Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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P" ;W' - - . 4?LIGHTHOUSE and INFORMER, COLUM1 Published weekly by The Lighthouse Pub Wishing Company, Incorporated, at 1507 Harden Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina. TELEPHONE 2-"079 Entered as. Second Class matter in the Posi Office at Colgnihin. Sinnta < arolina; unrtci the Act of March 3, 1879. John II. iMcCruy President-Editor Kobert E. Howard Sports Editor Thomasina Scott 1 Society Editor Julia G. Simkins ... Sec'y-bookkeeper Do They Believe In Freedom For a people who are denied the right to no many Mjf the?cherished tYeellom> others enjoy, it would appear that Negroes '-I- ? * ' ??wuiu uts muung me iasi to question the exje^cise of Jhe constitutional fright and duty of others or an agency about" them And this would pe particularly true of an agency whic hhas served them so faithfully for so long, helping and directing their feet upward when others turn upon them. This point of view comes to mind following a report or two_ which nimp i>? n? ' from persons who noted the remarks of one or two Columbians (all Negroes) w' . r noted both our featured story and lead editorial of last -week?Th*> rtimnrlnv-wrrr-.dn .substance, the publications would do r: . more to hurt, than help, '.toe Bjethel. a Columbian who is alleged to have been whipped while in thnoifv jnil : We don't follow this reasoning and find ? no^basis for it ftne perron ndmiftreFFThvTTTir ~ uttered such an expression but said it was tt??being retracted after" "investigating the Bethel case. The others of course, may nottake the time to investigate and form another opinion. Where abrogation of the rights of No? groes by public agencies "is" concerned it fe . has been the Negro newspaper which has dug up and brought out the story and inspired a., public correction in both policy and* custom. In South Carolina, it was'this newspaper which d;d the first work 011 equal eduqational opportunities and the -?--ballot, having started its"work in 1939, before formation of the state NAACP. Nvhich was to prosecute these measures to a successful end. And it was this news'" paper which dug and brought to light the 5 i *> Charleston Candidates Crv 'S ' ? , * _ . ! ^ What is wrong with Charleston Ne? T'' groes? Fllowing last Tuesday's primary in which three Negrdes VTered for the >. - house of representatives, ten seats being sought by 20 candidates, a general state Oif "Wot Hopponed?" has swept over that k city, much of the state, and among the three candidates themselves, who ran 1 Sth, 19th and 20th irv the counting. The candidates, we are led to believe. along with many of their -\ipporters, are charging that some oTTOTe .cFnowledged Negro leadership "soldout to either the Morrison or Wallace factions of white * voters, or both, and left the three strand }y -, elections at Charleston, in which at lea* t one Negro has been a candidate. It may, or may not, be true that some 1/ 9 of the leadership is guilty of making deals, which exclude dthe colored candidates. It is difficult to have persistent rumors <>" 1 a sthese existing unless they have some basis, but even if this is true, the fault is in the people -of-Charleston who haveit j, , within their province and right to pick anA Voting Tax That Favor This newspaper is, of course, firmly opposed to a poll tax on the right-to vote,? and to any other tax which, by operation, would deprive arTy"dttzen of the rtght and privilege of voting. . However, the other day we noted that Australia operates a tax in connection ' with voting which we approve and think might produce more voters in .each atate and community of America. According to. the account we read, the Australian gov_ ernment places a special tax upon and any citizens who does not vote in an election, and who doesn't have a pretty good excuse for not voting. The general indifference of Americans with the right to vote, who do not cast" Btv vma4, fnVe r>?rt. in the opera HA, S. C. Saturday,- July 19, 1S pfcotUSC < INtORME? SUBSCRIPTIONS?Payable in advance 1 year, $3.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1. per copy, 10 cents Make checks or orders payable to The Lig house Publishing Company, Inc., and not persons representing it. AO V LUTPSING RATES furnished on up; cation. National Advertising Representative: Int state United Newspapers, Inc., 515 Fi Avenue, New York 17, New York. CLOSING SCHEDULES: News, 12 n Tuesday; Advertising, 3 P. M., Tuesd Photographs, 10 A. M. Monday. Of The Press? Isaac W,i indnrd 1)1 iiii 1 i11l b\ .i pnlin ' eer at Batesburg, the brutal lashing naked bodies of Negro male state fn prisoners, the James Walker lynch-mur at Elko, the Pine Island r.mp.'niiinlor Rev. Archie Ware election beating, Shelton Lorick abduction and beating, . a number of other stories which other pers brought outafter we had made incidents public. THe same was true the burning of tho_Iiarm+.-^f?.Jr A. ] Laine at Summerton, and now, the Bet cftae. ? ?? "" ~ So long as a newspaper reports what understands are facts in a'case, it does harm to the suffering; under our svst< only those guilty "of infractions of the 1 of Rights and public law stand to. ben under the "huSh'-hush, tie quiet' 'poli and may the devil be off with '** Tlm.i,. m wish.- to handle what is a public mat secretly are eru?Mv nf' '''d fusion- w+44r? violators of the rights of citizens, i ought to he prosecuted with ttm~snmo f v.or the suspects should endure, Every right'Negroes enjoy today if right labored for by their press, which many instances began the work. Supo ing JJie^_nress had kept (piiet and -tided the "hu. h. husli, be quiet" theory; wb there have been a ballot, an equal sala an upgrading? The answer is obvious, but it is a obvious that thur^ nvn o fmx, round who would now have this same pr ..stifled, or opcratirrg^ag ttpleases some their pet cronies, or white associates. We care not what other newspapers n do; as for ourselves, before weyield to si "stifflihg and suppression, we'd Jseal ( pajjfes, forever. ioldout' other tfroup of leaders. But, we think, what Charleston has In learning and demonstrating is a lesson other Ne^ro community groups sho have figured out by now, and that is: ! groes shouldn't attempt anymore to | i'/imntnnii w nv*n ot v?? T * . . w "TXyl \'\/l I I II I VI 1 II I Y | 'I ",|V\ I r* I IV I l \ ? ? I I . cial basis?even sponsoring candidates, they are to follow a racial pattern, tl they ought to forget about their tight outlaw sjieiiiil truatnumt -by?raee:?:? Another lesson involved is that w I Charleston is supposed to have had so 13,000 registered Nefrroo*, opt inmigh Was given to getting1 them m and to the polls. For example, not m than 11,000 votes were east for the n< inee polling fFiehighest total. VVere e? of the 13,000 registered Negroes voti each of the three Negro candidates wo have polled more than 11,000 votes. If thre was a sellout at Charleston, covered a wide area, and an area wh ~7miLTFTTT(T b^* explored for the informat .it contains and the warning it makes. tion of their r'W"rnmnct shocking. li hat lonab elec t ion prior to 1D18 it was e mated that less than ten percent of adults in the South of voting fitfe, acti ly voted. One factor was the poll'tax, .v in operation in several southern states; other was the white primary system, i ^outlawed by t-otirt orders, ftut the vol experience of our communities is still below what is ought be. For exnmrptr, h i it 1<> vt<l />#-vti ir r>t /M?o t Vl o n 'i t Ill IVH 11 Itll HI ilJlllll^y, IIWI iiiwi r uimi in/ | cent of the_ registered voters took purl the primary held on July 8. In other co when the CttTzehs fa IT to (To their duty ties, the percentage was even worse. I can we hope to have a better govern it? ' ft < ? " H Replace The Stars An< of ^ John H. McCray it | How South Caroli ,m 1 After hearing iLtliscussk g.j| -rr~^6apP| which is a "must" for all e^t jdjfJr/> Upon noting tho title, '"I cy, wsis&l mMz U. Sims ~f ttiptfimf ? unit (in fTT7> 11 i-i 1 i>rli< rrm ^* ter in# had a/ text book which had the title tfcwi "Sims History or Smith C.tmlina", by (*ifmd more-Sims (I believe) when I was in the sixth-?grade ?d+rr?Lincolnville (iraded K ' School about 25 years ago. However. 1 do not recall reading jn that text either the 5 a attitude Or the general language found in jn the text every child in the public school gaining sixth grade has to learn and undorstand today. ? Apparently, the author, nor the long list lll(' of 0'romTnent Soirth--fhrolina educators, all ry, white, whose names appear on the preface page in tribute for their assistance to the [so author, intended that little colored chiMr,- n were to study from5 this book. Or. if they "a" did so intend, they are guilty of deliberateess |y drilling?irrto -Hre-httle Negro T-hild tinof notion that he is a "darkey" and if is perfectly atf" right fun anybody t?e so call hirm. lay F(>r example, in a chapter entitled "Fall u.^ of t he Confederacy-!! ou~page--2?>4 -?t-hise paragraph is printed: "The Negroes luid heard so much about the 'Yankees' that they were in deadly terror of them. As Sherman's annv marched by him one little darkey" ried cut in aniaxemenl : 'why, '.lev's folks. 1 thought dey was animals!" This "hist< try" of course hews ilu "whi'e supremacy" line by denouncing and n-pudia" ating Negro legislators who were elected t > uld office during the so called Keconsl ruct ion neriod. We found notbimr of note- in this ,)Ul chapter, nor the following diseus-don ??t' th?* postwar Smith which portrayed the Neyro other than a wild hunch ol" snai'i- wb" greatly outnumbered southern w.hile>. 1('n 1 let a list* NYyrnes were the maiorit\. f to hi-fory" says, white sniithennas ? ?.i.-pi5 ' ? to koop-"t-hr?haiiot "Ml. o~f TTnTF Ti.7iT%7~;~ to keep the. Neyro in his pla-e. d< , ' n tilt* t heir own weapon as is ret ailed on i a ' plt. t lie sanie I>(?ok 1 t- "Wllrir' ?l4ii ''o .! M 1 '."I1, 1 ,d'. I> ukIn\ dresse<i in lony white r .lw . J ? , \: . mounted on fast horses., yallopc' thr ip' ore tlie darkness .friyhteniny the superst it imi>m blaeks into suhmission . . ((hie iniyht u.|, substitute the word "darkey" for "Mark" and,he a bit more consistent). The Hambury riot of 1S7t>. an-onlmy to 11M this book, was all the blame of a Neyro militia. In tact, after a lony dessert at ion of tli eyallantry, chastity and honesty of tin '' Confederate soldiers (white- -nothiny is ion i'ouyht alony with their white masters) the author does say that slavery wa> wrony. - A year o rt wo - nyrr. - * trw~ wTfrt>T " ~b 11 < ~7. our employees dashed into the otl'ice coddl ?"' lilt li> <,,n ? *.? ! I !iiid )w>r<o>l f ili^. traujrht aiul a nprvniK ^nvii- t>nd i' * street quicklyafter s<mu liny lilsti t'<> %vbit\j boy, rliiiyiny to his mother's >i:.. 1 4. I, THE CALVIN'S D ill t1ik coming storm j sirririR 1 he:nisi* ,l)( The next six months will "at ofT the yok undoubtedly bee me the nost and white supr significant in the hUt^ey of mart- TT"t? evident inK kind National an<l international Lakes and cor far conditions -during the past de_| trading ?> .? j oAfle i*iav e moved teadily to ! own America, ward a vast and unprecedented,' with them, revt transition in the affairs of man? iy,-s& in doctruu " ,n' kind One of the most important' The tark evil >11 n- i-knng< v Kraduallv ..taking pla< e tt.TVe" rem heel \r indicates that the day of victory the pendulum i row for the common man is hasten- back to more s ini? ?n . > Members of the darker There is a cb | |?P 4 1 races, con tituting the majoritv versal reformat nr. ' *| " of the earth's population, arc Ilefore reform i Stripes At The Cnnvpniioi - 1 ?tfv.-.v> } ' .\ . V' ina Perpetuate Race Hatei >n?oh tlii1 nontext <rf a ~ particular text sixth pradors in South Carolina public scf browsed throuph it on the weekend, 'he N'f\v Sims History ..of South Carol t- and pi inl I'd be The State Company of tion copyrighted in 11)41. I remembered had tnonted at her Q":itir^d *"n remarked. "Mama, look at that little 11 ?boy". !1?was Said TTvMT that the little \ child wasn't t.o'l>e. blamed. Csinp the "nipper" wasn't Something born alon him. Anri it appears that each white roar hi up the sixth prude iv:.d. in his it' proper do say "darkey",which ma ?bitended nr a" milder connotation oj word "nipper". I?ut the matter is far more serious, does a little ( oloivd child feci wlien he 'in his school bi-mk that he is a "dark !low doe> he aim tin- little white child 1 to repard the hideous Ku Klux Klan'.V 1-h?the. latter''jTTase. the klan bee on iioly crusade for white supremacy, an orable thing in^h^^mung-mi?4,-tR the mer s case, wen mis situation oears sidorable investigating and study. We undertook t/? fct the opinion of school teac hers mi i hi stextbook and f that while none was willing to-be cpi alone, and fur obvious reasons, eve: with whom we talked, despises it. younjj' woman, who a year or so afro t; a .class of veterans, told me that this key" paragraph aroused her students s vrti-rans of World War 11. that she h skip the entire chapter. "Some of tl -he said, "were so an fry that they w; to write the State Department of K tion. the Cawerhor, and everybody el bout it." Another told me that every prospt teacher "must" also have a course in "hjstory" before they are considered prepared to loach. ?h- -r*-tr s 1; a mc~ T+raT~a~"Sbuth Carolina : i \ l.?.k itxcs not include a more < mented account, an unbias account o evolution <? i t his state ami ^11 the n ? i m ill 1I b 111 eci magnificently to its (lev men?. The best that can ho hoped for is" the production of future klansmon i Mxn.c rats. and the ironical sid?_> of it is while In- dislikes it. the Negro has t< hi^ own child stuffed with the kind of and poison this book offers. 1 don't want my children ever to be that the people who held thei rancesto slavery, who donned robes and mure so many of them during- the first da\ freedom, were heroes. I don't want the ?jftd?the idea that any one section or ! has a more gdorious history than any ( of the forty-eight which make til) thh = Tfon'. So Ionvr a^ we fall hac k upon propag and twisted facts for our informalioi ?k?ng as ue tolerate documentary insult on any segment of our population, so will we have race prejudices perpetuat IGEST by Havnard Whitney Ives and throw- ttu> old order of things es of exploitation spend it-elf. And since it w emacy. voluntarily penny] t ennstr too. that Ihc :nis change, it shall suffer the rupti ns of the tlOM <'f.?tfallacies and p r.._+m4nf+rrnr -nur. w.Vr-w-tlu crucible uf dm are catching up 11X1111 *? kaling fatal weak- War . . . 2* and tdrmd?rr- rfhrr nf^T presidential eT s of mat< 'ri;ilNm ^honid?bu1 much fnTro Hi a Ih et r zenith, and other individual taking s about to ?wins! It should be the acid test of table values. ther a natioiT which ha, ?rion <all for uni- leadership thrust upon i ion' world conditions, has thi l can i me about, courage to make that h t ^ . ROVING n | ONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 j Duwkm*, that his wife "Kat' j might pi?Jl in home from her va j cation pretly ooon, and who d > y u think accepted the paper oj I" its delivery? Kat! Now, she's al I "intuition" trying to get some o I the dope out of me. But honesl j lady, he's been a very good bo> despite the close association wit] ?| Al Tthue. So y.'u can let him g J off for a couple of days. Bette I keep Al home, however. _ HORNETS' NEST: That's wha j Elbert E. (Yamacraw) Rogers 1 *1 trying to put us in. He's eve: i gotten on hi* side our charmini first lady, Mrs. Daisy Taylor, hi summer school landlady, and t make matter* worse, also fron ^ i Savannah, which was news t us. Pressing his argument, h< stayed up all night with the die ti uiiiey?rrrrxi encyclopediato e merge at tne break of dawn a follows: "In a 'recent (it was last week Bud) issue of .The Lighlhous' | and Informer, E .E. Rogers wa i accused of two things. In an at tempt to ciea rhimself he raise 1 | these questions: First, TO WHO^ I r?ururnr U/* J I ciiru ** uijivrj WVIC I1C Ut'lUgdlUl, remarks concerning our edito made? (A public answer is re requested); secondly, would Mi __J .John H. -M^ray~accepT~ariInvi 1 tation <t)f Mrs. VerdelLe Wair I company them on a trip to Yc I mocraw (Savannah) and fea< j upon their special dish of 'Yam: I crawfish, and tails'? We will as isure him that this trip would b book I a trip which he would LON< REMEMBER. If he is the 'mai we thought he WAS lie uil Ijt ' 1 eept the challenge. In additioi Col-1 dare him to print the re hav-j marks. 'A certain youiyj lady lu -7U1(|rhim tip toeing through the tulip i seeing stars' which we deny (? I IT if CI . . {making. This is written in Enf shite | Proably it should have bee word; in 'guliah', which is a high-bro1 pside; name for 'geechee"! child NOTE: If we accepted* the ir book' citation (?) how are we to knO' ,y be f that we'd ever know how th f the! mixture tasted? They say thei Yamacrawites also believe i How E-'ofer dust and stomach peele sees We're investigating the othc ey" ?, matters and until we can sett) rome ^h>s one we're gonna be sure t inquire ine nex^-trrnr tang di: i tance calls from Charlestc il who's on that end with gravis! Hon-' : *~ftrr ship honest and sincere, in?tes con- of hypocritical and left-hande ? r?The Negri,"our "Nation's mo some potent Qnd vocal minority, stan< 'ound faced with the prospect of beii loted. without a champion.of civil righ rvone in the White Ilou^e. With Go One eral Eisenhower the Republic; lUght candidate for office, we alrea< "ihr know that Ike will NOT pre ;o all ^or civil rights, especially wi ;i(j to a Congress already hostile hem " Passing any such legislation. Wi anted the growing strength of tl Idnca- Dixieorats who are already all .. ed with the Republican-, civ j rights would be a dead duck, i.fve Even if Truman could 1 this' ^ra^tcc* anc* ^cw 0n- wou . j undoubtedly fail again ito g civil rights legislation passed 1: , | a hostHe congress, "no matt i his- how anxious he would be rlociL-, ^bolster the moral position 1 the tbe United States in the ' pnplfi Uiy WO0id.'. At this writing, a 'elop-1 most all Democratic candidat now have fought shy of the eivi and right-' issue, so anxious ait tht that to get Dixiecrat support. > see . tribe .. ? | ccNYiNfeiOTAL 'lieve J ^ mora1 nado- "Have Fun, Hut Let Otl - green eyes blinking and ' % er in one band and a slug in TALK! TALK! TALK! And the above isn't enough, run yotflr . * - peepers over this from Rev. Win. | J 0 i MeKinley Bowman. ^ n i "I saw in your July 5th Jpua 11 a lot ot spurious propagro^lre 1^1 f; concerning the fact that you had W^j t,1 challenged me to race you with a cadillac (The Standard of the1'"' h| Wurld'),-ttganu;t an Off-brand r i Now. let us get the record V 1 straight. You know very well \ I that you did no have nei^iMttlff. -Ij [ enough to even mention such i | "' J ** I Dl'nnn?itinn frvt-j"n t? ?? M I ?? r- - 7-">v iate iv iace, " but waited until I had left to put it in your paper. But to phow you I accepted your invitation, a* ^ soon as 1 read that 'stuff in your ^ paper I hopped into my 'Tin .. '?3 Lizzie (A 1941 Foro owned by- r* mir firm < ana^-?rr-^rmr nmnfr 7 to arrange for the race?not with | the chariot (the cadillac) but I ? know 'Tin Lizzie' would nutk# I your hush your mouth. But, just ^ as-1 -expected, you had ieft town e tyou coward). Of course I don't ^ know how far you got in that ''( _ off-brand, but when I cateh you, t I'" I- you". -yyMiW y I To which we simply say: "How r j y u gonna catch me, Bud? You y\ I sure can't fly in that rattletrap." 'ttgj ^ ' J [. CHARLESTON: But there's good 'v ,!S news this week. When Mrs. L ^ Geor-ge?Breech -artcTMrs. Breech {. read here last week, he let go it with: "Now, that's just like John 5J McCray to saying something like 5_| this. ^Just you walL until I egg head," chuckling until .' 3^ his sides ached. "Oh no you y won't," his boss_tpoj?_up--for~usrrrthinkTuTiald "some very nice, -j flattering things, and to show ?. how much I appreciate it, Fm ls gylng to send him a big"T?Ouquet-.. ?,s of Tlowers so he can smell them >j| >) while he's alive, and more ftafTvT that, I'm going to. get some subn scriptions for the Lighthouse." w Thank you, Mam. -We're trying right now to find a whole column of other nice flattering w things to say. As for, George. I ie Buddy, she told your head a *J1 ^ mess. n| Weekly Thought 'r! e | "The thing that goes o' farthest toward making life s^T worthwhile which costs the ^ >n] least and does the most, is ju?t i -1 a pleasant smiIe"L ^iJ|B id On the horizon of Peace, ecod ^ nnmica ape) cnrrim^n justieiV^herif?? st1 appears to be coming a Big **** 4- ^ ? ??, mow. only tnrough unity and iR superhuman efforts will enable : ts; us to ride out the Storm ... n- We're Winning- in the Movies . . in From Hollywood comes the re- Jj iy port that fabulous Billy Rose ;V" ss to film "Carmen Jones" with an ' th all-Negro cast. Leave it to Rose itu t^> figure the smart angle on the th Bizet opera classic which made "ie $5,000,000 for him on the stage, li- Unlike the interracial movie, "Pinky", which the Supreme ' Court -would not permit the South to censor clear off the s. Id . screen, "Carmen Jones" with an ; j et all-Negro ca<t, should enjoy uni- --J >y: versa! showing in the Land of or Cottvrr-"and through the medium . to of the Negro's genius in song, . - i of raise higher the dignity nf the 1 ut. Riii u ;im0hg~ white audiences and 1- thus promote better relation! ; ; cs between the races. "Pinky" and ^ 1 "Carmen Jones" are new guide PitaB ;y posts on the race's Winning JH R on H ? hers Enjoy The Beach Too.* f " T.