The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-22
East Side

eQST SIoe
an idea whose hour has arrived"
Durino Brotherhood Week we have occasion to
vey the national scene to make IAN agonzng reap
prasa" Of our spiritual assets and moral liabilities Realism
commands to admit that our greatest domestic problem
since the Civil War is one of intolerance in housing in
schools and even in churches Intolerance has ever
been the handmaiden of toaaransm Let US therefore be
keeny aware that he who feeds the flames of prejudice
kindIes fire under his own home.
Americas greatest assurance of retaining her own
economic political and social freedoms must lie in the realm
of practcng Them For instance intolerance and prejudice,
when carried into action effectively defeat economic
well as other detectives which democratic peoples seek
One Of Americas outstanding analysts, Elmo Roper Asso-
GATES Inc reports that Prejudice and intolerance in ob
occupations and restrictive housing directly or indirectly
s cost America 80 billion dollars each year"
Every sound aspect Of the modern practice Of real
fate founded upon human rights Therefore, have good
reason as occupation, to observe December 10th the
10th anniversary Of the United Nations Declaration Of u
man Rights However in the light Of world conditions and
attacks upon the institution Of private properly the
observance Of the event is not enough greater adheance
to its principles is imperative lest bring about
own extinction
The true strength Of free people lies in their ability
to disagree an atmosphere Of freedom, and to dispute
and take issue without fear Of physical retaliation On that
principle this column has taken evocabe stand for the
liberty Of all groups to have unrestricted and adequate
housing And in doing recall the o50s when Henry
Ward Beecher clearly stated 1.-THE real democratic Ameri
idea not that every shall be level with every
other but that every shall have liberty, without hind
rance, to be what God made him"
Because Of our own historical beliefs in human freedom
background and struggle for liberty, and flight
to America to be free to mold destiny we
best, it would that today would not only reflect
but take action to bring about among our own citizens
uer meaning Of dignity, liberty and freedom We should re-
member always that Of all the people this globe there is
unfit the American who persUades forces
any other person into any form condition of slavery
The world "count-down" on Vital to the issue is the
Just and proper Of real properly and billion resenu
people await the outcome. Still sanction inequties in
the real estate For instance should the International
y renowned Dr. Ralph Bunche return to this city he would
find restrictions upon his right to home Or should
the great American Miss Marian Anderson recently made
an honorary citizen Of Bernao County, choose to retire
here she would find her freedom buy home severy
mfed in nine out of every 10 additions in Albuquerque
sr The practice of real estate has yet to win it's Magma
cata! And this will be achieved until all those in the
field including the leaders, realize that real estate has its
foundations rooted in the depths Of freedom that real
fate must be an mplacabe foe to regmentaton conformi
f prejudice force and violence; that respect for properly
rights must never be given priority human welfare
and that Communism has respect for either In
those who would benefit from free society must be fear
less in assuming the responsibility for propagatng it.
Underwood Realty has convinced me therefore, when