The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-11-30

believe it can fierce the people OF Holmes
County to subscribe to or read it
and IL there are any pressures applied
in the future to the people as there
have been in the past, | shall expose
them to public view and knowledge, in
the community interest.
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We gratefully acknowledge your
support in the past and respectfully
solicit it for the future.
And we believe you, the people, will
continue to give rs your support
because you realize we are fighting
sincerely for you and for the rights
Of all citizens to have a voice in COM
munity affairs and what may be
even more Important, that we are fight
ing against any Individual or group of
men who want to establish a dictator
ship in this community, and tell you
what you can do, say, or think.
As a matter of ugly fact, We are
close to having a dictatorship in eff
tect right now IN Lexington.
why, for instance, can't Lexing-
ton have a Parent Teachers Association,
which a group of parents has been
wanting for more than a year?
You ali know the answer = for
the same little pressure group which
won't let you have a PTA ~(allegedly
because cit might lead to integration'0
is the same pressure group that is now
trying to force you to subscribe to and
read the Holmes County Herald land
remember the Herald wouldn't even
print the true story about the organi-
rational meeting of the PTA held at
the Lexington School0
These few extremists and fanatics
on the racial question through their
own fears and lack of confidence in
the people Of Holmes County are stand
ing in the way of all progress in Lex
ington and are a direct threat to the
racial peace and harmony We should
all be doing our best to preserve =
the racial peace and harmony which
this editor and her two newspapers
have done much to create by u
policy of honest and fair treatment to
everyone, regardless of rank or station,
race color, or creed.
IL these radicals are allowed to
continue on their present course. not
only are they going to bring on the
very thing they say they are trying
to prevent, they are going to destroy
this community and possibly the en-
tire county in the process.
Already Lexington has lost a large
number of fire citizens, whole families
of business and professional people, be-
cause they just couldn't be bothered
with living in a community where
people who border on the lunatic fringe
are allowed to WELD such a big stick.
And we are going to lose more
families for the same reason. +
Intelligent, educated people of abili-
ty and means just do not care to live
in an atmosphere in which people don't
feel free to think as they please and
voice their opinions on any subject,
anywhere they choose, Or at any time
they please.
How many people in Lexington or
in Holmes County today feel free to
speak out?
The freedom that is threatened is
your W - and the threat is just as
real and meaningful as if you lived in
Soviet Russia.
What can the people do to win
back their freedom? To change the
present suffocating atmosphere to a
free, democratic one in which all peo-
pie have a voice, in the American ira
dition of a free people?
| do not propose to tell you what
to do. I never have and | never will.
AS for me, personally, I shall go
on doing the best | can to keep you in
formed and aware of what is happen
ing in this community and in this
county with a firm faith in tha Cod mbo