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--- - - = = = ~ ---- MISSISS I P PI NOTEBOOI( A By TOM ETHRIDGE Behind The Head'~ines, Off The Cuff 1 LOVE'S LABOR LOST? - A ASIDE FROM the " race riot" "li!Jeral" Atlanta editor r eport- there this week, Atlanta has edly was guest speaker, on the been experiencing other severe tensions and is becoming a subject of Race - Relation's, at Crime Center of Dixie. Murder, the r ecent Biloxi convention of rape, r obbery and assauft are the Mississippi Association of increasingly common. Chamber of Commer ce ExecuOften called " The New York tives. - . sf the South," Atlanta is getting -Presumably, these state exec- to be about as unsafe as Gothutives wanted some practical ' am, largely 'because of a!'). ··overideas on how to maintain cqr- dose of " rights," without proper dial r ace relations. · · restraint , enjoyed by CBJ's , ... We don't know what the At- Chosen People . lanta , editor said at Biloxi but There are many sharp th'grns we did read that front - page among the roses of progr,ess, but story Wednesday from the As- the seamy side of Atl ta s sociated P ress in Atlanta under growth has never been publicized. Before undertaking to conthe big headline: demn Mississippi for lacking TEA'.R GAS SUBDUES "racial peace," our Geor g i a ATLANTA RACE RIOT contemporaries need fo improve F irst paragraph of this AP report said "Tear gas scatter- their own local situations, it would appear. ed an angry cr-0wd of about 500 Negroes". Looks like our State THE ATLANTA PRESS, a Chamber bigshots went to a mouthpiece· for the Great Sogoat's house looking for wool" ciety and Omnipotent Federalwhen they invited an Atlanta ism, has been especially severe journalist to give ,them some hot in criticizing Mississippi's ~ontips in re friendly race relations. servative newspapers w h i c h faithfully ,publicize and suw or t .SAD BUT TRUE, no one -per- Chamber programs. · son or group - not even AtlanHome folks may wonder why ta's all-wise Mastermind of State Chamber Executives have Journalism - has a guaranteed gone far afield to honor an ediformula for racial harmony in tor and newspaper so markedly today's troubled world. . hostile to Mississippi's establishIt is ·obvious that Atlanta has ed order. major problems in this phase, but that hasn't ·kept the Northern-owned Atlanta press from pointing the finger of scorn and r idicule at Mississippi. P erhaps it 's coincidence but sjnce the Atlanta editor was invited to Mississippi as a guest problem-solver, his Atlanta paper has front-page<l a series of special articles putting Mississippi in a very unfavorable light. .• WE ARE DEPICTED as backward, bigoted, cru~l, oppressive, un-Christian. . .you nam~ it and we've been called it by th e Northern-owned Atlanta newspaper. A recent page-one At I a n t a feature has evell accused Mississippi of deliberately starving our unfortunate and underprivileged needy - despite official government figures showing that about one in every five Mississippians has been getting free government groceries through the welfare progl'am. This ' 'starvation" charge, like others aired in Atlanta papers lately, has been made on the basis of unsupported testimony by paid workers for The Revo· lutlon . F'eatw·e stuff praising our state1s NAACP t lent l s be 11rint d ovrr thore tn CllpitRJ city •. eorgia's �