The Augusta Courier

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By ROY V. HARRIS

The South Louisiana Citizens' Council recently ran a quarter-page ad in the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE as "An Important Message for Parents!" an article entitled. "THE BOYCOTT Your Key to Freedom.

The full text of this ad follows:

INTEGRATION IN NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS last year was a magnificent failure.

Parents of children in Frantz and McDonough No. 19 saw to it that the Federal Government's attempt to forcibly integrate these schools, in violation of Louisiana segregation laws, was roundly defeated.

Every white child was withdrawn from McDonogh No. 19, attended by three Negroes, while only a dozen or so children trickled into Frantz with one Negro. Our hats go off to these patriotic parents who so effectively boycotted these two schools.

Just before the opening of school this year, some civic and business leaders mounted a campaign designed to suppress righteous objections of the planned invasion of their schools by the Federal government.

We ask that you not be misled by the aberrations of these leaders, particularly the 300 business people who signed a so-called "Declaration of Principles" published in the newspapers August 31. This actually was a "Declaration For The Surrender of Principles." It called for compliance with federal court orders and the preservation of public school education (even though integrated). It called for a Constitutional amendment (a real sleeper) to uphold state control of education, and it stressed law and order and dignity for the benefit of world opinion, (whatever that is).

We were appalled that some of the signers who have been on the side of segregation would support such a "Declaration" which, in effect, asks the citizens to surrender their most precious right, their voice to speak out against injustice, as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

These signers should know that freedom cannot be preserved by surrendering freedom. Besides, the people of Louisiana do not contend that the Constitution is objectionable. They stand upon it. What they do contend is that Federal court decisions have distorted the meaning of the Constitution.

While an amendment may be proposed to strengthen the Constitution's position, it may take a hundred years to fulfill-too late to prevent destruction of the public school system by the Federal judiciary and the active processes of degeneration and mongrelization of our progeny.

300 Business People are Segregated

These signers dwell in an ivory tower, live in a highly segregated society, send their children to segregated schools, and a majority of them belong to exclusive, segregated social clubs. Obviously, they have no intention of enrolling their children in integrated public schools.

Why, then, do they ask others—those who are less fortunate financially-to sacrifice their children to the race mixers.

All who signed the so-called "Declaration of Principles" are not on the side of segregation, and none have taken an active part to preserve segregation,

Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman, and Episcopal Bishop Girault

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Jones are co-chairmen of Save Our Schools, a pro-integration organization that was exposed by this Council in The Times-Picayune, August 17, 1960, as having several directors who are connected with groups sympathetic to leftwing causes. For example, Rabbi Feibelman submitted a petition to the New Orleans Parish School Board on September 12, 1955, calling for immediate school integration and then on December 6, 1955, requested use of Rabouin school auditorium for a Forum to have been sponsored by the Southern Conference Educational Fund, which was termed a suspect Communist front by the School Board.

Others who are not on the side of segregation are Joseph M. Jones, chairman of the Tulane University Educational Fund, which on April 12 announced that Tulane would admit qualified students regardless of race or color if it were "legally permissible;" Ralph M. Pons, who has circulated through the mails free copies of Father Robert Guste's pro-integration booklet, "For Men of Good Will," and Charles G. Smither, who as chairman of the New Orleans Public Library Board, cooperated with former Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison in integrating the New Orleans public library without any court order whatsoever.

"How would you feel," the Shreveport Journal asked in a lead editorial September 11, "if the next pay envelope you received- contained a notice from your employer that your job would be endangered unless you submitted peacefully to racial integration for your children?"

This is exactly what happened to an "untold number of Dallas employees" last week, the Journal said. "At least one resentful Dallasite, employed by a major company, has furnished us with copies of the notices, the Journal explained, adding that at the bottom of each was this shocking revelation: Produced in consultation with the Greater Dallas Council of Churches, the Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas County Medical Society.'

On the other hand, the State of Mississippi is not being pressured by the Federal courts to integrate her schools because her rich and poor, her city and country citizens are united in their determination to preserve racial integrity, no matter what it costs, and Mississippi will succeed.

New accounts are giving the impression that because school mixing has been "peaceful," it is being accepted. Not so. The "peace" they are talking about is the fraudulent "peace" enforced by New Orleans police assigned in effect to Federal duty.

Some policemen balked at such a distasteful assignment, we are told.

This is "peace" by bayonet. It is the same kind of "peace" the Russians meted out to the Hungarians. It