The Omaha guide., 1947-01-04
OUR
GUEST
Column
(Ed'ted by VERNA p. HARRiSj
THE ~COLUMBIANS
By Ralph McGiH.
(Ed.ted by VERNA p. HARRISj
Editor, Atlanta Constitution
NOTE TO READERS:

Editor, Atlanta Constitution
NOTE TO READERS:
A principal reason hat the flamb6y
ant Columbians have not achieved the
position Of power they obviously an
ticipated is tina Mr.. McGil has Wig
orously fought this latest hate move
ment In the columns of his paper. The
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION is one Of
the country's most influential dailies.
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Rapists and wife deserters are the
leaders of the exhibitionist punks
who make up the visible body Of
the order called 1.-THE Columbians'
This little gang of crackpots, men
tally sick and sex-perverted yap-
pers in Atlanta cannot get far for
the simple reason they are not
smart enough.
You take Homer Loomis, now.
Homer is a card. All the poor,
worried people who don't like
their neighborhood to be "invad--
ed' by Negro families might like
to know about Homer. Once a
Park Avenue resident in New
York, he eloped with a good de-
cent girl.
She stayed n day. She said
Homer was a queer fellow. On the
honeymoon night he turned out all
the lights but one and made her
read aloud a horror story out of
a murder story. There were other
things, too, -unprintable. They're
not nice. She got the marriage
annulled.
Homer married another decent
girl. But he deserted her and their
two children and came South to
trim suckers at So a pitch. Nice
boy. Homer. He now has been
joined by brother James Coursey
who also wants to save the coun-
try.
1t seems, however, that brother
Coursey will have to wait a while.
The ~unfeeling law officers of Car
roll County have been looking for
him on a charge of criminal as
sault. He is wanted to answer
for charges of assaulting a 10
year old girl in the county, de-
sorting his wife after beating her
soundly, presumably just to show
what sort of a world leader he is.
They will try him on that before
they let him become Fuehrer.
NaZis are all alike, whether III
Germany are parading in Musso-
lini's Black Shirts. The Nazi-type
mind is cracked and lends itself
to all sorts of alterations, includ-
ing sex alterations. You can
count on Homer, though. He is
going to save us from the Negro
es and the Jews. Good old Homer.
We need his sort of character and
integrity to lead us to a good and
cleaner life.
The Columbians' headquarters
is frequented by sexually delin-
quent young girls. Their audien-
ces at meetings, however, are
almost entirely good, plain per-
sons of little or no education, Of
little working skills, therefore in
a very low income group. The
spellbinders, their ringers itching
to get those SO initiation fees,
talk to them with a certain logic,
about as follows:
you are interested in bread
and meat and a living wage. That
is what we are going to do for
you.
That is the line. not merely OF
the Columbians. but of all such
groups who seek to create mass
discomfort. They talk to people
whose lives are rather dreary at
best. They work on peo1e in the
poorest. most squalid slum areas
and. to a person perhaps unable
to read and write, or to one with
no more than a third grade edu-
cation, knowing no trade or skill
the appeal has logic. No person
ever liges to admit his own failure
and this technique explains salts
factOrily to a failure, why he or
she is a failure. 1t removes any
personal responsibility. 1t places
the blame on someone else.
Some of the blame. ~assuredly.
should be placed on u whole
society. We have gone along with
a large number OF people whose
preparation for being a f~irst-rate
citizen is inadequate. They are to
be found in every city and COM
munity, and as long as we do not
do a better job they will provide
material for the promoters Of
hates and prejudices who make a
good thing financially for them
selves out Of the discomfort Of
others.
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