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THE SouTHERN CoNSERVATIVE
-To Plead for a Return of Constitutional Government-
Vol. 5 Fort Worth, Texas, June, 1954 No.6
Corrupt Judiciary Is Strong Factor
Contributing to National Decay
Why Don't They Make
Up Their Minds?
A special security board in
Washington, in ruling against Dr.
J. Robert Oppenheimer having
continued access to atomic secrets.
made what is perhaps, even
for bureaucrats, one of the most
confusing announcements ever uttered
in Washington.
Their conclusion as reported in
the press was that Dr. Oppenheimer
"is a loyal citi zen but is nevertheless
a security risk.' '
- From this we decided that he
must be twins.
Even the dullest student in a
feeble-minded institution knows
that a security risk is not a loyal
citizen and certainly a loyal citizen
is not a security risk.
This reminds us of the story of
the wag who saw the inscription on
a tombstone which read: "Here
lies a lawyer and an honest man''
and then remarked: " Well. well.
there must be two people buried
in that grave."
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They Walked Out and
Walked Right Back Again
It will be recalled that all Democratic
members of the McCarthy
Investigating Committee walked
out in a huff last year, charging
that it was a "one-man show".
Just before the hearings now in
progress they all came trooping
back and it is clear that their objective
in doing so was not only
to heckle McCarthy but to take
advantage of the occasion to get
free television publicity. They
should not be blamed perhaps for
it is not every day that smalltimers
get a chance on the big
circuit.
Although practically every citizen
in the United States is familiar
with the name of Senator
McCarthy and either loves him or
hates him, not one person in ten
thousand has ever heard of McClellan,
Jackson or Symington.
We Hope She Buys
A One-Way Ticket
Information was released in
Washington last week to the effect
that the State Department had
given clearance to Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt to visit Russia in July.
It was r evealed that she had
already booked passage by air to
Moscow by way of Finland but the
duration o[ her visit was not made
public.
It r equires a special passport
stamp and special clearance by the
State Department for an American
citizen to visit Countries behind
the Iron Curtain.
The drawback to one of these
special visas is that it not only allows
a person to go to a country
behind the Iron Curtain; it permits
them to return.
A Question That Must
Be Honestly Answered
At the risk of being repetitious,
we again dare to ask why we
should worry about Guatemala,
Indochina, and other troubled spots
in the world?
Why not just dump these problems
in the lap of the United Nations
and let them handle it?
If memory serves, we went into
this thing in 1945 with the understanding
they would " prevent aggression
and insure peace", so
what are they hung on?
Also, if they are going to fall
down on the job and break their
contract, do we get our money
back?
Plainly, there's nothing fair and
honest in having American taxpayers
divvy up millions of dollars
to pay the United Nations to protect
our "security" who then refuse
to return the money when they
don't deliver.
Any private concern which did
this would be indicted under the
statutes governing extortion and
fraud.
Traditionally, members of the Supreme Court of the
United States have been set apart by common consent
as men possessed of great dignity, of a deep and profound
knowledge of Constitutional law and of that certain
essential quality of personal integrity which ia,sured
that external influence, political pressure or partisan
consideration would not be reflected in rulings from the
Bench. Currently that body, through a long, careful and
deliberate process of elimination, is composed of low·
grade political hacks whose slanted opinions are formulated
with the objective of establishing social trends,
appeasing minority groups and influencing election returns.
Heading it is a cheap California demagogue who
didn't look back when he got a chance to swap a rigged
judicial decision for a plushy lifetime job.
In imagination, let us turn back the pages of bjstory to 1801 and
try to conceive of President Thomas Jefferson sending his attorney
general, Levi Lincoln of Massachusetts, down into Virginia to confer
with John Marshall who,n Jefferson was planning to name as Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Let us further try to visualize Jefferson's attorney general discussing
with the great Virginia jurist certain embarrassing political
issues soon to come before the nation's highest tribunal for decision ,
sounding him out on his views regarding them. and undertaking to
get a commitment that these issues would be ruled on in accordance
with the wishes of the president's advisers.
At this point we are forced to abandon our mental journey back
into the past for we know, in the first place, that Jefferson didn 't have
-and didn't need- any staff of advisers since he had a mind of his
own and was big enough to handle the job himself.
In the second place. we are convinced that Jefferson would not
have so used his high office nor reflected on the judicial integrity of a
potential Supreme Court Justice by discussing an impending issue on
which he would be called to rule.
Also, it is certain that if this imaginary incident had occurred,
John Marshall would have thrown the attorney general out on his ear.
And yet in the year 1953 such was the state of public morality
that a similar proceeding could excite nothing more than casual and
passing attention .
It is only when we consider the moral and political dry rot which
has produced an advanced stage of erosion and deterioration in the
executive arm of government that we can comprehend the corresponding
disintegration of our Judiciary system.
Roosevelt openly held out for a controlled Court constituted of
nine mindless morons who would shape their rulings to conform to
political expediency and promote his whimsical social experiments.
and it was he who set the forces in motion which finally accomplished
this result.
In making appointments to that body, Truman reduced the standards
to an even lower level and when Eisenhower was presented
with the glorious opportunity to lift its personnel to a higher strata
of morality, intelligence and ability he responded by naming a man
to this all-important position with no training in jurisprudence, no
legal background and little public standing.
As a consequence, .the highest Court in the land is a composite
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Millions of Americans Think It--The Southern Conservative Says It
Poge 2 THE SOU THE RN CONS ERVATIV E June, 1954
Washiington Officials and Army Brass Defended
Traitor Who Disappeared Behind Iron Curtain
There are literally hundreds o!
cases of Communist coddling by Washington
officials and it would require
a publication with a thousand pages
to describe them all.
As an illustration, we will refer to
a speech in Congress on May 17 by
the Honorabl~ Fred E. Busby of Illinois
in which he unfolded, step by
step the story of one George Shaw
Wheeler.
George Shaw Wheeler held various
important positions with the government
for more than eleven years including
service on the National Labor
Relations Board, Department of Labor,
War Production Board, Olfice of
Economic Warfare and the Foreign
Economic Administration. In these
jobs he was given highly responsible
and confidential assignments, wore
the uniform of the United States
Army and held the assimilated rank
of colonel.
On December 13, 1943 the Civil
Service Commission investigated
George Shaw Wheeler and referred
their findings to the Loyalty Board
of the Civil Service Commission. On
December 15, 1944, the Loyalty Board
declared Wheeler to be inelegible for
employment because of information
about him the investigation had developed
and ordered that he be fired.
Was he fired? Don't be silly.
Immediately several agencies went
1nto action including the Foreign
Economic Administration by whom
Wheeler was then employed. ~enneth
0. Warner, assistant administrator
of FEA protested vigorously to
the Civil Service Commission against
the order to discharge Wheeler and
demanded that he be retained.
and loyalty and Mr. Wheeler has been
so notified."
It is important to remember the
names of both Morse and Flemming
for both are currently occupying high
places. Morse is now Dii-ector General
of the United Nations International
Labor Organization in Geneva and
Arthur S. Flemming is now National
Defense Mobilization Director of the
United States. Incidentally, the same
Civil Service Commission had earlier
cleared Gregory Silvermaster who set
up a Communist cell right in the
heart of the Federal Government.
At any rate the Civil Service Commission
reversed its ruling and gave
Wheeler a clear bill of health.
A lew months later, Wheeler, his
wile and his children voluntarily disappeared
behind the Iron Curtain and
have not been heard from since. There
was a minimum of publicity on the
incident to save the individuals and
agencies and Army officers who had
staunchly defended him.
Full confirmation of these facts
may be found in the Congressional
Record of May 17, 1954 on pages
6337-6347.
Unfortunately, many Americans
will read it, and similar happenings,
ponder on it for a few minutes, and
then turn over and go back to sleep
again.
And as they doze off, they will
probably mentally condemn the
"methods" of Senator McCar thy who
i.!l trying valiantly to save their hides
!rom the dirty Communists. even
though they don't deserve to be saved.
Friends Speaker Has Only
Others who came to Wheeler's deOne
Subversive Citation
fense were ofiicials of the Office of
Military Government, Federal Works Dr. Otto Nathan, representing the
Agency, Economics Department of the American Friends Service Committee,
University of Chicago, Capt. Louis E. which is noted chiefly :for its long list
Madden, United States Army, Office of speakers having alliance with Comof
Strategic Services, Capt. R. J. Wie- munist fronts, was guest speaker at
ferich, United States Army, Joseph Texas Christian University in Fort
H. Fitzgerald, chief statistician FEA, Worth recently.
Lieutenant David A. Morse, United Considering that he is sponsored
States Army, General Counsel for by the "Friends" Dr. Nathan has a
National Labor Relations Board, Mor- remarkably short list of citations, so
timer Reimer, United States Army, far as we can learn.
Irving J. Levy, Department of Justice. He Js shown as a sponsor of the
Another big shot who came to the notorious World Peace Confe~ence,
bat for Wheeler was Mortimer Graves, by the New York Times of March 24,
who had served as Consultant to the 1949, which listed the delegates to
Wai- Department and United Nations this organization being held in New
Relief and Rehabilitation Administra- York at that time.
tion. He demanded that the Civil On page 418-479 of the fifth reService
Commission in order to ·'re- port of the California Committee on
habilitate itself in public esteem" Un-American Activities, 1949, this
should "show guts enough to throw meeting was described as "a superthis
subversive nonsense into the ash mobilization of the inveterate wheelcan
where it belongs." horses and supporters of the Commu-
Wheeler, himself, went on record nist Party and its auxiliary organias
highly insulted because of these zations."
assaults on his character and took The Friends seem to be doing better
occasion to personally assert his "ab- in the matter of selecting their speaksolute
allegiance to the United States , ers. It was only a couple of years ago
and its Democratic form of govern- that one of their speakers, Bayard
ment." Rustin, a Negro, who was sent by
The Civil Service Commission ca- them to address a church and some
pitulatcd completely under this bar- university ladies in Pasadena, was
rage of testimony and on December arrested between speeches on a morals
1, 1945 Arthur S. Fleming, Commis- charge.
sioner of the Civil Service outfit, ---------wrote
David Morse in which he said:
"Based primarily upon your testimony,
the Commission has concluded
that Mr. Wheeler is suitable for Federal
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Army Honorably Discharges Known Communist
And Refuses Promotion To Patriotic General
In spite of McCarthy's fine efforts
to let · the American people
know who was responsible for
the honorable discharge from the
Army of Major Peress, an admitted
Communist, it looks like
this information is going to be
withheld "in the interest of national
security."
While we can't find out about
Peress' oreferential treatment by
hi.e:h officials of the Army, we are
told in no uncertain terms through
the press that Major General
Kirke Lawton the American
patriot commanding Fort Monmouth
is slated for a rotten deal
from the same officials.
General Lawton made the unforgivable
error of offending PentaI!
On brass by aiding Senator McCarthy
in uncovering spies in the
defense plant where he was stationed.
That did it.
As a result he was passed over
for promotion and is going to be
retired in November with the de ..
mated rank of Brigadier General.
Of course our Army is not in·
filtrated by Communists. Certainly
not. We shouldn't insult them
by allowing a Committee of the
Senate to even ask questions of
the bil( brass.
Of all the foreign countries who
have been uncooperative with the
United States, India is along near the
top of the list. Nehru plays both ends
against the middle as between the
United States and Russia but his sympathies
plainly lie with the Soviets.
And so we have $85,000,000 earmarked
for his country in the foreign aid
bill before Congress.
Corrupt · Judiciary
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collection of mediocrity, instability and weakness made up of such
characters as an Austrian-born Socialist. a Washington hitch-hiker, an
Alabama Ku Kluxer, a Texas "hot oil" promoter and five others of
corresponding calibre and equipment.
It is an assorted aggregation of judicial incompetents, frustrated
from ten years' unsuccessful attempts to deport Communist Harry
Bridges and who seek to bolster their sagging egos by assumin~ jurisdiction
over helpless little children of the South and handing down compulsory
judicial decisions dictating their schoolroom and playground
associates.
Their recent unanim.ous ruling abolishing segregation in Southern
public sch ools was the most vicious and corrupt attempt ever made by
an adj udicating body to give legal sanction to violation of divine and
human Jaw.
It is the most infamous of their many nlanned assaults a_gainst
corner-stone institutions of the American Republic and constitutes
the greatest Communist victory ever achieved by Moscow, including
those on the field of battle.
It is the culmination of the Soviet dream of American conquest
· through propaganda for misce~enation, racial inter-breedin.e: and ultimate
mongrelization of the white Christian population of the United
States.
At the best. it constitutes reckless disregard of age-old convention.
At the worst, it legally condones unnatural, obscene and abhorrent
human relations.
Decent members of the colored race in the South don't want segregation
abolished and responsible white people won't stand for it and
will find ways to circumvent it. It is acceptable only to those who
have already been indoctrinated by Communist propaganda in their
churches and their schools.
Finally, it is the most damnable and indefensible invasion of the
rights of the States since the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution
was adopted to protect them and will go down in history as a lowwater
mark in official misconduct and judicial corruption.
As for the State of Texas, its early-day statesmen spent three
years writmg its constitution, including a provision that there shall
be separate schools for white and colored. and we do not believe that
~~~~;~~d foe~~~~~~Z~:ntt. disguised in judicial robes, are endowed with
. _In the meantime, ~e are su;e that the so-called Supreme Court
JUstices who have delivered this shocking custom-reversing decree
:~~!~lly aware of the implied social changes it is designed to bring
One of their Negro ideological collaborators who was so close
to their thinking that he was able to accurately predict their ruling ill
adv~nce, ":as. asked i! forced social mixing of white and black children
durmg the1r 1mpresswnable vears, would lead to inter-marriage of the
races. He replied in part: ~
"When humnn beings get to know each other friendships develop
and som~ of these friendships develop into love a'nd marriage."
. Some of thos~ on the high .c~mrt who conspired against the South
In formulating this odtous d_eciston have children and grandchildren
themselves who also automatically become participants in this new and
unprecedented social experimer1t.
And so, we suppose that it is not out of order for us to assume that
!hese Supreme _Court judges, as parents or grandparents, would exper·
tence no sensatwn of_ horror if the outrage they sought to inflict on the
South should backfire. on the~ and they should some day find a
clutch of httle mulatto p1ckanmmes frolicking around their own fireside.
Juno, 1954
Eisenhower Takes
Cover-Up Position
(t-:ditorial from D•llaa Motning N~"l"')
As an Army man, President Eisenhower
reverts to General Eisenhower's
views on what the duties are for
an Army subordinate. Orders are orders.
You have ijll order to keep your
mouth shut? Then keep it shut. I! the
house burns down, you have orders,
don't you? Very well, obey them.
Here is a case, we will say, where
a man is ordered to promote a Communist
officer from major to lieutenant
colonel and let him leave the
service with an honorable discharge.
Accord ing to General Zwicker, there
is nothing else to do. According to
General Eisenhower. Zwicker is right.
Again, you are in Intelligence; you
know FBI has warned your service
about seventeen Communist suspects.
Nothing is done. You know these suspects
contain some dangerous men
in sensitive posts. If you keep silence,
they will leak vital secrets to Russia.
If you speak, you will leak the names
of these men to a congressional committee
investigating the leaks of vital
matters to Russia. The President says
you arc disloyal to yotrt oath as an
Army officer.
But you swear, first of all, loyalty
to the Constitution and to the country.
]( an order compels you to permit
the country to be betrayed, that order
makes you a party to the betrayal.
It is a decision ;o.·ou must make to
impC'ril .\·our Army career rather than
to imperil the country. What do you
do?
By impUcatiorl, General Eisenhower
says he would keep mum and let the
spies carry on. He could presume his
superiors knew what the.v were doing.
But afler the knowledge we have
gained during the past five or six
years. that presumption is not tenable.
It is foolish . It seems to The News
that the President is wrong.
Socialism Is Strengthened
In Administration Measure
As one of the promised steps in
national debt reduction , economy
and relief for the taxpayer, the
House and Senate have passed an
administration Social Security law
amendment which adds ten million
more to the Jist of Americans on
dol•.
The Committee also increased
monthly payments to those receiving
government alms from $5 to
$23 monthly.
The administration tried manfully
to include the physicians of
the country to the Social Security
ranks but the doctors fought them
to a standstill. The me(lical men
were not about to put themselves
in the attitude of asking taxpayers
to support them in their old age.
It is understood that administration
officials were put out about
the refusal of the physicians to cooperate.
The program is administered
by the Health. Education and
Weltare Department and it would
have been quite a feather in that
department's cap to have had the
medical fraternity under its thumb.
The ITEW is generally regarded
as the president's: particular pet
hobby.
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Pogo 3
For Every One Communist
There Are Ten Defenders
It is a strange and tragic fact that
those engaged in promoting the cause
of Communism in this "country can
always find defenders in high places
in the government.
Latest illustration is the Reece investigation
into the Ford, Rockefeller
and other Large Foundations in the
United States who enjoy tax-exempt
privileges from the American government
and yet finance Communist individuals
and movements engaged in
efforts to overthrow that government.
At a recent session of t.he Committee
a witness was furnishing evidence
of the activities of the large
Foundations in subsidizing movements
to poison the m i n d s of American
youth against our form of government,
against our moral codes and
even religion. Wayne L. Hayes, Ohio
New Dealer who Is a member of the
committee and defender of the Foundations,
became highly incensed and
hightailed it out of the Committee
room bringing that session of the
hearings ~ to an abrupt end.
It is this type of behavior on the
part of a large number of Americans
which gives a id and encouragement
to the Soviet revolu tionar ies who are
doing everything under heaven to
take over and who furiously oppose
any type of investigation into the
activities of those who are aiding them
to do so.
Since 1946, 10.000 displaced persons
have been located in the Los
Angeles area. a Red publication
boastfully a nnounces. Well. that is
a rather strategic point all right
and this arral~cmcnt would come
in handy, just in case.
A nation has come to a pretty
pass when its leaders are willing
to even sell its soldiers out. This
was done in the NATO Status of
Forces treaty when the Senate of
the United States on July 14. 1953
stripped our fightinl:!" men of their
rights guaranteed them under the
American Constitution. by approving
this treaty. Under this treaty
American soldiers must be tried
under the laws of whatever outlandish
country in which they are
fighting, in the event they are
accused of a misdemeanor or crime.
Approving this treaty was a treasonable
act of a nation against
its fighting forces. regardless of
who voted for it or why.
If there is anything laughable
in this dissen.c,jion-torn world, it is
the assertion over the air that the
president is 11sorry he allowed McCarthy
to ride into office on 1his
coattails." Ye gods! McCarthy was
in office and lashing out against
Communists in government long
before Eisenhower was in the
White House suppressing information
about them, and will probably
be in office long after another
occupant resides there.
The late David Niles, whose real
name was Neyhaus, was the White
House advisor on " racial relations"
during Roosevelt's and part of Truman's
administration. Max R a b b,
whose real nanle is Rabiniwitz, has
the same job under Eisenhower.
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National
To The
Church Council Opposed
American Governif!g System
Stassen Is Unhappy Over
Plight of Poor Russians
Harold Stassen who controls the
free handouts from this country to
other nations of the world is dis-tressed.
There is a strong sentiment in the
United States to the eff(:!ct that a
country receiving American aid should
be declared ineligible for further assistance
if it persists in shipping
goods procured in this country to the
Soviet Union which might be used to
bolster their war effort.
But a report from Mr. Stassen indicates
that he thinks this would be
wrong and he fears that internal dissension
among the people in Russia
would result if they arc not permitted
to get consumer goods that they need
and want.
From his attitude it would seem
that Mr. Stassen is more concerned
in the people o! Russia than he is in
those of the United States.
His curious reasoning is that if
we continue to give aid to countries
who trade with Russia. the Russian
people will. somehow. love .us more
and love their rulers less. _
It is easy to understand why the
appointment of Mr. Stassen to the
job is regarded as one of the major
blunders of the present administration.
President Says He Will not
Run for Reelection in 1956
According to an International
News Service story in the press,
President Eisenhower will not run
again in 1956 but will, instead. retire
and live on his farm in Pennsylvania.
According to INS the president
said that his greatest wish is to
spend the rest of his life in the
pleasant surroundings of Gettysburg,
on the historic Civil War
battlefield, where his home is located.
After many years spent in the
Army, we think he is entitled to
the leisure he craves and s incerely
hope his ambition is realized.
"The executive branch of gov·
erninent has the 'sole' responsibility
for protecting the nation's security"
says a White House statement.
Yes, and look where we are!
The White House had custody of
confidential information from the
FBI about Communist spies in
government during Roosevelt's and
Truman's administrations and they
kept it under lock and key while
the Communists bored deeper and
deeper into government agencies.
It is every American's responsibility
to reveal any information
in their possession concerning the
enemy and if they are worth their
salt they will do it.
In 1945, through ratification ol the
United Nations Charter as a treaty
and therefore overriding our Constitution
as the Law o.f the Land, we
were sold into world government. By
the very terms ol that treaty, our
United States Senate is honor and
duty bound to approve the more than
200 amendments to the original treaty,
awaiting action next year. If the Senate
should balk, approva l ol the
Dr. E. Stanley Jones, a speaker
and umissionary" for the National
Council of Churches of Christ in
America and whose literature is
to be found in the reading rooms
of many Protestant churches, concedes
the NCCC's Communist sympathies
in his book, "Christ's Alternative
to Communism" where
he.says: "When the Western World
was floundering in an unjust and
competitive order, and the church
was bound up with and was part
of that order, God reached out
and put His hand on the Russian
Communists to produce a juster
order and to show a recumbent
church what it has missed in its
own gospel." In the same book he
says: "I am persuaded that Christianity
cannot fit into a competitive
order.''
It would be impossible for this
recognized leader of the National
Council of Churches of Christ to
put into plainer words the stand
of that organization on Communism
and its antagonism toward
the "competitive system" on which
our Republic is founded.
If the business men of this nation
who are members of churches
affiliated with this National Council
of Churches of Christ feel that
it is all right [or ordained ministers
to fight the American system o[
government and advocate Communism
in its stead, and if they still
contribute financially to those who
subscribe to this theory of government,
then they deserve wl1~t is
about to happen to them.
If they do not agree that ministers
shou1d oppose the American
form of government and want to
put these subversive preachers in
their place, they wili refuse to
contribute another dime to the
maintenance of churches who are
members of this un-American
group calling itself the National
Council of Churches of Christ in
America.
Denying American soldiers their
constitutional rights and subjecting
them to the penalties of whatever
outlandish country they happen to
be fighting for at the time, is apparently
all right with Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren
of Whiting, Indiana, president
ol the General Federation of Women's
Clubs. At the Denver meeting of
that organization recently, she intimated
to three thousand women that
NATO was the answer to prayer and
would stem Communism in Europe
and she urged that a similar pact be
set up in the South Pacific. She also
gave them some "information" thal
most Americans were not aware of
when she said that "We have successfully
resisted aggression in Korea."
The informed women in her audience
of course knew that aggression was
not stopped in Korea. They .realize
tha t hostilities were merely held up
until Communist Russia and China
could strengthen their forces lor additional
attacks on Indochina and other
points. We wonder where the lady has
been all this time?
treaties can now come through Executive
Agreement!! And yet, though this
is a near tool-proof method of murdering
our Constitutional Republic, no
one in authority dares tell us the
whole truth!~-Don Bell.
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THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES:
n,, pow.rs not delegated to the Unihcl
St•tu by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the Statu ue ruerved to the
Stales respectively, or to the people,
It Is Our Duty To Let 'Em
Have It With Both Barrels
Recently we had a communication
from a young woman in Milwaukee
which is typical of many
that come over our desk:
"I am twenty-seven years old
and just now beginning to learn
the poJitical facts of life. I never
dreamed that Washington politicians
would do the things they are
doing against this country until
I began reading your p3'Per a few
months ago. I can't tell you how
much my husband and I admire
you for letting them have it and
pullin~t no punches."
No human has higher regard
for the comparatively few patriotic
men in high places of government
who are exerting every possible
resource to save the nation
from its foreign and domestic enemies,
than we. and no one has
a greater contempt for those who
art=- trying to destroy it.
We admit that we are not gentle
in our assertions concerning the
traitorous actions of spineless
leaders who are daily betraying
the American people. If there is
anything we haven't said about
them. it was because we didn't
think of it and we hereby apologize
Cor any such omission.
We are doing nothing more,
however, than every good American
with a mind to think:' a heart
to [eel and a will to act should do
- let 'em have it with both barrels.
It is the inescapable responsibilitY.
of every American citizen
and taxpayer to tell his public servants
in Washington what he
thinks and not stutter. sputter or
stall when he does it.
Doesn't it seem more than passing
strange that the world forces
striving for the overthrow of this
country should force the issue of
segregation just at this time with
world strife and turmoil at an alltime
high?
THE SOUT H ERN CONS ERVA TIV E
Favor Tax Exemption For Subversive Foundations
But Oppose It For Oil M~n Who Take Great Risk
Under the New Order which hos
been building up in Washington
for many years, the possession of
wealth bv individuals is regarded
as something sort of sinister and
offensive.
But the massing of g-reat fortunes
in.- Foundations which subsidize
subversives is looked upon
with such favor that these great
Foundations are exempted entirPly
from the payment of taxes to the
Federal government.
Taking advantage of this widely
held Marxian view that rich men
are. somehow, undesirable citizens
and a public menace, a whole slue
of left-wing writers have broken
out with lurid stories about Texas
oil millionaires, only about one
half of one per cent of which are
true. the rest being pure figments
of the pink writers' imagination.
Senate Harbors Sorry
We now find that all this rash
of left-wing journalistic activity
was merely preliminary to efforts
to push an amendment through in
the administration's tax measure
which would reduce a 27 1h per
cent depletion allowance for the
producers of oil and f!as which is
permitted under that bill.
This 27 1 ~ per cent depletion
allowance is granted to encourage
the opening of new oil fields in
Texas and elsewhere and for the
development of other minerals es·
sential to the nation's defense.
It is expected that a strong fight
by those who favor total tax deduction
to left-wing Foundations
but are opposed to any exemption
for those willing to take the risk
in developing latent resources, wil~
be made when the tax measure
comes up for consideration.
So Now We Are to
Specimen of Human Race Pay Russia's Bills
The respectable element of Ver-mont
citizenship should demand Although we are practically shockthe
recall of the senile old duffer, proof against anything that happens,
who totters around the Senate this one almost got us.
floor mouthing the vicious and The World Health Organization of
libelous charges o( Communist the United Nations which is the diconspirators
in a last-ditch fight vision of that outfit plugging for
on patriotic Americans whose feet World Socialized Medicine, recently
th1t~e g~!r~ ~~~ b~;;~J ~y k~~s~ drew a draft on the United Slates
statute of age limitation from the for $350,000, in addition to the
pu nishment he deser ves, he would amount already allotted to the United
probably have found himself be- States and which had previously been
jng picked up on a blotter for his paid.
vile innuendos against Senator The WHO was kind enough to ex~
Z~~rthy and m~mbers of his plain that this extra assessment was
UN Gets ln. The Act
On "Discrimination"
A bulletin !rom the tJnited Nations
states that a proposal for a UN conference
to seek ways of "eliminating
prejudice and discrimination" has received
the support of a number of
leading religious, labor and civic
groups.
It was also announced that Dag
Hammarskjold, Secretary General of
the United Nations, had been asked
to sound out influential nongovernmental
groups on the advisability of
such a parley.
It would be interesting to know
how much further this World Organization
group plans to go beyond the
steps already taken in this country.
Also we would like to know if their
discussions will take into consideration
di scrimination against the white
race or is that asking too much?
We now tearn that a top aide to
Allen Dulles, head of the Central
Intelligence Agency, is William P.
Bundy and that Bundy i~ a son-in.Jaw
of former Secretary of State, Dean
Acheson. Yc Gods! It"s like a cancer
with roots extending all over the
body of government.
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necessary because Russia and its satellites
had refused to come across with
the amount that had been expected of
them. So they just demanded that
we kick in with Russia's part.
We understand that no action has
been taken yet by Congress to make
the extra appropriation but we will
bet a forty cent Am.erican dollar that
they dip down in the taxpayers' pocket
and relie:ve him of the money to.
meet this extra assessment.
It serves us right. In 1948 the
United States Senate ratified this
WHO treaty and those who voted for
it probably never read a line of it.
And it is more than likely that only
a half dozen senators were present
when it was voted on.
If that is not an argument for the
Bricker amendment, there never was
Soviets Toss A Hunk of
Cheese To Communist Rat
One of the most despicable of
the millions of subversive aliens
ever to reach American shores,
Charles Chap1in, has just been
awarded the "world peace prize"
by the Soviet World Peace Council,
according to a news dispatch
from Berlin.
We wonder what the sloppy female
columnists in Hollywood who
still write reverently of this subversive
slob as a "genius" will have
to say about that.
June, 1954
Planes Don't Haul off and
Explode Without a Reason
The information will be kept from
the American people, of course, but
there is not the slightest doubt that
the terrible plane explosion recently
which claimed almost a hundred lives
and wounded two hundred others,
was the result of sabotage.
Planes simply do not just haul off
and explode in mid-air as dozens have
done in the past two or three years
unless there is some reason for it.
If the truth were known, which it
won't be, it would be found that the
planes are rigged to do this very ..,.
thing before they leave the plant
where they are manufactured or on
their way to their base of operation.
And yet, when Senator Joseph R.
McCarthy who knows this, tries to do
something about it and get these dirty
traitors thrown out of defense · plants
and other strategic places where they
are located, look what happens!
The whole New Deal-Fair Deal
gang, both Democrats and Republi~
cans, from the White House on down,
gang up to slop him by throwing
every conceivable obstacle in his way.
How long, dear Lord, before the
American people wake up and act
like Americans instead of sniveling,
quaking, cowering fools?
Brownell Takes off
In Wrong Diredion
Herbert Brownell, perhaps the
worst flop o[ the many who have
headed the Department of Justice
in the past twenty years. announc~
es that he is going to conduct a
full scale investigation right away.
Yes, sir.
But it is not the CommUnists he
is going to attack. Instead he is going
to probe into the matter of how
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, arch
enemy of Communists, got hold of
some FBI information disclosing
the presence of subversives in the
Army Signal Corps.
If we are any judge of public
sentiment, we believe the Amer~
ican people are getting fed up with
all this stalling and cover-up for
subversives by those who should
be fighting the hardest against
them.
Two previous administrations
spent practically all their time
whitewashing and covering up
traitors inside government and no~
bodywe knew thought the present
administration would continue the
practice.
Americans who voted for a
"changeu are being let down in
a big way.
Dr. W. J . Danforth of Fort Worth
was called to Washington recently
to receive an award for service in
some field having to do with the
Navy. We wouldn't know about that
but we do know that he renders
valuable service every day of his
Ji!e in fighting for the basic principles
of Americanism.
June, 1954
Presbyterians Favor
Admission of Communist
Church Delegates
The Presbyterian Church in its se s ~
sions at Montreat, North Carolina,
last week went on record as favoring
the admission of delegates from Communist
nations to this country to attend
the World Council of Churches
convention at Evanston, Illinois, in
August.
Responsible church offiicals of the
United States, associated with the
A m e r i c a n Council of Christian
Churches, have aiked that visas be
denied to Communists who want to
attend this Commupist-dominated
World Council's sessions in Evanston.
The World Council of Churches
was organized in the Netherlands in
1948 and at that time passed resolutions
against the Amarican system of
government.
But the Presbyterians not only want
them to come trooping into this coun~
try to spread Communist propaganda,
but also defeated a resolution which
would have prevented the circulation
of World Council literature among
churches ol the Presbyterian denorrii~
nations.
Somebody should page Dr. J . ' B.
Matthews and tell him to revise his
figures again on the number of in~
filtrated churches in this country.
Of course the National Council of
Churches of Christ has recommended,
as was to be expected, that the Com~
munists be welcomed with open arms.
He Reminds Us of Another
Politician From Misso11ri
There are probably very lew human
beings who ever looked sillier or were
forced into a more ridiculous attitude
than Stuart Symington when a
report on the monitored conversations
with Secretary of the Army Stevens
were read be!ore the committee in~
vestigating the McCarthy-Pentagon
controversy.
These conversations revealed that
the Missouri Fair Deal senator had
been conniving with the Dewey Republicans
to bring about an investigation
to discredit the work of McCarthy
and his associates in the ex~
posure of Communists in the Army
and elsewhere.
The very prOper request of Senatol
· McCarthy that Symington withdraw
!rom committee deliberations
because of his dishonest and unethical
conduct in the matter, failed to
budge the little man who would like
to be Fair Deal standard bearer in
1956.
And no wonder. He is getting the
first public attention he has ever received
and probably the last, and he
wasn't about to give up his chance
to perlonn before the iclevision camera.
We look for the hearings to fade
out soon, and especially since Sym~
ington's telephone calls reveal that
an assistant attorney general was in
on the frame-up and had expressed
his position even before the start of
the hearings.
How crooked can politicians get?
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We Wonder If They Will
Draft McCarthy Next?
We think that it is perhaps just
as well that the National Guard in
Governor Dewey's New York State
has ordered Roy M. Cohn to report
for active duly June 12, even though
he is busily engaged in the hearing
now taking place in Washington and
which was fram ed with the objective
of stopping the expose of Communists
in the Army, among other places.
This arbitrary action of a unit of
the armed forces will give the American
people a demonstration of the use
of Military Government, in peace
time, to punish the citizen, which they
very badly need to have.
If there was any doubt that Private
Schine was deliberately drafted be·
cause of his activities on the Me~
Carthy Committee of the Senate, that
doubt is dispelled by the calling of
Mr. Cohn into active service when he
is desperately needed to help Senator
McCarthy fight the jackals who are
snapping at his heels.
Using the Army as a political punitive
medium is comparatively new in
this country although an old institu·
tion in Russia and other countries
behind the Iron Curtain.
The president was assured of
hearty applause of his remarks
against Senator McCarthy in his
Decoration Day speech. His address
was delivered at Columbia University
one of the biggest hotbeds
of Communism in the United
States. Some of the fj rst Com mu~
nist cells in this country were set
up on the campus t_h_er_e. __ _
Thomas J. Anderson of Dallas,
publisher of the Southwest edition
of, Farm and Ranch in an
editorial in that publication's May
issue recounts the progress made
in infiltration of government agen~
cies by Communists during the
Fair Deal administration and caps
it with this priceless gem: "But,
like so many piano players, Truman
never really found out what
was going on upstairs."
Socialism of one sort or another
is .=m imbedded in the law and
administration of American gov~
ernment today that the Socialist
party is practically obsolete. This
socialism is maintained and evc>n
advocated by Dwight Eisenhower
because he reckons that there is
no morf.al chance of eliminating it.
Beyond that, there is good reason
to believe that Eisenhower himself
is heartily in favor of a pretty
heavy dosag-e of socialism.-Ex~
cerpt from Lynn Landrum's column
in Dallas Morning News.
In Saigon, Indochina, we are
told, the authorities discovered
that one of their council members
had been engaged in Communist
activities. Without any monkey
business, they loaded him into a
plane, tied a parachute to him,
flew him over to Red territory and
gave him a choice between jumping
and being pushed. He jumped.
If we could only handle the thousands
of Communist sympathizers
in this country that way, how
wonderful it would be!
Clerical Puppets Are Pushed Into Line
Like Sheep Shoved Through Dipping Vat
At Montreat, North Carolina, recently
the radical remnants and
remains of what was once the
great Presbyterian Church met in
general assembly and passed. a
resolution 236 to 169 demandmg
that local churches admit persons
to membership "without reference
to race."
They didn't have the sleasy excuse
offered by the Supreme Court
to the effect that their action was
taken in the interest of equal educational
facilities for all races.
The Presbyterian move was
11Social Action" pure and simple,
which placed them on record as
favoring miscegenatior~ and mo!lgrelization
of the wh1te race 111
keeping with demands of powerful
but invisible world planners
who pull"the strings which control
the actions of their puppets all
over the world.
This asinine and deplorable
action of the Presbyterians was
taken in spite of a warning by Rev.
John R. Wallace of Memphis,
Tennessee, that it would completely
. disrupt the churches in the
South. "You are not going to bene~
fit the church by forcing this issue"
Rev. Wallace warned. "When you
open the doors of the church to
Negroes, white people will go out
the other door."
However, the Union Theological
Seminary which turns out Com·
munists and Communist sympathizers
each year with assembly
line precision and quantity, had its
representatives on hand to rail·
road this and similar resolutions
through the body which insured
their passage.
At the same time a big Conference
of Methodists jn Texas and
elsewhere adopted similar resolutions
and fell into line like sheep
being prodded through a dipping
vat but this was expected as the
principles of that once ,great d~·
nomination went down the drain
years ago under massed and unified
assaults by prononents of
Marxism, Leninism, Fabianism and
Oxnamism.
These widespread illustrations of
clerical degeneracy were preceded
by years of spadework and demon·
strate forcefully and tragically, the
undi-eamed of power of organized
and directed propaganda and its
assurance·-of ultimate success .no
matter what its filthy objectives
may be.
If, for instance, every two, four
and six xears during the past two
decades American voters had gone
to the polls and elected honorable,
high-principled and patriotic leaders,
instead of those who consorted
with subversive aliens , covered
up for Communist spies in our
midst and connived with [oreign
enemies .to destroy our form of
gove'rnmCnt, our schools and our
churches, a different and more
wholesome kind of propaganda
would have been abroad in the
land today.
We would have had the benefit
of a type of propaganda which
would not only h ave k ept our own
institutions in 'tact, but might have
served to convert other nations to
the ways of moral behavior, de·
cent practices and orderly process·
es of government which once prevailed
here.
Legislation for Protection of We'd Hate to Have
Subversives to Be Introduced Jenkins Againist Us
Certain members of the United
States Senate--having found that
it is rather difficult to halt investigating
committees of that body
when they are getting hot on the
trail of Communists in govern·
ment, in the army and defense
plants-are now seeking other
means of making it tough on the
investigators and so(t for the Communists.
Fifteen senators attending- an
unpublicised dinner in Washing~
ton recently made initial plans for
introducing a bill to revamp rules
of committees set up to probe subversion.
Every proposal made in connection
with the measure to change
the rules had to do with protecting
witnesses before such committees
and nothing whatever was plan·
ned for the protection of this coun~
try or the American people against
the dirty rats who hide behind the
Fifth Amendment.
It was proposed t h a t alleged
Communists and fellow travellers
be given proper notice before being
subpoenaed, that he or she be
allowed to make a full statement
which must be included in report
of the hearings, although members
of the committee would be denied
the right to make any statement
about the witness or release any
More and more we are reaching
the conclusion thal Ray Jenkins, counsel
of the Committee which is wasting
McCarthy's time while Stevens
covers up !or the Army, has nn open
mind and is performing with fairness
lo all.
We'd hate to be accused of some
heinous crime such as pushing a poor
widow's dog in lhe creek and have
Jenkins for the prosecuting attorney.
One loo,k at that underslung jaw
and we would probably break down
and plead guilty.
information concerning him for the
information and protection of the
public.
These great statesmen and patri·
ots figuring out proposed changes
in the rules of investigating committees
would also extend to the
witness the right to cross examine
persons of their choosing, the right
to have counsel and the right to,
themselves subpoena witnesses if
they so desire.
Since these brilliant solons are
so deeply concerned in protecting
our enemies, why not just intro~
duce a bill, and go to bat .for it,
making it illegal for any commit~
tee of the Congress to dare question
the activities of those who are
out to destroy the government of
the United States?
Pogo 6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE June, 1954
Is "Voice of America" Program
Prepared By Congenital Idiots?
We do not know how many millions
of dollars are now being taken
from the American taxpayers to keep
the "Voice of America" program going
but we believe that i! the American
people were familiar with the
vulgar and obscene 1naterial which
has gone out over that medium, there
would never be another dollar appropriated
for it.
We have never had any information
that the programs were worked up
by inmates of mental hospitals, but
the product they have turned out for
consumption by foreigners would indicate
that this is the case.
In 1947A8 the Congress appropriated
$27.000,000 in order that the
•·voice o£ America" might be carried
to countries behind the Iron Curtain
to acquaint tbe people there with
American institutions and way o! life.
And here are some excerpts from the
"educntional'' programs we beamed to
them ('Oncerning some of the forty
<'ight states which compose the American
Union:
''Texas is one of nature's disturbing
l"xperimcnts ... New England was
founded by hypocrisy and Texas by
sin ... Texas, individual in everything.
was not conquered by soldiers
nor by pa·icsts . . but by cows with
thcil· respective bulls ... In less than
eighty years the cows, with the help
of the bulls, of course. transformed
Texas into the center of the cattJe
industry ... Turning to Utah, these
nwrons ga,·e this jJiuminating in{OI'·
ma!ion: ''I\Ioses knew where he was
going but the Mormons did not •.•
Brigham Young governed the Mot·mons
for thirty years with an iron
hand, like an absolute emperor ...
Young used to carry a bottle of
whiskey in one pocket and a cut of
chewing tobacco in the other. Two or
three times a day he pulled out the
liquor and tobacco, smelled them and
put them back in his pocket . . .
Jumping then to Alabama, the broadtaster
said: "I do not know whether
I have all the broadcast on Alabama
but I have sufficient to disgust any
one .. , Birmingham was constructed
in a hurry and they have not had
time to improve it .. , In no other
part of the United States has the
colored race struggled and suffered
so much as here , . An oxcart ... is
a symbol ot the spirit of Monlgom-ery
...
All this and much more went out
as "educational" matter to . inform
Iron Curtain country people about
the United States, paid for by money
out of the Federal treasury which
was collected from the people's earnings.
Is it any wonder, with an official
program written by idiots such as
these. that foreigners regard us as
mentally deficient and so incapable
of self-government that they try to
take us over?
Confirmation of all U1e above can
be found in a pamphlet titled "Voice
of Ame"rica" put out by Senator Homrr
E. Capehart o( Indiana, at his own
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Declaration of Principles of
The Southern Conservative
The following Declaration of Principles, published many times
heretofore in the Southern Conservative, will continue to be the policies
of the paper.
Those of us who are responsible for initiating the Southern Con4
servative plead guilty to the char~0 of being hopelessly old-fashioned
as we love our own country with a blind and passionate devotion, above
all others on earth.
We find ourselves without the slightest desire to change our form
of government to conform to foreign ideologies or to attempt to reshape
it in the Soviet mold.
We are convinced that those who fouPdcd this Rcnublic fram"'d the
greatest instrument for the goverPmcnt of men ever devised by human
mind.
We a!>serted in our first edition. and now re-~ffirm. that the
Southern Conservative is not interested in the noliti,.~l rortnnes of anv
man or of any political party and is concerned solely in principles of
government.
In our discussions of State and 1\T:.ltional ic:c::ues. we !>:.h~ll shnw
no more DFtrtiality to the Tycoons of Industry than we shall to the
Czars of Labor.
In fact. we seem to remember that some nf th~ birtqec:t husinec::<:; mPl1
in thP nation teamed uo with labor 11nion r;:tckcteers in nla,·in" hall ·with
the New DE!'al and the Fair Deal when those economic atrocities were
riding the crest.
The courage, integrity anti oatriotic:m which must he commanded
if the RepubHc is to sun·ive will not bP found exrlusively among repre4
sentatives of big business or leaders. of labor unions.
It must be drawn from that va~t PTOUD of avprae:e Americans who
ask nothing of government exreot that it secure them in thPir in;:.lien4
able ri.ght to work, to save and to keep a reasonable share of the fruits
of theil· toil
We are against the domination of government ei1her bv bi_g: bu<.:iness
or hiP' labor and we maintain thai favoritism to either P'roup on the
part of a State or National administration is un-Americ~n. immoral and
a flagrant abuse of power.
Vie acknowledge our indebtednE-ss to the coura.geous and patriotic
Coalition Bloc of sound-thinking Demorrats and Reoublirans in both
Houses of Congress which has prevented Communistic influences from
complete domination of our Federal government.
We are opposed to the reckless sauandering of the taxoavers'
money by incompetent. irresoonsible and improvident public officials
and we contend that 1axes should be levied for purposes o! revenue
only and not to punish the rich, reward the pom·- or redistribute the
wcallh.
We are firmly committed to thC" princiole of States Rights and we
hold that the people of any part of the United States are entitled to
maintain their own social customs and traditions without interference
from politicians seeking votes to perpetuate themselves in power.
We are unequivocally in fayor of Free Enterprise as opoosed to
government ownership of business and insist on the responsibility of
every American to seek to improve his social and economic condition
through initiative. energy and thrift rather than leaning on the arm of
government for support.
\Ve concede to every man the right to work and the opportunity of
profitable employment regardless of whether he does or does not be~
long to a labor union. . '
On the other hand. we claim for the employer the irrevocable
right fo hire and fire his employees without instructions from any
government agency, or intimidation by Federal Police.
We !eel that at this crucial time in history, it is imperative that
newspapers and other groups seeki.ng to influence public opinion should
exert every effort within their power to help preserve our republican
form of government, our Free Enterprise system and the American way
of Ii!e. We shall exert all our energies to that end.
These are the sentiments of the SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE and
although ours may be only one small voice crying in the wilderness,
we will fight for fundamental American principles, as we understand
them, without apology to any man or set of men.
June, 1954 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Page 7
OPEN LETTER TO AMERICAN MOTHERS
In the Korean war our "allies" supplied material to the
enemy and even transported enemy troops. It is up to
mothers of the potential victims in the next "police
action" to demand of Congress that it doesn't happen
again.
most of the fighting in Indochina and the French Foreign Legion is
composed of practically all nationalities except the French.
Any way, American mothers should acquaint themselves with what
went on during the Korean war and maybe they can persuade Congress
to take steps to see that it is not repeated in the one that may be just
ahead.
There are two documents which will give them a liberal education
. on the subject. One of them is Part 2, Hearings before the Permanent
It looks like history is about to be repeated, and that United States Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government
troops may soon be fighting in South Pacific jungles against the same Operations of the United States Senate, Control of Trade with the
savage Communist hordes who killed, captured and tortured American Soviet Bloc. The other is a speech made to the United States Senate on
boys in Korea. May 19, 1954 by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
Woodrow Wilson was elected the seeond time on the sloa:an ''He
kept us out of war" and then plunged us into World War I. Franklin
Roosevelt promised in 1940: "I will never send your boys to 'wah' in a
foreign country" and never stopped until he had provoked Japan to
attack us so we could get into World War II. Harry Truman stepped
into the White House without a cqmpaign so didn't make any promises
but one night following a poker game and over a glass of bourbon, he,
too, ordered American boys to go fight in a country of which most of
them had never even heard.
In those three bloody conflicts more than a million youn!! Americans
were killed, maimed or missing in action. The irony of it all is that
the leaders who involve us in these forei~ squabbles always live to a
ripe old age and are allowed to die in bed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign for president was highlighted
bv the dramatic assertion "I will go to Korea." Nobody knew exactly
what that meant but it sounded good to broken-hearted mothers who
had sons over there. He wenf to Korea. It didn't end the war but a
truCe was arranged which allowed the Chinese Communists time to
strengthen their forces for the next attack which was to be Indochina.
Indochina is a French Colony where fighting and revolts have been
going on for a thousand years or more. The Indochinese are only making
half-hearted resistance to the Chinese Communists because they can't
see murh difference between being ruled by the French or the Communists.
Indo!~nf~r~~f~fr~r~ir':t~r~e~~~~eh;/:s h!~a~l:'c~e~0~1~iyi~!r;e~:~o ~ro
hated war, and second. we had the protection of the great United
Nations whose job is to keep us out of war.
Also we were assured, until just recently, by high officials in
Washinf.{ton that American troops would not be sent to Indochina and
that only "technical" assistance would be given them. Now we are not
so sure.
Presidential advisers are reported in the press to have under consideration
the printing of twenty million ration books and billions of
coupons. Ration books are not used except in case of war. The United
Press reported that the administration had Set April 28 as a tentative
date on which to launch an air attack in Indochina, but it was called
off because England did not approve it.
The Pentagon has submitted a compulsory military training program
to the president which he is now studying and which was surrounded
with a heavy veil of secrecy until the Chicago Tribune, through
one of its correspondents, made the details of this program known to
the American people.
This confidential 8-year plan or program for universal military
training was thought up partly by Arthur S. Flemming, referred to
elsewhere in these columns, and who is noW Defense Mobilization Director.
H-e combined Pentagon ideas with his own into one master plan
of compulsory military training, a program which Congress has repudiated.
Under this plan as submitted to the White House the current draft
would be continued for youths eighteen years old through twenty-five
for a two-year period. After draftees finish active duty, they would be
compelled by law to report to a reserve outfit for regular training
drills for six years more. Some youths would be picked under a modified
UMT system to take four month's training and then be compelled by
law to serve the rest of their eight-year period. Two reserve systems
would be established-one with younger men for a combat-ready force
that could be called out quickly and the other of older men to be called
only in national emergency.
So it looks like it is gradually shaping up for us to send our young
boys to fight France's war for them-a war which France seems not
too anxious to fight for herself. The French Foreign Legion is doing
From ':i~her t~ey wi~ learn, through sworn testimony, that a
hund~ed Bnbs.h shipS durmg the_ Kore.an war were busily engaged in
carryi_ng suppl~es to the ~o!flmumst Chmese who were not only killing
Amencan soldiers but Bnhsh troops. They will find it hard to believe,
but they will learn also that British-owned ships were even used to
transport Communist troops from one point to another thereby putting
these Comm_unist troops in better position to kill England's own soldiers,
to say nothmg of those of the United States and such allies as were
fighting in Korea.
On page 132 of the government document referred to above
"Control of Trade with the Soviet Bloc" Senator McClellan of Arkansas
is quoted as remarki.ng, ~fter hearing this sworn testimony, "I have
never heard of anythmg hke that in the world before."
. In ad.dition t~ Britain, the report shows that our following "allies"
1n th.e Umt.ed Nati?ns had ships who were carrying on trade with Com-
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6 shi.ps; Norway, 13 ships_; India, 2 ships; Honduras, 1 ship; Philippines,
1 ship, and Sweden, 2 ships.
Of course all these "allies" claimed that their ships were only
car.r~ing "non-strategic" material to Communist China, even though
officials of the Defense Department testified that there is no such thing
as "non-strategic" materials and that anything that went to the enemy
during the war aided the war potential of the enemy.
Also, it was shown in sworn testimony that one ship whose cargo
was listed on its charter as "fertilizer" got out in the middle of the ocean
and exploded blowing the ship sky-high. Fertilizer may do a lot of
things but at least it doesn't explode, so it is anybody's guess what that
particular ship was transporting, since the ones who were running the
boat are not around to answer questions.
Incid~ntally. this trade between our "allies" and Communist China
is continuing and in many instances, increasin~ since the Chinese want
to build up a stockpile for their next go-round with us.
Senator McCarthy, in his speech to the United States Senate on
May 19th, pointed all this out -in an address covering nine pages of the
Congressional record.
He pled for the passage of legislation that would stop all American
aid to countries who continue to supply Communist China with material
for use in her fight against the Western world and pointed out that the
outcome might well decree the death or insure the life of our free
civilization.
So far Congress has done nothing about it and the White House's
reply to a plea for a stoppage of this blood trade with the enemy
issued through the State Department, was as follows: "This proposai
would be a kind of blacklisting operation aimed at penalizing foreign
ship operators in order to accomplish a control objective."
Those who doubt that this fantastic line of reasoning could possibly
be employed by our top-flight leaders may find it on page 6454 of the
Congressional Record for May 19, 1954.
Our advice to the mothers of sons who may be called on to pay the
supreme penalty for the tragic errors of weak, vacillating and incompetent
leaders, is that they demand of their Congressman and Senators that
legislation be passed which will insure that American taxpayers' money
is not employed in the support of countries whose ships are used to
carry supplies to Communist China so that she may more effectively
murder American boys.
It is bad enough when young boys of an impressionable age are
snatched out of their homes and put into the army, regimented, indoctrinated
and forced to submit to humiliating racial associations.
When their parents are required to pay taxes to support the enemy
these boys have to fight, it would seem to be just a Jittle bit too much.
Page 8 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE June, 1954
Trust Members of
Congress but Always
Keep an Eye on Them
American Economy Has Suffered Devasting The Pentagon Is About As
Blows At The Hands of Our Public Servants Dangerous As the Kremlin
"One wonders if America is
menaced more by Communism
than by militarism; if the Kremlin
is a worse threat 1han the Pentagon;
if those in authority in Wash ..
ington are more anxious for war
and prosperity t h an peace and
plenty" writes J . C. Wells of Ter·
rell, Texas1 in a letter to the Dallas
News.
We have always contended that one
of the strongest factors for keeping
our lawmakers in line and preventing
them from straying away from fundamental
principles is for the taxpayer
to keep close tab on them and communicate
with them often.
We submit a letter written by Mr.
W. P. Bomar, president and general
manager of Bewley Mills of Fort
Worth to his two senators and the
congressman from his district as illustrative
of the intelligent interest
a citizen should lake in the political
behavior of his representatives in
Congress:
"The folks down this way are
getting sick and tired at the lack of
progress in weeding out the old New
and Fair Dealers, who still number
approximately 2,300,000, represent~
ing a reduction of only half a mil~
lion of the two million unneeded
that were on the government teat.
If it is Civil Service behind which
these surplus employees are kept,
Congress certainly has the know~
how, and there should be no loop~
hole in Civil Service which requires
continued employment of those not
needed.
In view of the scandals and widespread
corruption in the Federal
Housing Authority, we suggest that
good Americans give sober thought
to the whole proposition of the
government en~aging in the real
estate business in competition with
private enterprise.
Of course there is no Constitu- .
tional authority whatever for such
a Federal agency in the first place
and Washington ooliticians have
no more right to furnish a citizen
with a house than they have to
supply him with a television set.
an ice cream freezer or a bag of
golf clubs.
In the past twenty years we
have "lend-leased", "foreign~aid~
ed" and plain given away so many
billions of taxpayers' money 1 o
every alien bum with sufficient
energy to reach out a hand and
take it that we have incurred a
national debt of $273.000.000.000.
Meantime, the qualified experts
in spending other people's money
are clamoring for the elimination
of slum areas and their replacement
by modern housing and it is
According to Americans who have
once been members of the inner cir~
cles in the Communist Party, the Communists
are planning, ~.vhen they take
over the United States, to liquidate
all persons over. thirty years of age.
They figure, correctly, that since Communists
have largely controlled the
schools and churches in this count ry
since Russia was recognized in 1933,
many of those under that age will
have been indoctrinated and the balance
can easily be whipped into line.
largely with this type of building
that the FHA concerns itself.
The National Small Business
Men's Association of Evanston,
Illinois, has figured that our national
debt of $273,000.000.000
would build a ten-thousand dollar
home for every family in the
United States except those living
in a comparatively small area on
the Eastern Seaboard.
In other words. if we just had
to follow Karl Marx' advice and
"share the wealth". there was a
better wav to do it. Instead of
shovelit)g -money into foreign rat
holes. thereby building up an indefensible
national debt, we could
have used the money in eliminating
every slum dwelling'. in the
United Stales and replaced it with
a palatial residence.
If the conduct of our national
affairs for the past twetlty-one
years had been entrllsted to mnrons
in mental institutions, the
American economy could have
suffered no more devastating
blows than it has received at the
hands of its officially elected public
servants.
Left-Wing Writer
Bears Us Out
Those ot us who have always op~
posed the United Nations as a world
conspiracy against the United States
often get discouraged but maybe we're
getting somewhere, a[tcr all.
At 'C'a ~t th1s excerpt from the col~
umn oJ 1\ conespondcnt for a chain
o! lc!t-wing papers gives room for
hope:
"Why can't the army trot out
those responsible for the advancement
of the communist, Peress, and
his honorable discharge. We cannot
understand why this army "brass"
has to be covered up. Such an atti~
tude may justify Senator McCarthy's
tactics. Irrespective of his
methods. Senator McCarthy has had
the courage to point out and call
names and places, and a very great
number of the people feel indebted
to him for this service.
A dispatch from Saigon says that " •.. it is unlikely that the UN
"We have House Bill 8193 and
Senate Bill 1766, which support
the old open-door policy of letting
aliens come into this country. Down
this way we feel that the government
has been too lax on letting
foreigners in, and it is time to start
deporting some of these radicals, as
well as taking the unjustified bur~
den o:f unnecessary employment oft.
the neck o! our taxpayers.
"Another hazard hangs over our
heads in the surplus of agricultural
commodities. If our economy is not
to be seriously disrupted, that portion
over and above a normal carryover
must be disposed of outside the
continental boundaries of this coun~
try, even though it is necessary to
dump these excess surpluses into the
sea. The so~called RELIEF program '
was a disruptive dumping debacle.
•·n looks as though the old Roosevelt-
Truman-Dulles team is trying
to get us into war again, and the
folks down this way are certainly
disturbed. It looks as though the
Supreme Court decision on segregation
will eliminate all southern
states froffi supporting the present
administration. Texans realize that
the nine old men, who have been
discredited by the American Bar
and the public who are informed,
have failed to give proper consid~
eration to the South, and it is difficult
to estimate the bitterness,
confusion and strife that will be
engendered by this radical decision.
''The socialistic idea of extending
the high command of Viet Nam has
about decided to "allow" Americans
to come over there and train native
recruits for combat against the Com~
munists. Gosh, but they are bigheart~
ed! That sure is white of them. How
can we ever repay them?
Social Security is unwise, and soon~
er or later will destroy free enter~
prise, which is the basis of our freedom
and progress. Somebody has
to pay the bill, and as you narrow
the number of workers and take
on more drones, you continually
approach the end of the stable gov~
ernment and industry.
"Unemployment com pens a t i o n
has contributed more to the lower~
ing of the general public morale
than any other single factor, except
the New Deal philosophy o!
something for nothing that has
trained four generations of people
that the government owes them a
living. This lowering of morale is
a more serious handicap to our government
than is the national debt
which has reached astronomical
figures .
"We hope and pray that your attitude
in all matters will be ultra
conservative, and that in no in~
stance will you follow the radical,
socialistic policies which are being
submitted in one form or another
by the radical elements of both
parties.
"Our prayers and best wishes at~
tend you at this most critical time."
can recover its prestige. Already it has
thrown away most of the world confidence
it enjoyed when created nine
years ago. About all that is left is its
function as an international forum.
And that has been limited by its refusal
to hear certain cases, as that of
the North Africans against France.
"This UN decline is chiefiy due, of
course, to Soviet sabotage. As the
price of Russian participation, the
organization was emasculated from
the beginning ... "
In Louisville, Kentucky, on May 29,
a group of vandals almost totally
wrecked two Protestant churches and
left a note boasting that they did it
for excitement and stating frankly
that seven others were to be destroyed
in like manner. That was a · horrible
crime and they should be caught and
punished by the full penalty of the
law. At the same time, their crime
was no worse than that of many
ministers who are wrecking the
church at the pulpit level and who
boast that they are doing it in keeping
with the new "social gospel."
The World Federation of United Nations
Association, whatever that is,
has endorsed Communist China as
the proper one to represent China in
the United Nations and to replace
non-Communist Nationalist China in
that World Government body.
"The nation is now enjoying a
11show" that centers around the
question o! whether our lawmakers
are subject to orders from the
big brass; whether a Senate committee
was guilty of lese majesty
when thev invaded the sacred con~
fines of the Pentagon.
"The 30,000 men in the Pentap-
on must show some reason for
their Pmployment and that means
war. When we dwelt in peace with
the rest of thP world. we did not
need the building. much less the
larRe group of Army men. But not
content with brow~beating congressional
committoes and dictating
our forei~tn uolicy. they have
entered the field of domestic affairs.
11They take over a vast acreage
of land and use it for a playground
and have first claim on transporta~
tion facilities. Just now they are
taking active part in the water
conservation proqram. They are
demanding that they, rather than
the Agriculture Department. control
construction of storage for
flood orevcntion and water con~
se~.~~otJ;ink it is ti-me~
are giving thoug;ht io these matters.
One needs only to read the
story of the fall of the Roman Empire
to see what might be the re~
sulls of our present program.''
Millions for Everything so
Long As It's for Foreigners
Our national leaders who bend
over backwards to channel taxpayers'
money into practically every foreign
country on the globe didn't display
any such generosity in the matter ot.
providing funds .for the Reece Committee
of Congress, one of the most
important investigations ever to be
undertaken.
This committee was set up to investigate
tax-exempt Foundations in
the United States. The committee
made a request for $120,000 to fi~
nance its activities but it got a measly
$65,000. I! it had been a request for
funds to conduct research into racial
discrimination against the Ubangis
in French Equatorial Africa, the sky
would have been the limH. Since it
was merely an appropriation to in~
quire into the operations of the most
subversive and dangerous groups in
the United States, the committee was
granted a mere pittance.
Information already developed concerning
these tax-exempt Foundations
prove that they have been subsidiz~
ing subversive movements designed
to spread Socialism throughout the
world for more than two generations.
Send five dollars for a subscription
to the Southern Conservative !or
yourself and one other, for one year.
703 Flatiron Building, Fort Worth,
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