The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1957-03-14

to write "A reasonable Interpretation of the section
And question twenty is real VIKING ding It requires
voter to write his understanding OF the duties and
obligations of citizen under the constitutional form OF
government"
Now at first you may not think those good pro-
tective questions We have given them considerable
thought and you they real peaches 100,
they tit nicely into the progressive directed to-
ward hosting the crawfish our state symbol
Well, let's take a look at how it can work to our
advantage - here's way: The sole judge OF the
reasonableness of the answers is the person IN each
county whose duty is to register voters Not only can
he keep Blacks Yelows Reds, Pinks and Greens from
voting but he keep anyone from voting VINO is SO
foolish to disagree with way of thinking NOW,
that's real good is truly representative OF progress
You take it step further and Immediately
realize other benefits This state needs good Strong
Huey Long type political machine and someone with
the courage of his convictions would say with
in to 10 years. build such organization by taxing
full advantage of this situation It's relatively simple:
If youngster to register to vote, his family mas
been foolish to have disagreed with our efforts TO
protect him. naturally, he would have to be dlsqua1.
ed unable to give satisfactory understanding OF
the duties and obligations of citizen under the cons
titutonal form of government.
Can you imagine the foolshness of the cry from
the unprogressve crawfish, that they can 40
it to one they can it to all We answer them With
simple truth: Get the band wagon boys = don't De
backward and start yelling about freedom and all that
sort of thing; it's not best for
However in view of all this you will find 1t dlf-
ficult to understand what happened few weeks ago.
One of those elected officials whose sacred duty is TO
anyone QlSaSIeeS otooN
on his hind feet Had the curl of his tail oo) in
Jackson and said "The people against the amend
ment They sorry they voted for it and never would
have if they had understood it. They were told the a
nendment would solve the segregation problem. They
misled."
That's the crawfish we have been talking about
he's just making of things = what he's try
ing to do = go uphill and in an election year, too:
misguided rabblerouser heading in the wrong direction
that's all ~
Our wonderfully gifted leaders have protected us
further than most Of realize They told us to turn
public schools to the Legislature, and anytime
anyone inside outside state tried to differ with
opinion, the public schools would be abolished
That's progress truly representative; the kind
need if we're to hoist the Crawfsh symbol. And
mother thing that will teach those backward slow wit
ted hill climbing crawfsh thing two None of this
business of the bull swinging the tail with leaders;
indeed anytime the tail can't swing the bull, why we'll
just simply progress some toward the mudhole.
An interesting sidelight this admirable situation
IS the recent mandate from the Legislature the Trus-
tees Of Institutions of High Learning having do with
screening speakers before they be allowed address