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Letter from Earl Johnston Junior to Honorable Frank de Barber February 4, 1964.<br /> <br /> The letter is on Mississippi state sovereignty commission letterhead which list the address as new capital building, Jackson, Mississippi governor Ross are Barnett, chairman<br /> <br /> It is addressed to Honorable Frank D Barber, special assistant to the governor, the capital, Jackson, Mississippi<br /> <br /> Dear Frank:<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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<br /> <br /> Sincerely,<br /> <br /> Signed by Earl Johnston Junior. Director

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Newspaper clipping from the Hattiesburg American dated December 11, 1945.<br /> <br /> Principal denies weekly is red<br /> <br /> I Hattiesburg Parents complaint that his daughter and other Hattiesburg high school students were being exposed to communistic and socialistic propaganda through the medium of the weekly news review was quietly denied today by J. T. Wallace, principal of the senior high school.<br /> <br /> The weekly news review is subscribe to my students of the 10th grade history class as a supplement to the study of current history.<br /> <br /> <br /> I Hattiesburg father who made the complaint and further stated that he for bid his daughter to read the publication regardless of what instructions she received from her teacher, was not identified.<br /> <br /> He based his complaint, he said on such articles in the review as to biographical sketch is which dealt with Harold Lasky, executive secretary of the British labor party and advocate of gradual so socialism and Senator Robert F Wagner Democrat of New York, veteran champion of the underdog and quarterback for many important pieces of new deal social legislation.<br /> <br /> No objection<br /> <br /> I have seen and read issues of the weekly news review and I have seen nothing in them to object to, Mr. Wallace it.<br /> <br /> Miss Margaret L TrayWick, 10th grade history instructor, in his class the publication issues, was not available for comments she is absent on sick leave.<br /> <br /> John a Beeson, principal of Hattiesburg junior high school, scanned the December 3 issue, in which the articles on Senator Wagner and Mr. Lasky appeared, and said he failed to read into them any attempt to feed school children with communistic or socialistic propaganda.<br /> <br /> “They are brief biographical sketches. The publication itself advocates nothing,“ Mr. Beeson remarked.<br /> <br /> Mr. beast an added that junior high had use the same publication up to 1943 but the junior review is now being used in the junior high school history course. Both publications are edited by the civic education service, 1733 K St., Northwest, Washington DC and J. Hubert Anderson is senior editor of both reviews.<br /> <br /> Junior review<br /> <br /> He added that the weekly news review was dropped in junior high school not because anything was found to be wrong with it, because the history instructor found that Junior review more suitable to class needs.<br /> <br /> Miss Stella Myrick, junior high school social science teacher, who teaches history and civic classes lot of the junior of you as an excellent supplement to the study of current history, so no communistic north socialistic propaganda locate and its columns.<br /> <br /> Bohleen our excerpts from the weekly news review which aroused the Hattiesburg Parents Eire:<br /> <br /> Under a heading socialism in Europe games, the review reported: “the majority of people in nearly all these countries in Europe are agreed on one point – namely they don’t want to go back to conditions as they existed before the war. They favor radical changes in their social and industrial systems.“<br /> <br /> “US basis serious housing crisis quote was the main article on page 1 of the publication. Other items dealt with “Pearl Harbor,“ “Trumans health plan,“ “trouble in Iran,“ “US housing agencies.“<br /> <br /> Included an eight page review were pictures of Senator Wagner, Mr. Thorez,leader a fridge communist party, and a pen and ink sketch of Mr. Lasky.<br /> <br /> Back page of the publication was devoted to a “form in “on “the way to effective citizenship“ consisting of questions to test how much the student had absorbed from reading the review, suggestions for classroom project in which students would make a quote rather thorough investigation of housing conditions in their own town,“ and suggested pamphlets for reading in connections with the housing problem.
Newspaper clipping from the Hattiesburg American about a parent complaining that the Hattiesburg High school was exposing his child to "communistic and socialistic propaganda through the medium of the 'Weekly News Review.'"

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