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THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE -To Plead for a Return of Constitutional Government-
Vol. II FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MAY, 1960 No. S
Washington _ Has Swapped the American
Constitution for the Marx Manifesto
THE TRAGEDY OF KOREA ADDS ANOTHER
CHAPTER TO OUR SICKENING RECORD
The full story of the fall of Korea is not available because of the
restricted and slanted nature of all information furnished by regular
communications media and because Washington "diplomats" don't let
the people in on the tricky little games they play. The full facts will be
revealed only after determined American patriots have dug them out
one by one.
Meantime, Syngman Rhee, one of this country's good fri ends and
a dedicated anti-Communist has been forced out of office and his downfall
has been approved by the State Depar tment and by administration
sentiment in Washington. This leaves us with the unbroken and sickening
record of invariably taking sides with pro-Communist forces in any
conflict involving the advance of the Soviet menace.
For any human with half a brain cell knows that the uprising of
college students in Korea was generated from Moscow just as each and
every similar demonstration on a university campus anywhere in the
world is inspired and directed by Soviet strategy.
Our alleged excuse for turning against Rhee was, of all things,
because of a rigged election in that country in which it was cha rged
that ballot boxes were stuffed in the case of vice presidential candidate
Lee Ki-Poong, protege of Rhee, and who committed suicide after the
abdication of Rhee, along with his entire family.
Since when have we become so self-righteous about crooked elections?
And how much static do we get from the State Department oyer
elections involving United States Senators who achieve their high office
by means of stuffed ballot boxes?
In this country when a candidate maneuvers his way into high
office by means of dead men's ballots and gets caught in the act, he
does not commit suicide in shame and atonement for his crime. He just
laughs it off and runs for President.
So why should we get virtuous and go overboard because an elec4
tion in Korea was not "free"? And why, in view of this lordly attitude,
should the President of the United States agree to make a friendly visit to
Russia where any one even suggesting a "free" election would be lined up
against the wail and shot? Or to Paris to take part in a diplomatic
crap game where the dice are loaded in favor of Khrushchev, the world's
most deadly opponent of "free" elections?
The whole situation in Korea smells to high heaven and makes
thoughtful Americans wonder if the last remaining anti-Communist
head of an Asian State, Chiang Kai-Shek, is also slated for the skids
and if Formosa, too, in the immortal words of Owen Lattimore, will be
allowed to fall to the Communists without letting it be known that
she was pushed.
House investigators in Washington
have revealed that the Army
has squandered $100,000 by shipping
30,000 foot lockers to an air
base in Germany which had only
ordered 300. Congressman Jamie
L. Whitten of Mississippi revealed
this inexcusable blunder to his colleagues
in the House but the fact
that Army bureaucrats had accidentaly
added a couple of ciphers
to the order didn't create a ripple
among the lawmakers who are
used to seeing billions of dollars
thrown away without lifting an
eyebrow. After all, what is a measly
$100,000 of taxpayers' money to
slap-happy spenders in Congress?
To politicians in the Executive
and Legislative departments of the
Federal Government: "Your actions
indicate that you are firmly convinced
that the funds which are
supposed to be-but are not-reposing
in the Federal Treasury in
Washington belong to you. Well,
we have news for you, little buddies.
This money is not yours. It
belongs to the taxpayers who
sweated to earn it and from whom
it has been legally extorted. So
why don't you try and keep your
little hot hands off of it except for
the actual expenses of administering
legitimate functions of government
as authorized by the Consti4
tution?
The oath to uphold the Constitution taken by those elected
or appointed to Qffice in the Executive, Legislative or
Judicial branches of the Federal government is now
nothing but hollow mockery. It is no longer considered
binding on our public servants the majority of whom
are convinced that they have outgrown the basic docu·
ment on which this great Republic was founded. A careful
and unbiased review of official actions of the White
House, the Congress and the Supreme Court will reveal
that the Constitution is currently relegated to the ignoble
status of "an outworn relic of horse and buggy
days" to which a former President consigned it. In its
place stands Karl Marx' Manifesto which serves as the
lodestar pointing the way for executive agreements,
legislative action and judicial decisions which control
the destiny <!f 180,000,000 sovereign citizens whose
ancestors shed their blood to insure them the rights and
freedoms which are being taken away and to g uard
against the tragic fate of a Collectivist State such a s
that under which they now exist,
A half century ago when the notorious Socialist, Eugene V. Debs,
was in his prime the philosophy of government for which he stood was
the brunt of endless jokes and represented the lowest type of ideological
thinking of which the human mind was capable. ·
The political degenerates who clustered around him and who plugged
for government control of industry, regulation of hours and wages, redistribution
of the wealth of the nation, confiscation of private property
through graduated tax levies, social security of the individual through a
dole from the Federal government, social equality of the races through
forced integration and all the other insidious proposals of the warped and
twisted mind of Karl Marx, were held in such universal contempt that
their public activities were restricted to the Lower East Side of New York.
In this disreputable area these ideological bums were permitted to
mount a soap box and spout forth their foul proposals for a vile system
of government in which the individual would become a mere cog in the
vast machinery of State and a powerful centralized government would
supervise and regulate the most intimate and personal affairs of the
citizen just as a shepherd watches and directs the movements of his flock.
Today, to the eternal shame of the American people and those they
have -sent to Washington to represent them, every major policy of government
which Eugene V. Debs preached from his soap box in the slums
of New York has become the "law of the land" either through executive
decree, legislative enactment or judicial ruling.
First we laughed at his depraved theories of government and held
them up to scorn but finally we embraced them lock, stock and barrel
and now this once free Republic is as much a Welfare State as early-day
Socialists ever envisioned in their wildest dream of a Marxian Paradise.
What we have ignored or forgotten is that the men who set up the
American Republic were capable, foresighted and understanding patriots
who had well defined ideas of principles, policies and theories of govern·
ment which, if followed, would keep this nation from going on the rocks.
Their conception of representative government was one in which
the power of its rulers was held to the minimum, where the rights of
private property and freedoms of the individual were of foremost con·
sideration and where the authority of the sovereign States over the
central governing body was supreme.
This shining ideal of a perfect system of government has been rudely
shattered by men of Lilliputian intellect who have predominated in Con·
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Million£ of Americans Think It-The Southern Conservative Says It
Page 2 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
REPUBLICANS DECIDE CIVIL RIGHTS NOT
SUCH A HOT CAMPAIGN ISSUE AFTER ALL
The right-about-face of the President, the Vice President and other
leading RepubJicans on the Civil Rights issue and the decision to write
a "moderate" plank on the subject at the Chicago convention is reported
to have resulted from some down-to-earth conferences between party
leaders recently.
At these conferences, those who shape policy are said to have
faced up to the fact that ambitious partisans of Civil Rights may have
gone too far in their scramble for votes and have contributed to Negro
uprisings not only in the United States but in Africa where the alarming
situation threatens to boomerang against extremist integrationists in the
United States.
Even the Attorney General whose rabid championship of Negro
rights and his total disregard of equal rghts for members of the White
race has been evident in aU his pronouncements, is claimed to have
softened his attitude and to have agreed that a toning down of formerly
vigorous demands made by party leaders for concessions to Negro voters
was necessary for success at the po1ls this Fall. He is quoted in an
Associated Press article on May 3rd as having advised the Vice President
to retreat from the position in which Nixon favored Civil Rights injunctions
in other than voting rights cases, a demand which it was planned
to include in the Chicago Convention platform.
This alleged reversal of position may or may not have come too
late, not necessarily in connection with Republican victory in the United
States, but in the world picture where a conflagration on racial hatred
has been started which will not be easily extinguished and where millions
of Negroes are on the warpath against Whites who are greatly in
the minority in the world's population.
The fountain-head of a11 this agitation and discontent was the Congress
of the United States where hot-headed partisans of presidential
aspirants went so far overboard in their mad race for the colored vote
that they not only were willing to rip the Constitution to shreds btlt did
not hesitate to down-grade and discredit millions of White Southerners
whom they pictured to the blacks all over the world as deadly enemies of
colored people determined to suppress all their human rights and crush
them to earth.
Having watched these evil manipulations of short-sighted demagogues
with alarmed apprehension, we are glad to see them now forced
to consume hearty dishes of crow.
Open Rebellion Against Law And_ Order
Aided And Abetted By Television Network
On Sunday, April 10, American television viewers witnessed one
of the most amazing and unbelievable spectacles ever presented in the
short history of that i~dustry.
It was the Chet Huntley program where Mr. Huntley, without comment,
reproduced the proceedings at Kentucky State College for Negroes
in which a Negro teacher, Len Holt, and obviously a trained revolutionary,
instructed the pupils in that institution step by step in taking over
private property by force although warning them to refrain from violence.
He drilled them carefully on going into segregated lunch rooms and
taking over. It was a cold-blooded example of defiance of law and
order and open inciting of rebellion against established law of the Sovereign
States and of the Constitutional guarantee of the right of the people
to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure.
Not only did this Negro man openly advocate and instruct his pupils
in violation of law but the National Broadcasting Company lent dignity
to his defiance of recognized authority by giving nation-wide publicity
to his instructions to his pupils in civil disobedence.
Outraged citizens throughout the country have protested, we understand,
to many officals including members of the United States Senate
and House, the Governor and Attorney General of Kentucky and local
officials at Frankfort, without avail.
We wrote to the Chief of Police in the Kentucky capital to inquire
if any arrests were made in connection with the matter and enclosed
postage for reply but received no answer.
Once again, we make the point that such open rebellion against law
and order would only be tolerated in the case of those whose skin is
black. If a white teacher boldly and openly incited students to violate
the law in the interest of maintaining segregation, not only would he
have been arrested but Federal officials in Washington would no doubt
have swooped down on the area to investigate the Civil Rights angle of
the affair.
The American people face the
prospect of having a Negro, William
Clayton Powell of New York
as Chairman of the Labor Committee
of Congress in 1961, because
of seniority. Powell has threatened
that there will be "some changes
made" when he assumes this position.
In Houston irate housewives rebelled
against a Negro census taker
who was sent into a white neigh·
borhood (according to the Houston
Chronicle) and refused to answer
the questionnaires. One woman
chased him off her front porch
with an axe and order was restored
only after the census supervisor
withdrew the Negro and apolo·
gized for the indignity.
THE MORE MONEY WE GIVE THEM
THE MORE THEY DESPISE US
Since the end of World War II,
the United States has given away
an amount variously estimated at
from $45,000,000,000.00 to $75,-
000, 000, 000.00 in the attempt to
"contain Communism" and buy
friends for this country. There is
no way to pinpoint the exact
amount for such information is not
furnished to taxpayers. They're
just supposed to furnish the money
and not ask questions.
At any rate, how successfully
this program to purchase friends
has turned out is revealed in headlines
of newspapers which proclaim
to the world that the United States
was blasted in both hemispheres
on May Day and on both sides of
the Iron Curtain including countries
into which Washington politicians
have poured a stream of
American money.
Every American adult, except
those in the executive and legislative
branches of the Federal govrnment,
knows that friendship cannot
be bought with money but until,
and unless, the White House
and the Congress are swept clean
of One-Worlders and Internationalists,
this criminal squandering of
the people's substance will not be
halted.
Believe it or not, this is an ex·
cerpt from. the President's recent
message to Congress: "We must resist
the temptation, this year or
any year, to over-spend the taxpay ..
er's hard-earned dollars and over ..
centralize responsibilities in the
federal government. If we fail this,
we will weaken our hope of ever
controlling federal extravagance
and will indefinitely postpone debt
retirement and tax relief. At the
same time we will debase our cur·
rency, invite the resurgence of fn ..
flationary forces , undermine local
and state responsibility, and thus
erode away America's strength at
home and in the world." Ye gods!
How could he say that with a
straight face?
From a woman subscriber in
Florida: "I still can"t think of your
column on census questions in the
April edition without going into
hysterics. It is the cleverest take ..
off on Federal meddling that I have
ever read."
which we purport to have purchased
with billions of dollars turns out
to be contempt and scorn for our
weakness in robbing our own people
for the benefit of alien countries
who would not turn a hand in our
behalf in a showdown.
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gress since 1933 and who, in spite of their scornful jeers about •'horse
a.nd buggy days" have set rea1 progress of the American Republic back
f1fty years through the adoption of oolicies of government which all
thinking Americans rejected when Debs proclaimed them a half century
ago.
. A~cordingly, .from a nation where laws were once framed and poll ..
ctes Iatd clown wh1ch put a premium on initiative, ambition and thrift, we
have sunk to the low status of a Welfare State committed not to the
encouragement of the strong but to the protection of the weak. We have
~~~~~es~~=~:l i:~~~sm:~~:r: a~~v~~v~f ~~~':;~ :~~n ~e i~~~~p~:e~;
Treasury to beggars from all over the world.
. The only hope for a transition from a Welfare State back to ConstitutiOnal
Government lies in the elemental force of public opinion backed
by d.eterm.ined action on the part of taxpayers who are called on to meet
~~~~~stt~~~~~~is~n:o~eer~%-ee~t~ing financial demands of a depraved and
.And the people can't put much dependence on the election of a
~restdent as a relief measure because the cards are stacked against them
~n that de~l. As the matter now stands, we will have another Socialist
m the W~1te House unless a political miracle is brought about by the
~~~~s:~~~~v~~~ a remote chance to throw the electiOn in the House of
. Othery.rise, with a Modem Republican Socialist or a Fair Deal Social·
~!;~t~~~~dt~:t· ~~h~es~%e g~dci~~~~in;r~fe~i~nf ~e c~a:J~~:d~ :'~Jt~~
~~~~~i~~~d~;~.Ieves otherwise has all the earmarks of a full fledged
One-t~ird of the Senate and all Congressmen are elected every two
yea:s ~nd 1f every taxpaying citizen in this country who is fed up with
~c~~~~mc~a~~~s g!~~~~gh enough with his representatives, there would
In other words, Congress is the Court of Last Resort and since the
taxpavers .are the masters of their public servants, it's up to them.
shut lJ;,~ time has come fo~ responsible American voters to put up or
that ;~~~;;o~; ~~~~~~~~:~J~~~J:~:;,r y~e:.~~o~~~ ~r:nd' th~ w-~~ec;~~~!
~~~i~~i h'r~r:t ~;~:~t PeJ~~~~~~. you will personal1y get out and work
ernm~~/"l,";;; ~~~.b~ ~~~~~g~h~=b~~~~ ~~d~~~~. .: ,;~ntal principles of gov•
May, 1960 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Pago l
When Put To The Test 'Brotherhood'
Blows Up Like A Punctured Balloon
Several years ago when the "bra~
therhood" racket was being set up
and national councils of this, that
and the other were being formed,
preachers, priests and rabbis were
constantly breaking into print with
their arms around each other proclaiming
eternal unity and the end
of intolerance and bigotry in re~
lfgious matters.
With characteristic pessimism,
we wrote several editorials on the
subject at the time in none of
which we displayed any confidence
In or respect for the project, -because
we recognized the whole
movement as propaganda and knew
that there was not an ounce of sincerity
involved in the proceeding.
,We realized that it was just another
angle . of extreme "liberalism'! invented
for the purpose of advanc~
lng left-wing and pro-Communist
causes.
It there had been any genuine
Interest or concern in actually pro~
rooting 41human brotherhood' be~
tween three different religious
groups, the promoters of such ob~
jective would have left each other
alone and merely been content to
respect each other's views without
feeling called upon to get together
in one organization, and make a
Federal case out of "Brotherly
Love."
We predicted at the time that
this unnatural alliance would prob~
ably last until some Catholic became
a serious contender for the
office of President of the United
States at which time the whole
thing would blow up and "brotherhood"
would be knocked into a
cocked hat.
That is just exactly what is hap~
pening now and we don't see any
more pictures demonstrating the
closely knit ties between differing
religious leaders. Instead, there is
scarcely a day that passes when
some Protestant group does not
break out with a warning of the
danger to the security of the United
States if a Catholic should be elected
President. They have forgot~
ten all about their solemn promise
concerning the end of "intolerance
and bigotry in religious matters."
We are not for Kennedy either
and we would not vote for him if
he were the only man in the race
but our opposition has nothing to
do with his religion. That is his
personal business. We are opposed
to him because he is a one-world~
er, a•Socialist, an integrationist and
just an all-around undesirable .so
~~r ::e t:~l P~~~~dr~11 %.!; ~~~~i:n~~
for the office.
So, therefore. our reference to
the matter of a "brotherhood"
movement which broke down at
the first test of its strength, is not
Jn any way involved in a defense
of a Catholic candidate but is mere~
ly intended to prove that we were
not fooled by all the protestations
of devotion between three groups
who had nothing in common except
a desire to promote the Marxist
cause.
Put another way, we are perhaps
unable to resist the temotation, woman-
like, to say "I told you so."
The vote in West Virginia is a refreshin~
exception but underground
attacks on Kennedy because of his
religion have not ·abated in the
least. "Human Brotherhood" is still
for propaganda purposes only.
THE LESS THEY KNOW
THE MORE THEY TALK
The infighting and dissension
within the Fair Deal Party cbn~
tinues with unabated force and perhaps
it is just as well. When it
has clobbered itself out of existence,
perhaps the Party of Jefferson
and Jackson wili emerge again
and the principles abandoned dur~
ing the Roosevelt regime be restored.
Out in Seattle, Washington, recently
more than six hundred of
the more ferocious type of party
leaders got together and declared
war on Southern Democrats, the
only respectable and responsible
element still left in that embattled
clan.
They wrote an amendment to
their County platform "disavow~
ing - politically, organizationally
and otherwise - those members
of Congress who have prevented
the enforcement of the 14th and
15th amendments to the United
States Constitution."
According to press reports the
amendment was put through by a
cocky little character named Cal~
vin Harris who, when asked by
newsmen if the amendment was
aimed at Southern Democrats, replied:
"That is right. And it also
is aimed at all other elements
which have fought to hold back effective
civil rights legislation."
Conditions in the State of Washington
are typical of those in all
areas where politicians attempt to
settle a problem they know nothing
about. and which does not con~
cern them.
The population of Washington
State is, or was at the last census,
2.378.680 of which only 30,691 are
Negroes.
And so, with a colored population
of less than 1.3%. these insufferable
egotists feel themselves
thoroughly qualified to dictate to
the people of Mississippi, for in~
stance, where the Negro population
is almost fifty per cent.
We've only a few anti-Communist
dictators left in the world including
Trujillo of the Dominican
Republic. Franco of Spain and Salazar
of Portugal whom American
Liberals wi11 have to get rid of before
they've cleared the deck. It wm
be interesting to watch for the next
student uprising in those countries
since half-baked. wet-behind-theears
adolescents seem to be running
things.
The racial violence all over the
world and especially the unprecedented
crime wave in the United
States by Negroes including murder,
rape and robbery of unprotected
White people has apparently
slowed down integration activity
to such an extent that even the
Methodists. of all people. took a
"moderate" attitude on the subject
at their annual gathering in
Denver.
SERIOUS CHARGES WHICH DEMAND
IMMEDIATE AND FORTHRIGHT ACTION
Scandal Is Routine And Has
Lost Its Power To Shock
It all American citizens knew all
there is to know about the foreign
aid program in which the government
of the United States is engaged,
there would be a scandal
that would shake the nation, in the
opinion of Judge M. T. Phelps,
member of the Arizona State Supreme
Court.
In speeches to civic groups in
Arizona and surrounding States,
Judge Phelps, who has had 38 years
of distinguished service as a jurist,
bitterly criticizes the policies which
we have adopted with regard to
the support of other nations and
which he declares are clearly un~
Constitutional.
Judge Phelps describes the
United Nations as a dK-ect result
of a Communist conspiracy against
this country and charges that it
was formed to bring the United
States into the orbit of One-World
government.
The eminent jurist is one hundred
per cent right in his conclu~
sions but we think he errs in believing
that full information about
foreign aid could cause a national
scandal.
A large segment of the American
people have been so thoroughly
brainwashed for the past twenty~
five years that they wouldn't know
a scandal if they met it head-on.
The fact is that an amazing amount
of proceedings by our elected officials
in Washington constitute
scandal as it was once known. The
foreign aid program is only one
instance of the scandalous projects
which are prosecuted in the name
of "peace" and the "containment
of Communism."
If these Americans were given
documented and factual data on
the thievery, graft and corruption
which attends foreign aid. they
would probably just yawn, turn
over and go back to sleep.
In fact, there is reason to be~
Iieve that if Washington politicians
decided to remove the Capitol from
its foundations and make a present
of it to Khrushchev and deliver it
with all transportation charges
paid to Moscow, many taxpaying
suckers would accept it without a
murmur.
The Fifth Column in the United
States has done its job thoroughly
and well.
From a retired business executive
in Burbank, California: "Your
method of expression is without
equal."
Becau~ of continued requests in
the matter, we want to say again
that. because of the nature of our
publication, we do not accept advertising
of any kind or under any
condition. We appreciate the fact
that many of our readers desire
space in the paper but we think it
inadvisable to accept their offer
of advertising.
When Defense Secretary Gates
cowered in fear before National
Council of Churches officials in the
matter of the Air Force manual
which charged that Communists
had infiltrated NCC and ordered
that publication re-written, it was
not the first time Gates had offer4
ed aid and comfort to the Commun~
ist conspiracy.
This was the claim of Captain
Robert A_ Winston. United States
Navy, retired, author of "The Pentagon
Case'", a book which afforded
readers some shocking disclos~
ures about what goes on in the
five-pointed edifice along the banks
of the Potomac.
Captain Winston made public a
letter he had written Senator
James 0. Eastland, chairman of a
sub-committee to investigate Com~
munist infiltration of the Pentagon.
In this letter he told the subcommittee
chairman that following
his disclosures of Communist
infiltration of the national defense
set-up he was fired by an assistant
secretary of Defense on Gates' or~
ders.
"As you know T refused to resign
and requested an opportunity
to hear the charges against me,
directly from my accusers," Captain
Winston wrote. "As I later testified,
my request was disregarded;
and after an official report on
Communist infiltration in the Pentagon
prepared by me in line of
duty was handed back to me by
the Navy's Inspector General, I
submitted a copy of this report to
your Committee."
Captain Winston asserted that. as
a result of his testimony before
the Eastland Committee, Secretary
Gates attempted unsuccessfutly to
railroad him into the mental ward
of Bethesda Naval hospital.
The Naval Captain now asks, as
a matter of justice that Senator
Eastland make his testimony be~
fore the subcommittee oublic in order
that all evidence in the casP
be brought out into the open and
either confirmed or disproved.
This is certainly a reasonablr
and fair request and one which
would definitely seem to be in the
oublic interest and certainlv the
least Senator F::tstland can do is
to honor it and hrin~ the whole
matter out into the light of day
Washington is reputed to be the
locale of many sunorec:;sed scandals
which would make those of the
Harding administration fade into
insignificance and a good way to
scotch these rumors of scandals
and misdeeds is to act on them at
once and not wait until bigger
ones build up.
All over the world. the "student"·
movement is taking hold and ado·
lescents are overthrowing govern.
ments right and left. Surely no ont
is so stupid that he does not see
the significance in these mass dem
onstrations. There is a central heaC
directing this agitation and tha
central head is World Communism
Korea, Turkey and the sit-in strike
in the South are examples of Corr
munist strategy.
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against the storm.
THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES:
THE PUNITIVE POWER Of
OUR TAXING SYSTEM
Here is just one small insignificant
instance of how the Federal
taxing policies of this country are
instrumental in putting small concerns
out of business.
This particular "business" is a
night club but that is a legi~imate
activity operating under a llcense
and complying with the law and
the principle involved is the same
as if it were engaged in the manufacture
of tooth pas-te.
The club is located in a small
city in a Western State and the
fo llowing letter received by us
from a man who operated it (and
who, incidentally, is a good citizen
and a sound Conservative) explains
the situation:
"I was half owner of a prosperous
night club until the Internal
Revenue Service, after a lapse of
eight years. put a tax lien on the
place for 'back cabaret taxes' (a
wartime excise tax) for $17,000.
So I have made up my mind that if
I am going to work far the Federal
government, I am going to get on
the pavroll. I never complained
about the Income Tax or any other
tax so long as it was reasonable.
But now I've had it and I've given
my interest to my partner."
And so another victory is scored
for the Marxists who are out to
put all American Free Enterprise
projects, from nie:ht clubs to tex·
ti le manufacturers, out of business
through the medinm of confiscatory
tax legislation.
ln Nashville, Tennessee. three
thousands Negroes marched on the
City Hall following the wrecking
of a colored council man's home
by a bomb.
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE May, 1960
Chessman To Be The 'Hero' San Antonio Citizen Brings Up Subject
In Proposed Motion Picture Many Texans Would Prefer To Forget
It was a pretty sorry sight when
movie and television stars, college
students, professors, psychiatrists
and other queer remnants of hu~
man society huddled around the
gates of San Quentin on the night
before the execution of Caryl
Chessman. They were chanting,
singing hymns and demanding
clemency for the "criminal although
there was no record
that any of them had express~
ed any concern whatever for
the pitiable plight of Chessman's
victims.
The incident points up the perverted
morals of a large segment
of American society, a segment
which is unfortunately in position
to wield powerful influence on the
youth of the nation through their
professional activities.
In the press release telling of
this psychotic behavior, it was an~
nounced that one of Hollywood's
odd characters who was present,
Marlon Branda, then and there declared
hi~ intention of making a
movie of the Chessman case in
which he, himself, will appear.'
Obviously Chessman will be por~
trayed as a hero of the movie pro~
duction which means that, follow~
ing such abnormal and distorted
reasoning, the victims of this vicious
sex criminal will be depicted
as the villains.
This is the type of thinking which
permeates an industry which is
charged with the responsibility of
providing the entertainment, relax ~
ation and-if you please-the " ed~
ucation" of the normal American
public.
'IS tT TRIJE WHAT THEY
SAY ABOUT DIXIE?'
The Montana Constitutional
Conservative Movement with head·
cuarters in Billings, an aggressive
patriotic group of alert Americans,
Possibly on the theory that all's
fair in love, war - and politi?s -
a San Antonio citizen has published
a copyrighted brochure titled ~"The
Story of Ballot Box No. 13."
The author is a Mr. Clyde Wantland
of the Alamo city, who without
frills or furbelows, tells the simple,
miserable and sordid story of
the first election of the Honorable
Lyndon- B. Johnson of Texas to the
United States Senate.
Reprints from 11ewspapers of the
time and photostats of official doc~
uments involved are reproduced
and while there is little comment
by the author, nothing much in the
way of documentary evidence
seems to have been omitted.
We do not know what purpose is
to be served by the publication of
the gruesome facts at this late
date unless, as is rumored, the publication
is to be widely distributed
at the National Democratic Convention
in Los Angeles in July, in
~which event it can possibly serve
as background information on a
candidate for President and about
whom those in doubt may want
additional data.
Back in 1948 when it happened
the affair of the stuffed ballot boxes
in the political domain of a notori~
ous South Texas political boss,
which enabled Johnson to take pas~
session of an office to which his
opponent was claimed to be legally
elected, c reated sta tewide criti~
cism and resentment and there was
talk of legislation to prevent simi~
Jar occurrences in future.
But that's been a long time ago
and human memory is short. The
general consensus of opinion on the
subject in the State now seems to
be summed up in this conclusion;
"If he could get away with it,
more power to him."
is optimistic over recent sugges~ From "An Admiring Yankee" in
tions from authoritative sources Washington, D.C.: .. Just been readthat
the South may be able to throw ing your Aoril edition which seems
the Presidential election into the meatier and juicier and more worth
House of Representatives there- while than usual. Congratulations.
by electing the nation's next Chief May God bless, keep and strength-
Executive. en you."
"If it's true what they say about· -------
Dixie, every Northern Conserva~
tive is with you." say~ Kay Hines,
executive secretary of the organ i~
zation.
"Uo here we feel the tide is turning.
The Socialist experiments of
the government have proved costly
faliures and the patience of grass
roots Americans is running out.
"If the South Is successful in
carrying out their great plan, it
will restore our original representative
form of government as a Republic.'.'
Mr. E. H. Conrad of the West
Central Minnesota Disabled American
Veterans, Inc., thinks that there
are some questions omitted from
the census questionnaire which
should have been included. Such
as, Where were you born? Did you
or your parents kill Christians in
Russia? Did you enter this country
illegally? If so, do you vote in our
elections? If you were called for
service to defend this nation would
you want to serve in a combat unit
or in a unit where there would be
no danger to you?
Dallas school authorities have
called an election on integration
but propose, in the event of ad~
verse results, to begin integration
of their schools in 1961 in the pri~
mary grades which will make help~
less little children the victims,
rather than teenagers who would
be expected to resent the indignity.
This cowardly procedure would
make the issue of integration a
contest between nine old men on
the Supreme Court and millionc; of
little children iust right out of kindergarten
in the South.
Press reports from London say
that because of the Welfare State
there which offers inducements to
unwed mothers illegitimacy in the
British Isles is increasing by leaps
and bounds. One child in every
ten born in London is illegitimate,
the report states, and the number
is growing each year. English females,
like many in the United
States, have found that an easy
way to make a living is to produce
babies to be supported by the
State.
We have learned of a private
meeting of Sam Rayburn and Lyn~
don Johnson in Washington recently
with a group of professional
men for the purpose of explaining
why they are plugging for another
Socialized Medicine bill to take the
place of the Forand measure which
is stalled in committee. They could
not afford, they claimed, to let the
Republicans take the ball away
from the Democrats with Eisenhower's
proposal for providing
medical care to age groups over
sixty-five, and were forced to retaliate
by coming up with a similar
proposal of their own. Isn't. that
statesmanship and what a basts for
legislation for which every Ameri~
can must provide the finances?
"Be it resolved that the House
of Delegates of the Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons,
Inc., in regular session assembled
in Chicago, Illinois, this the 23rd
day of April, 1960, expresses emphatic
opposition to the proposed
'Summit' meeting with Khrushchev
in May and to any other confer~
ences of this type because Com~
munist morality teaches that any
agreement reached should be
broken if by so doing the cause of
International Communism will be
advanced."
Discussing the large ta.'<-exempt
Foundations and their contribution
to World Socialism, Hon. B. Car~
roll Reece, Congressman from !ennessee
who headed the Commtttee
which investigated these Founda~
tions some years ago, takes a very
charitable view concerning them,
in our ooinion. He deplores their
activity in behalf of collectivist
movements and esoeciallv since
the activities have bPen financed
out of the earnings of private ent""
rnrisP as in the case of 'R.ockefell~
r. Ford and Carneoip but he
feels that thP owners of these fortunes
do not know how this money
is being used. "Certainlv the found~
ers of these business fortune!i had
no intention of financing anti-business
·education nor do the present
heads desire to eta so." Mr. Reece
stated. We rlefinitely do not a~ree
with him. Thev couldn't bP that
stuoid and in the case of Nelson
Rockefeller, he is a dedicated International
Sorialist and i.e:; way
ahead of his Fonndation officials
in nromoting collectivist idedlogy.
"We are not only plaeued with
the consoiracies. but with the infection
of Karl Marx in both the
thiTlking of our neoole and the
actionc:; of our own government."
-Herbert Hoover
Accorrling to a b~tlletin from the
Minute Women of the U.S.A .. a
Yugoslav freighter recently sailed
from Houston with a cargo of 87
United State~ iet fighter plane en~
,e- ines destined for the Yugoslav Air
Force under the U.S. foreign aid
program. At the same t ime, ac~
cording to Minute Women, we are
dem andin~ that Trujillo of the Dominican
Republic return five obsolete
bombers we claim he got ille~
gaily. The answer probably lies in
the fact that Yugoslav's Tito is
Communist; Trujillo is anti-Com~
munist.
M•y. 1960 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE P•g• 5
No Subject More Important Than Mental
Health And No Movement More Perverted
OREGON SENATOR FEELS HIS DUTY IS
TO 'EDUCATE' THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Exposure of the subversive aims of the World Mental Health movement
whose announced purpose is to change the political, economic and
social thinking of the human race and direct it toward a One-World
Government has had reverberations throughout the country.
The result has been that many local citizens in various towns and
cities have become so disgusted with the subversive angles of national
and world mental health movements that they have withdrawn from all
activity in connection with mental health projects.
This is unfortunate for nothing is more essential than that the mental
health of citizens of a community be preserved and that scientific research
looking toward this end be continued by bonafide agencies and
individuals sincerely concerned in aiding the mentally ill.
The whole movement has been discredited by the vast number of
psychiatric chfJ.rlatans who clutter up the national and international
groups allegedly devoted to alleviating mental disease.
The ultimate in conceit on the
part of an elected representative
of the American people was reached,
we believe, by Senator Wayne
Morse of Oregon on his recent appearance
on the television program
"Meet the Press."
Under discussion was the practice
of members of Congress making
speeches to various groups for
pay which enables many of them
to add ten or fifteen thousand dollars
per year to their already adequate
salaries and expense accounts.
When asked by one of the news-
Perhaps one of the most vicious exponents of "One· World Govern- men if he considered this practice
ment" under the guise of promoting "mental health" Is the notorious ethical, Morse replied that it was
Dr. Brock Chisholm of Canada who has written reams on the matter not only ethical but necessary as
of re-designing the human mind for the purpose of shaping individual the American people "needed edthinking,
but a small quote from him wilt give an idea of the overall plan. ucating," and implied that it was
In a lecture by Chisholm titled "The Reestablishment of Peacetime the responsibility of members of
Society" delivered in February, 1946 and which appeared in Psychiatry, the Senate to do this ueducational"
"Journal of the Biology and the Pathology of Interpersonal Relations," job.
he said: Morse is a victim of the absurd
"It would appear that at least three requirements are basic to any idea that was given birth during
hope of permanent world peace. First, security, elimination of the oc- the Roosevelt administration to the
casion for valid fear of aggression. This is attainabl-3 at least tempo- effect that elected public officials
rarily and as a stopgap until something better can be arranged, by legis- are the masters and the oeople are
lation backed by immediately available force prepared to suppress ruth- the servants when just the reverse
lessly any appeal to force by any peoples in the world. The administra- is true. As their " masters" it is his
tion and command of such a force is a delicate problem but can be de- conviction that he and his colvised
if and when the great powers really want it. A less effective sub- leagues should speak periodically to
stitute for this method but one which may work well enough is for the their servant constituents and tell
great powers to assume this function themselves. To work even well them what to think and alt the
enough it will be necessary that all disputes between nations be sub· while b~ing oaid big money for this
mitted to arbitration by a World Court of the highest integrity. Second, "educational" chore.
opportunity to live reasonably comfortably for all the oeople in the It is true that vast numbers of
world on economic levels which do not varv too widely either geograph- the Amf'rican oeople have been
ically or by groups within a population. This is a simple matter of re- brainwac;hed and need to have their
distribution of mat erial, of which there is plenty in the world for every- minds directed back into sound
RECONSTRUCTION DAYS
ARE BACK AGAIN!
Just as every sensible American
expected, the Federal government
didn't wait for the ink to dry on
the Civil Rights bill before its
agents started their un-Constitutional
prying into the election machinery
of the South.
William P. Rogers, South·hating
Attorney General, claimed to be In
possession of information showing
denial of voting rights to Negroes
in Louisiana, Georgia, South Caro·
lina and Alabama and demanded
the voting records in certain counties
of those four States.
Officials in the counties involved
retorted that there had been no
denial of voting rights to Negroes
and, according to the Associated
Press, county attorney J. Fred Buzhardt
of McCormick County, South
Carolina, paid his respects to Rogers
by calling him a "liar" and added
"To my knowledge no Negro
has ever been refused registration
if they applied. None has ever ap·
plied before."
Of course the Attorney General
must do his duty and election time
is drawing nea r, so big headlines
may be expected a s a result of Rogers'
meddling around in Southern
court houses just like in Recon·
struction Days.
body, or of which plenty can easily be made . " l-} 1 f tho ~ht but God help
Here is one of the world's so·called great authorities on mental fh~~;~.-h~ perr::it this instruction- WEST COAST GROUP IS
~:~~~r~:ttt~~g1!~;u~!yf~~~t~!~\~~nt~~:i~u0:[!~:~~ j~u;;~!na~~~ f;:;c~~:;~~ h~~ A~::~~~~~s~nt~ ~o~~~!~~~te~~~ COMBATTING APATHY OF
:;,oe~~~~~oi~·ter~:tl~~sals~~;~eq~~;~!:o~ ;~r~~r~~~~~.s a~~e;;;;fs~~~b~t~~~r~; • ;";~~~~;;s'~t~:t ~~~~~~r';;~~~~~~: AMERICAN TAXPAYERS
the wealth of the world, all in the name of psychiatry. ~=~ ~r"~~~·=n~:p~~~~~.e basic pnnci- is ~e~~sr~;:~~tv~~~:~~~a~i~r:~i~~
We hope that loc3.l groups throughout the country continue their We can visualize Morse in many the nation and in behalf of restor·
bonafide activities in behalf of mental illness and that they guarantee roles _ orincinallv as the Wild ation of Constitutional Government
to the public the integrity of their efforts by disassociating themselves Jackac;s of the Senafe _but to pic- is the Network of Patriotic Letter
with subversive national and international groups who have brought ture him as an educator of the Writers with headquarters at 2003
the whole subject of mental health into disrepute. American electorate is stretching D, Pasadena, California.
AMERICANS SHUDDER AT PROSPECT
OF ANOTHER BETRAYAL AT PARIS
Since the Soviets boasted that
they had "shot down" one of our
planes, the American people had
a right to feel that the "summit
conference" in Paris was automatically
off.
Surely, it was thought, a merciful
Saviour would spare us the
ignominy of seeing our leaders
trudge over to a rigged meeting
in which, whether the President
knows it or not, the plan is already
made for us to promise to
disarm and mean it and the Soviets
make the same promise but have
no intention of keeping it.
Not that we needed any proof
of the barbarism and inhumanity
of the Communists but their coldblooded
and threatening behavior
in regard to the plane incident
again demonstrated that they are
outside the pale of decent society
and that any treating with them
on an honest and reasonable basis
is utterly impossible.
And still the President has announced
his intention of going right
ahead as if nothing had happened
to the amazement of Americans
who look to their elected leaders
to exercise caution, judgment and
concern for the national safety in
dealing with the enemy.
In th is connection the Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee has
just released an exhaustive study
concerning Khrushchev's strategy
of alleged "peaceful co-existence"
between Russia and the United
States which says in part:
"As recently as December, 1959,
- three months after Khrushchev's
trip to the United States - the
World Marxist Review carried a
synopsis of a new Communist textbook
titled 'Foundations of Marxism
and Leninism.' Referring to advance
of the World Revolution, the
textbook declares 'There can be
no doubt that in a number of capital
ist countries the overthrow of
the bourgeois by armed class struggle
will be inevitable' . . . As long
as the West has sufficient armed
might to withstand the Communist
the imagination to the breaking
point.
From a business executive in
San Antonio: "I am a constant
reader of your editorials. I also
read Sokolsky, Hearst, Bishoo, Peg·
fer and others but in none of them
do I find the message so cleverly,
engrossinglv and emphaticallv conveyed.
Reading you is like finding
an oasis in the desert. It is very
gratifying that one who has the
?hili tv and couraPe to write as you
do is getting their message to
thousands-it should be millions."
world, revolution cannot be achieved.
The studv reasons that the only
way for Red leaders to overcome
this 'balance of terror' is to put over
the pronaganda line that the Soviet
Union has abandoned its reliance
on violent revolution for peaceful
achievement of its aims . . "
That is just what the Soviets
mean to do at Paris - to convince
gullible Western leaders that
the Communists want peace and
are willing to disarm after wringing
from us a promise to scrap
all ovr wPapons of defense.
Anrl if the past is any criterion
in j u d~ing the future, they will do
just that.
It is claimed by friends of the
organization that this group of
which Mrs. Gertrude Derby Bale
is chairman, has been responsible
for more than 50,000 letters being
sent to members of Congress in
Washington.
Bulk does not mean anything in
a case like this and the mere influencing
of this amount of mail
would not be important but the
fact that these letters have been
written voluntarily after being supplied
with information on legislation
by Patriotic Letter Writers
does indicate a very definite public
service to the citizens of the
Republic.
Apathy, ignorance and indifference
on the part of taxpayers about
what is going on in Washington
are the triple perils which are push·
ing us further into Socialism and
any individual, or group of indi·
viduals, who do sentinel duty and
wake up the Americ;an people de~
serve the approval and cooperation
of all good citizens.
"Apparently there are many,
many more insane people now in
Washington than there ar e in the
insane asylums."- Clayton Rand.
Pogo 6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Moy, 1960
Declaration of Principles of
The Southern Conservative
~ Back in January of 1950 when the first edition of the Southern
Conservative made its appearance we carried on its front page a sort of
Declaration of Principles which set forth the aims and purposes of our
new publication. This is what we said and in the in~ervening years, we
have seen no occasion to make any changes or alterations:
The Southern Conservative is being launched to fill the need
for a medium of expression for those citizens of Texas and the South
who definitely oppose the current trend toward Socialism which is
rapidly bringing us to the end of the road as a Constitutional Republic.
In introducing this new publication for approval, we plead
guilty to the charge of being hopelessly old-fashioned as we love
our own country with a blind and passionate devotion, above all
others on earth ..
We find ourself 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 founded this Republic fashioned
the greatest instrument for the government of men ever devised
by human mind.
We wish to deny, before it is made, the charge that we are subsidized
by any special interests or that our undertaking is just an·
other scheme dreamed up to attract the support of big business.
In our discussions of State and National issues, we shall show
no more partiality to the Tycoons of Industry than we shall to the
Czars of Labor.
In fact, we seem to remember that some of the biggest business
men in the nation teamed up with labor union racketeers in playing
ball with the New Deal when that economic atrocity was riding the
crest and they have currently continued to string along with its more
vicious counterpart currently administering the government in
Washington.
The courage, integrity and patriotism which must be commanded
if the Republic is to survive will not be found exclusively among
the representatives of big business any more than among leaders of
labor unions.
It must be drawn from that vast group of average Americans
PUBLIC IS ENTITLED TO KNOW THE TRUTH
ABOUT NATIONAL COUNCIL Of CHURCHES
It has been announced that the Committee on Un-American Activities
of the House of Representatives does not plan to hold further hearings
in conection with the Air Force Training manual controversy in
which it was charged that Communists had • infiltrated the National
Council of Churches.
When officials of the NCC denied such affiliation and strongly denounced
the Air Force personnel for writing it. Air Force Secretary Dudley
C. Sharp informed the church group that the Air Force did not condone
the publication, and that it was being withdrawn.
Much of the material in the manual was from the files of the UnAmerican
Activities Committee and feeling that Sharp's action tended
to discredit the Committee, Chairman Walter immediately invited officials
of the Council to a pear before· it for a full-fledged discussion and
jnvestigation of the charges. This the Council officials refused to do.
Later Secretary Sharp appeared before Walter's committee and
testfied that in withdrawing the manual he had no intention of questioning
the validity of the material in that document which was taken from
the Committee's files and that to the best of his knowledge, this material
was completely factual.
This satisfied the Chairman and members of the Un-American Activities
Committee and the matter was dropped.
This procedure is all right so far as vindication for the Committee
is concerned but there is more to it than that and somewhere along the
line, the interest of the American public comes in.
After all, the National Council of Churches boasts that it has "38,-
00~,000 members" which takes in a large segment of our population and
wh1le perhaps 75 per cent of the individual church members don't know
they are members of NCC, those who do know it are entitled to information
about whether or not the National Council has been infiltrated by
World Communism.
We would not think of suggesting that some committee of Congress
make B: thoroug~ investigation of this political-religious group before
the national electiOn because such a suggestion would be futile and silly.
But surely the subject of infiltration of the nation's largest so-called
;eligio_us ?rganization is of su.fficient importance to justify an official
tnvesttgatlon at the next sessiOn of Congress after the election is all
over and the ballots counted.
To leave the matter as .it is is a reflection on the good church people
who, whether they know It or not, are on the roster of the National
Council of Churches. They are entitled to the facts in order that they
may act accordingly.
~~~e~~~l:o;~i~rt~r~~;:.r~::~~ee:~~piot~:!~tas~~~;~"~hb~~ s~a~~e~~ ANOTHER PROPOSED RAID ON TREASURY
the fruits of their toil.
busi!~ ~~~i:~~~~: at~ ~~~i;i~~i~i~ ~atfav:~~i~:~\~i;rt~rerb:rob~~ FOR REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN EXPENSES
~m the part of a State or National administration is un·American, Another strong pitch to garner
Immoral and ~ .flagra~t. a?use of power. . . • votes for the Republicans in the
As to political afflhatJOn, we acknowledge allegiance to neither presidential election this fall has
of the two major parties. been made by the President and
As presently constituted, both are so shot through with Social· Vice President in separate appeals
ism as to render them incapable of resolving the serious problems for a Federal-State subsidy to take
confronting the Republic. care of medical expenses of per-
We acknowledge our indebtedness to the courageous and patri- sons over sixty five years of age.
otic Coalition Bloc of sound-thinking Democrats and Republicans in The administration opposed the
both Houses of Congress which has prevented Communist influences Forand bill, a Socialized Medicine
from complete domination of our Federal government. measure, which was unsuccessful-
We are opposed to the reckless squandering of the taxpayers' ly urged by Democrats in Congress
money by incompetent, irresponsible and improvident public offi- recently_ apparentlY: 0!" the gro~n~ds
cials and we contend that taxes should be levied for purposes of that their own Sociahze.d ~ed1cme
~i~:~: ~~~yw ~~1t~ot to punish the rich, reward the poor or redis- prti~J!~ ~~s ~~~~i~~nt~~op~~ers
We are firmlY committed to ihe principle of States Rights and "Yould have to put up $1200 milwe
hold that the people of any part of the United States are entitled han dollars per year, $600,000,to
maintain their own social customs and traditions without inter- 000.00 through the Federal part of
~!~~~ from politicians seeking votes to perpetuate themselves in ~~= ~~~~~?smo~~~ !~~~~0~~~~ as
We are unequivocally in favor of Free Enterprise as opposed . As might be e1(oected the Ma:xto
government ownership of business and insist on the responsibility ISt Secreta~y of Health Educa~10n
of every American to seek to improve his social and economic con- and Welfal e, Arthu.r S. Flemt.ng,
dition through initiative, energy and thrift rather than leaning on the who seldon: opens ~ts mouth wttharm
of the Federal government for support. out I:rooosmg a ratd on the treas-
We concede to every man the right to work and the opportunity ury, ~s the author of the mea~ure.
of profitable emofoyment regardless of whether he does or does . It IS for~unate that the oresiden-not
belong to a labor union. · tlal camoatgn only has a fe~ m?re
On the other hand, we claim for the employer the irrevocable months. to go as the determ~nabon
right to hire and fire his employees without instructions from any of candtdates on bo~h the Fa!r Deal
governmental agency or intimidation by Federal police. and M~er:n Reoubltcan factions of
We feet that at this crucial time in history, it is imperative that the Soc13hst P~rty to COf!lpel the
newspapers and other groups seeking to influence public opinion taxpavers to ftnance their ra~es,
should exert every effort within their power to help preserve our would smash the treasury to smtth-
Constitutional form of government, our Free Enterprise system and ereens. .
the American Way of Life. We shall exert all our energies to that Personally, we have always sa1d
end. and we repeat that we are willing
These are the sentiments of the Southern Conservative and al- to skip any benefits the Federal
though ours may be only one small voice crying in the wilderness, government may have in store for
we will fight for fundamental American principles as we understand us such as Social Security, Old Age
them. without apology to any man or set of men. Pensions, Medical Care and what
With this frank and forthright declaration of purposes, we ask have you and are willing to settle
the active cooperation of every citizen in Texas and the South who for just one thing.
believes in the policies for which we stand. They can give us a pink Cadillac
In Cincinnatti a nationally-known
Negro singing group, the Platters,
is reported in the press to have
~en cleared of a morals charge
JUSt before leaving for Berlin for
a good will tour. The four singers
were charged with "aiding and
abetting prostitution, lewdness or
assignation." Acquitted with them
were four females, three white and
one _CQ.Iored girl. The group was
acquttted by a Judge Gilbert Beltman
on the ground that no money
changed hands in the transactions.
In Nashville, Tennessee, three
thousand Negroes marched on the
City Hall following the wrecking
of a colored council man's home
by a bomb.
From a woman subscriber in Atlanta:
"Not long ago a 'Yankee'
here remarked that the South always
claimed any Confederate
could whip ten Yankees before
breakfast any day but that he'd
never believed it until he began
readin~ the Southern Conservative.
'Now I've found out that they
only meant the men,' he said. 'That
lO-man limit does not apply to the
women - not if the editor of that
paper is a sample' •·.
and we wilt call it even.
They have just as much legal
and moral right to give us that
as they do to pay our personal
living expenses and take care of
our medical bills.
There is not an iota of Constitutional
authority for the Federal
government to do either.
May, 1960 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Page 7
WE DON'T OBJECT TO DICTATORS
UNLESS THEY'RE ANTI-COMMUNIST
THE DAY IS COMING WHEN PEOPLE CAN'T
WAIT TO BE SIXTY -FIVE YEARS OF AGE
The long and tragic record of
State Department psychology and
reasoning which almost invariably
causes that agency to land in the
comer of pro-Communist dictators
and the part played by our national
leaders in the surrender of various
nations into Soviet slavery has been
clearly set forth by an informed
and aggressive Fort Worth patrig.t.
EXTREME LEFT-WING LAWMAKERS
PROMOTE DANGEROUS LEGISLATION
She is Mrs. T. B. Hart who works
at the job practically every wakJng
hour and who seldom misses
a bet in her appraisal of the methods
and motive of politicians, National,
State or Local. Mrs. Hart's
recent discourse on the subject
follows:
We have just witnessed the death
of the courageous little anti-Communist
nation of Korea brought
about by Communist mob violence
under the guise of "student" demonstrations,
aided and abetted by
the State Department of our own
gQvernment.
Just as surely as there is retribution
for individuals for the sins
of both omission and commission,
there will be certain retribution for
nations for the same sins. It behooves
us even at this late date to
examine the part our nation has
played in the surrender of other
peoples and nations to Communist
dictatorship for we, the citizens
of these United States, share the
responsibility for deeds committed
by our policy makers whether we
approve of them or not, or whether
we are even conscious of what has
been done.
Witness the ~mrrender of the
famous mines of Czechoslavakia to
the Russian forces when the crack
3rd Armored Division of General
Patton and the 7th Army Group of
General Patch were pulled back
anrl held three w.ePks while the
exhausted Russian Mongol armies
moved in to occupy the mines. Witness
ll-Je halted armies of thesP same
generals when they were forced
to stop at the Elbe, thus allowing
the Russians th~ honor of entering
ar1d caoturing Berlin and the subsecuent
surrender of half of Germa'ly
to the Communi.~ts. The General
of our Armv stood hv in East·
ern Germanv. Poland and Ptsewhere
to watch the most ruthless robbery.
carna~e. enslavement and
cru~ltv in conauered territory that
modern history has ever recorded.
Witness the surrender of China
to the Communistc; when we were
told bv our State Department that
the advancing Communist armies
were only "agrarian reformers" attempting
to protect themselves
from a "corrupt" government. but
subseauent events reveal the Communist
revolution in China was aided
bv those high in diplomatic and
military service in our government.
Witness the Communists being
permitted to win the war in Korea
because General MacArthur was
denied the right to attack the enemy
beyond the Yalu or even to
pursue enemy planes across the
line. 1t was at the Malta Summit
meeting that the little nations of
It is not news when bills which
are dangerous to the security of
the United States are proposed and
attempts made to push them
through Congress but we would
like to call attention to two mea·
sures before that body which represent
special peril to the safety
of the Republic.
These are Senate Concurrent
Resolution 83 by extreme left-wing
Senator Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania
and companion bill House
Concurrent Resolution 531 by
e q u a 11 y left-wing Congressman
Charles 0. Porter of Oregon.
These two measures would confer
on the President the personal
power to commit the United States
to total disarmament and a proposed
Police Force of the United
Nations to enforce it.
We are fearful that the PresIdent
will do this any way at
Paris but if legislation authorizing
this step Is passed, it commits
the people of the United States to
this foolhardy action also and
leaves no way to escape One-World
government when foreign troops
are quartered on our soil.
The New York Times, strong internationalist
organ and exponent
of One-World, put the plan in these
words: "The ultimate solution as
envisioned by Secretary Herter and
others must lie in total disarmament
which will ... create a world
of peaceful chanP.:e under law administered
by a World Court and
enforced by an International Po-
1ice Force . . . SPcreUtrv Herter's
vision me~ns, in effect, World Government."
It looks like the American people
must be constantly on guard
and keep protesting: to their elected
representatives in Washington
against the country's betrayal.
Just as heavv protests from constituents
killed off (temoorarily)
thP resolution to repeal the C::onnally
amendment to the World
Court agreement, ~o can thev stop
this proposal bv Clark anrl Porter
to betray the ·American Renublic
into aliP.:nment with a One World
Slave State.
Deoartment, from Anti-Communist
Batista. who was a staunch friend
of the Unitf'd States and a strong
enemy of Communist Russia. The
action of our State Department implies
that to be a dictator is quite
acceptable - iust so Ion!! as one
is not an anti-Communist dictator.
The record is a long and tragic
one - and yet we continue to
heao praise uoon those elected officials
who played such a big part
in these betravals and accept without
protest the continued appoint·
ments of hureaucrats whose records
have been that of continued appeasement
and even assistance to
the Communist enemy.
Central Europe were surrendered As a nation our day of reckoning
to Communist Russia. must be near at hand. There could
Witness the recent take-over of be time to return to the path of
Cuba by Pro-Communist Fidel Cas~ honor and Integrity, but will we?
tro, with the sanction of our State I fear not.
Edna Bell Seward of Oakland,
California, and a devoted patriot,
points out that the Federal government
has an odd way of collecting
foreign debts. She referred
to the fact that Washington recently
announced in one breath that it
had collected $40,000,000 from Poland
which had owed it to us since
World War II and In the next
breath announced that because of
a severe drouth in Poland, we had
just made them a loan of $40,-
000,000.
Congressman Jim Wright of
Fort Worth stated recently on the
floor of Congress that neighbors
are informing on each other to the
Internal Revenue Service and that
they are collecting fat fees from
the government for snooping. Congressman
Wright indicated that he
was ashamed of such practices
and expressed the opinion that it
should be stopped. What we are
ashamed of, and what the Congressman
should be ashamed of, is
the Sixteenth Amendment author·
izing the income tax in the first
place which is nothing more than
a license for Congress to engage
in a vast tax racket which is more
vicious than any underworld racket
because it has the sanction of
government.
Everybody Knows What's
Going On Except Taxpayers
There is no doubt that there is
much information in connection
with the administration of the government
that must, in the interest
of national safety, be kept secret.
But there is a growing belief in
this country that most of this "secret"
information is known to the
Soviets and that American taxpayers
are the only ones being kept in
the dark.
We understand that there is a
bill before Congress whose purpose
is to compel heads of departments
of government to keep the American
public informed on such matters
as do not endanger the nation's
security.
For some unexplained reason
these agency heads seem to delight
in withholding information to
which every American is entitled,
possibly because they are afraid
to stir the taxpayers up. Like Earl
Wilson's farmer who put a silencer
on his shotgun because he wanted
his daughter to have a quiet wedding,
these bureaucrats want to
keeo the taxpaying suckers quiet
so they put a silencer on information
bv marking their files "top
secret."
If a propaganda campaign ever
was called for, it is one which
would educate elected and appointed
officials in the nation's capital
concerning their true status and
which would sell them on the fact
that the taxpayers are their employers
and are entitled to look
at the ledger any time they want
to and to see how their public
servants are spending their money.
From a folder published by the
Cowles Magazine in New York
titled "The Insiders Newsletter" we
have learned of a movement to
end all movements.
This Newsletter is dedicated to
"Busy women who need to know
what's going on."
As one busy women who already
knows too well what's going on
and who as a result of that knowledge
is ready to sit down qn the
curb and cry, we were shocked
at some of the things this Newsletter
felt that women needed to
know.
However, we won't go into that
but will merely mention their ref·
erence to a new movement intend·
ed to give persons over sixty-five
another break evidently on the
theory that Washington politicians
can't be trusted with the job.
The name of this new movement
or organiaztion is "Over 65, Inc."
which it is claimed now takes in
15.4 million of the country's population.
Briefly, the big idea is that merchants
may join the outfit who
agree to give a discount to an persons
over 65. These merchants will
in turn be furnished with a list of
"senior citizens" in their area. The
"senior citizens" will be advised
by letter the name of the merch·
ants who have agreed to give them
these discounts. The arrangement
must remain in effect by parties on
both sides for a year and the old·
sters must trade with these merchants.
We would not say that thiS.smells
like a polite form of boycot of other
merchants, but we do rise to ask
why persons over 65 should get a
discount not offered to all others?
Isn't this discrimination against
certain groups who are not over
65 and isn't New York against discrimination
of any kind. (Certainly
its Mr. Keating and Mr. Javits in
the U.S. Senate have managed to
convey this impression.)
Also what is the big idea in allowing
discounts to any one because
of age any more than extending
the same discounts to all
red headed women with knock
knees and bow legs?
Matter Might As Well Be
Decided By Flip Of Coin
Our opinion on the subject is
of no particular value, of cotU"se,
but many subscribers write us to
ask who we think will be the next
President of the United States.
Our reply is invariably that we
think, judging from the past
twenty-five years, that it will be
the worst possible man for the job.
Any way, if we can only draw
from those who are now mention~
ed as candidates, Nixon, Rockefeller,
Kennedy, Symington, Johnson,
and Stevenson, it doesn't make
any difference which one is elected.
The selection of any one of them
to head the nation for the next
four years will only mean a contin~
uation of Socialism as our national
policy and the same drain on the
taxpayers to pay for Socialist projects
which have been inflicted on
the Republic since 1933.
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What We Don't Need Is Any WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE SPIRIT
More Phony 'Intellectuals' OF AMERICANISM WHICH WAS ONCE
re~~~~~ ~~llrv~~~yst:~~e~~~;~ OUR MOST PRICELESS POSSESSION? comedian but nothing he has ever
done or said on television was as
amusing as his performance on
the program of Paul Coates recent~
ly. He didn't mean to be funny on
this occasion, however, as his dis~
cussion was pitched in what he intended
to be a serious vein.
fn that interview, he pictured
himself as a frustrated intellectual
who yearns to switch to a program
which )Yilt make men think but is
constantly thwarted by officials of
the network which sponsors him
and who insist that he stick to hiscomedy
line.
It didn't take him long to prove
that he has the usual misconception
of the term "intellectual" and
that he has it confused with "egg·
head." since he let it be known
that his "thinking" program would
advocate such things as racial mixing,
abolishment of capital punishment
and other subjects easily
ideOtified as part and parcel of
party line propaganda.
A true intellectual is one who
seeks to preserve, rather than tear
down, the stable order of society
and who holds in respect those
principles and precepts which have
been tested in the crucible of time
and proved indisoensable to the
steady advance of man in groping
toward higher moral, spiritual and
Ideological levels.
An egghead. on the other hand,
is one who holds that everything
that has ever been tried before is
without merit and should be discarded
and who sincerely be1ieves
that any change. good or bad,
means orogress. It is this species
of the human breed which has all
but wrecked Constitutional government
in the United States and
we need more of them like we
need the seven year itch.
Some good friend of Allen's
should whisper in his ear and inform
him that he is not an intellectual
who is bursting with a
"message" for mankind, but just
a tired comedian who needs some
new jokes.
The woods are already full of
phony intellectuals.
From a business executive in
Boston: "Your original and forceful
editorials amaze and thrill me. Each
edition seems better than the previous
one."
Fulton Lewis, Jr., broadcast the
charge that an agency of the National
Council of Churches had
suggested certain obscene books as
recommended reading for their
members, Including children. We
and other editors have carried editorials
on the subject which have
been read all over the country.
Aren't some of the "38,000,000
members" which the Council claims
going to do anything about it? Do
they approve of obscene books
and wish their children to read
them? Or are they just so brainwashed
that they can't summon
enough energy to do anything
about the matter?
From a physician in Roswell,
New Mexico: "! wish that onetwentieth
of the men I know had
half your guts and you can quote
me."
Whatever happened to that glorious era in the history of this country
when the people were solidly united in their determination to preserve
and defend it against its enemies at home and abroad?
When loyalty to country, its institutions, principles and traditions
came as naturally to every responsible American as the very air he
breathed?
When serious doubt of university students' allegiance which made
necessary the inclusion of a "loyalty oath" in documents submitted for
their signature, would have caused them to hang their heads in sorrow
and shame?
When the spectacle of an investigating committee of the Congress
of the United States probing into the treasonable activities of thousands
appearing before it, would have been as alarming to the general public
as an armed attack by an enemy country?
When national pride was as much an American attribute as love of
family and reverence for God and when the suggestion that we swap
our national sovereignty for citizenship in a One-World Stale would
have been universally regarded as an insult past all forgiving?
When Socialism was held as the perverted dream of diseased minds
in the lowest depths of human society and any lawmaker enlisting under
its depraved banner and proposing its evil tenets as the basis for legislative
action would have been hounded out of office by outraged public
opinion?
When the accepted concept of Constitutional Government meant
limited power of Federal officials and a system of checks and balances
to enforce such limitation; supreme authority of the several States over
that of the central body; strict separation of the functions of the three
branches of the Federal government; unquestioned acknowledgement of
the Constitutional rights of the individual and of private property and
fair and just tax levies laid for the purpose of economically administering
the specified functions of the government in the sole interest of the
American people and where violation of this concept or the distortion
of the operations of government to include foreign nations would have
resulted in justified charges of treason against the United States?
When the teaching of collectivist ideology in schools, colleges and
universities of the nation by subversive instructors would have resulted
in their immediate dismissal and public disgrace and when an ordained
minister who blasphemed the pulpit by substituting Marxian doctrine
for the Gospel of Jesus Christ would have been driven from the clergy
and unfrocked?
When the proposal that a decent American citizen accept a dole
from Washington or sidestep the responsibility of supporting his aged
parents by dumping them on the charity of the Federal government
would have stamped him as a tramp and a stumblebum and caused him
to burn with resentment and fury.
When members of the Supreme Court of the United States who
abased and degraded their high office by usurping authority belonging
to tl)e Congress and employed judicial rulings to enact social legislation,
would have been divested of their black robes and subjected to impeachment
charges?
When an organized world conspiracy against the United States and
the Christian principles on which it is founded, instead of attracting the
support of powerful political, intellectual and religious leaders, would
have sparked a rebellion on the part of rank and file Americans rivaling
the bitterness and intensity of the uprising at Lexington and Concord
which set off the Revolutionary War?
In brief, when the United States was a powerful, respected and in·
fluential facto.r among nations of the world with vast and far-reaching
prestige which rested on the solid foundation of Constitutional Government
and a citizenship with undivided loyalty to the American Flag and
the matchless Republic for which it stands, and when our national leaders
were of such gigantic stature that no puny dictator dared taunt, insult
or threaten them?
In Moscow, the Porgy and Bess
Company, an aggregation of American
Negro entertainers. promoted
"cultural relations" between the
Soviet Union and the United States
by portraying sex life along Catfish
Row on the Charleston, South
Carolina, waterfront. The Bolsheviks
are reported to have been
somewhat shocked at the picture
of life in the raw among American
Negroes but applauded the black
performers enthusiastically.
In Hollywood at a Beverly Hills
night spot a Negro woman entertainer
whose name is Lena Horne,
hurled a table lamp and a brace of
ashtrays at a customer of the club
causing a gash over his left eye.
Police called in said that the
woman's fit of temper was caused
by remarks the customer made
concerning her race.
Excerpt from letter from Washington,
D. C., newspaper man:
"Scores of white women are attacked
here, brutally beaten or
knocked down and horribly mistreated
on streets or in their own
homes after midnight as Negroes
slash screens and windows. Instead
of fighting back the Whites
are moving to Maryland and Virginia
suburbs."
The small East Texas city of
Marshall was the scene recently
of a demonstration by 700 Negroes
from a colored college there which
was only quelled after Texas Rangers
were called in. An alleged
Negro Communist professor in the
Negro college was dismissed after
being charged with collaborating
with the rioters.
May, 1960
'Flush Toilets' Important But
What About National Debt?
Now that the Federal government
has established the fact about
how many flush toilets there are
in American homes, perhaps some
consideration will be given to the
unimportant but persistently recurring
little matter of how deep
this nation is in debt.
In his recent message to Congress
the President touched on the
subject casually by remarking that
we are now paying $9,000,000,000
per year, not on the principal, but
for interest. After disposing of that
he took up the matter of "Civil
Rights."
As well as any one in government
can estimate, the national
debt is now close to $300,000,000,-
00D and is practically increasing
by the hour.
We confess to being old-fashioned,
but it seems to us that any
head of a government who had run
the nation that far into debt
would be more concerned over it
than he would about how many
toilets the people have.
We shuddered at the extravagance
of the Roosevelt administration,
but when Mr. Truman came
along he made Roosevelt look like
a piker in spending the taxpayers'
money.
The fact that Eisenhower is
making bums out of both of them
and that no particular protest is
made by the people is probably a
tribute to the ability of those
whose responsibility it is to brainwash
the people and hypnotiz~
them into accepting the squandering
of their money as a strong
gesture toward maintaining peace
and the "containment" of Com-munism.
It's a great world if we don't
weaken.
With the resurgence of Ku Klux
Klan activity in various States of
the South, the professional haterousing
organization responsible
for reviving the hooded order, the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, appealed
to the Attorney General of
Georgia to take cognizance of the
alarming increase in fiery crosses
in Southern areas. In an ironic
communication this organization
which specializes in defiance of
law and order by soonsoring student
_groups engaged in organized
assaults on private prooerty wrote
this to the Georgia official: "Such
demonstrations are a breach of the
peace, unlawfullv incite tensions,
elicit trouble and are intended to
interfere with the lawful exercise
of prerogatives which every citizen
should enjoy."
The Chicago Board of Education
has been asked to make monetary
reimbursement to twenty- n in e
teachers in the public schools there
because of mental stress, cuts and
bruises suffered by the instructors
through attacks by pupils. One
woman teacher was injured while
fighting off an attempted rape and
another was seriously hurt while
trying to rout a sex fiend from a
lavatory. According to the Chicago
News this is all in the day's work
and payments for injuries "is expected
to be as routine as the occurrences."
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