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4 LIGHTHOUSE and INFORMER, COLUMI Published weekly by The Lighthouse Pub S ishing Company, Incorporated, at 1507 Har- 1 p den Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina. TELEPHONE 2-7079 * * \ v. " h Entered as Second Class matter in the Posf p \ Office at Columbia, South Carolina, undei A the Act of March 3, 1879, - ^ ^ Bgfe. , nil mMiaiia at ? p, John H. McCray Presidettt-lMUo: J Robert E. IJoward , Sports Editor Thotnasina Scott . Society Editor Julia G. Simkins Sec'y-Bookkeepe. I Ne wFaces But... The Old Li The leading spokesmen for the extreme i rightists in both the Republican and Democratic parties are Senator Robert A. Taft 5 and Senator Richard Russell, respectively, both candidates for nomination in successive national conventions being held in Chicago this month. On a tour of the far west last week, Senator Russell gave what is his best attitude on the civil rights issue, actually the proposal to extend equal rights to all citizens. The Dixiecratic frontman declared things were too serious abroad, demand- 1 ing too much unity at home, to make pedient an extension of additional home-tfront liberty at this time. $; * Senator Taft, on the same i&sue, has re- 1 peatedly expressed agreement with those advocating equal rights status but contends this is a question for, the individual states, and not one the federal govern- ^ .... ment ought handle. We think that General Dwight Eisenhower, also a Republican nominee hopeful, shares Taft's point ; of view, and that Senator Kerr ef Okla homa. a Democratic presidential hopeful, * thinks somewhat like Senator Russell. i But when the two vie#?are laid out, Cjf. . ./ . v 4 Vy/* | " one notes, perhaps significantly, that although they fare advanced now by newrV A __ 1 '* 1, i ' tongues ana iaces, tney are quite ancient.-<v? Senator Russell, for example, is simply saying what was so loudly said during ] World,,War n when IS egro leaders began ] to demand with force equal civil status | ^for theirr soils who wore dying on foreign , shores for the preservation of this counrt try, but did not enjoy. And thq Republican ] theory is something taken out of the Dix- 1 Along With Rights Goes A Du On Tuesday, Juty 8th, South Carolinians will nominate to ensuing terms pub- 1 lie officers in the Democratic primary, > *irViir?V? 4-V?iia "fhv ia t Vi? nnni^'nol ulonti/in nf r T Illvi 1 1/1 iUil 1UI AO lil?. Uil ^ ~ the state, although it is t^ftkgeneral elec- 1 tion in November whichjp^. ually deter- < mines the next ofTicehola^O A primary * in South Carolina today is _jj|ar cry from what it was before federaip&ffirts and ( gro complainants acted it to bring r an end ' to statutory "w^^esupremacy" * tactics at the voting plafeg#' For example 1 50 years, prior to 1048. alnbhecessary to ' a vote in a South Carolina primary was to have a white skin. The voter didn't have * to be an elector, nor el'Cll aide to^iju.dif.v J Primary voting then was strictly by race. < and now and then the weakness in such a 1 system emphasized itself in the general 1 election?which is the^real election. Here ( in Columbia,, for example, ui and \ 1944, just 100 persons voting against Dem- (. ocratic nominees in the general election ^ would have erased the nominees. S< hi - where around The same time the resider- J of Blacksburg (Cherokee county), after a heated primary for mayor, learned at the close of voting in a subsequent general I election, that they had not elected a mayor n though one had been nominated in a pri- 1 ? mary, The fact was: Nobody voted in the ' general election, for a very good reason; i nobody was qualified to vote and then Gov- d emor Olin D. Johnston designated a spe- t cial registration period for the commun- t ? ' 1 * " 1 T* ' T . ... A. - JL ityr wmcn presumamy ^oi tncm out ot tt p dilemma. (1 - r But alL of that is now of the past. While a more people may continue to vote in pn7 maries than w.il Ivote in general elections r for some time, all those who vote i npri* OKLAHOMA CTTY -Not trrr-4 Wright. Magical ... { .* ' 1 til , segregation is eliminated Tlar?em Hospital in ifrom American life can the Ne-City nnd chairman gno look forward tn a life exJ CP board of directo pectancy equal to that of the'gates attending the \ Whit* person, Dr. Louis T. 43rd annual conv jp, - :',, " ' |.^-r " , '"v IIA, S. C. Saturday, July 5, 195: UBsCKIPTlONS?Payable in advanceyear, $3.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1.50; per copy, 10 cents lake checks or orders payable to The Eightotnse Publishing Company. Inc., and not tc ersons representing it. iDVIfPTISING KATES furnished on appli cation. ' ^ ^ hiiiUilal Advertising-Representative: Intertills United Newspapers, Inc., 5 45 Fifth New York 17, Nov York. 'LOSING SCHEDULES: News, 12 nooi Tuesday; Advertising, 3 P. M., Tuesday 'holographs, 10 A. M. Monday. ne ~ i " : ~ iecratic manual: Let the states decide whether or not Negroes should hold equal status. / ^ The absurdity, the futility in both viewpoints becomes evident when taken seriously and efforts are made to follow through on them. For example, after Work War TI, those advocating the present stan< of Russell?and this was before the Ko rean War developer! to the shooting stage ?quickly lapsed into the also ancient "You need more education" retreat and ducked around and improved status. Then, if attempt is made to follow the Taft plan, that of leaving it up to the states, (and we ought to say that it is southern states involved;, there is the same retreating tc the "need of more education" to Negroes, But try to get the education both sides say is needed?and this need is far more factiojial than real?and you run into the :ore e>f the matter. You find poor and few ios ffir- WnrrrA tl-oininry ,,,V. .wv?.*v?vu iwi i. i v,' u amulet niiRH ill c lot resolved through conferences and petitions. They fall only before court orders, and these orders indecent years have come :o mean an end/to racial segregation, the stronghold of the policital exploiter and ambitious candidate of the major parties. "tLw t And the Negro today is much wiser and better informed than yesteryear. He can reason and see through the veil dropped before the real intent of these office seekers arid what is actuallypoesible. He knows the old tunes and theories, an dis unim pressed by thefact that new mouths herald diem. ity maries today must be quaified electors, that is to say, they must be registered voters, which is as it should be. And Tueslay's voting1 will establish something of a *ecord in registered voters, though by the dose of it there will probably be many housands who shall have failed to lake i plirt in it, either because they have not inalified to vote, or they won't take a TTTOnent off and cast ballots. In either case. :hev will have failed to perform a duty vhich goes along with having the right :o vote. Another aspect of Tuesday's votine. general election voting this year, will he -he f;^-( that no loiterer can the poll tax he i determining Influence I'OP so mam* men as n the past.. Alter years of bickering, the >oll tax is. removed trorn votinjr in South Carolina,' though the little revenue it irinprs is still collectible. It would be interstinpr to count the niffnber of men votinjr fuesday and this year as comparison with he number which voted-in 19 in and 19 IS. wen 3 950. Votine-?which is ifothiny more the jarticipation in, or an expression on. tin nachiliery of jrovernment?as we hav<? ah eady said, is a duty, and iro-nically. h>een the instrument employed hy cliques/ ntolerants and morally mendicants to lominate our state. Rut it is also the proective instrument which citizens may use o develop the kind of community and yovmmmrrt they wish-. Voting, then, is their uty and obligation, both to themselves, nd to posterity. ule,~ plan nmv to -ymtr marker! brrtTnt e your first job on Tuesday, July 8, 1952 ^tv>rtLr of nded hero Sunday. New York Th - Negr 's present high rate r f the NAA- of mortality, the eminent sur. irs, told dele- (toon charged, "is the r ~ult^ of Association's the oatt rn rf racial segregation ention which jn this eounry. I 1 "They want to know about (T _ '~** r~"/' ^ ^ rVH John H. McCray I C^'^' Governor! Ho I Acf .,;^Wr What seems to he a popul; 1 says something smartish-like ? origin, nor the-first time "iv week, of rcnritrrks attributed while attending the Governor HI impelled to remark myself: The papers say that Mr. Byrnes, in speculating on what the southern politicians might do should the Democrats nominate a presidential candidate, or adopt a platform favorable to the civil rights proposals, announced that if the Democrats don't do exactly as he demands, the southerners might walk out of the convention, hold another and nominate an anti-civil righter. and of course a Negro-baiter, or they might, as South Carolina could very well do, vote Republican in November. When he talks like this, th<> Governor is either doing some wishful thinking, or we have misunderstood human Jbekigs-aiicL the way politics work. In the first place, the only vote in South Carolina Mr. Byrnes can ^ do as he (kirn well pleases about is his own. He may, by accident, sound the note for the misguided and deceived whites, whose minns are yet muddled over the race issue, but he certainly does not, and cannot, speak for all the white citizens who' have yet to vote, and I am certain that he cannot speak for the Negro voters, who now number around 130,000 over the state and who. when joined with the sober and sensible white citizens give the state a sizeable majority. What the Governor appeared to have in mind was a political "steal" in the electoral college. The electors, though chosen as Democrats, might sellout the voters in December by giving their votes to tln> Republican party. This is legal though it i< not the moral thing to do. -But whtti?g'fotl AVnldt 1 tilts ktttd * ! elee?toral college maneuvering do. if Mr. Byrnes is just bitterly against eivil rights'.' It is certain that .the Kepublieans will, as the\ ' did in I'M 1 and lb IS, adopt a eivil rights pank. Their's has been .thus far. stronger than any adopted by the Democrats. What is the purpose in voting against tin* weakly advocate of ivil rights, and for the don't want? However. it is a pood tiling that the distinpuished chief mapistrate of tlie Iodine state let this cat out of tin* ba>7 .' !! citizens have to do is draft a slate-of h>ya! Democrats, pet the necessary sipnatiin to the petition which the Secretary of S . ?can certify ami order printed. It v. . interesting to see how those'ap?iro\ ? I 1 Mr. Byrnes would, far,- jipainst thov,. approved I>y the more tou rant citi/.e'hs. The (governor, as furtl.nr proof-that h, must have been only kiddinp. must have overlooked the - tact that were Ihipublu ai> to win sin November, all of the key posi WEEKLY SERMONE I)o You Discriminate Against CI "EVERYONE LOVES child- h-come nuLanc ren," but too many love mon. y iiouW the paroi . xpns?wirig pm i no "ftttTVrtuvu eu_- ' luTvL dot tors son, perverting all -ense of in - (inters leading I lice. ;. < t j v i t % "* Sivppo-ed to be C-j.i istianr ^umi- ! .AN1H,(.)HI)S landlords fall pcrf < 11 y into the .nit ,m ! -bo villian role all Christians con- 'Y'lildr rt erv an d mn, repeating the age.o'. l nms than dog- o Bethlehem rct-pMon: "No room im? on floors ah in the inn." partment But tl' Sure, children scr am and rrv. stand children's def&c- wallpaper, and at times phiv arc th.; m \ ? >k i a^W ^k^X^e / fr fc^^?^\lB /,J RHBtidH^r / Ci / a; u * ^T^Cr*^"<?t ' '-1'- ' - -'"*?*1 / Cf ' ?, :ill& ! p( to ' w T'c w You Sound? J< , .: . : .. ?. xv ur rem ark nowadays whenever somebody ? is, "How You Sound"? I don't know its 'e place 1 heard it, but after reading this * to Governor Byrnes of South HCarolina ^ s' Con ference at Houston. Texas, I feel v 'Governor! How You Sound"? a tions held by southerners in congress now !s would be lostT and most of the favors the South gets would be gone. The matter of I patronage in this state, for example, would no longer belong to the Democratic party's leaders, and they are the overwhelming majority. If the Governor hasn't yet thought ^ along this line, we bet "those in congress ^ now from South Carolina have. And they g aren't going to cut their own throats. States fo Rights issue or not. c As to walking out and setting up a third party, why this would be the best way to settle the argument forever .If the South Carolina whites storm out Of the conven-j n finn?i-f?eW4j." ~- ' * vxiicuKu, mey can bet their bottom ei pennies they'll catch the devil getting back n, in again. ^After their 1948 trick they had vi to get o ntheir knees and beg forgiveness. ie Ts this what they want to do each four D; years? Fact is, they aren't yet in the con-'G> vcntion and it could very well be that thev m'h Kei in?if a successful contest is made 1 apainst them. And if other southern whites from other states wish to tamp their feet f1 out. onto the streets, then they can po, too. *? The Democrats don't need the white South s<> Ioiik as they can hold onto key pivotal al, states where according to researcher Elmo C Roper, the Negro voter actually controls ^ the election. p< We think that the Governor hasn't yet ec grasped the thinking of the average white ^ citizen. He's been hobnobbing too much with the politician-rascal. He might look elsewhere because we're sure there are ji m - great many white people wvho don't agree -* with him. Xot only do they remember how th little there was for them before the Demo- ey crats came into control, but many of them in have' told us personally that before they pc cut their own throats on some of the pm^A! posals before them, they'd vote outright to end racial segregation. sa to This is their stand op '?*' K" "lies nn>posal to i lose public schools it the supreme court oirt'laws jinurowism. 1 hey want pub- ( 1 lie schools for 111eft* children .and larmot af-! U lord ('fivatc om-s. 1 horelore, they say. Iffl hey'r imt t'ninj.1" t?> wipe nut the public II srli.nl system ami wreck havoc with them .-rivc> -just to hold the Xe'yro down nv sat:-- S ; . :i.r whims of apolitical leader. I B Hurt her proof that the (iovernor was on\\ kidding is tiie I'act that he deliberately. ^ 1 \ hi- statement, narrOwed the Russell . an: aiyn t<> the South (which every tool F e\c!i knew all alony) and drew confessions nf embarrassment from some of his assort- J (Iovernor! How "S"ot? SouiuLV ^ ^ 1TF By Rtv c M ?ris(,R<* a : ho-pitals and sanatoriums. l'ildren? Children arc a- normal to Ji ?. nalLual lile. as. the. air we breathe, fj rs. Rot what the fC)g that rolls in from the lj! nts do. cut out (x-uan, th.* hot and cold woathet II incur Uiiinr [h ..wluchU* uli *~p*Xtrot- nature. We fiy "yer" t-h?' n rvi' ,.t ; , h.-Mii'.r wnsi_As natural if" m If certain typ s of people can't staivl ehildr n, landlords vhould AHK not horn har them rather than cater to i u'.d know tli.it the select few who are st rile, y d make more- old. or ju* t unnatural. I r eats scamper. SUPPOSE THE landlords Wj ove flats or a- who make "blanket rules'* auto- ^ 10-e who can't matically barring all young peo- ? laughter and p;t- who want and crave a fami- 4 uiroti^s fit (for ly mad" the laws of the land. Pr Dickson closed its gatei Boors for th? 1952 Campini K, Ivt Friday. As the season (girl Scouts looked inrthe crvstal ball and recalled ;*np cimh studies, games, hikes ff .oblles, etc. ^in. puce nr i nlsn info t>w all and sec what went on ?-. aunt' Camp Dickson. Each '-?y an assembly pro ram wafi presented by campers om a%dlfTerent unit. The firs rogram , presented by th< enior Patrols. who rendered i reative dance. "Summertime" ad a quizz, "What Part of Th( umap Body"? with Louise Sims ad Norma Brown, respectively All the programs were gene, illy centered around songs jorru and dances. Really outandlng wrr? two "skits present1 by the Brownies: "The Throe ears" and "Cinderella". The rownies created these skits in icir Dramatics class with the iidanc.e of Mrs. Griffin and ol iss Daniels. On Friday, the last day of imp. the 800015 presented tc ic public a general assembly in hich all Scouts participated, tie theme of the progrm was ntcrnational Friendship Among irl Scouts". Stings, dances K ms and -kits were presented represent countries all over th* orld. At the close of the Gene, il Assembly,. Mr-. Blo^sonmes, Camp Director, gave .aards to the outstanding camp, s and souvenirs to the various achers. All Senior Patrols ere presented beautiful gifts the Camp staff. On behalf oi te entire Camp and as a "bor oyage", Mr-. "Jones, presentee gift to Miss Mary Jones, whe leaving to -pend the summei acation in Europe. ? At open house and also the eneral Assembly there were lany guests. To mention a few lore were: Mr-. R. W. Mance [rs. L. Palmer. Chappelle, Mrs . H. Dannellyr Mrs. Mae D aiKcr, ivirs. uarrie Moan, Mrs arah Brown, Mrs. Mamie Rai. >rd. Mrs. Deanie Fair and Mr* . F. Brandvburg. We pull our ha'.s off and give tanks to our staff workers and ?nior Patrols. To Me^dames lossom Jones, Carrie Taylor, achel Griffin, Margaret -Smith, lizabeth Richardson, Cora O'eil and Mis<es Norma Brown, ivian Chapptlle, Lucille Den. Is, Jamescina Johnson, Lucile aniels, Bettye Brown, Arabella oodwin, Mary Jones, Louis? ms, Florence Simkins and Eo child live in a decent horn iu uauiv > wuuiu uc i catilVVCJ slum districts. In all this we write nothing jout justice *r principles ol hristianity. We say nothing a3ut our American heritage reedom" fftW "the land of op. jrtunity.** All we are trying tc invey is this: that children lould n t be discriminated aiin-t. OP COURSE, the rent furrrtru ental reasonng bt-hind the -iun ><+ -children- allowed" is tiv. irty pieces shining before the 'cs of a gasping, Judas betrayg his God . . . the English lunds presented to a Benedict jnold to betray his country. Citizens and soldiefs have to crifue for country. Landlordo must do their share. _______ 'DON'T be Nosey. You ml about you?" sea Two JVeeks Of BsF^r 1952, Year jjj^B Mrs. Jones and staff, as Veil [ Campers, wou-ld like t/O thank'| Mrs. Sarah Brown, "Mir. l S. j I* Leevy .and Mrs,, 73oodwin for giving \he camj> balls and bat?, | shovel ^V>d chairs and sugar. Aiso ditto \o D. W? Walker who ,| '' giivu mon y to tniy athlettg~gafejU quipmcnt and Mrs. J, E. Dicksots j who gave popsicles on very hof * Woodmen Of Wm 1 America Will Have ; More Than 500 i ; DENVER. Colo. ?More than -3 ? ; j five nundred d( legates from srx ma Southern and Southeastern states i : will meet in Dothan, Alabama. - ij -_ntext?Wednesday*?(July??for 1?' the twelfth Regional Session of l The American Woodmen. Deie. , gates to the three-Oay meeting, , July 9, 10 and 11, will represent American Woodmen Camps and Tents located in Alabama, Floii- - $ da, Georgia, North Carolina,' \.|i 1 Couth Carolina and Teniwasee. ^ 1 Outstanding features of The American Woodmen meeting' ; will be the Parade on Wednes' day evening, July 9, and the Regional American Wood then * }% ' Junior Oratorical Contest to be ^ Jg held Thursday night, July 10. Prizes will be given for out- jJH 1 standing floats in the parade. .11 Prizes for the Oratorical contest are college scholarships, | 1 Among the national officers of , 1 The American Woodmen who ! will play leading" roles in the meeting are Supreme Command- J 1 er Lawrence H. Lightner of Den- 'M l| ver, Colorado, and Supreme ; ?| Watchman Oscar Maxwell Of 'M T Americus, Georgia. Official host?for the meeting?. ; will b? Woodmen District Mana- -JB ? ger W. C. Patton of Birmingham, -J . | Alabama, together with Dathan , ^8 , officers of the Woodmen includ. ing Commander G. Marion Hawk, ~*-J . Clerk Robbie B. West and Wor- | . thy Guardian Bertha A. Gibson. A Southwestern regional meet. ing was frdd later this month to Gary, Indiana. & The American Woodmen, now I in its 51st year, was a pioneer in th~ field of legal reserve fratern a 1 life insurance associations. The organization jaumbers _a round 60,000 3 members in J3 J states and the District of Col. umbia. -*1 Quotations I | Rev. and Mrs. John Williams *; yVj !' Lee are the proud parents of a JB 'l baby boy bcrn, Saturday, June 28, 1952, in Roxborough, Mass. . Rev. Lee is the grandson of Mr. and iMrea. KiW^?Epps?and?the > nephew of Mrs. L. Palmer Chappelle. H)e is a graduate of Allen University. Mrs. Lee- is the for. ! mer Miss Harriette Holland of KJnoxville, Tenn. ~ Weekly Thought -M It is important to learn ear. ( ly to rely upon yourself; for . litfle has been done ih the w ! world by those who are always looking out for someone * 4o Knl ?v uvip wuvxu* Ti I I I I 11 B -.s.^SW xrr.^ff^ ra*.To?i- I 11 ifrht heflr someone talking Jm '*' 'wlt3B^B