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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-08-13

Vic SOIllIIllSSlOu OH lIllGIIdCldI
Cooperation which had been
founded in 1919 by leading
churchmen. Even so conservative
and segregationist a newspaper
as the Richmond Times-Dispatch
felt moved IN August Of last year
to clarity the issues in relation
to the SRC: GAS to the allegation
of the Communist Daily Worker
that James E. Jackson, chief of
the Southern branch of the us.
Communist Party, was Co
founder of the Southern Region
al Council there is nothing to
support this he was not at
any time an officer, director, or
member of that agency. The Dali
ly Workers statement that he
was a founder is as unreliable
and inaccurate as nearly every
thing else in that Communist
sheet"
In May, 1857, The Firing Line
made another allegation which
was to be widely circulated in
segregation circles and at last
repeated by Representative AL
ford in his recent speech. "Rec-
ords of the American Legion re-
veal a definite trend Of interre-
lationship between the SRC and
the Southern Conference for HUI
man Welfare, a defunct Commu-
mist front organization"
The Southern Conference for
Human Welfare is no longer in
existence, but it once included
in it's "interrelationships" many
prominent Southerners besides
some who were later to be in the
SRC. In 1888, at the Southern
Conference meeting in Birming-
ham, Alabama, among those who
were part Of the proceedings were
Governor-elect Burnett Maybank
of South Carolina, Alabama's
Senator John H. Bankhead, Bish-
op Robert Lucey of Texas, Gov
ernor Bibb Graves of Alabama,
and others Of equal prominence
and reputation. In 1916 the Con-
ference staged a dinner in Wash
ington, D. c., honoring Justice
Hugo Black. The POSTMASTER on
this occasion was then Senator
later Vice-President Alben w.
Barley. At the speakers table
was the Honorable James F.
Byrnes. Among the sponsors of
the dinner were Secretary of
State Edward Stettinius, Secre-
tary of Defense James Forrestal,
and President Harry S. Truman.
Surely guilt by association can
not include all these men.
SRC Director Fleming said not
long ago: "The tragedy is that
these self-appointed experts on
'subversion' show no understand
ing whatever of the real Commu-
mist movements. II thrives on
white supremacy and noisy def
.ance of desegregation rulings. The
Communists wouldn't trade one
Governor Faubus for 10000 new
recruits to the Party. By con-
trast, there are no more effective
anti Communists than those
Southerners who are working for
orderly compliance with the law
of the land. Ironically, these are
the very people whom the segre-
gationist vigilantes falsely label
reds and 'subversives'."
Eleven prominent Southern
church officials said in a state
ment in early April: 'The time
has come for the public to be
made aware of the resurgence of
McCarthyism in the South. If
there is in fact a Communist
threat, then DR.. Afford and others
like him have a responsibility to
report their knowledge to the
FBI; if not, they have a duty to
check their facts. Otherwise, they
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-08-13


nouncements or engage in or pro-
mote discussions for the purpose
of influencing students or other
persons with reference to the
problem of the integration of the
races" This particular measure
to gag the teachers died, but the
spirit behind it did not.
Last year, when 60 Louisiana
State University professors sign
ed Louisiana Civil Liberties
Union petition opposing segrega-
ton bills which would permit
closing of public schools, a legis-
lative inquiry of the professors
was launched. Members of the
House were reported to feel that
Communism and indignation
walk hand in hand" and anyone,
particularly university faculty
members, who opposes legisla-
ton aimed at keeping Louisiana
schools racially pure must have
S0ONSISlNC tGLQGIlClGSs
In December, 1858, University
Of Arkansas President J. T. CaId-
well felt it necessary to ''repu-
diate unequivocally the inputa-
ton that the University Of Ark
ansas has been penetrated by
Communists and express the full
est confidence in the members of
our faculty." And when the Ark
ansas Education Association, a
statewide organization of white
teachers and school administra-
tors, stated as policy few
months ago, eve can never COM
promise our conviction that the
public school system is not ex-
pendable," the 21-member Leg
islative Council was SO outraged
that it suggested the Education
Association members were limo
cent victims of subversive influ-
ence-and ordered an investiga-
ton by the Committee on Sub
version in Education.
The National Council of
Churches has borne much of the
brunt of the smear attack on
churchmen. One South Carolina
editor has said the NCC will
shower respect on anarchists,
Communists, and atheists but
deny respect to Southerners
whose only crime is that they
believe in traditional American
states rights"
One of the most consistently
attacked organizations in the
South recently has been the dig
nified and reasonable Southern
Regional Council. This is under
standable because it works by,
with, and for Southerners of both
races in a discussion and research
effort to undergrad indignation
with solid fact and lasting effec-
tiveness. It's voice is calm, its
work is constructive, and its eff
feet is cumulative. Unfortunate
", much of its energy lately has
been diverted in stamping out the
leaf fires spanked by irresponsible
incendiarists.
The SRC, under its knowledge
able young director, Harold Flem-
ing, is filling a unique need in
the region. Pitted against it is the
testimony of = again - the eX-
Communists, Manning Johnson,
whose appearances before the
Louisiana Rainach Committee
provided the source for the sub
sequent attacks against SRC. A
month after this hearing, in April
1857, The Firing Line, published
by the American Legion's Ma
tional Americanism Commission,
reported that Johnson's testimony
REFLECTED the Council was form
ed by James T. Jackson, South
ern organizer of the Communist
Party" The source of Johnson's
information, in turn, was a boast
in The Daily Worker on the many
accomplishments of t he SAID
Jackson. But even the Workers
fantasy had not reached as far as
Johnson's for it claimed only that
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-08-13
McCarthyism :.

designed to inspire confidence in
later accusations of Communist
infiltration. Nevertheless, tn e
committee proceeded with it's
televised probe featuring the tes-
timony of these two men.
Since the hearings in Arkansas
in December and Representative
Affords February speech to the
House, Attorney General Bennett
has branched out in his activities.
In March he helped instigate and
guide a legislative probe in the
adjoining state of Tennessee.
The exploration concerned the
Highlander Folk School, founded
and directed by Myles Horton,
native Tennessean This school
has been controversial since its
establishment in 1884 by the very
nature of it's interests: labor or
ganization and, more recently,
racial integration. Endorsed by
such national figures as Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Reinhold Me
buhr, Monsignor John O'Grady,
Harry Golden, and former IVA
Chairman Gordon Clapp, the
school had come under close fed
eral scrutiny when its eax-exempt
status was restored over a year
ago. But federal clearance did not
satisfy Arkansas Bennett, who
flew to Nashville to testify that
in his opinion the school is sub
versive. run 'em out; Run 'em
out"' he advised the committee
members, referring to leaders of
the school,
Many Tennesseans resented his
advice, recalling though-control
bill he had introduced in his
own states legislature, making it
unlawful ito encourage noncon-
Torrance with the established
traditions, customs and usage of
the state"
The Chattanooga Times COM
mented: 1--WE are neither patrons
nor partisans of Highlander Folk
School But unpopularity is
not sufficient reason for official
harassment or intimidation. When
one mans right to argue an I'M
popular course is assailed, an
others right to advocate the op-
posite is threatened. Fourteen
University of the South profess
sors, who live only five miles
from Highlander, in nearby Sc
vance, came out in a public state
ment supporting the school and
its democratic ideals" The
Nashville Tennessean battled
against what it called a witch
hunt" warning that Tennessee
didnot need or deserve ''the dis
tinction of reviving Mccarthy
ism"
Interspersed with the activities
of these various official commit
tees have been numerous other
investigations, legislative propos-
ais, printed and verbal attacks
designed to obscure the black and
white problem with the red men
ace. The NAACP has been under
constant fire but other groups
gaining increased attention in
clude labor organizations, teach
ers, the clergy, and interracial
councils. ct may be significant
for the future that Manning john
son, one Of the favorite friendly
witnesses" of these hearings,
wrote an article denouncing the
NAACP in a recent issue of the
violently anti-Semitic Common
Sense.)
THE NAACP? Oh, you mean
the National Association for the
Advancement of the Communist
Party" At filling stations and
small town stores in many parts
of the South there is ready evil
dence of the easy acceptance OF
a scapegoat.
Yet J. Edgar Hoover, in his re-
cent masters of Deceit, source
widely quoted throughout n
South on other aspects of Com
,o,,niSno and even praised by
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-12-04

must be made strong and impreg-
nable. Otherwise, she becomes an
easy target for those who see in
her a threat to their selfish privi-
leges. Those who benefit from the
past, fear the future. To them the
future may destroy these benefits.
That is the reason that every wea-
pom of passion and propaganda is
being used against Israel. 1t is her
enemies who are most aware of
the real meaning of modern Is
rael. That is why they fear her.
If Israel is to remain strong, if
she is to carry out her historical
destiny, she must have the sup
port of all who recognize her inn
portance to the cause of human
freedom. The meaning of Israel
extends far beyond her national
borders. She is part of the free
world. She is an embattled outpost
of all who believe that God has en-
dowed man with the right to life,
freedom, and justice.
WE WHO PROFESS this belief
have the serious obligation to help
all those who protect and propagate
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-12-04

it's truth. To do this is more than
a duty. 1t is a privilege. For to
serve the cause of freedom is to
serve the cause of man. Man,
without the dignity of his liberty,
is less than man. And it is pre-
cisely this dignity of freedom
which is at stake today. What we
do now for the cause of human
freedom shall determine in large
measure the whole future of man
kind.
Israel, against heavy odds, is do
ing her part in this struggle for
man. To help here is to help the
cause of human freedom every
where. There is no endeavor more
worthy of our support. Nor could
there be any more satisfying re-
turn than the knowledge of having
shared in the defense of man, his
dignity and his freedom. Israel of
fers us the privilege Of participat-
ing in this effort on behalf of man.
I am certain that we shall accept
the offer and respond to it gener-
ouSly.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-12-04
DR.. HAROLD A. SHAPIRO
Shapiro Joins
Broker Firm

DR.. Harold A. Shapiro, for the
past three years associate profess
sor of economics and bureau of bus
mess services economist at Ari-
zona State University, has become
member of the Phoenix staff of
the Dean Witter & Company in
vestment brokerage firm.
A widely known lecturer on
economics and finance in the
Southwest, DR.. Shapiro received
his masters degree from Univer-
sity of Wisconsin and doctorate in
economics from University of Tex
as.
He served as assistant district
economist for the Office of Price
Sterilization and for 13 years
taught economics and finance at
the college and university level. :.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-12-04
Archbishop Honors Israel

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This article
consists of excerpts from the ad-
dress by Archbishop Shell at
recent banquet at which he was
hOnOred as OhicagO's 1859 Israel
Bond ''Man of the Year" in
recognition of his friendship for
Israel and his support for her
develOpment.)
BY Archbishop Bernard j. Shell
The return of the Jewish people
to their homeland, after centuries
of exile, is an event of prophetic
Importance to the history of man.
These immigrants to their own
country are much like the early set
tiers of America. For they possess,
as these did, the ideals, the know
ledge and the skills necessary to
bring about a social revolution in
a large area of the world. Like the
founders of America, their achieve
ment may serve as a model for
other peoples who seek an escape
from the oppressive past.
The establishment of the State of
Israel is an indiSputable step to-
wards this larger goal. It's crea-
ton, like most human endeavorS,
meant much bitter sacrifice and
suffering. But these have been
transcribed in that satisfaction
which comes only from good ac-
complished. There are thousands
of children in Israel today who
have been given a second chance
at life. For years their world was
one bounded by barbed wire. Now
their lost childhood has been re-
stored to them. Their happiness
is, in itself, a sufficient reward for
the struggle endured.
AFTER TEN YEARS, Israel
stands as the living, concrete en-
bodiment of two traditional Jewish
ideals, namely, human freedom
and social justice. Moreover, Is
rael proves that both are requisite
to the founding of a genuinely hui
man community. It is only in the
climate of freedom and justice that
mans knowledge and slills can
be used for the betterment of man.
To change a desert into garden,
to harness the powers of nature,
to build factories-these are high
achievements.
But, they must always serve the
enlargement of human freedom
and the promotion of justice. 9th
erwise, they may become subtle
instruments for the enslavement OF
man. Israel has laid her founda-
tons deep in the soil of freedom
and justice. That is why her ac-
complishments carry such an i'm
portant lesson for the world.
THE FOUNDERS OF modern
Israel carved it out of wasteland.
Today, it is literally an oasis in a
desert. For Israel stands in bar
rem land of human oppression and
destitution. Millions of her neigh
bors exist in an outmoded society
built upon ignorance and exploita-
ton. Trapped in a dead end OF his
tory. these people have had no
choice but to submit to serfdom.
Here precisely lies the import
ance of Israel in the wider context
of history. For Israel can become
for all the people of the Middle
East the model and symbol of a
more humanity satisfying life. She
opens up the prospect of a COM
munity founded not on ignorance
but on knowledge; not, on exploita-
ton but on opportunity. Israel
proves that human freedom, an
chored in justice, is the only last
ing foundation upon which the city
of man can be erected.
TO BE THIS MODEL and SYM
Dol of hope for millions of dispos-
sessed people is the mission OF Is
-1-..oxoI;eI, ~ che herself
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-12-04
Ben Gurion Wonfs
Pucfs With Arabs

TEL AVN (JTA)-Israel stands
ready to convert the existing arm
istice agreements with the border
ing Arab States into non-aggres-
sion pacts and is prepared to dis
arm if the Arabs would do like
wise, Premier David Ben-Gurion
told a meeting here of the newly
elected Mapai Party members of
the Knesset.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26
DC. OK Seen
On Fairfax
Sewage Plan

The District Commissioners
this week are expected TO sign
a sewage treatment contract
with Fairfax County, the first
such agreement between the
city and a Virginia community,
Under the arrangement, sew
age fhrom the Pimmitt Run VAL
ley will be treated at the Dis
trict's Blue Plains plant.
The county plans to lay q
16-inch line across the river al
Chain Bridge. A gravity pipe
will be extended along the val
ley to a point near the Contra
Intelligence Agency site al
Langley.
CHA will tie into the new line
after a pumping station is con-
Structed.
The piping arrangement to
Blue Plains ultimately will
serve $4,000 persons after the
line is constructed to the
county's treatment plant al
Bryan Branch and Pimmitt
Run, officials said. The city will
treat the sewage at cost.
The Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors last week signed
the contract and approval is
expected at a commissioners
meeting this week. The county
plans to begin construction OF
the Chain Bridge line in about
six weeks.
Congress last spring passed
legislation enabling the city to
enter into the treatment con-
tracts with Virginia jurisdic-
tons. The District now is
handling most Of the sewage
from nearby Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26

Citizens Association In the
parish hall of st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, Potomac avenue
and o streets NV.
Other meetings this week, all
at 3 pm, are.
TOMORROW
-Four Avenues Southeast Citizens As
soeiatlon, 1909 Fort Davis street Sc
Mid.Clty Citizens Association. boart
room OF the National SAVINGS anc
Trust Building. Fifteenth street anc
New York avenue NV,
Oldest Inha bitanta, Inc, Metropol,
ltan Baptist Church, Thirteenth ane
r streets NV
Northwest boundary Civic Assoela.
tlon. Mcfarland Junior High School
Iowa avenue and Webster street NV
TUESDAY
Civic Retirement Association, Male
School, Fiftieth and B streets Sc
Deanwood Civic Association, CarVei
School, whittinsham place and sher'
LsDfolt Park Civic Association. 4iC
T street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26

never have been connected or
used.
3. The local warning system
was ineffective until Federal
officials decided to install sirens
themselves.
Col. Fondahl, so, has run
local civil defense activities on
a stringent budget cut consis-
tently by Congress. This year
he is seeking $4,000, a $4,000
increase over his $87 1000 oper-
ating budget.
Also scheduled to appear al
the hearing are Robert E.
Mclaughlin, president OF the
Board Of Commissioners; Fed
eral Civil Defense Director Lee
A. Hoegh and his assistant d.
rector for plans and operations
Lewis Berry. as we'll as spokes-
men for the Internal Audit
Office.
They will be questioned al
10 am. in Room 1902 of the
new Senate Office Building bJ
staff members of the special
investigating subcommittee oil
the Senate Government Opera
tons Committee.
Acting Subcommittee Chair
man jackson, Democrat Of
Washington, said he expected
to hold an executive session
first to get to the core of COM
plants without damaging Off
Gals who might not be respon-
sible. Then, the meeting prob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26
Catholic U. Teacher
Gets Fellowship

Columbia University's Teach
ers College has named DR.. Lo-
retta E. Heidgerken, professor
in the Cotholic University
School of Nursing, to a fellow
ship to study abroad this sum-
mer,
She will study problems Of
contemporary education in Eng
land, France, Norway, Sweden
Finland, the Soviet Union and
Czechoslovakia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26

ably will be thrown open to
the public, he said.
Expected to be aired are Fed
eral expenses Of more 100000
for an area survival plan, now
approved generally by District,
Maryland and Virginia ofiicials,
but never supplemented. Con-
gress in February received this
five-volume analysis Of survival
chances. 1t took three years to
draft and now is filed away
in the Senate and House Dis
trict Committees, powerless to
recommend funding or to
handle Federal legislation, upon
which augmentation Of this
plan would depend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26
Low School to Hear
Washington Attorney

Washington Attorney Albert
Brick will speak May Q at a
spring banquet of the univer-
sit yof Florida Law School in
Gainesville, Fla.
Mr.. Brick, who lives at 36l6
suitland road Sc. and is an
alumnus Of the university, will
present the Gertrude Brick Law
Review prize which he estab-
lished in 1851 to the schools
outstanding freshman law stu
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26
CITIZENS
MEETINGS

Meeting announcements
must be in the hands OF the
Ciuic Calendar editor by noon
Thursday OF each meek TO
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Those
received too late wiH not be
used seudrately unless there
Is some special netos signif-
canoe attached to Them
DR.. Richard H. Rowland
president Of the National Trust
for Historic Preservation, viii
speak at 8 pm. tomorrow al
a meeting Of the Georgetown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26
FondohI Will Testify
On 'Mismonogement'

District Civil Defense Director John T. Fondah will be
called before investigating subcommittee tomorrow
TO answer charges OF mismanagement in his once.
The inquiry is aimed at finding out why area survival
Hlans have not been supplemented. .
snecnc complaints have reached the subcommittee that:
Some $4,000 worth of property was mslad through
sloppy accounting. -, 49,.
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Milford chronicle., 1959-03-20
Newspapers And LapdrtiaIity

most able men he had seen and was qualified tC
hold the highest Office in the country.
Naturally, the Talmadge stands for arch
conservatism in New York, and endorsement by Tai
madge is like the kiss of death for the Majority
Leader One readily the effect of the public
y Lyndon Johnson got in the treatment of these two
news items.
All of which is, perhaps, natural. 1t is a, known
fact that the most liberal element of the country
centered in New York and elsewhere. would oppose
Johnson because he is moderate and the opinion
here is that he does not get the benefit of any pub
licity breaks in many newspapers-maybe the re
surt of subconscious prejudice against him among
editors handling the news On the other hand. he
probably gets above-average treatment in certain
other newspapers and in certain sections of the
try All of which shows that despite the traditions
and the honest efforts of members of the fourth
tate, the columns do not seem to be altogether
impartial as they should be-
Milford chronicle., 1959-03-20

1t is interesting to notice how newspaper editors,
sometimes unconscousy, let their personal prefer
ences interfere with impartial handling of the
news. The treatment of affecting Senate Ma
jority Leader Lyndon Johnson Texas the latest
to examplify this human failing.
For example when the Majority Leader at
tackled by liberal Senator William Proxmire, of
Wisconsin, with the criticism that he did not hold
enough party caucuses. newspapers like the New
York Times ran the story page one with Prox-
mires picture giving it major attention. Yet those
Senators, most of them also liberals, who TO
Johnsons defense were not given much billing.
few days later, reporting the remarks of
Senator John Kennedy (D.-Mass.) when reporting
Kennedy's opinion that Lyndon Johnson had ''prac
tcal chance to win the 1860 Democratic nomination.
this statement was Immediately followed by para
graph quoting Senator Herman Talmadge, Georgia
Democrat saying that the Texan was one of the