Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-13
Patriotic
.FelIowshipIs
Americas
Salvation
JOSEPH F. ALBRIGHT
Staff Correspondent

A Communist leader once told
me in Mexico City that their de-
termined and ultimate goal was
the destruction of America AZ q
world power. He then frankly
stated that one of the most Eff
1ective weapons they proposed to
use In this accomplishment was
70 fan the flames Of Americas in
ternal differences particularly
the racial problems to weaken
our national unity, and thereby in
vlte our self destruction.
No one who is even casually ia
mlliar with Communist "infiltra-
ton" vicious schemes will be sur
prised at this blunt statement.
khrushchev and the spokesman for
the Kremlin's world domination
scheme have said the same thing
over and over again, and they mean
every word of it.
In this struggle for national sur
vival, we had better bring the bed
rock issues into the focus of our
sane and reasonable consideration.
We had better remember the wis
dom of Thomas Jefferson who ex-
pressed the conviction that our
common sense would always pre-
vail in the hour of joint crisis and
peril. We had better stop this
weakening "feudin' and fightin',"
among ourselves and stand togeth-
er firmly united on some common
ground of patriotism and under
standing. We had better recog-
nize the hard fact that the Com
munists don't give two whoops in
hell about our respective race,
color, class, age, sex, or creed; to
them we are ALL just so many po-
tential slaves. And above all we
had better remember that il the
worst possible fate should befall
US though God forbid -.
and nuclear war is Unbiased on
the world, the hydrogen bomb will
be no respector Of race or any
other distinction in the past of its
utter estruction. ...
The only repeat: ONLY -.
force that can put an end forever
to the Communist evil plan for
world enslavement is q strong,
united America. This unity can
and will never be accomplished by
the mere enactment of laws. 1t
can be brought about only through
the acceptance of patriotic brother
hood in. the arena in which our
differences must be resolved. 1t can
be made a living, virile, force for
the salvation of civilization when
American men and women who love
God and country will demand that
the conference table of just fellow
ship will replace the battle-ground
of group and racial strife which can
only result in giving comfort to
our mortal enemy.
There can be no better place in
which to set the example for this
crusade of neighborly consideration
that in our own State of Missis-
sippi; for too long have we been
held up to the scorn of the nation
as the insoluble area of racial dis
cord. Let us substitute more dis
cussing for "cussing.' Let US, the
citizens of this great and sovereign
State, first show our love for it
by resorting to no action, wrong
fully or willingly, which could re-
tard its progress. Let US be friends,
and this we can be without being
social" associates.
Booker T. Washington, the
South's beloved and immortal Ne
gro educator, once said that in all
things social we could be as sep
arate as the fingers on the hand;
but that those same fingers when
clenched could become q powerful
fist for the welfare Of the South
and nation. Let US use that fist
now not against each other
but to strike down Americas
brutal enemy and insure the hope
of tho world