Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4?LIGHTHOUSE and INFORMER, COLUMB tpc? Published weekly by The Lighthouse Pub < * Cialung Companyi Incorporated, at 1507 Har- 1 den Strt&et, Columbia 4, South Carolina. TELEPHSSE 2-^079 J ^ . _ I entered a* Second Class ms?itor in th,? ?L Oil ice at Columbia. South Carolina, undei the Act of March 3, 1879. Jolui H. McCruy . .. President-Editor y Robert E. Howard _ . Sports Editor Thomasina Scott Society Editor ! Julia G. Simkins Sec'y-Hook keeper 1 . 1 1 1 Do They Believe In Freedom For a people who ar^ denied ih<> . to so many of the cherished, freedom**? others enjoy, it would appear that Negroes would be among the last to question the exercise of Jhe constitutional (right 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 bo long, helping and directing their feet upward when others turn upon ? them. This point of-view cuiiies to miiuT T7T 7 lowing a report or two which came to us from persons who noted the remarks of one or two Columbians (all Negroes) \v' note^l^pth_--aur---^eattrrert FTtdry and" lead editorial of last week. The remarks were, an .substance, the publications would do more to hurt, than help, aoo Bjethel. a Columbian who is alleged to have been whipped while in thecity_4&ik? ? We don't foltcrw^this reasoning and find no basis for it. One person admitted having uttered such an expression but said it was being -retracted after investigating the Bethel case. The others of course, may not take the time to investigate jind form nnother opinion. Where abrogation of the rights of Negroes by public agencies is concerned it 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 did the first work on equal eduqational opportunities and the ballot, having started its work in 1939, before formation of the state NAACP. i-" which, was to prosecute these measures to i a successful end. And it was this news" paper which dug and brought to light the ] Charleston Candidates Cry 'S< What is wrong with Charleston Negroes? Fllowing last Tuesday's primary in which three Negroes -Tered for the house of representatives, ten seats being sought by 20 candidates, a general state cxf,"Wot Hopponed?" has swept over that city, much, of the state, and among the three candidates themselves, who ran 18th, 10th and 20th in the counting. _ The candidates, we are led to believe, along with many of their jpporters, are charging that some of the .ckrowledged Negro leadership "soldout' to either the Morrison or Wallace factions of white voters, or-both, and left the three stranded, as has been charged in two previous elections at Charleston, in which at lea: t one Negro has been a candidate. It may, or may not, be true that some of the leadership is guilty of making deals, ' which exclude dthe colored candidates. It is difficult to have persistent rumors si" 1 a, .sthese. existing unless they have some baSIS, bltt even if thj,g i? trim tVin fn.ilf -i ia in the people of Charleston who haveit < , within their province and right to pick an- i A Voting Tax That Favor This newspaper is, of courset firmly uli i '$r ph86d to li poll fax on the right to Vote, and to any other tax which, by operation, would deprive any citizen of the right 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 producemore votersTn each stale and community of Amertcar According to the account we "read, the Australian government 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 P--'- fnVo nort in the opera fe,:. ; I A, S. C. Saturday, July 19, 1952 4< Iffhouse \ INFORMED SUBSCRIPTIONS?Payable in advance?: L year, $3.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1.50; per copy, 10 cents Hake checks or orders payable to The Light louse Publishing Company, Inc., and not to >ers?w" representing it.?-?? ? VI)VEKT1SING RATES furnished on appli cation. >Au>nui Advertising Representative: Intertate United Newspapers, Inc., 545 Fifth Ivenue, New York 17, New York. L'LOblNt* SCHEDULES.: News, 12 noon Tuesday; Advertising, 3 1*. M., Tuesday; Photographs, 10 A. M. Monday. v Of The Press? I, tir touac w.oouaru Minding by a police officer~at Batesburg, the brutal lashing of naked bodies of Negro male state farm prisoners, the James Walker lynch-murder at Elko, the bine Island rape-murder, the Rev. Archie Ware election beating, the Shelf,on Lorick abduction and beating, and a number of other stories which other papers brought outafter we had made the incidents public. Th/e same was true of the burning of the home of Rf*v -T, A. P?-?baine at Summerton, and now, the Beth*1! case. So long as a newspaper reports what it understands are-facts in a case7tt doelT 110 harm to the suffering; under our system, only those guilty of infractions of the Bill of Rights and public law stand to benefit under the "hush-hush, be quiet' 'policy, a?id may the devil be off with it. Those!who wish to hi>ndh? wHiit?ic, a public matter ; secretly are guilty of collusion with the violators of the rights of citizens, and ought to be pros.ecuted with the same for- < vor the suspects should endure. Every right Negroes enjoy today is a ? right labored for by their press, which in many instances began the work. Supops- 1 ing the press had kept quiet and aided by the "hu.h, hush, be quiet" theory: would ( there have been a ballot, an equal salary, an upgrading? The answer is obvious, but it is also 1 obvious that there are a few Negroes around who would now have this same press stifled, or operating as it pleases some of 1 their pet cronies, or white associates. We care not what other newspapers may do, as for ourselves^ before?weyield to,such ( stifTling and suppression, we'd peal our pages, forever. 1 oldout' ; other group of leaders. But, we think, what Charleston has been learning -and demonstrating is a lesson all ^ other Negro community groups should < have figured out by now, and that is: No- I groes shouldn't attempt anymore to put ( over community projects strictly op a racial basis?even sponsoring candidates. 11 , they are to follow a racial pattern, then they ought to forget about their tight to 1 outlaw special treatment hv races. t Another lesson invoked is thai while t Charleston is supposed to have had some * 1 .'1,000 registered Negroes, not enough efwas given to getting them or- , . and to the polls. For example, not more t than 11,000 votes were cast for the nom- 1 inee polling thehighest total. Were each of the 13,000 registere<l Negroes voting 1 t aclx-oi-tJte-tinee Negrb camiTcTat< s would t have polled more than 11,000 votes. n t If thre was a sellout at Charleston, it ( covered a wldO ahen, and an~~~area which s ought to he explored for the information 1 it contains and the warning it makes. 0 1 t tion of their goveramnet ts shocking. In TT" T national election nrinr to 10.IK it \a'jis ?>sti_ mated that less than teh percent of the adults in the South of voting age, actually voted. One factor was the poll tax, still 1 in operation in several southern states; allot her was the white primary system, now outlaws**' by court orders: But tb^ v<>1}ng j experience of our communities is still far < helow what is ought be. For example, here ' in Richland county, not more than .'15 per- y cent of the registered voters took part in \ the primary held on July 8. In other coun- < when the citizens fail to do their duty \r > ties, the percentage was even worse. How ' can we hope to have a better ffovernmen' f it? ? f < , -?f ? I Will It Itoplaee Thp Star* Ai Mc.Cray [ How South Caro ^ After hearing a discuss ^ which is a "must" for al umbia, the Centennial e< mp Ffad a text book which had tin- titl 'Sims History of South Carolina", by Gil more Sims (1 believe) when 1 was in th uxth grade at tlie Lincolnville tirade School about 25 years ago. However.* I d not recall reading in that text either TTi attitude or the general language found i the text every child in the public scho< gaining sixth grade has to learn and un ierstand today. Apparently 7 the author, nor the long lis if prominent South Carolina educators, al white, whose names appear on the prcfac page in tribute for "their assistance to th iiithor, intended that little cohered childivi were to study from this hook. Or. if the lid so intend, they are guilty of deliberate ly drilling into the little Negro child th notion that he is a "darkey" and it is per fectly ail right for anybody to so call him For example, in a chapter entitled "Fal >f the Confederacy." on page 251. thi paragraph is printed: "The Negroes had heard s>> much abou the 'Yankees' that they were in deadly tei ror of them. As Sherman's armv maivh? by him one little darkey t ried out in ama/.t ment: 'why. (ley's folks. I thought d? v. wa mimals!" This "history" of course hew s ! he "\\'h " supremacy" lijie by denouminy and repudi itinpr Neyrn legislators who were elected 1 >fTice during the so called Keconst ruct i?? period: We found nothing of note i:i thi 'hapter. nor the followiny discussion of th postwar South which port rayed the Ntprr other that) a wild bunch of 'snvnevs. wh /reatly outnumbered southern whites. lleiausf Negroes were t lie rna.'orif y. hi.-tory" says, white southerners < "te-pi. to keep the hallot out of tlv-ir hands. : to keep the Neyro in lli place, t!i \ c heir ow n weapon a< is recalled on p.-r-e lie sante I?<>ok "W'ltcrtevcr the Neyro ya\e trouhle. 'h \tlkluM dressed in lony white r '-be: a: d ? a" nonnted on fast horses, gallop*t hr i. ' he darkness .friyhteniny tin swper<t it :on olacks into submission . . ((hie miyh substitute the word "darkey" for "lilat k The Hani bury riot of 1S7(>. accordiny t< his hook, was all the blame ??t' a Nej.rr< ? ^ nilitia. In tact, alter a lone dessert at mn o h ejjrallant ry. (hast it y and hone.-tv ?>!" tin Vail'ink'-re11-? t wli n > lint H re"' aid in the hook to glorify the Negroes wh< ou^ht alony with their white masters) tin uthor does say that slavery \\a> u nm/. A year o rtwo atfo. the wife of one <> ur employees dashed into the office eoddl nj? her little son real close tend herself dis raught and a nervous ^i-r^k She ka.sL iu~ eTt Main street quickly after some tiny lit le white hoy, clintfintf to his mother's h:?.i<' THE CALVIN'S L "iil- ctadu , *i, a.*, \ .^u i 11 ii hi i l: The next six month- will In^ ?f? the yc undoubtedly boo me the most ;mf' white suj iignificanl itl the hi h rv of pjftn-_ j4-i*-evirirrh uncT National and international Lakes and c< conditions dirring the past do-! leading nati r each' have moved -teadilv to- own America ,var?i a vast and unprecedentedi with them, re ransition in the affairs of man- ness in dpetri cind One of the most important The tark ov -hanges gradually taking place have reached ndicates that the day of victory the pendulum 'or the common man is hasten- back to more ng (>n Members of the darker There is a c "aces, eon-tituting the majority versal reform, if the earth's population are lWorti refm i f ?* - ?* " " ' id Stripes lina Perpetuate Race Titter shin' 011 the context of a particular text! I sixth graders in South Carolina public sch 1 browsed through it on the weekend. 'The New Sims History of South Caroli it. ; d printed by The State Company of lit ion fTT^'d-lLrhtf''l I -et^memhrTTTt-e had pointed at her neatly attired son remarked. "Mania, look at that little ni , boy". It was said then that the little \\ M child wasn't to be blamed. I'sinjr the \ t. "tjiytrer" wasn't something born alonp n him. And it appears that each white < il reaching the sixt h yrade i\ !n his 1 it'-- proncr to say "(larkey". which nitc " "i_rnt<rrntei| as" a milder connotation of t word "niprprt r". Hut the matter is far more serious. ' e does a little colored child feel when he e in his school book that he is a "dark* ii How does he and the little white child c v to reyard the hjdeous Ivu Klux KlanV 111 the tatter's cji.hp tho Hun " holy crwsntle for white supremacy, an orable thing- in the young mind. In the ' mor's case, well this situation bears II siderable investigating and study. * > Wf undertook-tr-r-gnt?the opinion of! s-hon) teachers mi }ii stextbook and f< 1 that while none was willing to he qui alone, and for obvious reasons, over 1 <? with whom w 'alked. despises it. young woman, who a year or sojago ta a class of yi'ti'1-tins, told mo that 11W ' key" paragraph aroused her students s< veterans of World War 11, that she h;i skip the entire chapter. "Some of t?h o -he. said, "were so angry that they wa n to write the State Hepartment of K* tiom the (Governor, and everybody els ' bout it." Another told me that every prospe teat her '"must" also have a course in "1 let , In.i'or. t Koo ..* /? /m^aol/iMA-l ?11 i - i ? ' ? vn' ' im v 4ii* * "ii.">iuri ru | M'e] led !< trail). I' ! - a vhame that a Soo'i, -'^arolina * ?*> i " ik .?1<'? > not include it more <1 mmtril account. an unbias account of > ..... i 111)i i i at< ami all tI'M pr v hi >< 11 ri11111nl magnificently to its devi mm!. l'tu* 1 M'st that can be hoped for i> the production of future klansmen 1'I\n . iats. and thi' iroiiietil side of it is , while lie dislikes it. tlie Netrro has to hm own child stuffed with the kind of 1 a;im?this hook otters. , 1 don't want my children ever to bel , that the people who held thei rancestor . slavery, who donned robes and murdi >o many of them during the first day; 11 ee<him, were hCfoiM. 1 donTt want ther , jref the idea that any one section or s has a more Klori6us history than any o <?f the forty-eitfht which make lip this tion. So Iouk as we fall 'back upon propatfa k - h^n^-sm wr trrhrrntTr docufnentary insults on any segment of our population, so will we have race prejudices'perpetuate )1GEST by Haviuird Whitney wive-, and throw- tlu' old order of things ikes of exploitation spend it-elf. And since it veil >remacy. voluntarily permit constru t too. that nr^nTTs change, it shall suffer the irrupti- ns of the don of rt^ fallavic-s and pi? vs. * including our way, in the crucihle of don .. arw catching op ???d perhaps in a V vcaling fatal weak- War . . . nes and structure- Our next presidential ele 'i 1 s of materialism should be much mere tha, .their /.criuh, and other individual taking c ? I? I tu : j t in ttuuwi iu >vvuibr, u Miwuri Ut" VllC *'. iu IfM ^ l stable values ther n nation which ha., larion call for urii- leadership thrust upon it ationl world conditions, has the i, w can1 ( rue abci.f; courage to make thai le t f* t U *" rf ROviNG * ^ | UNUNITED FROM PAGE 1 ? ! Dawkins that his wife "Kat", i I might pull in home frcin her vacation pretty soon, and who do you think accepted the paper on1 I its delivery? Katf Now, she's all | , j "intuition" trying to get some of J i | the dope out of me. But honest,; < [ lady, he's been a very good boy,1 ; j despite the close association .with] 1 A.1 ItliUL1. SO \"U can let him goj . I off for a couple of days. Better [ keep A1 home, however. ? * ? HORNETS' NEST: That's what - t Elbert E. (Yamacraw) Rogers is1 i trying to put us in. He's even i gotten on 11l- side our charming first lady, Mrs. Daisy Taylor, his ^ summer school landlady, and to ' ; malic matter? worse, also from I Savannah, which was news to j i us. Pressing his argument, he stayed up all night with the dicj ti inary and encyclopedia to ei merge at the break of dawn as__ ? follower' "In a recent (it was last week, ^ ! Bud) issue of .The Lighthouse ' ' and Informer, E E. Rogers was ' accused of two things. In an at| tempt to clea rhimself he raises ] these questions: First, TO WHOM I and WHERE were he derogatory I remarks concerning ouj- editor - ! made? (A public answer is re- 5 j requested); secondly, would Mr, ^ : Jobn H M<TTray accept an invi-d | tation^ <bf Mrs. Verdelle Wain- 1 1 wright and E. E. Rogers to ac- 1 | company them on a trip to Ya- 1 mocraw (Savannah 1 and feast .' J j upon their special dish of 'Yams,' I crawfish, and tails'? We will as-r j sure him that this trip would beyi >ook ' a trip which he would LONG 1 oolx.j REMEMBEP. If he is the 'man* ' ' we thought-he WAS he wil lacna . i (.Cp^ |j1(. challenge._In.^addition, i ^ ' I we dare him to . print the?re- -J ' marks. 'A certain young lady has 1 md him"tip-toeing through the tulips ' I se eing -tars' which we deny (?) 1 truer i , j making. This is written in Eng- 1 lish. Proably it should have been vord I in 'gullah', which is a high-brow (sidej name for 'geechee"! hild NOTE: If we accepted the in- ' took' vitation (?) how are we to know that we'd ever know how the the| mixture tasted? They say them' 1 Yamacrawites also believe in , How c "Oter dust and stomach peeler, sees We're investigating the other >v" ? j matters and . until we can settle! ome one wc re gonna be sure to' inquire the next time long dis-i I tance calls from Charleston; i?s a . -who's on that end With grayish-' noil for ship honest? and sincere, instead con- of hypocritical and left-handed i The Negro, our Nation's most ;on">o Patent and vocal minority, stands Hind faced with the prospect of being Dted, without a champion of civil rights voile 1,1 the White Ifou'-e. With Gen-' One er?'d Eisenhower the RepubTToan Ujght candidate? for office, we already ',1m- know that Ike will NOT press > all ^or c'v'' rights, especially with l(j f0 a Congress already hostile to ? passing ah? such legislation. With lit- od ,*1<" growing strength of the hlca- Uixiecrats who are already alli. ed with the Republican-, civil i rights wouid be a dead duck. j ... i Even if Truman could be; , . ! drafted and hew on, he would; . ,}\\ undoubtedly fail again ,to get 1 civil rights legislation passed by; I a hostile congress, no matter his-, how anxious he would be to I*?CU-, ?b,,ister the moral position of t"e, the United States in the eyes of "pl'1 tnr wurm 1 .?u Uik uuiitig, .n-; flop-1 most all Democratic candidates now h;jv\> fought shy of the civil and nght issue, so anxious" art they that to get Dixiecrat support, see 1pCATt " wtl' . KUilai? ' *""",^e=!a,M? Hdo- "Have Fun, Rut Let Other I ?** s I - , I * 'I green eyes blinkirg and r -* J er m one band and a slug in TALK! TALK! TALK! And II the above isn't enough, run your M peepers over this from Rev. Wn, Xkjfl McKinley Bowman. . H "I saw in your July 5th ipfUg lit'-'', a lot of spurious propaganda V I concerning the fact that you had W ,J challenged me to race you witbi I a cadillac^jHThe Standard o< the^V|B Now, let us get the record \ I straight. You know very well \ i that ynu did no huve nerve djfl enough to even mention such a V * ^ proposition to me face to face, but waited until I had left to put J it in your paper. But to show ' vrou I accepted your invitation, as - .1 soon as 1 read that 'stuff in your ' J paper I hopped into my 'Tin 9 Lizzie (A 1941 Ford owned by j ?B> our firm land came to your office i to arrange for the race?not with the chariot Cihe cadillae) but I 7% J know 'Tin Lizzie'. would make 1 r'ou hush your mouth. But, just is I expected, you had left town J you coward). Of course I don't $ H enow how far you got in that u off-brand, but when I eateh you, ; To which we simply say; "How ?rou gonna catch me. Bud? You cure can't fly in that rattletrap.'* _ J LliABLRSTON: Blit there's good ^ news this week. When Mrs. j George Breech and Mrs. Breech * ^ ; J reaa nere last week, he let go JfeJ with: "Now, that's-just-hke-John? MeCray to saying something like thL. Just you wait until I see J his egg head," chuckling until nls sides ached. "Oh no you ^ won't." his boss took up for us. 'I think he said some Very nice, flattering things, mid to show how rixLuh I apprnriatc~1t;"Trn j going to send him a big bouquet J of flowers so he can smell them vJ while he's alive, and more than that, I'm going to get some sub- - '. |S scriptions for the Lighthouse." 4 Thank you, Mam. We're try- '$ Ing right now to find a whole column of other nice flattering j things to sag. As for George. Buddy, she told your head a Weekly Thought "The thing that goes the - J farthest toward making life worthwhile which costs the'.-;&c8 least and does the most, is jnst a pleasant smile". j On the horizn** nf Pmc# nomics and common justice, there ; jdfl appears to?be?coming?a?Big Blow. Only through unity and superhuman efforts will enable us to ride out the Storm . . . We're Winning in the Movies From Hollywood comes the report that fabulous Billy Rose is to film "Carmen .Tones" with ?3? all-Negro cast. Leave it to Rose to figure the smart angle on the -,^3 Bizet opera classic which made "yjl $5,000,000 for him on the stage,. . Unlike the interrac ial movie, "Pinky", which the Supreme \J Court would not permit the South to censor clear off the screen, "Carmen Jones" with an ~ |g all-Negro ca-t, should enjoy uni- . versal showing in the Lan-1 of Cotton and through the medium .3 of the Negro's genius in song, V jfl raise higher the dignity of the 1H Race among white audiences -f in us promote better relations . . between the races. "Pinky" and "Carmen Jones" are new guide posts on the race's Winning l. ' M E?Joy The B*arh Too." . ' J , " ( ..' :/ r'; ?MW ' , '