perfect side. It follows, then, that the* Negro is TjotTT (1 ;ir. T good whether or not his had faults nay outweigh his good and are higher ithin his group than Within others, ,is a lestion that cannot be answered today. Onhistory can tell the truth. I grew up in a community which was conolled by Negroes. Down at Lincolnville? ill the state's , only all?Negro governed mmirnity, it was tnc Negro who took it it on the few whites who lived in town. It us taboo?a great social offense?to be en conversing even with them. They were >t permitted to vote in town elections. (I )iiXthink they havo theAote yet). And if ie protested, he was told righi quickly, his is our town. If you don't like ih<* way e run it. get out"?the same thing the harleston News and Courier is now saying southern Negroes complaining about the unlit ions they live under. I don't say that this was the proper attiule. Hut it was understandable among >ople who had such little roles elsewhere. nd I don't say that all of the Negroes of iiuolnville then were upright and God? ar ng. respectable citizens. I don't think I hm! say more to sustain my point here inn thnr my?rather, ?then chief of police ul a God-?fearing man, was killed by nne Negroes who wore paid for the job by >me white men who had been sponsoring >otlegging and prostitution in the village. > vwra w mi ? * ust What is This: liv E. M. DeAl.l We know that some of the old line sontliners turned over in their graves, who ovcrnor Fuller Warren smashed southern ( cedent by entertaining both white and egro Citizens at a luncheon in the Florida xecjit ivu?Mansion?U*+4?Wednesday. ? The interracial group was in the capital 1y to confer with Governor Warren on the hristnias night bombing in Mims, Fla./ in hich Harry T. Moore, outstanding leader, id his wife lost their lives. Following the conference the Governor ivited the group of What was termed norlern whites and Negroes to lunch wit1 im. They were conveyed from the conferice setting-to the Executive mansion in icrhwav natrol <avs fur' the Governor's jrsonal limousine. The Governor lost no time in letting it bo iowti that this was the first time in the istory of the State, and the first time since le Executive Mansion was built 46-years ro that there had been such a symbol of teerelations; the* .group ,was served at ird tables as is the custom at the mansion hen large groups are entertained. Knowing the custom of the so-called sunline state one is compelled to think back I , > % . *. I - i , :- * I s. ' j ? . Ml "VV w>?-? J - : ;'"'' ' ' | ; No Answer - . armed often says that defending the rights time and sacrifices required. They will say: ;e anything you do for him." They'll say, 44 A vith the white folk and run off and leave led the other night, "A Negro is hell. You go 1 the first thing you know, ne s fighting you".^ Would it make sense to say that all Negroes are worthless because of what happened to my father? If it does, then who do you. thing he was other than a Negro? And it would make no sense, too, to say thar.w all white men are bootleggers, aiid sponsors . ?of prostitution and murder. to form "some kind oflinopinionon what ~]j mv people's greatest prohlpm?from within ?is. It is one for which they cannot wji blamed entirely ; rather, it is one which exists also among other races, many with 1 much better opportunities for avoiding it, 1 than my people. It is the problem of understanding what is going on around them, an dwhy it is go- * ig on, its dangers or-good points. I have? seen hundreds of Negroes since they've been voting, struggle around .on election day in search of information. But; if I am to get down on them, I have first to get on the, number of whites who telephone me for the same information, each election time. And the whites have had over 50 years of it. We have had less than five. l have seen my people fumble through the courts and numerous other procedures of a I technical and complicated nature to them. I .I have seen white people go through the same fl kand suffer as badly. To me. the question is unanswerable, but fl --th4^--dooslVt necessarily mean that thc-ve B some sort of a dilemma. It has l*ee? the same B for decades, and nobody has "gone to thc^j dogs". Npbody will. ' B -=- Think about ffiatr yott -?vho are tempted .fl to decry this God^-created race. Think a- fl bout and pray for the jpjiiatiro and ?in yon B commit against it. The question you is one affecting the entire human race?not just the Negro?one portion of it. to the days of Micanopy. when a mere con- I stable was made Chief of police because he 1 knocked out the eye of a Negro. soldier whose crime was failintr to sav "ves sir" to I him. We- could appreciate this gesture in his I excellency the ^m-m-unr if wo could fuigel J the lynching'of a Negro at Madison, Flori- I da two years ago, when after a whi,te wo- I man had called the sheriff's office and told J him of a pjot to lynch the prisoner; he said 1 he did not believe it. And accompanied by the Jailer he went to a hamburger stand I 10 blocks away while the... Negro prisoner I was taken from the Jail. ^Aii ["Investigation I showed that the jail door had not been fore- I ed, so as to just what did happen leaves our I mind filled with question marks. H We appreciate this gesture of the Gow? I <rnor becaiuse after all' every man must I hh attempt to defend himsellljaniL I hose whom he is elected to serve nn met. I tpr how weaTIT seem to be in the eyed of I others. , . No, we cannot forget that Governor War- H ren said that Walter White was a paid race I monger from up north who wi*s sent to I Florida for but one purpose, and that waa H to point out its segregated Restaurants, H