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4?LIGHTHOUSE and INPORMlfo, COLUM fH? m > Published weekly by The Lighthouse Pub hahing Company, Incorporated, at 1507 HarJ lea Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina. TELEPHONE 2-7079 Entered as Second Class matter in the Post Office at Columbia, South Carolina, undei the Act of March 3, 1879. ? J ( John?. McCray President-Editor Robert E. Howard Sports Editor Thomasina Scott Society Editor Julia G. Simkins Sec'y-Bookkeeper ' ??Complaints Against Police I)> CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 state and country in order to obtain a con fession. It is inhuman to whip anybody who has no protection nor defense of his person under color of law and this particular case_ought to be investigated to the mum uegree ana city officials and officials of the po?ice department undertake an ininvestigation and not "white wash" or try I to whitewash anything they find. J The matter is sickening ,to say the least. . , In the other incident, an interesting situation is posed. One of th city's four colored officers, last Saturday-morning, took " '< his wife to visit, a relative in WashingtonCarver village. Upon arriving, he found a public thoroughfare blocked by a produce u peddler's truck. Its driver a white man, refused to move it so that thesoreet was free to traffic and as the offir^r .start' to get out of his car to talk with the man, j? ; the latter whipped out' a .32 automatic pistol from .t h e compartment of'~his truck and threatened to p shoot the "black blankety blank" down if he so much as stepped from his car. The colored officer, off duty and wearing civilian attire, produced his badge, which the man is said by two witnesses (who didn't have the chance to testify ip court) to r y have cursed. P The officer called headquarters and a ? detail arrived and put the man under ar\ rest. He had used the vilest of language By- before the law and several other citizens.-t But when the case came to court this t > week, one official of the department step[ ped before th erecorder and asked that the K charges against the man be dismissed so that "an example" might be made of the officer involved for the benefit of the de nr>. jjiti i.uieiiL. ine accused man was retunded K his |41.00 bond and also his pistol, which k had been seized. The department's official 9 held that men off duty can effect arrest only m^an emergency. What is an emergency? Is this laid, out, in the police manual? * This particular case calls to mind the shooting of a Negro, Willie Gunther. August 15, 1950, who was blasted the stomach_by_A white officer who w~- not only off duty, but who ran upstairs." grabbed , Swimming Pool In The Red During the past few days, after hearing various rumors, we undertw k to learn how well Negro citizens are usir$v':he swim,-roing pool in Drews (Seegar's) Par?k. which ^^*has begun its third summer of operation. Htil We knew several things before we turnK?ed to 1952 about the pool and we don't [ Ahink any of them was complimentary P^tmvhen followed to their end results. For example, we knew that this ver.\ fine facility had run in the red for both 1950 and 1951; w<* fllao-kmmt. t.lwd it wnn? built only after "leaders" clamored for it afte rone for whites was opened in Mavcy Gregg Park. Now^thcse same leaders seem Uninterested in whirvninty nn nr^oooov\r ; ri""0 *"I' - v. v, . .. >e? I j K,-r support among citizens to make the Seeffiu gar's Pool atleast a self-supporting nrooofc; sition, and don't seem to fret at all that it Island has been, a definite liability again* t ??' , the city and a reflection against the judgment of the Negroes who sought it and the claimed desire for clean, wholesome j recreation Negroes are said to desire. Aa an investment, thus far, despite it? RentemberJ-' n ; ? ^ We vo- ' m - ' t- V r'-?/ "ntc, f'r-- years ago, retired t\ Bfcr - /-jdaro J. Waties Warinpr's ruling in the lore V. R?ce case was upheld by the ^^i^urth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Ne ' ' . ' r B1A? a, i\ " Saturday, July 12, 195 SUBSCRIPTIONS?Payable in advance?: 1 year, $3.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1.50; per copy, 10 cents Make checks or orders payable to The Lighthouse Publinhing Company, inc.,^rrd not t<> persons representing it. ADVERTISING RATES furnished on appli cation. National Advertising Representative: Interstate United Newspapers, Inc., 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. CLOSING SCHEDULES: News, 12 noon Tuesday; Advertising, 3 P. M., Tuesday; Photographs, 10 A. M. Monday. apartment Wis service revolver, ran back down, out into the street, and fully the length of a trty block behind thfevictim who was unaware of the officer's approach he said from his hospital bed. The reason for the arrest, the officer said, was that the man had exposed himself at a fence surrounding the lawman's home; but several women sitting in the shade directly across the street told The Lighthouse and Informer they had not witnessed this incident. By the way, by some peculiar medium, none of these appeared at a coroner's hearing ,saying they Vfere~hot notified, and the officer, as far as we could lpjim w?>a n?i punished. The colored officer in the case before us. ? w - -t=~ had no pun; he had been made to understand that a policeman was never without authority to correct a violator of the law. In fact, we recall that back in 1013 another white city officer who almost ran over our then secretary at the intersection of Washington a n d Assembly streets, was arrested by this man, then off duty, who claimed that she " swore at him, admitting that he was looking back and talking with an acquaintance at the time and did overrun the safety line. The same department official spoke before the judge, but it was not to ask a dismissal of charges against the young woman. She was given a suspended sentence. Of course, we do not propose to setforth a code of rules for the department of police in such cases, but we certainly would want all policemen, on or off duty, to have the authority?as they have everywhere else?to protect us and our rights. And as to "emergency", we think it exists anytime the law is h7*oken. If our police officers?and we aren't speaking just about the colored officersare to be hampered by some new interpretation; which of course is made in good faith, then soon or late we are going to find their efficiency reduced. As it now stands, all a culprit has to do is to determine whether or not the officer is off duty. If the ntfiY-ei* ikfVwm tTw> /.iiT?.?*i4 ...... - ...v, V .... .. I Mill I" town Invoking the law with amnesty. splendid construction and the spirit of fairplay behind it, thL. City of Colund laid an egg in opening this facility, and somiething ought to bo done *o develop greater usage of it or whatever is necessary to make it a paying proposition, even if it is closed to Negroes?and they would be the ones who would shut it down. We take this position because we think it long past the hour when Negroes, if they want .the privileges and facilities they demand of public government .began to live up to what is repaired to }<oop privileges and facilities. We are informed that the Maxey Gregg pool is a .selfsupporting proposition. It is no better, nor any finer than Seegar's pool. Columbia has a large number of wideawake churches, clubs and responsible c44i7ehs who can remove the present stigma from the Negro population. Hut will thexdo it, or will they sit on their haunches and prove once again that Negroes "flunk" out nn muHt xdL^ttuM-hmgs they say the? "> use? i Carolina had finally w.;n ?y ' r;,rht tr> viilc in Democratic primaries. This decision?when state 1 Vmocrat ie officials sought to render it ineffectual l>v suhtorfncres--led to the Brown v. Baskin later Warim- rulinjr, which was not ap\ pealed ami resolved tho issue 1 i t 2 "The Hixiecrats Arp Emhari _ "1 fl f\ f~l "-/?SHUT YC ^V^&IG MOU r John H. McCray It May Not Be i &M& ;' yd .>.^ The other day somebod, | * heard. The moral is an in & tome 1? mean among too hEv / <w People going to work < on a Main street' corner cr noon, lie was still squattin i that afternoon, as he still squatted .there weeping, somebody called police headquarters and the chief himself answered with a detail of men. "Are you sick"? the chief asked. "No." replied the weeping man. _ "Is somebody dead in your family"? the man was asked. Again, the answer was "No". So was it to several other questions as to his job status, etc. _ So the chief finally asked "well, v a ' the world are you squatting out here ?dl day long weeping"? Theman, with a brand new gush of tears, said: "Chief, all my life _ I had the ambition to own one. I worked for years seimping and saving until this this morning, when T had the price, but when T __ X i. . 1 A 1 A. 11 i went to Duy one iney toir. me met everyqrie they'll yet in for the next five years, has been bought by a Negro." (only he didn't say "Negro"). "Oh, how I wish 1 was born a Negro," he wailed. "Just what is it you are talking about""' the chief asked. "I'm talking about one of them fishtail Cadillacs", the nu n went on. Of course only a few Negroes, bv comparison, own Cadillacs, but the only reason a lot more don't is simply?one- of economies ?they don't have the price. While there are several other cars on the market selling for more than most eadillac models, this fact, isn't yet generally known am! : mong Negroes ,at least, you have reaehe 1 the ultimate when you ride around in a fish -tail. And the eadillae fever isn't limited 1 sections. It is almost universal in this conn try. . , W THE CALVIN'S D NO TV FOR MRS. U\SS " tin it inu bv the ele I'lr.ihitta Ike , trie ti;--' au_ \e,' ":jII liwti,... "an ami 'he fir t N.-n, v. r to u. Vl( (, iH-on.-n - a , an- .date f V?(. f)u. pltrsjf)l.M( V President ol th. l/nib .1 Stat. . t,,(1 (j,.alh fif ,, sp ke at Civi.- Auditorium ;n Anc,' whf.M y San Jose, Calif, th. n :;ht .a b;rk tif Mn h {j June LMith Vincent Mailman. I'M it is' ,,ot dithcu Prcsul ntial <andi t.tr with of t whom Mrs. Bass running, was hrin, quj|,t,v . to in- repr.-ented on 'hi- pr - Hriim that ev mm; hy Mrs. Mali- * HAM inan. A battery of klritf lb'.hts It was lull and televisi n c an. ras wciu > t for' Robins n up Lu-loic |ir.i; r.mi iniii fi "Howfvcr. Mr-. Hullimin"fail vi defeat and vict< to show and the TV packed up "was -o hot i and loft. It ??H?ms that licr plan feet. while the wa- (li'layol. above them sei It was obvious that nly Mis. 1 hl'kh ahoy Mailman was to In.- tcl,vised. ^eAt of Yankci and Mrs. Ba-s was left to vuj;-7 s;K* 11'til)! oLJu fine hoi' remarks to the 1 <id.au Robinson wa dicnce. In the matter f hBton- the furnace hr ral precedent, it s. ems to us knocked him I that it was much more impor'ant frame, and M< to tolevis*' Mx-. Bass than Mrs. liyht-heavy erti Halliman. For even if we < old son actually h v: ? ,. \ v ?\) ?i tt I i! *.?*; '"IT r:s r ::\ < : \ :?.(, 1 CI" Tr-* f-" " 7..V ' "turned fr n, am n ^ r-'ecaa m, y . : dead 'of a r>rison behind the Ir'"'n prayer Curtain. He is froo.i -ays, Mrs his pretty wife VoRoler, because God did the two uns, Hobh impossible. It was his own Vop'eler i- the only American :n the very fac subjected to a full-scale com hility. munist trial who h?is,rvet re. "THF, Sh/vM turned to talk about it handsome Vofie t rassing Our Right To Lead.' >UR . TH\ j^ ^ ^ V Joke, Seir v had nu. in stitches over a tale 1 h; dictment of "leadership," and what it many of our people. Tn a nutshell, here i Dtie morning noticed a white man squa ying his eyeballs out. At lunch time ar g in the same place crying. So around ' Some months agoc wo chuckled ove editorial our old friend Louis "Burr wrote in his newspaper "Freedom." I entitled his masterpiece "Cadillac Le ship' 'and published with the article tures of "Negro leaders" and their c lacs. When he broke the situation d ho wound up with a theory which chs that ownership of a cadillac meant mo most Negroes than obtaining first class zenship. Tn other words, the substance a sort of paraphrase of the old-Negro itual in which these lines are found: ' can take th<> world but give me Jesus", goes something Tfke "You just give r ^radillac and keep the rest of the work There isn't anything wrong, of co with a citizen hnvinrr - >11^, me nui-uuiOUl!^ O choice. It is his money and he can do it what ho blame pleases to do, but a there far fnore important matters th; false indication of success as a citizen we could -ever yet across the fact that r tration and voting, sticking solidly toj er would bring our group a greater si and eventual first class citizensship, as sbody has gotten over the idea that ca< ownership meant first class, we'd be ge somewhere .and fast. The man in the ! repeated- is fictonal. but not the fact a lot of white people see us as strivinj that which is superficial and. which mi Us cannot atVord. There are many Nej struggling to buy Cadillacs who don't t-he first foot of land, and who will i .own any .-o lop,^- as there are cadilhc buy. |T11** Q*'^ || T to n o from his corner a ^ ft ^ tx-ll rant? "14" Rnhin.ftn r.p? i h! t happen- to meet Maxirn again?in ( i tion of Hallinan. weather. He knows he is ca iin i 'i.'1 L'H> HI rV'-i flming a triple i si'denf in line f<>r champion. ,11 the ev nt f It has always been th allinan. gentlemen of AfricaH it look at the scent can take in the heat fanta-tie picture, \faxlrp proved that the N it to see a Negio^.?t|^ stand up as well as he United Sfht<s three of Biblical fame in th i-sassinatedr ry furnace. I'lONS It is reported that Robir above and below pers'"" .! physician. Dr. Vi and Maxim as Mardiello, has ntlvi'i"^ Kj fhlt'lK M'illl/cd t?' retire, but the world's gr< iry on canvas that fighter" is leave.^ for Paris t 1>listered their ]] ;ind to be x Albert Yv piereing-hbt lights Tel Aviv August 2nd for at the therm.me- benefit <f I-raet War Vetei e th.e 104do;jee trust Robinson will : Stadium on the yH~( t aho of hinysylf whi iic -Jtli. ? t,road and come home ta tr< s Viet nous until Maxitn-and then-retire at.- of Now York got himself elected to some lat iti the lfltK In- ( Tieo in New York. But ixim retained his or ' .use", Robinson scorns iwn when Robin- tined fv?r s m'ething bigger K'liiili' to sleepy ran hold? F.TTF. 15 ' mi i .i*.":!). V" e , ? i' '. i \ ; ? ? am Sr?rr;".v.' rrr" o .l.uo ile. and thrir months in prison, but he an y, 1J, and Rill 9. wife talk freely, even anx praver and faith ly of tht? part,.that prayer e ot an impos-i- religion * pj'ayed in ..-Qstai them. !K IS." says the "After repeated requests. lor. "that it t k -s says earnestly, "I was giv i /r v ' I STRA1GI1 By Julius J. Adams NEW YORK'(Global) ? The ! decision not to televise or broadcast the recervt Ray Robinsin! Joey Maxim light heavyweight 1^ [ tittle bout is causing much more j conversation and has excited more interest in this city than did the contest itself. It is probI able that Other eomnrmnitiPK are j concerned about the future oi ! television and radio broadcast_4 ing viz-a-viz sports events and | other important shows. The debate over whether television a/nd broadcasting .an event j adversely effects the attendance ; has not been settled, and in this reporter's judgment, will not be .' settled for some time to come It is an admitted fact that broad, casting . . . both television and radio . . . has created many new fans for practically every snorb j evjent. And, with more, people 1 interested in an event, the largei I the potential audience. In time \ these people will want to se< the event in person. Among thest will be individuals who perhapi never would attend a boxing i show, baseball game or wrestl J ing match. i For exmple, the other after | n<?on, afriend of mine took hi: 1 wife and two small daughters t< see the Brooklyn Dodgers play Refore 1 hr> nvont nf television h< v" ""* * """ ----- 41~ i said his wife actually hated >t< ; see Sunday corne, because hi would either be off to the bal park, or parked noar a radio , She felt she and the childrei were entitled to Sunday. M; friend had tried to interest hi ad n't, wile in baseball via radio, bu has Nvas never quito successful. Thei ,. r * came ^television. SHe soon be IT | o - came interested. She learnei names of players; she learne* oun about averages, hits, runs, er four rors took note of standing r an of the clubs and efficiency o , pitchers, and got geunine pleas 1 ure in watching Robinson am ^ouis Musial battle for league battin; adpf- championship. The result is, th pie_ lady who never saw a major lea 'adil- batting baseball game be Own, fore broadcasting began, is ai irgfed avid fan. She watches televisioi ro to and listens to the radio regular citi- "ly- Also the children, nine am was ton years old, listen and watch Snir- and kn w scores of players b; 'You name, and while tlve husbam and of th.- family now enjoys nvam no a ball games at the ball par kdur 1." ing the year. There must b urse hundred* of thousands of nth f j1?s!ers w^? do the samething. Wiia ... i strilP nf hnsphnll is Ihip rtf ou? ren't ry ot^er sP?rt- *ec me to seriously question whethei i? If Bible. They didn't do with it lik< egis- they did with other books. The; ^eth- would take them from me afte tatus I had started them. Or they' ome- give me one with wh~le section rlillar mi-sing. ttirifr -i i^.ead that bible duui tale for an hour or so. i read thr that Bible regularly and carefully. it ? tor surprising how much yeonso^a ist of tion you can find in it. i alway LTioes that God would not let thi OWli be he end for me." lever On the other side ef the Ir i rs to Curtain, in Vienna, Lucile Voge ler was bending heaven am earth?heaven with her constan s the petitions, and the powers o . earth with unending insistence wants , , . t ?that -omethmg be done to se .. cure her husband's release. TIIB FAMILY?U'gaii?tm In teme program or prayer.. m< importance of perservance wa ought emphasized. The two. lads anc ^c~ their mother continued to storrr . but 'heaven. fordie ? r 1 'V ^ \ ) ? iaa3*^^ M )wr "Knjov Your l'a|x>r. Hut cn t\ , Others." , . ? . . _j I T AHEAP M the promoters actually k?oy^.4 What they are doing when I refuse to broadcast sports eyents ' for fear the attendance will* be/i a reduced. The Robinson-Marxim I fight is a case in point. ..iS It ia quite probable that soma^fl individuals who attended tht it. fight would not have done so IT*J *1 it had been pos.?ihi? u " or hear it through broadcast.*On ! the other hand, there obviously. H 11 are many good fight fans who *rj| would not have attended for one *JI j reason or other, taroadoasjt or ' no broadcast. It is not fair to ' deny them the broadcast . . . especially would this be true of " "the sick, aind those otherwise ' shut in, Another point that seems ^ I cock-eyed is the closing of chan. . rj nels in the local community and i opening of them bevonri tha ' . fifty-mile limit. It would seezfi to J me that the hometown fans ; would be more likely to attend* . ,.|5K J a fight th was broadcast than J would one who had to travel to i;' ^ attend. The 'debate could go on, j, ?| but one thing is certain: it if 'T not going to be as easy as soma ? think to work out a satisfactory program of charging the set "i owner to see a television show. .? ) First', ^uch a move would seri ously curtail the buying of sets. ' The whole idea behind the cam, paign to sell radios and ttievi J .sions is the fact that they pro\ vide good entertainment. There J is a campaign to put two or 1 more sets in every home. As a y \ matter of fact, there is hardly s1 a home now without at least t two radios and many have two televfsion sets. # It is reasonable to assume that i this campaign will fall short if . Hi quarters are required to see a > , | - home television show. When s that time comes^ instead of ;'PIS f there being millions of televis- \ - ions in American homes we shall d see neighborhood halls becoming . % sal g studios where people will pay a e fee to see a television show. It - may also help the theatres, but - it will just about doom the tele- '' 0 vision manufacturing industry. - NAACP '53 Meet j| ly In St. Louis d| OKLAHOMA CITY, July, 5,1" Louis, Missouri, was chosen 89 ' * the the site of the next apnufl e convention of the NAACP at tile - closing session of the Assoc la- . . 1 tion's 43rd annual convention /r i here last week. The sessions will - j * be held during the third week of r{ June, 1953. r a BOB ~VOGELER is no longer / the broken man he was when r he was suddenly roused , in his *; > d cell and taken out without e*- I 81 planation to the Austrian frontier. antL_fxeedum, One dne-n't ?? rr recover easily flDm such an or- w7"'^ it deal. s He still stands by the statement he made in Ebrope before s being flown home to freedom, s "God has given us the mission?' '' to destroy the communis ene- VlS 11 mies of freedom. Every Ameri- -.fa can should realize that what happened to me could happen to * anybody." ri -j Weekly Thought . If I Klve at ill, let me give ; the be?t that I have at my diss posal. The moment I withhold l! that best, Its worth diminishes. i The moment I give it freely, It shines like a ruby. J '''f^OMSBipVr*9*7 "1 \ jjl lSa^7<5fc?, i i ; , |i IK)N' * ? :'. ,.c "Sith Ol .