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. f 4 LIGHTHOUSE and INFORMER, COLUMB PAGE FOUR? ?SATURDAY, SEPTEM] r ' Ifta Jj? . j . * Published weekly by The Lighthouse Pub iishing Company, Incorporated, at 1507 Harden Street, Columbia 4, South Carolina. TELEPHONE 2-7079 Entered as Second "Class matter in tlTiT Post Office at Columbia, South Carolina, undei the Act of March 3, 1879. lohn H. McCray President-Editor Peter A. McCray Advertising, Mgr. Robert E^ Howard Sports Editor Thomasina Scott - Society Editor jfalia G. Simkins Sec'y-Bookkeeper Yes, The South Isn't Bad Editor Wayne Freeman of the Greenville Piedmont reports that In conversation with a colored resdent of his city, he learned that recently the resident entertained some of his friends and relatives from a northern community and observed that these were startled to find conditions between the races, services in stores and the general attitude in Greenville far better, and far different from what they had feared might be the case upon arriving. In fact, so impressed were they that some of them even spoke of returning to live in Greenville. Their visit had been an education. The Piedmont observes that among the lessons learned by these colored visitors was the fact that the South isn't all bad. and that it is making progress with its problem of race relations. And one has to concur in this opinion. Elsewhere in this edition we report this week that about 100 years ago in South Carolina it was unlawful for Negroes to hold a church service unless a white man watt nt*oaortf ^a/1 v.^1,1 ?-? ?1 " wu v?viiv> xvuaj) HICJ uail IIWIU ctny H1IK1 of meeting- they wish and not only meet amog themselves exclusively, but can find hundreds of white people who will contribute to the cost of erecting a church. This is one indication of how far the South a look about the average southern community today reveals other indications of progress, over a wide area- and much of it within the last decade. Greenville is a shining example of this kind of progress, though p It itself ^dmits it. has but scratched the surface on what it needs to doi ~ V It is not difficult, however, to underA Fire Station, But Will The The current edition of The New South, official organ of the Southern Regional Council, contains a report on the use of Negroes as municipal firefighters since the middle of the last century. It lists the allNegro station at Charleston as the oldest of its kind. The article discusses at length the new fire station to be completed in Columbia by 'next spring. Now under construction, the station is located across from Allen-Rene' diet Court in Harden street and has been t named the "Waverly" Fire Station. New -South says that 16 colored men are to be employed at this station but we wonder Mf it might have been said "the hope and -jplan is to employ 16" colored men. The author points out that so few Negroes have been used by municipalities not because there were laws against such employment;, rather- because Negroes hadn c sought such jobs. And the point can be (taken a step further: Few bother to apply for this and similar types of job even though they have, as a group, demanded tbern. Not Simply Democrats' Blair Those who urge the two-party system for South Carolina will perhaps find something to crow 'about/ over the announcements that both presidential candidates.. General Eisenhower and -Gov. Stevenson will include this stat* on their visitation lists. The General is to speak here near the end of the month. Governor Stevenson a . week or two later. *nr As for as is recalled' at tTic moment the visits will mark the first in recent v . years and may be result of a first-time effort by a Republican candidate to cam' naitfn substantially in hitr> "safe" Democratic quarters. It mijrht be." too. _ >. . _ V u \ . ?-t? ?. - ' "** ~ r IA, S. C. 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Accounts ,-v* . !..*- 1 - 1 ' ~ me cvuiuuuii unuer wnicn tne South is going aren't published on the front pages of newspapers, as is published the bitter tirades and intolerant utterances of the remnants of the South's "white supremacists," The good being done in the South, for the most part, is relegated to magazines, laboratories doing sociological work and to a few -publications with neglible circulation. But the word is getting around?slowly. It's getting around by persons who have "come and seen" and who haven't been impressed by the screaming ' half-truths which are quickly sold to overnight visitors, who hunt out the darker spots for their attention. The darker spots about the South are too numerous, admittedly, but we don't think they are any worse than the ugly centers one finds in the communities outside, who are critical of the southern status. In another story also published this week (in The Lighthouse and Informer) . it is noted that a man who had been away from Charleston for 'V2 years- decided after a visit there to send his daughter to that city for her education. That, to us. ? indicates that the word is getting "around and that the" news is welcomed. Moreover, it bears nut whnf woN.n . ....??v >i v ?v- ui irn rtam nt'l . Negroes outside of the South, many who are fugitives from a pattern of life they dislike, much prefer to return South where the only real progress is being made, and where?in spite of limitation-?the living is easier and the fields are n - re fertile. y Apply. That is the sad experience here with Negro police officers. Columbia would perhaps employ at least eight such officers, instead of the three on duty now. Put it's problem is getting qualified persons- to apply and pass the simple city civil service examination all city employees must pass. Then, there was the demand for a municipal swimmng pool as the city constructed one for whites. The city furnished it every season the employees there spend as much time trying- to get these same people to use the facility as thev do discharging their jobs about it. Unless something is done, we don't think the experience with the new tire station is going to be any better. A civil service examination is also required of those getting positions in the fire department and it stands to reason that if eight men could not be located and persuaded to take job< on the police force, the job is twice as difficult filling fight positions. * We would be very happy to wake up next spring and find that we have been wrong in our conclusion here. ie that the Ike ' movement south of Washington has aroused the Democrats to the seriousness of the GOD bid ; certainly, for the first time we can retail the Democrats are really boring in for a stiff general election battle in the state where in' til a year or two years ago general election has been a mere formality. Hie absence of campaign prestito- toi South ( 'arolina?and that is what lias come to ft now?has not been solo rospunnihility of tho Demorratr, thouyrh they ? may have relished it. Tho Reimbtuans. \vit?> a "hafides-off" policy, have been just as responsible. t 'The Roots of Discrimination,. - ---? John H. McCray | The Magnificence < iPwSfc^^B ^ 1 a"t>ut one mo*?th arg sef?regation in Clarendon cour jjg&M ties and states where it now < preme Court, which may rule HHThe court will consider tl sas, Virginia and South Carolina. It will decide whether to wipe out a fifty year old custom whch has existed only in law books, as a general rule, the segregating states making no effort except under coercion and force to live up to their self-imposed "sepa- . rate and equal" themes, or to order the practices continued. A few days ago a Maryland court smashed down?school?scgregat ion i?sum*1? months ago a chancellor in Delaware set tl.e pattern. But there is one, factor in the forthcoming arguments before thr Supreme Com t which attests the magnificence of the people in Clarendon- county of South Carolina, whose case it is that will be bel'?>rthe court. These folk have managed to tight, their case up through two lower court heai ings?out of their pockets and with what little financial assstance friends gave ..v they shall come before the highest .uii". facing the wealth and treasury of S^ut'i Carolina, whose strings (have been tak'-n off for this one. Kansas and Virginia art* relying on t* attorney generals. their stall's and na.r o lawyers. South Carolina reliys on its attorney general, a praetieing attorney (nati\ei and has employed a New York attorney, variously reported at between live and six figures?a stupendous eost on any seale?and .. , Samuel R Hi#** Hack To Coll. EST' ' Throughout Ann EL &!t^m ' ^u' Bi W ? BFK^. derful to have the <1 ^ 1 l<*j.rt tor those gong ^B Bk V young uomi'ii d< Bflk.JHi hnished high school. but their level of asj on to college. Some young people have different motives for going to college. It i> interesting to glance through the application blanks of freshmen students and see the reasons they give for going to college. The answers may be grouped under the P-lew ing headings: Some students >ay the\ v. ant to make a good living, others say they want to please ther parents. Another group desires social recognition: others want to piepare for a special career; others state tl at they would like to prepare themselves in that tbey n+tty mitfht serve humanitv 'he'^t are ot hei*. u.lo? >.tule Uia.1 thev dt? jv J_p c;p tu college m Meat- thev mieht-develop 4-b~4e? drives socially, morally- spiritually, an I also be prepared to help themsolve- hi .it ciallv. I noticed one application in p:e lar where the Mudent stated lhat ! < ed to ir<) to colleye in order the1 hi ' prepare himselt to make a ? ?> ! rilap ?? society l?y rendering unselfish M-r\ ic? . Sometime ayo I addHs^d a h-i.ru class. The motto of that cla-v linpt'rme. I cannot for>ret it: (We enter to a n and leave to serve). This should he the n tln (fS-' nil KlmU'lllt- U Tin enter r-rrttrrr- T4-? one younj? man say that he wanted to y to college to become educated Ari>tctle -. \ >that "education should help each individual to attain the highest degree of happiness by living a virtuous life as a citizen of n virtuous <tate." (omenius claims that the aim of education is training for manhood and womanhood for usefulness and happiness Are In The Nation's Capitol.' |R< ^ / us~^i^ JB ^ the \- \. H v. V. v^r ear 1 \ v* . BiB^\ ?nl I, hor W HI): mu R, I^^BB Bu .^HjBEEB ESSSIiSSSH ime I ove ! eni ! wit Of Clarendon's Folk j?n uments for and against continuing racial ^Tri lty schools, and by inference, in other coun- ^or ixists, will be placed before the U.S. Su- P1*! before year's end on this verv virile and of he identical question for three states, Kan- ^ thii he is to be paid in part by the same people of he will be opposing. He When announcement was made some * months ago that the state had hired this Jjjn lawyer there was talk of a court suit to challenge the right of the state to collect caj. taxes from citizens for one purpose and Ihem n divert this money in an unnecessary expen-j (titure against them. The_xase?never? veloped. (The reporTlfTThat an interested per-' w son talked with several attorneys and-while!jn they agreed he might have basis for a casef,r none wanted to handle it for "ethical" rea-1. sons. The main reason was.?any?lawyer ^ handling such a case would be both tighting against the employment of a fellow law- * ? yer. and left-handedly, fighting for greater employment for himself or one of his broth- '* .i 1 n it/" ? "J ers ai me nar tn souui < aroiina. I i 1H4 Mf South Carolina loses tlie Clarendonj case, not only will it discover that it has, spent money unnecesstrily. hut it will have' tlso improvised a tax system which it could jail have avoided had it but allowed the courts, on to determine just what it had to do. And we win or lose, the patrons in the suing coun- Hej ty confronted as they are with the misery Jus of having to pay the charge of a top-priced * the lawyer who will work against them, and avt then in addition, digging down to pay by the themselves the cost of their own case, will emerge magnj flee n't. Pi Sp ^ Or v "gra rica thousands of young men and ryoung1 phu lego during the months of September and is i enter: the poor will enter. Both Negro Mu tli will enter the halls of learning of the Kei nd collegesthroughout the nation. It is won- of , pportunily. It is an opportunity and a priv- exh tTl rrrBtp?e. ? idol ises Why go to college: Many young men mai i not enter college because they have not j? Million* have graduated from high school lj >iration i.? riot strong enough to urge them I rather than for rank. John Dewev defines ?education as a "process of continuous layonstruction of youth with the purpose of i widening.and deepening its social condition, | while at the same ti-rm*?gtrin rftntnTPof the methods involved." Thorndike and Gates give a verv interestimr aim of education: The ultimate aim of education is to realize a condition in which human wants must he 1 fully satstied. To change a want is to make the most fundamental of possible changes, subordinate changes in thought. feeling, and -HrtT-r?-ff -ffsnf ' ts -changed, att sorts of .ac_t ion (uriir as a result. Kadi individual will M'Hi'#- fuTU^t oU' J he wa+vt?i-of mankind *;ix a w hole. Ileal odueatioii cannot be had unless a person i< villi 11 to pay the price. This prit o doc- not relet- to the cost <>t tuition, lood. nd Anyone who wills to po to < !c<>c nan make it possible to do so. Scholarships are offered in many institutions. loam are a\ailable for students who are reliable. Many students are able to secure work but they must be willing to pay the price. The The price that they must pav consists of bard > t inlying riv''"f up some social activities. applying oneself to t he-* matter at hand ' - .. I ! i pon entering collect1 <>110 shook) think; about his goal. The student should con-j stantly keep in mind that if he is to finish hist course he must he willing to pay the price.. Most students have the abilty if they will apply themselves. ' $* .< erspoon, Sr. Of His Own Future reshing to observe that enlightare beginning to engage them:rusade for justice. There is a miction that all persons, of what- ' ition, or previous conditions of aye certain inalienable rights, cise of which they have been their Creator. In the constituUnited States, these rights are to all citizens as the priceless ver, it is well to remember that if the ultimate significance of. heritage and a challenge. Une, there is vision with integrity document will turn to dust and feneration. There is the danger assume the attitude that they r~" the principles and products of ! not suffer the delusion that look us up, and?from a silver liigli piivileges of democracy, e think, is God's final purpose to Negroes, like to all others, sacrifice. >y did not drop down to us out it crop up to us - out of the I :rifice, the price of blood. And, rselves worthy of these gains sacrificial, too. Mighty empires sp. They loom upon history's f|Jh callous hands and brawny ircumstances into submission, nesses, establish economic seicipation in government, if and "menta which these accomplishequally applicable the world Negro's challenge. If he is to acy, he must carve his future ?v. J. William With iegro, ArchiteeH ... * ft is refi v'(> v i h el's of a free people. Howe i document, expression c nan hope, implies both a , on the part of the peopl insight, this governing < es in the hands _of this j t minority groups will i y realize, without effort. >rty. As Negroes, we should ne beneficent race shalll ttrr p?P" "n ~^c ideai commonwealth, w historybut it will come product of struggle and The civilization we enjc the heavens. Neither did th. It is the fruit of sac t we forget, we prove oui y as we are willing to be ?, notrby a will-o' the wii izon as men of faith, v scles, whip stubborn c n develop lucrative busi ity, and gain active part en they fulfill the require nts impose/ This axiom, r, definitely defines the oy the fruits of Democr h his own hands. The constitution provide aspire, to vote, and to hi s to fight for, exercise, a ierican Democracy will be Hon as he uses judicioi d? available "or his secur lot, by so many ol our our times. tecently, I saw an audi< isiasm akin to adolatry the Negro's advancement reminded them. rThere v. rood speech. TTfe audiene ted, and went home?ea< ner." They were so arous to go out and vote on el ed people, werp not even cerned. Democracy went One of the weaknessee it for a thing until we fj have it. This is particui the September 15th issu olitan Life Insurance Co the voting_tnterest_pf__A] centage of eligible perse several free countries ot ows: 1 Australia voted _.96/ 9 Canada voted 74^ 9 W. Germany voted 75/ The UnKec? States While this is a sad com Americans, and figures a the number of Negroes \ have been woefully negl i?ardless of others, our r< to allow any single electj< names of the Democrat lil nothing unless, on ele< box. The ballot holds ou -esident Of Liberi >onsors Exhibit i U. S. Tour WASHINGTON ? A photc phir exhibit showing varioi sts of life in Liberia, whic urrentlv being sh wn at th seum Natural History i * Ynr^. irtll wxtn go on toi a number of U.S. cities. Th ibit is sponsored by the Pre< it of Libi-rift, Wta?V S. Tnl i. Do's and Doi M1 V?V^ DONTP: Bt , is for every American the right old office. It is his right if he nd intelligently appreciate it. s real to the'Negro only in proisly the only effective weapon ity. The lack of interest in the people, is a disturbing element snce break loose in an enas a political spellbinder spoke t in the affairs of government. ras thunderous applause. It was :e, at the close, arose and dedi of them?to a good "Sunday ed by the speech that they forlection day. Many of them, eduregistered. So far as they were by default. * in American life is that we ret it, and then we forget that larly true of the right to vote, e of Time Magazine, The Metmpany gives striking statistics mericans as com pa rod-with the ?L ms voting in natonal elections the world. The figures are as fc 1950 Sweden voted ......80% & 1951 Great Britain voted 83% ro 1951 Israel voted 72% 51% voted (1948) entary on the voting interest of re not available for this article, noting, from lessons of the past ectful of our right of suffrage. :>ad is too long and rugged for ;>n to go by default. Applauding ir\ nr Rprmhlrati pandidnfps will :tion Day, we put our ballot in ir future. ? " q The photographer, GrifT Davis, is an American who has been in Liberia for more than a year. The photographs range from upto date scenes in the country's capital, Monrovia, to remote native villages in the interior of ^ the country. n Weekly Thought ir i ie! The noble soul occupies its' ' self with wisdom and friendship; nf thev ?fi<? nw. in imp ' tal good, the other immortal. n'ts ' iS A "Utter" Hi**! /? _