Arizona sun., 1962-03-22
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On Thursday March 18th the Phoenix Gazette carried
Anti Communist meeting the public o
be held in the basement auditorium of Godwae Park Central
stated that recording of speech made by Carter Pttman
in Tulsa Oklahoma at meeting of workshop of Billy Hargls
Christian AnCommust Crusade to be telling about the
nferor Negroes and the tragedy of mtegraton This is not
direct quote of the heard read
the hadn't the because do not
take either of the Pulam Perhaps should start
that with all these facist meetings That
the way Dear Harry Everinghams meet
ings) weekly newspaper called ask knew
about the item and planned to Immediately did
have plans to attend.
short notice the that called had prior
meetings Importance do not night got
young neighbors recently here from Washington DC
to drive me He has the advantage of being brown.
Only few people present fifteen twenty but short
H after Mrs Ropetz vice president of The AntiComnnist
Arizona TACOMA the the protector to-
show slides Of pictures some speakers Billy Hargs
Christian AntCommuns Crusade the largest ancommunist
America This DONE she explained to let the
listeners know how the speakers looked Billy Hargs familiar ows
shown Congressman John Rouselet
p Oliver Professoof Classics at the Univ
Of Illinois and finally Mr. Carter Ptman She told us about the
wonderful workshop Dr. Harg which she had attended Tulsa
Oklahoma helped record the of the speeches
these dedicated people including this little
nervous seeing brown friend that this
controversial and she hoped would be offended
Offended hardly the word to This discovered a;
recording Pmans address forth with the most vi
ing heard lifelong experience with racsm
example the truth used support the big lie
Negro children years behind that of white children This
to support Negro children lacked the ability
many Georgia counties spent on
transporting children than spent on the entire
came here per capita expenditure Negro children
Montgomery County Alabama $500 and white children was
$4,000 from the statement Of the lag in the educational
progress Negro comparison with whites Georgia
the assumption that Negroes are inferior to whites either spd
i deliberate lying The testing of soldiers in World war
Northern Negroes ranked higher than Southern whites
be verified.
lying progress of America toward real democracy
that only white blood make Negroes even ap
poach equality with whites obviously untrue to be argued
And to claim seriously that the only aefence De~eem
Negroes Cose Negroes is that the Congoese Negroes eat
more than white people hardly decent joke
With all the facts hand understandable how anyone
would wonder Arizona Godwaers
other disclaimers of what to be done at the meeting
could possibly have been unnformed Was this sort OF lack
knowledge the the German patriots regarding the plans
the Nazs the Jews that allowed organized Nazism to in
flame the German people that they by permitted
leaders commit the most brutal murder recorded hoy
These claims the decent people in these aacommnst
movements will whether anicommunism the
real of these they not true the claims OF g
shamedaee admission of knowingly supporting
vicious attack very arge segment American czns VINO
have slavery and freedom done the larger part OF the most
difficult most unpleasant and deneanng labor OF building this
nation physically and economically and who have ogh Drave
Loyalty all Americas against the enemies, internal
democracy always hoping for and be-
ieVing the promise of American democracy Tor all clzens
requires of knowledge live rightly to think rightly
to vote rightly ard to judge wisely and rightly complex civil
izaion not the privilege and responsibility OF ree press
help readers acquire this needed information would say
that Phoenix has witnessed in this case convincing eAooh
the need and value In community OF compeuVe press =.
February Journal carried editorial statement
headned This Is Where We Stand stated the stand OF the
newspaper eight issues
Partisan Politics. Political Candidates. Labor Federal Aid
Business Education federal ADD Human Rights
The Public Interest Under Human Rights the editor said
THE Journal will judge the value of American the basis
of his cultural heritage status To
otherwise concept of free democratic society
of this kind pracced private
government intends
oppose do know what the policy of the Puam press
Judging by its two newspapers would say
that this its policy Let take this of the public
presentation Pman aped address The Gazette
nounced for exactly what it to be- rac address to be
given in Godwaer basement auditorium Evidently the Re
public reporter although next day the Republic city
they How else could they have
story Friday morning edition with big headlines Theory
Equal by Tim Huchens? So far as know
the Republic sufficiently dapproved of what happened
Thursday dsapprova edoray the Journal
did no Saturday March after running on
Friday full scalding AntRed Is Anl-Back with
pictures Immediately after this by the Journal the faclst
began running dupes they did not know
president doing under their names and facsts
if they did.
disappointed in the Pulam press, but not because
expected anything did have hopes and still shall hope that
these and influential will repudae operators like
Hags Everngham president and president WE THE
they do this under the banner of
For scheduling Harry Everingham to
speak April the Westward o Thundebrd Room Do they
that Atlanta Georgia. Hargs and Evengham for
hidden the the Municipal Auditorium because the Atlanta Con-
suon exposed them for what they There question
that the Puam staff is well that these two
ciated.