Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-07
AMERICA NEEDS NO MEIN KAMPF

In the bitter controversy that over the question
of slavery Honette Beeoher Stowe gave to American lit
eroture "Unce Toms Goblin which is credited with hov
ina qeoty influence the conduct and attitude of the ont
sovey elements in all sections of the nation particularly
in the north and also greatly influenced the foteful de-
csions that brought on the between the states With
the end of the war between the and the subsequent
development of who referred to by the great contem
poro Claude Bowers as the Trodgc Era. the period of
reconstruction in the South following the War between the
stotes Thomas Dixon wrote his "KIonsmen defense
and justification of the means which adopted in the
South to destroy the rule of the Carpet Boggers and to
destroy the prospects of Negro political domination And
since that time there have come, The Rising Tide OF
Color by Lothdop Stoddord the Harvard professor, the
"Sous of Black Folks and whole series of works by W.
Dubois on the Negro question: the vivid perturbation
and emoonoIy great contemporary work. Gone With The
Wind by Margaret Mitchell and hundreds of other books
tracts pamphlets articles and essays have been and ore
BEING written and published dealing with the other
side of the socoIed NEGRO Question and the general
subject of American rocoI religious and color prejudice.
With perhaps the greatest of the most recent works, in
many respects being, Myrdors IAN American Dilemma"
In justification and defense of American rocio relg
ous and color prejudice there have been works of great
artistry sincerely and passion but in has there
been produced in this country anything like Htlers Meln
Kompf
In the Germany in which Hitler and his followers, in
the wofe of his Mein KomPf, finally to power, only
to lead moral spiritual Social political ond national de-
qrodotion shame and ruin there had oIreody been pro-
duced some of the great revolutionary works of the world
schopenhouer the great German philosopher in his writ
ina had oreody sought justify human conduct unoffect-
ed by emotion and sentiment Emanuel Kant had oIreody
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Iotionshp of mans will and mans in influencing
his conduct and oction Netzsche himself oIreody mad
man. had sought to Justify evil the greatest for
the accomplishment of mans highest aims Karl Marx had
propounded his theory of social revolution, to become the
forerunner of Lenn and Trotsky Communism, Stoin and
the Russia of this day But it only German under Hit
Ter and his followers who could drive out thomas Manu.
seeking to shed some light upon the darkness oreody hoy
erinq over the German People
HitIers Mein Kompf did not receive it's recognition
because of the greatness of it's literary merit neither be-
cause it revealed truth because revealed on
old truth with greater vvdness thon had been done before
but because the time of its publication it's outhor wos
leader of the German people, and high oftieIo OF the
German people In his capacity leoder OF the and
hioh Official of the German Government Men Kompf wos
read as statement of the future policy of the German
Government policy which, from it first edition oil the
world outside of Germany rejected and fnoIy Drougnt
Germany into conflict with all the world to be reduced to
the condition in which it EXISTS to day.
Mein Kompf was Mien Kompf only because Hitler was
representative of the German Government America
needs no Men Kompf and any such book by high official
of the American Government should be rejected and first
of all by the American People.
ARE NEGROES ACQUIRING GREATER CULTURE