Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
Rep. Williams
Denounces Writing
In Survey Graphic


Attacks on race prejudice in
this country were bitterly de-
nounced in the House last Tues
day.
The denunciation was started
by Representative John Bell Will
Jams, Democrat, of Mississippi,
who criticized a recent issue of
Survey Graphic in which race
prejudice from various angles was
discussed in articles written by
several writer's of national repu-
tation.
Williams said Survey Graphic
contained 1929 pages of outrage
ously vile and nauseating anti
Southern, anti-Christian, unAmer-
lean, and pro-Communist tripe,"
ostensibly directed toward the ell
limitation of the custom of racial
segregation in the South.
He was particularly bitter a.
bout the two articles written by
"a couple of renegade crackpot
newspapermen who list them
selves as Mississippians." He
said he had never heard of either
of them and that their articles
were Lying, preposterous, pusill-
animous. dirt-flinging tirage a.
gainst the white people of the
South
"Most of hhe other poppycock
was written by meddling un-Am-
erican purveyors of hate and in
decency from other parts of the
country he said, adding:
'"Now, as a Southerner, a white
man, and an American, I resent
these continuous unwarrented and
uncalled-for attacks on my people,
and / am not going to stand by
and see them go unanswered
"Those are the same people
who today are striving toward do
ing away with our democratic
form of government by the in
filtration of their communistic
theology into our everyday think
ing and living. They would see
America destroyed through mon
grelization and moral degenera-
ton, as other great nations in his
tory have fallen and been de-
>stroyed."
Not to be outdone by fellow
Mississippian, Representative J..
Rankin, leader of the white-trash
bloc in the House, took the floor
a few minutes later to denounce
the liberal Washington Post and
spew out religious abuse upon it's
owner, Eugene Meyer.
Indorsing what Williams had
said "about this inspired, con-
certed drive against the white
people of America, and especially
of the Southern States" Rankin
charged that the Post has done
more harm to the white and col
ored people of Washington than
on- ofLar o1.anous,
He refereed to the newspaper
as the Jewish-owned Washington
Post, which is continuously try
ing to break down segregation in
the District of Columbia and stir
up race trouble by forcing Negros
into white theatres, restaurants,
hotels, picture shows and public
schools
If the paper keeps up its drive,
he said, it will reap the wrath
of on outraged public
What apparently had raised
Rankin's ire was a cartoon poking
fun at the inquiry the house IN
American Activities Committee
recently conducted in Hollywood.
Commenting editorially last Sat-
urday, the Post facetiously said
Rankin "has apparently persuaded
himself that we are nothing more
than a pack of dangerous and alb
ominaule Reds, busily contaminat-
ing the inhabitants of this Cap
ital with subversive ideas and
promoting on every possible occa-
sion the overthrow of constitu-
tional government by force and
violence"
1t added that in another speech
he had referred to the Post as
1.-THE American Pravda, and an