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[ ?& 'Cv:.; - /"7 \, j y. ; ?HE LIGHTHOUSE AND INFORMER. C PAGE FOUR Saturday, Ap "1 '.' ' '"' " .' "n Published by The lighthouse Publishing MRS. A. W. SIMKINS > y Subscription Rates, must be paid in advai Pries Per Oopx^Ten Cents I , Advertising Rates on request: Represent ess, Inc., 54b Fifth Avenue, New York Cit DEADLINES: News and stories by noo Entered as 2nd class matter m the Post < ~ Note: Chegks, ordem, etc. should be imi " 1 ' " " : t : - . . -. \ ' . I U . - ' . W WII", . . ' ' ' ' .. 11 LN TJHK1K LITTLE BLACB " r If4)tie is to judge by the topk on the agenda of the two most outstand . | ing barkers in the biennial political side i show now rumbling around South Caro t fina, the'fate of this commonwealth is h the palms of the little hands, the littl< black hands of 229,774 NegTo school child V ' :ren. : These children will decide the Govern or's race. Along with many county an< local election outcomes, they will sway th future of the. State of Souths Carolina. Th . concern about seeing that Negro childre: continue to feel inferior, and that whit shall continue to flaunt themselves in th face of Almighty God by thinking and act ing as though He &ave them the divini ^ right to be superior is quaking the under # pinings of this State. 1 There are so many things that need de tailed study and planning if South Care - lifla is to have a respectable and profitab) mii ure. uut the men who would call th signals for that future are letting blaci children force them to whistle in th graveyard. MR. TIMMERMAN JOINS ' -Many-thousands of people each sprint and summer who squint through knot holes arid crack in ball park fences. The; see a gang of people. They hear, a lot" o squalling. Rut they can never be sure a f 'r bout the game' until someone comes Iron the inside to give the knotholer a frctgVup down on the game. Until then; all Afi Knotholer knows is that somebody nvns be winning because somebody in there i doing a helluva lot of hollering. In much the same way political ?4 tunLsts, Aspirant lor (dovcisur Cieorge l>ei Tim-merman in this inst.iiue. 1 -;4\v peopc through knotholes to see what mule ,t< ride. The said aspirant has heard a he n: . - - hollering- about school se'gregat urn iuTT! looking through a 'Turk 1 .1 1 i1'1"! -h" most South Carolinians are -<> lawk-.-- t . <*' tliey would join a (onspira a-ai-M tie U. S. Supreme Conn if that tribunal steads decide with the riarendon plaintiffs. Hap pily, the school case is a fortunate talkini point in the governor's race. And then. Mr. Timmerman labors ar< brings forth the Timmorman plan for black, white, and brindled schools... a-loea option school plan that would add Tinur.or A PLAGUE OiN liOiil YOI The ever recurring question now if "What about the Governor" k race?" Yes how about it? How is one to make rali- na decision when the candidates haw -diowi so jar that each is so intellectually madi quate as to be unable to express hine en on major issues confronting South. Cnror\' I ilia and tne Southland in the great indus trial revulnt inn * -i-: ... ----- iiiiw IklJlC'l'. I il( V arc too busy carrying coal to Wwrjiai, M;: Mavbc as time ^>cs on. th.> \-..'Lfrs Vrill become disgusted with this matching ot wits*on how to disobey the courts, it' it of the candidates for them to do so> The? should Iwvfima nut-n'euory in 1 ^v+O+HHy the voters might try some point plan by . which to evaillate the wnilld-hn ftnirni.nn>o There are several standards by which rrrr ? these candidates should he checked. .However, it Would be interesting fr , "know upon which candidate the skads of in-State and Out-of-State Th'xlecrnts mon/ . / I'/:)L/... OLUMBIA. s. C rii 17, 1954. \ ?- ? i ? . ' 11 telephone 2-7079 n : Co., Inc., at 1507 Harden St., Columbia, S. C. - ; - Acting Editor T : : : i ce: 1 yr., $3.75; 5 mo#., $2.50; 3 toos., $1.50 ,ed nationally by Interstate United Newspapy " * ' ' non Tuesay. Display ads, 10 A.M. Tuesday Office, Columbia, S. C. under Act, Mar. 3,1879 idc payable to The Lighthouse Publishing Co rilANDS ... ? t Ironically, thia ia not the fir -time that Negroes have swayed the futuiv. Since * the Dred Ccott decision, history has repeated itself periodically. 1?\ South Camn lina in 1944, with the infamous special e session of the State legislature: in?HMS~ I linfVl' flio Avrvor 4V?r\ rvA*./. i i? m iwi ?/iiv ui vnvr i 'i.Mt'l i iU> . in 1950 with the defeat of J. Strom Thurmond, in 1952 when Byrnes could not (j carry his state and county for Eisenhower. Negroes have played ft major role in c;dle ing signals. n These are only the obvious situation*, e In passive position in decades when they e could not even vote, Tillman, the Blouses. ^ Byrnes, Maybank, Johnston, "Cotton Ed" e Smith, and Thurmond rode into their ofu fices on the black backs of Negroes, to whom they have never expressed'apprecia tion. Now Black children are being used to carry the ball. e "But whoso snail affend one of these e little ones which believe in me, it were k better that a millstone were hanged about e' his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." THE KNOTHOLERS N- * ? min paUnemonius to the Byn.es .->anc t ioned financially-inexpedient conglomeration y of school sites, criss-crossing and duplicat f ed bus routes, an^l the constant duplicity in the actual construction of many Ne.cro ri schools as they compare with the original if plans and specifications. This writer w<nini he i h? ia>t i" v. *o belittle anyone's opinion or t?> ? ' expressions. I!??\v.-ver it vou]d. '( ? '.at.!, to agree with, arty supposedly "i.ev ' i.'ing citizen who would conspire to distve ;r ' i | 1 evade any state or federal lav . i # \ry 'aw ;?tu<iintr a r* a-m. any law-rrmkin.tr aut r.orhw <* < /.} i *o v'tv that. "Whr^vrr T^"- t* V , . I I : .!-:< o<- m- '"'V - . evm* d-isnm./ inJirn- at.' d\-. . f ' ' fie ion m;iv ho tn'p-^ T mv--4 '* " * I nhMo hv the law of fho land." t J11s jutj'*.*r taKes ih.ii Mama r abiding iti:?1 jm ^n'>M\ o Soum < that Mami. lm'So ?i: ><.-? ! * 1 olhorw me art- now acc'essmii-s i ?<_ :?.i? < ?.?. fai t in a consnii at y ayainst tin- I'liiH il 1 States. r UK HOUSES * e\ v\ jii in- iaiii. ao it Hows hi liimi a.- ;.?r a.-, t'riMll I lie State "of rt'Xius. I hi ./'lie man should ho sure to iitul out whan mm1 diiiii'to will iiavo ;it his doS)iosal too railroad money, the cotton main; \ ai ' .,ia m money, and the money of andivitiae.h ami < olloct ive mi!lion;iires. Tire Iittli- man should want to v, \\ hirli candidate has the Mrs-ine- ": ia. .State's most strongly flit reiudiod j.oln h . 4 k rmrr-nTTrf-thc blessmy r.f rrfv governor \V7T7 with the public schools, the main.--t;i\ <e" the poor, knowing that the wealthv I cosily educate their rhihlron tf thinps rurf ti tie tn tVrr sually they <lo politically, the I?itr money is :?viup to support the mrWlblate wh. T~~ i not pive three whoops in Hades about the masses of the people. The mass'^ rruot ' know in which stable encVt hor?e i?.'Av > c now. the miblic can surely say, '"A rbic ? on both your housef." 1 > - \ . I - I here Is A Lad Here ? by J. William Witherspoon, Sr. g! 1' -i.t 1' - farm. ' L'v . ni' .whether from igornanee <>r design, youth hus nothing to do hut linger and loiter in undesirable This is the last of a series on places. Let's get the boy, Jesus is this subject. Despite caustic cnti- asking for him and his lunch. eisnis, it is refreshing that- the ' , ,<..? r .. ... . ,, Wo owe thi< vouth a debt. He has cnaractci ot vouth retleets the ' , , . , . ' .. ... * iec?ntlv been thrown, may I say Kind ot Kindgom tor which .lesu.i , . , i - , , , , , promiscuously, into a whirlwind ot dad oil ( aivarv, and arose. In a , ' , , . . ... ., slaughter, created by people who devt/opmg Kmdi'oni, vouth has the .... Ax . i i ,. .. , . are NOT LADS Children don t roeurccs tor tiods glow, provided r . . . . ake wars. Truly a nation must we havi the laith and ingenuity t" , , * . . . .. . maintain defenses Ml Keeping with uppropiate tn< virtues. He alone i i ? - , , ... national dignity. ^ ot, we calculate tan eonie to irnis with the deleat- , ' . , ., . " . , >-a. all wars would cease if the ism which threatens us w ith its - iicpie who create them were made villi IV 1 I. mL .>? o - -'uvHt. In the confusion am) car ? \? in M i-vci w e li* ;n iiiia), - , ^ \\ I;ich we have wrought, the nieas. t hc-ty js'a jad i'"'ai u. . ' \ j of . ur hurl, like 'lie lad of A iadf |?t i hap-. 'alaan Muhoiiy ha.- ',.t (!e -on, answered bravely ihe l<,:- ' -M vh"''' i.eai; - ((- - i a.'to duty. He rrawlini and crept ' -tii:\ ! r-at: a . 1.- 'I'a'.rs i. reached in trench ' '' - r- c< i .. , ! of .. . huh doiitfiiur fit.m the ',l " < ": ' 1" ' * ": i - 1 . TheV write the i !.j i| h.', 1"m' .... t . '' " : i i ei a : ; ?Ut Build Faith in Din* Youth i *'*t' i i:t. " ' ' ' ' ' " ta -ei h;, Oil'So- - ' ' I '! ' ' " '' * 11' ' .1 . i i f > ti ;C'l< [ ' '> t 'J" A i.iu ? l icnn.iirv st.-nt 1 11: i:t . itl< .i * i ta i 1 ,u .v . . w. . \ v ' ' i : t ' ; < i,rf ir i .. - ' "'"''I.'?7.'. ? ? ?......?I H.I'. ..n.i,. M J ' .. . i I " , - . h r .. 1 ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ; !r'||..t!.n !y Inf..'. th?'.. ;a ' in ' ' } ' I !(,. M-mrtimm.' ' 72". ? '' " ''' ?i '. 1 I.... . I j AS tit ^L'llt t" Li - ! JM ? .-rnpl^h.r,^ v. . ;?| r,u?| , ?,y "?i ;.n ;i\, i apv . I < C H ARM?1X1 v I,,.h at. i? p..11.-.II\ ;iii: nif . '?* I "ii I ii I in,r , ,7,7 , , f* t i irlifNj 7ri tin- ml ir. feat lu-iv.l < u ' li' K . f (; F.C.:: \ | , v " i. 'iit'u (ifi'ps hi* ii' ' a > " > < n . i.'<' f r ,>ti. r, ,.i \\ ?:? * 'in f * i it* hiitt.i fn nut , ' hiit t ?i? i?r:u ! ' . "u' w? -ior ~ i ri.u. \V? havt- r.< t !' t... ; i r t li.il- ii-.i.'. i j ?? ;,. 11 \ t > ?tf tV.i- '(.rv, i J f i * r _ _ STRAIGHT AHE By Olive A. Adanui ? "tri,! 1 ^J Ji VOhh u.l 11 lit I ) ? ! > *? V jV^S huve just made a startling dis '! J** ' .*? V*?#> ; %' y1$3| |cowry. 1 came up in a.tpwn of Ju/f '? "^cV' *V*^ -" 1 f Vl 53 i vciiile delinquents and ran with a * \ ,Xj crowd of vandal^w^.and me think*? rr'^;lN* ' x nti~the time that 1 was .reared - I in a respectable little mid western ** J|%> ' Of course, nobody' called the kids in our town by .such disgustvjftj ing .names as ' hoodlums, gansters f3 m I and such. But many youngsters k 'il mmmJU have had such tags pinned on them JO EwjaflRSpr these days for similar activities, g' EBP^ ! Bo lend an ear while 1 reveal some 9 I I of the dark aid sinister goingrf On w Am HW Well do I remember the apple ,1^?JfCT and berry picking sprees all the ki<ls in the neighborhood took part 111. This was an adventure embark-' ^1 ^3Rffi9M'^y upon only after dark when .ne ; ,-|k neighborhood kids would meet and ' t decide whoau^_l?orry patch or.apple tree would c-e.t the going over, an<l ^f^TTBrM then stealthily set to work filling 'lair y * gunny sacks and baskets with / ~ *?' ! i iii l, r ie n' 111idev tht?very nose ot ', air. What happened to the loot ? ^ X^lm ',c' 'Most of it was thrown away, of i -f ? e?* ,J coarse. After all, who'wanted it? VJgWk ? 1 * ' "\ ? (UaWL , t? v ' *P/. Every kid hail a berry patch and an vf* ' ^ v 'apple tree in his own hack yard. 1 li! fact. hi^ might he the next one . o' i / " ? . ' r x u' 1"' raided. *- .? 'j > ( <?mic Hallowe'en un<l th(- town ' "ns 7"'* ?l>c"-In 'hl' t>rH"k; JrJ _ sters became so. active at ong point ? that the City Manager called a meeting of the town's merchants and after that Main Street was turned into a carnival ground on Hallowe'en nights, wiih parades contests, prizes and the whole have i.'lunged. Tlii* Suii.lsiv I- lHirinir CHRIST THE LIVI] this-Week of Passion we saw the . Master prostrate in Gethsemane, John 20:21-29: 21: 13-17. li7u7e;rnr~TTie "gtv.n'led ami twisting- vBy-J- E. Briggs.) ?j Olives. We see .on His. face the , 1 Thomas, the Doubter. ..i..,?-f ltiv su'oni f'nl. f There Are twe kinds of doubt; I vary haunts us in all of its hide- I one ,s honest, the other re ma- j ousness: the milling crowd, the iron I hc,ou*- Thomas was an honest tonics, the rasp and clatter of iron i doubter He wanted more facts. He j Wheels. The people, a mob without j was desirous of first-hand rather j intelligence. is shrieking fori ?>? n second-hand information be-j Mt -..i.iir, blood... Hut our lad is ; frore jL^as. road>' to ^liev* | not of the crowd ****** A^"st had, ri*en f5?m the ! dead. All honest doubters have my j Amid, the bediuirt is a stooping : respect. It is a man's right and ; figure bearing on His back the j privilege to doubt. It is no crime to dread instrument of His death. We doubt; it- is a crime to refuse to ' behold that Cross, and uglv thing accept convincing proof, it is, under which Jesus struggles 2. The Confession of Thomas. I until it is erected in the fifth and Some writer said, "Thomas j pollution of the City Dump. Fine' doubted that we might believe." I place to carry the best Man in The disciple confessed that | Jerusalem! tJesus had risen from the dead when j fhe received com incing proof of, However, after (Jethsemane and ; thaf fart Calvary comes Caster. Caster, with . physical proof, "Put your finger; vculant meadov.'s, singing Virds, here. and see my frauds; pvit out bubbling brooks. Faster w ith its your hand, and place it in my side," ! resurgence of Hope - Hope which sufficed f,*r Thomas. That is evi-| the young heart craves. The demo on a lower plane; Jesus did : Hunk. would have as n, t pUt ]jjs stamp of approval upon )!. i i |''v't i'>; tile I.an.tho Lesumo. - jj. "Have you believed because vou \ pi :i:":ce^ lie would ha\ e it hnv-> n me ' H!? sst- 1 art- those, nifc too ir, b .-ita >< -. 'n wh.. bar, not soon. at. 1 yet be ?!:i<Mte-n. : iiev.-, I'hw l igho-t and noblest ' ha- conf< ssion thai .T.... j("arist is tho f " - * CI 1 I II. -F fih - ih.Can.-, f,f th;ne<' ' *???:. ' f J : ; ; :h.? it it nr'i ; .i !-'o. 13;! ' 'I <-! ;rul \1 i>>iun of fYter. -u :i'r <uit tho '?- i -?- 1 V'uo-n: aoi POET'S O i E : I I TI.1J 1 tJ 1'LANTEUS i ...., 'l'1N (I UfKMXiN < Ol'NTV '' ; !:<>:. S( II ( M W. ( \ SE ; . J.- iN-.-c - \\ i )c 0(1! an;i. if. f 1 la ' .:a 11< n <. ,; . ,,. ~a\ ' i - -! i.a.iyn? a\au' " I I, a. I . |>. ( .,. pi il( i . ; . t-i . .1,. a: l a.v.s,, no. - ! J/OOtl I'O'.IvS, I'. S. ' r" ?'< :< ! >' * f.' V 'TV i f, ! ?' ' ' '1 . i a 1111i a!.? \ ii c i1 ivs*' \ a iI , *f' : v ' tr , I i.;t<-iI States. \\ itl. . - - . , . ' a. v. ?t, : < v 5a;a t h, - t - ? \<-opt i,?ri (.j Aaron :i ' ' i n < i >' i: .1 .nattvan A ?. : : - ' n 1 I-ot-ji thuv . u I'." ii.ii.'i :i'i| wr.ti.;iP l tlr'.ai!'. ' ',iii tiwnanie iharaeter, thi> '.i *f\ ran! >t < <.-1 ij;,- St.it* of it ^ ;>c-- r,;|'V;, fi-ai -i rr.uy be < \ en. a -! <?..?! . liars; . ,l". >,, : *r i i 11 vr lei It ay i < , Yen ><:> ke c n1;?in:!\ to . o? ;'i ib'ite < " '? !'(!, " t * a a i k tia m wvlf'n re \ j . j. i o'Ji. i oiiii iiili - ," .?<* < Yr *y>\\ ' the - o-a.- 11 a it-.; ay ma.!- iia* >>thi . : '* -i !< ::iv n". Aral,; r<*se* the fieM ' ' ' !? I:'*- 1* ?' ' i": * t < * >i'' a ;v airily i i". ! a" i o- j? u - : i. ak.-i. i Iv"" !:ii . . :f a: \ ,n ti l.? \ a * :- ?:??! Sv.knj >? mo..! *' ' l';i.inch U* 4 ?1 r Mtltlfoi-;' ?,. S;:r- ; " U:1, v': U,h" Siin.lsty at' that I';; ).;it k. ?.-io.mh m ok< ami tnami > * ?> nm'Jjiv t here fitter .lets 111 a kiy,, vtj'l, !<> > yen<| .hem ' *'?"' ' tt.* im -a:.; attea.l wit a them I <Vhw"s ie?oi|?-iltf in, the ?ht-.pj?Lliith la i-ui I'i.iliir, I. 1 "olin. " . ! rN vur own. 1 mi n' t >>y .viTrrhvws onl"y7| "' ' ,! '"t: '! ;,'* : When -Iny'iyht cmis. ,'omes in' |)o,i.t. When yoij aic Jresse*! it, "he Yght.i . ^ i i mciv, nnd surfefonlr foek . , . ., , , , In f 1 ??>?t tn< s\in climbs slow, now !i-v. ir ;it youi Oct, can v<>u raise , , , f slowly: mill head as penalty airain, be atisc yt??, feet looked well cared BlU wwtwarJ' look, the land is j ft i and wt ir shod in well kept! blight. ... I ' _ : * J ?Arthur Hugh mough , """" 1 V t . V* > |. I r- -' > - ' ; 4 . - * - . ?-' '* ?' ?KgTH AD w dries This was designed io divfctt i younj, minds from the evil fruair,?" lot tipping ov?r out-houses remo- J vin(! gates from fences, soaping j Windows am] all t<hat sort of curry- . ling on.'The carnival idea worked, !i too, except that there were still 1 those handed criminals who could M 1 sneak, away from the celebration " j and pursue their lawless, wanton I ways all the more uninhibted beUause few people were home. fl All this and much more went on ,fl year after year, but the words fiH ' hoodjum and vandal were never' jH heard. These activities were re- I feired to as mischief. After alh___J ; one dni-^n't think of a child as a fl delinquent when one has gone to 'school with that child's mother or played football with his father. No; body c ver accused these kids of A ' being criminals, hue a use everyhndjL^B i knew perfectly well that they werefl nothing *of the kind. And so, they^^H were not driven off with threats^! mm mafic irt TCPI outcasts. If these children had, hafl such accusations hurled at then^B who knows but what some of tbefl I might, have tired to live up to tfl part by becoming full-fled|? weapon>toting gangsters! In sfl I of tlit annoyance involved being thev^ioUm seemed to look upon such . tlfl as growing pains which shared and shared alike. H I just recently heard thatfl these Criminals has becomH Manager in the old home 1 haven't heard how he copfl young pranksters these daV I hope his memory is good^B M occupation, or ft might hafl -dttf f1rtrr..lm-e his tOTd" TM did the other disciples. 1^ H that was put to Peter ed the test with a good ffl The mission had a tw^B pect, "Feed my ~ IfinalMB sheep." U is the .yniajifl preacher ai.d the chnr^kfl a shepherd's care ovesH younK and the old beltarfl "Christ the Living Lord* Too many church lead* H much time in minLxterH adults and too little tifl fort to the child and tfl I the church. Many of HtATM saving and se'rving th^H^fl the youth is muph moifl I job than winning thfl Jesus and the church. ^B of fact. very .few personfl Hflfl a confession of faith^iSX of tuony-five years. "Remember also the days of thy yortth^^H evil ?!ays come, and Ihe r.ijrh, when thou shalt s&fl no pleasure in them," Ecfl Sentence sermon to be reH ed "The cross was mlH humanity to man;'the resuH m a '! he Wayside L'ulpitfl I .uir'sans^B H The < ;r ;?ty tomb is the H t ne f Christianity. H V>'- 1.1a11y irrfntrn5Te"W tifat .it sus Christ arosfl dead. ~!"f - rt surreciion _ of 1 t':.i -1 the pltslye of M W1KM OF THE WKltK I I \ : t .m<i the corner I have a fr^B i i tl.:.s cm at city tjiat has no Yt t <:a\ s tr(. by, and weeks rush A:?d before I kn< w it a year^H KOfic,. -\n<. I -> ( } see my t>|tJ fnenM f f.ce a swift a?d tcrritH 1I? i;v ; like him just as wejM V - he <ki\s when I raiif* hifl bell \i 'i :? i.-< ?_r mint*. Wo were younj^B < \i.<I t < an busy tired men: I H 1 .red with playing a foolish garni Tired with trying1 to make a nam! call i 1 .1 tn>. v - . M .! !<: t -? <h(.w hat I'm thinking <H him." k-5'tt tomorrow comes - and tTTmoi^l Ami the distance lad ween tis growaH and grows. Around the corner! - vet vnileu ? ^ f i r away ...L "H.-ri.'u a U ???M "Jim died today." And that's what we proband de- ' H wrvo in the end: Around the corner, a vanished friend. - Charles Hanson Toww> , I ^Around Comer"