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wo wR reapers ed WY 105-8999 “In his appearance at Fis Hall, Malcolm * Will speak on Messenger Muhammad's twork and Aims', and present his stliution to the many problems con- fronting the Negro people, and their need of religious expression that is not dictated and controlled by their enemies. He will answer questions at the close of his lecture. Interviewed by The Heraid Dispatch since his arrival in Los Angeles, Malcolm X declared that 'Negroes want progress, but they must first realize thet progress is the offspring of freedom. We will never be free until we have our own institutions. We must be both the producers and the consumers of cur own necessities (food, clothing, shelter, ete.}, before we can be free and independent. “In this conection, he declared, Negroes must come to & realization of the importance and power of the Neero Press, pust take to heart the old adage that ‘she pen is nightier than the swerd.! He pointed out that when the white press recently sought to destroy one of New Your's nighest Uegro officials, it was only the Negro press who came to nis defense and beat back the attack. 'It was the Negro press in Harlem’, he declared, ‘that shot back "“feetual bullets”, enabling Narlemites to see what the white press was trying te do. By digzing up the facts and exposing the hidden motives of the biased white press, Che Negro press was abin te shatter the conspiracy, prevent the people of Harlem from being misled vy the lies of the white press.! om He warned that without a powerful and militant Negro press, the white press could deceive the Negro people with ‘its powerful, well-loaded, propagcnda guns,’ end its sicnders of Negro officiais. 'The Negro people would be wise’, he added, ‘to heep this weapon (the Negro press) in good condition, strong, well-loaded, independent, alert and ready,'°