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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-10-18

M -Mt 49,
Governor Ross Barnett has shown
the world and the u. S. Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals he wants to go to- jail
by the statement he issued Monday
afternoon.
This leaves the average Mississip-
plan wondering why the Governor is
virtually daring the U. S. Court to Jail
him.
Dick Sanders, head of the news
bureau Of WLBT television station in
Jackson, said Monday night On Com
ment" that some supporters of Gov
ernor Barnett are Hoping" the u. S.
Court will jail him.
Sanders explanation was the
handling of the whole desegregation
controversy at Ole Miss by Barnett
and his advisors was to use it as a
springboard for launching a third
party movement in the United States,
presumably of conservative forces.
The television reporter also said
he believes the ticket for the proposed
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-10-18
World And Nations
Press Comment On
Ole Miss

Mob Violence and rioting on the University of Mis-
sissippi campus September 80 over the entrance of
one Negro stuoeht topped the news during the past
two weeks with banner headlines in boxcar size type
on page one in newspapers throughout the United
States and the world.
The racially Spanked incident was also the sub
ject Of ~seathihg cartoons and extensive picture cover
age in newspapers everywhere.
Editorial comment, while in a few instances ex-
pressing sympathy" for Southern people, more often
denounced and criticized Governor Ross Barnett's de-
fiance of law and generally held him responsible for
~inciting the mob to action.
Printed herewith are excerpts from editorials in
leading newspapers in the South and elsewhere.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-10-18
In The South .

NEWS. Greensboro, N. e:
Blood Had been spilled.
Lives had been snuffed our
u. S. marshals and U. S.
troops were under attack. T.
the. integrity Of the United
States prevails. there can Be
nr alternative to the speed
elimination Of all rebelli u
and resistance"
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-10-18

Abroad
LONDON DAILY EX-
PRESS: All the old hates Of
the Civil War 100 years ago
are boiling again"
.sa
EXPRESSEN, Stockholm:
"The spokesrnen for segrega-
ton are not waging more than
a delaying fight against TIE
development"
L'AURORE. Paris chs
Americans will probably feel
that we understand poorly.
from here, these outbursts
from another age, for and a
gainst the admission of &
black student to a un versity.
Hitler, then has not cured
the world of racism? There
are, then, in a country in d
so-called model civilization
still people who distinguish
between their kind according
to the color of their skin. And
this while satellites continue
their orbits. while the space
begins to give up its secrets"
EAST GERMAN NEW
SERVICE, ADM. The United
States government has "bow-
ed to the fanatical racists in
Mississippi and postponed the
registration of james Mera-
dith."
IZVESTIA, Moscow W, de-
scribed the Meredith case as
Still another. slap at the
Wanted American democra-
cy."
They printed a dispatch
from their New York corre-
spondents under the headline.
Scandal in the State Of Mis-.
sissippi." Subheads said that
Meredith was fighting for
his right to study in a univer-
sity" and that Washington
retreats before racists."
THE JoURN-
AL, Alberta, Canada: the
segregationist diehards of the
South are blackening the
good name of Their. country
throughout the world, and
putting an unnecessary bur-
den on the Administration at
Washington.
"In the special case Of the
courageous Mr.. Meredith, the
gAod people Of Mississippi
should ask themselves what
sense there was in trying to
keep a person of his calihre
cut of the. states leading edu.
cationa1 institution"
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And At Home
THE &

THE MISSISSIPPIAN. the
University of Mississippi, OK
ford: "Not only do the stu
dents chance forfeiting their
education by participating in
riots, but they are bringing
dishonor and shame to the
university and to the state Of
Mississippi.
PRESS SCIMITAR, Mem
pLis: The issue SIS the whole
American way OF life - The
reality is that desegregation
is now American national po-
Icy and Americans must
accept it, in whatever state
they may reside, unless they
can change it in the halls Of
Congress or by arguments in
the courts"
THE COMMERCIAL AP-
PEAL Memphis: "The only
reasonable conclusion is that,
whether we like it or not,
Federal law must prevail.
What hanpens in Mississippi
otherwise? Armed interven-
tion2 That would be ridicu-
lous."
"P1avir1. notifies and wav-
irr the Rcnrie Blue Flag arr
no. answers. The answers NAV
he unbeatable. But not so
bitter as hatred and violence"
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Like our editor friend quoted
above, Hal Decell at Rolling Fork, we
were mortified at some of the flaming
stories carried in some daily and week
ly newspapers in the state = Stories
which had already been nailed for
what they were, pure fabrications.
We had not intended commenting
on this because we have a natural re-
vulsion to telling other people how to
run their business, particularly our
fellow editors.
But since the we'll being of every
Mississippian now and in the future
is at stake, and the general welfare Of
the nation affected, we feel strongly
all of us in the Fourth Estate in Mis-
sissippi should take a long, hard look
at what happened in the events before
and during the controversy at Ole
Miss. We should be able to determine
how we'll we did or did not live up to
our responsibilities, not, only in report
ing the events, but in editorials and
columns of opinion all of which had
a direct bearing on the thinking and
actions of Mississippians in the crisis
when it came.
We believe we should go ever far
ther and honestly examine the historic
facts which led to our present tragic
situation in the state with the idea of
trying to determine what Mississippi's
newspapers could have done to pre-
vent it coming about or once it occur
red what we could have done to help
it. and of wen more Importance what
we can do to make certain nothing like
it ever happens again.
Mississippi newspapers cannot es-
cape our considerable part of the re-
sponsibility for the critical condition
Of our state today. Nor can we shirk
the mammoth task of trying to re-
gain what is lost and rebuild that
which has been torn down.
The paper curtain complained Of
by some state editors Tin other Sec
tions of the country is an obstacle in
our own state to some degree. It stands
between the people and the truth and
reality of the present day world. BY
feeding the people a steady dose OF
pap and what they want to hear in
the past, these papers must be held
accountable for the fact that their
readers are completely out of touch
with reality and unable to cope with it.
It is the business and the respon-
sibility of a free press to see to- it that
Mississippians are told the truth.
Their future and the future of the
state depends upon it.
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And Elsewhere

POST st.
Louis: eve regret this sad
state of affairs. 1t weakens
cur country at home and
shames it in the eyes of the
world. But we have no doubs
whatever that the President
is justified in calling out
troops as a last resort to en-
force the orders of the court,
and that it is his clear duty
to enforce them somehow"
JOURNAL, Milwaukee
"The whirlwind that Cover.
nor Ross Barnett invited has
reaped tragedy for Mississip-
pi. its university, the whole
nation. Barnett. for all that
he finally backed down be-
fore federal power and called
upon his people to obey the
law. made resistance and
violence inevitable.
ellis defiance of court or
ders. his demagogic defensHs
of what he called our heri-
taoe' and his flouting of the
Federal Government gave the
racists and the fanatics time
TO gather and build their pas
sions."
THE NEWS. Detroit: "Ths
final emotion that comes
through contemplation of the
disgraceful events = in Mis-
sissipui is one of heartfelt adj
rsiration Of the physical a1d
moral COURAGE of James How
ard Meredith, a lone colored
msn standing up against the
power of the State.
"Enr the white men in
volved. those representing
tho state and those possessed
,.f federal mower, the game is
leoalistic. They are involve
c-lv as LAWYERS or as Off
Gals. rot as men. Their de-
c;sions are those of writs. in
i1,rc+'rns, court orders of al
kinds"
THE sim Baltimore: "a
2a-vear- old Air Force veter-
on Jones' Howard Meredith,
&c in tho rioht. and Governor
Pnss r Barnett is in the
The turmoil over the
odroice;or of . colored still
rant to sN1o Miss is as SIN
~le as that"
$3.50
pEPArn TRTRTNE'. New
York: "T OF us arnleu1 those
fc11~v-c+-1ents Of Weradith
~ N,a Mics who said she'in'
Or soond mnrniro' Thnt's
roste~ S:ffarent from the ira
business last Sunday
nsohf.
"rhcro are quite obviou-lv,
~ lids of people in Mis-
r'ssippi."
-.
N SUN. Baltimore:
"Rioting broke out in Oxford
- because the Barnetts and
the Walkers, with the help
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of willing hands, had IN
famed the passions Of tJos
many Mississippians to the
thin edge of violence,
80 %oBL
THE POST, Washington, D.
c.: 'From the North, 1t IS
difficult, if not impossible, TO
see the Mississippi tragedy in
any terms other than those
Of misguided, misdirected
ortdated resistance to the for
ward thrust of human events,
moving mankind toward the
fulfillment Of the ideals Of
Justice and brotherhood thai,
we have embraced in theory -
but denied in practice"
"Such a crisis. coming m
this one-hundredth year since
Emancipation. must make us
wonder what we have done.
as a people. in this long and
eventful century to bind Up
the Nations wounds, to end
the causes of the great con-
flict. to restore to the Nation
the homogeneity Of the colon
ia. period. to put back into
the countrv's spirit the COM
mon Durnoses ont of which
it emerged as a Nation.
LEADER POST. Medina,
Ohio. "Largent's Column" -r
Here's Who Won ole Miss
Battle. s. S..-
I won the war down at Ole
Miss = the University of Mis-
sissippi - this week. v7Y fgdW
Two dead, two dying, 1005ns
hurt. aossg .os
And I couldn't care less, 49,
The victory wiped out any ~
sympathy l might have for
close who nav die or those
vho were injured.
Victims in the 'little Civil
War; fit perfectly into the
scheme of things. 81 3Ts1W
The kew figures in the dra7foy
ma nlaved their parts perfect fuc
w I am pleased to renort. -
Thew were Governor Ross s
Parrett and James H. Mere
9th. Negro student.
Govarror Barnett did q
rroonif'cient Job IN setting the y
e+aoa for preliminaries that
led To death and Destruction.
Meredith couldn't have been
he+ter &c he plaved out his
ev~~athetir role TO the hi1f
vos evorvthino went exart-n
- &c ' I'D hc~ed. Sure. IFS 3
~-o +h~t T didn't care IL
r-~~odith was admitted or
ro+
~ issue wasn't important
~ III
ut the b1oodehed and tho
~-:c1~~ca and the screaming
trr'';-oe were nv victory.
Me~ed;+h was nothing 70
ne Missicsinri lust a rar,a.
~ the rioters mere stats
tics
Vow Nrow ne friend. Mkt
- & Khrnehchav
7 won the Battle of Ole
W;ss.
Ard YOU lost - all Of Won
white and Negro alike.
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Today, in trying to lay the blame
on everything and everybody for the
riot at Ole Miss, which wounded 166
Federal marshals. killed two people
and wrought havoc on the campus of
a great university, everyone is being
blamed. The Mississippi Methodist Ad-
vocate was accused Of having blood on
'loM QUA 5u!l!ou! loJ spueq sls
Who really is to blame? All of us
are guilty! We in the church are to
blame because we allowed such a force
Of hate to build up in our state. We
have known for eight years that there
were pressure groups who boasted
that if the people did not conform and
cooperate with them, they would use
social, political and economic pressures.
In the name of patriotism, the groups
thrived until they had control of our
social, political, and law-making forces.
They worked through so-called anti
communism campaigns to get u citi-
zens to distrust the Church, the
United States government and the
humanitarian agencies of the United
Nations.
We knew these forces were build
ing up but we dared not say or do
anything about it; too many good peo-
pie were involved, church members,
leaders in society. Public opinion,
which had been carefully built up
through the medium of press, radio,
and television, convinced the people Of
Mississippi that they were absolutely
right. If what they learned through
the seminars collided with the teach
ing of Christ and the church, then
they were convinced that church and
Christian teachings were taboo. Eco
nomic pressure was applied to church
literature while hate literature had a
field day.
Yes, we protested. We protested
the coming into our state (at the tax
PAYERS ~expense) of certain individuals
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required COURAGE VI
oence But whether it was
h.sed IN stupidity and the
failure to understand the les
political expediency, the peo-
pie of Mississippi best Know.
"The mob has killed IN
Mississippi. How the people
there react to this will set
that states standards for the
future.
.
NOT
happening lis as sad as it is
terrible. Men who are anx-
ious to test their power -
hen who stand to profit POI
liticallv from the cheers OF
the hecklirg mob n lave
fashioned a national crisis out
OF errors of the past.
So.
THE NEWS AND OBSERV-
ZIP Raleigh. N. c.: "There i.
certainly no massive demand
II the South for an impotent
march to futilitv and frusra-
Tim And Barnett only haet-
ene and intensifies the pro
cesses which in delusion he
THE GAZETTE. Gastonld,
N c.: "Th's is an uglv mon
STIR that has reared its head
ii Mississippi. And now It
casts its foul breath across
the entire country, especially
across the South
"The South mus suffer this
burden. If i will conf'~"e
IT, elect men like the Ross
Barretts. who not only are
Indifferent to federal law > y
arc defiant Of i. then it must
suffer the results OF the lead-
ershin.'
"cnha. s. the mnnen',
" unlmportan'.
.s+'
THE STATES-ITEM New
Orleans: "Rioting of the r.
tensitv which erunted at the
University ct MISSISSIPPI can
rot be condoned re0'-
~
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'OulHern people, more OILen
Ross Barnett's de-
y held him responsible for
excerpts from editorials in
South and elsewhere.
MIAMI (FEA. NEWS: aThe
18th hour was gone when
Governor Barnett finally
sided with the law. Fresh
blood is upon his hands to-
Gov and the people OF. Missis
sippi can see the blood upon
his hands"
THE ARKANSAS GA
ZETTE, Little Rock: "The
wild night at Oxford is one
..hich all of US would like to
fl: get, yet it is still a night
to remember in the warning
offered the South once again.
II is only too realistic to Won
der if there must be another
Oxford in the Southern ex-
perience before the terrible
warnings will be needed =
The larger burden of guilt
falls squarelv upon the Gov
error of Mississippi and all
o. those in the state govern
Nent who counselled him n
the mad scheme of defiance
spainst the national Govern
ment."
For the paper that won a
nulitzer nrize for its pleas
for moderation in Little
Rocks 1888 racial troubles:
Rarnett's action "verges upon
the act of rebellion itself"
Macon, Ga:
"The craftsmanship of Missis-
sippi Governor Ross Barnett
at last appears at an end.
The truth is that Governor
Rarnett's filtration with civil
disobedience served no good
purpose He has lowered
his state in the eyes of the
nation. He has jeopardized
the person and property OF
his people to no avail
r. NEWS, Florence,
S. c.: "There are enough les
sons in this tragic affair fol-
all to share. For the politi-
clans, both North and South,
who have made political hav
o. a deeply emotional and
sensitive issue; for Northern
ers who with small knowledge.
of Southern life and tradi-
tons agitate, the South to the
point of difficult endurance;
for Southerners who reject
reason and justice in their in
depreciation of human rela-
tons; for hypercritical Nor
therners who point a finger
at the South when their own
house is ugly and neglected;
for the Federal Government
ia its gradual erosion OF the
rights of state"
RICHMOND (vA.) TIMES
DISPATCH: "The situation is
potentially explosive. Impe-
tuous action, bv either side,
could trigger bitter fee1ings
throughout the Deep South
and lessen the chances OF an
amicable solution. Governor
Barnett and the President
should give each other time
to simmer down and to con-
slider the disastrous conse-
ouences of PLAYING with poll
teal matches in this powder
house."
THE ATLANTA (GA) CON-
STTTUTION: "The words for
this is Instruction against
the United States Of America
= And what will there be OF
Ole Miss when it's all over?
IN the end. the orders Of the
Federal Courts must be obey
ed Or there will be no Uni
versitv Of Mississippi. Other
wise there will be no United
States Government. It's that
simple"
So.
(ALA.)
P~OST-HERALD: "The SYM
pathv and understanding OF
tho peonle of Alabama reach
cut 70 Mississippi in her hour
Of trial.
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL
Jack Spaldine. editor: Mob
rule triumphed in Mississippi
and murder has been done
"Tha blood Of the innocent
IS on the hands Of her leaders.
"And while Governor Bar
net+. now calls for peace AMI
- --y:-.. xk:oL
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~ ttS PSOPAS VI oAhC
to read the truth in their newspapers?
Or do they, as one critic claims,
merely wish to see their own opinions,
thoughts and prejudices confirmed in
print?
This is National Newspaper Week
= October 1920 and the theme is:
Newspapers Make A Big Diff
ference In Peoples Lives"
And what a difference newspapers
do make in the life Of an Individual
or a state when they report the news
of the day honestly, accurately and
completely. The public then has a
guidepost it can trust.
But what confusion and misunder-
standing results when newspapers do
not perform effectively or ADEQUATE
ly in the tradition of a free, respon-
sible press, when bias creeps in and a
story is colored or slanted to fit a
given viewpoint, either that of the
reporter or his paper.
We have only to look back two
weeks to see what havoc can be
wrought in a state when historical,
opinionated outbursts are substituted
for responsible reporting, as happened
right here in some of our w Missis-
sippi newspapers.
In the coverage of the Ole Miss
riots, rumors were reported as facts,
many of them later turning out to be
false. But these renorts, like the one
of a coed being killed by a u. s. Mar
shall and a state highway patrolman
seriously injured with tear gas. served
their purpose of propaganda and
reused the passions of the people to
fever pitch against the supposed Sin
vaders" of Mississippi.
To compound the felony, these ac-
counts as printed in some daily
newspapers. found their wav into a
number of weekly newspapers and
were printed on Thursday, though
they had already been disproved.
This resulted, as one weekly editor
put it, Gin hometown tempers and
emotions being kept at a boiling point"
The same editor said the false
stories in the Ole Miss case "were con-
t%inually drummed into the heads Of
our people by our metropolitan radio
and television news reporters and
monopoly newspapers, causing even the
most innocent among our smaller,
hometown journalistic brethren to sue
cumb to the hysteria and print the
false accounts as fact"
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THE NEWS. Fort Lauder
dale. Fla: THE Civil W."
should have taught us there
can BE no Victor when orc
group 81 Annericans is arrav-
ed AGAINST apothet in head
1-~~b'~r and soul-searching
conflict"
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GAAaMaA
To Uphold The Truth
The Responsibility OF A Free Press

Do the people Of Mississippi want
to read the truth in their newspapers?
Or do they, as one critic claims,
merely wish to see their own opinions,
thoughts and prejudices confirmed in
print?
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THE ATLANTA JOURNAL
Jack Spald'ne. editor: mob
rule triumphed in Mississippi
and murder has been done
"Tha blood Of the innocent
IS on the hands If her leaders.
"And while Governor Bar
ret. now calls for ,reace AMI
order il was his policv which
prevented it. It was his pol;ev
Of defiance of the courts that
provoked the riots and the
hlcoashed. " was his policy
which brought the troops.
ut was not a policy which
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-10-18

N SUN. Baltimofc:
broke out in OXFORD
because the Barnetts and
the Walkers, with the help
Evening star., 1962-10-30
Dr.. John Kerr, 90, Dies;
Former Health Official

DR.. John Walter Kerr, 30
retired Assistant Surgeon Gen
eral of the United States Pub
lie Health Service, division oi
scientific research, died after
a stroke Saturday at the U. S
Public Health Service Hospital
in Baltimore.
Born in Grand Rapids, Ohio,
DR.. Kerr came to the District
in 1905 after being stationed
abroad by the agency.
From 1900 to 1903, he served
in the American Conculate in
Hong Kong, China, where he
did research to help prevent
the spread of black plague and
cholera to American and Phil
ippine shores.
He held the post of Assist
ant Surgeon General in charge
of the division of scientific re-
search until 1918. This division
is now the National Institutes
of Health. located in Bethesda,
Md.
Later, DR.. Kerr was sent to
New York as chief medical Of
ficer at Ellis Island. He re-
manned at Ellis Island until
1921.
He returned to Washington
and became Assistant Surgeon
Evening star., 1962-10-30
Ollie W. Brogdon.
Red Cross Man

Ollie w. Brogdon. as, Ameri-
can Red Gross assistant field
director, died in his sleep at sea
last Thursday while serving on
maneuvers with Marines from
Camp Lejeune, N. C.
He retired from the Army in
February, 1861, as a lieuenant
colonel with 20 years of service
He joined the Red Cross last
February and was assigned to
Camp Lejeune.
Born in Thomson, Ga, he at
tended schools in Abbeville, S.
c., annd Spartanburg, S. c.
Junior College. His Army serv-
ice included tours Of duty at
Fort Mcpherson, Ca, Korea
and Japan. He received two
Army Commentator Medals.
Mr.. Brogdon leaves his wife,
Mary, and two children, Maria
Ann, IL, and Jon Wilson, 7, of
Jacksonville N. c.; and his sis
ter, Mrs. Alese Cox of Abbeville,
S. C.
Burial services were today at
Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1962-10-30
Richard Jackson,
Accident Victim

Services will be at 1870 pm
tomorrow at Chambers Fu-
neral Home, 5801 Cleveland
avenue, Riverdale, for Richard
T. Jackson, 25, who was killed
Saturday in an automobile ac-
cident on Route 202 in Prince
Georges County.
Burial will be at 8 pm. to-
morrow in Arlington Cemetery
Mr.. jackson, who lived al
725 Ridge drive, Landover, was
employed in the service depart
ment of Sears & Roebuck, 230C
v street NE.
Requiem mass was held to-
day at st. Catherine Laboure
Catholic Church, Wheaton, for
the other victim of the ac-
cident, Miss Patricia Farms
worth, Is, of 1919 Midway
street, Silver Spring. Burial
was in Gate of Heaven Gene
terry.