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LIGHTHOUSE and INFORMER, COLUMB
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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.
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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.
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stand why?in the face of genuine progress
which is being made?so many people
who live outside the region yet hesitate
and fear while in the South. Accounts
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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
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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.
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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.
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'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
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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
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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- '*
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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
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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 '
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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. '
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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
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Do's and Doi
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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
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ie! The noble soul occupies its'
' self with wisdom and friendship;
nf thev ?fi<? nw. in imp
' tal good, the other immortal.
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