1 10 22 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/99f739ec063b4617d7bbc6dff8dc9b21.png?Expires=1781740800&Signature=KCDfifIXdEz51oo4yvAr3YYUGCe5iVtvLgvhqiivlhIFE6U5saONGJll7y3%7EedVxYjHmRhCC6DbgDTQ22zbQOsf4N6jfdfUk7RivkWCRRpKILVccuIu1NEBlmJFwpeZoizOkxSZW9y6nlAMi%7EuUR8FFqtytoG%7E8B5AEVegS7tY%7ENIc0Eu6xYDZ6TGBY4iXPCWRD-WqZHy--tNOrGZJf-MalRlahPOaVMOgZrfGJsp5iggFMjvvux7%7EjYC5FR-dn5V6MVc2n9tE%7Ew%7EDsX8SoQE6E-2VE1GIo2BFoNZ1JRclWY7niW23M53YUqBG-kptW-d7LIN7ld%7EOYf10tRyLPcjg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 84db22855dc9d060a6837ba590f49fef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Earl Johnston Junior to Honorable Frank de Barber February 4, 1964. The letter is on Mississippi state sovereignty commission letterhead which list the address as new capital building, Jackson, Mississippi governor Ross are Barnett, chairman It is addressed to Honorable Frank D Barber, special assistant to the governor, the capital, Jackson, Mississippi Dear Frank: I’ve read with interest you enclosure from Dr. Claude a Fike pertaining to an anti-communism Institute for teachers. This appears to be an excellent idea it would certainly be far more effective than occasional seminars in Jackson or speakers address small audiences, who already believe in what the speaker has to say. In my recommendation to Governor Johnson for sovereignty commission program during his administration, I mentioned that we could operate affectively on $200,000 for the biennium instead of $250,000 under which we are now operating in the $225,000 recommended by the budget commission. This could be done only if the sovereignty commission can use its funds for its own administrative programs and support of such necessary projects as the anti-communism institute. Under my proposal, we can afford the $5000 per year to match the $2000 in outside support mentioned by Dr. Fike Sincerely, Signed by Earl Johnston Junior. Director Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Historical Manuscripts Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Historical Manuscripts Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Erle Johnston, Jr. to Frank D. Barber, February 4, 1964. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Erle Johnston, Jr. (1917-1995) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul B. Johnson Family Papers, M191, Box 135, Folder 6, Historical Manuscripts, Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964-02-04 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. 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Title A name given to the resource Historical Manuscripts Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Historical Manuscripts Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Still image Two-dimensional visual representation in photographic or digital image form. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Detail of the Deep South from <em>The </em><em>Fifth Conspiracy in America, Authentic Map and Directory.</em> Description An account of the resource This is a detail from <em>The Fifth Conspiracy in America, Authentic Map and Directory</em> showing the states south of Kentucky. The map shows the locations of supposed communist, Nazi, and socialist headquarters and training facilities. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joseph P. Kamp (1900-1993) Alexander Cloyd Gill (1889-1943) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Theodore G. Bilbo Papers, M2, Historical Manuscripts, Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available New Haven: Constitutional Educational League, Inc. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital reproduction of a 36" x 24" map. Language A language of the resource En Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mus_m002_0008 [Digital Collections] anti-communism communism Deep South Fascist map nazi south https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/b030d8ecb57d9de93b11020c6fb7eab2.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=Dct05mjPExMrEVHHU6O-9D5owcM7pZGNBaZ-M0VAhppiTfnzg7wNYDPzIGuXy5sxS0AJ8hMfUNJLc2wVWdDk1%7EaUX%7EHVI9aGokLVXXbCfdEUyIYuMN2ULl5cUU0eXy5UHCU258z%7EYyzJ1E8iAAq0n0v5l37zdBNvsRw-m63UWJuYW0xvj3ykI0%7En7HCMH%7E0cUOZy6wX9oglaZfZdTPMu799tPfgGnbYldFrOOcWK0rzACwizB4eVsiGMqH0k%7E8mcI29xdvz2Uxq-axPSv0SYoqgtcnt8CKHLi1EjfO9sROkoQp8wzRaTyZHQQKUccGp7RiDSHcjCvRd5ZPLZajReUQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8156fb1f8367b7ea7c6a96d9ba310eb3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from William Colmer to L. E. Faulkner on Congress of the United States letterhead The letterhead reads Congress of the United States, house of representatives, special committee on post war economic policy and planning, Washington, D. C. January 25, 1945 Mr. L. E. Faulkner, Hattiesburg , Mississippi Dear Lou: I appreciate copy of your letter of the 22nd to congressman Rankin. Of course you know that I voted for the continuation of the un-American activities committee, as well as having been one of the five that was responsible for setting this committee up in the first instance. With kindest personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, Bill Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Historical Manuscripts Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Historical Manuscripts Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mississippi Congressman William Colmer to L. E. Faulkner about Colmer's involvement in forming the House on Un-American Activities Committee. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William M. Colmer (1890-1980) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived William M. Colmer Papers, M24, Historical Manuscripts, Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-01-25 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. Language A language of the resource En Type The nature or genre of the resource Text anti-communism communism House on Un-American Activities United States Congress William Colmer https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/fff219d9704581e99c77516ed64f551b.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=ie2ukWnVgLKtVrnlxLsoH%7EXxkgddxGiTrCsDK%7E23PqvPD4xxokH9axC%7EYHO0YIRZkDaqtoc4OqHm15cPKNojjRLFsEvSvkzkUYtsi4ougi9%7EETKwTyGcIYaFvduXDsDjmY9-O%7EhwfYiiuCw3%7E1wFv%7EfVAAY2VzWhSaS1zeYWk2ZJpTnmIF4vF59wnBYSO0s99nY9ex8CdfZ8jShIlaXyv9BSD4yYNwDWzHq6wXYtPNO8DVfyBojNk9dXL%7E2P0zFm%7EXjaKCuffLNFPBCTGWSzntjXnlVX-mooDbwqHtyGEvxWSBrYzXz18YfsbXN5t1Pvbynr-6DXOCDZn4nFGa6kDg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 58f5cac84f6acefb6b04a9cd5f64b340 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter written by Samuel W Silverman on letterhead from the Allied veterans political Association of America organized by act of Congress July 14, 1933 The letter reads as follows: December 31, 1946 Office national president Suite 819, 63 Park Row, New York Office, national secretary, 1701 Monroe St. NE., Washington DC To the members of the United States Senate: Re:: Senator Bilbo Who rules America? Is Congress already yielding allegiance to the purse strings of communism? Is communism so strongly entrenched in the high places of this land that he who refuses to serve them must be eliminated? Why should communism seek to unseat Senator Bilbo? For the past several years, Bilbo has been an outstanding opponent of communism. His name is high on the must eliminate list of communism. To attack and asked Bilbo is to silence other senators and to make them amenable to direct control – to intimidate them. The communists organized a purge during the recent political campaign. The purpose of that purge, overtly conducted in the CIO and PAC groups, was to defeat those politicians and others, who were outspoken against communism. Bilbo was not defeated. Public records to close that CIO and PAC groups did not oppose any member of Congress who had not openly voiced antagonism against the communist party. December 26, 1945, a letter was mailed to every member of the Congress, and the other public officials. Headed, and appeal to the conscience of the house of representatives, the letter describes the policy of the American veterans committee to control the veterans and play upon their emotions by inciting racial and religious antagonisms. Their method was that used by subversive and calmness groups – seeming championship of disinfected my Nordie groups. This letter stated: we know how absurd the appeals to religious and racial prejudice may be, but we also know from sad experience the actual crimes that have been the direct result of such appeals. The AV see alleges to fight the cars a persecuted groups. They December 26, 1945, a letter was mailed to every member of the Congress, and the other public officials. Headed, and appeal to the conscience of the house of representatives, the letter describes the policy of the American veterans committee to control the veterans and play upon their emotions by inciting racial and religious antagonisms. Their method was that used by subversive and calmness groups – seeming championship of disinfected my Nordie groups. This letter stated: we know how absurd the appeals to religious and racial prejudice may be, but we also know from sad experience the actual crimes that have been the direct result of such appeals. The AV see alleges to fight the cars a persecuted groups. They build their power on the blind faith and loyalty of weaklings. Once convinced of a VC Segnette sin see your tea, these poor, misguided but sincere people follow those who appear to be fighting their battles for them. We cannot censure them. But, gentlemen of the Congress, the same blind faith and loyal support-no matter how sincerely intended, can create a very serious political crisis-a crisis that now bids fair to become the most destructive and our whole national history. They are organized and directed by group of highly intelligent. A, I experienced and wealthy leaders-toward a well planned objective! It is only when you and I who know better, Who are aware of the spurious nature of their cogent and spacious pretense; it is only when you and I lose our heads and play cheap and dirty politics; we forsake sincerity of people in the welfare of all the people: that we play right into their hands. Find ourselves and miss the strange bedfellows. God and Stalin or Satan cannot bed together the gentleman of Congress are familiar with the message used by the communist. It is needless to cite the case of Senador Theodore Bilbo in Mississippi-a sincere, loyal and fine southern gentleman. Senator Bilbo had spoken upon a subject which is of a very controversial nature; a subject which has given a great deal of close attention and real study. He had every right to express his opinion of the subject. Yet communism crucified him for doing so. While I do not necessarily subscribe to his opinions, my organization will fight to the limit for his right to express that opinion. In doing so, he stepped on the corners of certain groups-for the subject was one commonly used by communist as a ready means of Augmentin is power in membership,. Under the leader ship of the communist party, thousands of letters, highly inflammatory in nature, postmarked from every state in the union, flooded the office of Senator Bilbo. Those letter subjected Bilbo to every conceivable form of vile anathema and vilification. He was criticize, cursed and called and principally filthy names. His secretary, Edward Terry, prepare replies to them, and, and righteous admin indignation, Bilbo signed and permitted a few well justified letters to go to remote sections of the nation; to widely separate localities. However, we are not not confronted by all of these letters, all assembled obviously, but one hand; all viciously use by that hand to re-create Senator Bilbo as the persecutor of racial minorities. Bilbo was goat it into situation situation, and At the end of page 1 there is a summary of the objectives of the allied veterans political Association of America. It reads: shall be in to foster and perpetuate the principles of real Americanism; to enter veterans on a united front and every national, senatorial and congressional elections; to enter candidates for state, county and local offices and four present and County Republican and Democratic committee; to work for the feet or recall of all members of Congress and other public officials who vote for legislation sponsored and desired by special privilege interest; to expose all false propaganda against the veterans and against the people of the United States; to fight the political ballot battles of veterans organizations who is constitutions or bylaws prohibit them from entering politics. https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/4e7f4ee211d0c80daa4f4da3aa70d685.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=BMg7j071HQ4W-Xx0mbuR%7E3XJCRPEtNQBrAci1YeHV61aE3paP%7EgIJxXwhbY0jFQ%7EV9m2KhVJE98mVHkZZFd2xgwpHuExsvw9EZ0RWUGXRg2DPlx-3FiQDx1ef-Rn5kyN4oD-De8brn9IRAgnqX9yBqNBHy6-QqFhERiGAvU3pevfpP8eXGz8G3UamnulHVzZwJOjVODKtjCiO6lhlRmBnmsdy9-dD6URsBlxehsEPhHc8WbxGf69b5JIHoAXa-z7KkQzNzThGPADGP%7EffZzUgSGeRVU60j3aRutRFTc6UGWFHeoNX1AqgzyiT15F7orQzFcKD1dL9OwmMOS95WpkIg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 2966468af4cca428004e90c82f48ae28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Page 2 They are too, is now being used as a cross to crucify him behind this whole campaign stanza sinister force of the communist party. You are being made a party to the conspiracy. What they are now doing to Senator Bilbo, they can and will do to you! The communist want to control our government. They will stop at nothing to see the control. Part of that control invested in you. You, yourself, I may be there next victim. Even your most cautious to fences will be as beautiful as those available, and a value nothing in your trial! They are too, is now being used as a cross to crucify him behind this whole campaign stanza sinister force of the communist party. You are being made a party to the conspiracy. What they are now doing to Senator Bilbo, they can and will do to you! The communist want to control our government. They will stop at nothing to see the control. Part of that control invested in you. You, yourself, I may be there next victim. Even your most cautious to fences will be as beautiful as those available, and a value nothing in your trial! Trial!Proof of what was their written to Congress is amply shown in the parade of the beds before your Senate committee investigating the bill bouquets. They are, Ed TERRY, the confidential secretary of state at work senator Bilbo, boldly admits that, on September 15, 1945, he excepted from a wealthy communist leader Simon LIBERFELD $15,000 in cash, to be used by him for the purpose of the feeding in the elections, his own employer. He was promised additional $10,000. Observe, in this bride, a tacit agreement to provide for Terry’s own business future! Terry has revealed that the communist are destroying Bilbo, presumably to replace him with their henchmen. You, the Senate, Or duty-bound to exhaustively investigate those other sums of money necessarily give it to Terry to bribe him to affect Bill goes to feet. The Senate should ascertain just how many months prior to September 1945, this broad taking was going on. Was Terry the immediate agent and cause of the widespread insurance of those inflammatory letters? Or the replies they are too, admittedly written by him and signed by Bill Bill, actually invented by Terry for use as part of this come in a scheme to disgrace Bilbo and destroy him? This is a very crocs in the essence of the entire investigation! Terry definitely links communism with the smear campaign against Bilbo; it disclose is the perpetrators of the cause of this investigation Bilbo has submitted an acceptable explanation of every other fact involved in the inquiry. Every member of the Congress knows all too well-secretary to make or break a senator. The secretary has complete control of all correspondence. It is impossible for any senator to read every letter arriving at, or emanating from, his office. That task is necessarily the function of the secretarial staff. Naturally, senators must sign documents place before then buy a secretary-a person in whom he must have absolute confidence and faith-and usually with none for cursory scanning. His-when a secretary is brought by the communist party to frame a senator-that senators almost in evitable a trap! This procedure is merely one of the lesser phases of the familiar, his procedure-Boreen from with in with traders! Every member of the Congress knows all too well-secretary to make or break a senator. The secretary has complete control of all correspondence. It is impossible for any senator to read every letter arriving at, or emanating from, his office. That task is necessarily the function of the secretarial staff. Naturally, senators must sign documents place before then buy a secretary-a person in whom he must have absolute confidence and faith-and usually with none for cursory scanning. His-when a secretary is brought by the communist party to frame a senator-that senators almost in evitable a trap! This procedure is merely one of the lesser phases of the familiar, his procedure-Boreen from with in with traders! The Senate should also investigate the other secretaries of senators-and, for that matter, try to discover how many senators are themselves involved in this communist attempt to overthrow our government by a policy of quietly permeating all subordinate channels. Have the communist already acquired complete domination of a majority of our leaders of cells? Show me a senator who is not guilty of taking care of his constituents-and I will show you a legislator who will never be reelected to serve a second term. A legislator must first of all protect our nation-and then fulfill the necessary obligations of his office to his constituents-my personal favorite as well as by securing that legislation deemed requisite for local need, or a benefit to constituents directly this is the commonly excepted procedure for perpetrating every legislator in office. You do it while Blaine Bill about it? MI have delineated an organized, communist attempt to out Bilbo. Does the Senate know of the exact Word for Word resolution urging impeaching a Bilbo, simultaneously presented to the major veterans organizations all over America? Why I didn’t go? Why spontaneous if not emanating from the same common source? A few veteran groups pass that resolution. It was presented in New York City and pass by some American Legion Post – but New York county threw it out as communist inspiration-largely because of my analysis an opposition. Did these resolutions emanate from the same hand that dictated the inflammatory letters about Bilbo? What is the hand Terry’s? Through the six year war., I was chairman of the American Legion subversive activities-American committee-in a strategic position to know the actual workings of the Commies control groups and directing their slur and smear propaganda against Senator Bilbo, as well as others. I knew what happened! Being a sociologist of a successful politician for many years-I could interpret it too! I sincerely maintain Senator Bilbo as an honest an upright legislator who is the main and has shown a much more discerning long-range vision than most politicians. Bilbo has shown no anti-Semitic, or anti-this or that – racial group tendencies. Nor has he ever shown any https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/9e2557f60e2476317b0a05476c6a5def.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=dUM7g2wPxunANLo15et-NuDZk-O4Zpm-EVf3dOx8gc7CIFHmiMRaAJ-x%7EeO5MZStpLV8UtYH8GQiB6Daap7kToQ0XtilnAT7jkQ-B8dCwPDrgSgNP1YIcoOF39wz3lVd8New1pBrqs-0vZmKAMXpVTYvjBWLSbCFNafNCIMUtxLK-VyjS25Fct%7Ev%7EtjhsTfMYcZsAtriSImPVbF-d3QUDZDIK%7EPDxfLVcCqCPYYJ63sXjPJFIjq%7EotddnETmRY2LfkLYRSlIvF2EnmtDNmQox9E2-A8PaglG8vRw1xvRy3PMOxnNnN1ssIZQcAa1UjYNcHO%7EZ519qNz6ywDCN7STpQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 1975d45f18400460af565cd13e4c3594 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Page 3 Amity for the Negro. His attitude is much like a sincere and Farsi parent who is invading indulgence and pampering of every whim of his child in a very real effort to bill for that child, a bright and promising future. Millions of our citizens agree with Bilbo as to what constituents Negro welfare. Curiously enough, the highest type any Negro also agrees with Bill bow theories. Give the Negro the false opportunity for self expression, educate and develop the best in his race to his optimal capacity, and allow them to live their own lives in their own way. Bilbo, as does almost every white man, object to 100% acceptance of the Negro into participation in private family lives in affairs. Many whites honestly believe in her marriage with me Groves-but only if it is the other fellow whose sister Or daughter and her Mary’s. Invariably, the wind or Negro girl who Mary’s into the office at Rice is an outcast in both races. Because of the unseen forces we got by group miss use and abuse of the championship of the rivals? Of suffering? Minority groups, most people are reluctant to honestly express their views. In their hearts, they agree with Bilbo; for Social Security, they tactfully can form and give lipservice. There are many groups, as in New York City, who have never before bed for or against any racial group. A New York mayor made the whites Negro conscious and start a page 140 gross. That mayor imported the Negro for his ballot and put him on relief. Landlords, with houses tentative by Negroes, found that quartz would neither require the tenants to pay rent nor VICS them. To avoid a complete loss of property, landlords raise their dwellings-and set up a house shortage: citizens are daily assaulted, robbed and killed by Negro criminals, with the lease turn in an unseen back knowing that to protect the Citizen will be to lose their own jobs. Force in the Negro on the white is not building up a Negro future. You cannot teach, train, educate, guide and develop a Negro by passing laws. Dumbo is a keen, analytical student of sociology. He knows history. He is an authority on the race problem. Bilbo has urges at the future of the Negro be assured by saying, sound, educational policies. He does not seek to nurture the spoiled and pampered brat. As a politician, he differs from that mayor of New York and cultivated the Negro to achieve certain personal political objectives. He does not want to protect the Negro in crime and justice, nor train him to a life of cancer is social growth. Never refuse the Negro the right to vote. If a state has set up socially acceptable conditions to wish the warm if he is to vote, and the Negro must’ve been the wall every motor has to conform to legal safeguards on the ballot. If Mississippi has set up certain regulations for declaring a change in party allegiance, the Negro must conform to those regulations if he is to change his party! The Republican Party has secured control of the Congress on probation. If they use that power to unseat Bilbo, they will make a grievous and Irreparable mistake. In effect, they are confirming the Democratic accusation of Republican complicity with communism. They are driving at one of the most fundamental of our constitutional rights end freedom of expression, freedom from fear and freedom to think, feel and act of God guides us to do. We can either forward an American Stalin to patterning to punctuate our thinking, feeling and doing. The people of Mississippi elected Bilbo. They like him. What right halfway to dictate the good people Mississippi who is to represent them? If they’re thinking of a man it has a highly culture, educated experience of Bilbo who is extraordinary intelligence and political acumen has never been challenged is not approved by subversive, minority groups, then it behooves the Senate to examine into the activities of those groups who persecute Bilbo. Focus the spotlight of investigation on the persecutors – there is robbery and corruption there. The critics of Bilbo in a little, and care less about, the real racial needs of any minority group. They are not students, autonomous or sociologist. They are pandering to racial bigotry because it is a ready weapon to crucify Bill though, it was honestly expanded opinions chance to be contrary to acceptance by certain small but active groups. His utterance was publicize, missed quoted, and misinterpreted to serve as a flame to incite racial antagonisms. Then, with the cooperation of the racial bigots as a basis, common seek to eliminate Bilbo by bribery and conspiracy. Terry seems to be well-versed in these political machinations. He has placed himself in much the same category as a former New York mayor who rode to power on important Negro votes. Then, in the flowering a political success, that mayor abandon the Negroes to join another more fruitful issue. We are told that Terry now has $1 million credit with which to embark on housing construction. Was that million dollar credit authenticated by the same communist to bribed him with an initial $15,000 to initiate Bilbo‘s political downfall? One suspects $8000 clerks who get millionaire credit. Is this millionaire dollar credit Terry’s pay off? Is it the 30 pieces of silver? https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/4e1d2de4f221fdc66f4e77e60b1a8483.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=eHG3V7yTEUi1i1KofV5AUy1--ca9BiKceGU0r-tTAGAKwUCmZWPAIqzhjJ91q5IXdImSwqaq5MJCHuzyAoltaqDWOZ%7EOFvDSVc-YYliZrdZCqdKmPYQxqSxLNWTRRgnY5CYVnqLUwbdnHdjoWDTIJlQ3DhWwl8DxGIOGr%7ENIU88J3D3gCqicBand1BJ3jcuAB5yWLdvMeOANty3RNISVyOxt4Qe6WkDdpR-agEItCa65On4AyLmIZmqAnNjkeJOYDoY5gI4VSO52chtZPUqVw9CYWWSs-pz4MJ-7ApwlK0EsHeU%7EfftMibfPS00DHOrNp-wX0LLQ4kWcb-X3OlFh7w__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 5076689b90197c6f6bc4c953912cadf5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Page 4 It is certainly not the duty at the Senate, it’s it’s official investigation of allegations made against Senator Bilbo, to fritter about on a witchhunt. But is there plain duty to thoroughly investigate every pertinent factor of developed in this investigation. Terry, his admitted $15,000 bride, his offer of additional funds, his he succession to invest money credit for entry into a highly paid instruction activity-his sudden success and financial power after quitting and minor and low wage position-all of this is very pertinent data. Every power of the Senate; every agency of our government, should be called upon to explore the latent possibilities of criminal conspiracy line they are in. Who is responsible for the demand Bilbo be subjected to the humiliation of investigation by the Senate? Why was he denied the privilege of facing his accusers? What is the purpose of the Senate enclosing in silence identities of those who are immediately responsible for an investigation of Bilbo We think that Ed Terry can supply the answer to a lot of these questions. He should be compelled to do so. The person who gave Terry is $15,000-a question moly, many additional thousands of dollars to induce Terry to betray Bilbo-that man did not come to Terry unknown and unsolicited. He was introduced it to Terry by mutual friend, and then only after Terry had been sound it out and expressed willingness to sell out. Terry should be forced to disclose all he knows about these persons who were instrumental in his betrayal up his employer. Those persons new Terry-his weak points, his ability and willingness to deliver. They knew how to approach him; how to lay the groundwork and how to affect liaison between Terry in their own principles. No trust, confidential secretary can be easily bragged or influenced unless some of his personal friends are in on the tape. Who were Terry’s Confederates in this conspiracy? The United States Senate-through you, gentlemen,-is it self on trial. It is up to the Senate to clean its own scared of the contamination of communism-or to confess it’s firm allegiance to a controlled by communism. Every sincere and honest legislator who now investigates feel well, is himself face-to-face with the same elimination policies by the same communist party power. What happens to Bilbo, gentlemen, can happen to you! America should not easily forget the bear lesson learned in the downfall of Germany; the betrayal of France, Austria and Poland. The conquest of these nations was not an overnight achievement by external forces alone. That conquest was the result of a long, patient, tedious and in situ ask him to ration through the power of those on the inside. The first conquest was that of the political leader ship of the country. The first victory was betrayal by those who held places of power and trust-just such a place as you hold now. America face is that same in situ us infiltration and domination at this moment. The Congress is an immediate objective. It is for the Congress to determine just how far and how successful this domination from with out is to progress. It is for the Congress decide when and how it is to end. Who now rules America? And your investigation of Senator Bilbo, you were answering this very pertinent question. The Senate is on trial as well as Senator Bilbo. President Roosevelt was accused of fraternizing with the communist. Even intimidated newspapers both covertly and overtly describe communist party infiltration in control in Washington. It was because of the bureaucratic control of the Democratic Party, their communistic alliances-that I, and many like me, organized reform groups. Incorporated the New Jersey state Democrats, and advocate in the defeat of the democratic party so that I complete party purge would be affected. We must illuminate the communist from American government an American political parties. But no citizen worthy of his American heritage expects the republican party can to continue as the instruments to affect the objectives of the communist party. your conduct in investigating Bilbo is your declaration of purpose as to your stand on communism. My organization stands for the American principle of equality of opportunity for all, without discrimination between race, creed or color. Respectfully yours, Signature of Samuel W Silverman Samuel W Silverman, national president Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Historical Manuscripts Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Historical Manuscripts Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Samuel W. Silverman, the president of The Allied Veterans Political Association of America, to Members of the United States Senate linking anti-Theodore Bilbo sentiments to communism. Description An account of the resource This 4-page letter from the national president of The Allied Veterans Political Association of America defending Senator Theodore Bilbo against attacks by communists during his campaign for senator. In addition, the letter provides a detailed description of race relations in the United States and attempts to explain how Bilbo works tirelessly to help African Americans. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Samuel W. Silverman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Theodore G. Bilbo Papers, M2, Historical Manuscripts, Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1946-12-31 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. Language A language of the resource En Type The nature or genre of the resource Text anti-communism bribe communism communist Congress Mississippi race relations The Allied Veterans Political Association of America Theodore Bilbo unions https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/e00cd990d485086112e5a42b9953fb4a.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=tME1WbfBDgS10U6Q3NTGIf3KLB7ogqz2P3HIlo4WM%7E6wPxlciLggmbX2iU3R5dyBFtQfI5IETKjbW2HsmqTNCF8ErSIaPp0UlTrfhhlkt3UC1JtE3HKP0nyesaPRZ7-At7ekBgJIiAajMvBny%7EJvYCEnmmP3dFke1ZupiDgxsvZrQK1M8UpnWz2nLHX2poIbuoNchqsg-YXr8EwwJC4nVo9oKtbMlv10EgL9kYbfL53slLL7UgTXGhf9vigx%7E6viOHJQwMuOZG%7E%7E2jAQm8Wso-vAk3fCAWDLX2VPTtRd0u22n7NA2NY2ieebYyztGTvDUTytcfiP9vZLmcBQ5tfiIw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 78705a8c4a1ddf165f3372e8669c838d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource his letter is typed in red ink with all bold letters except for the mailing address for a calmer and the signature from Mr. Davis. The letter reads: Route one Wayneboro, Mississippi July 17, 1950 Honorable Bill Colmer, congressman Washington, DC My dear Mr. Colmer, For heaven sake, what… What are you lawmakers in Washington waiting for???????? How many other tragedies must occur to hamper and threaten our security before you outlaw the damned communist party and have those on speakable thrown into prison where they should have been long, long before this???????? Please...... please..... please..... Will you guys who can do some thing… Dot do something????????? stop bickering and talking and swing into action before it is actually too late…… Outlaw the communist party…… Outlaw the communist party… outlaw the communist party… outlaw the communist party…… Jail the Reds…Jail them… Jail them… Jail them……… Please don’t wait any longer……… Please don’t wait any longer…… Please don’t wait any longer………………… Please pay attention to this and all other letters you receive on this grave matter……....... action! Action! For gods sake.... without delay........... Sincerely, The signature of Otto Davis Otto Davis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Historical Manuscripts Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Historical Manuscripts Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter to Congressman William Colmer from a Mississippi citizen encouraging Colmer to fight communism Description An account of the resource A letter typed in red ink to Congressman William Colmer from Waynesboro, Mississippi, citizen Otto Davis. The letter, in all capital letters, asks Colmer and others in Washington to "outlaw the communist party" and 'jail the reds." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Otto Davis Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived William M. Colmer Papers, M24, Historical Manuscripts, Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950-07-15 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. Language A language of the resource En Type The nature or genre of the resource Text 1950s anti-communism communism Communist Party Congress correspondence Mississippi reds Waynesboro William Colmer https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/de48fc44b0b2dca7d4cd885a420fe9ed.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=F99ahwMGfSlElx6u8-8QDoxAX-7uYOMv3ZX16muwlBZDc0iyBGaVWVMcRClF4m%7E8KQkMJFZPHAO8fd6Lul2yliaTHqdbitYrbSU5hpPkWAMc6eojS76a33Hz-NHA67gk6YwhPxJNmKTSeX25H8M1NlTLafeOq%7EZZQSrzr9DqMI%7EbcwLMj9l84inWij3WrTpXyKe-dS6ma4pflAuF4yfmyurJa4METg8WQCTXeLa3I6699WrXIXtGP3yl9FymPbbGi6meg1O34K9Z%7EuLl94yrp3CJgMK-2IImLC20CEHGGqY01DjF1HzLPlEAMkUev0URmrl-%7EwBmDXzYhXm6E0fnrw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 3375cce093c4017f30022ed703508e32 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter sent to Senator Theodore G Bilbo from Floyd Herrington from BelPine Farms, Braxton, Mississippi, February 12, 1946 Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, Senate office building, Washington DC, My dear Senator, Enclosed is my check for $100 to help out on your coming campaign. Also, it is in appreciation of your efforts to defeat Roosevelt’s FEPC measure, a sorry piece of cheap political double-crossing that stinks. Would like to suggest and recommend that when the bill comes up to make Roosevelt’s birthday a national holiday that it be amended so as to make two holidays - one for the day of his birth, the other for the day of his death. That would give everybody a chance to celebrate. I regard Roosevelt’s birthday as the blackest day in American history. Anybody who can aggravate, exasperate and irritate those New York pinks, reds, and blacks as you have so well and capably done ought to be stationed in Washington permanently, and without the bother of an occasional election. Yours very truly, Floyd Herrington CC mr. RG Wooten Hattiesburg, Mississippi Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Historical Manuscripts Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Historical Manuscripts Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter, Floyd Herrington to Theodore Bilbo about Bilbo's fight against communism Description An account of the resource Letter from Floyd Herrington to Theodore Bilbo about a donation to his campaign and his work on addressing communism in the United States. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Floyd Herrington Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Theodore G. Bilbo Papers, M2, Historical Manuscripts, Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1946-02-12 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource R. G. Wooton Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. Language A language of the resource En Type The nature or genre of the resource Text anti-communism campaign donation communism Franklin Delano Roosevelt Mississippi Theodore Bilbo https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/91f4803769ed195c3ab3437a28974a19.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=kiLiubm8LtjrPUNzANVpQIK7a63FVtwAu9MRCInweYzjD%7EO4jRvdajqKd9kNBgz5MNg5ifkokyRV4B7H4BmrQMz-jyavLSRgoljb9-XiinPKCQgYlfv49LsZPj6c9LNYSU%7E%7EBcoY2x7LoxVc3QBV7jbex2Aps49bWztxOCp3DKKtdtxgPqX5bUL44kbfT09RvmZJyw7sSD70aGaOHmRQeZgZbDQUdy0cVRgean-HJiTXUms6aIYnFiUaS7Gj%7EDF2H4uW-a7jV-rp72vVqIKmuaMwqo1G%7EJgT9vcDgJMLH8JwTePpq2DQVEUu5KGgqPhT6e27J75ng7%7EXCnnaUX-NxA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM a2c03904c81c04bb6941b1a7ad77cbb7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The following resolutions were adopted by citizens in Grenada, Mississippi, assembled under the sponsorship of the Lowndes county plan state project of the Mississippi Society Daughters of the American Revolution at the conclusion of an address on communism by Mrs. BL Parkinson of Columbus, Mississippi, January 16, 1951. Whereas, the avowed aim of communism is to make the whole world a Soviet Union with Moscow as its capital; and Whereas, communists are now working tirelessly to set up their ideology in our own country and are succeeding to an alarming degree; and Whereas, their methods of propaganda are so scientific and subtle that our American groups both public and private are infiltrated and poisoned without recognizing what is taking place; and Whereas, our people generally are unaware of the inroads already made by dangerous communistic doctrines in labor groups, race groups, youth groups, and religious groups; and Whereas, communist now have access to centers, executive, scientific, and industrial that are vital to our national defense; be it Resolved, that we recognize the world aim of communism as very real and very perilous; and be it Resolved, that we meet zeal for communism with greater zeal for representative government, that we know better our privileges and blessings as American citizens and that we point these out diligently to those we meet; and be it Resolved, that we inform ourselves of communistic methods of infiltration and indoctrination and that we expose these methods whereever we have opportunity; and be it Resolved, that we work aggressively to arouse every citizen to the threat that communism poses to his personal safety and the American way of life; and be it Resolved, that all known communists and there’s sympathizer should be interned in concentration camps until such time as the president and Congress may determine that they are not harmful to our national security; and be it Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent to the local press, our congressmen, and United States senators, the committee on un-American activities, and chairman of national defense committee of the national Society daughters of the American Revolution. Resolutions committee Grenada county chapter Lowndes county plan Mrs. John Rundle Rodney E Defenbaugh WO Semmes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Historical Manuscripts Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Historical Manuscripts Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resolution Against Communism Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grenada County Chapter, Mississippi State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived William M. Colmer Papers, M24, Historical Manuscripts, Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grenada County Chapter, Mississippi State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 16 January 1951 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lowndes County Plan Mrs. John Rundle W. O. Semmes Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text anti-communism communism DAR Grenada County Lowndes County Mississippi https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/d498e3c600998228579154cab965160d.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=hRN62d74rc4Nb4Qa9u03AuqkSo5jgPIkymXENkTfA1akGxuaem0Wawim-G8vsSL9rUkcjRoi1Y1DiMh6P2K6nUaD8PLfrXK2hIcMegEP0ncfUhmSOsdIJy3hdz2ulymSZasXKNkfsY6-pn-AwZkiCMAP%7EknZxVD6JM9FN4R680OFy8IUAAu%7E45wKiGdNwLRnoe7BB6FZbeg0CkSsxAd8MlLP5LSSlrK4aFvyeKd83GmAMdx3qJzlfrPvpi%7E5DVC0Pl%7EbGmBQV0LU8E0Pji4ML-FXBVclHExNzyNnVEduHBrdrwrQHTO%7EjgPATnDvgQx7iSLS3hB2kbZ5XtTKatPeGw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM d7ab70bd9fd84e24b52abc49f104acb6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource I am your flag I was born on June 14, 1777. I am more than just cloth shaped into a design. I am the refuge of the world’s oppressed people. I am the silent Sentinel of freedom. I am the emblem of the greatest sovereign nation on earth. I am the inspiration for which American patriots give their lives and fortunes. I have led your sons into battle from Valley Forge to the bloody ridges of Korea. I walk in silence with each of your honored dead, to their final resting place beneath the silent white crosses rows upon row. I have flown through peace and war, strife and prosperity, and amidst it all I have been respected. My red stripes… symbolize the blood spilled in defense of this glorious nation. My white stripes signify the burning tears shed by Americans who lost their sons. My blue field is indicative of god’s heaven under which I fly. My stars… clustered together, unify 50 states as one, for God and country. Old glory is my nickname, and proudly I wave on high. Honor me, respect me, defend me with your lives and your fortunes. Never let my enemies tear me down from my lofty position, lest I never return. Keep alight the fires of patriotism, strive earnestly for the spirit of your republic. Worship eternal God and keep his commandments, and I shall remain the bulwark of peace and freedom for all mankind. I am your flag. This is a public service of Patriotic American Youth PO Box 363, Jackson, MS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mississippiana Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Mississippiana Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The price they paid Have you ever wondered what happened to those men who signed the declaration of independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traders and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds, or the hardships of the Revolutionary War. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. They signed and they pledged their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ship swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay and, his family was kept in hiding his possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, an Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Junior noted that the British general Cornwallis, had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire, which was done. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid waste. For more than a year, he lived in forests and caves returning home after the war to fight his wife dead, his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American revolution. These were not wild-eyed rabble-rousing ruffians. These were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledged each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” WE HAVE GIVEN YOU A REPUBLIC – IF YOU CAN KEEP IT. Ben Franklin This is a public service patriotic Patriotic American Youth PO Box 363, Jackson, MS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Flyer, The Price They Paid Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Patriotic American Youth Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Patriotic American Youth Description An account of the resource Flyer, "The Price They Paid," was distributed by the Patriotic American Youth, circa 1960s-1970s. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mississippiana Vertical File Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1960s-1970s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. Language A language of the resource En Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mus_scv0011 (Digital Collections) American Revolution americanism anti-communism Ben Franklin Declaration of Independence https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/18935/archive/files/5d51df2ab952d8932e54613a380530d7.jpg?Expires=1781740800&Signature=NkURjnS1amk7baRzvK4bmD9VUx4CgATMpdA68pgB%7E1TZ5MQYOya1e6AxS8ZlXIBvI2m3cFb5oi%7E0ql4uclAf47BsqpspDr5va8lh-fGaG1tj5KPWuZMv-LP9k8G%7EhdXluMCPlUpN%7EzW%7Euu3bhErKcHWDPS4FiXI3KuxWnwcuV2Q-mjd52KeUS8q2739VXA-Vb33DSSgatcFtXgF3FCqDPQZD-mh%7EjV1hzkyiuo9vdzWqlpAlapak34rfgTA2BwKv%7EUcpcc6p0VRyNAVHyjITA4jOEml0LZLHZMEslYUv%7EMGkMGgeQDtTPrMTJJoRU-BXMZG-7DBozT26klu%7EsD6amw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 95fdd19ddf81a62d86918bf2b99919d0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The mission of the Christian church on earth (opening statement of Joe Hess, president of college division of patriotic American youth in a debate on WLBT youth speaks September 1965) The church is not an organization but an organism. Therefore, it is not a social club, organized and supported solely for the benefit of its members. it is not a place of amusement to administer to the base or passions of the carnal nature of man. the church is not a reform bureau to save the bodies of men. Reformation of men is very commendable as are all forms of social service, but that is not the work of the mission of the church. The world was just as full if not more so of the evils that affect society today in the days of Christ, but he never, nor did the disciples organize any reform agencies. He knew that the source of all evils in the world is sin and the only way to eradicate sin is to rejuvenate the human heart and so he gave the world the gospel. And the mission of the church is to carry that gospel to the whole world. The gospel is not a system of ethics nor a code of morals; it is a proclamation of salvation. The purpose of the gospel is not to save society but to save the individual members that are to compose the body of Christ the church. The great mistake the church has made is appropriating to herself the promises of earthly conquest and glory. As soon as the church enters into an alliance with the world and seeks the help of parliaments, congresses, legislatures, federations, and reform societies, largely made up of ungodly men and women, she loses her spiritual power and becomes helpless as a redeeming power and force. The futile efforts of those who seek to make the earth a more comfortable habitation for men and bring about a Federation of all religious bodies are in actuality attempts to bring about a godless civilization. The tactics are to neutralize the efforts of the church, the method is to divert her efforts from the evangelization of the world to methods of better social betterment and does make the world a better place to live in, forgetting that as the natural man cannot be spiritually saved through culture neither can the world. Therefore all efforts to save the world by social betterment are futile. And when the church lens her aid to such methods, she confess that Christ’s method of saving the world is insufficient, and thus denounces the power of the gospel. The common opinion is that all the evils of society are in man’s surroundings or environment; where they are in men themselves. Thus all human schemes for the betterment of society must begin in the man himself. Let the church save the individual, and by thus doing, save society. This is a public service of patriotic American youth PO Box 363, Jackson, MS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mississippiana Description An account of the resource These are resources that reside in the Mississippiana Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Flyer, The Mission of the Christian Church on Earth Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Patriotic American Youth Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Patriotic American Youth Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1965 Description An account of the resource Opening statement of Joe Hess, president of the college division of the Patriotic American Youth, in a debate on WLBT "Youth Speaks." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mississippiana Vertical Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright not evaluated. Language A language of the resource En Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mus_scv0012 (Digital Collections) anti-communism Christianity Joe Hess WLBT