The Augusta Courier

By ROY V. HARRIS

How crazy can the people of the United States get and still survive?

Lenin once said:

"First, we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States, which will be the last bastion of capitalism. We will not have to attack. It will fall like an over-ripe fruit into our own hands."

Now, the Communists have had Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain since the end of World War II.

They have the masses of Asia doing their bidding.

The last bastion of capitalism is the United States—if we be a bastion.

We still maintain the capitalistic system in a way, mixed up with a lot of socialism. Our strength has been dissipated by a wild orgy of spending and throwing away the wealth of the nation.

Billions have gone down the drain in the way of foreign aid and we are subsidizing everybody with either pension checks, retirement checks, soil conservation checks, or we are handing out government contracts which, in their operation, usually turn out to be a subsidy.

Today, the government totters on the verge of bankruptcy while the people themselves are ground down under the heavy burden of taxation.

We are a bewildered people. We live in a constant state of fear.

Most of our leaders don't know where we stand today and they have no idea as to what the future holds for us. A great many of them don't seem to care.

Most of them are interested only in the comforts of the moment and the outcome of the next election.

Our people are confused and are unable to see how Lenin's prediction is gradually being fulfilled.

Russian territory is only a few miles from the coast of Alaska and this fact alone remains as a constant threat to the safety and the security of the United States.

In addition, we have sat idly by and watched the Russians land ten thousand troops on the island of Cuba and furnish Castro with planes, tanks, missiles, and every other modern instrument of warfare, to be used against us.

The Russian Communists have practically taken over Cuba and it is being built up as a great base of operations from which the United States can be attacked, crippled and maybe defeated.

Our government in Washington watches this Russian build-up in Cuba day by day and yet does nothing about it.

Henry J. Taylor, writing on September 26th in THE NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM AND SUN, has an article entitled, "The Bell Tolls for Uncle Sam".

In part, Taylor says:

"Premier Khrushchev is watching President Kennedy, not listening to him, just as Adolf Hitler was watching Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, not listening to him.

"Chamberlain ended up with his umbrella and the world ended up at war.

"First Khrushchev saw the fiasco in the Bay of Pigs and all that this implies. Then he saw the appalling spectacle of the President of the United States encouraging its citizens to deal in private ransom with an enemy power.
"Soon Khrushchev built the Berlin wall and we did not knock it down.
Then he saw us eat our words in Laos and scuttle the safeguards the President said could not be surrendered.
"Enter the Monroe Doctrine, the subject of much diversionary debate no more pertinent than a camel's eye. What are the facts?
"Monroe Doctrine or no Monroe Doctrine, we warned Khrushchev not to come, warned him to high heaven:
We will not tolerate,' We will not hesitate,
etc.
The calamitous fact is that our President has repudiated his own warnings and his words. For now Khrushchev finds he can cross the entire ocean and build his Soviet lodgement and we do not throw him out.
"Khrushchev knows that appeasement substitutes legalisms for courage, slogans for judgment, cliches for decisions and phrases for deeds. He

knows that appeasers always redefine the crime. And he sees our govern- ment using every possible device—including the timing of a Presidential prediction that we'll beat the Reds to the moon in 10 years—to divert the American people from the Cuban disaster it has wrought.

"Does anybody seriously suppose the Kremlin worries whether we beat the Russians to the moon 10 years from today while we do nothing about nearby Cuba?

"Now comes the United Nations session. The debates are starting on worldwide whatnot. This diversion will give Khrushchev more time to consolidate his buildup in Cuba, as he well knows.

"Thus the bell tolls for the United States. In simple truth, Cuba is not going; it is gone. It is gone, and our defenses and world position are forever breached by the President's own ifs, ifs, ifs. For by Mr. Kennedy's formula itself nothing effective will be done about the Soviet lodgement until it is too late, just as it is now too late to knock down the Berlin wall.

"All of us are guilty who permit this appeasement. For centuries the thought has been that mankind's disasters arose because the people had little to say about their destiny. But here the people are sovereign. The Constitution requires Congress and the President to act for the common defense.

"The politicians of both parties plead with us for our votes - plead, plead, plead. Even as Chamberlain did, they promise what they will do for us; they talk and talk and talk in the hustings. And then comes Armageddon.

"It is not an overstatement to say that today we have government by image. Image-making and image-retaining have become decisive fac- tors in government policy.

"Nothing can save the Cuban disaster, nothing can reverse the ifs, ifs, ifs, except the roaring protest of the American people against this appease- ment 90 miles from our shores - so loud, direct and immediate that politicians of both parties are forced to take a new look at how they look.

"They will move, they will act - and so will the President if it is plenty, plenty plain that this country goes for the Churchill men and not the Chamberlain men, and that there are no two ways about it."

And while we permit this situation to exist in Cuba, muggings, rape and murder are rampant on the streets of our nation's capital, in New York City and the other great cities of the nation.

THE NEW YORK JOURNAL-AMERICAN, of September 25, 1962, carried an editorial entitled, "Let's Get Tough", and said:

The response of our lawmakers to the Journal-American's crusade to make our streets safe for decent citizens is gratifying indeed.

"We welcome the wholehearted endorsement of State Senator Wil- liam T. Conklin (R.-Brooklyn), who believes that outlawing knives and stiffening the penalties for rape go hand in hand.

"'The penalties in both cases,' he said, 'should not only be strong enough to act as a deterrent, but to assure the removal of the culprits from society for an appropriate period instead of releasing them before rehabilitation or realization of the gravity of the offense has taken hold.'

"His statement was shockingly underlined by these outrages per- petrated in just two days by beasts in human form:

A woman raped and robbed at knifepoint IN BROAD DAY- LIGHT in the St. Albans, Queens, station of the Long Island Rail Road.

" A brutal rapist shot to death in Brooklyn when he returned to kill his latest victim so that she could not identify him. The man has been identified by fingerprints as the rapist-strangler who has killed at least two elderly women.

A 16-year-old girl dragged into an auto on busy Main Street in Flushing, Queens, raped by two men and then thrown from the auto."

A friend in New York sends me these clippings which I have quoted and in his letter, he says:

"The New York City crime wave of muggings, rape and murder, es- pecially on the border lines of colored districts, continues with increasing fury."

In commenting upon Henry J. Taylor's article, my New York friend says:

This article is very significant, not only because it is by a disting- uished newspaperman and friend of mine, but because it illustrates an important point. While the bell tolls for Uncle Sam and the President procrastinates in practically every case, as Henry Taylor clearly points out, he nevertheless, has plenty of time to confer with his brother and arrive at a firm and decisive decision on the Mississippi-Meredith case, the importance of which has been blown up out of all proportions.

"Naturally this case is more important to the President and his brother than all of the world-threatening situations mentioned in Taylor's article. Here is an important case of a colored goof, selected by a well-organized, heavily-financed, communist-inspired, group of professional agitators, bent on breaking one of the oldest laws and sacred traditions of the sovereign State of Mississippi. Regardless of the consequences, the entire forces of the federal government, even the use of the Army, if necessary, to bring the lawful officials of this State to their knees and permit this patriotic

from Moscow to speed up what Mr. Khrushchev hopes will result in the ultimate enslavement of free peoples everywhere, including America.

group of communist-inspired agitators to succeed and lay the foundation for a similar plot in another Southern city.

"Nero was a mere amateur in comparison when he merely fiddled while Rome burned. Our President and important members of his official family, not only fiddle while communism continues to spread through the world, even establishing a beachhead practically on our shores, but takes time out to set the most dangerous type of political fires in all of our Southern States."

Certainly, the Kennedy Administration is fiddling and this country is headed for destruction.

They warned Khrushchev to stay out of Cuba and yet, when he moves in, they back down and feebly submit.

They warned Russia to stay out 'of Laos and then laid down and played dead.

The administration warned the Russians about the wall in Berlin, but the wall is there.

The Russians don't believe what the administration says.

They seem to think that the Kennedy administration is fiddling while they set fire to the whole American continent.

And they are fiddling.

The Kennedy brothers stay up all night plotting against the white people in Mississippi instead of trying to protect this nation against its enemies.

The Kennedy administration, at the time of the writing of this article, has 16,000 soldiers around the campus of the University of Mississippi.

The soldiers have surrounded the entire campus with foxholes which they man with machineguns and tear gas guns both day and night.

Soldiers armed with either rifles or machineguns and tear gas guns parade over the campus night and day and occupy the surrounding town of Oxford, Mississippi

In addition to this, dozens of U. S. Marshals are on the campus.

Marshals and soldiers escort one "Nigger" from place to place over the campus.

When this "Nigger" goes to class, they stand outside and guard it.

So, more than 16,000 soldiers and U. S. Marshals are spending all of their time, and millions of dollars, just to place one "Nigger" in the University of Mississippi.

Now, the Kennedy administration isn't interested in one Negro. They are interested in the Negro vote in the big cities of the country. They know that the President got elected last time by less than one-half of one percent majority and they know that they can't get elected again unless they can corral this Negro vote in 1964.

So, all of their energy is spent upon one thing and that is keeping this Negro vote.

To keep the Negro vote, they know they must break down the social structure of the South and make the South the whipping boy in the campaign for re-election.

If they were interested in the Negro, they would try to do something to help him. If the Kennedy administration were interested in the Negro, they would try to do something about the crime conditions in the shadow of the White House.

United States Senators and members of Congress say that it isn't safe for a white woman to stay in her own home in the nation's capital in the middle of the day with the doors locked, much less walk the streets at night.

They tell us that it isn't safe for a woman even to pray in church in the nation's capital

In this article, we have given you a sample of some of the crime and the jungle conditions that exist where the Negroes live in New York City.

What are the Kennedys doing to try to alleviate this condition?

They do nothing.

They are only interested in Mississippi and getting one "Nigger" in the University of Mississippi.

The Kennedy administration seeks, through an amalgamation of the races, to weaken the white people of this country so that an illiterate, purchasable vote may be in the saddle.

It is through this ignorant, illiterate, purchasable vote that they seek to control the destiny of this nation.

The Kennedys are fiddling while the nation is sliding down the road to destruction.

We wind up this article as we started it by asking this question:

How crazy can the people of the United States get and still survive?

Governor Ernest Vandiver, who is who was in Miami attending the South- married to a niece of Senator Russell and ern Governors' Conference at the time,' is quoted by THE MIAMI HERALD as being critical of Governor Barnett.

In effect, he stated that as long as Mississippi is a State of the United States it must bow to the decrees of the federal courts.

Vandiver Disagrees

He also was quoted as saying:

"We cannot tolerate violence and disorder. Speaking as one who has been down that road, I think this action will hurt the State of Mississippi permanently and damage it to such an extent that the State can never completely recover.

Certainly, Vandiver's action in Georgia was entirely different from that of Barnett. When Vandiver was faced with the same situation, he folded up and surrendered before the first shot was fired—even though he had boasted prior to that time, and for several years before that time, that he would take the same action that Barnett took.

He even boasted of the fact that he would personally prevent Negroes from entering white schools in Georgia.

Vandiver Welched

When he was a candidate for Governor he said:

When I am your Governor, no child of yours, nor any of mine, will attend an integrated school."

And he usually wound up his speeches with this statement:

"No, not one".

But, when the time came, he forgot his promises; he forget his boasting and he switched over completely.

Instead, he had the laws of the State of Georgia amended so that Georgia could legally accept Negroes into the University System and into her public schools.

And, as a reward for his going back upon his solemn promises and his sudden change of position, he will be known in the history of Georgia as the "No, not one" Governor.

Sanders and McGill

Georgia's Governor-elect, Carl Sanders, took the position which would naturally be expected of him. He followed along with the Ralph McGill philosophy and the position of Martin Luther King in condemning Governor Barnett.

In a statement, he cast the blame on Barnett for the violence and loss of life which occurred on the campus of the University of Mississippi.

This position is certainly in keeping with the racially-mixed reception which his supporters held for him in Augusta after his victory in the September gubernatorial primary in Georgia.

It is more than passing strange that the public officials in Georgia, with the exception of Dick Russell, were silent or condemned the Governor of the State of Mississippi.