Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I V‘ -.i FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1943 THE NEWBERRY SUN Negro' Publisher Says He Was Treated Cordially In Columbia By Davis Lee, Publisher No race of people or nation ality in America has had a-bet ter opportunity to achieve suc cess in every field of endeavor than the Negro. And no race has done less with the oppor tunities available. Today we are blaming everybody for our own stupidity. The present plight of t'^ie Am erican Negro is a sad, shock ing spectacle to behold. Th race is hopelessly divided into •hundreds of warring factions, each representing a different ideolo/pr and each contending for this or that right. There is absolutely no unity of thought, purpose or objective behind all of this agitation which is na tion wide in scope. The movement which has put class against class, race against race, and section against section reached its climax when our President announced his civil rights program. Then the guns of race hate were aimed at the South. Some Southern Nearo leaders and newspapers joined in the attack. Not even the war between the States created more profound bitternss. No section of this nation is responsible for the Negro’s plight. Aided by Northern agi tators in his search for a scape goat, the South became it. He charges that the South, anti it alone, is solely responsible for all the ills which have befaLen him. The truth of the matter is, Contentment Now I lay me down to snore, Insured for several thousand more. If I should die before I wake, My wife would get h£r first real break. But should I live for twenty years, My wife and I need shed no tears. We can retire and fish and rest; Back come my bucks with interest. In old age we can keep our house, And not live with our daughter’s spouse So thank God for the great endurance Of the man who sells insurance. R. E. Summer INSURANCE 1215 Friend St. Phone 81 the Negro himself, and he alone is responsible for whatever sys tem exists in this country, which militate against his best interpst. His chief enemy is himself. He is more prejudiced more treacherous than the im aginary enemies he assails. He stands in the way of his own progress. If one Negro enters some field of endeavor and be gins to make progress, it is an absolute fact that one Negro is jealous and envious cf an other’s success. Our people complain of seg regation and discrimination. Negroes segregate and discrim inate against each other. LigVi r - skinned Negroes shun dark ones, and Northern Negroes hate those from the South. I am not a leader and have no leadership aspt.ations. Et.t Negro leaders who are always yc Iping about the Constituti >n and the enforcement of Negro rights, attack me for my views, and would deny me my consti tutional right because I see things differently. Some Negro Newspapers have stooped to an unbelievable level to smear me. Others have attacked my circu lation claim which of course substantiates my charge above that Negroes are jealous of one another’s success. Another paper in an effort to destroy the force and effect of my editorials against civil rights legislation, attacked me personally, and charged that I have been married several times, had been sued for libel and had been in jail. Who is interested in the number of times I frekked to the altar? Most Negroes don’t even go to this trouble; they just live to gether without benefit of cler gy. Sure- I have had five libel suits, and have never lost one. I know a lot of white dailies and national magazines who would like to be ablei to make this claim. Negro newspapers and leaders can print or say anything they wish about m;, and I will continue to write the truth. The Telegram is well established, and I will continue to spend my winters in Florida and my summers in Canada the smear attacks by ignorant Negroes notwithstand ing. The South has done a re markable job with a difficult race problem. I doubt serious ly that the North would have done as well if all the Negroes in the South had been up here. Certainly Ngroes in the South have done better down there than they would have done up here. The Southern white man seems to understand the Negro better than the Negro under stands himself. Three weeks ago I vas in vited to Mississippi by Govern or Fielding L. Wright. I motor ed down to Jackson. I have never been treated fcner than I was in Jackson. I found all kinds of Negro business on Parish and other streets. There was no evidence of m v?'\. IT’S EASY TO USE THE firestone LAY-AWAY PLAN mm Dolls Doll Carriages Games Kiddy Record Players, Records Tea Sets Drums, Trucks Typewriters Cash Registers Electric and Mechanical Trains Footballs and Basketballs Tinekr Toys - Construction Sets Tricycles and Bicycles Tool Chests FIRESTONE HOME AND AUTO SUPPLIES LoWer Main Street BUY TODAY SMALL DEPOSIT HOLDS ANY ITEM IN OUR STORE—’TIL CHRISTMAS I suppression and exploitation of Negroes by whites. On my way I down I stopped in Athens, At-1 lanta, Tuskegee and Montgom-' ery. Atlanta reminds me more of New York City than any place : 1 have been. No place in Am- | erica do Negroes have finer liomes than Atlanta. The only I Negro daily in America is not j in New York or Philadelphia, but in Atlanta. Its publisher, | C. A. Scott, is not an agitator, i ne is an intelligent level-head ed fellow. With all of the Ne groes in Harlem, they do not have a bank. Atlanta has an ! outstanding bank, and the Ne groes are proud of it. When Negro leaders and newspapers attack the South because of its unfair treatment of the Negro, they should com pare the achievements of the Negroes of the supposedly free North with those of the alleged prejudiced South. At Tuskegee I chatted with Thomas Campbell, the agricul tural wizard at the Institute. He informed me that there are 700 Negro county agents and home demonstration agents in the South. My critics and ad vocates of civil rights should bombard Washington for an ex planation as to why no other section of our nation employs Negro county agents. There are large numbers oi Negro farmers in Pennsylvania New Jersey, New York, etc., but the South is the only sec tion of the country which has taken the Negro into the agri cultural set-up. Certainly Mr. Henry Wallace was aware of this when he was secretary of Agriculture, and one would as sume that because of his sup posed love for the Negro and equal justice, that he would have corrected this injustice by the North. , From Jackson I drove to Hal ly Springs, Mississippi, where I addressed the students and faculty at Rust College. The President, Dr. McCoy, showed me through a new $350,000 ad ministration building. When Negro and Northern agitators attack the South, they should ask whose money built the fine educational institutions that co ver the Southland. In Memphis 1 found plenty of growing Negro businesses. On my way in I saw three large power-and-light trucks loaded with Negro linemen. I have never seen this in the North. All through Tennessee I found prosperous and contented Ne groes. On my way back, after a visit to several Kentucky cities 1 drove across to Columbia, South Carolina. I decided to visit the State headquarters of the States’ Rights party in Wade Hampton Hotel. I park ed my convertible in front of the hotel, walked into the drug store and was just about to en ter a phone booth to call up to room 315, when the white pro prietor told me not to spend my nickel, to go back into the lobby of the hotel and use a house phone. Remember this happened in Soulji Carolina. When I en tered the hotel a white porcer approached and wanted to know if he could help me. He made the telephone call and summoned an elevator to take me up. Just around the corner from the hotel is a barbershop own ed and operated by Negroes for whites. The best white people in Columbia patronize this Ne gro barbershop. A Negro cer tainly cannot get much closer to one than to shave and cut his hair. If a Negro would at tempt to open a barbershop on one of Newark’s main streets for whites, he would not only not succeed, but if he got it opened, whites wouldn’t support him. ' In Savannah and any number of Southern cities, Negroes op erate barbershops on the main streets for whites. Some of the wealthiest Negroes in the South accumulated their wealth by operating barbershops for whites. Two weeks ago a 27-year-old Negro from Florida came to Baltimore with cash enougn to buy four new dump trucks. His county had just awarded him a contract for one year for these trucks at $55 a day. Only a man completely vo : d of good judgment and com mon sense would advocate any kind of interference with a 'sec tion of the country which has given the Negro the opportuni ty/, which the South has. I am quite mindful of the isolated instances of injustice and un fairness perpetrated upon some members of my group by • cer tain sections of the South, but one would not be narrow enough to condemn the whole South because of a few blight ed racial areas. During recent elections in Georgia and South Carolina, one Negro was killed and one beaten. Certainly that is bad, but it is small price to pay for the privilege. Since I began this practice, a release came in about a Negro mob in Savannah, Ga„ wanting to lynch a Negro who had knifed and robbed a white druggist on West Broad Street in the Negro section. This is proof that the mob spirit is not the sole possession of Southern whites, it also shows how close the Negroes and whites are in the South. When an outsider attempts to initiate a movement to change the conventions and customs of the South, he shows a lack of knowledge and under standing of the complex, racial situation down there. It is hard to find a white man in the South who was not raised up with Negroes, and who ac tually nursed the breast of a Negro woman when he was a baby. And most of them brag about the love and affection they have for their black mam my. When_ people have come up under such a relationship, they possess a common under standing that cannot be fath omed by people not accustom ed to such. WQiat the Negro needs to learn, and he needs to learn it before it is too late, is just who his real friends are. In telligent Negro leaders, men with courage and vision of Booker T. Washington, need to be trained and developed who will lead the race on a sane course. Intelligent leadership will teach the masses self-respect; develop faith in each other and race loyalty. Our present crop of leaders are more responsible for the unrest and disunity within the race than anyone else. They are, the majority of them, guilty of helping to sow the seeds of discontent to advance and promote their own selfish ends. The majority of them wear two faces, one to carpr to the white people in which they pretend that every thing is all right. The other they carry to the Negroes in tire churches and lodges where they declare militantly, that we must rise up and demand this and that. If the intelligent Negro lead ers of the South had risen up in unison and told the civil rights agitators to keep their noses out of the South and its problems, they would have pre vented the creation of the bit terness now existing, and th^y would now be in a position to meet with the powers that be around a conference table and work out satisfactorily any of the differences, imaginary of real, that might exist. Yes. we need leadership, and we need it as much in the North as in the South, and when we get it we will $ut the blame for our shortcomings where it belongs—right on our own door step. DUNCAN-STEPHBNS Miss Pauline Duncan and Mr. George Edward Stephens, both of Newberry, were joined in the bonds of holy matrimony in a wedding characterized by its beauty and dignity on Fri day evening, October 15, at 8 o’clock, at the home of the bride The Rev. Paul E. Monroe, Jr., pastor of the bride, performed the lovely double ring cere mony by candlelight in the presence of the immediate fam ilies and close friends. The couple entered the cere mony room together unattend ed. They stood before the man tel, which was centered with a crystal bowl of white chrysan themums and fern, flanked by white candles in candelabra, to speak their vows. Floor baskets of white dahlias and magnolia foliage were used as a setting for the lovely event. The bride, a petite brunette, was lovely in her wedding suit of tan wool with matching blouse, brown halo hat and ac cessories. Her corsage was an orchid tied with purple and lavender ribbons. Mrs. Duncan, mother of the bride, wore a charming gray dress and a pink carnation cor sage tied with silver ribbon. ‘ Mrs. Stephens, mother of the bridegroom, wore a lovely wine dress and a corsage of white carnations tied with gold rib bon. An informal reception was held after the ceremony. The dining room was decorated with pink dahlias and candles in crystal candelabra. The lace- covered dining table held the three tiered white wedding cake decorated with pink roses. Pink and white block cream and individual cakes were served and white mints were passed. Mrs. Stephens is the daugh ter of Mtr. and Mrs. Clarence Duncan of Newberry. She at tended the Newberry High school. At present she is em ployed with Reagin’s Shoe Shop in Newberry. Mr. Stephens is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Stephens of Silverstreet and attended the schools of his community. He has been connected with the Purol Company of Newberry for several years. The couple left during the evening for a wedding trip and since their return are making their home on Main steet. Assisting in serving at the reception were Mrs. P. E. Way, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Summer, Mrs. Willie Mae Long, Mrs. Annie Spearman, Mks. Sims Brown, Mrs. Walter Davenport, Mrs. Charlie Ruff, Mrs. Madi son Pitts, (Mrs. Herman Hamm, Mrs. Colie Miller, Mrs. Harry Laval, Mrs. Dan Dickert, Mrs. Willie Frank Hawkins, Miss Sophia Way, Miss Clara Sum mer. Miss Juanita Shealy, and M6ss Kathryn Duncan. The out-of-town guests were; Mr. and Mrs Madison Pitts and family of Denmark, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hamm and fam ily of West Columbia, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Laval and family of Columbia, Miss Clara Sum mer of Allendale. Mr. and Mrs. North of Mississippi. Mr. William Blake of Calhoun Falls, Mrs. Harvey Crouch and Mrs. Harold Edwards of Saluda, Mr. end Mrs. Jimmy Wilson of Union, Amim By 2W Kesting There is no quicker way to judge an outdoorsman than by the way he cares for and uses his ax. Here’s a check list, prepared by writer Harold Rog ers. so you can test yourself. Keep your ax sharp. A dull ax is dangerous as well as use less. Keep the handle tight. An ax with a loose head is as dangerous as a loaded gun. Make j sure that brush, branches or other obstacles are cleared away before beginning to chop. Secure a firm footing. In cold weather warm your ax before beginning to chop. Chop on a firm wooden block, and direct each blow toward the block. An ax is not a hammer or a wedge.- Don’t use it as such. When not in use, keep your ax sheathed and up off the ground. If you are purchasing youi first ax, choose the single bit type. It is by far the best from the standpoint of both safety and utility for the average camper. The ax should weigh at least two pounds, and under no consideration should the handle be less than 24 inches long. Ordinarily a new ax will have to be sharpened to give its best performance. To put it in shape use a wet grindstone, not an emery wheel. Start the grind back two or three inches from the cutting edge, making the grind semicircular or fanshaped. About one half inch from the edge make a bevel down to the edge. Once you have ground your ax on both sides you will seldom, if ever, need to use a grindstone again. You can keep it in fine shape with a flat file and a sharpening stone. When using the file never drag it back over the ax. Push the file from the blade toward the back of the ax. Lift it up and carry it back before re peating your stroke. Finally, to put a keen cutting edge oq yoUr ax, hone it with the sharpening stone, using a circular motion from heel to toe. then turn the ax over and hone it on the opposite side, this time from toe to heel. MRS. CARPENTER BACK FROM N. Y. BUYING TRIP •Mrs. E. A. Carpenter returned to Newberry Monday night after spending a week in New York buying late fall and early spring merchandise for Car penter’s store. Its in the bag! Yes, we have GOOD COAL put up in 1001b bags. We’ll sell you a bag just as willingly as we would a ton .... You to come for it, of course. CONTRAST these two, and ACT to Safeguard your health and that of your WIIFE and KIDS—if any—from the cold of winter. The fellow in the big coat just kept putting off ordering his COAL and when winter hit with a bang, he had to go to bed. with a cold—barely able to whisper to his wife to call 155 for some COAL—and fast. WE FILLED his order quickly and now we see him CONVA LESCING. with his pipe and paper. What’s he saying?— He’s saying “Dad-blamed if I ever get caught without COAL again. Why, if it were not for the FARMER’S rushing it right out no telling what would have happened to us.” OUR MODERN COAL TRUCKS ’ await your command to bring you a supply of good coal. W*ei have excellent quality COAL this winter and we want you to share it with us. SOME of our people are always.- near the PHONE, thei *2; . NUMBER of which is 155 and we would like to show you just what good service and good coal are available here. 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