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THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
-To Plead for a Return o·' Constitutional Government-
Vol. 7 FORT WORTH. TEXAS, APRIL, 1956 No.4
Federal
To Strike
Authorities Unite In Effort
Down Rights of the States
If They Want to
Walk Let'em
We don't go along with the
State of Alabama in arresting and
convicting a Negro preacher of
that State for refusing to ride the
busses and inducing others to do
likewise.
We know nothing about the legal
aspect of the Alabama court ruling
but, off-hand, we think there are
too many court rulings being handed
down these days about what
people should or sho .ld not do.
If the Negroes in Montgomery
had rather walk than ride the
busses then we say let them have
at it. Walking is fir.e exercise and
will probably do them good.
We are almost as opposed to that
ruling as we are to the S upreme
Court ruling which has caused all
the trouble currently tearing the
South apart.
Lynn Landrum, Dallas Morning
News columnist expressed our sentiments
exactly when he wrote recently.
The column does not favor arresting
that preacher, handcuffing
him and chaining him to a
bus seat just to show him who
the State of Alabama is. If he
wants to walk, let him walk.
And by the same token, if a
white citize·1 of Alabama doesn't
want to go to school with a black
citizen of Alabama, the column
doesn't favor arresting him and
handcuffing him and chaining
him to a desk just to show him
who the Supreme Court of the
United States is. There are some
things that you can not compel
by law. One of them is brotherhood.
Another is equality. Another
is good will and friendliness
between two different races.
Reporter Scares Wits
Out of Reading Public
Not Since Orson Welles' broadcast
some years ago in which he
told of an imaginary invasion from
Mars have many good Americans
experienced such chilling fright
as that which froze their spines on
April 3rd on reading a front-page
news story by one Ruth Montgomery,
International News Sf'rvice
reporter in Washington.
On that date, Miss Montgomery
told her readers that the President
was seriously considering setting
up a new Cabinet post and nam-
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General's Horse Gets
Clean Bill of Health
One of the burning questions of
the past fourteen years has concerned
the whereabouts of General
George Marshall on that Black
Sunday of 1941 when the Japanese
attacked Pearl Harbor, blowing up
86 vessels of the United States Pacific
Fleet conveniently lined up
like sitting ducks and killing over
31000 American service men.
There has been much speculation
on the subject in the intervening
years and the consensus of
opinion was that the General who
couldn't be found by those who
searched high and low for him
throughout the day, was riding his
horse in Rock Creek Park in Washinglon.
This was never officially confirmed
or denied as General Marshall
wouldn't talk and the horse
couldn't.
Recently, we were invited by
those who conduct the Congress of
Freedom in various cities throughout
the country each year, to sit
in on their three day session at
Dallos.
Although we heard interesting,
earnest and profound discussions
on many subjects of life and death
concern to the American people at
this great meeting of patriots, one
bit of information gleaned ~rom a
speaker more than repaid us for
the time spent there
Major George Racey Jordan, one
of the greatest patriots of this or
any other age, told his listeners
where General Marshall was on
that fatal December day.
He was, the major said. at the
Russian Embassy in ·washington
talking the situatior: over :"ith
Maxim Litvinov, who had arnved
in the Capital at ten o'clock that
morning. from Russia.
Well. at long last, that deep.
dark mystery is cleared up and
General Marshall's horse is finally
exonerated from any participation
in the events of that historic day.
From a subscriber in Philadelphia:
ur think you Southerners
will hove sweet revenge on hypo.
fhticat Northc1·n do-gooders . As
You know the ADA demagoques
got the Negroes to come up here
in droves for thei1· votes and even
some of the politicians are now
getting scm·ed ... There are many
murders which never get into the
papers ... None of us, including
the good colm·ed people. would
dare wall.: the .'itreets at night.
Talk about the j11ngle.1••
Only those whose respect for the Constitution has been
deadened through a quarter century of brain-washing by
the nation's leaders, will fail to react with amazement and
fury at unified efforts of the Executive, Judicial and Legislative
departments of government to n11llify that document
and set up a Federal Despotism in Washington. In a brazen
attempt to intimidate the people of the South and force
servile compliance with Marxist-inspired Court decrees, the
White House, the Departm ~ nt of Justice, the Supreme Court
and certain members of the Congress are collaborating to
abolish the American jury system, invalidate the Bill of
Rights and cancel out the last vestige of Constitutional authority
of the States to govern their own internal affairs.
On the 9th of April, 1865, the torn and battered remnants of the
troops of General Robert E. Lee laid dow1~ their arms at Appomattox
and the weary, maimed and despondent v1ctims of a Lost Cause went
back to rebuild their ruined homes, replant their devastated [ield~; and
restore their wrecked economy.
During the following years of Reconstruction , the destitute citizens
of Dixie were subjected to every form of humHiation, degradation and
mental torture which the bestial brain of the degenerate Th~ddeus
Stevens and his horde of lewd and dissolute Carpet Baggers could
devise against a proud but helpless and defeated people.
Whether through accident or sadistic intent we wouldn 't know
but political Carpet Baggers of the North selected this same tragic date,
ninety one years later, to aim another blast at the South intended to
once again bring the people of Dixie to heel.
On April 9th, 1956, the Attorney General in Washington came bearing
to Congress a request from the President of the United States that
legislation be passed by that body nullifying the sixth amendment to
the Constitution which guarantees to all Americans the right of Trial
by Jury in these words: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall
enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the
State and the district wherein the crime shall have been committed,
which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be
informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted
with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining
witnesses in his favor and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."
In place of this Constitutional guarantee of the right of Trial by
Jury which Americans have enjoyed for one hundred and sixty-five
years, the President requested, through his Attorney General, that the
Congress set up a Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
where a citizen could be dragged from his own State and hauled into
Washington to be tried in secret by political appointees of the President
who would serve as jury, prosecutor and judge.
Since this proposal, along with the Supreme Court decision on
segregation in May, 1954, resulted partly from the frantic and desperate
contest between so-called Republicans and so-called Democrats for the
colored vote, and partly from demands from the Kremlin concerning
integration in the South, it is clear that no American citizens would be
hauled before this political tribunal except those from the Southern
States where very little cordiality has been shown to proposals for
wrecking the Constitution in the interest of corraling minority group
votes or in order to comply with Soviet demands.
The Administration further requested authority for the Attorney
General to bring action in the Courts on behalf of any aggrieved person
and asked Congress to throw out the present requirement that admioistrative
and judicial remedies in the States must be exhausted before a
Civil Rights case can be taken to Federal Court. By such proposed procedure
a part of the Fifth amendment which provides that no person
shall be held to answer for a crime except on indictment by a Grand
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M ill ion s of A m e r i c a n s T h i n k It-T h e S o u the r n C o n s e r vat i v e S a v s It
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Apdl, 19!6
Why Have So Many Americans Slick Paper Edition of Daily
Turned Red in Their Views? Worker Blasts National Review
Many Americans must be appalled,
as we art', at the hundreds of thousands
o! Americans representing every
walk of lile and engaged in every
phase ot activity and whose behavior
pattt'rn follows what is plainly treason
to the United States and its institutions.
Who are these subversives, where
did they come !rom and why have
they turned against their own country
and transferred their loyalty to the
Soviet Republic, the most degenerate
and barbaric country on earth, is a
constant query directed to us and, undoubtedly
to all others who, each in
his own limited way, tries to warn of
the rising tide of treason which is engulfing
the United States.
We do not of course, know the
answer and neither does anybody else
but much enlightenment may be had
concerning the infiltration of the average
American's mind with Communist
ideals when we consider the undisputed
and undeniable fact that top
leaders of the American government
threw in with Soviet plotters many
years ago and aided them •vith plans
and materials lor the overthrow of the
American government.
A refresher course on treason
against this country may be had by
turning back to the testimony of Major
George Racey Jordon, retired,
whlch was broadcast to millions of
listeners by Fulton Lewis, Jr., several
years ago but which shduld be re~
vived and reviewed over and over
again and kept alive in the memories
ot those who are constantly bewildered
by the inconcelveable attitude of
our national leaders toward the Kremlin.
Major Jordan was lend - lease
expediter during World War II and
was stationed at Great Falls Montana,
through which passed materials and
supplies to Russia, via Alaska and Siberia,
which enabled them to keep
pace with, it not surpass, this country
in construction of the atomic
bomb. (The purpose of building the
atomic bomb in the first place was to
pl'otect us against Russia and, all the
while, we were helping them to build
bombs to protect themselves against
us. Wh:~.t vision, what patriotism and
what statesmanship! ! ! )
Robert J. Ryan, one of Dean
Acheson's close buddies when
Acheson, instead of Du.Ues, was
heading our one-world State Department,
said to Acheson on the
latter's departure as head of that
agency: '·Mr. Secretary, the employees
of the Department and the
Foreign Service a1·e very proud
of yow· many outstanding achievements.
Your high sense of duty,
your statesmanship, your courage,
your patience and your fortitude
have been an inspiration to all of
us. You, sir, are a tnte public serv·
ant .•. " Ryan is not only still
with t11e State Department but has
been promoted and given more
important assignments by the
present administration. (See pages
A-2158 Congressional Record,
March 8, 19_56_! ____
We learn more every day about
the wonderful uses to which the
American taxpayers' money is being
put when it gets to its destination
in foreign countries. For instance
a very useful expenditure
was 'made with the building ,·ecently
of a si:r-lane highway from.
Lisbon, Portugal, to a nice plu..sh
gambling joint fifteen miles out
of town. Americans should be very
grateful that they are allowed to
funlish the money for such humanitarian
projects as this. Ju.st
think what it will do to "stave off
Communi.!tn'' in that area!
In the course of his duties at Great
Falls, Major Jordan was alarmed
when he found such Items as 500
pounds of black uranium oxide, 500
pounds of uranium and heavy water,
components of the bomb being shipped
to Russia in the face of a security order
forbidding all movements of such
materials. When he protested to superiors,
the big-headed and Sovietloving
Harry Hopkins who wa:; acting
as a sort of unofficial Kremlin sponsor
in the White House, promptly
ordered that this material be sent to
Russia without interference.
According to Major Jordan, we not
only supplied the material to the Soviets
to make atomic bombs as potential
weapons against t•s, but in order
to make sure that they knew how to
drop it, we sent a delegation over
there with the Norden bombsig7:-t who
reached Moscow in 1944 and gave the
Russians courses of instruction so that
their flyers might be sure of hitting
their targets when the time came to
use it.
We sent $25,000,000 worth of pipe
to the Russians along about the same
time wben this material for developIng
the bomb was in short supply here.
We also sent them seventeen stationary
and three hydro-electric plants
costing $263,289,000 and 254,923 tons
of copper, although this material was
in such short supply here that silver
from the treasury vaults was being
substituted. When a Washington official
protested, the Rasputin of the
New Deal Court, Harry Hopkins,
again overruled him. $25,000,000
worth of electrical equipment was also
rushed to Moscow, in utter defiance
of the laws deaHng with the security
of this country.
Under the lend-lease law, the shipment
of material to Russia at that
time was left to the discretion of the
president but Harry Hopkins seems
to have been acting as president and
slipped in this material for the purpose
of specdlng up construction of
atomic bombs; not that Roosevelt
would have cared if he had known it.
AU this and so much more is told
in Major Jordan's Diary that no
American can afford to remain in
ignorance of the treasonable acts
which went on during the early Forties
with the fuH sanction of authorities
in our own government.
Laugh of the ·month: A Negro
member of the NAACP, in a letter
to a Dallas paper, seeks to
prove the high purpose and integrity
of his 01·ganization by pointing
out that such "persons of high
standing and character" as Eleanor
Roosevelt and Bishop Oxnam
belong to it. Ye gods!
"The Federal Government did
not create the States of this Republic.
The States created the Federal
Government. The creation
should not supersede the creator.
For if the States lost their meaning,
our entire system of government
loses its meaning and the
next step is the rise of the centralized
national state, in which the
seeds of autocracy can take root
and grow!' - Dwight D. Eisenhower
in a speech at Des Moines,
Iowa during the 1952 Presidential
campaign.
Why should the nationl'l administr~
tion get almost $5,000,000,000
to give to other countries to h~lp
them uto stave off Communi.ml''
and, at the same time, refuse to
give Committees of the American
Congress information to help them
expose Communist infiltration and
thereby "stave off Communism"
in thi.! country? Does that make
Jense?
Under the editorship oi the learned
and brilliant .dudent of American
politics, William F. Buckley, Jr., the
circulation of National Review the
only journal of conservatism in its
field, has reached almost eighteen
thousand since its initial appearance
last November.
This is far short of U1e number necessary,
however, to sustain a publication
ot this type and if fifty thousand
Americans are not willing to
exchange seven dollars a year for
fifty-two copies of a publication which
is of, by and for Americans, they
deserve what is happening to them,
but fast.
National Review, as might be expected,
is not exactly popular with
liberal, left-wing magazines who have
practically had the field to themselves
since 1933 when the organized attempt
to Socialize the United States
got off to a good start with the writing
profession and the book-publishing
industry pretty solidly lined up
in favor of this policy, and worse.
Naturally, these pink publications
do not put out the red carpet for any
newcomers in the field except those
ot their own ilk. Harper's, the slick
paper edition of the Daily Worker
and the egghead's bible, was especially
bitter in its blast at· the National
Review which, in the view of wellbalanced
and thoughtful Americans
is about as high a compliment as
could be paid to Mr. Buckley and
his splendid publication.
We know it is customary for people
with money to sit on their hands
when asked to write a check for any
good movement designed to attempt
to halt the fast pace of national and
international Socialism, but we respectfully
suggest to such Americans
It is very strange, indeed, that
newspapers and do-gooders who
are blasting Southerners for try ..
ing peacefully to combat integra ..
tion and thereby prevent blood·
shed in the South, never had one
word to say against the NAACP,
the Urban League, the ADA or
any other pro-Red group who
worked for years to get the former
Supreme Court decisions reversed.
What's so bad about decent white
and colored people now wishing
to have this latest one reversed?
We are too poor to offer any
cash reward but we will give a
year's free subscription to anyone
who can tell us when the United
States ceased to be a Republic and
became a uDemocracy," and
through which amendment to the
Constitution or other legal act this
change took place. Of course the
catch to this offer is that all good
Americans know that it is not a
"Democracy" but a Republic and
since only Reds refer to it as a
~<Democracy " they would not care
to read a publication devoted sole·
ly to Americanism 4! is the South·
ern Conse1·vative. So, naturally,
we will have no takers on this
offer,
that it might be profitable to them
to support effective and sincere gestures
toward the right, while they are
still free to do so.
The address of the National Review
is 211 East 37th Street, New York 16,
N.Y.
Federal Authorities Unite
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Jury, nor deprived of due process of law, would be nullified and the
Federal government permitted to take direct action in matters involving
civil offenses.
In pr~ctical applic~ti.on, .a Negro woman could charge that a white
man had VIOlate~ her Civil R1~hts ~y refusing to serve ~er a meal in his
cafe. F~eral officers could seize him, handcuff him and whisk him off
to Washmgton. wh~re he would be tried, convicted and sentenced by
me~bers ?f mmon~y group~ who would, without doubt, heavily predommat~
m Executive appomtmen.ts to such a Civil Rights Division as
the Pre~Ident has requested. In this manner, the Constitutional Rights
of a wh1te man would be vacated in deference to the Civil Rights of a
Negro woma~ an.d due proc~~ of law would have been by-passed in this
s~ort-cut to JUStice as admmtstered by the picked personnel of a par~
tisan political Court.
~iding the Executi':'e Department in the campaign to strike down
the rights of the Sovereign States during this 9lst Anniversary month
of the South'~ defeat, ~ere several rulings by the Supreme Court, the
most astoundmg of which was that which voided the Sedition laws of
forty-.two S~ates and which, indirectly, served as an invitation to alien
enemies trymg to overthrow the American government, to have at it.
Citing the Smith Act as evidence that the Federal government
meant to preempt the ~nti-sedition field, the Court apparently had
wi~~~c~~?n t~o~~~~dt~~t8l~;~~. ~c: ~:it~s t:r~:0{g~Q~i~o~ia~~~3i~~t~!
18 of the U. S. Code and Section 3231 of that title provides that "Noth-
~~; ~0~~~~ ~:~~h~h:~~.:r~tS~~t~ ~~e~~~~ 1o:~~t~~~e~1.~' j~risdiction of
any ~\!~~;fi~~1:n%~·~~[.s~~~;~~Y~~g t~~eECf!~~ ~a~~fst~~e ~~~t~~nMe~
~tSt~~ehC~~~:;y~~~ect ~ir::i~a~~~e,u~~~~]kat~~:~eaf~~~;~~tjr:~~fi~t~~d
even our present Supreme Court Justices can grasp it.
Legislative measures to carry out the President's request for this
~x~~b:~:~~n~~;t~~;~~r~t~~~~r~~~~~oo~ier~~~r:~\~n ,:Jli~~eb~[~~~~
~ous to ~ake mmce'11ea~ .out of States Rights and who are poised like
~~tf:~lling vultures Waiting to pounce on the carcass of a dead Consti~
Apri~ 1956 THI SOUTHERN CONSERVAT IV& Page l
Congress of Freedom Holds A
Successful Session at Dallas
It's Long Past Time for Congress
Senator Charges Colleagues
With Hypocritical Behavior
In an editorial discussion of the
Declaration of Constitutional principles
signed by one h undred members
of Congress in regard to the
Supreme Court r uling on segre-
1;!~~~, 2~es':;::kpa~~~~~0~e~:
ocratic Leader Lyndon Johnson
explained to all who would listen
to him in the privacy of the Senate
Cloakroom, the 'Declaration'
was intended just for 'home consumption'.
The Southern congressman
felt they had to issue some
kind of statement criticizing the
Court because so many of them
were being challenged in this
year's primaries by all-out 'white
supremists'".
It is difficult to believe that a
member of the Senate from Texas
would be so contemptuous of the
overwhelming sentiment in his
own State, to say nothing of the
matter of ethics and courtesy to his
colleagues, as to thus publicly
challenge their integrity.
Senator Johnson, no doubt, was
unconsciously attributing to others
the motives known to often underlie
his own political behavior and
it is perhaps hard for him to understand
that elected representatives
sometimes discharge their responsibilities
in keeping with their oath
of office.
He has probably never been a
participant in any political action
based on a sincere desire to serve
his state and h is constituents, rather
than ad vancing his own in terests,
and possibly &hould be forgiven
for his inability to evaluate
the motives of those who sometimes
perform otherwise.
Sitting Sam and
Landslide Lynd011
For a man who has been away
f rom the State for so long that the
memory of man runneth not to ~he
contrary, Sam Rayburn is takmg
a lot of interest in who sha ll, and
shall not, r epresent Texas at the
Chicago convent ion
No one has ever h eard him say
until yet what he thinks about. segregatiOn
which is th~ hott~st 1ssue
the Chicago convenhon w1ll have
to face and since he doesn't know
his own mind on the subject , how
does he know what the people of
Texas intend to do in regard to the
matter at Chicago and who they
want to represent them there?
The venerable Speaker bas held
down a seat in the House of Representatives
w long that he probably
figures he ha:; acquired
"'squatters rights" in the joint and
maybe he has, but if he would
come back to Texas occasionally
he would find that voting box 13
in Duval County, which sometimes
sways a senatorial election, is not
the jeciding factor in naming the
man to head Tex~s· delegation to
Chicd_g;)
Offici"ls of the NAACP claim
that out of 42 cases caT1'ied to the
Supreme Court by that ou-tfit, 40
of them got a favorable decision.
The Court must be slipping! We
thought the score was one hundred
per cent.
To Curb Criminality of Labor Unions
Texas had the honor of entertaining
the Congress of Freedom which met
this year at the Adolphus Hotel at
Dallas on April 4th tor a tour-day
session.
As usual, the Congress was addressed
by many outstanding speakers
who are highly regarded as authorities
in their respective fields. Included
this year was Dr. Felix Wittmer,
lecturer, author, educator, well versed
in matten relating to immigration;
Major George Racey Jordan who became
nationally known through his
Diaries which disclosed the shipment
of forbidden items to Russia
during World War U; Stephanie Williams
of Burbank, California, President
American Public Relations
Forum and authority on mental
health bills; Dr. F. A. Harper of
Foundation !or Economic Education;
Willis E. Stone, author of proposed
23rd Amendment to take government
out o( competition with private
industry; Phil Tyrrell of the Americanism
Committee niinois American
Legion; J essica Payne, author, educator
and lecturer; Dr. Nicholas Nyaradi,
former Minister of Finance of
Hungary and author of "My Ringside
Seat at Moscow"; Congressman
Frank T. Bow of Ohio who leads
fight in Congress to canc~l Status
of Forces agreements; Andrae Nordskog,
author, educator and lecturer;
Harry T. Everingham who heads
"We, the People" organization of
Chicago; Carlton A. Barrett, Pennsylvania
American Legion official and
many others.
Mrs. Willard Hedrick of Houston
was the convention chairman and
was largely responsible for the interesting
sessions, including symposiums
on various subjects, which
culminated in a Freedom Banquet ou
April 7th at the rool Garden ol Hotel
Adolphus. Dan Smoot o! Dallas
made the address of welcome to the
delegates and Mary Cain of Mississipp
i was toastmistress at the banquet.
Mr. George Thomas ot Omaha, Nebraska,
is Chairman of the Congress.
We Think Alger Hiss Should
Address Princeton Students
There is a storm of protest all
over the country against Alger
Hiss being allowed to address
Princeton students on April 26.
Even Hiss' comrades in Americans
for Democratic Action couldn't
stomach the idea of him being
invited to address the Swarthmore
Chapter of ADA and insisted on
cancelling his date with Swarthmore
College. They didn't object
to Hiss, of course, but didn't like
the adverse political reaction the
event would create.
But Dr. Harold W. Dobbs, the
Princeton President, said that he
thought it would be unwise to
cancel the invitation extended the
man who gave our secrets to Russia,
by a Princeton group of students.
We see nothing amiss in Hiss
talking to students who have been
indoctrinated with the same ideology
wh;ch Hiss accepted early in
life. We predict he will be cheered
to the echo by the college students
who hear him and that he will
feel right at home.
Also, since the type of government
in which Hiss believes is being
urged on us at this time by
high authorities, perhaps it is jn::;t
as well that Hiss be given full
rein.
Possibly the d isgraceful per·
formance wiJI wake up some millions
of Americans who a re dead
from the neck up. Maybe they will
finally realize not only that it can
happen here, but that it IS happening
h ere.
Where the Blame Belongs for
The Attack On Negro Crooner
The attack on the Hollywood Negro crooner in Birmingham, Alabama,
recently during a performance in that city, was very unfortunate,
as well as cowardly.
Aside from the criminality of the act, it provides the vicious and
organized enemies of the South ammunition for the crusade being
carried on to humiliate and degrade all Southerners in every imagin·
able way.
Those making the attack on the Negro do not represent the people
of Alabama and other Southern States who are taking every legal action
open to them to thwart the Communist-inspired effort to mix the races
in public schools, swimming pools, golf courses and churches with a
view to ultimate mongreli.zation. Acts of violence by hot-headed mobs
have no place in the orderly program of resistance by law-abiding and
responsible men and women in the Southern States.
The blame cannot be placed entirely on those making the attack.
It goes back further than that.
There is no doubt that the appearance of the Negro in tensionridden
Alabama at this time was bad judgment on someone's part, if,
indeed, it was not planned purposely to provoke violence to further discredit
the good Americans who are fighting integration and who will
continue to do so until the fight is won.
It was bad judgment on the part of the Birmingham officials of the
Mu nicipal aud itorium in booking the Negro singer for a performance
there and above all, it was a reflection on the common sense of the
four thousand persons who bought t ickets to hear him. They, also, are
not representative of high class Alabama citizenship.
Those who approve, and those who oppose segregation should make
no mistake about it - acts of violence are going to occur with greater
frequency until the matter of segregation is settled and settled right and
the people of the South, both black and white, are permitted to continue
a way of life which enabled them to live together in friendship
and mutual respect until a Marxist-dominated Supreme Court disrupted
this peaceful design for living by its Black Monday segregation ruling:.
In the meantime, those who deliberately bring about a situation
which is conducive to acts of violence, as in the case of the Birmingham
concert, are doing a disservice to both races.
Most Americans have listened with
just half an ear when such outstanding
writers and commentators as
Westbrook Pegler, Fulton Lewis, Jr.,
Victor Riesel and others have tried
to picture to them the indcstribably
corrupt behavior of the leaders of
Labor Unions who have become rich
and powerful at the expense o( the
honest men and women who com·
prise the vast membership of the
unions.
As in the case of government, educational,
religious and other organized
activities in this country, the
Unions are rotten at the top and it
is the leadership which hn.s caused
the union movement to become a
cancerous growth on the nation's
The cowardly attack by the beast
in human form on Victor Riesel for
exposing graft and corruption in the
New York labor field is, or should
be, convincing proof of the danger
of govemment coddling o( the criminal
labor leaders who have come to
believe that their minions are above
the reach of the law and that any
crime is justified so long as it
achieves their goal of inspiring fear
of its power to destroy.
Mr. Riesel is paying a horrible
price for his patriotic interest in his
country's welfare and surely there
is enough manhood among the na·
tion's lawmakers to take the step
now U1at they should have taken
years ago when top criminals of
labor Unions first started extorting
money f1·om the workers to build
up th eir powerful and corrupt political
machine, and pass legislation
making unions amenable to the law
of the land the same c.s any other
group.
Certainly there is no do ubt that
the gangster who attacked Mr. Riesel
and possibly blindM him for life
was acti.1g under orders.
Congressman Worries About
The Nation's Gold Supply
We never reproduce material
from any other publication, ?f
course, without giving full credit
but in the case of the following, we
can't. Some one sent it to us cli p·
ped from a newspaper without indicating
what newspaper it was.
We don't even know who sent it
to us but we likf"d it so well we
decided to publish it and risk being
accused of "swiping" it:
A special House committee
will be named to count thP. gold
at Ft. Knox, if Representative
Kearns of Pennsylvania has his
way. 'l'he Daughters of the American
Revolution also want to
be reassured that the approximately
12-}2 billion do 11 a r s
worth of government gold is safe
in its Kentu"ky hiding place.
Kearns, a Republican, says
that such an inspection is c very
important now that the Demo·
crats are going out of office."
While we seem to detect a somewhat
partisan note in this se1Hi·
ment, it may be that Kearns just
happens to be a cautious fellow
who has heard that .it pays to
count the silverware if you have
any doubts at all about the folks
who have had their hands on it
lately.
Page 4
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Conservative
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EDITORIAL OPINION WITH
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THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES,
ThtpowennotdelagatedtofhtUnited
St1f11 by fht Constitution, nor prohibited
byittotheStateltreraservedtothe
Sht11 rtapedivtly, or to the paoplt.
We Offer to Step in and
Ease Wounded Feelings
Following the claim of Senator
Francis Case o! South Dakota that
a lobbyist representing Mr. Howard
Keck of the Superior Oil Company
of California had o!fered him a
"b,·ibe" of $2500.00 to support the
Fullbright Gas bill, some other politician
out in Nebraska broke out in
the press. He said he had accepted
a big check Irom the same company
but was now returning it. Virtue
seemed to be breaking out all over
the pl3ce and nobody would touch
those big cllecks with a len toot
pole.
l\lcantime we wrote the President
of the Superior Oil Company as follows:
From recent press reports, it
seems you have been having a little
dif!iculty in finding takers for some
checks you would like to give away.
I , too, have been having trouble I ut
it is or a somewhat different nature.
I have been trying to find somebody
with checks to give away, so it occurs
to me that if we could get together,
we could make an arrangement that
should be mutually satisfactory.
''1 won't even insist on the amount
being $2500 and will settle for any
nmount you might wish to contribute
to a hard-hitting, unregenerate Southern('
r who, lor more than six years,
has been trying to verbally bash in
the brains of the type of lawmaker
i:~pt:~c t~h~~~;~ ;:~th fr:J~lvi;egga:~:
in~ it as a 'bribe'. I will accept it as
u bl<'S!';ing. After all, senators are
a dime a dozen but good American
patriots with an understanding of
the functions and limitations of the
American government and the cour-
:;~ ~~n~r~~~t~r!h~o~o~~:~;s il~ose~~
found lying around loose''.
H the gentleman does not respond,
we will know he has become so
browbeaten by the Case affair, and
the return of his check by the Ne-
~~~~t~~c n~a~;·~a~;:; ~~f;~!ll P~~~~~bl~
quarter In the col1eelion plate on
Sunday.
The day is never gloomy if
there·s sunshine in the heart -
the sunshine of the Confidence
tl'hich tells you that if you fight
hard enough, and long enough,
uou yet can save America, your
bles~ed America! - Hal.sey McGovern,
·washington, D.C.
THE SOUTHER N CONS ERVA TIV E April, 1956
Educational Group Defends Right of Irving School Head Takes
Revenge On Loyal Teachers
Communists to Teach in American Schools The story of the l<vh1g- School
squabble is fairly well known to
Those who are inclined to doubt most Americans 2'" it was given
that Communist influence in quite a lot of publicity some time ago Congenial Souls Meet on American schools and universities ~~~}.perhaps very few know the se·
"India'S Coral Strands" ~~a1~:ed 5~~o~~se3~h~s ar:~~~~:~;~ su~~r~~~e~~a~~~d 0;'~~~ ~~~~::f~-~~~~
Walter Reuther is reported in on the subject, are asked to con- system of this small Texas city, named
i~~~~r:i~~tt~oh~~~;!~~r: ~i~~~~f; sider the action of the American ~he:r:d, ;-;:s r~:::n:Y ~:~~c~c~~;ebos~f~
ed Comrade Nehru lavishly, call- Association of University profes- ficient to board members.
ing him "truly one of the great sors at a recent meeting. Immediately a large group of pink
statesmen of the world." In order According to press dispatches, ~eu3t~h~~\h~i~~~~~~~~nfn ~~:~: ra::oannaJ
~~1:t,P~~~ia~~s t~i1~1Jr~:or~~=~~~; this organization went on record as ;~~~~~~~~n:~:e~i~~sa ~~ri~ee i~e;~;;;s~
that Reuther was educated in Mos- condemning the dismissal of Com- against Beard's discharge like so
cow, and, ideologically, has been munists from college faculties and many labor union goon$ rather than
~~:~:,il~~he~~eis s;0~i~t110~:~h dif~~: ~~of~~.~ di~;~;~~gda~~~gse ::~;rft::: ~~ep:e;~i:!!T:~. of a lofty and dignl-ence
in the doctrine he propounds Another group of teachers, howand
that of Moscow to be notice- and invoke the fifth amendment ever, recognizing that their loyalty as
able. tnot.stavCoOild1necteltlti0nl1gS. of their Commu- r~!~ i~~ft~f;~~ ~~dtl~ots~~o~~yw:~e::
He is also quoted as having told school politician, remained on duty
~~~vfe~f1~~f /~!~eina~ }~~~!~"i The American Association of ~~o:~i~h~f h~~e J~~~~d a~~t.insults of
would support with all my might University Professors is not a fly- At that time we said editorially of
the establishment of nationalized by-night organization hast i 1 Y these Joyal teachers: "The Irving
industries," but he was quick to thrown up by disgruntled radicals teachers who st<~yed on their jobs and
add that in the United States "he in the teaching profession. It is a refused to strike like stevedores on
would not change the pattern of top-ranking educational group to the waterfront, deserve the comthe
economy." Like fun, he would- which most of the educators in mendation o! every thoughtful parent
n't! Every act of his official career the higher brackets of learning be- everywhere for trying to maintain the
as a labor racketeer has been shap- }~~l~e~1~de lr~ ~~;~{~=~ :d~~~~~~~~ :~1~~~~ ~~tt~~ ~~-h~~e:;~e=:~~r~h:ea;.
ed to the end of changing the pat- formed like Americans and put the
tern of our national economy, both circles. welfare of the pupils above the 'rule
~{ri~e~ cf~r u t~! ~~;p~s~e~oJ:;~~~~~ ly ~~1~ei~::.::~:::sl~d~~~a~i~~c~~~ ~~~~~~~r~~~icy or national profes!ional
~~lf:~:a~; t~nedh~~rle~;~ed:~~~; ~;!t!~~~eJ~~s~~t~~ir:nn;u~~st:n~~r~~i Be~r~~lo~~ ti~~:!t~~riheo?~'~~~~~l~~
o( honest workers to get an inter- American students and in defense tion and maneuvering which was
¥!o~~~~~o~~~-~~s!d!:itst~=in:~~~~ ~i;~fi~ ~r:;:nt~~~n~~;:,~e:~s;'~f~ ~~~:~~~!~~c:::~ b~~!~~::;~i~~ s~==
we mean.) filiation. placed them with his partisans. Beard,
It is too bad that we couldn't of course, was re-instated.
give Reuther to India on a sort of What further assurance do those When the time f.or renewal of con-lend-
lease basis. It would be a good who say " it can't happen here" tracts with teachers rolled around re.way
to get even with that old horse want to convince them that it is cently, praclical1y an the teachers
th_ie_f;,,_N_eh_r_u. ______h_ a:p....p:_e,_1ing;_h_er_e_____ :'nhdo m:~~tot'~h~!~i~h~v~~~na~~~~n~~
duty during the strike were told that 'The Mills of the State Department Grind th~~eco~~:r~\' ~vc~~~~ "~a~·~ ,.~·;:.:ee~
Steadily and Long but the Grist Is Small' ~~~u:~s:;~~e!t~;e~:~~ee~~~~o~~n~o ~~~
policy of rewarding disloyalty and
Not only for its factual value but because a common-sense, downto-
earth assertion by a New Deal internationalist is as rare as a snowstorm
in Miami, we reproduce a statement made by Senator Paul Douglas
of Illinois in 1952 in reference to that blundering, fumbling agency
of the Federal government known -as the State Department:
''While the importance of the State Department has increased
there is every evidence that the personnel has been expanded at
a much greater rate than is necessary. When the Department is
given a problem to solve or a program to administer, such as the
Voice of America and the Point 4 Program, the very first step seems
to be the assembling of a huge planning and administrative staff.
The Department has a touching faith that, the more men and women
it hires, the more readily can a problem be solved. It believes in
intellectual formations in depth.
"In actual administrative life, however, excessive numbers do
not have so beneficent an effect. Instead, they delay work and make
it more difficult, for, in order to develop plans the subordinates
have to clear matters with one another. Then they must start their
projects upward through the administrative hierachy. At each level
there must be consultations, discussion and modification. By this
system of horizontal, vertical and traverse clearance and discussion,
much time and effort are consumed.
"The mills of the Department grind steadily and long but the
actual grist is very small. The chief energies of the large staff are
consumed communicating with one another. A much smaller staff
would not be so administratively mUsclebound. It could accomplish
much more in much less time and at much less expense."
Believing in praise where praise is due, we commend highly the
Senator from Illinois for this forthright discussion of an unwholesome
situation. We didn't know the old boy had it in him and we hope that
this facet of his character comes to the fore more often, for in honest
admissions like this he can render far more valuable service to his constituents
than through the demagogic proposals he so often makes.
The Council on Foreign Relations.
which will one day be far
better known than it is today, is
using the Rockefeller- endowed
Columbia University to train students
in a international administration"
against the time wl1en the
Uniteo States is taken 1nto World
Govenlment.
Reporter Scares Wits
(Continued From Page 1)
ing his brother, Milton Eiseolhower,
to head it.
in;i~~~t~~:t ~aasteb;e~~~~7J' :~~~t
the matter and it is the cousensus
of O}Jinion that the whole thing was
either a figment o( the reporter's
imc1gination or a delayed April
Fool 's joke.
penalizing loyalty, a custom, unfortunately,
that is also prevalent in
Washington.
Statement That Is Sound
Sensible and to the Point ,
One of the simplest and sanest
statements on segregation which
has yet been made was, in our
opinion, that contained in a letter
from a Texan, Lloyd S. Riddle of
Dallas to a newspaper there:
''Your editorial of April 2, urg·
ing moderation regarding the enforcement
of the infamous U.S. Supreme
Court attempted legislation
is not worthy of your great newspaper.
"The ultimate result or a knife at
your throat or slow poison is the
same, and neither is conducive to
moderate acceptance by any lucid
person.
"What you fail to point out is
that under the Constitution the
states have a right to segregate,
and that the people of the South
have the law on their side and that
they will not gamble the future of
their children either gradually or
suddenly."
Com.mtmists who formerly held
high positions with the Soviet gov·
ernment and later fled to the
Unit.ed States testified ":Jefore a
Congressional committee that the
United Nations is a hot-bed of
Communist .')pies. Many Americans
already knew it but there
still will be those who do not believe
it. even though it is sworn
to by former pm·ticipants in the
Soviet spy ritlg.
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April, 195b THE SOUTHERN CON S ER VA TI VE Page 5
New Judicial Slogan: 'Always School Official Vows to Ask for Dismissal Business Men Fed
GivetheCommunistsABreak' Of NEA Defense Commission Members Up On 'Form Letters'
Through its fantastic and insane
ruling in which it threw out the
conviction of Communist leader,
Steve Nelson, who had been sentenced
to a penitentiary term of
twenty years by a Pennsylvania
Court, the Supreme Court was able
to kill two birds with one stone.
Through this ruling, it not only
advanced another step in its deter mination
to abolish the rights of
States but it was also able to rescue
a Commu nist from a long penitentiary
term.
The decision which held that the
Sedition laws of i2 states were invalid
and that only the Federal
government had jurisdiction in
such matters, p ut the judges in the
position of a small child "sassing"
its p ar ents.
The Federal government didn't
create the States-the States created
the Federal government a nd
like a huge Frankenst ein, that
same Feder al government would
rise up and destroy its creator.
The r uling was so farcical that
even four of its own judge s
gagged on it and put in r rlissent,
something that has seldom happened
since Warren was politically rewarded
by appointment as Chief
J ustice.
'Censure' Chairman Favors
Opening Doors to Reds
More than one hundred organizations
are in Washington now
plugging for the pass.ge of the
Watkins Resolution of the Senate
which would totally destroy the
McCarran-W a lter Immigration
law, as far as its features to protect
the safety and security of the
United States are roncerned.
Enemy agents have been secr etly
promoting a movement for
years to invalidate this security
legislation and the current inte~se
activity is strictly Communist-mspired
in the view of Washington
observers.
The Watkins Resolution would
eliminate the section which provides
that all Emigrants to this
country must be finger-printed on
arrival. This was intended not only
to keep Conununists out but to
detect international criminals who
commit crimes in other countries
and escape to the United States.
The Watkins Resolution also demands
that the u nused quota of
Emigrants from European Co~ntries
be given to Asiatic countnes
which means Communists would
come hu·e in droves.
Senator Arthur Watkins. sponsor
of the Resolution is from Utah
and was Chairman of the Senate
Committee which ""ensured" Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy when his
investigation into Communis.m was
believed to be on the verge of turn-ing
up some big names. ,
Any American who does not believe
in opening up th is country
to an alien horde bent on overthrowing
the goVernment had ~etter
let their tw1• Senutors unaerstand
il' no unc1"rta in tP.rms that
th is must not h app\:.n a.1d that the
Watkins Resolution must be defeated.
Better wi:·~ or cull them
for it 'vill be mo11e::V well spent if
the assault 011 Olll' nation,ll security
by means of the Watkins Resolution
is halted
We do not believe it is true
as is constantly 1·umored t h ~ t
there is a movement on to bmld
an anne:-c of the White House down
in Augusta, Georgia.
A public school official with the manhood and decency to protest
the inclusion of slimy, obscene filthy books in the public school libraries
of several California towns has laid down the challenge to National
Education Association authorities in Washington who approved and
commended Marin County school heads for their "courage" in refusing
to remove th is lewd material from school library shelves.
This official who deserves the heartfelt gratitude of every parent
in the United States, is E. J. Hummel, Deputy Superintendent of the
Beverly Hills, California, Public School System, who addressed this
letter to the Defense Commission of the National Education Association
and which was printed in the Santa Rosa, California, Independent J our·
nal:
Defense Commission
National Education Assn.
Washington, D.C.
In a recent issue of the American Mercury I read an article dealing
with the efforts of Mrs. Ann Smart, of Larkspur, Calif., to have certain
books taken from the Marin County high school libraries, in which
she found obscene material and some of which she considered Communistic.
I corresponded with Mrs. Smart and received a list of the
books together with excerpts from five of these and an editorial reprinted
from The Houston Chronicle of March 23, 1955.
If, as this editorial states, you defended the Tamalpais Union High
School District, or any other district, wh ich had such books as "A
Field of Broken Stones," by Lowell Naeve, or "Emotional Problems of
Living," by English and Pearson, I think you are subject to most severe
censure. In my opinion, as a life member of the NEA and a school
teacher and administrator with 40 years experience, I would consider
anyone who would defend having such books in a school library as
being utterly unworthy of serving in an educational institution. I know
all the arguments that are given that children should be exposed to life
in the raw, but I think practically all of these arguments are completely
invalid. We don't have to expose our children to filth or perversion and
we can teach our children the facts of life in a clean, wholesome, and
decent manner. There are some books that may be reasonably proper
to have in a university library that should not be in a high school situation.
I, for one, feel that Mrs. Ann Smart has rendered our schools a
real service in calling this situation to the attention of school and lay
people. I am anxious to know exactly what the Defense Commission
had to do with this case and, if you defended the keeping of all these
books in the library, the grounds on which such a decision was arrived
at. Did your Defense Commission read the full text of the books in
ques tion?
If you did put up such a defense, all I can say is tha t I hope
the members of the commission will be speedily displaced from office
and I will so recommend to those who may be able to do something
about it. May I have an early reply?
E. J.HUMMEL
Deputy Superintendent of Schools Beverly Hills
Shipment of Scrap Iron to Japan Is
Being Duplicated in Case of Russia
Because of the increasing executive policy of "Government by
Secrecy", it is probably going to be a little difficult for the presid~nt to
persuade the Congress to hand over almost $5,000,000,000.00 to g1ve to
foreign countries which he requested on March 19th.
The McLellan Committee in the Senate has not given up on trying
to pry out of the Whit~ H~use the information needed i': order to
intelligently pass on legislation before that body, and Chairman McLellan
strongly hints that there may be no action on the Foreign Aid
bill until such information is forthcoming.
At the present time, Chairman McLellan is having io get information
about the relaxing of controls on strategic material for shipment
to Russia by way of our European "allies," from sources outside the
United States. In a speech on the floor of the Senate on March 22, Senator
McLellan indicated that Congressional patience is wearing thin in
the matter of important and vital action being taken by the executive
branch and information about such action being withheld from the
Congress and from the American people.
It has now developed that the list in the Battle Act which was
passed by the Congress .to prevent so-c~lled allies of this country fr?m
sending strategic matenals to the Soviet bloc, was changed fo llowmg
the June. 1954, secret meeting in Paris at wh ic ~ time th_at ubiquit?us
little pest, Harold Stassen, added t_wo. hu_ndred Items to the ma~en als
which now may be shipped to Russ1a, mdtrectly, to help them bmld up
their war machine. The new list in the Battle Act deletes the items,
previously barred to the_ Russians,. which the great statesman from
Minnesota decided at Pans the Russians should now have.
The money-mad Americ~ns who ~hipi:ed scrap iron to Japan which
was later used to kill Amer1can soldiers 111 World War II now have a
counterpart in the Minnesota mad-man who is determined to do a repeat
performance
Everybody knows that the junk dealers wh~ shippe~ the scrap
iron to Japan did it for the money the~ got out of 1t _but, smce Stass_en
is not benefitting financially , the questiOn naturally mtrudes on an Intelligent
mind: "what is his motive".
Nothing is much more in furiating
to a taxpayer who wdtcs a serious
letter to representatives in Washington
concerning conditions he tind11
are no longer tolerable and then gets
a two-paragraph reply in the shape ot
a form letter written and signed by
some third assistant secretary, in·
forming him that the matter is beinll
taken care of and everything is under
control.
Although they are so indignant that
they could bite a ten-penny nail in
~tl!.1r~~~t L~i~~:~~. ~o~o~~~~;~l a~~~~
nesi executive, however, is an exception.
In answer to an earnest communica·
tion to Senator Lyndon Johnson recently
demanding to know what he
was doing to prevent the tremendous
waste in defense spending, Mr. Byers
got the usual form letter in reply including
this pompous paragraph:
"You may rest assured that I shall
continue to give my best thought ancf"
efforts toward reducing any government
waste or inefficiency that may
exist."
But the senator's "best thought"
apparently was not good enough for
Mr. Byers who wrote him right back
again and told him that the reply
was not acceptable and that he
wanted to know what the senator
was personally doing about the dangerous
waste in defense spending.
'"You and Sam Rayburn are supposed
to be the two most powerful
men in the Congress," M r. Bye rs'
second letter said. The spenders can't
throw away our money unless the
Congress appropriates it. You two
men are well informed and well know
what is going on . . . We, your constituents,
don't believe in builriin&"
six-lane highways in Portug·ru nor in
bailing t he Bril ish governmen t out so
it can reduce taxes nor in givi ng
Denmark millions of dollars so that
the Danes may balance their budget,
nor in giving to India a hund1·ed locomotives
and many shiploads o£ wheat;
nor in building thousands of privies
Ior Philippine !garrotes, nor do we
want our money spent to raise the
standard o£ living of all the backward
people o! the world, thus bringing
down our own . . . Please tell me definitely
where you stand."
Minute Women not Afraid
Of 'Controversies'
The monthly bulletin or newsletter
put out by the Minute Women
of the U.S.A. I nc., is highly
interesting and within its four
pages carries forceful and convinc~
ing editorials on current political
issues which indicate that the Minute
Women have no fear of the
bogeyman ''controversial questions."
Perhaps they realize that nothing
is worth discussing at this
particular time in the nation's history
unl~ss it is eontroversial and
that any organization of women
which shies away from such discussions
is not much more than a
glorified Ladies Aid Society.
In the March edition of their
Newsletter emphasis is given to
the Alaska Mental Health bill now
before Congress and which many
thoughtful Americans oppose as
an effort of sinister forces to set
up an "Alaskan Siberia" in the far
North. The Newsletter was highl:y
complimentary of the meeting o(
four thousand good Americans who
gathered on invitation of For
America in New York on Washington's
birthday and of which Mr.
Dan Smoot, distinguished Texas
writer and lecturer, was moderator.
Pago6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Aprn, 1956
Fine Negro Citizen Tells of Communists
Plans to Infiltrate American Churches
Manning Johnson is an American Negro who, like so many of his
white brothers, was beguiled into becoming a Communist party mem~
her. He joined the party in 1930 and served as an organizer and as a
member of the Communist Party for ten years.
He left the party in 1940 and since that time has more than m~de
amends for the time he spent with that international conspiracy against
the free world.
Johnson had acquired such vast knowledge of Communist tactics
in the infiltration of American institutions, and especially with their
methods of indoctrinating religious groups in this country, that he was
employed as consultant in the investigating section of the Department
of Justice, where he rendered invaluable service.
It was while he was holding this position that he testified before
the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives
in 1953 giving documentation on the all-out efforts of the Soviets
to corrupt our religious leaders and institutions, knowing, as they so
well do, that American churches are the bulwarks of morality and freedom
and the most powerful factors in perpetuating and sustaining our
Christian Republic.
Johnson quoted from Earl Browder's book "What is Communism?"
in order to give a clear picture of what the Party is doing to break down
religion in the United States. He selected this paragraph from Browder's
book as emphasizing what he meant:
"It is significant that the Communist Party, more than any
other labor group, has been able to achieve successful united fronts
with church groups on the most important issues of the day. This
is not due to any compromise with religion on our part. In fact by
going among the religious masses we are, for the first time, able
to bring our anti-religious ideas to them."
If any one doubts the wisdom of this man in pointing out this
reference to Communist infiltrations of American religious bodies, he
has only to consider that today, three years later, organized church
groups in the United States are on record as approving practically
every policy urged by Communist leaders such as breaking down our
immigration barriers, cessation of investigations of Communist infiltrations
into government, recognition of Red China, racial integration of
schools and churches and all other policies first initiated in the Kremlin,
and gradually adopted by pro-Communists in this country.
Further explaining the poisoning of American religious organizations,
Johnson told the Committee: "Once the tactic of infiltrating religious
organizations was set by the Kremlin, the actual mechanics of
implementation of the 'new line' was a question of following the general
experiences of the living church movement in Russia where the Communists
discovered that the destruction of religion could proceed much
faster through infiltration of the church by Communist agents operating
within the church itself.
"The Communist leadership in the United States realized that the
infiltration tactic in this country would have to adapt itself to Ameri ..
can conditions and the religious makeup peculiar to this country. In
the earliest stages it was determined that with only small forces it
would be necessary to concentrate Communist agents in the seminaries
and divinity schools. The practical conclusion, drawn by the ReQ. leaders
was that these institutions would make it possible for a small Communist
minority to influence the ideology of future clergymen in the paths
most conducive to Communist purposes."
There is much, much more of the testimony including the information
that Harry F. Ward, well known Protestant American minister was
in charge of small forces in the seminaries. The rest of the story which
Johnson told the Committee is history and informed Americans know
how far the Communist conspiracy to take over American religious
- leaders has advanced, including the final re-writing of the Bible into
what is often referred to as the "Revised Standard Perversion Edition."
Americans owe much to this colored American who, although led
astray by the Communist forces for a time, has more than made atonement,
and also they owe much to the vast army of Christian ~inisters ~n
this country who have refused to fall for the attempts to enhst them 111
'support of the Satanic conspiracy against Christianity which is the
Communist Party.
"Taint Funny McGee." From a
Connecticut manufacturer: "Your
March edition was grand as they
aU aTe. but I thought that it
seemed a little more serious than
usual. I look forward to the witty
and amusing way you write of
happenings in Washington and
often practically 1split my sides'
laughing at your manner of treat ..
ing political subjects." Well, gee,
mister have you read ·what is happening
in. Washington lately such
as the potential give-away of five
more billions of American t~-payers
money, the proposals to totally
abolish States Rights, the prospect
of the continuance of irresponsible
leadership and such? In fact, it is
all so serious that we have been
unable to crack a smile, much less
a joke. until we received the brochure
front the Department of t11e
Interior discussed elsewhere in
these pages.
After having the same office
telephone for over six years. we
had about reached t«e point where
we had memorized it, when the
T e l e p h o n e Company up and
changed it by adding another digit
and a different exchange. If they
keep on adding numbers and making
it harder on our faulty memory,
we are thinking of taking it
out and reverting to carrier pigeons
and smoke signals to communicate
with the outside world.
Assistant Secretary of State
Clair Wilcox told the American
Association of Junior Colleges in
New York City recently that facts
about Communism should be
taught in every American coUege.
In most American colleges they
a1·e doing this already, except the
ufacts" as they see them make
the Soviet System seem superior
to our own free enterprise economy.
Mr. ·Wilcox is a former NRA
economist and a member of the
editorial staff of Fortune Magazine,
to give an idea of his background.
House Group Intends to Force
Status of Fo~ces Treaty Issue
Committee Should Back Up and
Start Over On Alaskan Bill
In the case of the Alaska Mental
Health, bill in which the same forces
who railroaded it through the House
of Representatives arc now high·
pressuring members of the Senate
to pass it with all the objectionable
features intact, it would seem to be
high time that members of the Com·
mittee on Interior Affairs of the Sen·
ate put an end to all the nonsense.
Highly competent and qualified
organizations such as the Associa·
tion of American Physicians and
Surgeons have informed the Committee
that the bill has dangerous
features in it, including its adminis·
trative provisions, and that while a
measure to take care of the mentally
ill of Alaska is highly desirable, the
bill as passed by the House of Repre·
sentatives is so loosely written that
it encourages potential abuse of
power by bureaucrats.
If the bill were what its proponents
claim, it could say so in so many
words and leave no room for doubt
by any one. Instead it rambles on and
on interminably over reams of paper
and employs ambiguous, meaningless
and confusing terms and prov1sions
which would require a Philadelphia
lawyer to interpret.
If the Senate Committee which has
the blll under consideration wanted
to render a definite service, they
would re.write the bill in plain
English, minus double·talk, say what
they need to say and then vote it out
of committee.
Rambling verbiage, double·talk
and loose construction of words seem
to constitute a positive d:sease which
is chronic: with those who write laws
in Washington.
There Is Definitely Something
Very Wrong With This Picture
In March, 1947, President Truman
issued executive order No. 9835 which
placed an embargo on information
concerning Communist infiltration into
the government and which helped
to prevent the exposure of Alger Hiss
until much later. The Congress was
controlled by Republicans at the time
and the purpose of the blackou~ order
from the White House was to hinder
their investigations into subversion
and crookedness of the Fair Deal ad·
ministration.
In May, 1954, President Eisenhower
issued a directive clamping down on
information which would prevent the
exposure of a plot among administra4
tion officials against Senator Joe McCarthy.
This May, 19M, directive is still in
effect and has been used twice in
recent weeks to keep the McLellan
Committee o( the Senate from having
information badly needed in its
investigative work. The directive
was invoked by witnesses in the
National Labor Relations Board who
were called to testify on matters re·
lating to subversion.
It was also invoked in the case
of Harold Stassen who was called
before the McLellan Committee to
tell of his secret agreement in 1954
with so·called "allies" in which he
had released for shipment to Russia
by way of these same "allies" 200
items previously on the embargo list.
The serious question involved here
is whelher or not a Chief Executive
has the legal or moral right to with·
hold information from the Congress
and from the people of the United
States for whom he works as their
public servant.
The information about the items
released by Stassen ·was known to
foreign countriL", including Russia,
and had been published in English
papers. It was only the Congress and
the American people who were re·
fused it
Clearly there is something wrong
with this picture.
(From the Houston Chronicle)
Last year the House of Repre ..
sentatives showed in no unmistakable
terms what it thought of
the status of forces agreements,
under which members of the American
armed services stationed
abroad are deprived of their con ..
stitutional guarantees. By a vote of
174 to 56, or considerably more
than three to one1 the House last
May 18 attached an amendment to
the armed forces reserve bill barring
the shipment of American
troops to any country which "exercises
criminal jurisdiction over
American armed forces personnel
stationed within its boundaries."
The amendment died when the
reserve bill was shelved.
Now a new move to kill the
status of forces treaties is brewing,
and the administration is described
as worried about its entire foreign
aid program as a result. And well
it might be. For a group of congressmen
is planning to attach a
rider to the foreign aid bill which
would nullify the agreements.
As several of the countries receiving
the largest amounts of foreign
aid have status of forces treaties
with this country, the amendment
if passed would, in the words
of Chairman Richards of the foreign
affairs committee, "practically
stop foreign aid."
That, in the administration's
view, would be catastrophic, although
there is considerable evidence
that most citizens ,.Po not
agree. In fact the administration
not only is asking for a much larger
foreign aid appropriation than
last year, but also is seeking longterm
commitments for such big
projects abroad as the Aswan dam
in Egypt. This is fantastic in view
of the fact that agencies of govern ..
ment handling domestic matters
have to come before Congress every
two years for their appropriations-
they get no such long-term
commitments.
But the administration also favors
continuation of the status of
forces treaties, although the people
quite evidently do not approve of
their fighting men being tried in
foreign courts, under strange and
sometimes barbarous laws and
without the protections of the Bill
of Rights.
Judging by that more than
three-to-one vote in the House last
year against the status of forces
treaties. the administration this
time will have to choose between
foreign aid and the treaties. The
signs are that it can't have both.
From a gracious lady in Baltimore:
uYou truly have a gift for
expressing facts which are so
obvious that most people can't see
them. You have my unbounded
admiration."
We have given France, since
World War II, $10,000,000,000 in
economic and military aid to help
{(sta'l/e off Communism." At their
last election 5,460,000 of the
French people themselves voted
the Comntunist ticket which put
150 Communists in the French Assembly,
the largest number ever
to sit in that body. Now the Congress
1s being asked not to cut off
foreign aid but to increase it over
last year. Ye gods, what superb
statesmanship!
ff
April, 1956 TH! SO U TH ERN CON SE RVATIV ! Pegt 7 .-..
Senate Subcommitte Report Shows Harry Dexter White Was
One of the Most Powerful Men in the American Government·
When the full story of Harry Dexter
White is written, it will constitute
one of the blackest pages in
American history.
Although little was known of him
during the years when he held top
posts in Washington, information is
coming to light now which indicates
that he was perhaps the most powerful
figure in the Communist conspiracy
against the United States even
as Roosevelt and Truman, respectively,
were naming him to one important
office after another.
The Subcommittee of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, of which the
Honorable James 0. Eastland of Mississippi
is chairman, has devoted Part
30, the latest record of Interlocking
Subversion in Government Departments
entirely to White's letters and
papers which show his intimate association
with practically every topranking
official in the nation's capitaL
This volume comprises some 500
pages of White's memos, appointment
sheets, official documents and personal
notes, papers and letters which
were assembled by the Committee
with the assistance of Hon. Louis C.
Wyman, Attorney General of New
Hampshire, who gave the Committee
White's secret documents and papers
found during a search of White's
summer home at Fitzwilliam, in that
State.
Any attempt to condense five hundred
pages into an editorial of this
length would, of course, be futile and
even the high spots of the startling
disclosures would require space equal
to that of an entire newspaper.
Like so many of the queer and
mysterious characters who swarmed
into the government during Roosevelt's
and Truman's administrations,
many of whom are still there, Harry
Dexter White was born with one
name and buried under another. Before
emigrating to this country in
the early eighties from Europe, the
family name was Weiss according to
White's testimony some years ago.
Although White's diary or list of
appointments, found after his death
and included in the Eastland report,
indicated that he was on intimate
terms with practically every high official
of government, there is one
name threaded throughout the entire
recital which seems to appear more
frequently than any other. That is
the name of Bernard Bernstein, an
attorney for ten years in the Department
of the Treasury. The record
shows that Bernstein has spoken
from the same platform with Muriel
Draper and that a participant in the
meeting which he addressed was
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, veteran Communist
leader indicted under the
Smith Act. The meeting where he
spoke on this particular occasion was
the Congress of American Women,
later disbanded after being cited as
Communist by the Attorney General
of the United States.
Alabama Judge Says Federal
Snoopers Will Go to Jail
A public official after our own
heart is Judge George C. Wallace,
of the Third Judicial Circuit of the
State of Alabama.
Concerning the proposal to send
Federal officials into the South to
snoop around and see who is and
who is not being allowed to vote
Judge Wallace said that the first
Federal officer who came interfering
in the affairs of his State
would be put in jail period.
And he didn't stutter when he
said it, either. We used to have
courageous men like this in all offices
from the Supreme C 1urt and
the White House on down but
somewhere along the way we lost
them and got weaklings in their
place.
White's record of appointments
showed that from July 1941 to February,
1946, White and Bernstein
conferred together a total of 115
times and that present at these small
conferences were such characters as
Laughlin Currie, Harold Glasser, Andrei
Gromyko, Frank V. Coe, and
scores of other familiar names. According
to Who's Who, Bernstein was
financial adviser to General Eisenhower
for Civil Affairs and Military
Government, European and Mediterranean
theaters from 1942 to 1945.
Perhaps the first impression one
gets from studying this document of
the Eastland Committee is one of
amazement that a man who was honored
time after time by Presidents
of the United States, and trusted
;~!~io~0sm;it~fn !'~~ ~~~u~n;~~r~~~=
ernment, should have found it possible
to commit treason against the
country which had given his family
sanctuary and enabled him to climb
to the top of the ladder during the
time this country was at war.
When White resigned from the International
Monetary Fund to which
Truman had appointed him, so great
was the latter's regard for him that
he wrote White in which he said
among other things:
"I know you can view with a
great deal of personal satisfaction
your career in public service,
crowned as it has been by your
ceaseless efforts to make a real
contribution to international trade
through the International Bank and
the International Monetary Fund.
. •. You have filled with distinction
your present assignment as
U.S. Representative on the Board
of Executive Directors of the International
Monetary Fund and
your unfaltering efforts have been
a source of great pride to me ... "
On page 2637 of this Eastland Com~
mittee report, appears a memo written
soon after the close of World
-'W'ar II by Fred Smith, Assistant to
the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry
Morgenthau during the period of the
war and for some years afterward.
This memo shows that the Morgenthau
Plan which would have reduced
all of Germany to a shambles,
was not conceived by Morgenthau at
all although Morgenthau tacitly accepted
it as his brain-child. The memo
by Mr. Smith says:
On August 7, 1944, at approximately
12:35 p.m., in a tent in
Southern England, the Morgenthau
plan was born. Actually it was General
Dwight D. 'Eisenhow~r who
launched the project. In conversation,
General Eisenhower set the
spark destined to grow into one of
the most bitterly denounced, most
fervently hailed, and, according to
varying reports, the most damaging
project or the most far-seeing
plan to guarantee a peaceful Germany
ever conceived.
According to a Washington
newspaper on JanuaTy 16 of this
year, the American taxpayers are
going to be tapped for fifty million,
repeat fifty million dollars
to const1·uct a new State Depart~
ment building. It will, according
to this paper, c o v e r four city
blocks and will be the biggest
building in the district. One thing
we've got to say for the planners
is that they don't do anything on
a small scale. They s h o o t the
works and what do they care? It's
not their money. And any way,
what is a lousy little old fifty million
dollars to a government which
can afford to fluff off five billion
at one clip as a present to foreign~
ers who have no intention of ever
paying it back. Think nothing of
it!
The subject first came up at been taUght to be paranoid in their
lunch in General Eisenhower's mess actions and thoughts, and they have
tent. Secretary Morgenthau, Assls- to be snapped out of it. The only
tant to the Secretary, Harry D. way to do that is to be good and
White, and I were there. White hard on them. I certainly sec no
(Harry Dexter White) spoke ol point in bolstering their economy
Germany, which was now certain or taking any other steps to help
to be defeated. He questioned the them."
system of the Army pursuing its White remarked: ''We may want
standing orders; that Civil Affairs to quote you on the problem of
was to move up and bolster the handling the German people." Eis-economy
quickly to keep the Allied enhower replied that he could be
troops from bogging down in a mo- quoted. He said: "I will tell the
~=f~ ~~a~c~~~m;~lu:~~~ka!~ih WJ!~~ President myself if necessary."
many was an entirely different From that moment Morgenthau's
matter; we were not to use Ger- chief interest in life was his own
many as a thoroughfare; Germany conviction that General Eiscnhow-was
the end of the road. Once con- er's description of the German peo-quered,
there would be no problem pie as "paranoid" was apt, and that
with supply lines, and the country by accepting this fact a plan could
did not need to support a fighting be created that would forever pre-force.
Yet (said White) the Army vent the German people from mak-directive
had not been altered to ing war.
suit the changed situation. As it
now stood, troops would enter The memo goes on for many hun-
Germany, Civil Affairs would move dreds of words and tells how from
up, the mark would be establish- that day in the General's tent, Mor-ed,
utilities would be repaired and genthau took the ball and ran with ""
life be reestablished on as high a it and refers to his remark at Car-plane
as feasible, as quickly as pos- negie Hall on April 12, 1943, "before
sible. a group of Manhattan banker· and
White said, "What I think is that ~=~~~=~e~ai~:a~:~~~ ;;c::!a~~ad~o~~
:~~ns:~~lda~iv0~~:tue~i~~e t~e~~:l: !~~f ~:e~l:!~~si 0~~~el;~~;m~~: ~C:,
down before we do anything with that will rock Nazi Germany to its
it." rotten, blood- stained foundation."
Here Eisenhower became grim, The memo tells step, by step, what
and made the statement that ac- happened after that until the Mor-tually
sparked the German hard- genthau plan finally "died of neg-ship
plan. He said: ''1 am not in- lect."
terested in the 'German economy ·
and personally would not like to Thus it was that Harry Dexter
bolster it if that will make it any White who was first appointed to
easier for the Germans." He said high office by Franklin D. Roosevelt,
he thought the Germans had pun- praised extravagantly by Truman and
ishment coming to them: ''The ring- permitted to sit in on a conference of
leaders and the ss troops should a President-to-be as the economic ex-be
given the death penalty with- termination of a great na tion was
out question, but punishment planned and all he used these high
should not end there." contacts and associations for was to
promote plans for overthrowing the
He felt the people were guilty of American government.
supporting the regime and that
made them a party to the entire Another thing that was not gener-
German project and be, personal- ally realized w1til the Eastland re-ly,
would like \o "see things made port came out was that White helped
good and hard for them for awhile." plan the United Nations. On page
He pointed out that talk of letting 2511 of the Eastland Committee re-
Germany off easy after taking due port is a facsimile of White's appoint-care
of the top people came from ment which says: "The United Na-those
who feared Russia and want- tions Conference on Organization.
ed to strengthen Germany as a po- San Francisco, 1945. The bearer, Mr.
tential bulwark against any desires Harry D. White is an Adviser of the
for expan~ion which Russia might United States Delegation. Signed Al-some
day have. He said: "This is a ger Hiss, Secretary General."
problem, because the strength of This .Eastland Report is of vital
Russia is fantastic." On the other concern to all Americans who try to
hand, he did not personally think keep abreast of the developments in
that Russia would want anything the conspiracy aga'inst the United
"because she now has all she can States, but it is doubtful if other
digest, and she has problems of her copies of the Report can be obtained.
own which will keep her busy un- We were fortunate in getting our
til long after we are dead." copy early but many others who have
The General declared he saw no tried frantically to get one were in-purpose
served in treating a "para- formed that the supply was cxhaust-noid"
gently, and the "whole Ger- cd, although it may still be possible
man population is a synthetic para- to buy one from the Government
noid. All their life the people have Printing Oific .... It's well worth a try.
From a woman subscriber in
Oakland, California: "You always
see through humbug to the truth,
with a laugh thrown in, which we
can certainly u.se in these tragic
days. But, after enjoying the
laugh, I always find you have pin~
pointed the truth - a gratifying
change from the distortions of fact
we are fed each day. You are doing
a wonderful job for all of us.
Thank you.,
Rumors persist in Washington
that an undercover effort is being
made to chuck Dulles out as Secretary
of State. Off-hand, that
would seem to be all to the good
but we tremble in our boots at
the prospect of some one new being
appointed. And it is no use to
kid ourselves and say that any one
would be preferable to Dulles.
Senator Eastland to Speak
In Houston May 16
Senator James 0. Eastland of
Mississippi has accepted an invitation
to make an address in Houston
on Wednesday, May 16th.
His address will be given at the
Music Hall at 8 p.m. on that date -
and Houston citizens are expecting
large delegations from out.-of·town
points to pack the auditorium to its
capacity. East Texas is expected to
be heavily represented.
Senator Eastland, as usual, will , -
discuss the Supreme Court ruling
and plans for the South to keep
its traditional school policy intact.
That's what we said about Truman
in 1952!
Page 8
Public Morality Demands
That Mr. Clark Speak Up
Tom Clark is Texas' involuntary
gift to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
In June, 1948, when he was Attar·
~aQv General through appointment by
Harry Truman, Clark declared The
American Committee for the Protection
o! the Foreign Born was sub·
versive and Communist.
In May, 1954, as a member of the
Supreme Court Clark joined in a
unanimous decision of that body on
segregation and in the ruling handed
down Theodore Brammeld was one
of those listed as authority for the
ruling.
Theodore Brammeld was a member
of The American Committee for
the Protection of the Foreign Born,
which Clark had previously branded
as a Communist organization dedicated
to the overthrow of the Amer-
. lean government. Brammeld had nine
other Communist Front affiliations.
In 1947, as Attorney General, Clark
cited the Civil Rights Congress as
aubversive and Communist. In May
.. 1954, Clark joined in the ruling on
segregation in which a Negro E.
Franklin Frazier was cited by the
Supreme Court as one of its authorities
lor the decision. Frazier was a
member of the Civil Rights Congress
which Clark had declared to be subversive
and Communist in 1947. Frazier
was also lined up with 17 other
Communist Fronts.
In view of this mystifying behavior
on the part of Clark, some questions
arise which cannot be ignored or
alossed over,
If Clark knew what he was talking
about in 1948 when he declared
The American Committee for the Protection
of the Foreign Born was Communist,
why did he accept a member
of that organization as his authority
for a Court ruling in 1954?
If he was right in 1947 in holding
up the Civil Rights Congress as
Communist, why did he take one of
Jts members in 1954 as his authority
in passing on a question of almost
liie and death concern to the people
of his native State and of the entire
nation?
As a member of the Court did not
Mr. Clark have the right to enter
a minority report? Since he did not
take advantage of this prerogative,
is he now prepared to say that he
was wrong In declaring The American
Committee for the Protection of
the Foreign Born to be subversive
and Commun-ist In 1948 and if so, is
Jt not his duty now to make public
apology to such organization?
Since he declared the Civil Rights
Congress Communist in 1947 and in
1954 accepted one of its members
as his authority for a Supreme Court
ruling, isn't it incumbent on him to
tell the American people why he
would brand a man as an enemy ol
this country in 1947 trying to overthrow
the American government and
then allow that same man to sway
the highest judicial body in the
United States in 1954?
If he was wrong in declaring these
organizations to be Communist, he
l1as done them a great injustice.
Ii he was right in declaring them
to be Communist, then he has done
an irreparable injury to the people
of the United States in being a party
to a ruling affecting their future
destiny which was based on the detisions
of those he knew to be Com·
munists.
Although members of the Supreme
Court traditionally do not give out
statements to the press, breaking precedents
is the thing the present Court
does best, and in the interest of public
and official morality, Justice Clark
is obligated to come clean and say
whether he was wrong in 1947 and
1948 or In 1954.
It is humanly impossible for him
to have been right on all three occasions.
THI .SOUTHERN CONS!RVATIVI April, 1956
Department of the Interior Seeks to Boost Perhaps the Wish Is
Type of Project That Needs No Advertising Father to the Thought
We did a double-take recently when we received a handsome,
expensive and lavishly-illustrated document put out by the Department
of the Interior in Washington. It contained twenty-four pages of graphs,
charts, blueprints and photographs of certain structures located in the
nation's parks, playgrounds and beauty spots from New York to Cali·
fornia and from Minnesota to Georgia, and all points in between.
Blinking our eyes and blushing slightly, we noted with some dismay
that this elegant and imposing government brochure bore the
rather frank and startling title of "Comfort Stations and Privies." Recovering
from our initial shock, we plunged quickly into the opening
paragraph to be greeted by this interesting preamble: "It has been said
that those who will not lead the field in proper sanitation, should get out
of it and allow those who are not ashamed to be proud of their toilet
buildings, to take over." (After all, why not? They've taken over practically
everything else).
Pausing for a moment to digest this world-shattering pronouncement,
we read on: "In general usage, any distinction between 1Comfort
Station' and 1Privy' may be merely one of gentility of phrase." (We had
never thought of it in just that way, but it sounds reasonable). A little
further on, our bulging eyes were greeted with this arresting assertion:
"It is elected herein to consider the more modern Comfort Station at
greater length than the more primitive privy."
Hurrying on to the pictorial illustrations, we found that they had
started in with the uprimitives" and had gone on from there, gradually
working up to vast structures that rival the Taj Mahal [or size and magnitude,
with scenic view~ conducive to meditation and profound thought,
given primary consideration.
In Devil's Den Park in Arkansas, the last word in "primitiveness"
is indicated by the humble structure presented in the illustration and
which gives the appearance of having been designed by the immortal
James Whitcomb Riley. Under it--the picture, we mean-is to be found
this explanatory footnote: "This is an unpretentious structure which
has a definite woods character-a homespun propriety, difficult to
analyse." (We didn't think anything could stump the experts and defy
analysis).
Hastening on to Virginia, the brochure presents what they refer
to as a upit privy" in Kendall State Park accompanied by this illuminat~
ing description obviously written by a top-flight intellectual who is
master of the ambiguous phrase: "This structure is suited to a woodland
setting without straining too much at 'nativeness'". This unidentified
genius further enlightens us concerning the merits of this particular
number as follows: uMen's and women's units are closely similar except
as to plan arrangement. The not inconspicuous ventilators jauntily
straddling the roof-comb may provoke argument." (Will this argument,
maybe, overshadow the debate on farm subsidies and the foreign aid
bill?)
In Custer State Park in South Dakota, we are shown a usquare log"
deal but an accompanying footnote gives us this ominous warning: uA
partition wall of logs is likely not to prove as positive a separation
between sections as is desirable". (We see what you mean). At this point
we are let in on some of what seem to be their trade secrets: "When the
facilities are of the privy type, separate structures for the sexes can be
built at but little greater cost and this is recommended.'' (Aha! A segregationist
in the Interior Department, eh?)
Reluctantly tearing our gaze away from all the beguiling pictorial
illustrations which portray the uprimitives" in various sections of the
country, we skip over to the 11moderns" where the builder's art in this
field has attained perfection and his imagination has been a1lowed to run
riot and for a few enraptured moments we revel in undreamed-of beauty
of line, style and design.
Arriving finally at the last illustration, we are permitted an enthralling
view of the ultra-modern job at Logan Pass in Glacier National
Park which faintly resembles a Sultan's summer palace except that it
is dim of outline, making it difficult to distinguish where the building
leaves off and the rocky exterior begins. This is all cleared up, however,
by the obliging footnote which explains that the overall objective was
to uskillfully blend the building with the rugged terrain in a treatment
that amounts almost to camouflage.'' ((We always wondered why those
places were so hard to find but we never dreamed that the Federal
government hired experts to disguise them much as Mother Nature
protects the quail from the hunter by blending its color with that of the
surrounding bushes).
In justice to the Department of the Interior, we must admit that
this brochure is a work of art and a thing of beauty and, after viewing
its remarkable display, one is almost tempted to knock off from work
and call up a travel bureau.
However, we do not think the Department was justified in spending
the thousands of dollars of taxpayers' money which the brochure
obviously cost in order to discuss the intimate details and point out the
merits or shortcomings of the various models.
It is our considered opinion that such structures are solid and
established American institutions which will continue to enjoy the
support and good will of the travelling public without benefit of advertising
or encouragement from a Federal government agency.
On March 13, the Associated
Press carried a release quoting
Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas
as expressing the belief that there
would be no "third party" move ..
ment organized at this time.
To discourage such a movement
Senator Johnson has introduced a
bill in the Senate, S. 3308. It
would amend the Communicatio•1s
Act requiring television and radio
to give equal time to all registered
political parties, and confine such
allotted time to only the two major
parties as they are referred to in
Johnson's bill, although in actual
fact, of course, there is now only
one Socialist Party operating un~
der two labels.
Since the Communist Party is
now supposedly outlawed, it is ob~
vious that Johnson did not have
reference to that party and that his
measure is directed toward keeping
any "third party" from being
granted television a'.'d radio time,
which is a pretty neat trick, if you
ask us.
In the event of the passage of
the proposed legislation, the elec~
torate would thus be deprived of
hearing anything in the way of
political discussions except by
those defending Socialist principles
of government since both major
parties are committed to that
ideology.
Johnson apparently b e c a m e
alarmed when a Chicagoan named
Daly described by the Washington
Post as an "America First" candidate
demanded equal time to answer
the President over the air_H._
had the Washington Post editorial
inserted in the Congressional Rec~
ord.
Both Democratic and Republi·
can Pinks consider the term
'
1America First" the equivalent of
a dirty word, and the idea of any~
body being for u America First"
sends them into dithers.
Propagandists Continue Myth
Of Eisenhower Popularity
The barrage of propaganda being
peddled through the press,
television, radio and by newspaper
columnists and pollsters to the ef-f:
c~nt~~!?r~r~~~~~ni~s th~PS~~rt~X
which supported him in 1952, emphasizes
how powerful and onesided
American communications
mediae are.
Any one who says that his popularity
in the South has not deter•
iorated since the disgraceful Supreme
Court verdict on segrega·
tion, simply is uninformed, prejudiced
or deliberately careless
with the truth.
It is remarkable, however, how
persistently the propaganda continues
to be-lie the facts and how
reluctant the promoters of the
myth are to face the truth.
We are so impressed with the
power of organized propaganda
that we actually believe that if
these high-powered propagandists
got together, they could sell us to
Americans for Democratic Action
as a liberal. left-winger and internationalist,
earnestly plugging for
one-world government.
That would take some doing but,
[rom past accomplishments in the
way of putting propag~n.da over in
a big way, we are sure it could be
done.
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