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THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
-To Plead for a Return of Constitutional Government-
Vol. 7 FORT WORTH, TEXAS, JANUARY,I956 No. I
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. HENRY FORD II
. New Year Pledge for
All Derelict Citizens
In the beginning of this year of our Lord, 1956, I here and now
proclaim my intention to cast off the chains which have held me as a
captive of corrupt politicians and to hereafter assert my full authority
as one of the masters of those who represent us in the Congress and the
White House and who are employed and paid to ·act solely as public
servants of the people who elected them.
From this day forward, I shall strive to prove worthy of my g1or4
ious and God-given status as a Sovereign Citizen of the United States
by reclaiming and exercising fully the responsibilities and prerogatives
which attach to that exalted and honorable estate.
Through timidity, indifference and inaction, and by servile submission
to the will of brazen demagogues, I have failed in my sacred
obligations by neglecting to publicly protest the dissipation of the substance
of the American people and the surrender of the mighty resources
of this Republic toward the furtherance of anti-American plots by foreign
conspirators.
By this omission, I now face the humiliating realization that I have
been an unwitting party to acts of treason against my count~y .
To the extent that I have remained silent in the face of official actions
by our representatives in \Vashington which are clearly against
the interests of the people of the United States, I now contemptuously
regard myself as equally guilty with them in the betrayal of my fellow
Americans and of my country to its enemies at home and abroad.
By my silence and tacit approval of Legislative acts and Executive
directives, treaties and secret agreements contrary to the provisions
of the Constitution, I have abrogated my responsibility as a loyal American
to defend my country and its institutions by every means within
my power.
By my failure to register disapproval, when dissent was in order,
I have not only helped to give aid and comfort to the enemy, but have
contributed to my own delinquency as a citizen of the American Republic.
In future, I shall earnestly strive to keep ever in mind that in this
country elected officials are merely public servants of their masters,
the people; that under our form of government, every voter is a Sovereign,
and every citizen a King and to remember always that those
who govern us derive their just power only from the consent of the
governed.
Beginning at the precinc't level, I shall exert my last ounce of
energy, effort and initiative in helping to elect delegates to County,
State and National conventions whose primary concern is for the safety,
security and preservation of the American Republic.
I shall plead fervently with my neighbors, friends and associa.tes
to repudiate the internationalist traitors who now dictate American
policy and to so cast their ballots for candidates for all offices, from
the White House down to the local School Board, that none but AmerIcans
shall be placed on guard.
And finally, in this momentous Year of Decision when the fate of
the Nation hangs in the balance, I shall strive valiantly to make atonement
for my past defection as a Sovereign Citizen, meantime clinging
r;;:ly to the hope that I have not waited too long nor awakened too
Let's Exterminate the Politicians
And Keep the Grasshoppers
Federal Department of Agriculture officials announced recently
that their scientific experts are well on the way toward the development
of a preparation which will eliminate pests who destroy everything
in their path and cause an annual loss of millions of dollars.
When they get it perfected, we know some places they could try it
out without having to leave Washington.
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
-To plead for a return of Comtitutional Government-
IDA M. DARDEN Fl•tiron Building
EDITOR FORT WORTH, TEXAS
Mr. Henry Ford II,
President Ford Motor Company,
Dearborn, Michigan.
Dear Mr. Ford:
January 13, 1956
On February 24, 1953, the Congress of the United States appropriated
$300,000 to be used by the Congressional Committee on UnAmerican
Activities in investigating Communist infiltration of the
American government.
The next day, on February 25, 1953, you made pikers out of the
Congress by appropriating $15,000,000 to be used, as it turned out, in
attempts to prevent any investigation of Communist infiltration of the
American government.
The Foundation you set up was called the Fund for the Republic
but it is only now that the people of this country are coming to realize
that the Republic in whose behalf the Fund is being expended is the
Soviet, and not the American Republic.
As one who, from the very first, editorially exposed the ob jectives
of the Fund for the Republic, I naturally am extremely gr atified that
the AmE:=rican people are finally becoming conscious of the danger to
our country which this project poses.
Under the administration of this Fund by Robert M. Hutchins, the
nation's champion addled-brained egghead, and one of the staunchest
defenders of the rights of Communists in the United States, its activities
have inspired nation-wide suspicion of you and the Ford organization.
This loss of confidence in the principal Ford executive must inevitably
bring shame and reproach to the honorable name of your
grandfather who accumulated the money you so heedlessly give away
without reservation, restrictions or restraint.
Lately you seem to have become alarmed over this sweeping resentment
against you as attested by the increased activity of your press
agents. enormous. gifts to non-political units !).nd your own public statement
disclaiming any knowledge of, or responsibility for , the objectives
or disbursements of the gigantic Fund for the Republic.
Informed Americans, however, are going to be slow to buy your
assertion that you willingly turned over $15 ,000,000 for purposes of
which you were ignorant and to be expended by persons of whose
subversive record you had no knowledge. Responsible business executives,
Mr. Ford, are simply not that careless with money.
Even though it is generally conceded that the genius of the founders
of American industry is seldom reproduced in their progeny, it will
be difficult for 'the American people to ascribe such monumental
stupidity as this to one of Henry Ford's descendants.
The only alternative, therefore, is the widespread conclusion that
you knew what you were doing when you did it and that you now wish
to stem the flood-tide of criticism and buy back favorable public opinion
by an enormous donation to schools and hospitals.
The gift to the hospitals is a worthy gesture but the majority of
the educational institutions who were the recipients of your generosity
will merely supplement the propaganda of the Fund for the Republic
by continuing to brain-wash American youth.
So you will have to come up with a better plan if you hope to
minimize the damage that Hutchins has done to your reputation and to
the American economy and which he will continue to do until his
money runs out.
Otherwise, the good name of the Fords cannot be retrieved nor
their former record for probity in dealing with the public, re-established.
~ere are scores of honorable and irreproachable organization! in
this country whose objectives are the exact opposite of those to which
the Fund for the Republic is committed and they offer, in my humble
opinion, the solution to the unhappy dilemma into which your ill-advised
bequests ltave plunged you.
Since I have not the slightest connection with any one of these organizations,
I claim complete exoneration from the charge of any personal
interest in the proposal which I shall make.
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Subversive Murals As Hard to
Get Rid of As Harry Bridges
All They Had to Do Was to Good Citizens Urged to
Read the Times Editorials
Senator James 0. Eastland and his Accept Jury Service
There is a strong Soviet belief that
"art is a weapon'' and that good
Communist propaganda can be promoted
as effectively through pictures
as by means of the written
word.
Perhaps no greater demonstration
has been made of this means of infiltration
than in the case of the
murals in the Rincon Annex of the
United States Post Office in San
Francisco,
It is a long story dating back to
1948 when these murals were installed
but we will try to boil it down to the
essentials. In 1941 the Federal Works
Agency in Washington announced a
competition, open to American artists
only, for the painting of 27
murals in the Rincon Annex at a
cost o.f $26,000. Some kind of an
"art" committee passed on the selection
and a character named Anton
Refreiger of Woodstock, New York,
was chosen.
Apparently no one thoughh to go
into the background of Refreiger
until years later when th~y found
that this "American" artist was
born in Moscow, Russia, in 1905 and
drifted into this country in 1920
where he remained ten years before
becoming naturalized. In the mean·
time and durink following years, he
joined thirty-three different organizations
and publications cited as sub·
versive and dedicated to the over·
throw of the United States government.
Soon alter receiving the commission
to paint the San Francisco murals
he went to work on the job of
portraying the life of the pioneers
of the Golden State of California.
The murals were to reflect the
glorious and romantic history of that
great commonwealth and the part
Jt played in the early days of the
American R~publlc.
When the murals were finished
and installed in the Rincon Annex,
they were found to portray class
struggle, racial hatred and discrimi·
nation, labor strife, violo'!nce and political
corruption. To do tt up brown,
the "artist" had placed the Ameri·
can Flag in a secondary position ~
that of other nations il~ustrated in
the murals.
The American Legion immediately
protested. and classed the murals
in a resolu~lon passed by their California
Department as "subversive
and designed to spread Communistic
propaganda and tending to promote
racial hatred and class warfare".
The Legion was joined by protests
from Veterans of Foreign Wars, Associated
Farmers of California, Sons
of the American Revolution, San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce,
Native Sons and Native Daughters
of the Golden West, Society of Western
Artists and numerous other civic
and cultural organizations in an attempt
to have the objectionable murals
removed.
Senate Internal Security sub-commit·
tee did some good work in investigat~
ing the New York Times and turning
up many present and former Commu-rtists
and fellow travelers.
The committee did an excellent job
which required a lot of hard work
and the expenditure of lots of money
but it seems to us that they went
about it the hard way.
They could bave acquired this in~
Mr. W. P. Bomar, Fort Worth
business executive, thinks that the
administration of justice ia greatly
hampered because of the caliber of
those chosen for jury service.
"A jury of our peers," in Mr.
Bomar's opinion, has become a mean~
ingless term and juries are too often
chosen from those of the lower strata
who hang around court houses wait~
ing to make a fast dol1ar.
In fact, a highly organized cam- formation as we and millions of others
paign for their removal has been go- have done - just by reading New
ing on against the offensive mut<a.Is York Times editorials and especially
~e t~:a~~~~~~n;:?e~:~~n';~,iC:~s r:~ 1
its ~unday Magazine section of book
Mr. Bomar pointed out that in a
recent case the only individual juror
who owned property was a colored
woman who, with her husband, oper·
lasted the War of the Roses, but reviews. ate! a cleaning plant."
which, results-wise, has been as in· Unfortunately, the Times is only
effective as the attempts of the Su· one of the many thousands of offend~
~a~~; ir~~~s.toTh~ep~~ra~o~:u;ii~i ers in the matter of slanted writing
there and being viewed by hundreds in the press. Louis Budenz told Conof
thousands of California school gressional committees how, during the
children in conducted tours. days when he was high up in Com·
"There is no greater service that
Chambers of Commerce can re11.der in
their respective citiel!l and towns than
to urge representative citizens to ac·
cept jury service and thlll!l improve
the quality of justice," Mr. Bomar
During the years of effort on the said.
part of patriots to get rid of these
murals, they have been given the
run-around by practically everybody
in Washington including the Post
Master General, Commissioner of
Public Buildings, the Republican
National Committee, a California
senator, a vice president, and numerous
other authorities and even though
a public hearing was held by a subcommittee
of the House which covered
87 pages in its published report
in which all facts in connection with
tt-e matter were set forth, the murals
are still there high and dry on the
Rincon Annex walls. Pictures of
them show that they, like most
modern art, appear to have been
drawn by some one who was crazy
or drunk or both.
Perhaps the most determined opponent
of the murals is Mr. Charles
E. Plant, Past Commander of Federal
Post 315 of the American Legion who
is still going strong and who promises
that the matter is not yet ended and
won't be until the murals are remov·
ed.
As an interested observer, it would
seem to us that there remains only
one of two ways to get rid of this
junk and that is either for a minor
California earthquake o! a localized
nature to happen along and take care
of the situation or for some of the
descendants of the hardy California
pioneers to ride into the building on
their trusty Pintos and puncture the
trashy things with bucltshot.
munist Party councils, M o scow
worked overtime to infiltrate the
Am~rican press and other communica.
tions media but his warning has large-ly
gone unheeded.
The Unite<.! Nitions is our only hope
for survival and is the only available
means of insuring peace and ending
wars. How do we know this? Because
three Presidents of the United State.
and Alger Hiss have told us so.
An Open Letter
It is one of the first responslbilities
of citizenship to serve on juries and
the evasion of this duty is unfair to
Court officials who seek to maintain
law and order, Mr. Bomar pointed
out.
The Spirit of Geneva turned out
to be merely the misplaced trust and
confidence of a bunch of babes in the
woods wearing striped pants in the
good intentions of Kremlin gangsters.
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To name just a very few such organizations: The Committee for
Constitutional· Government; Daughters of the American Revolution;
Defenders of the American Constitution; Americanism Committee of
the American Legion; Sons of the American Revolution; Campaign for
the 48 States; For America; We, the People; Congress of Freedom,
Foundation for Economic Education; National Economic Council; Federation
for Constitutional Government; National Pro America; Organ•
ization for Repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment; Minute Women of
the United States; Western Tax Council; Church League of America;
American Progress Foundation and scores of other great organizations,
groups and publications who are working as earnestly for the preserva ..
tion of the American form of government as the Fund for the Republic
is striving to destroy it.
If you really wish to prove your sincerity and refute once and for
all time growing accusations that Ford money is beifli utilized to subsidize
movements for the overthrow of the American form of govern ..
ment. I earnestly plead that you be equally generous with the foregoing
and similar organizations to whose good name no such taint attaches.
Your total gifts to the Fund for the Republic and the hospitals and
universities are reported at $515,000,000 but it is a matter of general
knowledge that you still have an even greater amount stashed away in
your sock and your piggy bank. ·
What We Should Do Estes Running for President
About United Nations Of Some Country or Other
Senator Estes Kefauver has
And so, in all good conscience, I beg you to select an amount some ...
where in between the $15,000,000 which you gave to the Fund for the
Republic and the $500,000,000 you donated to hospitals and colleges
and divide it equally between the above-mentioned and similar groups
which will thus enable them to broaden and extend their Americanism
programs to an extent that they will be in position to largely offset
Now that it has been proved
time and again and especially in
the case of Egypt and Israel that
the United Nations is as impotent
as a Texas longhorn in any kind
of an emergency, we see only two
things which should be done about
it.
One, get the United States out of
the United Nations, send the spies
and saboteurs back where they
came from and give the buildings
and grounds back to the Rockefellers.
Two, convert it to some worthy
Educational, Social and Cultural
project which the large Founda ..
tions would be happy to finance
such as an international nudist
colony where people of all races,
colors, sexes • and religions may
mix and mingle to their heart's
content.
tossed his hat in the ring and in·
dicated that he wants to be Presi~
dent but it is not quite clear to us
just what country he wants to
head as Chief Executive.
Last summer he was conducting
a baby·kissing campaign in Moscow
and in December he bobbed
up on a program in Los Angeles
to raise money to finance the State
of Israel, although his own ·coun·
try is $281,000,000,000 in debt.
The long-faced statesman seems
to be spreading his contern around
over a large area and is unable to
determine just where his duty lies.
A small victory for the legions
of decency; The Texas State Teachers
Association flatly refused to
de·segregate.
the subversive activities of the Fund for the Republic. ·
This generous and patriotic gesture on your part will generate
within you a feeling of pride and self·respect which you cannot possibly
experience so long as fellow travellers, Communist Fronters and others
of questionable loyalty are the sole recipients of your endowments.
The shifting of your sympathy and influence to the cause of Amer·
icanism and the contribution of your resources and treasure to incorruptible
Americans who are immune to the blandishments of Commu~
nist propagandists and whose collaboration with foreign conspirators
could not be bought at any price, will lift you to new and exalted heights
of self-approbation from which you will be forever barred so long as
~~lfs. subversives and suspected traitors grace your Foundation pay-
1 All this I ask in behalf of the memory of the first Henry Ford
who~e .brains, energy and initiative provided you with your chief claim
to dishnction and whose unchallenged loyalty to his country reflected
~;1 ir~~;~i~=~~81~f;' ~t~:l~~TS!~;~~~~0n;': being dragged in the mire
Very respectfully,
Ida M. Darden, Editor,
The Southern Conservative.
Janua ry, 1956 THE SOUTHERN CON S ER VATI VE Page l
Another Federal Judge Goes
To Bat for the Moscow T earn
May Be Like Trying A Burglar
Before A Jury of Safe-Crackers
The Communists have scored
anothe r victory by grace of a ruling
by one of t he Kremlin 's innumer
able b uddies presently sitting
on the F ederal bench in the
American j udicia ry system.
A Federal Dist r ict Judge of
Boston hit a home run for the
Moscow team when he acquitted
one of t h e ch aracters accused of
contempt of Congress following
his exposure as a self-admitted
Communist when h e refused to
tell the McCarthy com mittee of
other Communists operating in
defense plants in the United
States.
The person cleared by this
amazing ruling was one Leon J.
Kamin who was a Harvard research
assistant and who at t he
time of his exposure was working
on a d efense p roject.
This screwy decision perhaps
tops th e wh ole category of cock -
d~~n f;:;~n~e F:~:~a~yben~~n~~~
p h asizing the righ t of subversives
to work unmolested at t heir ap-pom
ted task of overthrowing t he
American governmen t.
Baldly :-ejecting all the precepts
of self-preservation and repudiatmg
the p r inciple t hat an
American public official is swor n
to perform in defense of the Republic,
this Judge ruled that Senator
McCarthy of Wisconsin acted
"outside the jurisdiction of his
committee" when h e probed into
t he matter of Com mu nist s in
American defense plant s.
In other words, a member of a
committee of the American Congress
has no right to inquire into
s ubver sion nor to expose the infil
tration of en emy agents in
Am<>rican Institutions.
In effect. the j udge's invitation
to Communists seeking the overthrow
of the American government
is definite and to the poin.t
r e might just as well have said
openly:
11Com e on in boys, the water's
f.ine".
LANDY HAS FELLOW FEELING
FOR ONE OF HIS OWN KIND
Eugene Landy, the lad who was
first refused a commission in the Navy
because his mother was a Communist
and later got one any way, says in a
newspaper interview that Robert 'M.
Hutchins is "one of the free men in
our time."
Landy wrote Hutchins a long, complimentary
letter which was carried
by the Associated Press following
Hutchins statement that there "are
different degrees of membership in
the Communist Party." Hutchins, according
to Landy. performed a "courageous
act in taking a stand in defense
of those who have joined the
Party in certain degrees."
Most Americans may think the
youngster is a little presumptious in
breaking out in print with such assertions
but, after all, who wouldn't
be a little cocky if he had been refused
a commission because of Communism
in his family and then had
the distinction of having the big boss
of the Navy go over the heads of the
Board who turned him down and give
him a commission. regardless
Personally, we prefer to think that
Landy is not typical of Navy personnel
which is comprised of the flower
of young American manhood.
Puny Crooner Puts in Hennings and Johnston Are
Playing Cheap Politics Plug for the Pinks
We are indebted to Mr. J . C. Phillips
of Borger, Texas, for in!onnation
about some direct propaganda in a
motion picture titled "The Tender
Trap" featuring Frank Sinatra and
Debbie Reynolds. Mr. Phillips is one
of the most alert and patriotic AmerIcans
in the whole United States and
little in the way of Red propaganda
escapes his eagle eye,
Most Americans are familiar with
the situation in the Scarsdale, N.Y.,
public schools and the victory of
Communist sympathizers in the fight
to control them.
In this movie, Miss Reynolds
announces that she plans to raise
her family in Scarsdale to which
Sinatra replies that she has made
an excellent choice as the schools in
Scarsdale are among the best in the
country, or words to that effect.
We· wonder if the concave~chested
crooner was paid extra for that little
propaganda contribution or if he just
followed the script without knowing
-what he was doing, and mouthed the
stuff which had been put in by the
experts.
An intelHgent, alert and propa~
ganda-consdous actor would have re~
fused to be a party to such obviously
Red-inspired material.
From an author of stories and
books on wild life in Western United
States: "You can come nearer saying
what I want said than any writer I
ever read. I thank God that there are
many throughout the country who
agree with you 100 per cent as I do.
May God direct your way along the
path which all true Americans are
going to follo w,"
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy o!
Wisconsin says that he will fight to
cut off funds of two Senate sub-committees,
one headed by ThomaS' C.
Hennings of Missouri and the other
by Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina.
The Wisconsin senator says his opposition
to the continuance of these
two committees is based on the fact
that they are "doing a tremendous
disservice" to such security programs
as we have left.
He is exactly right about it and aU
of his colleagues who have a sense of
responsibility for the public welfare,
will do likewise, and vote against any
further granting of funds for the
operation of these sub-committees.
Both Hennings and Johnston are
feather-weight politicians with' no
scruples whatever against using taxpayers
money for the selfish aims of
the decadent political party to which
both belong. Johnston's efforts in connection
with the committee has been
limited to attempts to prove that
Democratic Fair Dealers are more
capable of running the government
than Republican Fair Dealers. Hennings
has confined his activities on
this committee to efforts to find means
to protect the civil rights of Communist
!ranters who belong to organizations
committed to the overthrow
of the American government
Neither committee is worth its salt
and should be abolished, and the
cheap politics being played by Hennings
and Johnston stopped immediately,
if not sooner.
Eleanor Roosevelt, who has already
endorsed Adlai Stevenson as her
preference on the Fair Deal ticket
now says Earl Warren is the best bet
for the Republicans, That cinches
what we have thought of War ren all
along
Constitutional Lawyer Claims the
14th Amendment Never Legally Adopted
In dictating the ruling on segregation
to members of the Supreme
Court, Gunnar Myrdal the Swedish
Socialist, may have stepped on his
own beard and got his lip caught in
the wringer.
Apparently he advised the Court
to drape the decision around the 14th
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States which some of his Communist
aides in this country had called
to his attention but which eminent
authorities in the South are now
claiming was never legally adopted.
According to the United States
Code, Annotated, Part 3, Amendment
14 to Amendment 19, the 14th Amendment
was proposed to the Legislatures
of the several States by the 39th Congress
on June 16, 1866, and declared
thro~gh Proclamation by the Secretary
of State on July 28, 1868, to have
been ratified by the Legislatures of
30 of the 36 States.
However, it is pointed out that there
were actually only 25 States having
representatives in Congress at the
time the 14th Amendment was sub~
mitted, the 11 Southern States not
being represented there. Since they
had previously seced'ed and become
mem be is of the Confederate States,
they were merely conquered provinces
awaiting clarification of their
status when the Amendment was proposed.
"If there were 36 States of the
United States when thJs amendment
was proposed by the Congress and
only the representatives of 25 States
sat in the Congress at the time, then
it is obvious that two-thirds of the
36 States' senators and representatives
did not join in the proposed Amendment"
declared a lifelong student of
the Constitution, J. R. O'Danlel of
Fort Worth.
"As to three-fourths of the States
ratifying the Amendment, it is an
established fact lhat the Southern
States during t hat period of Reconstruction
were not their own free
agents but simply Military Despotisms
under the rule of the United States
government with the threat over
their heads that if they failed to go
through the motion of ratification of
the 14th Amendment, they would not
be restored to their State sovereignties
and representation in Congress.
In their pretended ratification they
were acting under constraint, compulsion
and duress."
As this Constitutional lawyer sees
it, therefore, there are two reasons
why the Amendment was not legally
adopted: First, only 25 of the 36
States were represented when the
Amendment was submitted and it was
ratified by only 16 of the represented
States and 11 Military Despotisms,
second; since the Military Despotisms
ratified the Amendment only under
threat, their actions were null and
void.
Any way, we predict that the American
people are going to hear a lot
about the subject in the months ahead
and that they will learn that a lot of
skullduggery went on among those
who governed this Land of the Free
and Home of the Brave back in the
Sixties just as it does in Washington
today.
Early in this session of Congress,
Senator James 0. Eastland and
Congressman John Bell Williams,
both of Mississippi, will take the
floor in the Senate and House, respectively,
to find out how m uch
su pport for Constitutional government
is to be found among duly
elected representatives of the
American people.
The principal issue which will
be presented will be the "Black
Monday" decision of the Supreme
Court on segregation, an infraction
committed by the high court of
such dangerous proportions that
our whole system of government
is jeopardized, Congress will be
to ld.
The Mississippi solons will point
out an established rule of law
which a ll members of the Congress
should know but probably don't
anJ that is that the Supreme Cou:tt
has no power to make a decree by
judicial decision which would
have the effect of an Act of .=:ongress,
and neither does the Court
have the power to do by judicial
decree or fiat that which it has
declared that Congress itself does
not have the Constitutional right
to do.
The proper claim wiU be made
that only the State legislatures
have the right to amend the Constitution
as provided in that document
but which the Court, with
the help of a Swedish Marxist,
sought to accomplish through judicial
decision.
How much understanding of
American organic law as represented
by the Constitution can be
pounded into thick Congressional
h eads who have seen one Cons titutional
provision after another
violated in recent years, is anybody's
guess.
The only th ing that seems f a irly
certain is t hat Mississippi, home
of the two lawmakers who will
bring up the issue, is not going to
abide by the Court's decision and
mix white and black children in
public schools period.
When his country defeated the
"package deal" for admitting Soviet
satellites into the United Nations,
Chiang Kai-Shek proved that this
country has one responsible person
looking out for the interests of the
United States in that rotten outfit.
Another Federal J udge swung into
line when Ben Connally of Houston,
son of "Long Tom," came right along
like a little man and ruled that
Negroes may eat in the white cafeteria
at the new Harris County Court
House. Yes sub, Boss!
Tax ro4:_s: in Connecticut are being
revised and the people of that State
are looking forward to the payment
of less taxes as a result of the extensive
flood damage in that area. If
it is going to require an act of God
to secure tax reduction, maybe other
States had better start praying for
floods.
In keeping with the secret agreement
made by Roosevelt, Alger Hiss
and Harry Hopkins with Stalin and
Molotov, only a Russian Communist
is to fill the position of United Nations
Secretariat in charge of all
military activities. To date, only three
have held this position, Arkady A.
Sobelov, Konstantin Zynchenko and
Ilya Chernyshev who is currently
acting in that capacity. What marvelous
statesmanship this country has
enjoyed for the past twenty ~ five
years!!!
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George Urged to Retire in
View of Almost Sure Defeat
Friends of the Honorable Walter
F. George, senior member of
the Senate from Georgi.a, are reported
to be advising him to refuse
to make another race for that
office in view of Wh3t they believe
to be almost certain defeat
by Georgia's popular former governor,
Herman Talmadge.
Senator George has rendered invaluable
service to his State and
the nation during his long service
but in recent years he turned a
flip and landed in the internationalist
camp. Like his illustrious talleague,
the late Arthur Vandenburg
from Michigan, he was unable
to overcome the ambition to
become a world figure and help
mold the destiny of the universe
rather than concentrate on the
safety, security and well-being of
the United States alone.
Both men were statesmen ·in
their prime but in the evening of
life they were betrayed by the
siren voice of the internationalists
and one-worlders, thereby cancelling
out their usefulness to their
own country whose sole interests
they were pledged to serve.
From a former Judge of a
Court in Missouri: "As you say
in your editorials, many Americans
are enlisting in the effort
to save this country with eaeh
passing day and many good articles
come to my desk from time
to time. But I maintain that no
American journalist can touch
you in the matter of the superb
and brilliant writing you are doing
in behalf of this be!eagured
Republic of ours."
Personally, we positively refuse
to support any candidate fo~
President as the "lesser of two
evils". If the two conventions persist
in naming a Republican Socialist
and a Democratic Socialist,
we are not going to vote for either
one but will write in the name of
Titus Moody.
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVl January, 1956
Virginia Paper Reflects the Former When Defeat Is Pictured as
Prestige and Glory of Fourth Estate More. Glorious Than Victory
We have heard many expressions
of surprise concerning the
action of the very left-wing Ladies
Home Journal in publishing, in
their December edition, a blowby-
blow account of Adlai Stevenson's
lost campaign for the Presidency
in 1952 as written by his
sister "Buffie".
The Richmond, Virginia, News Leader, o.f w.hich. Dav~d Ter:nant
Bryan is pubTisher and James Jackson Kilpatnck IS editor, 1s leadmg a
fight in the South for the restoration of Constitutional government
which is reviving much of the glory and the prestige of the F~u.rth
Estate that has been somewhat tarnished in recent years as the pohhcal
morality of the nation has deteriorated.'
In earlier days of the Republic the public press was a strong and potent
factor in shaping sound national policies, ~n prbvidi.ng a foru:n for
the discussion of major issues of the day and m promotmg the highest
ideals of statesmanship by riding herd on the official performance of
the leaders chosen to represent the· American people in the nation's
capital.
Today, the American press, with notable exceptions, is largely
slanted both in its reportorial and editorial departments and is little
more than a mouthpiece for big advertisers and small politicians who
shape its uncertain and w~"'ering editorial policies which are keyed
to the exigencies and expediency of the moment.
The Richmond News-Leader, in its magnificent protest against the
encroachment of the Federal government on the rights of the States is
reproducing some of the historic documents of the past which kept the
Ship of State firmly anchored to fundamental principles on whi.ch the
Republic was founded, during times of great national stress, emergencies
or political mal-practice by weak and corrupt national leaders.
In keeping with the shibboleth on its mast head taken from Section
15 of the Virginia Constitution "That no free government, or the blessing-
s of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence
to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue and by frequent
recurrence to fundamental principles", the News-Leader is now reprinting
such documents to inform its readers of the strong measures
adopted by a courageous and determined citizenship in an earlier and
happier era to thwart despotic and tyrannical acts of Federal agencies
and officials;
Its editorial pages of November 21 , November 22. November 28 and
~ovember 29 , 1955, have been incorporated into a soecial supplement
which is now being widely circulated throughout the South, for the
purpose of reviving a Constitutional doctrine "old in the history of this
country, but new to our own generation".
In this supplement will be found the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
of 1798-99 in protest a~ainst the Alien and Sedition Acts, Interposition
as the Basic Right of States bv the _great John C. Calhoun, a
tentative draft of the Virginia Resolution of 1956 through which the
South now plans to recapture its lost Soverei!{nty, and many pages of
other sound reading which the citizens of this generation have never
before been privileged to view in one assembling.
Re-prints of the supplement are available on reQuest to the editorial
offices of the Richmond News-Leader, Richmond 13, Virginia and it is
only when the information therein has been assimilated that thoughtful
Americans can appreciate the low estate to which the administration
of the American government has fallen.
Supreme Court Comes to Should Cattle Be Held as
Rescue of Negro Rapist Superior to Human Beings?
In an action which people of the
South are praying does not become
a trend, the Supreme Court in December
rescued a Georgia Negro
sentenced to die for criminally assauJting
a white woman.
The President is said to have as
fine a herd of black Polled Angus
cattle on his Gettysburg farm as
is to be found in this country.
These animals were given him
by admiring friends and well
wishers and the President is said
to be very proud of these registered
cattle of pure strain which he
keeps to themselves in fenced enclosures.
This is intended as no criticism
of the sister for her very eloquent
t:ibute to Mr. Stevenson but rather
to point out the unusual circum!
i;tance in which a national
magazine 'exalts a loser who was
counted out in the first round.
It is much on the same principle
as glorifying a prize figt-ter after
his opponent ha~ knocked him
through the ropes.
We, of all people, can understand
and respect the undying
love and devotion of a woman for
her brother but what seems to be
mystifying to many is why the
Journal would give such an unprecedented
amount of space to a
man who, with one exception,
took the worst drubbing of any
candidate for President in the histor~
of organized government.
It has been facetiously suggested
that since Adlai was portrayed
by "Buffie" as absolutely irresistible
to women, great swarms of
whom she practically had to shoo
off with a broom, perhaps some
of the ·charming lady editors of
the Journal also have a crush on
him thereby giving him the inside
track with that powerful publication.
Could be.
Mr. Bert McKe1·cher of El Paso,
Texas, is an estimable gentleman
of seventy-five who still acts as
accountant for an El Paso business
concern. Throughout the
years we have been the 1·ecipient
of letters from. Mr. McKercher in
which he heaped prais€ on us by
indicating that we were almost in
a class with his favorite writer,
Westbrook Pegler. Lately he
broke down and wrote us that
he has decided that we are even
better than Pegler. We hope Mr.
Pegler does not become di scouraged
over the fact that we have
1·eplaced him in the affections of
on~ .of his fans, and give up his
wntmg chore, because he is one
of our favorite columnists, too.
The Court held that the Negro's
"rights" had been violated and
the judicial genius who wrvte the
unanimous opinion - which was
based on the technicality that
there were no Negroes on the
Georgia jury that convicted the
Negro criminal-was Tom Clark.
Now we are beginning to suspect
that the ~ct of the University of
Cfiicago eggheads in "bugging" the
jury room during a session of a Kan-
We think, however, that in view G
~{ ~~x~~~a~n°~h!h~!~i>j:~~ ~u~~ ::~el;a~e :~:~kmo~Y a11:~n:~v~f %~~ ~ Cl~rk is a former Texan who
left the State along about 1936
while under investigation by the
Texas Senate in connection with
"hot oil" operation in East Texas.
Under the New Deal his advancement
was rapid. Tom Connally got
him a job as assistant Attorney
General. Later Truman named him
Attorney General and finally a
member of the Supreme Court.
It was not revealed in the Court's
decision whether or not Gunnar
Myrdal of Stockholm, Sweden, was
consulted before the ruling was
handed down.
T h e Southern Conservative
does get around and no fooling.
During December, we "had requests
for copies of the NovemberDecember
edition from Ireland,
England and the Arab section of
Jerusalem.
beings, he should be equally soli- l~v~ng mtellectuals but was a precitous
in preventing "discrimina- · ~1mmary bout to an attack on our
tion" in his livestock pens. JUry system. In December another in-c/
fo~if~=~~ht~~f~o~r:, ~h~~~J'r~~~ ~~n;~~~i~a~u;:::~s~;~ht=~e~n~~~:~
the swimming pool and the golf man of Tallahassee, declared that the
course. it should be equally wise American system of trial by jury,
procedure in the barn yard. cherished as a fundamental right by
We hope, therefore, that in the normal Americans, "is an outmoded
interest of consiStency, the Presi- relic of the 13th Century and is not
dent sees fit, without benefit of a appropriat~ for present-day adminishigh
Court decision, to add a few tration o! justice." Maybe the Jury
Holstein bulls, several Jersey hei~ system is the next target of at{ack in
fers and a number of strays of un- the attempt to overthrow the Ameri·
~:;d~mined breed to, his prize can governing processes.
Otherwise, his black Polled Angus
cattle may resent being "segre·
gated" in a pasture by themselves
and become frustrated and rebellious
over their status as "second
class citizens" of the bovine
world.
Straw in the wind indicating
the State of the Union: He1·bert
Lehman gave the Stephen S. Wise
award to Elmer Davis for "courage,
consistency and clarity in
defending civil liberties".
January, 1956 THE SOUT HERN CONSERVATIVE Page 5
Program for One-World Government Will More and More We Wonder
Be Legacy of the President's Successor How Murphy Got That Way
All the speculation and guessing
about whether or not Eisenhower
will run for re-election in
the coming campaign seems pointless
to us. What does it matter?
If be doesn't, a man will be nominated
by the Republican Fair
Dealers now in control of the party
with his same o~e-'Yorld vi~wpoint
and concern m mternahonalism,
as opposed to American
security and well-being
Personally, we do not thi11k he
bas any more intention of rwming
than we have and, in our op:nion,
he and those closest to him have
known this from the first and are
merely postponing pub 1 i c announcement
in the interest of political
considerations and expediency
and in order to have unified
support lined up for the candidate
of their selection.
Also, the longer his decision is
withheld, the better his chances to
advance the legislative program
for Federal control of schools, integration
of the white and black
races at all levels, increased
soending of taxpayers' money
through foreign aid, breaking
down existing bars in our immigration
law, the socialization of
medicine and all the ather necessary
steps preparatory to proiectin{{
the United States into a Socialist
one-world government. a
program now widely recognized
as having been Mr. Eisenhower's
major objective in accepting the
nomination in 1952 and which has
been materially advanced during
his three years in office.
Mr. Eisenhower in all likelihood
will step down and out but his
program for one-world government
will continue if one Fair
Deal Socialist is nominated by the
Republicans and another by the
Democrats as now seems likely.
Only intelligent, dynamic and
unified action by .. patriotic citizens
of the Republic who constitute an
actual, but silent, majority in this
country can produce the miracle
which must be performed if a man
who stands for America first, last
and always is to be pu_t in the
White House.
------
The United States Needs a
Revival of Old-Time Religion
Concerned and thoughtful Ameri~
cans are becoming more and more convinced
that one of the greatest needs
of the Republic is a return to old-time
religion, if Communism is to be wiped
out in this country where it has a
deadly stranglehold.
We do not mean the kind of religion
expounded by theological city~slickers
who take their texts from the Com~
munist manifesto and who can't deliver
a sermon without slyly sneaking
in a plug for world government, racial
integration and all the other Moscow-
inspired propaganda which the
.National Council of Churches dishes
We mean the kind of religion which
we knew in this country before the
Internationalists took over and which
teaches the simple Christian principles
laid down by the Man of Galilee
when He walked among men on earth.
Our candidates for the Hall of
Shame; the students of the University
of Iowa who staged the
December "Beauty Contest", in
that institution.
Hutthins Outdoes Filth
Amendment Communists
One of the most revolting exhibitions
ever staged was witnessed
during the appearance of Robert
M. Hutchins on the television
program "Meet the Press" early
in December.
Although he was questioned
rigidly by some of the most astute
newspaper correspondents in the
country, Hutchins absolutely refused
to give. Mostly he just wriggled,
twisted and squirmed.
For evasion, equivocation and
outright defiance. his performance
put the Fifth Amendment
Communists who appeared before
Congressional investigating commitees,
to shame.
Asked repeatedly about 'his
views on whether or not Communism
was a rr.enace and his
published statements in the negative,
and whether or not he would
employ a Communist it he knew
such person to be a Communist.
"t.lutchins hemmed and haw~d and
see-sawed back and forth in long,
rambling and technical dissertations
about hypothetical questions
hat firmly refused to answer the
question.
It is the first time we have ever
seen the panel members of the
show display impatience. disgust
and contempt for a guest althou~h
we have seen them put many, including
some of our good friends,
through the- paces. Hutchins'
rudeness and total lack of courtesy
and cooperation with i1is hosts
seerred to inspire in the members
of the press an understandable
feeling of loathing which most
people in the listening audience
must have also experienced.
Hutchins proved by his behavior
on this occasion that he is an
uintellectual" in its most perverted
meaning and an ideologically
dangerous person who, in the public
interest, should be gently but
firmly taken "out of circulation.
Perhaps.' as a great Americ~n suggested
m another connection, he
should be gathered up in a butterfly
net.
We wonder how many have noticed
that the cover pages of the
December editions of family
magazines that used to carry religious
symbols to indicate Christmas
and the Birth of Christ have
now abandoned the custom. A
strong non~Christian minority
group which has been working
for years to kill off Christianity
in this country is reaping the results
of its propaganda, and how!
On Wednesday, October 4th,
the Communist Daily Worker carried
a demand of the American
Communist Party that the Eisenhower
Administration "adopt a
new policy and protect the rights
of the Negro people". What does
the ·-:ommunist Party want the
Eisenhower administration to do
that it hasn't already done to
show its exclusive concern in Negroes
- line up aU the white people
and ship them out of the country?
Isn't violating the Constitu-
~f;ht:nc~o~~~:J~;nge:::n':~!k:/
Somebndy Is All Crossed Up
On This' Favorite Son' Deal
A lot of publicity has been generated
by somebody about the prospect
of Lyndon Johnson being
nominated for President or VicePresident,
as a favorite son of
Texas.
Taking their cue from planted
propaganda, editorial writers· in
many Texas dailies suggest constantly
that this may happen and
some of the weekly papers whose
editors are uc:ua1ly more intel1igent,
have made similar prophesies.
There is only one thing wrong
with this line of reasoning and we
regard it as our duty to point H
out here.
Lyndon Johns0!1 is not a favorite
son of Texas.
His recent endorsement of Federal
aid to schools which serves as
a direct sho in the face of the
voters in ::>. Stgte which has gone
on record as unalterably opposed
to this policy, has revived distrust
of his political int:~rity which becz.
me ,.,id~spre<td when he only
mildly o..-otested Truman's theft of
the ·Tidelands and when he
develo'1ed lockiaw following the
~<t.star~lv insult to the oeoole of
Texas bv the Supreme Court in its
segregation ruliD.g.
This editor has, within recent
weeks, made two trips which covered
more than a thousand miles
of territory in Texas and since we
are known to be concerned in matters
political those with whom we
come in contact soeak freely to us
of current issues and personalities.
If Johnson's position on matters
in which Texans are vitally concerned,
and especiall jf in the matter
of Federal Aid to schools, sets
him out as a 11favorite son", then
we have lost all power of deduction
or never had any in the first
place. uProdigal Son" would be a
more apt designation , in our humble
opinion.
Over in Alabama, Gessner T.
McCorvey former State Chairman
of the Democratic Party before
Socialists took it over, in a communication
widely reproduced in
the press of that State, strongly
condemns pm·ty officials for requiTing
a pledge to support whoeve1
· may be nominated for president
and vice president. McCorvey
charged that the National
Convention is made up largely
of " big city political bosses of the
North and East. Negro politicians
from the slums of Harlem and
every stripe of Socialist imaginable".
He served warning that the
South, and especially Alabama,
will only support a candidate who
advo.cates segregation of the races.
The most unfortunate official
performances o; 1955, and which
made the heaviest concessions to
Moscow at the expense of American
pride, dignity and prestige,
were the Geneva Conferences
with the Chinese and Russian
Communists, the Supreme Court
ruling on segregation and the con-
JF:::;a~~ryh~et~e;lst:::iJc!h~n ~~!~~
thirty-year reign of terror.
All that is necessary for the
triumph of evil i$ that good men
do nothing-Edmund Burke.
We seem to remember something
about a report inade by Ray Murphy
of the American Legion to the effect
that UNESCO was in np way concerned
in American schools, a report
which the Legion itself repudiated
later, in its entirety.
How Murphy arrived at this conclusion
has been one of the most baffling
questions of recent history since
UNESCO's attempt to infiltrate American
schools with its subversive philosophy
is of record in hundreds of
Perhaps nothing is more revealing
concerning the trickery of UNESCO
sponsors in attempts to dominate
American public school curricula than
a statement by I. L. Kandel of Columbia
Teachers College appeartng in the
NEA Journal of April, 1946, in which
he told of a neat little subterfuge employed
to get around a provision in
UNESCO's charter:
"For the present there is no provision
for the scrutiny of text books in
the UNESCO C"onstitution on the assumption
that they are matters within
the domestic jurisdiction of the member
nations in which the organization
is prohibited from intervening," Kandel
wrote, but listen to his next line:
"Under these conditions, each member
nation, if it is to carry out the obligations
of itc: membership, has a duty to
see to it that nothing in its curriculum,
courses of study and textbooks, is contrary
to UNESCO's aims. This task
has already been undertaken through
voluntary activities in the United
States ... "
Murphy, together with his committee,
has already been completely repudiated
both by the Legion and the
informed public and has perhaps al,
·eady suffered enough for the shame
he brought on the great organization
to which he belongs but there will
perhaps always be a question concerning
his motives and curiosity as
to what incentives were offered him
to manufacture a completely false
record concerning a subversive and
anti-American project like UNESCO.
On page 284 of the Journal of
the National Education Association,
Vol. 35, 1946: uwe have
made available to teachers the
latest information r e g a r d -
ing UNESCO and the United Nations",
On page 285 of the same
publication William G. Carr, then
Secretary of NEA Policies Commission
reminds teachers that the
United Natio~ and UNESCO are
merely tools which, like a spade,
will only work when somebody
works them and adds: uThe great
job of American education ... is
to teach b,oys and girls how to use
the new -instruments which we
have fashioned as best we could
~~acetha~o~~~~i0~f .. ~~,omoting
More evidence that an open season
on Political Science Professors
should be declared, has been
produced. A Dr. Jasper B. Shan- ....
non of the University of Kentucky
is credited with the statement
that candidates for public office
should be screened by psychiatric
examinations, a n d especia!Iy.
those of the South who have
scruples against mongrelization
of the races. We are tempted to
suggest more drastic measures
which should be taken in regard
to Political Science professors to
keep the breed from multiplying
and doing any further damage to
the American economy and to
society at large.
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE January, 1956
Federation for Constitutional Government
Leads Nation's Conservative Revolt
(From the Palm Beach, Florida,
Post October 28, 19~5)
Racial Strife Brings Hodding
Carter to the Mourner's Bench
Incredible as it seems, one good
A new political party may have
been born this. week. It could be
a "third party" or, if it hews to the
line on lhe pl'inciples laid down by
Its sponsors and organizers, it could
replace one of the present major parties.
TheyCouldGofarther 'Give 'Em Hell!'
thi,ng has come out of the vile and
unspeakable decision of the Supreme
Court on segregation.
Actually, It was not announced as
a political party at all. Called the
"Federation for Constitutional Government,"
it consists so far of an
advisory committee headed by John
U. Barr of New Orleans. This committee
plans a nationwide movement
to resist left-wing tendencies in government.
That is a solid foundation !or a
new political party if we ever saw
one. Oth,er announced aims of the
organization also should have a wide
appeal to millions of Americans who
have watched the federal government
drift deeper and deeper into social·
ism. Among those aims are:
(1) Preservation of the indepen·
dence of the legislative, executive
and judicial departments.
(2) Preservation of the sovereign
rights of the several states and of
individual liberties, guaranteed by
the federal constitution.
(3) Securing the nomination of
candidates for office who subscribe
to these principles, and to resist the
nominatlon of leftist candidates for
President and Vice President and
other offices.
( 4) Oppose the adoption of SO·
clalistic platforms.
(5) To seek in every honorable
and legitimate way to prohibit the
practices and counteract the effects
and consequences o! executive agree·
ments or orders, and of decisions of
the federal courts and the U. S. Supreme
Court which have wrongfully
abrogated, modified, or amended the
provisions of the U. S. Constitution.
At present the intention is to concentrate
on development of a strong
organization in the South and ''then
invite all patriotic individuals to join
in." The nucleus of a strong Southern
. organization Is already there, with
the advisory committee including
many congressmen, governors and
other political and business leaders of
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. An
organizational meeting is planned at
an early date.
Whatever results from this movement,
it should have a salutary effect
on the thinkint of leaders of both
major political parties. It could well
be a rallying point for real statesmen
in both parties who realize that
the labels they wear often have no
more difference in meaning than
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.
The "Federation for Constitutional
Government," in our opinion, has the
makings of a grass-roots political uPrising
long overdue. It is our hope
that not too much stress will be laid
on its regional origin; that it will, in-
_, deed, become a national movement.
It could reverse a trend that threatens
to undermine the very foundations
of the American way of life.
(Since the above editorial was
written the Federation for Constitutional
Government met tn Memphis,
Tennessee, December 28-29, 195!5,
and perfected the organization along
the lines laid down in the Post editorial.
The new organization Is expected
to exert strong influence In
poutical and economic matters as
they affect the South),
And Do Worse but
We Can't Think How
As al"ways on such occasions, the
Honorable Sam Rayburn of Texas
was the recipient of tributes on
his seventy-fourth birthday at a
big shindig thrown by some of his
friends in Washington.
"Mr. Sam" is undoubtedly belo~
d by many people in all
stations of life. Many sound-thinkjug
and reputable Texans have
maintained their personal regard
and friendship with him throughout
the years even though they lost
respect for his political stability
when he let Roosevelt persuade
him to surrender his convictions
as a Jefferson Democrat and become
a full-fledged Socialist, from
that day forward.
Praise was effusive for the venerable
Speaker of the House on the
occasion of his birthday party and
one slap-happy Fair Dealer from
Oklahoma became so exuberant
that he rose right up and announced
to all and sundry that
Rayburn ''was the best qualified
man in the United States to be
president" and insisted that his
party should nominate him.
While the prospect makes us
shudder, we must admit in all
honesty that the St~te of the Union,
Socialist-wise, would be no
worse off than it is right, now, at
that.
Here They Go Again
With a New Angle
If the Internationalists, the OneWorlders
and other anti-American
propagandists don't get us one way,
they try another.
Now, it's the Educational Television
and Radio Center and the
Joint Council on Educational Television
to be conducted in connection
with one of the large "liberal"
Northern colleges.
The point is for educational programs
to be whipped up in big
universities for transmission to students
in smaller schools and col·
leges, and even high schools,
around over the country.
When a Marxist is caught redhanded
teaching Communism to
students, it is possible to kick him
out' but it is going to be pretty
difficult to fire a television pro·
gram.
The movement is being financed
by-you guessed it-the Ford
Foundation which has just plunked
down another little old $6,493,840
to start the project on its way.
All honor to the grand old State
of Virginia which, by an overwhelming
vote of its cit~ens, has
made its decision to protect its
public school system from the disaster
which the Supreme Court
undertook to visit on the South
through compulsory mixing of
whites and blacks in the class-
A shady past was fading fast
And decent .people stood aghast
To hear from Independence, Mo.
The slogan of a soandso:
"Give'em Hell!"
His brow was dark, his mien
unkind,
His whole demeanor umefined
When to the taunts on every side
The vulgar little man replied:
"Give'em Hell!"
"But hold," they said. "Have you
no shame?
Too long you've played the
scurvy game.
You've done too much. Would
you do more?"
Back came the answer as before:
"Give'emHelll"
"You've made a hell of poor
Berlin.
Korea was a venal sin.
MacArthur's treatment a
disgrace."
Replied the man with brazen
"Give'em Hell.''
"Have you no principle to plead,
No accent on a worthy deed,
No pride in something worth the
while."
But still with cynic's baleful
smile:
"Give'em Hell.''
And thus in nineteen fifty-six
A party is in such a fix
It's leading figure is a man
Whose program is no other than
HGive'em Hell!"
ElJis 0. Jones
Washina:ton, D.C.
The rioting, bitterness and racial
hatred which this ruling has engendered
all over the South, has
smoked out Hedding Carter and
caused him to throw up his hands
and scream "Uncle."
Hodding Carter is the smalltown
Mississippi e d i t or who
achieved dubious renown by condemning
the South's 11treatment''
of the Negro.
He made his pitch for "tolerance,
racial unity and brotherly love"
thr6ugh long articles dealing with
tbe non-existent 11Negro Problem"
which appeared in the Saturday
Evening Post and other racially
biased publications who were good
at attacking "problems" that didn't
concern them.
Although none existed before,
Carter has now discovered that we
really have a "Negro problem'' in
a big way and in a recent edition
of the Post, he comes out swinging
against those enemies of the South
. to whom he formerly gave aid and
comfort.
In his Post article entitled "Racial
Crises in the Deep South."
Carter admits that matters are
worsening in his state and that a
unew dreadful barrier is being
erected between the Negroes and
the whites."
He pointed out the excellent race
relations that prevailed before the
Supreme Court decision and the
progress that had been made in
providing better health, education·
al and living conditions for the
colored people and added: "But
now has come a foreboding interruption
of our purposefulness and
amity." He puts the blame on the
Supreme Court decision and the
arrogant action of the NAACP in
making threats against the South.
All this, the Southern Conservative
pointed out long ago. Even
The Soapbox Socialists who used ~=~fs~o~e:;ew!~~e~uth:~~~e ~~d~
to hold forth in the Bowery have dling of Eleanor Roosevelt and her
~~~~i~~~{ s~:~P~~a~:~:~~; ~~;' ~~= Commurtist-loving cohorts had re-pound
the same theories from the suited in "erasing the broad and
House and Senate. happy smile from the face of
We envied the woman recently who
won the $100,000 prize on television
because she was an expert on American
folklore and had spent years
studying the subject. We envied her,
that is, untll we read where the tax
grabbers In Washington snatched
$72,000 of it away from her. That
would have been hard for us to take.
Southern Negroes and replacing it
with a sneer of contempt." We told
months ago of the reaction that
would follow the arnly of Mulattoes
in the NAACP who swarmed
into the South in Cadillacs and
threw their weight around. And
what we .haven't said about the
Supreme Court since the day of
the decision is so infinitesmal that
it isn't worth recording.
We note that the Fair Dealers Mr. Carter says emphatically
have monopolies as one of the -that the old South simply will not
subjects which will be brought accept integration, !ike H or not.
up by them during the campaign. We said that too.
Goody, goody; maybe this means
they have realized that the biggest
monopoly, and the most vicious
one in history has just been
perfected with the merger of
CIO-AFL.
Something to think about;
When ttintegration" in public
schools is accomplished and some
frail young white teacher keeps
a big strong seventeen-year-old
Negro boy in after school.
"Let us not be discouraged because
our numbers may be small"
says Mrs. M. Conan of Phoenix1
Arizona. "After all1 a mosquito
is small, too, but he sure
wakes people up".
Although he was slow ~atching
on, we are glad that the Mississippi
editor has finally seen the
light and is ~pparently remorseful
to a certain extent for his part in
helping to stir up hatred and bitterness
in an area where none existed
before.
However, ·we think that what is
called for on his part now is an
open mind, a closed mouth and a
silent pen.
In this connection, we are unable
to resist the temptation to
resurrect a slang -=xpression which
was regarded as bot stuff in the
days when we were young and to
suggest~ Mr. Hedding Carter that
he "go way back and sit down.,
_J•_••_•~_._I9_56 ___________________T ~H~E s_o_u_r_H_E_R_N_ _c _o N_ SE_R_V_A_T_I_VE ______________________P •9_•_7
Re - Alignment of Political
Parties in the United States
Below Is a speech delivered by
Circuit Judge M. 1\-f. :McGowan of
Jackson, Mississippi, to a Civic
Club in that State recently,
Judge McGowan m a k e s some
powerful arguments for a re-alignment
of political parties in this
country which have long been advanced
by Senator Karl Mundt of
South Dakota and other soundthinking
Americans--Editor.
The most vital question before the
people of the nation today is how
may we turn back the tides of socialism
and so-called liberalism and insure
the preservation of constitutional
government. Creeping socialism is
not a theory or figment of the imagination,
but an ever present and even
terri!ying evil that threatens our very
existence. We have drifted so far that
even the most stouthearted are pessimistic
as to the possibility of our survival.
But unless you have been living
somewhere in a cave, you are by now
fed· up with empty rhetoric and pious
platitudes, and should be ready for
some blunt talk and practical suggestions
on the subject.
It is my studied opinion that our
only hope of salvation is in a complete
re-alignment of the political parties
of the country. Be it remembered that
I do not here advocate the formation
of a third party, but a re-alignment of
the parties we now have.
Traditionally, we are a two party
government. In fact, a two party form
of government seems to be incident to
the English speaking countries and the
parliamentary form of government
which they have evolved. I am not
now advocating a departure from it.
However, I had' rather have ten parties
than to further endure the intolerable
situation in which we now
find ourselves.
In England though sometimes
roughly outlined, the two party system
has persisted for almost a century
or longer. There is on the one hand
the liberal elements in some form or
other. Presently, they have the Conservative
party and the Labor, or
Socialist-Labor Party. It might appear
an the surface that our own two party
aystem. in our country follows the
same general lines. This was true until
several decades ago when phenominal
developments occurred in this
country that threw our two party
system Into a hopeless state of confusion.
In England the name of the party
signifies the political philosophy of
the member or candidate. More than
a century ago, against the English
Conservative stood some form of liberal
whig; the whig element grew into
the Liberal Party of the great Gladstone.
For decades, the Conservatives
under Disraeli and the Liberals under
Gladstone battled for political eminence
in England.
Then near the close of the last century
the socialist and labor forces began
their rise to power. The Fabian
Socialist societies and the labor politicians
early joined forces, and their
attachment was at first of course to
the Liberal Party. But about the year
1908, they had grown sufficiently
atrong to assert themselves, and at
this time they stepped out and formed
their own party, y.rhich persists
today as the Labor Party or SocialistLabor
Party, and they are today one
of the two powerful parties of England.
The Liberal Party dwindled and
died. Thus the two party system perlisted,
It was a realignment by honest
profession of political faith. The English
have at least _preserved' political
honesty and integrity; we have not.
Now in our country, the nameS of
the two great political parties meant
something until several decades ago.
Then they signified the political
philosophy of their members. Now,
they signify nothing, but are mere
empty emblems. This is of course due
to the resurgence and growth of the
socialist concept in our own country,
and the .;;~velopment of what we now
know as the Left Wing Socialist, or
Socialist, or Socialist-Labor group
in our own country, and its incubation
and growth within the existing
parties, and refusal to step out under
its own banner and retire to its own
bivouac, as the same group did in
England decades ago.
Let no one be deceived. We now
have three political parties in this
country: The DemoCratic Party, the
Republican Party, and the SocialistLabor
Party. This is due to the fact
that the Socialist-Labor party has not
had the honesty and integrity as did
their forerunners In England, to with.
draw unto its own camp, stand upon
its own merits and openly espouse tts
own cause. They have chosen to· remain
within the parties, play both
ends against the middle, conservative
against conservative, and generally
breed confusion and foster deception
to the irreparable damage of the J!epublic.
They have power without responsibility;
rule without obligation,.
Furthermore, let no one be deceived
into thinking that Left Wing Socialism
is not a party, a political party, well
etched and defined: a political philosophy,
radical, resurgent and e£ficient
to procure its own ends and to put into
effect its own ideologies. Also no one
should be deceived into believing that
the labor end of the apparatus is just
a group of working people seeking
higher wages or better working conditions.
As a political party or organization
wages and working conditions
have little or nothing to do with it.
The socialist-labor movement was
well defined and powerful in England
even before the Reform Act of 1884,
before which time the average working
man was not even allowed to vote.
It has always and is now supported
by intellectuals, theorists and social
planners.
I want it understood that I am not
here to criticize and demean any person
or persons. Neither am I here to
castigate Left wing Socialism as a
political and economic philosophy, although
its tenets are repugnant to me.
After all, I have more respect for
Norman Thomas than for the politiican,
be he Democrat or Republican,
who parades as a conservative and
surreptitiously seeks the Left Wing
Socialfst vote. I merely urge that they
segregate themselves into their own
party and march under their own banner,
As astounding as it may seem, for
twenty years they have dictated to
the conservative citadel of the nation,
the Southland.
The Left Wing socialists are deeply
embedded in the political parties.
They have practically seized control
of one, and are heavily infiltrated
in the other. With the minority and
block votes they control, they are in
position to practically dictate to the
hapless politician of today. They
threaten, intimidate and coerce the
ofiice holder into doing things against
which their consciences must certainly
revolt. If we are to save our political
ideals we must cut clearly loose
from them and chart our own course,
and a way must be found.
Let us examine some of the crises
with which we are presently confronted.
Take the question of segregation
in our schools which is a matter
of states rights and a matter in which
we are presently so deeply concerned.
1 make the solemn and sincere prediction
that if we do not cut entirely
loose from the lett wlnr politicians,
then segregation Is certainly doomed.
You cannot play the political came
with them in all respeeta except one-se
«Tegatlon. Serreratton Is only one
of the phases of the tirht for Constitutional
rovernment - important
though It be. You can't comrade with
a left wlnrer and stand aside when he
Shades of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
In New York recently, Secretary
oi Health, Education and Welfare
Folsom issued a public statement
reminiscent of the Thirties when
Socialism first began taking root
in this country and Roosevelt set
up the proposition that the weak
and the incompete~t were more
worthy of government consideration
than the strong and the able.
Folsom called on American business
and labor to join government
in pursuing vigorously "a policy
of prevention and elimination of
need", whatever that means.
"We must renew our combined
efforts to achieve for each person
an ever-increasing measure of economic
security, well-being and
freedom from wantn this Republican
Oscar Ewing told a meeting of
the CIO-AFL which recently
merged. '
Although Ewing - pardon us,
Folsom - advocated a program in
which the government would underwrite
the expenses of the citizen
from the cradle to the grave
and perform every personal service
for him t!xcept giving him a
bath, the Socialist laborites later
bitterly assailed the administration
for which Folsom was trying to
create votes.
It was apparent from resolutions
passed that the Union leaders prefer
the Democratic brand to the
Republican type of Socialism.
attacks one certain principle you reserve
the right to defend. You cannot
win with your enemies, We must
break the bonds of political realty
with the Left wtnr Soctallsb, or else
segregation might as well be forrotten.
The conservatives of the nation, and
especially of the Southland, are being
squeezed to death between the jaws
of a giant nut cracker, which said
jaws represent nothing other than our
two venerable political parties. The
floating party, the Socialist-Labor
group, dangles the prize before their
eyes- the prize for our destructionmillions
of racial minority and block
votes. It must be a delightful spectacle
indeed for Mr. Reuther and Mr.
Kroll, etal.
So I say to insu;e our survival as
a free people, we must forthwith
bring about a complete re-alignment
of the political parties In this country.
I have said we must find a way out.
How can this be done? He who points
up an evil should suggest a remedy.
We must attack the problem from
the opposite direction from that by
which it was solved in England. In
England the Socialist-Labor group,
when t h e y attained sufficient
strength, moved out and founded their
own party. With us, they refuse to do
So the Conservative forces of the
country, those who believe in the preservation
of Constitutional government,
sponsored by som.e such group
as the Federation for Constitutional
Government, should put into the field
a strong independent conservative
candidate for President, The movement
should have no local complexion.
Its appeal should be nationwide, for
there are millions in America thirsting
for conservative lead'ership, The
meeting should be held preferably
without the South, and perhaps In
one of the larger mid-western cities.
Without a doubt, such a candidate
would receive many millions of votes,
and would carry a respectable number
of states. It might even upoQ the
first election throw the election of the
president into the House of Representatives
which would over night break
the strangle hold control of the party
politicians. Certainly within a decade,
it would' result in a complete realign-
Fired Subversives Bounce
Back Like Rubber Checks
Pending the adoption by the
United Nations World government
of a proposed 41COnvention" which
will prevent anybody from making
derogatory statements against
anybody else at any time and
which will prohibit the firing of
anybody for any cause, we are
doing pretty well here in this
country without it.
William Henry Taylor, assistant
Director of the International
Monetary Fund's Middle East De·
partment and fo,·merly assistant
to the late Harry White, Communist
spy in the T1easury Department
of the United States, and who
was fired from his job because of
alleged facts which rendered him
a security risk, has been vindicated
by something called the tjinternational
Organizations Loy a 1 t y
Board" an outfit that most Ameri·
cans didn't know existed.
The Board claimed that it had
before it testimony which was not
available when Taylor was discharged.
Hereafter, if any department or
division of our far-flung national
or world government agencies
want to fire anybody and have him
stay fired. they'd better make sure
before giving him the gate that he
is not a Communist, fellow-traveller
or other security risk.
Otherwise, he's liable to come
bouncing back like a rubber check.
ment of the political parties of this
country. As to which party or parties
would be submerged and forgotten,
would be a matter of utter insignificance.
The party of Gladstone has
been forgotten, but Gladstone will
never be forgotten. We would then at
least have political honesty and integrity,
and everybody would know
where the other fellow stood. England
marched into socialism, but they did
it with their eyes open and not by deception
and indirection. Now they are
trying to march out. They at least
know how they got there and what
it will take to get them out. That Ia
more than we know.
I said that millions of Americans
are hungering for conservative and
honest leadership, and this is true. t
This was demonstrated in 1952. As to
how well he who offered it carried
through on his promise is a matter of
individual opinion based on the record.
It would. be inappropriate for me
even to express my view as I am not
attempting to make a political speech.
The conservative forces, if properly
organized and led can preserve segregation
by legal means by forcing a
return to the states of power rightful-ly
belonging to them.
I would like also in passing to comment
upon what is termed the "middle
of the road" candidate some of us
are so desperately seeking, There is
no such thing. The Socialists want it
all. It is merely another delusion.
And some justify our consorting
with the left wingers on the ground
it will insure seniority for Congressmen
and "party chairmanships". This
could be no more than a temporary
stop gap. This is mere political mani-b~
1~~fi~ic~u~a;~;~lt:~o:.a~u~~ty ~!~ •
of courage and bra very who never
calculated the political consequences
of their acts.
I have said and repeat that the people
are thirsting for conserVative and
honest leadership, and that is true
not only in the southland but all over
the nation. There is a strong deep
seated movement stirring among the
people - a cry for conservative and'
safe leadership. Shall they cry in vain
for this while the timorous politician
stands aside, "doubting in his abject
spirit while his Lord is crucified"?"
Page 8 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
Bitter Battle May Result White House Conference on Education
Over Armed Services Bill Was Greatest Farce Ever Perpetrated
WashJngton newspaper men reveal
that a bitter battle is expected in the
present Congress over the proposed
armed services program.
Washington officials make no effort
to conceal the fact that enlistments
are lagging to an alarming extent and
the disinterest of young men in volunteering
is an open secret in the nation's
capital.
The reason o! course is not hard to
come by, although no mention is made
officially of the motive back of the
reluctance of young Americans to
come forward and o!fer their services
In peacetime to fight potential wars
of the future in unknown areas of
the world.
Chief amon"g these is the remembrance
of prisoners of war left in
Korea to the mercy of Chinese Communists
who failed to return them to
this country in keeping with the terms
of the Armistice; the possibility of
being sent to a foreiin country minus
the protection of the American Flag
under the status of forces treaty which
abandons them to trial by foreign
courts in the event of -Commission of
crime or misdemeanor and last, but by
no means least, because of the mixing
of Negroes and white men in sleeping
and eating quarters.
Where Have We Heard
This Line Before?
Now that the League of Women
Voters has come out in its true colors,
they are apparently decided to go
right down the Party Line.
The outfit's president, one Mrs.
John G. Lee, said over a recent
Columbia Broadcasting program:
"Commtmism constitutes an undeniable
threat to the security of the
nation but our freedoms are weakened
each time we mistake dissent
for Communism, each time we yield
to the temptation to use or be influenced
by misrepresentation and
"We fear Communism but are confused
by the appearance of the con·
cept or guilt by association and the
pressure.s (or conformity".
This well-meaning but inept lady
simply has too many "bub" in her
denunciation of Communism.
Any true and unqualifiedly patrl·
otic American Js against Communism
without any "ands ifs or buts". They
are against Communism. Period.
uwe are heading into our 23rd
deficit in the last 26 years" says
the great economist, Henry Haz~
litt in News Week. "In the richest
and most productive year in our
history, with the most onerous
taxation we have known until this
decade, our Federal revenue still
does not equal our Federal spend4
ing. That spending now runs to
about $64,000,000,000 a year -
twenty times the rate at which we
were spending, say, in 1928. Yet
the administration professes help4
lessly that it cannot cut thU
down . • !' This tragic mis-management
of the government point.
ed ou~ by Mr. Hazlitt stamps ours
as a nation of morons governed by
a band of criminals and if nobody
can stop it, we deserve the fate
.. which awaits the Republic.
The average American seems
to have no conception whatever
of the fundamental fact that the
Federal government does not have
a penny except that which it takes
forcibly from the taxpayers.
Somewhere along the line they
got the idea that money grows on
trees along the banks of the Poto·
mac and that all Congress has to
do is to go out and harvest it like
gathering persi~mons in a bucket.
Our warning to parents in the November-December edition of the
Southern Conservative to the effect that the White House Conference
on Education would be stacked by stooges of the National Education
Association in the interest of Federal Aid to schools was the understatement
of all time and didn't half prepare them for what actually
happened.
The Conference turned out to be the most flagrant and disgraceful
performance ever staged in the way of alleged free and open discussion
of a group of citizens called together to give consideration to a subject
of vital interest to all the people of the United States.
It was exposed by delegates who attended on the assumption that
it was on the level, as the greatest farce ever perpetrated in the name
of free discussion and "grass roots" participation.
In direct contradiction of its sponsors' advance -::leun that the Conference
would be composed principally of "laymen" interested in education,
the professional educationists moved in·and took it over like Grant
took Richmond.
Of the approximately 1800 delegates in attendance, it is reliably
estimated that more than sixty per cent were professional politicians
in educational circles well versed in high pressure tactics and with long
experience in lobbying educational bills through State legislatures and
Congress.
Not only did accredited delegates to the Conference have no voice
and no vote in the proceedings but the ufinal report" of the Conference
on Federal Aid is believed by many to have been written well in advance
of the session, and the main objective 0f the Conference is now generally
regarded as having been the ultimate C!ontrol of the Public School systems
of the United States by the Federal government through the medium
of Federal Aid.
The Conference now stands revealed as an all·out plug by the Na·
tiona! Education Association, the National Citizens Commission for the
Public Schools and the federal Department of Education for the multimillion-
dollar Federal Aid program as advocated in the messages which
the Eisenhower administration has sent, and will presently send, to the
Congress.
Of the twelve top chairmen writing the ureports" for the six topics
listed for discussion at the top level, on the basis of two for each topic,
nine turned out to be professional educationists, leaving only three
ulaymen" in this category.
These professional educationists were Dr. William G. Carr, born
in England, and who has been the chief ramrod for NEA policies, in
one capacity or another, since 1928 and who is author of the .revealing
book "Education for World Citizenship"; Clayton J. Chamberlain,
Superintendent of Public IOstntction in Honolulu ; James D. King, a
local School Superintendent in a small Texas city; Elmer W. Rowley,
Dean of Joliet Junior College in Illinois; Earl H. Beling, a "consultant"
for the White House Conference; Mrs. Fred A. Radke, past president of
the Washington State School Directors Association; Mrs. Ruth Page,
State President of the Federation of District Boards of Education and,
of all people, Pearl A. Wanamaker and Dr. Edgar Fuller, a couple of
red-hot Federal Aiders and "plants" of NEA. Mrs. Wanamaker _was a
former president of NEA and is currently State Superintendent of
Public Instruction in the State of Washington while Fuller is Executive
Secretary of the National Council of Chief State School Officers, a de·
partment of NEA. ....
As was to be expected, Wanamaker and Fuller turned up as the two
top dogs in issuing the ufinal reportjJ on the topic of Federal Aid, although
we were told that the affairs of the Conference would be han·
died mainly by "laymen". However, there are probably a lot of red
faces in NEA now over their choice of the Wanamaker woman. Since
the Conference ended she has received nation·wide publicity through
press and radio for reinstating the back pay of a Margaret Jean Schud~
dakopf who had been suspended from her school couriselor job at Ta·
coma, Washington, for her refusal to tell the House Un-American Activities
Committee whether or not she had ever been a member of the Communist
Party. The Schuddakopf woman is the sister of the notorious
George Shaw Wheeler who is now voluntarily behind the Iron Curtain.
Nice people!
Summed up, th~ Washington Conference on Education was a rigged
affair and designed solely to whip up interest in the plan for the Federal
government to take over the schools and to impress members of
Congress with the widespread demand for Federal Aid in ord~r that
they would vote accordingly. ,
However, the Conference has been so thoroughly discredited and
its arbitrary methods of procedure so widely exposed that it now appears
that it will serve the opposite purpose and bring about the defeat
of any proposed Federal Aid legislation, although at the drinking party
at the close of the session at the Sheraton Park Hotel, NEA representatives
were overheard congratulating each other on having 11put one
over" on the country boys and girls attending the Conference, and expressing
the belief that Federal Aid legislation was in tho bag.
January, 1956
A Heart That Bleeds
For Commies Alone
Practica1ly no one was surprised
at the shocking performance oi Eleanor
Roosevelt during the Christmas
holidays when she joined with Norman
Thomas and fourteen other Communist
·lovcrs in petitioning the Pres.
ident to release the Communist criminals
(rom prison who were convicted
of plotting the overthrow of the
American government. Pleading the
cause:: of Communists has always been
her favorite indoor sport.
She wanted these scoundrels released
in order that they might spend
Christmas at home with their families
although she well knows that ·
they have no respect for, nor belief
in, Christmas nor the Christ whose
birth the event commemorates
The Roosevelt woman has a heart
which often bleeds for suffering humanity
but, strangely enough, none
of her sympathy is wasted on patriot·
ic Americans. They could rot and die
in prison for all she appears to care,
but let a Communist land in the clink
and she is Johnnie-on- the-spot beg-ging
l"or his release.
Captain Eugene Guild of Glenwood
Springs, Colorado, on the other hand
is a good American patriot who lost
a son in the Korean Police Action
and who has spent his full time since
that tragic event in a relentless effort
to secure the release of young Americans
still held by Red China bandits.
When she made her dramatic plea
for the release of the criminals who
worked for the overthrow of the
United States government, Captain
Guild addressed a letter to her w
should have caused her to hang her
head in shame but probably didn't.
Captain Guild pleaded with her in
these words: "Having petitioned Pres.
ident Eisenhower to tree the Ameri~
can Communists who plotted to overthrow
the American government, no
doubt you will also have the compas~
sian to petition Mao Tse Tung to free
all the Americans he holds, including
the heroes who fought for America'•
freedom."
Naturally she has not answered
Captain Guild and there is no chance
that she will. To misfortune and
tragedy which befall those other
than Communists, she seem.s to be as
cold as a pawnbroker's heart.
Top officials of five Southern
States are taking strong measures
to defy the Supreme Court's un4
constiutional ruling on segrega4
tion. That Texas is not among
them threatens a heart-breaking
disruption of some deeply-rooted
political loyalties and ties of long
standing, according to current
political gossip.
Owen Lattimore who escaped
prosecution for lying to a Con4
gressional Committee concerning
his Communist associations has
broken out with a denunciation
of u. S. policies in Asia. Because
of his narrow escape from a pos~
sible prison sentence, most people
had thought, and hoped, that they
had heard the last of him.
In Houston recently there was
a complete clean-out of uliberals"
from the City Hall and an entire
Conservative. Council elected. The
former administration had employed
Gould Beach, a professional
racial deviate whose speci4
alty is mixing whites and blacks
on aU levels to organize Houston
Negroes, but the Conservative
slate was elected overwhelmingly
with an all-white vote.
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