St. Paul recorder., 1959-04-03

received copies of Common
Union, New Jersey.
The issue most widely distr-
in which Manning johnson, 70
and being widely used by Viii
NAACP, libels that effective or
The Minnesota state legiSla
for which the legislature post
master had to pay the postage
The papers were said to have been
traced to a Northside candidate
for alderman.
Paul Hurley who is candidate for
alderman from the Third Ward
sent this newspaper a copy of
Jan. l, Common Sense"
The particular issue attacks the
observance Of brotherhood Week, :"
in America and Manning Johnson
attacks the NAACP as Commun-
ist controlled, an obvious falsehood.
This months issue of "Coron-
et," calls the turn on Common
Sense" in an article on Hate
Merchants" in which William Pet
ers describes the operation of the
publication.
Wrote Peters in "Coronet."
To see how the authors of hate
literature pattern their output to
feed on community conflicts, il is
necessary only to look at what hap
pened in the busy little city of
Railway, New Jersey, 20 miles
from New York
The story began one morning
last August when James F. Roose-
velt, the young City Administrator
of Railway stepped into his city
hall office just as the telephone
began ringing. Answering it, he
found himself speaking with an
irate woman who had just found
on her front porch a four-page
newspaper called Common Sense. 4"
It's headline. she told him, read
'Fluorine - Deadly Rat Poison
Added to Drinking Water" Stamp
ed on a margin were two legends
Railway Water Is Treated with
F1ourine," and Telephone Your
Mayor and Your Councilman" For
a moment Roosevelt thought his
caller was protesting the city's
water fluoridation program. But
she quickly set him straight. Read
ing from other text in the news
paper, she quoted the following:
THE NAACP, Communist-in-
spired and motivated, has never
cared a whit for the betterTnent of
the Negroes; its sole aim and pur-
pose is to stir up race hatred and
dissension." Sherman Adams Is
not the only Christian politician
who is in the pocket of a Jew"
Roosevelt ordered an investiga-
ton which showed that Common
Sense had been placed on about
1000 front porches in Railway.
The paper was published In
nearby Union, New Jersey, by q
notorious anti Semitic named
Conde Mckinley. Mckinley, us
ing the anti Communist slant,
ran his newspaper to attack
Jews and Negroes, ZlOnists,
brotherhood, fluOridation, the
Republican and Democratic part
les and q long list Of other tar
gets.
Roosevelt and Railway citizens
acted quickly. Churches, newspa-
pers and civic organizations de-
nounced the hate publication. On
August 13, Railways City Council
passed a resolution denouncing
Common Sense and calling on the
State Legislature to enact laws
which would allow municipalities
to control and prevent the distri-
button Of periodicals classified as
scurrilous, scandalous, bigoted and
intolerant." In November, the
Council passed an ordinance that
forbade throwing newspapers on
porches.
The greatest danger Of hate lit
erature is that the uninformed-
during times of tension
will be taken in by its lies and
distortions. This is particularly
possible where the hate-monger
has cleverly tied his message into
a genuine community conflict. as
many Northern racists have in
the case of the South. John Kasper,
the anti-Semitic travelling sales
man of segregation who only re-
Gently finished a prison sentence
for conspiracy to incite a riot at
Clinton, Tennessee, has written
such tracts as one headed "Nigra
is Jew Stooge."
Generally, this new mixture Of
anti-Semitism and white suprem-
acy attempts to portray the Su-
preme Courts school desegrega-
ton decision as THE right OF self
government taken away from
a sovereign state because Of an
erroneous decision made by the
Supreme Court under pressure
of the Jew-financed NAACP"-to
quote the rawlings of editor Gerald
L. X. Smith of The Cross and the
Flag, another hate-sheet.