Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-04-03

lNi tNNtft HNNNA N''ANA1 NANAA
IN which Manning Johnson, 70
and being widely used by VIII
.NAACP lihels that effective or
The Minnesota state legiSlal
for which the legislature post,
master had 60 pay the postage
The papers were said 90 have been
traced 20 u Northsido candidate
Tor alderman.
Paul Hurley who Is candidate for
alderman from the Third Ward
sent this newspaper copy Of
Jan ! Common Sense"
The particular iaauc attacks the
observance Of brotherhood Week.
80 America and Manning johnson
aitaeku the NAACp as Commun-
h, controlled. an obvious falsehood
This months issue of "Corn.
.ct" csils the turn on common
sonas IN an article or "iiatc
Merchants in which William Pet
ers describes the operation OF tho
publication
Wrote Peters IN "Coronet
To Ncc how the authors af hate
literature pattern their output TO
feed on community conflicts, q IN
necessary only 20 look NJ what hap,
pcucd IN the busy little city of
Railway New Jersey 30 mites
from New York
The plory began one morning
iaHt August when James y, Roose-
welt the Young City Administrators
~ Railway stepped into his city
hail offioc Just ~ the telephone
began ringing AnHworinr II, ho
found himself Spreading with an
irnto woman who bad Just found
au her front porch -four, page
newspaper called Common sonAe
It's headline shr told him. read
"Fmorino Deadly Fiat Poison
Added "a DRINKING Water" stamp
Ell nn margin were two legends
Railway Water " Treated With
r1aurina ard Telephone Your
Mayor ard Your Councilman Tof
a moment Roosevelt thought his
caltor was protesting the city'p
water fmondation program nut
she qiicisly scl him straight Read
ing from other text in tho news
paper she quoted the following
"1'he NAACp. Communist IN
Hpirod and maiiyatod has never
cared whit for the botlurnent ~
the Negroes. itH sole aim and pur
pose IL 90 stir NJ race hatrsd and
iisnension sherman ADAMS IL
not the only Christian politician
who IL Ia the pocket ~ a tcwl"
Roosevelt ordered an iuy.aiiga
ton which showed That Common
Sense had been placed ON about
600 front pofchcs in Halfway
The paper was published In
nearby ruion, New Jersey, by -
notorious anti semitic psInrd
Condc MoGiniey. mckinley. us
Ing thu anti Communist slant.
ran his newspaper Ia attack
Jews and Negroes. Zionists.
brotherhood, finovidafion, tho
nepubiicap and Democratic part.
Ies and long iist ~ other tar
gets
Roosevelt and Railway citizens |
irlrd quickly Churches. nsvHpa
,cra and civic organizations de-
The hate publication ON
Angus, ~. Railways city Council |
1assed resolution denminnlng |
Common gcnao AMI calling on the
ltste Legislature 20 enact laws
yhich would allow municipalities !
. control and prevent the distri-
''i,iop ~ periodicals classified az
soandslois. bigoted and |
uiolsrnn, IN November. the
'mincii parsed an ordinance that
orbads throwing newspapers on
orchea
The greatest danger ~ hate ne
nature ~ that the uniformed
during times Of tension
viil b. taken In by its Hes and
distortions This IN particularly |
,oaaibie where the hate. mongsr |
,ss ciayerly Tied his message into
genuine community conflict. ma
many Northern raeiais have In
hs case ~ the South John Kasper
he anti gemi,ic travelling sales
nan ~ segregation who only re-
emily finished prison sentence
or conspiracy 10 ineits n no, al /
linton. Tennessee has written |
'uch tracts NJ onr headed "Nigra !
r lew a'o9Rs
Generally this new mixture ~
init s.sni,ism ana white ~iprem-
Wy attempts 70 portray the 81
,rsns Caartu school douegregn
son decision a. The right - self
taken away from
, sovereign state because ~ an