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distinguishable in its theology from
Common Sense. The National De
fender and similar bigot sheets
which have long been published in
the country. But the difference Is
that this is a Hometown hate
paper" You buy it on the news
stand, or in the hotel lobby. The
degree Of its acceptability in the
community can be seen in the fact
that in its April 7 issue, eighteen
candidates for political office In
the city, county and state adver-
tised in its pages. Most Of them
allude to their dedication to the
cherished local customs, and John
Crommelin, "the whiteman's Can
didate to the us. Senate" Is IL
possible even more explicit:
As your Senator, 1 win ATTACK
and EXPOSE the Anti-Defamation
league of B'nai Birth (ADL), the
malarial-mosquito Of Indignation
and REAL HIDDEN ENEMY Of
White Christian AlabamianS. THIS
MUST BE DONE. The ADJ (all
jew is the mosquito; the NAACP
(jew controlled Negro) Is the
germ.
The message that the whole
campaign against segregation Is
part Of the Communist Jewish"
conspiracy is also brought to the
citizens of Montgomery by Mr..
Crommelin on the local television
station.
In the search for traitors, the
Jew is an ideal target for the white
Southern racist AS the threat to
local racal customs grows, the
embattled white-Protestant zealot
finds in the Jew a ready-made
outsider living in his midst, and
the results are a rise in anti-Sem-
itic feeling which Is likely to end
In incidents like the bombing Of
synagogues 1.-THE most recent Of
which took place in Gadsen, Ala
bama, this spring.. This current
rise in anti-Semitism in the South
is, like the rest of the current
rhetoric of hate, nothing new, and
its roots were well explained by
w. J. Cash:
The Jew is everywhere the
eternal alien writes Mr.. CASH and
in the South, where any difference
had always stood out with great
vividness, he was especially so.
Hence it was perfectly natural
that, in the general withdrawal
upon the old heritage, the rising
insistence on conformity to it, he
should come in for renewed de-
nunciations; should, as he passed
in the street, stand in the eyes of
the people as a sort of evil har-
binger and incarnation of all the
menaces they feared and hated
external and internal, real and i'm
aginary.
Flight into Prejudice
The White Citizens Councils,
which claim to be clean of pre-
JUDGE of any kind, are fond of
pointing to their acceptance Of
Jewish members. Indeed, the Jew
in the South may often join his
local Citizens Council with genuine
dedication - not so much in the
desire to protect the tradition Of
white supremacy as to protect
himself and his family. This rea-
soning was well explained in an
anonymous letter from a Jewish
member Of the Mississippi Citizens
Council which was published in the
April edition Of the Montgomery
Citizens Council newspaper under
the heading, "A Jewish View"
Because 1 have always mani
Tested such respect for my own
religion, my fellow members Of my
local Citizens Council would not
for one moment entertain thoughts
Of turning the Citizens Councils
activities into anti-Semitic chan
nels. This pattern is, I am confid-
ent, being repeated in all the towns
and cities where respected and self
respecting Jewish Southerners have
felt as feel-that segregation
must be maintained and that MEM
bership in the Citizens Council will
help to maintain It speak from