Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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__ LIGHTHOUSE and INFORMER UOI.U1M tp>V ? Published weekly by The Lighthouse Pub lishing Company, Incorporated, at 1507 Harden Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina. ^TELEPHONE 2-707? Entered aa Second Cla^'matter in the Post Office at Columbia, SeiiKh Carolina, under the Act of Marchf^, 187%. ?r1?:? ??1 John H. lM(cCray President-Editor E. M. DeAli News Editor Robert E. Howard . Sports Editor ^ I^Sftiomasina Scott ~_T Society Editor ' Julia G. Simkins Sec'y-Bookkeeper ' ii i ? , 1 f wOur Answer To Dlxiecratism V; ;/ jE*ignc years ago we susgesieu urncjui^u_ tion of the Progressive Democratic Party "Jin South Carolina as an answer to the n' White primary and one means of introducing bi-racial voting in our state. Events which have transpired since prove the wisdom of the course which was followed, not only in South Carolina, but in Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and ^ - other states where the idea was planted, either directly from South Carolina, or % from some place which inherited the plan from South Carolina. Today, there are more than one million new voters in the South, more than enough w-x to control the South's politics, if used properly and smartly. In fact, these new? votpS'are the real answer to Dixiecratism, of old hag sporting a new dressr r white supremacy. Eight years ago we suggested "Roosevelt clubs" as a beginning point among Negroes. Actually, other names wereused by the groups which did form4 This year we would suggest "Back with Truman'' clubs which may. or may not be the actual title Alsech Thetr purpose would be to educate? the people on the things farmers, business J people, and even state governments have received under President Truman, or the Democrats, which could at the same time >do the one job now needed to complete the awakening of the South?unite the elements in the two faces not addicted to klanigm and further intolerances. In pother words, in 1944 the nfove! was to get the southern Negro organized for political action; in 1952 it should be to get the. southern white man. and the already organized Negro together foi^ a brand of political action which is both alien and hostile to that offered by the so-called States Righters or Dixiecrats. 125 Years After The Beginni Bfo; 125 yol'.s. ago, 1827 to-be exact, the first f;'M newspaper dedicated to t ^ upgrading of Negroes in America was established Its ;idh watrto protest unfair treatment of ' Negroes as^jiiiman beings, and as riti; zens under the American flag. Hundreds v of other newspapers designed to serve the same people have,followed; all have at one B*> ' "7 - if"7 time or another dealt with the problem ot Bj ' . racial discrimination and while they have played key role^_ in shaping action-pat torns, wniipVi tn ur/M-k? on before their original purpose is realThe prejudices existing in New York in 1827 when Freedom's Journal was edited . by John B. Russwurm, exist today?12a E* years later?in New York and elsewhere, in * a much larger and more enlightened na^V?pn. Where Nearoes were persecuted in .Pl^^ece-Education Is Actually "You have made excellent progress, but waltvjupt i? little longer for a bit more edL, * Ucation, then *fll the differences will be r< p..7 >;_8oved." This is standard advice to southy ;.v: ern Negroes from the typical white person KlI*", ' whc is confronted, withv removal of some of the 60 year old customs in practice around the South. But is it the Negro who needs the edu cation? Is it he who needs to learn how to . work with others? How to practice Christiarrity, love- and friendship at all levels? fo jf ivhrwo hnnrt nnd mind are hlnrked with racial prejudices to the extent -?; ? . ' * that he has to stand in public and de V t. . - "nounee his" fellow citizens? Is it he who ^ ""would wreck the-United States of America should it frown upon his practices against one or more races? Is it he whose mind is ^ J* so wrapped up in keeping another human fe;-- J enslaved that he is missing and nxceKer.t f. * ' * m ' ? r ?-?? 7TT - ' ? ' * >%". , Sfc - f \.i : mm* jm 'v v , .i. JT < . r # ' *" . V " ' ' " IBlAr S. * Saturday, March 15, T352 I ? i ihthousi^ mrpxiAs? SUBSCRIPTIONS?-Payable in advance?: 1 year, $375; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1.50; j / per copy, 10 cents Make checks or orders payable to Thf Tjghf- 1 house Publishing Company, Inc., and not to | persons representing it. ADVERTISING RATES furnished on appli - cation. } National Advertising Representative: Interstate United Newspapers, Inc., 545 Fifth j Avenue, New York 17, New York. CLOSING SCHEDULES: News, 12 noon Tuesday; Advertising, 3 P. M.,- Tuesday; H Photographs, 10 A. M. Monday. , In South Carolina now are more than j 110,000 registered and qualified Negro ; voters knitted in the Progressive Demo- j crats, and by the time of primary voting | this* summer it is expected that this number will be almost doubled, certainly substantially increased. At the same time, there are many thousands of white voters. m labor, in government employ, in church organizations, etc., who like the majority of the registered Negroes, will not g6 along with Dixiecrats. Combine the two or more groups and you have a majority of the voters in South Carolina. . Once combined?and this could be done after the state Democratic convention?in -h?people's convention, this conservative group?all Dejnocrats?could displace the marauding Dixiecrats in the Democratic National Convention, which would strike fi a serious, if not death, blow to all their i ambitions. And we have reasons' to believ < that this year, as never before, any "Suc h ^ organization which should appear before * the national convention, would have better f than an excellent chance of accomplishing i its mission. The Progressive Democrats - > have paved the way for such an occurence. * Their weakness heretofore has . been a * dearth of white memberships ^ What after the national convention? How j would electors from such a group get on the state-printed ballot? These can be done, c this first time, by circulating a petition, i signatures for which are easily obtained * through ekisiing organization?*, and easier j still with their, combined unity. j We have given considerable thought to j an answer for Dixiecratism and think we y have it in the above charted course. T) 1 details we can submit at a later clay if de- * sired. First, what about it, South Carolina?. * . v * J ' - l riff 4 ^ -o 1 - l the relatively free North 100 and more ? years ago, they are persecuted' yet today. 1 and the difference between what takes ' place there and what takes place in the traditionally harder and oftimes more wicked South is one in degree only. This week while our newspaper spause to pay homage to their father and founder, let no one assume that because there is improvement in the. machanics of producing a newspaper and because some of them have attained remarkable financial sih'tTs>. their work in America is just about over. . About the only difference between 1827 and 1952 is that the issues today is more < isolated, bottled up in a corner, so to speak. * Left there, it will creep out again to di- t vide this country and subject to the heel of the bigot the people of us want freed, * and who are entitled to ecpial freedom in America. , < ^Needed chance to develop his community? WELL SAII), MIL CLEMENT As spokesman for a citizen group at Charleston which was conferring with school officials over conditions in the public schools, A. J. Clement, Jr., among other things, told the officials in effect: "Gentlemen, there is no need to lapse into vague and circumventing lanvuaire about th?c glaring discriminat ions. Negroes t-;i 11 now both read and reason. They can understand what is said, and interpret what is intended." Those aren'i- the exact words used in the copy of the petition we have received, twt the Import is Die same. Amt tt -wrtf said, something which Ought be leamoTI immediately by those who yet think the Negro today is stiTl wallowing around in the 1850s and 1870s just because some of his white neighbors struggle to re-invoke ^ ft day which is long passed. ' .. 'I ' John H. McCray j |? v 1R Segregation Now ] I * JbT ^ie politicians and whi I * them fram what littU* hrai , Ret them talk at the mouth i ) <:.v a fe-w step^of the "A Wham a jail j'f. ^ ' *nR onc '^nidges a condemn the hands of the hangman's i n air. The politician (South) or the white (upremacist who has backed racial discrimnation, especially segregation, suspects it. mil the student of civil and legal events mows: The Negro now can call the tune lie" vants the white fiddling South to play, and jventually the white South has no alterlate but to play, though it may scream, rant ind rave. ,.JWere-thiH-not-trhe case there wmrirtrrT heill the noise today over attacks being made igainst. psychological and legal practices in he South. Were there an obvious way nut or the white supremacist, things Would lave a different coloring. Right now. South Carolina and several ither states face court actions to end seg egation in secondary and elementary, ichools. Theso state-^ h;?;-f? already tr^T ovi {ie college ami r> ?SCll O' 5 ]e i 1, " "*?f lave also nst"the privilege of < . Tun-in" eo:;,1 fonJIfti ... i-l- -.1- ' w inv. in incur scnoois longer. hing the South i;nn no more afford. ;ri : "oot the bill of. than rait tile average ? i : :en. Where can it get the one an I oa?--! )illion dollars' with which to bring the. sent Negro schools up to white srhoo's federal Security Agency finds is ne_vlei. \nd whorrnm it get an additional (>1 milion dollars annually, necessary to maim md operate such schools were they brought il> to white schools? South Carolina i.- bravrinpr about a three percent sales tax m <' ins.wer. Hut the l>est it can do is pro lie ? ibout one-half the sum the Department of education says is needed to equalize the -\>Under The Shadow Ml * ''WW& lie cited instances when- Xec Sfii /UKS them. refus(? to sing them no He took, the position that so ind the Urban League, are doing the race larm in educating Negroes away from the nores of the Negroes. 'While,I think what Mr. Handy said true ibout Negroes in general today. I believe lie's placing the blame in the wrong place. I think the trouble lies in most of our schorls: without placing any social emphasis on any one of them,- schools spend too much time teaching Negroes to "act Iik?. white folks." The teachers teach students the only thing to be appreciated is what 11 g white people have done*.. Very little, if en. thing is taught about Negro History. School choruses think its a shame to sing N< rro Spirituals, any longer. Usually to sat'sfy an audience they "stick or hang" a Negro Spiritual at the end of a program of n psic written by some dead German or other foreigner. This Negro spiritual is left hanging there iike a tail on a kite: of course a tail on a kite is very useful because if 4i.e tail wiv ^ ..A- A Vm A \. I * * ? noi mere inc Kile Collin not IIV. We ;n> losing our heritage. You pet a few college people in the church and wlu 't they attend services, they want,the pa*!"* ? to plan a service just for them, and usually the plans are likt? some churches of another rare. Otrr prayer services, as 1 said last week .are ahout dead.. Those pray<>r services were definitely a nart of Nerro heritage, hut they're no more. My Secretary is a college student, and when J began dictating this column to her she disagreed when I finished the second line, here ia her aimwev: . "I think the main reason why Negroes i ? fc * ' ./ . . ? ? *- ?"y - - . _ *? ? V T V In The Negroes-Hands to supremacists scream all they want. Let n they have out upon walls of subterfuges, nitil they are blue in the face. Let them cut Loon .lie" if they want to, for there's notified man in his last hour .01* whose life is in noose and whose feet are already dangling terns. Supposing Negroes shift suddenly t< the established court rulings which demand immediate equalization, demanding these in each district at once. What would, what could. South Carolina do? It Would eithei shut down its schools as Governor Byrnes says he'd recommend doing, or it would stoj: wasting taxpayers' money on one system and part of another, and adopt one good svsti' rr?-? ' The fact that Negroes can force the state to equalize facilities, or he ordered to do so !ind hpi'Jlllflfi tliia !c onmnt V-, C/M.tU z"1 - > ^ w v.' - ??- ^ .-limn i n mv ouu n i \ iinr lina cannot afford, the duration of au-y argument. over the issue depends .solely upor the disposition and moves made by Negrovs. It is no longer something politicians and white supremacists can control or delay. And that is the case Whether the supreme court ?rives or disagrees with i he .petition to outla segregated schools. In one sense, the < 'iaren Ion case is nothing but a short cut to what can be done another way, a way which is only now on the shelf w hileexperimentation is being made. In the end. seg lion is going to he wiped out. This wt know, unless suddenly America can deeidt il is expedient and proper to cling to law> penalizing race and color while trying t< hold world ' uulorship and prestige, trying II .1... .. : ii' .^vii lu'iin . i in \ ani.Mii ui" i uiiiiiiuiiiMn. So. don't yo around askiny a. yovernor, a mayor or sheriff what's yoiny to happen and when, on this issue. Ask the Noyro. the liltK and bin* Neyro, what's h,. yoiny to do. how and when. Of The Cross \V. (Handy. w riter ot' the St. t onj.: J?t- . Ne?rro Snir.ituids. said in an interview last y their heritage in the quest for equality, rroes whu like to siny the blues, in fact, love w for ' ear <?!' beiny criticized as a Neyro nii1 of our organizations as the NAACI have stopped sinyiny blues and the like, i.not because they're afraid of beiny criticized, but- they're tryiny to yet away fron those thinys they used to <1 oalony time a yo. As a matter of fact 1 think some of Yf our m<. -es should he left in the past. Tb mentioned an inst j-mrn / #???/. - m. V % \ \w : t\ VI I I I I I ^ ? ? 11 > U' < > ''? I toreipners beinfi rendered on program n ' \epm Spirituals "stuck" at the cud <> tl.c >rowram, well, what difference does i make where the spiritual is sunp in th program? If it's simp at th" hopinninn e t!:e propram. mavhe he w<xihl say it wa snap (piicklv and rushed over. Furthermon perlmps the type of program that lie hear was of such nature, that spirituals at th en I of tip. propram was appropriate, lie a s> said that the prayer services were doat ' f the services are dead I think it is du mainly to some , ministers not takmp.'iin out to prepare any special type of propran <?r have a special theme for the prav( meetings. The people usually po to tVies services and sinp and pray with no speeu poal in mind. In some 1 know, the ministi pives a message at such a meetinp, hi some rriinisteis think that Sunday morula ami Sunday nitfht messages are sufTieien fur the week. Ithihk Kcv. Bowman sK' old u:tki? up *'l the fact that this is a new day in which h is living, with new problems etc. and nn expect people <o act now as they did who he was in school or maybe some_ten year .flprn ? I have the last words: "Let Us Watch Fi?ht and I^ay." . . . ,.. ?v . . ' Globetrotters Here Next N 'I%e world-famous Harles t< Globetrotters of basketball] A | more hilarious and better than' C ever, will make their second Monday night, March 24 at "col-1 ? j umbia Township auditorium. j r The opposition for the Globe-1 > trotters, one f the greatest bas- i ti ketball teams the world has ever ] t< > known, will be furnished by a h 1 squad of former college All?; a Sars, coached by Coach W. W. b Lawson of Allen University. In a warm-up to the Globe- c - d rotters All Stars game willi h be a preliminary game between I e i the Hawaiian Surf Ambassadors j h of Honolulu and a team of lo- j f [fill playtfit,. ~| Last year the Harlem Globe-' ] trotters played their first garr .! * in Columbia before a capacity 0 j house. With better seating ar-; * j rangements this year and better * playing conditions, the auditor!- j i um should again be packed to; t j the rafters. j J Tickets iyioed at $2.60 for the ? first"!wo- floors, and $1.95 for the T\M1 ^ T union rsews DILLON ? The Dillon County Teachers As-peiation met at the . [Gordon High School, la-st Friday,! and heard several facts of in- ' terest expressed by D. C. Mc- ' Duflie, president and Mrs. Helen H. Fladger, Jeans .Teacher. Mrs. ^ Fladgcr urge^l all teachers to pay their State dues and delivered a . ( blistering attack against teach- j ers who have failed to pay , through the years and have . | reaped bountifully the ' harvest , made, possible by the efforts of j. the State Association. t The final chapter was written ( ; last .Sunday afternoon at the > Manning Baptist Church when i Mrs/ Lula C. Smith was funeral lzed. The Rev. J. L. Brooks de*TIvered CHe euIogyT Thiel'menl Sherwood Cemetery. A capacity ?iaudience was present to pay ^ ' their final respects. Clarence Town send has returned home after spending a week in Baltimore, Md.; while, , there he visited ah aunt wha *S i . i Little Bobby G. McRae, grand- , son of Mr. and Mrs". I). C. Mc~ Rae of?Washington Sivc-jt liua returned from the hospital and i< doing nicely, after ha^jgag his." tonsils removed. I Confined in St. Eugene Hoc pital is J. C. MjcCaTl of New Town. Other shut-ins are: Mrs. . Crtiy Town>e?d, Mrs. Eliza Al} ford, Mrs. Carson T. Stokes; AP"bort Donaldson, George Nelson and Rev. Luther Carmlchael. Mrs. . Nora G. ' McBride and daughter. Mr-. L. P. McGill, ] who were injured badly on last week in an automobile accident, ( is recuperating in McLeod's Infirmary at Florence. The Bethea's Dry Cleaning j Service of Main Street owned rufo/l Vw; TrwVin . \ui- damaged considerably by ; fire, h.st Sun-'tjy. The damage is . thought to be about $900.00 or more. Repairs were so rapid that service was not delayed in the J plant. .r , Visiting Mr>, Leo Wilson and ' grandson last week, was her ; daughter Mrs. Gertrude Man- 1 ning of Washington, D C. and Baltimore, Md. At her home seriously 111 Is , Mrs. Ardenia Bethea of Dargin St. ? 1 j. ! | "?* ^Hroful. Don't vi e'thn/ i To Play londay J >p balcony will go On salr this T fe^dey, March 17 at both, the College Inn Dining Room, thd [otel Wade Hampton pharmacy n *h? 1200 block of Main streiat. With *the orchestra pit wall - * emoved since the game of last rear, the players ?will have a nuch larger space to play o?, * >gether with the fact that there 4 as been a new floor put in the j uditorium suitable for basket- M This i> the 25th anniversary dition of the Globetrotters, ^ Liiilt bv Owner-Coach Abe SajW?^ J rstein both with an eye to playrig power and efficiency and un-provoking propensities. ____ I'omrdy is just as important n the Globetrotters' scheme of hings as a great lineup capable T holding Its own against the >est the hardwood courts have ? o offer. - -i. Not as well known, but just is good a team in the Hawaiian >urf Club Ambassadors of Hon. >lulu. The Hawaiians and their accompanying Hawaiian hula girls, make an interesting sid^ attraction- and round out a spectacular show. The Hawaiian girls will come in for their share of the show between halves. Picked for their outstanding hula dancing ability and beauty, these girls were picked from the Island's prettiest girls to mak)e the trip to this country. : % - ."t " V " '* Spelling Bee Enries Must Be J Made By Mar. 29 II Deadlines for local and county contests as preliminaries of the , j State Spelling Bee were an- j nounced yesterday by the State | Department of Education.. "All schools should have lected the school finalist fagr J March 29, and county contests 1 must be completed by April 19," CTl said Leon D. McCormac, direc- || tor Of the division of 3 The State Bee will he held in * Columbia, May 3, he said. The Department of Education conducts the State Spelling Bee In cooperation with (^>un<y $up-.^ ' erintendents of Education. The. s,_Bee is sponsored in South Own. 1 lina by the Anderson Tndependent and Dally . Mail.' The State9 winner of the Bee is given a week's trip to Washington, a set; of encyclopedias, and a chance to participate in the National * Spelling Bee. Participants must not have passed beyond the eighth grade ; nor reached the age of 16 on or j before May 22, 1952. Rules and other information m regarding conducting the *local i, contests may be secured from D. L. McCormac, State Depart^ ment of Education, Columbia. ^ Pinal Rites Held For Sam McCoy * WAGENER ? Funeral serv- . ices of Sam McCov were held at a the Laron Baptist Church, Sunday, March 9. Rev. Shields of* m the First Baptist Church of God officiated. Dr. J. H. Brodit and M Rev. H. S Benjamin made re-k ; marks. : Interment was in Sweden- ^8 burg cemettry. Crumel' and i Robinson were funeral directors. ^9 A\ L*f . >--"fns . . ,,"; L'-<jj . . ..4 " :r" ' sSi >-'