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Ir v* * '. '* 11 ' i - ? 4?LIGHTHOCSE ?ftd IN^ORMlgfR, COLUM3 tThe M . published weekly by The Lighthouse Pub baking Company, Incorporated, at 1507 Harden Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina. TELEPHONE 2-7079 ? Entered as Second Class matter in the Posi Office at Columbia, South Carolina, undei ferthe AcTbl March 3, 1879. a r" John H. McCray _ - President-Editor Robert E. Howard Sports Editor Thomasina Scott 1?Society Editor Julia G. Simkins : Sec'y-Bookkeeper Complaints Against Police I)e CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 state and country in order to obtain a confession. It is inhuman to whip anybody who has no protection nor defense of his person under color of law and this particu\ : lar case ought to be investigated to the ninth degree and city officials and officials of the police department undertake an ininvestigation and not "white wash" or try U to whitewash anything they find. t' m me 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 WashingtonR ' Oarver viIlage7~Upon arriving, he found a public thoroughfare blocked by a produce peddler's truck. Its driver a white man, refused to move it so that thescreet was free to traffic and as the officer star; to get out of his car to talk with the man, Baft, the latter Whipped out \ a .32 auto'matte pistol from the compartment of '"his truck and threatened to shoot the "black blankety blank" down if he so much as stepped from his car. The colored officer, off duty and wearing civilft. ' ' * ian attire, produced his badge, which the y man is said by two witnesses (who didn't . have the chance to testify in court) to fcjr/'.'have cursed. The officer called headquarters and a detail arrived and put the man under .arrest. He had used the vilest of language I; before the law and several other fitivpnw? R But when The case came to court this fcy week, one official of the department step ped before th erecorder and asked that the K. charges against the man be dismissed so K^that "an example" might be made of the on*cer involved for the benefit of the deV'. parxment. The accused man was refunded KV his $41.00 bond and also his pistol, which had been seized. The department's official ' held that men off duty can effect arrest only in an emergency. What is an erner; gency? Is this laid out in the police marfThis particular case calls to mind the shooting of a Negro, Willie GunLker, AugW ust 15, 1950, who was blasted the stomBr ach by a white officer who w.k_ not only PP off duty, but who ran upstairs." grabbed - 1L , Swimming Pool In The Red During the past few days, after hoarBP ing various rumors, we imdertork to learii fr how well Negro citizens are usin?" he'swimM^y'ming pool in Drews (Seegar's) Pfffk, which j^J^has begun its third summer of operation. KJft We knew several things before we turnBed to 1952 about the pool and we don't BJBhink any of them was complimentary HH^vhen followed to their end results. For example, we knew that this very fine facility had run in the red for both 1950 and 1951; we also knew that it was built only after "leaders'"clamored for it ? afte rone frrr ni-Tipr-i i H in Mnvcy 8-4; Gregg Park. Now. these same leaders seem W uninterested in whipping up the necessary hy'.. support among citizens to'make the Seegar's Pool atleast a self-supporting nroonE|t~Sition, and don't seem to fret at ad that it^ is, and has been, a definite liability against the city, and a reflection against the jndnv Iment of the Negroes who sought it and r the claimed desire for clean, wholesome recreation Nef^oes are said to desire. An an investment, thus far. despite, it*Remember J ^ 'A-J ^ ?),? # ?We yie p v ; "I"* 1 ' . ' in,'''} "17 Eli.-. C a' ate, years ago, retired I', udge J. Waties Waring's ruling in the m' v tore V. Ryce-case was upheld by the. p ^ r urth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Ne 'mr*-IIA, S- . Saturd?y, ffijOttSin I JOT OR BOB F SUBSCRIPTIONS?Payable in advance?: 1 year, $3.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1.50; . per copy, 10 cents Make checksTor orders payable to The Lighthouse Publishing Company, Inc., and not to 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. \ paitiueut kis service 'revolver, ran back down, out ?nto the street, and fully the length of a Hty block behind thbvictim who was un ui me omcers approach he said from his hospital bed. The reason for the arrestr-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 Thy 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 were not notified, and tho? officer, as far as we could learn, was not punished. The colored officer in the case before us. had no gun; 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 1043 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 life? safety line. The same departmeiff official tspoke 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 havethe authority?as they have everywhere else?to protect us and our rights. And as to "emergency", we think it exists anytime the law is broken. 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 i > ? iinu kut'ii euxciencv rcnuct'd. .-AS ILn H<)\\ stands, all a culprit has to do is to determine whether or not the officer is off duty. If the officer is,then the culprit can po to town breaking the law with amnesty. splendid construction ahd the spirit of fairplay behind it. the City of Cohmd laid an epp in openinp this facility, and something .oupht to be done to develop preater usape of it or whatever is necessary to make it a payinp proposition, even if it is closed to Neproes?and they would bp the ones who would shut it down. We take this position because we think it lonp past the hour when Neproes. if they want the privilepes and facilities they demand of public povornment .bepan to -live nyr to ""What is required to keep the privilepes and facilities. We are informed that the Maxcy Grepp pool is a selfsupportinp proposition. It is no better, nor any finer than Seepar's. pool. Columbia has a larpe number of wi.de-_ 1_ Ir A oVv II ! / % /?Tt t U . .. ^ M 1 * A <?v>di\c- uiun ir->, i iui#s <nhi responsinie cnizehs who. can remove the present stigma from the Negro population. Thit will thexdo it. or will they sit on their haunches and prove once again that Negroes 'Think" out on motd --of thr things thev say Tin-USe4 < ' \ Carolina had tinallv w ;n ' j f voto in dtemorrerfTr prrm art as. This decision?when state Democrat ie officials soiijrh* to render it ineffectual hv siil>t erf urres? -led to the P.rown v. Haskin later VVarin"* ruliinr, which was not appealed and resolved the Ksue. i r : 1 ? "The Dixiecrats Are Embari ~i n r\ n ~ r shut vx> John H. McCray U ' } fr^'lp It May Not Be i ^j^jji The other day somebody | & heard. The moral is an in i;.^^n$y-'' 4g "come to mean among too / y ' People going to work c 1&/ xt ?w4if* on a Main street corner er ,Auk""' noon, he was still squattin 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 hryrur 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 y 4 the world are you squatting out here all day long?woe; >ipg" ? Theman. with a brand new gush of tears, sabf "rhjjef, nil my lifn. I had the "am b J ion to own one. I worked for years, scimping and saving until this this morning, when I had the price, but when I went to buy one they told me tliet everyone they'll get in for the next five years has beep., boughfby a Negro." (only he didn't say "Negro"). "Oh, how I wish I was born a Negro," he wailed. "Just what is it you are talking about'"' the chief asked. "I'm talking about one r.f them fishtail Cadillacs", the men went on. Of course only a few Negroes, by comparison. own Cadillacs, but the only reason a lot more don't is simply <>iu- of economic .?they don't have the price. While there are several other cars on the iparkot sell ing for more than most cadLilac model.-, this fact isn't yet generally known and .. mong Negroes-,at least, you have reached the ultimate when you ride-around in a fishtail. And the cadiilac fever isn't limited tsections. It. is almost iniiversal in this omn try. , , ?P THE CALVIN'S D NO TV FOR MRS. KASS \ ,-.u ,:i/ tin m mil by the iei ( !l : I ! i itt a 1.a . t! e f I!' -* oWe ean further nan and Mir fir t N'eei o vn Jo u m;m Vl. he mm ean-hdate : - Vim ,, t. Pl .. President of tie l/rut, ,i Stan . (j,.Mp (if jj sp ke ;?t Civic Au. 1,t< em And ^ h(.n u S..n Jose, Calif, th . c iM(.k ,.(f sl| .h June 2(ith. Vincent Hallinan. PP lt ls IU)f milieu Presid ntial candi- late w i t h }1 i-t -;(p-r.t ol t! whom Mr-, Bass i- running. was u.in^ quu.tlv ., fo he repp. -ented on the p: jjram that ev nine he Mrs. Ha!!- * HAMI jnan. A battery of kleii< ln;at- It was hell , and televisi n y2'in_';'s wefu- - t lot' ltoh_!ns_!i__ up before the program start d the-e tiatue I'm However, Mr-. Hallinan fail ! defeat and vietc tn show and the TV packed up wa> <> hot i and left. It Seems that her plan feet, while the | wa- delayed. above them >er t .. I. i. . i It wasM>bvious that nly- Mr.-.. 1 H auo\ Hallinan was to Ik tel.vised. (,f \ ankei a net ~Mrs7 Tta-s was left to con- "^nTF^TfTcrtTt oT .Tti fine her remarks 'to tin- ! ca] an i Robinson wa: dionce. In the matter f hi to! i. the fipnare hr cal precoHvnf, it s- cms to u knocked him t that it was much inure impor'arit frame, and \l;i to t'levis*' Mj-. Mass than Mi light-heavy Vro Halhman. For even if we c old son actually b< ~r"V- r r y"':: -T! -:S ? : :\ ? ; ;; v turned?t-r m?<"i:.i i: . ?v? + cToacPT a prison bohirid tho I: a o<stsinn prayor Curtain. Ho is froo, ays. Mrs his putty wife Vogelor, hooauso Clod di ) the two (jus, Bohh' impossible. It was Ids own Vojjo'.er i-, the only American "t the vorv far vubjoetod to a full S'.Y<- mm bilit.V. munist trial who hi, ovri us 'TI1K Sh.\M urnod to talk about it handsome Voqel assing Our Right To Lead." j UR d v? - gpjv ] ? ; i Joke, Son ; / hail mi in stitches over a tale 1 hadn't. i dictment of "leadership," and what it haS| many, of our people. Tn a nutshell, here it is: ( >ne morning noticed a white man squatting ying his eyeballs out. At lunch time around g in the same place crying. So around four Some months ago we fchuckled over an editorial our old friend T.ouis Rurnham 1 wrote in his newsnaner "Freedom." Louis entitled his masterpiece "Cadillac Leader- ' ship' 'and published with, the article pictures of "Negro leaders" and their Cadillacs. When he broke ..the situation down, ho wound tip with a theory which charged that ownership of a cadillac meant moreTb^ most Negroes than obtaining first class citizenship. In other words, the substance was a sort of paraphrase ?f the old Negro Spiritual in which Jh^5^1ines~-4U^x-^fotrriTtr^ToiT ?4wtH7Tkr~^tlTe-wbrTd but erive me Jesus", and,' goes something Iik,> "You just give me a cadillac and keep the rest of the world." There isn't anything wrong, of course. With a citizen hnvimr fV>? " i Uv.,< . fi, mr flUlWIIKHJll'1 OT nis choice. It is his money and he can do with it what ho blamo pleases to do. but aren't 1 there far qiore important matters than a I false indication of success as a citizen? If 1 we could ever get across the fact that regis- 1 tration and votings sticking solidly togoth- < er woirtfl bring our group a greater status and eventual first class citizensship, as some- | body has gotten over the idea that cadillac 1 ownership meant" first class, we'd be getting A somewhere .and fast. The man in the tale ! repeated is fictonal. but not the fact that a lot of white people see us as striving for that which is superficial and. which most of us cannot afford. Ther,. are many Negroes struggling- to buy endillaes who don't own the first foot of land, and who will never own any so long as theiv al\- eadillacs to < Iniy. * ( 1/^ 1 j' 1V -v to n-e from his eorner as tho I J -* (>? 11 rang "14". Robin-on wants , t lo mi i t?MHyiin ffgwiTi*1'iTT"f"iilt|i ' ..f H -O Ir- ; ' ' c . mi, urn. i. nc miiih ^ nc j? capa oie im.'icinr a Negro of becoming a triple crown Mdynr in !:ne for champion, : n 'he , v nt f It has always begn thought that gentlemen of African dc-. ( ? look at the Sl.(>nt (.im jaj{(. jn the heat, but ] f.mtu-tk piitun, \jaxlm proved that the Nordic. it to see a Ntgio t..m sj.,n(j Uf) a> WL.]j ;iN those k United Stat< three of Biblical fame in the fie-. -Missinated. rv furnace I'lO.NS It is reported that Robin-on's above and ln lo.\ perso'- physician. Dr Vincent tV^L. -;L-?-Naniu.:!^- -ita^-advised &? ** doliters waltzed to retire. hut "the world's greatest try on canvas that ftghter" is leaving for Paris July t 'hl 1 Ate red their ]| and to box Albert Yvel in piercing-hot lights 'jvi Aviv August 2nd for the M the therm me- benetd- ?.-{ 1-vhH Wm?Vi'ltu arts. t tin Id! d? .,<< We trust Robinson will take - ^t<>c*lum "M hy^__ cahe. of dimcsfclt- ?while hro.'ld :in,l rnnui Vi4 vw.iiv Iiuillt I ' U UUIllC s vict 'nous until Maxim-and then-retire and' at of Nov. York get himself elected to some pub-, lat in the l.lth -hr-e^ice in New Yo*"k. liut win ixim retained his or .use". Kohinson seems deswn when Hobin- tined far s mething bigger then ix ame to sleeLry prue^ - ot? rttrr krdTh . ~7 CTTP lv ' 4.1 t ta 1 ' . ' ::: I r>. 1 '. \ . 0 . HIV. .^io I 1..?. * * 4 ' " ' n ana .I.urilo. and t2ir;r months in pri-on, but he and his . 11. and Hill 9. wife talk freely, even anxious-' pravet and faith lv of the part that prayer and e of an impns t- religion pjayed in >ftsLaining them. K is." shy.- the "After repeated requests," he !rr. "tha* it [ k -avs earnestly, "I was given a * - u s / STRAIGHT By Julius J. Adams the NEW YOBK (Global) ? The ecision not to televise or broad. ^ojp aat the recervt Ray Robinsinoey Maxim light heavyweight ^ ^ ttle bout is earning much more onversation and has excited id the contest itself. It is probble that other communities are or oncerned about the future off the elevision and radio broadcast- j :ig vi-z-a-viz sports events and; a 6 i WO' ther important shows. i _ ; Tej The debate over whether tele- no ision and broadcasting an event} ^ dversely effects the attendance ( ias not been settled, and in this|G^ eporter's judgment, will not be' ettled for some time to come, t is an admitted fact that broad-j J asting . . . both television nrv^000 aaio . . . has created many new ne' ans for practically every sports j op< iVent. And, with more people i "" nterestid: in an event, the larger me he potential audience. In time1 wo hose people will want to see a he event in person. Among these} w0 viil be individuals who perhaps a** lever would intend a boxing; ?u1 how, baseball game or wredl- no' ng match. * | For exmple, the other after- Prc icon, afriend of mine took his] vife and two small daughters to *'n ;ee the Brooklyn D dgers play.- OUJ Before the event of television he ^ >aid his wife actually hated to( Pa see Sunday comie, because he; SdQ vould either be off to the ball v'c park or parked near a radio.! 1S She feIt she and the children tTK j/.-rp entitled tv> Sundav. Mv m? < , I a 'rien'i had tried to interest his| d kVite in baseball vUi radio, but *w A'as never quit.? successful. Then, came ^television. Ship soon be- 1 :ame interested. She learned thi names of players; she learned qu about rvorages, hit-, runs, er- he r">rs. She took rr'te of standings thj of the club?s and efficiency of th( pitcher-, and got g^uninc pleas- ioi ur? in watching Robinson and sei Musial battle for league batting sti championship. The result is^the fe< lady who never saw a major lea- m; gue batting baseball game be- it fore broadcasting began, is an! vi: avid fan. She watvhes television and listens to the radio regularly. Also the children, nine and ten years old, listen and watch, jJj and know scores of playens?byname, and while the husband i of the family now enjoys many lc ball games at the ball par kdur-! ing the year. There must be ro hundreds of thousands of cth?rs who do the samething. What, tjc i strue of baseball is true of eve-1 he y other sport. All of this has led I ne to seriously question whetherj ju Bible. They didn't do with it like ] they did with other books. They th would takf? thnm fmm mr> nflr-' I I had started them. Or they'd ce give me one with jyh .le section* pi; nUsing. tit "I READ TilAT BIBLE re for an hour or so. I read that de Bible regularly and carefully. It's surprising how much ^consol^ition you ran find in it. I always""^ knew that God would not let this be he end for me." . to On the other side f the lr n, . Curtain, in Vienna, Lucile Vogeler was bending heaven and ^ >arth?heaven with her constant' , , an petitions, and the powers of; earth with unending insistence th ,t .(ii)ii'thin(' lw dnn.. fr. ^ ure her husband's release. THE FAMILY began an In- j ieme program of prayer. The t importance of perservance was p emphasized. The two lads and! tl heir mother c ntinued to storm 1 heaven. * si lit ^ 1 "Enjoy Your Paper. Hut DO Others." promoters actually kno^ V lit they are doing when they ise to broadcast sports events 9 fear the attendance will'be | uced. The Robinson-Maxim I it is a case in point. t is quite probable that imEd^j i vidua Is who attended the I it would not have done so if had been possible to see it hear it through broadcastxOn $ other hand, there obviouaj^ ,, * many good" fight fans who 1 uW not have attended for one ason or other, b?roadoaa)t of 7 1 broadcast. It is not fair to 1 ly them the broadcast ... ; . ecialiy would this be true of e sick, ajnd those otherwise Another pibint that seems | i? 1-bfi i h i?i n rr-TTf-TKfThs in the local community and ?ning of them beyond the y-mile limit. It would seem to iv|| that the hometown fans uld be more likely to attend* fight th was broadcast than 'Mk uld one who had to travel to --Si end. The debate could go on, A t one thing is certain: it >n t going to be as easy as some^ Wj nk to work out a satisfactory >gram 01 cnargmg me aei ner to see a television show. st, vuch a move would serfsly curtail the buying of sets." e whole idea behind, the cam- i| ign to sell radios and televi>ns is the fact that they prole good entertainment. There a campaign to put two or >re sets in every home. As a:| itter of fact, there is hardly home now without at least "' o radios and many have two Jj evision sets. ft is reasonable to assume that is campaign will fall short if arters are required to see a % me television show. When : ** at time comes, instead . of ere being millions of televisas in American homes we shall e neighborhood halls becoming idios where people will pay ,a . 3 to see a television, show. It iy also help the theatres, but -vill just about doom the telesion manufacturing industry. AACP '53 Meet i_SttJLouis OKLAHOMA CITY, July, St >uis, Missouri, was chosen aft e the site of the next annual nvention of the NAAfcP at the jsing session of the Associa- , >n's 43rd annual convention I 1. TU ? ...ill I e ItWCCIV. 1I1C WIW held during the third week of ne, 1953. * v VyrfyM BOB VOGELER is no longer e broken man he was when ; was suddenly rouesecf in hi* II and taken out without exanation to the Austrian fron;r, and freedom. One doesn't cover easily fTT>m such an or- ^ -.i He still stands by the state- "^jjl ent he made in Etirope before >ing flown home to freedom, -V ? rod has given us the mission - ^ 'ff destroy the communist eneies.of freedom. Every Amerin should realize that what J ppened to me could happen to ybody." -*4 Weekly Thought : ' ? 1 If 1 give at all, let me give he be*?t that I have at my disposal. The moment I withhold hat best, its worth diminishes, 'he moment I give it freely, it iiines like a ruby. : . _ ' 1 i j it,*- ,m V "ath ol' ^