University of Mississippi eGrove Newspapers and Journals Citizens' Council Collection 5-1-1971 The itC izen, May 1971 Citizens' Councils of America Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Citizens' Councils of America, "The itC izen, May 1971" (1971). Newspapers and Journals. 80. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news/80 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Citizens' Council Collection at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Newspapers and Journals by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOL. t5 MAY 197t No. 8 c EDITORIAL OPINION CONTENTS CoURT DISASTER: THE CALLEY CASE IN PERSPECTIVE 5 Jesse Helms HARRIS ACAIN HELPS POUCE Decision Denounced Roy V. Harris 8 FOOD .' OR THOUCHT Statistics on Public School Costs 12 The Associated Press, we think, lioning the use of busing and racial RA.!'.LJO:\( GLAN'C ES AT TlIE l EWS 16 did a good job of clarifying and quotas to achieve the maximum of condensing the Burger court's tur­ racial integration in the public ~EW ~IODEL EXeLAND ,uIERICA·S PR£cURSOR? John J. Synon 19 gid and turbid school-mix opinion schoot.. of the South. of April 20, reporting in part as follows: This decision is clearly sectional; Plwto Credits; Pages 4. 6, 7, 19. 20, 21, Wide \VorJd. Washington (AP) - III a su:eep­ it is aimed at the South, and is ing smash at segregated schools, without effect et..ewhere in the na­ tion. It highlight.s the hypocrisy Edito, . .................. W. J. Simmons the Supreme Gourt approved unan­ ~Ianaging Editor , .. .. ... Medfonl Evans imously Tuesday massive busing that has c1lOracteri::ed the entire Business ~Ian~gcr Louis \V. Hollis and limited racilJl balancing as integration drive since Black At all­ proper ways of assuring black child­ day, May 17, 1954, when the whole ren an integrated eduClltion. disgraceful mess was brewed by ti,e Warren Court. SUBSCRlPTION $4.00 PER YEAR S/leaking through Chief Justice Back issues. as available . ... .. ' . 50¢ each Warren E. Burger, the court said We hope the public ullderstalllls schaal officiat.. must use all avail­ the latest n,ling of the Burger Court Microfilm copies of current as well as ~ack . issu~ of THE CITIZEN may be purchased from UD!ve.mty M.icro­ able toot.., including gerryman­ in the canter! of Black Mollliay. Alms, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbo', MICrugan 48106. dered districts and sometimes even As tortured as it is, this decision free transportatiOll .... is but the logical extension of the If the school boards da II0t act, for greater error committed in 1954 Burger said, federal iudges should when the unbelievable principle exercise their powers . .. Broadly, was adopted that white and black the Tuesday ruling ran counter to chilclren, and adults too, must be announced Nixon administration compelled by governmental force lJOSitions in opposition to massive to mix solely because they belong busillg and in support of the neigh­ to different races. Our land is lit­ borhood-school concept. tered with the disasters resulting The foUowing statement was therefrom. the CITIZEN promptly released from Jackson to The Citi::ens Coullcit.. have con­ the daily press, wire services, and sistently based their POsitiOIl on the other media, and is herewith made belief that forced racial illtegration OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITIZENS COUNCILS OF AMERICA of record: is a t>UJral wrong that violates the 254 East Griffith Street • Jackson, ~lississippi 3920'2 The Citi::ens Councils of America most fullliamental hurnan rights denounce and condemn in the guaranteed in the U. S. Constitu­ strongest possible terms the U. s. tion and the most elementary prin­ Supreme Courts decision in sanc ~ ciples of common sense. 2 Zllff.. ~ COIIIt'Iltl C lf1t b1 T~ CUfu~ COIIIldt. l-.e All rflJ~t. r~ud THE CITIZEN COURT DISASTER The Calley Case in Perspective JESSE IlE:ulS WRAL-TV, Raleigh, N. C. Throughout these past few days, wave of emotion. It is far more and far into the nights, there has rational than that. At long last, come an unending flood of exhort­ the people have come alive to the ations urging, often demanding, incredible kind of war our young Se .. te .. ced to life imprisonment for ~dio" i" Viet"~m# Lt. Willi~m C~ney# Jr., of that we condemn in haste and in men have been commanded to Mi.lmi# Fla. luns the military court .It Fort Be"ni"g, G~. in custody of Negro u pt. anger the conviction of Lieutenant fight on the other side of the world J.lmes luc.ls# MP. William Calley. It would have -a war they were not pennitted to been easy, and the temptation has win, yet a war the free worJd can­ been great. But we have waited, not afford to see lost. wishing to think it through. It has been a story of travesty Those who are temlJted to despair of popular gooemment should The enormous public sympathy compounded upon tragedy. In consider the reaction of the American people to the trial of for Lieutenant CaUey has sprung retrospect, it began in Korea where Lieutenant Willinm Calley. The nation has been hardly so unani­ from the hearts of Americans who the Communists first discovered mous since Pearl /larbor. And t1.e reason for tI.e reactian was are at once puzzled, shocked, and that an apathetic America could basicalIy the same in both cases - a stlelden shock of realization appalled at being witness to a great, be shoved into compromise and tlrat the very national existence teaS imperiled. The clanger UJaS paradoxical national humiliation. appeasement. From then on, it has more obvious at Pearl Harbor, in an obrupt assault of supreme Still, the real grotesqueness of the been a series of what-might-bave­ violence by a foreign enemy, but it was more insidious - is more Calley case is not that be has been beens. MacArthur could have de­ insidious - in tI.e case of Lieutenant Calley. For this time the convicted and sentenced to life im­ feated Communism in Asia had he aHack on America's defenses is 0 complex operation involving what prisonment, but that he was can only be a significant number of personnel of the Armed hrought to trial at all. Forces themselves, up to (whether including or not, who can tel!?) The resentment resounding 11.e Commander-in-Chief. Some students believe that the aHack across the land has been mostly on Pearl Harbor involved cold-blooded, deliberate sacrifice of instinctive - and, largely, instinc­ American arms and men by the highest levels of command, intent tively correct. The people are On precipitating the nation into full-scale war against the Aris right: CaUey is a scapegoat; his Poteers. If that were so, it would be a .nore rational enormity than trial and conviction are another ex­ Ihe present perversion of military doctrine, which - haVing ample of depressing appeasement; already denied victory as an obiective - now turns brothers-in-arms the country has been damaged, against each other. Of all comments on the trial of Lieutenant perhaps beyond repair, in terms Caller} which we have seen, none l.as been mare lucid, temperate, of its future willingness and ability and at the same time laclen with prophetic reprobation, than that to resist Communism. by Jesse Helms, which we proudly if sadly l.ereteitl. present. This public protest should be neither misunderstood nor dis­ missed as merely a momentary Helms THE CITIZEN MAY 1971 been permitted to do so. Our MacArthur's warning. American friends in South Vietnam could boys have been bogged down in an have, alone, resisted Communism interminable no-win land war in in Indo-China bad President Ken­ Asia. nedy not been persuaded by left­ Lieutenant William Calley has wing political pressures around become a forlorn symbol of a tra­ bim to turn this nation's back on its gedy that never needed to happen. anti-Communist friends. He was a part of an Anny against Lieutenant William Calley-and whom shaggy-haired cowards at his role. whatever it was, at ~{y home protested, an Army constant­ Lai - prove the accuracy of ly misrepresented by major left­ Douglas MacArthur's warning that wing news media, an Anny whose America should never become bog­ soldiers were being slaughtered by ged down in a land war in Asia. Communists in faraway swamps on Even so, once militarily invo1ved~ the other side of the world. America could have won the war Calley saw what many another long ago with air power-and per­ American fighting man has seen haps with only the threat of it. -bis friends blown to bits by gre­ The Communists always retreat in nades and land mines thrown and the face of real force. laid by those "innocent" civilians so But first Kennedy, then John­ constantly and mournfully de­ son, and DOW ixon all have re­ scribed by the press. The Com­ peatedly assured our enemy that munists are not conventional fight­ we're not in this war to win. As a ers; they compel their women and result, in a horrendous disregard of old men - and, yes, their children Lieute nant William ulley, Jr. March 31 . the d~y he wu se nte nced to life imprisonme nt. Physiognomy is not ~n exact science. yet it would be difficult to convince most Ame riUn", th~t th is is the face of a h~rde n ed murde re r. - to partiCipate in the slaughter Iiam Calley sbould be imprisoned of the enemy.