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{Mount Clipping in Space Below) Fudge Allgood Ot Law, U. S. District Judge Clarerite All good is 2 native of Birmingham. It was in that capacity as much as in his official role as federal judge that he spoke to a special Grand Jury Mon- day. He spoke for most of his fellow citizens when he said he was “sick- ened” by the Sunday bombing of a Negro church in which four young girls died and many others were injured. Judge Aligocd called the crime i ; “blackening sin against humanity.’ bit is to Birmingham's and Alabama's everlasting disgrace that conditions existed here which were conducive to such an atrocity. “Ip recent weeks.” this federal judge said in his charge te the jury. “we have witnessed what amounts to inockers vf our laws. a mockery bs those who would cut the very roats of our American sy 2 of justice: whe in se doing wouit stacve the growth of our way of life, and snuff out human life with insane fury and irra tionality.” This was nut a ‘Northern busy- body,” a “do-gouder” with no concep- , tion of Southern conditions. This was Alabamian, outs le thing which had a Southerner. a raged by the horr: come to pass. The deep and abiding tragedy of this and other acts of violence is that those who commit them do so in de- fense of what they conceive to be a “Southern tradition.” Nothing contd be further from the ideals of our beloved region, and these who think so are the ones who least understand what that tradition is. “Those who resort to this type of vivlence iu the pious name of free- doin and tradition blaspheme their neighbor, their country and their God.” Judge Allgood said. “If they think that in their insane frenzy they are serving the cause of segregation, they are traitors to their cause. They du the South a disservice and will be condemned by all decent thinking feopre.* —_ Courts, as Bids Judge sallgooa charged jurors_to’ |matet thosé who have broken the law by obstructing or ‘attempting to ob- ‘struct execution of court orders. “Tt is not just the order of this court that is entitled to respect and ' obedience,” he said, “it is the lawful order of any court, the decision of the-ixetice of the peace, the verdict of-the-jeury in the circuitweonrtin your home county, the decree of your ,circuit judge and the decision of the + Supreme Court of this state. “If the order of this court, or of any court, is allowed to be illegally ‘and forcibly flouted by irresponsible agitators, a chink in the mortar which supports the keystone of our system of justice has occurred, and when the keystone falls from the structure, the wall will collapse and mankind will i take a giant step backward. “This Grand Jury is not an instru- ment of social change; it is the pro- tector and vindicator of the system of law and order which is our strength and our shield.” “ft was a solemn ch ded man to similar! 0 lake action lo vlininate some of ihe conditions in which routed tt deserves respect. arge by a trou. widest attention and troubled men! tragedy is" - BIR NG Ast > THE BERMINGINAS POST LALLY BIRMENGE 9/18/63 RED STAR FINAL B. L, HOLLAND, 32 ous BAPBOXB