The Augusta Courier

Red
Russia
At Work Here

"Communists and their dupes complain that a 'hysteria' of anti-communism is causing the suppression of civil rights in the United States. So now they are diligently fomenting a counter-hysteria for expanding civil rights until the basic rights of life, liberty, and property will be completely lost in a maze of petty rights and duties and regulations which only a communistic dictatorship could possibly enforce.

"The horrible and outstanding example of this civil rights hysteria is the recent report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights, which is probably the most mischievous document that has been published since Marx and Engels produced the Communist Manifesto 100 years ago.

"In the name of liberty this report proposes to compel American men, women, and children to live and work in a social and economic system created and regulated by Government, a system in which their most profound emotions and ambitions are to be suppressed at the will of political monitors."

The above 3 paragraphs were taken from an article written by Donald R. Richberg, one of the most prominent Jews in the United States, which appeared in The Washington Star of January 4th, and the Augusta Courier February 9th, attacking the report of the President's Civil Rights Committee.

Mr. Richberg also said:

"Race and color may seem irrelevant to the committee. Yet differences of race and color have divided mankind for centuries. They may fade in the coming centuries. But they cannot be wiped out by a State or Federal law; and every such foolish effort only intensifies prejudice and intolerance, creates disrespect for law, and is itself an intolerant violation of individual liberty.

"Curiously enough the committee observed that an essential part of our freedom is that we are free to be different. Evidently the committee is willing to have us differ in our taste for cigarettes, but not in our taste for companions.

But, in another breath, the committee says: 'In a democracy, each individual must have freedom to choose his friends and to control the pattern of his personal and family life.' Nevertheless, in order to eliminate segregation and to prevent discrimination, the committee insists that this free American shall be compelled to spend his working life with undesirable associates, and to send his children to schools, to eat in restaurants, to live in hotels, and enjoy all public amusements in the company of those whose company he would not voluntarily choose.'

"President Truman's message, delivered to the House on yesterday, with respect to the State of the Union, is an interesting document.

"In so many words, it gives Presidential backing and approval to the recent report issued by the Committee on Civil Rights, on which committee the South had no representation to amount to anything—save a left-winger Frank Graham, of North Carolina, who saw to it that his State got a pat on the back, and that the rest of the South was held up to ridicule, hatred, and contempt to the Nation."

Congressman Rivers of South Carolina.

"It is deplorably unfortunate that President Truman is always a conscious party to any concoction which brands the southern white people as inhuman, and devoid of any respect for law and order."

Congressman Rivers of South Carolina.