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Box 19, Folder 13, Document 34
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_“Oklahoma’s Greatest Newspaper” -
| EUGENE LORTON
|: , 1869-1949
Page. 6 Saturday, October 1, 1966
Published Every Weekday Morning and Sunday by World Publishing Company
Byron V. Boone, Pres. and Publisher;
L. W. McFetrince, V-Pres.; Rogert E. Lorton, Sec.-Treas.;
Sip STEEN, Executive Editor -WALTER Biscup, Editor of Editorial Page
Put, DESSAUER, Associate Editor N. G. HentHorNE, Jr.; Associate Editor
BIBLE THOUGHT
The Lord shall guide thee continually.—Isa. 58:11
Sickness In Georgia ©
TWO MEN in the State of Georgia
personify the sickness the civil rights
movement has brought to our politi-
cal life in 1966.
One of course is LESTER Mappox,.
the new Democratic nominee for
Governor who won last Wednesday's
runoff primary with the help of a
powerful white-backlash vote.
The other is Mayor IvAN ALLEN of
| Atlanta, one of the leading civil-
rights moderates in the South and a
Democrat. He calls Mappox “totally
| unqualified” and says his nomination
resulted from “ignorance, prejudice,
reactionism and the duplicity of many
Republican voters.”
(In Georgia apparently there is
nothing to keep Republicans from
voting in a Democratic primary, and
i’s believed many of them voted for
Mappox in the belief he could be
beaten in the November general elec-
, tion.)
Auten is one of the progressives
of Atlanta who have tried to bring
reason and goodwill to the problem
of race relations, They have made
| their City probably the outstanding
; showplace of racial progress in the
South.
But recently the new radicals fo-
- ee
—————
mented street riots in Atlanta and
villified ALLEN as an enemy -of the
Negro when he used police power
to break up the fighting. That was
a bitter moment for a man who had
spent years trying to do constructive
work in one of the most sensitive
areas of human relationship. _
But that wasn’t the end. It wasn't
enough that black power zealots
‘turned on a longtime friend of true
civil rights; their fanaticism put fuel
in the anti-civil rights political cam-
paign of Mappox.
So now we see the flames fanned
by STOKELY CARMICHAEL and his fol-
lowers burning down the structure
of progress erected by men like
Aten. And Georgia falls backward
in race relations with the renomina-
tion of an out-and-out segregationist
who is best remembered for using a
pistol and ax-handles to drive
Negroes out of a cafeteria he once
operated.
It boils down to this: Between the
extremists—CARMICHAEL types at one
end and the MAppox people at the
other—the Ivan ALLENS in Georgia
are caught in a frustrating squeeze.
They are victims of the new mili-
tancy, just as is the cause of civil
rights itself,
Cian
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