Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-06-20
The Victory Pledge Campaign For War
Bonds And Stamps The First Concern
Of Jackson Negro Citizens

Following series of meetings under the direction of
rfoI w '" blackburn executive secretary of the NJ
l. u 81 assisted by Prof O. B. Cobbns Supervisor of Me-
gro Schools Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel respectively
the organization bringing the Negro citizens of lack son
onect into the Victory Campaign for Pledges buy $780,
600 in War Bonds and Stamps each month in Jackson was
completed in meeting of leaders and wokers at Ianer
High School Friday night.
The meeting being also attended by group of white
business men and CIVIC leaders and workers in the cam
pagn
With the Negro leaders, Colonel Blackburn and It. Col
one Cobbns and the eleven Majors of the organization at
tending the Victory Banquet in the Victory of the
Heidelberg Hotel Monday night along with the white lead
ers and workers. for final instructions and pep talks the
campaign got underway Tuesday morning
10 prevent initiation with its disastrous effect upon the
business and economic life of the nation curb purchas
ing power to hold down the demand for consumer goods
Whe the industry being converted to making mater
ia to create after the of savings and pur
chasing power in the hands of the rank and file of the peo
pie of the nation and thus prevent depression and the
widespread suffering resulting the depression that
lowed the first World War; some the purposes behind
the greatly intensified efforts being made by the T. S.
Government to have the citizens of the nation
their present earnings by buying War Bonds and Stamps
But the single immediate first paramount all import
ant and vital purpose behind the sale of War Bonds and
Stamps is VICTORY-WIMNING THE WAR against the
Axis powers The forces that would destroy and botout
vestage of freedom and liberty democracy and Christi
aty from the earth and force all mankind type
Of civilization in contemplation of which all lovers of these
ideals rise in defiancea VICTORY which must be- and IS
the first and deepest concern of Negro citizens.
AS Negro citizens have been and frustrated and
bewdered because the funess of the American IDEAL OF
the principles of Christian Democracy for which will
courageosy fight and die preserve and extend to all the
people of the world have not been extended to in all the
areas of American life.
Much has already been said of what would be the plight
of the American Negro in Axis dominated world The
seron of Hitler and the history of German colonization OF
the Negroes of Africa the history of the Japanese the most
homogeneous people in the world today still dreaming OF the
return Ghengs Khan and Asiatc hordes domination
and ruling the world; limits the truth of what has been
said only by the limits the brutality and cruelty of the
Axis.
In the spirit of proudly held patriotism forgetting
every condition and circumstance and thinking only OF VIC
tory Germany Japan and Italy, and of the preservation
of Christian civilization and the American OF life,
however imperfect let Negroes in every walk of Life
Join making Victory Pledge Campaign for War Bonds
and Stamps an outstanding success.