Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-01-13
BATTLE CRY FOR 81
DEMOCRACY FOR ALL

ed as wildly as mankind remem-
bers those soul-searching words of
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
We, Greeks-Alpha, AKA, Kap-
pa, who met here for the Tri-Con-
vention, are among the chosen
few" We have gone to college.
Most of us have finished, others
have gone further to higher de-
grees.
We have entered the professions.
business, commerce and industry.
We live in the Nations Hunter
Hills" and drive through the give
Points" of this land in "Fishtails"
and Packards.
We are able to make pilgrimages
over this country for these annual
rallies of the noted Greeks. For the
most part, we, in our comfort-coat-
ed worlds, are absolutely unaware
of the vicissitudes of life.
But we are not without obliga-
ton to our fellowmen!
We must come down out of the
Hills" and lend our support, in
dynamic force, to Campaign of
Freedom from the terrors of war
and depression and inequalities i'm
posed upon humanity because of
race, color and creed
We must remember that TODAY
from Berlin to Korea-where even
now blood pours from, and freezes
within, the bodies of American men
and women, without distinction to
race or color = we champion the
cause of freedom.
We admonish and exhort the fact
| that no city within our great ma
! ton Is beyond the reach of enemy
A-bombs, and we exhibit fear. Yet
we practice not within our national
bounds the noble belief to which
we give exaltation.
We must focus these signs of our
nation upon its people.
We are in an Age of Emergency.
at the mid-point of Century of
Crisis. in this emergency, in this
crisis, it might be necessary for
US to suspend for the duration all
events and affairs of purely a
social nature.
We should exert our energies, our
talents and our resources in local,
state and national campaigns pro-
grammed to prove to America and
to the world the far-reaching i'm
portance Of Democracy's Task.
We must give emphasis and re-
affirmation to our inherent belief
that democracy is good enough for
everybody, and that the democracy
which we champion, like Christiani-
ry, is unexpendable.
We must enlist the forces of good
in this campaign.
With them, we must Strive to
bring democracy to all the peoples
of the earth, and we shall, with the
Will of God, achieve this universal
goal. Democracy, like Christianity,
will not bow to communism, Ease
ism or any other "ism."
With this aim, we have not time
to hold concern for security. AS
long as the least of Gods children
is lnsecure-so are the chosen
few" We can least afford to worry
over security, when we have none
anyway.
We must work to assure the full
rights of citizenship and the pro-
lection of law for everyone within
our national bounds. All persons
must be given the right to vote
and have that vote counted.
We must press the courts of the
land for decisions that give mean
ing to the Bill of Rights and the
individual freedoms and make ac-
tive those provisions of our Con-
stitution which stress the equality
of man.
We must strive for national
atmosphere in which there will be
equality of work opportunity, edu-
cational advantage, and freedom
of movement. These things we have
done and must continue.
We must seek an expressive in
tolerence towards intolerance.
We must above all prove to the
rest of the world that the democra-
cy that we would serve to the Free
World and the conquered masses
of the earth is at work here, not
just an empty ideal.
We, the Chosen few, are, there
fore, among the leadership of our
communities, our states and our
nation-and our positions of lead
ership extend themselves abroad.
This leadership must be felt.
So from Kansas City, the Heart
of America, from wherever there
is Greek, let our slogan resound.
Let it become the chant of people
everywhere. Let it become the in
SEPARATION of the free and the enslav-
ed at home and abroad.
Battle Cry for '51-Democracy
for ALL"