Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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RINFORMER, COLU >?Saturday, Februi The Lighthouse Tuborated, at 1507 liarSouth Carolina. E 2-7079 s matter in the Post uth Carolina, under me uei ui muitu o, 101B. John H. McOray - President-Editor Thomasina Scott Society Editor Julia G. Sinikins Sec'y-Bookkeeper Maybe Fires Should Practici Continuing a practice which two ye;n ago helped it to achieve third place standing among American cities, Columbia has for several months worked toward employment of 14 colored men as fire fighters, who would be assigned to the new station Hearing completion on Harden street, under supervision of white officers. While at first it was feared that Negro leadership wnnlH mmo'cn +1-.^. ? j' ?-..v. x.,.i>x^c.v vnv.: jMiuiuii, on me grounds that it conforms to segregation of the races, a practice against which they are committed, these leaders have endorsed the proposal and station and held, with good reasoning, that there no Negro officers trained for the unit and if the- city has to wait on such trained Negro personnel it could never get around to hiring colored fire fighters. With the project rolling along satisfactorily to both the city and colored residents, excepting that both sides would like to have far more applicants for tho positions which are. to he filled soon, unexpected opposition developed last week. An official of tho Firemen's union, an all-white organization. advised City Council that the anion objects to the use of white officers at the new station, arguing that working hours and relationships in tho department, make it neeessarv for employes to sloop together and shore common ouartors. The union doesn't object of course .an nV-N: Ind'cfment Of Our General I The January edition of New Sout$v,' official nnblio-nt inn of Crt,i 41-.v>? V* . j,:'. - Council, fonture?* a progress rt;>.n. ? . ercise of the franchise in sou'thern sl-dc" recently liberated from the yoke <>f i !;n white prim row. which u summ !. u ; ; . more nr'lc-ss an indudnvmf of >" ' . enters, v-vd as :;uir.o mr-mb.; r? of . registration 1 oa rds. . The X'v.' S')u|.h estimates -t i ?; .? in -iV there wore ; pproyinuitriy 1" 11 111 r ed No:ri\ -s in 1'J southern slut : ; r.if J4 ... compiled b.v the laU^Dr. Luther }\ .!nvkson of Virginia State. At the close of li'T.', - the lieu:jb^i- fo.)]ii'iivimated~f.TTrr;oitit, r.r;Ts/ crease of approximutely tiT? the 15)17 figure. While tlbsNivo y?;-.r increase may be impressive" to some observers, New South reminds that most of the Gie-,000 came immediately after the white primary was wined out by federal courts and, that even the |.p-out i ipy 11 - lllUuequaie and ineffectiurl in most area and, represents much less in percentage ratio than the number of whites who could and have qualified. One reason for this poor showing, the magazine reasons, is that the lack of information has deterred many from regis^-v 1 yt ~ urangeDurg s immunity Scl Starting this week, and, continuing for? five weeks more, mothers and fathers, and other interested adults, will take Thursday nights off and go to ''Community" school, where they will learn a variety of things on living, home-making, simple and practical medical needs, everyday law, etc. The Community School began six years ago under Dr. J. C. Parler, still its director, and proved an overnight success; per? haps largely because no grades are given and there is no embarrassment of the grown people who grasp or fail to grasp ="7 Its courses. The laughs skeptics made the first week or so, faded into serious thinking and action as soon as people learned it was purely for individual benefit. Now, r. even grand parents rush to learn what "-'A//*'** I*.-' r"?~ ? i "v. " MBIA, S. C. iry 14, 1953 -r plhottse -V INFORMED SUBSCRIPTIONS?Payable in advance?: 1 year, $3.75; 6 mos., $2.50; 3 mos., $1.50; per copy, 10 cents Make checks or orders payable to The Lighthouse Publishing Company, Inc., and not tc persons representing it. ADVERTISING KATES 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. INI., Tuesday; Photographs, 10 A. M. Monday. s e Segregation gro station, such as has operated at Charleston for many decades. More important in the protest of the union than what it actually said, is what it did not say. What actually bothers the union is t.ne fear that use of Negroes as firemen at the Harder. Street station may - he but the beginning of*general use of such personnel and. in years to come, their integration into the department's various stations over the city. rri.~ -i in*- 11rii*?ti irmiKs i? ouiro healthy Hint the City adhere strict lv to n policy of racism in employment but one of j\h-Jo]uf" rlemocr.acy when taxes are apportioned an 1 collected?out of which city employes? are paid. "The union wishes that- Negro firemen he restricted to fighting fires in 'their' (colored) section. And one suppose that the monster Fire ought cooperate and ahide hv policies and practices of racial segregation and ought not blaze or diminish unless ir. the hands of one race or the other. Fut this reasoning is stupid .-as stupid as it is to decree that only the Harden Street station should put out a hhize in a colored home on Wheeler ITill or in Ward One. We trust thai City Fathers will go right alone with t he plan to r'aff and Open the Harden Street station. The arguments against it are selfish. weak and calculat'Ml to stop progress here. for.which the entire pat i? n has already ex ores -e 1 "thanks." 'royrnm .tevk'y. , Anot her, m-lnw''1 n 'lv VnoV-a > yvo Jeediwshr', is. o-\'v : d">-i ,.,v 1 1 ! ? < . ..'. . 4! ? 1 ' 1 I ______ - 4 . * ' 4 ; . i 1 ?llfj - t . y. ... t r- ** : i \ ; ' \ , iVSnJvi - i! ]: j,\; . . . 1 ~ . al....,, .wind,. , 7 ... (ilMUnmiinle. i:t i.i ;i ' I;'""; ' Imw Mi,( in aw! ?? i M.t?i ,, ,, ,,, ^ " N'onsiUe !<>r appointments. The South is capable of turninr nut rhout six millions of Negro voters. It is estimated at being not much over onesixth of its potential now. There is no formidable stumbling block in the path of Negro now bqt the Negro himself. hool i -They can once a week, each year. Teachers in the Orangeburg City System and many from the faculties of Olaflin University and S. C. State contribute free time as instructors, which provides a better faculty than the average public or private school affords. And, to make it easier to attend, a kindergarten has been Retup, under the watchful eye of trained volun rww f .WW. V. ? A1 i iL- ' icci icatuciB, nt? i/ittt me uf.uai worries or this family problem are eliminated. The Oran^ebur^ Community School is excellent example of a service each community <:an afford, and provides an example of what miffht be done to impress elders not only with the importance of goinx to school, but how important education is in this day. I J| But Negroes Will 5 . . .. Jt?*Y \i S&A | "Nc;*rO'.s iu^t haven't learn< ject that kind of conclusion. In tht. first p! > v.. :f Negroes hadn't been sti? king with and to other the race would have been out i ; ngo, not only in America, Lut throughout tbworld. In the second ; dec v.i re Nt crocs < i reclined to.work together, there would be few successful "Negro" enter;-tax ?, or even th"V; TTTdiT-" sored for "Negro" services. It is true, ot cour . that tu-cau e !' ?.: . arc Negroes who do not shove .any ' 1c..ess. moV* ' ; :>i < o.-,0 ;i'," Iv become 'disgusted an 1 :.y "l.i ro-- ,t . ' i:v?vrlaan' in history. * rr.on : : ny i .. via :v ' . .; ody h: ; . ? There ! v bvpys ' r: ' r ; a' 1 n;| i". h'.'V " in r v a : of htJ* traits is not '. on < r ourlv 'a ro? ! ca'jv;" he :. !T. n t ) 'an-." ~ . '. t;' h : ^ a. T trouble i.a too nr r.y pr-oy * * the .1 -1 - 3 * f I i . v "" >?>k\' f cony. i(?u< 1 > ? :r ? < p.-opie jt t I UJV.ice foot the .n-t rum- <<: J expression. '1 he ( liureh has 1 <<n tlie hope o\ t;n'1 ho,;v< ; Negro. The Negro mmistoT, during -in very. hunted the tor. h which kept faith alive m ?!f hearts- i of his people. Out of the horrors ot that dark " 1 past have sprung a thousand temples whose steep < le;> still point the Negro to something that is bet ; ter. > This week, a group of students sought from i the writer his opinion of the value of the ChureY i They had becnr Informed that the Negroes spend i too much on religion. Apparently somebody got r his figures crossed. Take, for example, in the city c of Columbia alone: the Negroes have more to c show for what they gave to the Church than 1 they can show for all other investments com- t bincd. The colleges represent more than a mil- s lion dollars. The churches represent twice that r much in material value, to say nothing of the p spiritual. The same ratio of expenditure and p value may be recounted the Nution over. Out of t every dollar the Negro earns in America, only 2 cents is for the church and its mterprisc. p Yet, out of this 2 cents the Church has accum- t ulated millions of dollars ln property holdings, a What, may we ask, has happened to the 98 cents? a The Negroes spends more for chewing gum than h he does for religion. He spends many times as p much for tobacco, or for cosmetics: what can he J show for this? He spends more for certain bevrr- t ages than for religion. What can hp show c The Negro church, with all of its lopsided man- c agement, shows more for the Negro's 2 cents than r ? | Support Each Other .<] to s'.ii'k. to each* other yet. and help'each ot wr.ek Ho waf? one of several in. a pro; ;vn;j ?.<f. t. to. race, a Uifcussu ,:o 11'. -lory \V? < ! ;. > \\* 1 dis-otreo with tho?e who pr to' h. v. <i' < rr. iderins the kn-r. 'o lv " h: r v. 't \ him. V."h'Vi> tin v. i a clear*h of interest, whore thci ... 1 ' . of *: . M; ';-.pe:-*. the trnub' ;U,. . t r.<- <fW.<> ? < ' * t'.e-N"i . . .. . .. . 1. . " M\. j ! ; *J ' ' 1 u :n.'\: or V.Ti- ' M ' '.ff.eo door an . j e .t ;y. N ?. to -break V. ' d offe: if'.' h.;'_l '-'W " t,\ -r f 'e-.v.! o: it!'* . ' "f (Vf ., . ' f ' "( * ; ' ' ?' ^ ... ?'?-? ? h\ .1 " ' i out...* on : u: : . !. . < u! :. the (' ,u:\ ft" rt ... V V t: . * 1 . .. \ ! TUKKK IS A RKASON wlion siti begin to ask questions it bo I t- valur ' ' i mil t ("ini'Ic that most of the Churxh pre % wa not purchased dur.ru: lhe.se days ( i -fib wages lor members and lush, salaries to minsters. Most of it was bought bv "ITnelo Rilev tnd "Aunt Sue" bark in the days when rot to sold for 5 rents, and laborers worked for 2 ents a day. Teachers received $15 and $20 rionth for salary. But, out of these meager earn ngs, our parents?most of whom could not reai md write?built these churches and schools. To lav, with our degrees and high wage sand tin ars and homes, many congregations can hard y pay the coal hill to .heat the churches whirl heir parents built. There is something Wronj omewnere. No wonder the young people asl questions. They too. wonder why people with de ;rees and fine rars must walk the streets witl [reasy cards to beg money for a church whicl hey should support out of their earnings. Too many people have improved the idea o todlmess by restricting its field and function hat they have played in the hands of the scoffe ,nd driven men into his ranks. Moreover, beeftusi f inconsistency of life, too many church peopl< mve helped to multiply the scorner type. Pau ointed out in his day that professedly religiou >ws -were bringing the name of God into con ernpt by their notoriously irreligious \ives. W< annot induce people to respect the ChuTch i >ur religions expands itself in pious talk and ha 10 energy left to play its debts. Samue) R. Higgins | ville, i* t'ne author of &~)receDt hook okThis article is not an attempt to givfe a review of the book. This will be donf later. The writer and the library staff of Allen University ^ listed along with others us having contributed in the process and * research. '.. v, , In that this week is being observed as Negro History Ween, Dr. Tindull's book is a great source of information on the Negro in South Carolina from 1877 to 1900. It is interesting to note as i>ointed out in this book that Governor Wade Hampton appointed many Negroes to political offices?R. H. Gleabes of Beaufort _; and Martin R- Dclany of Charleston were appointed trial justices ^ ^ by Hampton; and John A. Baxter of Georgetown was appqinie<Sjt to the board of Election Commissioners. Charles McDuffie Wildeim V was named postmaster in Columbia. Benjamin A. Boseman serv* od as postmaster in Charleston part of the time that Governo* Hampton was in office. In 1878, Issac Byrd, Bruce H. William* # and S> L. Duncan were elected to the State Senate. In 1880, Tho-?" mas E. Miller of Beaufort and Bruce Williams of Georgetown! ' were elected to the State Senate. Negroes were elcct-l ed to the State Senate util 1886. Negroes were elected to they House of Representatives as late as 1900. Three Negroes, Pob^rv Smalls. Thomas Miller of Beaufort and Charleston, and Georgej Washington Murray of Sumter were elected to Congress after* reconstruction. Robert Smalls served longer then any other Ne-| gro in Congress from the State of South Carolina with the exception of Joseph Hayne Rainey. The lives and works of Smalls and Murray are indeed interesting. It will be remembered that Congressman Miller was the first President of the Negro Sta*e College in Orangeburg. Other prominent Negroes in politics were Bruce Williams, a state senator. Robert Simmons, a state senator, Thomas J. Reynolds of Beaufort,Jonathan A. Baxter of Goorpetown and James Wiggs o^f St. Helena Island. All of these ip persons and many more including the Bolts were prominent in*-* >n politics--in- South Carolina. Mrs. F.liza Davis served as post mistress in Summerville for eleven years. The two most notable o- postmasters were Benjamin A. Boseman of Charleston and Char- % t les McDufTie Wilder of Columbia. " Allen University in Columbia had on its staff during the e "eighties" Deniel Augustus Strnker, one of the ablest colored 'e lawyers in the state. The first two classes graduated by Straker showed so high a standard in examination before the State S\? promo Court "as to elicit special commendation from the judge.'*, *. .. There were many lawyers located .in the low country around ar -uu Char'wnon and Beaufort. Among them were Whippejy,.'. Troba-e?fndee of?Beaufort Court, SamueL LeeA Julius Washington. W. W. Still of Beaufort, Sasportas of Charleston, and J. C. Whit taker of Sumter. d '-i To the field of medicine, William D. Crum who late rbecame "oc'n: of - Internal Revenue and was United States Represent?- | * t ;t v niifctonhirnr tie a C lellan and Wil horn Horry Johnson ...were also. outstanding physicians in the ' r:-' d sl-.nrt'y after reconstruction.* , ' . > ' ' !' Loader*' in the church wore Rrnwloy, Dart, Carroll, AleJcanP't-n". Morris, Brown, who later became Bishops were lead- ? . , in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. South p r;vpn to <> c AfridKn Methodist Episcopal Church wori3erfui F -.dor -w- ' * crrly life of the church. Siich men as Payne. Mor- | V.rr..'.n, V. .v-r. Herd, Nichols orrd Chappelie were lenders ' . r- "r'. kuroh. - 'I out ' .r.-'inrr No.fro women of today are two* ; Mr P *hv founder of IVt> me-Cookman, .. i '.,*rc. who founded and bu\M the ' 1 i n jHr.ickel r?rd a v.h.-or. ,so:r.? out 1 No .ro cdu- . ' . \\ r*. i '.c.-.' i\ .c y Milicr, .1 : . ;? . .? <- : h Morr.s r.d P.. V. Porte.r. a ?- ha. i \YV . ./.b'vl .Mrs. v '. ! d. There lire "" >' <.*. f c ' t S"ii'.h Cav'.hv.. 1. .TO has . ' mIM" o w "".nK> . Weekly Thought i-' . M-' 1 '.. v. --.lit to ''"ic ' r- " hout pro<'ut iru* it, than to consume r* : t;:\: -p.-iv* " ' S:'?hvi u in* it." 'i.mi?- ',m ?--- < . it. 'DONT Neglect The Early Training In The Little Thing*.' , . ? 4* " : r, i? ' . "lit,, : .-.v. v*rrf