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Legally Enforced School Segi
Proponents of the lying mot beaten,
"separate but equal" chicanery reeled on
a 17-Stat(. front, topped off by the District
of Columbia- on Monday as the United
States Supreme Court handed down a
unanimous decision against color segregation
in all tax-supported educational faei14
t ?AO
11 m;o
The array of lawyers including: the tul>ulously-priced,
blubbering: John W l>avis.
who represented ?South Carolina.-ar ?ma;
unable to produce for itself a lawyer or ail
array of legal talent it would dare trust to
face NAACP lawyers, was no match for
the legal prowess of competent counsel, the
sense of American justice and fair play,
and the ultimate triumph of right.
Those who persisted in the perennial
stealing from Negro children under the
- so-called "separate but equal" provision oJ
educational facilities still contend the
utterly disregarded doctrine had beer fully
respected by them- Despite their contention
thousands of school situations throughJohnston
Lays The Grounds
Olin I) Johnston sire of the 11M1 extra
session of the General Assembly railed for
the definite purpose of removing from the
O KCVAI-' fl C! All+U P I^*?A1I>>0 ' A . A'V
nuuui-c uuua^ vi UUUIII ai uiiiui
scintilla of expression upon which NAA
counsel mi^hi base a easv against the infamous
'white primary ' has placed directly
upon Chief Justice Earl Warren oY t.h
UT S Supreme court the blame for the
unanimous decision on Monday against
school segregation Johnston- now l lie .jur.
iov Senator from Spilth Carolina ' v.acdo
have tWf'Ubiir belidVf lhat Mr Chief Ju.Tk'e
VV-flrren Ts so r ; ': Tnlf.n'iii iat That "iTf"'
his short ! iime on the *ribuital- ho can t
pull the . * t >*j n . 1 ]\ K moho l?Up]'ot> <>
{lie other eight gentlemen of the <
In !!H 1. Johnston said relative ij.e
work of the extra session. "After thee
statnu> iii'r repealod in my pinion
vc i 11 have done everything w ithin our now*
or b> guarantee white supremacy hi o.n
primaries of our State in-so-far a> tvg!.--Iat
ion is concerned. Shortld 1 his prove iv.
Mflpcnmte. wo South ('arolinians v.'!.
the necessary methods to retain white
supremacy in our primaries and to >;d<guard
the homes' and happiness of our
people- White'supremacy w ill he maintained
in our primaries. Let the chips fall
where they may "
In 1950. the pood Senator was re-elected
by a slender squeaking" 25.000 majority
made possible, ironically, by the votes of
the rery Negroes he had derided and maligned
only six years earlier. It must he
kept definitely in mind in this connection,
that these Negro voters were not pro
Johnston They wore jml i-Thnnnon<i They
Memorial Day Recalls The R
fi Thomai F. Stmniliy, have e lo>.t <i- i ? ?+ *- w t
? .. . of this world.
PFS Staff Writer f . .
.... I nerefore, wnt
N(t I,()N(iKR is the colehra.ion
1 W It '1 l '1 ! i t'i i)c t
of Memorial Day confined to the .
... ,, f or n< lot - t
boundaries of the I nifed States.
Alaska, An/io, Africa. France, F< > l; I! V < >S I' '?l
small Pacific islands, and Korea iced- i tic m.-find
irroops of Americans who lis- finh m ,t free
ten quietly to an add res.-, stand i>a-t, >a < think o
at attention while plaintive bugle 1 ri:i?ir. a.-, well as
notes die away, and thoughtfully f.iiii'' !; i,r . True.
return home. < . . r .v , do n t v
emorial Day m, Tridned. a test i- ^-rrTf vpnimimmonv
of the past. All over the Hut rmu'e it
trortd tie A IIIP1 u nn dead unaolfi lie ful Hud.
ish barriers to the spread of mili- , ? <>< I*.> ? ? <!
toot barbarism. Yet tlie final pur- . -c ,]. v?'h>p <e.ir
pose of this day is not to glorify cording t<> (iod's
the past, but to sanctify the pre* everyday artivitie
' ' ent. lat e?ns- wit h ot he
Kl.OtilJKNT WORHS .if eu- ?v r. pent I'ltnd
logy, flags an<l flowers, the dis- Will be done, on
play of military splendor benefit heaven" We are
only the living"; for the ears of the mm render ourseH
?it ?<' "'i ,-iVI.I11" vyt ! ' 1 ' "
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uf>otith Carolina's leading We?kly"
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Inc., at 1507 Harden St., Columbia. S.
.. * v Acting Edit'
: 1 yr., $3.75: R mos., $2.50; 3 mos.. $1.
nationally by Interstate Cnited Ne\T?pa
i Tuesav. Display ads, 10 A.M. Tuesday
ice, Columbia, S. C. under Act, Mar. 3.1 <
payable to 1'be Lighthouse I'nhlLtiin" <
rogation Dealt Lethal BIim
out tile South itseit called tile time
the jig it has been dancing.. Tor the ?.
seventy-two hours.
Thousand- of miles of n?-\ss copy hoi
of radio and. TV' time, have carrnd i
news of the decision to the lit term
part# of our small world, and in11? hu:
reds of millions of homes where men er;
freedom and dignity for all men. It is i
necessary, therefore- lor-the Lighthouse
to enlarge upon the good joh already do
\iiw? vi?m*?\'il>h- c'put Umum ,?>, fl>.. V-, I
est tribunal have spoken as one man. '
mouthings* howlings, and squirmings
one hundred million dissidents can neit
woaken nor destroy the force of the h
struck for human dignity and freedor:
the honorable court. All of their vitupi
tions are now only whistling in the ' r.
yards of the dead pasts of rbemselyos ;
their disoriented hidebound contU-m
raries.
ork
had realized a> soira-oia ? ?: v
that "of the two devils take the ?. ,? v
the shortest tail"
iviitionaL intelligent Soim.h ("arCi.i>>i
know that it would have Ikhu ui.-a-lv
for America at this point in world hist
for the U. S Supreme Court to have :
del ed . I!Vt ?tecision c! is ;' - Wit:ii ' a - a.
segivgat ion. It is because 01 its i\u e
rein; < ;>: ; is no i ?;?11 \ as ?-x< t;. U
segregation aim discriininat ;mi, i
i. 'a has lo-'t ! the leadership ' ..
i )j c.ila' .".'I t iat t .s a.' !'* : . m.
1 si i h nun-white Y: >'..,;; .
k ' > *: 1 L1 "* > 111 * i > * eki ' ' t.' k , t ?. .?,!:
\ ! 111' i"it" i . 'fv
k/a?a this tu i>e true.
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.'or ft -el*. \ ! iol i ; I! 1! ?o : it;
r.iping .. k'-eiiei- eji.M* ? ! ' r?
portion . oncoming world atlair- .m.
man relations he sincial oe -t. sped ;?
' rai 1. or. . !' <. ' ion da ..no gi . ? : ..
absence from pressing sentorkd ov <
that he can take time t. - tear*': ' t ?
evahlal ioli_*( ?i deUM >e \ and I:i
t i' < nsiup. And this goes tor other po
t i;ms who ren<?unet* iti-nnK rac\ .-<> < nle>u
And it w'lll lie a 11ir??? t rodn ' i< :.
Ne^ro leadership' clerical and >e; uiar it
19f>() \e^r< > voting strength is not menu
to the point where those sniffm;/ am
l'?r votes will quake in their hoofs
yhristen their breeches hut 'ill i?? -
(iod Almiprht> to protect them troin a v
of foot in the month diuas' that in:
them to browbeat Ncj'ros at e\'ory cr
roads. T1
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