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THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE -To Plead for a Return of Constitutional Government-
Vol. 12 FORT WORTH, TEXAS, APRIL, 1961 No.4
-Battle Against Communism Can't Be Won
Until We Get The Churches On Our Side
And We Thought It Was Just A Brainstorm
When we wrote about the Youth Peace Corps last month, we never
dreamed that anything so utterly absurd and ridiculous might actually
become a reality. This too in spite of the fact that there are few bizarre
panaceas for curing the social and economic ills of humanity which we
have not heard advanced by ~wisted and distorted minds, in our time.
We just thought that this Youth Peace Corps was the latest brain~
storm of some Harvard jerk who had run out of screwball proposals
for the day and had just tossed it in for the heck of it and that it would
be laughed out of existence.
But now we find that the thing is actually being put into operation
through an uExecutive Order" which is the new and modern method,
along with judicial decisions, for enacting legislation.
So, believe it or not, we are really preparing to send green college
graduates across the ocean to "educate" people of other countries even
though most of these students can't read, can't write and can't spell cat
without using two t's.
Out of a clear sky and without Congre ssional sanction or anything
more than a nudge from Socialist college pro fessors, the President
''ordered'' the State Department to "establish. an agency in the Department
to be known. as the Youth Peace Corps" and to "provide for the
financing of this Youth Peace Corps out of funds available ••• under
tho Mutval Security AGt of 1954."
With no more authority than that, a solid phalanx of eager, panting
guys and gals are now all coeked and primed to fan out into backward
countries and "banish ignorance, poverty, disease and hunger" from the
face of the earth.
From all available Information the new Youth Peace Corps is to
be a sort of streamlined version of Roosevelt's old CCC Camps, with
a Harvard accent; but, whereas, the New Deal conception was a democratie
institution and took in bums, beachcombers and beatniks alike,
and whose only chores were to rake leaves, ahop weeds and build privies
fn publie parks, Kennedy's projeGt will draw its recruits from the educat-
. ed elite, whose badge of admission is a diploma from a Pink unversity,
and their chore it t-o re-vamp the universe, and revise social and
economie patterns tohroughout the globe.
One of the requirements for the "corpsmen" is that they adapt themselv&
s to ltving aonditions of the backward country to which they are
assigned and it should be interesting to observe how quickly they adjust,
let us say, to life in a mud hut of an East Indian village with a cowdung
floor.
This new and novel project Is sa!d to have the wholehearted approval
of the people of the Congo and other citadels of African "independence"
who are probably smacking their lips and licking their chops in anticipation
of some nice, juicy Fump roasts from fat and tender young American
reformers.
SerioUsly, the only extenuating feature of this Incomprehensible and
Idiotic project is the certainty that the United States will lose no worth·
while human material through the operation of the Youth Peace Corps.
'rhe onl¥ ones who will join up will be educated riffraff who would
have t>Urned out to be eggheads any way and, thereforo, of no earthly
use to normal sootety.
No respectable and thinking American parents are going to allow
a young son or daughter to take part in this clever scheme for m.ass
lndoetrination of the minds of American youth in favor of Commumsm
and a__gaitut the American Free Enterprise System.
They aro already stuffed with Communist propaganda when they
graduat-e f.rom the average university and away f·rom home environment,
thei-r immature and plastie minds will lap it u.p like a hog swills slop.
And there will be no chance for them to indoctrinate others with American
ideal~ beeause most of them will know nothing about the subject
themselves.
Surel;y enough oommon sense ean be conscripted in Washington to
put a« &nd to this tragicomic proposal before we become any more the
laughil\fl stock of tho world than we aro already.
The most powerful forc:es in civilization for shaping spiritual
thought and directing public: opinio11 Into moral onil righte•
ous channels ore the Christi011 churches of a notion and no
influence supersedes thcit whic:h dedicated ministers of the
Gospel exert on the lives of the people. Trained propOCJandists
for World Communism seized on this vital truth when
they instituted the campaign to gain the support of religious
leaders of the United States ill their diabolical conspiracy to
enslave humanity. Their success in this field has been attest·
ed by the fact that not only has an important segment of
Christian influence i11 this country been withheld from the
fight whic:h loyal Americans ore waging ogainst CommunIsm,
but the most powerful ond most highly organized church
group in the nation, oc:tually subscribes to doctrines and
Ideologies odvonced by the Soviet Union. Thousands of
American c:hurc:h leoders with soft hearts and softer heads,
have been led astray by the siren voice of the Soviets prof ..
feri01g peoc:e as t e r warcl fO'I' c:ooperat!>::> and c:o-exist•
enc:e, forgetting that the peac:e of Communism is the peac:e
of death but without hope of. resurrection. Unless this massive
ec:c:lesiastic:al power c:an be rescued from the c:lutc:hes
of atheistic: world conspirators and its strength diverted to
the anti-Communist c:ause, the bottle of desperate American
patriots to hold bac:k the Red Tide may be only a tragic: and
f~tile gesture.
As the horrible menace of World Communism continues to draw
human subjects into its poisonous and swelling domain and to suck additional
vast territory behind the Iron Curtain, activities of anti-Communist
groups in the United States are being whipped into renewed activity .
Hordes of Americans who have heretofore shown little concern
about what is happening to the Republic are becoming gravely alarmed
over the terrifying implications of a potential Slave State which, at long
last, they realize could be their fate just as it has been the fate of other
smug, apathetic and self-satisfied peoples.
But those who face the situation realistically and who refuse to
stick their heads in the sand, concede that as long as one of the most
powerful church groups in the United States continues to throw its
force and influence behind Moscow-sparked social, political and economic
proposals, opponents of Communism in this country face a long
fight with a short stick and that the prospect for victory is bleak.
We have reference, of course, to the National Council of Churches
which has an almost unbroken record of support of the major issues involved
in propaganda campaigns which World Communism has launched
in this country. '
Theoretically, of course, the Council is opposed to Communism.
It says so in its literature and in interviews by its officials to the press.
And when it is preparing to endorse some such proposal as the admission
of Red China to the United Nations or the discontinuance of Congressional
probes into Communist activities in this country, the Council
emphasizes its opposition to Communism in stern and uncompromising
language.
But this does not alter the fact that if the Soviets could only muster
enough "opposition" of the type represented by the National Coun.cil
of Churches, Communism would soon overrun the whole world m~
stead of only a major part of it.
{Continued on Page 21
Millions of Americans Think it - The Southern Conservative Says It
P•ge 2 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE April, 1961
Rev. Pike Is Not A Card-Carrying
Communist. He Just Acts Like One
Here We Go Merrily On
Our Way To The Bottom
Poor old Uncle Sam who lacks
almost $300,000,000,000.00 of having
anything at all is going to be
called on to shell out $394,000,-
000.00 to "depressed areas" as the
result of a New Frontier measure
recently passed by Congress.
The purposes for which this
money will be used indicate some
rather startling innovations in the
aims and responsibilities of government
and especially of the Federal
government.
It is proposed that $100,000,000
of the amount be employed to cure
"disaster" in urban areas by building
up the tourist business in such
sections.
Another $100,000,000 would be
used to provide "public facilities"
in order to make a locality "more
attractive" to industry and to new
residents.
An additional $4,500,000 is allocated
for the purpose of re-training
the unemployed in new jobs
or skills where they have pooped
in their old one. An additional
$10,000,000 was made available to
pay for the expense of workers
up to 16 weeks while they are
qualifying for a new job.
Also $4,500,000 is provided for
technical assistance uto alleviate or
prevent conditions leading to unemployment.'
What that means is
anybody's guess.
But what the whole thing means
is that we are on the skids and,
unless there is a general awakening,
we probably won't stop until
we hit bottom.
Washington With Heavy
Neqro Population
Gets Right To Vote
' Residents of Washington, D. C.
can now vote for President and
vice President of the United States,
something they could not do under
the origioal Constitution.
But the approval by the 38th
State recently of the 23rd amendment
gave them this privilege although
the political aspects of the
amendment are indicated by the
fact that citizens there cannot vote
Jn local elections and the area is
not given statehood. The District
will have 3 electoral votes hereafter
in national campaigns and
that seems to have been the idea.
Efforts to pass this amendment
have been under way for a hundred
years, but apparently it was
only when Negroes composed a
majority of the population there
that the matter had any chance of
success.
Thinking Americans had hoped
that the 23rd Amendment would
be repeal of the income tax and
the removal of the Federal government
from competition with private
industry but that movement will
now be known as the proposed 24th
amendment.
James A. Pike of California, theological
publicity seeker has once
more shocked and startled many
people with his defense of atheism
and his repudiation of the Divinity
of Christ in public sermons and
lectures.
Although his actions would indicate
the contrary, we do not believe
that the Rev. Mr. Pike is a
card-carrying Communist. In that
capacity he would be of little service
to the Communist cause and
would be unable to attract the
attention he seems to crave.
Apparently he belongs in that influential
and extensive group of
Americans who prefer to advance
Communism in this country by remaining
outside the Party and appearing
to speak from the standpoint
of a disinterested and unbiased
non-member.
He shouted himself hoarse in upholding
the right of the young
Communists who attacked and
broke up the hearing of the Committee
on Un-American Activities
of the House of Representatives in
San Francisco last year and seldom
opens his mouth except to defend
some action or policy of the Soviets.
While we do not think Mr. Pike
is a Communist Party member, we
do think that both he and the
Party are losing something every
day he remains outside of it because
there is a congeniality of
thought between them which
should draw them together in a
Inadvertently Mr. Pike is render ..
ing a service to the American people
for he is a living example that
the charges that many professed
Ministers of the Gospel in this country
are outright disciples of Karl
Marx, are not exaggerated.
A foreigner who didn't know any
better on coming tO this country,
and noting the publicity, would not
know whether Arthur Goldberg or
Jack Kennedy was President of the
United States. If there ever was a
headline hog, the Labor Commissioner
is it.
In a news release by the Associated
Press March 25 it was pointed
out that "there would be no quick
or easy victory for anti-Communist
forces" in the event there is
fighting in Laos of a general nature.
Well, Korea proved that wars
are not fought to win any more.
Examples of modern statesmanship,
State and National: The national
debt> is nearly $300,000,000,-
000.00 so Congress is to consider
the passage of laws which call for
the expenditure of so many billions
of dollars that nobody knows
the total amount. The State treasury
of Texas is in the red so the
Senate Finance Committee of that
body has recommended an appropriation
bill calling for expenditures
of $2,500,000,000. Boy, with
such brains in control, we can't
lose!
A committee of United States
senators held hearings March 28
through the 30th to discuss the
"Mentally Ill" and what should be
done about them. From their record
and their vote on Socia1ist legislation,
many good Americans
think the senators should be answering,
instead of asking, questions
on this subject.
"Socialism is Communism without
the firing squad," says Tom
Anderson of Farm and Ranch,
Nashville. Tennessee.
From an elderly subscriber ln.
Houston who had hoped for the
return of Constitutional Government
in her time: "It seems I have
spent a large part of my life ob·
serving things that are destroying
our country and I am getting weary
of protesting • • • Only God cal)
help us now.''
Congressman J. Arthur Younger
of California says it is not true
that JFK stands for "Jobs for kin·
folks" and that despite all rumors
to the contrary. Harvard boys are
not taking all the Yale locks off
the doors in the White House.
Battle Against Communism ~~;
In other words, if the National Council of Churches in the United
States is the 'jenemy" of Communism, then the Soviets don't need any
friends. They can do better and make more progress with the help,
of their "enemies."
This highly organized and financially secure church group, claim·.
fng nearly 40,000,000 members has deliberately made itself suspect by the
~~ar~~dita::fn~~ki~n u~~~ i!ni~ ~~l~ssi~o~l~n~e~~n\t~h~e~~~~g~~~e~~~~1
its position on controversial issues which are tearing the Republic tq
shreds - issues on which, as a professed religious organizaUon, it had
no business taking a stand in the first place.
Over the years the Council, Its committees, affiliates, committees
or individuals closely identified with it have taken action which makes
their claim of "opposition" to Communism an insult to public intelli.gence.
They have elected as their president on more than one occasion
men with official Communist front records - men who have publicly
asked for the release of Earl Browder, once Commu.nist party head Jn
the United States; who have asked for "justice" for Morton Sobel~
convicted spy charged with stealing atomic secrets f-rom this count~
~~~~eu;i~~.ie!~;d P;~;e;~~ar~f d~tie~~~:rr~~ H;~?d~;i~~=~· t~u~~~~~~
Communists from entering this country. Edwin T. Dahlberg, for one .•
was in this classification.
They have Issued a "recommended reading list" containing such
publications as "Black Reconstruction" by Negro W. E. B. DuBois, with
some 75 Communist front records and the recipient of a Soviet Peaca
Prize; "The Negro iA Southern Agriculture" by Victor Perlo, listed in
U.S. Intelligence agency documents as the head of the second mos$
important espionage group in the U.S. government and member of the
f.ib~o:~;~h~~~;n~;i~~~;!~~~ :J:h~~~~t~~g~~~d~~i~: J!:~~~~t::r~
Christ has long been considered a classic of Communist literature·; "With-
~~t v~:gan;Jia;;s~:n:u~~~n~~~~;tsa~~o:c~~~M B~~~~otbo~~ ~~~~c~:r~~
The Council has made repeated attempts to discredit the film "Op·
eration Abolition" which gives the authentic picture of Communist-led
riots in San Francisco against the Committee on Un-American Activities
of the House of Representatives, a legally-conotituted body investigating
Communism i» the United States.
Committees or officials of the Council have urged the admission
~e!~~sc~~~~g~~d t~~ ~~~~~t Nua:i~~~~ 0~~~u~~=t t=~~:;.~es~ o~~::J
loyalty oaths pledging allegiance to the United States, approved the
Communist program for racial mixing on all levels in this country
where segregation has peacefully prevailed for almost a hundred years,
attacked Capitalism and called for a planned economy and have yet to
officially approve, publicly commend or express gratitude for the Amer·
ican Free Enterprise System which is the basis of the financial security
it enjoys and which provides the substance by which it is enabled
to carry on activities that give aid and comfort to the enemies of
the American Republic who have sworn to overthrow this system.
There is no point in issuing denials of the stand they have taken.
The record is already written and the only way they can erase this record
is to admit error and realign their forces with the Christian patriots
of this country who are fighting valiantly to hold back the monster of
Communism which is gradually reaching out to clasp the whole world
in its evil embrace.
A special day should be set aside in which all good Americans ear ..
nestly pray for the re-conversion to Christianity of all their beloved
ministers who have been won over to the corrupt and malignant gospel
of Karl Marx and for their help in saving the American Republic from
the sworn enemies of Christian civilization.
At the same time prayers of gratitude should be offered up for
the countless thousands of consecrated ministers of the Gospel whose
steadfast faith could not be shaken and who have refused to be diverted
from their work for the Master by the insidious forces seeking to abolish
Christianity from the face of the earth.
Apdl, 1961 THE SOU THERN CONSERVATIVE
Speaker Says United Nations We Would 'Go Back To The McKinley
Is Working For Our Enemies Administration' If We Could Have
The United States has no policy The BlessinC)S That Went With It
at a ll in fighting Communism ex-cept
to support the United Nations Every American worthy of citizenship in this great Republic is
a nd the U. N. is working for our praying that the dark clouds of war which are hovering over the world
enemies, Dr. Robert Morris, Pres- will be dispelled and that a third tragic conflict will be averted.
ident of the University of Dallas, Another world war would finish off civilization, regardless of the
and former counsel of a Senate outcome. And in this country, if the bombs didn't get us a dictatorship
~~m~i\t~~ i:~~~~~~t~~Td C~:~u~~= ~~~!~y~nd there's no choice between complete extermination and total
ence of more than 1000 in Houston
on March 18.
The occasion was the final meetIng
of a four-week session of the
Houston Freedom Forum, an active
and militant group of anti-Communists
in that city.
Dr. Morris said that the AmerIcan
people can no longer sit back
and let Washington continue to
take no position at all on this conspiracy
and expect to win the battle
against Communism.
This lack of national policy, the
lndifferenee of the people and
downright treason iR some areas
are responsible for the fact that
Communism Is advancing toward
Its goal In this country and
throughout the world, Dr. Morris
said.
He blamed the United States for
the fall of Nationalist China and
~~';;;~~nl!'a~hi~: ::.tt~eeina:~~s~
until wo stopped them. "We dis·
armed our allies," he added.
'The Fate Of A Nation
Wa Ri in That ight'
Officials of the Paul Revere
Painting Fund of Old North Church
In Boston, Massachusetts, are askIng
for funds to keep this famous
symbol of liberty from falling into
the hands of private collectors.
Edward L. Bigelow, Treasurer
of the Fund, has issued the followIng
appeal<
The famed W. R. Leigh painting
of Paul Revere's Ride is on exhibition
at Old North Church, Boston.
It is hoped that the painting will
remain permanently in this historic
shrine of liberty for the inspiration
of the hundreds of thousands
who now visit the church. The
painting, however, is only on loan,
and unless some $7,000 is raised
Within the next few months, this
patriotie symbol of the birth of
America by Leigh, who with his
wife founded the Traphagen School,
will become the possession of a
private coJlector. Generous donations
and small gifts to date amount
to approximately $7,000. Let us
unite in undertaking to raise the
balance and save this dramatie can-r.
t• ~~~:m~e~~~~! ~1a;h:d~~:;;
~ntributions to: Paul Revere Paint•
lng Fund of Old North Church, Ed·
ward L. Bigelow, Treasurer, State
• r~~e~~a~~~~ ;~~e£r~~oo<;.o~~~~:
sachusetts. Acknowledgements will
be made to the men, women and
Children who contribute. Gifts oo
the fund are tax deductible.
Statisticians estimate that each
family's share of the national debt
Is more than $6,400. Nice heritage
to leave• our children and our chil-·
dren's children!
It is to war that internationalists and one-worlders look to put their
regimentation programs into effect and it matters nothing to them how
many human lives or how much human freedom is sacrificed in the
process. Another good stiff shooting war would be just what those boys
want for it would ripen the United States up for world dictatorship
through World Government.
Regimentation is the very essence of war which is always seized
upon to put it into effect and, like war-time taxes which are never repealed,
regimentation will never be lifted once it is again imposed on us
under the alleged necessity of war-time regulations.
It is a favorite cliche of the liberal elements who promote world
government to assert that those of us who oppose incessant meddling
by one nation into the internal affairs of another-which is the direct or
indirect cause of all wars-are "isolationists" and that also we "want
to go back to the days of the McKinley administration."
Looking over the state of the world at this writing, we freely plead
guilty to both charges.
At least in that period of the nation's history it seems there was
peace and dignity throughout the world and mutual respect between all
nations. Every country on the globe was not all triggered up and ready
to shoot without particularly caring in which ·direction their guns were
pointed.
No one nation tried to buy the friendship of others with taxpayers'
money nor considered that the elected head of their country was necessarily
a uworld leader" and qualified to tell other countries what to do
and how to do it. A President of the United States respected the rights
and prerogatives of those who held similar positions in other nations and
demonstrated this respect by attending strictly to his business, trying
to keep his own country safe, solvent and uninvolved in entangling
foreign alliances, thereby earning and winning the admiration of the
whole world.
There was no world conspiracy called the United Nations which
had been dumped in our midst composed of the most undesirable elements
of the countries from which they came, bent on destroying our
Constitution and our national sovereignty and who by spying, meddling
and bickering among themselves kept every nation on earth on edge
and stirred up until they were constantly at each other's throats.
One of the most immortal slogans of the ages is that "familiarity
breeds contempt" and this holds as true of nations as of individuals.
There is even more virtue in "apartness" than there is in "togetherness"
and by disregarding this eternal truth and trying to force our free
independent and Constitutional Republic into a brawling family of
Socialist nations and pretending political, economic and social congeniality
where none exists, we have bred a contempt for us which has nullified
the exalted position we once held in the assemblage of nations.
Yes, we are an isolationist and we would like to ugo back to the
days of the McKinley Administration" if only for the sheer joy of living
in a land whose national leaders were men of discriminating judgment,
dedicated patriotism and recognized political integrity and whose concern
in the welfare of foreign nations did not supersede their interest in
the security of their own and whose loyalty to the American Flag and
the Republic for which it stands was not open to challenge.
Ohio Students Strike Against
'Injustices' At University
At Bowling Green State Univer·
sity in Ohio, on March 28, 2,000
students attested to the superior
advantages of higher education by
a performance which is becoming
more or less routine among the
intelligentsia in our institutions of
learning.
They went on a rampage and, figuratively
speaking, shot up the little
town of Bowling Green in protest,
their leaders said, against
"conditions" at the university.
Pressed to name these condi~
tlons, spokesmen said that they opposed
the ban on drinking on the
campus, prohibition of necking parties
late at night In front of the
girls' dormitories, and a ban on
"freedom of speech."
Their rloting took the form of
blocking the U.S. highway which
goes down the main street of the
According to newspaper reports
on January 23, the Development
Loan Fund is going to lend $125
million for the building of a steel
mill on the Turkish Shore of the
Black Sea near the Russian border.
At the same time it was announced
that the American steel mills
are operating at a little over 39
per cent capacity. What we would
like to know: Is this a sound policy
of government or is it utter insanity
on the part of those in po~
sitions of leadership?
town and highway l?atrolmen had
to be called on to dispel the mob.
Reading of all these collegiate
disturbances which seem to have
blossomed out all over with the
coming of Spring, we wonder how
many of them, or their counterparts,
will be taken into the Youth
Peace Corps and just what brand
of culture they will instill into the
people of backward countries?
Pogo J
Minister Sets Standard
For Christian Behavior
A Fort Worth Protestant minis ..
ter who conducts a weekly column
in a local newspaper undertook to
tell his followers in his column re ..
cently what they should do to become
Christians.
"They must come to the realization
that when they pray the fa·
m1har _words 'Thy Kingdom come,
Thy Will be done on earth as it is
i':l Heaven' they are uttering a petitiOn
for drastic changes in personal
relations and in the present social
order. Thus we must do penance
b~fore God for racial segregation
With all its injustice and cruelty."
So much in behalf of the Soviet
campaign for integration.
"We must make confession to
God and implore His mercy be ..
cause we continue to build our na ..
tional economy on the competitioO.
of selfishness and carry on the pro•
cesses of production and distribu·
tion in accordance with the strat•
egy of the battlefield."
So much against the American
Free Enterprise system under
which the good minister has dono
fairly well.
"In deep contrition we must turn
from capital punishment based as
it is on the sub-Christian policy
of an eye for an eye and place
our dependence on the prevention
of crime and the detention of criminals
for the purpose of curing and
restoring them as good members
of society."
So much for helping the Sovietinspired
campaign to protect the
civil rights of criminals and defeat
the ends of bourgeois justice.
Through some oversight, or per ..
haps Jack of space, the good man
neglected to ask his communicants
to pray for the admission of Communist
China to the United Na ..
tions.
And Too Many Hangovers
From Too Much Liquor
Mr. Paul Harvey, noted colum ..
nist, points out the "horrible suffering"
which Americans are undergo ..
ing in one of his recent articles.
"No other country in the world
suffers so much political and economic
trouble because of a food
surplus - too much grain in stor ..
age; and too much apple pie in
their overweight bellies," says Mr.
Harvey, who adds:
"No other country, past or pres•
ent, here or elsewhere, has ever
suffered wages so high and good
workers so hard to find and hard·
er to satisfy.
"In no other nation do people
take so many holidays, work so few
hours, stop work for so many cof.
fee breaks.
"No place else is there such
widespread hardship among per ..
sons unable to find a place to park.
uAmerica suffers as no other na•
tion ever suffered."
The Navy is reported to have
invented a device which will en ..
able men to study conditions undet
the ocean for long periods of time
and our ventures into outer space
are said to be making great pro ..
gress. In other words, we are get•
ting along all right under the water
and up in the air. It is only on
land where we are not doing so
well.
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THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES:
The cowen not delegated to the United
State1 by the Constitution. nor prohibited
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lll•hu.,..Pnt Of !moeilr.hment
Is A Dead Duck In The U.S.
There is a nation· wide movement
said to be on to bring about the
imneachJ"lent of Earl Warren, Chief
JuStice of the Suoreme Court of
tre United States ·and the petition
demanctif!P hie; imoeachment is said
to cof!tain a list of names several
miles lon,g.
As desirable as that would be, we
do not believe it will ever be accomnl;
shed for the simple reason
that· the section of the ConstituVon
providing for imoeachment of
Feder?! officials is a dead duck and
there i'> Pot enouPh courage in Congre.
c-s to i'1voke it even in the case
of tre81C>On.
If there were, or had been for
the n~st twenty-five years, there
wopld have been wholesale impoachment
in all three branches
of g0vernment for violation of
the American Constitution, once
an imneachable offense, has
been so universally indulged
in that it has become the rule
ra"-hor the~n the exception.
If everv hi,~h official guilty of
"givi.,.,. aJd and comfort to the enemy"
in recent years, either in the
Sul')reme Court, the White House
or C'or'.,.ress, had been impeached
the t p•·nover would have been staggerm~.
Bl't we won't impeach anybody
for doinP: anything and we had just
as well admit it.
The very left-wing Marquis
Childs writes in his column that
the religious issue in the Federal
Aid to Education Bill which is one
of the President's pets, may defeat
that legislation. Let us hope
that it does.
Police State May Be Set Up In
The Public Schools Of Texas
We hear lots about vio lation of property rights, repudiation of freedom
of choice and all the other restrictions which are being placed on
suffering humanity since regimentation became our national policy but
it now looks as if Texas might lead in this field.
The Police State is going to be set up in the schoolroom, if present
plans are carried out, and an educational OGPU or cultural Gestapo,
composed of psychological experts established which will develop and
keep on file a secret record of students during the years in which they
attend school.
A dossier will be kept on each pupil concerning his family background,
his aptitude, his social environment, his attitude on this, that
and the other and miscellaneous personal information concerning him
will be a~sembled in greater detail than any goose-stepping Nazi had
to endure in the days of Hitler's Germany.
This decree came from Dr. J. W. Edgar, Commissioner of Education
for Texas but the nig,ger in the woodpile was exposed when it developed
that the "Counsellors" who are to supervise this classroom Police Action
and snoop into the private lives of the pupils will be provided with a
six-weeks training course by the Federal government (which never seeks
control of public schools even when it furnishes Federal Aid. Oh, no!
Of course not!).
The principal function of these ''Counsellors" it seems will be to
make a psychological study of each student and tell them what profession
or craft he . or she must take up when school days are over' and
the problem of making a living confronts them.
Thus Johnny who has always dreamed of being an accountant, a
teacher or a structural engineer will be tapped on the wrist by the
"Counsellor" and told: "Forget it. You have no aptitude for the calling
you have chosen. A study of your traumatic reflexes proves that you
must take up slcin-diving as your life's career."
And little Susie whose ambition has always been to become a dress
designer, a nurse or an airline hostess will be confused, discouraged and
disappointed when an all-wise "Counselor" informs her that her temperament
qualifies her only for the job of basket weaving.
Dr. Edgar's edict was issued last July but was kept under cover so
far as the public was concerned until February of this year when an
alert organization, Texans for America, broadcast it to the people of
Texas and sparks began to fly.
A bill has been introduced in the Texas legislature to prevent this
fantastic proposal from being imposed on the youth of the Lone Star
State and the fight to prevent it from being put into operation is expected
to rival the Battle of the Alamo, when irate parents go into action.
lt's been a long time since we walked three miles to attend classes
in a 2·room schoolhouse in a little West Texas town but, in imagination,
we have tried to roll back the years and visualize what might have
happened if a Washington-trained "expert" had been sent to tell us
country girls and boys what we should do to make a living in the years
to come.
The gap in time is too wide to bridge with accuracy but if memory
serves us right concerning the usual punishment meted out to petty
offenders in that area, we would say that a load of birdshot aimed at
a strategic point of their anatomy, would have been the minimum.
Johnson's Committee To Act As
A Colored Employment Agency
Now that he is vice president and does not have to walk the tight
rope on which he has balanced during hi-s entire legislative career, Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas has found his level and can be himself.
The President has shunted him to a Committee on Discrimination in
Government or some such name where h~s responsibility is to see that
employers who have Federal money shoveled out to them in contracts,
must liberally sprinkle Negroes among the White men on their payroll.
Johnson pointed out that a contract may be terminated for failure
to hire Negroes who now comprise an appreciable part of the voting
population. Also the names of those who fail to comply and hire Negroes
can be published in the press. He didn't say that this was a form of
official blackmail; we're just adding that.
In cases of 40Serious violations" the Johnson committee may refer
the offenders to the Justice Department and little brother Bobby will take
it from there.
We are sure that the former Texas senator will find his committee
work congenial for it will relieve him of the further necessity of denying
his part in the government-financed campaign to swing the nation's
Negro vote to the Party of the New Deal, the Fair Deal and the New
Frontier.
"Every time we bring a farm bill
to the floor of this House and pass
it we get agriculture in a little bigger
emergency than it was before"
-Congressman Page Belcher, Oklahoma.
When government is in possession
of the purse, Property, States'
and Individual Rights are in dang-
Apdl, 1961
Minimum Wage Bill Is
Victory For Socialism
The papers have hailed the wage
bill advocated by the President
which lost in the House, as a de~
feat for the administration and a
victory for the Republicans.
This is not true. The bill was
not a victory for anybody except
the Socialists because the Republican
bill passed in its stead only
differed in degree from the Social~
istic measure prepared by the Kennedy
forces.
The two bills differed only in
amounts and not in principle. Both
were Socialist proposals as are all
measures which assume that the
Congress of the United States has
the Constitutional right to fix prices
or hours of work.
Under a Constitutional Government,
those matters are resolved
by management and workers and
politicians have no more right to
decide it than they have to setNe
how many hours a citizen may devote
to eating, sleeping or kissing
his wife.
Kennedy's bill would have set
$1.25 an hour as the minimum wage
of an American worker and the Re~
publican bill called for $l.l5.
The worker has nothing to say
about how much he will work for
or the employer how much he will
pay under either bill and if that is
not pure, undiluted Socialism we
do not understand the meaning of
the term "freedom of choice."
We'll Be Glad W~P.n We Whip
Nazis And Start On Commies
We want all enemies of this
country exterminated, of course,
but we'll sure be glad when the
war against the Nazis is won and
we get around to doing something
about the Communists.
Right now, the government is
fighting to deport one Laszlo Jmre
Agh, a Hungarian whom they claim
tortured members of a minority
group in a Hungarian labor camp
during World War II.
Mr. Agh says he didn't do it
and claims that his leadership of
an anti-Communist group in New
York during the Hungarian uprisings
is responsible for what he
calls a Red plot to get him out of
this country.
The government attorney who is
prosecuting him is named Mr. Irv~
ing Appleman.
The President has announced
that he wants to put Foreign Aid
on a Five·year plan and a lot of
people are wondering why five
years? Why not a four-year-plan or
a six-year-plan? Surely we don't
want to copy the Soviets who were
the first to put their economy on
a "five~year" basis and to have
put into effect one five·year-plan
after another. Surely it would have
been a little more original to have
selected some other period of time
rather than this unfortunate choice.
And what a bang the Bolsheviks
will get out of it.
It is good that the situation in
Laos seems to have improved and
chances for war appreciably les~
sened. But before we turn any
handsprings over it, we want to
know what secret agreements, if
any. were made in the matter.
AprH, 1961 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Pogo 5
Ban On Communist Propag~n~a Throu~h
American Mails Lifted By White House
Preachers And Professors Oppose Oath
Expressing Belief In Supreme Being
American citizens whose alarm
over the Communist menace is increasing
by the hour were left gasping
with amazement and unbelief
at the public announcement that
the President had ordered the censorship
of all unsealed Communist
mail coming into the United States,
removed.
The censorship of unsealed Soviet
mail has been in effect for
thirteen years and, even so, the
flood of Communist propaganda
throue-h this channel has been terrific.
T~e ~eneral e~ryectation would
seem to be that if the President
were going to take any action in
the matter, he would have stren~thened,
rather than remove, the
censorshio. More than 2500 orotests
from one Texas tQwn alone
are reoorted to have gone into the
White House and if this ratio holds
up, the President should have a
pretty good idea of the reaction
of the peoole in the matter.
The President acted, according
to the press, after conferrin~ with
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretarv
of the Treasury Douglas Dillon,
Postmaster General J. Edward
Day and little brother Robert.
declared to have been made frequently
by political science professors
of universities who complained
that they needed Soviet
publications in their work but the
chief objector aooears to have been
the American Civil Liberties Union
which had several suits pending
in the Federal courts challenging
the Constitutionality of the cen·
sorship.
For lack of any explanation of
the President's astounding action,
it has been suggested that he felt
that when these suits pot to the
Supreme Court, Warren wou1rl engineer
a decision favoraJ)1e to Communists
and which woulrl. ori'?r the
censor~hip stop.9ed and th:lt he,
himself, had inst as wPll beat Warren
to the draw and get credit
for it.
OUR 'RULING' MAY NOT
BE B!NDIMG, BUT
IT'S CONSTITUTIONAL
Since the Supreme Court usurped
the authority of the Congress to
enact legislation , perhaps it was
not too much out of line that the
American Civil Liberties Union
should usurp the power of the
Court to hand down rulings.
At any rate, the ACLV has gone
judicial and has just handed down
a "decision" to the effect that it
is un-Constitutional for the Federal
government to grant aid to
education in so far as it re lates
to loans for private and parochial
schools. Their decision did not apply
to public schools which is all
Sealed first class mail from the right in their book.
Soviets has never been. se~zed and ; Their "decision" holding this
n?w that unse al e~ mail IS to be part of the program illegal states
g1ven the green h~ht, the merry that it would conflict with the proflood
of CoP"mumst prooaPanda vision of the First Amendment that
will probably bt,rPeon to such pro- "Congress shall make no law reportions
that additional poc;tal em- specting and establishment of reployes
will have to be hired and in- Jigion."
creased appropriati~ns made by Since everybody else is getting
Congress to handle 1t. into the act, we see no reason why
Objections to the censorship is Ye gods and little caviar! we should not jump in too and we
are doing that very little thing.
0 A • 0 t• s b II We hereby hand down a ruling ur mer1ca: per a I On crew a ~~ ~fd ef~~ct ~~i~~~.ot ~~y ~~;.,~~~~~
The following is reproduced with
the special permission of the author,
Dr. Ruth Alexander, nationally
known columnist and which appeared
in the Colorado Springs Gazette-
Telegraph recently:
The American people are accustomed
to falling for anything which
advertises itself as new - new -
new or fast - fast - fast, whether it
be a can of soup, a cure for the
common cold, or a government policy.
Our latest aberration is a fastfast-
fast acceptance of Kennedy's
new-new-new Peace Corps of livein
teen-agers, and others, out to
change the distorted image of the
U.S.A. which the foreign policies
of the last 28 years have produced.
It sounds like just another Operation
Screwball.
Experienced doctors, teachers,
and technicians have always been
needed in over-populated countries,
where lack of individual self-discipline,
and governmental integrity,
or the existence of ancient
caste consciousness, rank them as
underdeveloped. They are not necessarily
poor countries. Many have
resources and people of a wealth
untold in the United States. But
the rich minority refuses to share
with their own poor minority in
India, China, Brazil etcetera ad infinitum,
and the United States, for
some inexplicable reasons, feels
ohligated to share our wealth, forcibly,
with the poor of other wealthy
countries. It does not make
sense but it is widely accepted on
the assumption that if we don't, the
Communists will, fast-fast-fast.
We have always shored up the
victims of every major disaster on
earth and now we feel called upon
to support their economies. Even
that, we are told, is not enough.
We must not only help. We must
mix and mix up. We must send
the eager-beaver flower of our
youth to live in mud huts, eat, per·
haps, seasonally disguised human
flesh , and be subjected to fatal and
hideously disfiguring diseases, such
as leorosv, for which the white
minority has not developed the relative
immunity of the dark majority
of the earth's peoples. Tire very
newness of the Peace Corps is that
they must perform the basic functions
of life in common with their
hosts - to eat, sleep, and repro·
duce - the latter of which will
follow as day follows night. Make
no mistake on this.
The Peace Corps must also soeak
the same language, of which there
may be fifty different dialects. but
which they are presumed to have
learned in their boot training of
six weeks to six months! They must
also be a specialist, skilled in performing
and teaching an occuoation
uniquely suited to the area of their
assignment, including scientific agriculture,
scientific home economics
and baby care, scientific civil,
electric, and electronic engineering,
and fast-fast-fast changing of diapers
as part of scientific sanitation.
Their terms of service will be short,
so they will not be around long
enough to observe the full fruits
of their labors. But long enough
for the youngsters to make plenty
whoopee for the oldsters to shed
plenty tears over the futility of
trying to force ancient and resistant
ways of life into the mould of
the new-new-world at too fast-fastfast
a speed.
Rep. Frances Bolton, the distinguished
congresswoman from Ohio,
in a. recent speech call s the concept
of the Peace Corps <~a terrifying
thing," which "will wreck the
world if we do it badly." (Applause)
And why not badly?" It could
not be otherwise on the basis of
unrealistic:: terms acceptable only
to adventuresome amateurs, which
seasoned veteran specialists have
long since rejected as Operation
Screwball.
schools un-Constitutional but Federal
Aid to public schools is illegal
also since it violates the Tenth
Amendment which says that: "The
powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively,
or to the people."
The power to run the public
schools, or to interfere with their
operation in any way, was not delegated
to the United States in the
Constitution and therefore remains
the sole responsibility of the States.
We submit that our "ruling" is
the only one based on the law
since it is backed up by the Constitution
in a provision of that document
which is meant solely to define
the power of the Federal government
as distinguished from that
of the Sovereign States.
The First Amendment served no
such purpose.
Columnists ~ho cover the entertainment
world say that almost all
the movie actresses recommended
for ''Oscars" this year have roles
portraying them as prostitutes or
other dissolute characters. This,
however, is no more the fault of
the movie industry than it is of
the customers who patronize the
filthy and obscene productions
which outnumber clean shows by
a heavy majority. The nerve leading
to the pocket book is as sensitive
in the case of movie producers
as it is in the case of those in
any other line of industry, and if
dirty pictures were not patronized,
they would soon not be produced.
It's as simple as that.
The greatest triumph of the people
in government was in the signing
of the Declaration of Independence
and the writing of the American
Constitution. Both documents
definitely restricted the power of
rulers over the lives of the citizen.
A bill which would require State
employees and teachers in public
schools and State-supported colleges
to "acknowledge under oath
their belief in the existence of a
Supreme Being" was approved by
a committee of the Texas House
of Representatives at Austin late -
in March.
Such measures have become necessary
in recent years because of
the strong influx of atheistic sentiment
into the schools and governing
agencies of the various States
and are designed to halt the incessant
attacks of anti-Christian forces
against the religious, educational
and Political institutions of the
United States.
A public hearing of this bill caus·
ed quite a stir in Texas' capital city
when swarms of college professors,
preachers and other assorted left~
wing elements swooped down on '
the committee and violently protested
its passage.
The opposition was composed of
the same element which can always
be depended upon to oppose loyalty
oaths in.dicating allegiance to
this country as opposed to allegi·
ance to a world collectivist ap:ency.
At this writing the fate of the
bill is not predictable but the gen·
era! feeling is that since the right
of Atheists these days to hold responsible
posts in educational and
governmental fields is held quite
sacred and especially by those professing
to be leaders of Christianity,
the measure faces hard sledding.
Our guess is that the bill will
be killed quietly and subtly somewhere
down the line, according to
the usual procedure in matters of
this nature.
''We planned it that way," is still
the explanation for the very queer
things that happen to our States
and our Nation.
Peace Corps Doubts
(Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
The questioning of R. Sargent
Shriver in a Senate hearing on his ·
confirmation as head of the President's
proposed Peace Corps turned
into rather an examination of
the Peace Corps idea itself. And
the inquiry opened some holes for
the entrance of doubts.
When President Kennedy con·
ceived as a decidated organization
of young Americans living in native
villages of backward countries
about the world "under primitive
conditions and great financial sacrifice"
has begun to assume the
outline of an expensive and complicated
operation.
Senators have suggested that the
privations of the corps members
will have to be alleviated by Amer·
ican food, sanitation, hou sing, medical
care, severance pay and later
perhaps salaries, health and acci·
dent insurance, service-connected
disability payments and pensions.
Maybe the prospect is a little O'lerdrawn,
but it is becoming obvious
that the problems inherent in
organization of the corps and its
operation have not been sufficiently
examined. In absence of such
a procedure the nation should not "")I
be astonished if the Peace Corps
turns into a project vastly different
from the first vision.
Pogo 6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Apdl, 1961
Has The Congress Surrendered Its
Authority To Enact Legislation?
One of the most unanswerable
inquiries ever directed to members
of Congress, in our opinion, is that
of the organization known as the
Tennessee Independents with head·
quarters in Sevierville in which
they wrote that State's delegation
in Congress and asked this ques·
tion:
"In the Republic of the United
States of America, is the lawmaking
power vested in the Congress
•.. Surely Congress has not transferred
its lawmaking power to the
Executive nor to the Supreme
Court. If it has, then why not
adjourn and come on home"?
The Tennessee Independents
were referring in this case to the
action of the President in issuing
an Executive Order that no American
might purchase gold in foreign
countries but the question is
one which might well be asked by
every citizen in the United States
every time the President or the Su·
preme Court enacts a law either
through Executive Order or Judici·
al Ruling.
After all we still have a Constitution
in name if not in fact
and that document very clearly and
~o~r:~!t~~a~~ \~~a~f~~g~::
of the Republic and gives no such
authority to the President or to the
politicians on the Supreme Court.
If this authority has been transferred
from Congress to the White
;House or to the Cour , tlien a Constitutional
amendment should be
passed making this transfer of pow·
er legal or else we should just
tear up the Constitution and quit
hypocritically pretending that it any
longer has any force and effect.
Until we do one or the other, any
legislative action on the part of the
President or the Supreme Court is
nothing more, in our opinion, than
a flagrant usurpation of power
which nullifies every basic law on
which the Republic was founded.
If the legislative function has
actually been taken away from
· Congress, then we join with the
i'ennessee Independents in de·
manding that the members of that
body adjourn and go home.
Most of them are being paid
bigger salaries than they could ever
have hoped to earn in private
!~b~:~~:~. ~~~~ ::: g~~t\n~o;;:;n!~
under false pretenses.
Paying labor union members not
to work is a pretty well established
custom in this country but the
American people are under no ob·
c~:;i~~ t~~~n;r~~~al~hs~p~~~! ~~r:~
elected to do a job and then turn
it over to somebody else.
Also, the money saved would pay
off the national debt in no time
at all.
From a Fort Worth subscriber:
~In your March edition you suggest
it might not be up to par because
of sickness, etc. I have read
every line in the whole eight pages
and if there's any apology due, I
can't see it. In fact, in my opinion
fOUr worst writing would be bet ..
- \er than most people's best." (This
subscriber is apparently a wee bit
biased in our favor).
President Reaping 'Harvest
Of Shame' Over Appointment
One could almost feel sorry for
Mr. Kennedy over the embarrassment
which the Ed Murrow fiasco
must have caused him if it were
not for one thing.
That is that Murrow is typical
of the appointments the new
President made and is no worse
and no better than all of the others.
If he were an exception, his per·
formance might be overlooked but
they are all cut from the same pattern
and ali dedicated Welfare
Staters and many think that the
President didn't deserve anything
except what happened.
The great mistake, in our opin·
ion, was not that Murrow begged
the British Broadcasting Company
not to show an embarrassing tele·
vision production put out by Mur ..
row some years ago purporting to
show the plight of American mi ..
grant workers and which has been
claimed to have been doctored and
rigged to suit Murrow's purpose.
The mistake was not even in
Murrow making such a pfcture and
fa lsely showing it as typical of
labor conditions in this country
and calling it "Harvest of Shame."
The great mistake was in President
Kennedy appointing a man of
Murrow's proved calibre to present
the image of America to the
world when Murrow's own image
of his country is so blurred and
perverted that he would broadcast
a television production indicating
that American workers were little
more than peons.
As long as the President saw fit
to dredge up left-wingers, and Welfare
Staters in almost one hundred
per cent of his appointments, he
should not be surprised at embar·
rassing incidents.
There could not have been any
great argument against selecting a
half dozen sound, conservative,
Americans out of the hundreds
named to assist him but he didn't
do it and, accordingly, when one
of his selections blunders and blows
up in his face, there a,e a lot of
responsible and solid Americans
who are not going to shed any tears
over it.
The performance put on in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, by 3500 Eas·
ter vacationing college students
didn't do much to &dvance the
cause of higher education. Accord·
ing to press reports these young
learned thugs became offended because
an unlighted beach where
they wanted to go with their girl
friends and drink beer, was closed.
They put on a first class riot by ly·
ing down flat in the streets and
stopping all traffic. Firemen and
police had to turn hoses on them
and threaten them with tear gas.
Beer bottles were hurled at police
and other hoodlum tactics employ·
ed. In spite of all the hullaballoo
about education these days, we in·
sist that money spent on such po·
tential gangsters as these in sending
them to college is wasted. They
should be brought home and put
to work digging ditches.
Bold Angle Of World Conspiracy
Is Revealed ly Noted Columnist
The Joint Economic Committee of Congress is studying a plan
which proposes the issuance of a new international currency to replace
the American dollar and the monetary units of other countries, it has
been revealed.
This plan is sponsored by Professor Robert Triffin of Yale but embodies
practically all the features of similar schemes proposed by John
Meynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White during World War II according
to columnist Alice Widener who told in detail of this latest angle
of the world conspiracy in a recent column.
Under the plan the United Nations Monetary Fund, known as IMF,
would be turned into an international super·central bank known as
XIMF, and this new super·central bank would issue international currency
to take the place of that now used by different countries, according
to Mrs. Widener.
She points out that the scheme actually sets forth new excuses for
carrying out two old plans hatched prior to the Bretton Woods Conference
of 1944 embodying the Socialist plan by Lord Keynes for an
international currency to be issued by a super·bank and the International
Stable Fund plan calling for international currency presented by
Harry Dexter White described in Congressional documents as "a member
of the Communist conspiracy" and a "Soviet agent."
While the Triffin plan proposes that the United States tum over
all its gold to XIMF, there is no suggestion that Soviet gold be likewise
surrendered.
While the first reaction to the above Is that no committee of
Congress would seriously consider recommending such an obvious
surrender to the World Conspiracy, we oan't be too sure.
After all, the Triffin plan stems from similar proposals made by a
late Soviet agent in the United States Treasury Department and for
some unaccountable reason known only to dark and devious minds, such
things seem to have an appeal to those shaping American policy.
Mrs. Widener has given the tlp and the American people would do
well to watch and see what the Joint Economic Committee of Congress
has to say about the plan, it anything.
The chairman of thts Joint Economic Committee Is Paul H. Douglas
of 1\linois, incidentally, and this fact gives no assurance that the worst
eou1dn't happen.
We Thought Only Congress
Could Appropriate Money
The broadcast of Fulton Lewis
Jr. on May 23 must have fallen like
a bomb on thinking Americans; if
not, they have passed the point at
which they can be shocked and
numbed with the atrocious events
which compose current history.
Mr. Lewis said that it has been
brought out that the Central Intelligence
Agency, a super-secret
agency in Washington which has
successfully defied all attempts to
investigate lt, had given $18,000,·
000 to a group of Cuban refugees
in Miami.
Regardless of whether these ref·
ugees are anti·Castro, or pro·Cas·
tro, the staggering thing about the
incident is that a government agency
can by-pass Congress and 88·
sume authority in appropriating
taxpayers' money for any purpose
at all.
Where, after all, did the Central
Intelligence Agency get $18,000,000
or $18 or any other amount to contribute
to any cause, good or bad,
and by what Constitutional author·
ity does it function as a sub·division
of the Treasury of the United
States, and pay out money for any
reason whatever except in meeting
the financial obligations of its own
department?
It Is shocking enough that Congress
has lost Its Constitutional
power to legislate to tho White
House and the Supreme Court but
If its authority to appropriate
money has been abrogated and
transferred to a non-elective agen·
cy of tho government, it's high
tlme the citizens of this Republie
either band together to demand
For reasons best known to himself,
the wily Nehru likes to refer
to India as a "neutral" country in
the squabble betweeA the Soviets
and Western nations. As a "neu ...
tral" India has received uncounted
millions of dollars from the
United States and this vast eKpen·
diture presumably keeps that coun ...
try from "going Communist". The
Charleston, South Carolina, News
and Record reveals the disconcert ..
ing fact that India showed how
"neutral" she is by her vote in the
United Nations in the last session,
as oompiled. in the Near East Re·
port. India voted 6 times with the
United States delegation and 50
times with the Soviet bloc. Some
neutrality!
"Here we see a delegation from
a territory wallowing in chaos and
savagery, reverting back to can•
nibalism, and actually existing on
Western handouts and aid, being
seated in the United Nations New
York. offices to influence and di·
rect the world's education, science
and culture" - Canadian Intelli ..
genee 'Service bulletin concerning
the acceptance of the Congo into
UNESCO, a United Nations affill·
ate.
restoration of Constitutional Government
or throw itt the sponge and
call it quits in the fight for survival.
The last tlme we read the Constitution
it said in section 9: "No
money shall be drawn from the
Treasury but in consequence of ap ..
propriations made by law."
Maybe while we've been drows ..
fng, that section has been amend·
ed and these words added: "or by
the Central Intelligence Agency,"
April, 1961 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Page J
Is The State Department Working For The
United States Or For Foreign Countries?
(Editor's note: Because of the so-called "recession" which prevails in the
United States and the "depressed areas" which politicians are talking so much
about, we are reproducing a lead editorial from the Southern Conservative
June, 1957, discussing the part which the American State Department has played
In bringing about the troubles which now plague American industry).
Although the American taxpayers put up the money to pay the
salaries of its vast and far-flung personnel, the State Department's primary
concern seems to be for the industry of foreign nations and top
officials of that agency appear singularly disinterested in the welfare
of American producers. Under the usurped legislative authority to fix
tariff rates and regulate foreign commerce which the Department now
exercises, American business concerns which are unable to meet the
increasingly unfair competition that the arrangement imposes, are
gradually folding up and going out of business.
Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States says
that: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties,
Jmposts ••• to regulate commerce with foreign countries."
This provision in the Constitution has never been repealed or
amended through regular processes yet Congress has lost the authority
thus delegated to it by those who wrote our basic law and the State
Department, whose proper functions lie solely in the diplomatic field,
now exercises this authority through a diabolic trick played on the
American people more than twenty years ago.
When this country was still operated under Constitutional Government,
tariff legislation was written in the Congress and was framed
either by the Democrats or Republicans, according to which political
f:~.~~se~~t1v;~;· j~~~~f:t ';;~~~c~~;n~;r;;,~tiXr::!r~~a~a~~~se;~!~t1 1~~:
lng that period).
At that time the two major political parties were separate entities
and had differing views on major issues including the tariff. Republicans
ally were for a tariff which would protect American industry
while Democrats believed in free trade and, except in special items,
allowed products from other countries to come in duty-free to compete
With those of domestic producers.
When the New Deal came to power, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
was a puppet of the Internationalists, too, persuaded a weak-kneed
Congress to transfer authority to pass tariff legislation over to the
White House. This was done not only in violation of the Constitution
but of the rights of American producers and manufacturers who would
thereby be forced to compete with the products of poorly-paid labor
In foreign countries turned out by plants and factories which, believe
it or not, are built with money given them as "foreign aid." This adds
insult. to injury in the case of American business firms.
This unconstitutional transfer of authority occurred during the
depression when Americans by the thousands were practically falling
over each other in the mad stampede to Washiflgton to get a hand-out
from. Roosevelt whom they saw as a little tin God and in the confusion
attendant .thereto, very few Americans realized that this great swindle
was being put over.
Roosevelt transferred this authority to the State Department and
top bureaucrats if\ that agency vested it, in turn, in a Commission
composed of international jug-heads and which is now called GA TI
(interpreted by many thoughtful Americans as meaning "Give America
the Treatment) and which sits in Geneva and makes decisions concernIng
imports to the United States which the Constitution .delegated Congress,
and Congress alone, to make.
When Eisenhower came to office with his big promises to clean up
the messes, he not only did not clean up this one but became bogged
down in it up to his ears. Instead of attempting to reclaim this authority
a?id Relp restore it to American Congress where it belongs, he whole·
heartedly approved the GAIT arrangement and has asked for an
extension of it. Being a thorough·going internationalist, he could hardly
be expected to understand the immorality involved in the transfer of
Constitutional authority from the American Congress to a Commission
in Switzerland composed of one-world eggheads.
In the meantime, the two major political parties have ceased to be
two separate units with differing views on major issues and have
become, instead, one International Socialist Party operating under two
names and, having sacrificed the principles which once distinguished
them, neither has made the matter a party issue or attempted. to erase
this disgraceful blot on the integrity and honor of the Amencan governing
system.
Individual members of the Congress have violently protested the
matter and Senator George Malone of Nevada has carried on a one-man
campaign for years to get this authority restored to Congress and has
held hearings in connection with it and testimony concerning the harm-ful
effects of the plan on American industry covers hundreds of thous•
ands of pages in official government files, but nothing happens.
Meantime, many American business concerns who are unable to
compete with foreigners in whose favor the whole thing is rigged have
gone out of business. This is especially true in the case of the mining
and metals industry and one entire village in the State of Washington
whose economy was dependent on copper, which is now being allowed
to flow into the United States from Africa, will fold up and become
another "ghost town." Recently the Associated Press carried a Holden,
Washington, dateline stating that nearly one hundred private home1
there which cost an average of $3,000 were being sold for chicken
houses at one dollar each and being carted away by the purchasers, ae
practically all residents of the town prepare to move elsewhere.
Recently a bill has been introduced in Congress by Representative
Cleveland M. Bailey of West Virginia and others which would fix the
import quotas to be allowed in this country as a means of establishina
some sort of regulation of foreign commerce.
Immediately the State Department set up a howl of protest on the,
theory, presumably, that Congress was infringing on the State Depart~
ment's right to enact tariff legislation and, instead of being laughed out
of the picture, that agency's arguments are apparently being given
great weight by members of Congress whose capacity to think for
themselves has long been surrendered along with other fundamental
rights.
The Secretary of State himself, of course, said nothing as he was
buzzing around in the air over some foreign country. He seldom lights
on the ground long enough in Washington to discuss anything, but one
of his assistants came through with this clincher:
''This Department believes that the President alone is in position
to weigh the various considerations of domestic and foreign policy
which should be taken into account before any measure potentially as
far-reaching in its impact on our foreign relations as an import quota,
is established . • • The enactment of this legislation would not be in ac•
cord with the program of the President."
These are not merely the impudent words of some little squirt in
the State Department who wrote them but the established policy of the
administration and of the Federal government in relation to the protection
and the welfare of American Free Enterprise, as opposed to its
deep concern in that of foreign business ventures.
And imagine the audacity of the State Department's claim that only
the President is in position to decide the matter when nowhere in the
Constitution is the President mentioned in the delegation of this authority
to Congress.
Congressman Bailey, on receipt of the message, paid his respects to
the State Department in well-chosen words, none of which were compli•
mentary. That agency, he said, would .. drive Congress out of its own
domain and reduce it to a state of mumbling futility" ... What notion
the Department could have about the functions of Congress as definedin
the Constitution "mus,t remain a mystery unless the Department holds
the Constitution and the people whose rights it defines, in very low
esteem," he said and added:
..Congress cannot renounce doing what the Constitution says it is
to do. Nor can it authorize the executive to make international a_gree ..
ments that will impair, ensnarl or compromise this express power fixed
by the Constitution."
Congressman Bailey is exactly right in his premise that this can•
not legally be done but the cold fact remains that it is being done and
the executive is, through the State Department, exercising functions
that Constitutionally belong to the Congress. It is like the Negro who
phoned his lawyer that he had committed a certain offense and had
landed in jail. "But they can't put you in iail for that," the lawyer told
the colored boy to which the latter replied: ''But, boss, I'se phonin' you
from the jail."
The average American shies away from discussions concerning
the tariff and shuns it as a sub_iect that is complicated, uninteresting
and boring. This may be true but the principle involved in the present
tariff set-up in which our country is involved is something that every
citizen needs to study, to understand and t? protest.
It boils down to the simple fact that the right of Congress to pass
tariff legislation and fix duties on imports, which responsibility was
imposed on it by the Constitution, has been surrendered and is now
in the hands of a bunch of internationalists in Geneva. Every citizen can
understand that.
This surrender of its Constitutional functions by the Congress or*
the United States and the side-stepping of its delegated functions is
not only treason but is a long step toward preparation of the American
Republic for quiet burial in an international graveyard. ·
Pogo 8 TH! SOUTHERN CONSERVATIV!
Men With The Pointed Next United States Senator From
Heads Blunder Again Texas Will Be A Conservative
ch~~~~h~p f~:j~~e ~~i~~~r St~:~ !exas cons~rvatives are jubilant over_the results of theJirst primary
when it voted for the United Na- e.Iectlon f?r Umt.ed State~ senator where_m two _conservatives out of a
tions Security Council's resolution fteld of s1x leadmg candidates led the f1eld. Th1s means that John G.
demanding that Portugal bring Tower, Repub~ican, and Willi~m A .. Blakley, Democrat, will compete
about reforms in its African terri- for the offi_ce m th~ second p~Imary m June.
tory of Angola. com:'o~a:h~s s::C:~ct ~;~~~~;.t·T~x~e~fl ~:~e t~a~o~~~~~~~~!~ ?~ :~: ~~~:
Portugal, an ally of this coun- ate. Both Tower and Blakley stressed their opposition to Federal Aid
try and an anti-Communist nation, to education, increasing the minimum wage law, the Kennedy Peace
promotly let the U.S. know of its Coros and were outspoken generally against the Socialistic proposals
resentment at this vote and very of the New Frontier. -
properly insisted that its affairs Tower led the ticket by more than 135,000 votes. The heavy Repubin
An~ola were not the business of lican vote was attributed partly to the strong sentiment in Texas for
the United Natiofts. a two-party State and partly to widespread resentment against Lyndon
Communist leaders are trying Johnson for refusing to resign as senator when he made the race for
hard to manufacture another situa- the vice presidency. His resignation at that time would have permitted
tion like the one in which Beleium his successor to be elected in the general election in November thereby
was forced to pull out of the Con- saving more than a million dollars in the expense of two special elections.
go, whereupon the black population While there were 70 candidates in the recent race, only six were
of that area immediately became a serious contenders, the 64 others receiving only a few thousand votes
howling mob of murderous sav- combined.
ages committing every form of at- In addition to Tower and Blakley, those in the contest were Con-
' rocity known to uncivilized minds. gressman Jim Wright of Fort Worth, Will Wilson, Attorney General
The plan is to force Portugal of Texas, both of whom classed themselves as "moderates" but who
likewise to give up their African are generally regarded as liberals and Maury Maverick and Henry
colony of An2;ola and unloose an- Gonzalez of San Antonio, both extreme left-wingers.
~r~~ra~1oact~0°~t~:;b:~i~n~rl~;o~~~: ~~~s \:~b~~;J:i~~!i~t~:~~r~:~zrs¥:~;~~~r~~f~~~:~~ i~~ :~~r J~b:~{~
~afrL~r~~~t~~:~~. of anarchy in the liberals and fence straddlers as their repr~sentatives in ihe United States
Senate and augurs well for a further tlean up at the appointed time.
The men with the pointed heads
who represent the United States
in the United Nations, naturally,
and instinctively voted with the
Soviet Union and the Asians and
Africans in supporting the resolution
and the fact that they were
offending an ally was entirely beside
the point.
The resolution was defeated in
the Security Council but in some
way it was maneuvered into the
General Assembly where it passed
and where the U.S. again supported
it.
Now watch for trouble to pop
loOse in the African colony of Angola
where for years the peace has
been kept and everything was or~
derly under Portuguese rule.
It is the same old bugaboo of
"Colonialism" raised by the Soviets
and taken up automatically by
the United States with the same results
of benefits to Russia as happend
in the cases of Laos and the
Congo.
As might have been expected
from our treatment of the Arabs,
King Saud on March 17 advised the
American State Department that
the United States must give up its
airbac;e at the Dhahran Airfield on
the Persian Gulf Coast of Arabia.
The agreement now in force is
that our rights there expire in April
1962 unless renewed. King Saud
said the agreement would not be
renewed. Some more evidence of
the brilliant statesmanship of our
policy makers in Washington who
could not foresee that the Arabs'
resentment over being driven out
of their homes with the approval of
the American State Department
would react against our interest in
the long run.
Congress is going to be asked
to raise the ceiling on the national
debt for about the fourth or fifth
time and of course they will do it.
It seems to us that instead of constantly
lifting the ceiling higher
and higher, it v...~uld save wear and
tear on the members to just haul
off and remove the ceiling altogether
and let 'er rip.
We Suffer Irreparable Loss
In The Death Of Two Friends
The late Bernie L. Anderson, Fort Worth cotton man and the late
Dr. Charles Crocker of the historic California banking family did not
know e-ach other and our reason for referring to them collectively Is that
these two great Americans, who died within two days of each other recently,
were staunch and unfailing friends of this paper and their deaths
are an irreparable loss to us.
Both represented a fine and exalted type of citizenship which
made this the greatest nation on earth and both exemplified in their
separate careers those qualities of initiative, self-reliance and rugged
individualism which was a man's badge of superiority over the weaklings
and drones of human society until Socialism was substituted for Con ..
stitutional Government in the American Republic.
It is the passing of such men as these which is pleasing to the
forces of regimentation which are now in control of all nations of the
earth, including the United States.
It is their boast that they have captured the minds of the younger
generation and that when the older ones have gone from the scene, they
will shape the world to their own pattern.
Unfortunately, when great Americans die these days, their attributes
of strength, character and integrity die with them and all too seldom
is there any one to step in and take their place.
Thus is this great country being drained and depleted of the human
resources so tragically needed to fight for the American Republic and
our cherished institutions as the common enemy gradually, but steadily,
closes in and takes over.
We are grateful for having had the confidence, esteem and respect
of these two great and good men and of having had their approval and
encouragement of our poor efforts in behalf of Constitutional Govern~
ment.
Citizens Of Texas Town Qualify For
First Place On Nation's Honor Roll
The city officials, the newspaper editor and the people of the small
town of Italy in Ellis County, Texas, deserve a lasting place on the
nation's Honor Roll of patriotic and conscientious American citizens.
Recently a tornado struck that little town and destroyed property
in an estimated amount of $500,000 and left scarcely a buitding undamaged.
Whereupon Washington officials offered to classify Italy as a
"disaster area" and send money and supplies to take care of the situation,
The editor of the Italy News Herald, Mr. Russell Bryant, as spokesman
for the people of that area must have set Washington spenders back
on their haunches and given them the shock of their official lives when
he wired them reminding them that the Federal Treasury was in far
worse shape than Italy and suggesting that any money intended for
storm sufferers in his town be applied on the national debt.
Every man, woman and child in the Republic owes the spunky and
non-chiseling people of Italy, T-exas, a rising ovation for their courageous
example of Americanism in its most exalted meaning.
Apdl, 1961
Fight Against Christianity
Has Many Varied Angles
A Methodist pastor presiding ov4
er a circuit in Kentucky and Ten ..
nessee has violently protested the
current movement to take age-old
gospel songs out of church hymn
books and replace them with tunes
more nearly in keeping with the
musical tastes of a rock-n·roll generation.
The Rev. Roy Delamotte who opposes
this desecration said in a
recent church publication: "[ fully
expect that in our next hymnal,
masters of music will have dutifully
snipped the last tenuous ties that
bound the heart strings of the common
man to Methodism - our gos•
pel songs and hymns."
Already removed from most
hymn books are such perennially
favorite sacred songs as "The Old
Rugged Cross," "Bringing in the
Sheaves," 40Amazing Grace" and
many others which &fl qlder gene·
ration held almost in as much rev•
erence as the Bible itself,
The removal of these songs from
church hymnals is, of course, due
to the influence of powerful and
highly organized anti-Christian
groups who are making attacks on
Christianity from every angle, in·
cluding the banning of Bible reading
in schools, in some States, the
prohibition of school plays based
on the life and death of Christ and
ali other sacred customs and rituals
which run counter to Soviet
atheism.
Rev. Delamotte ls to be com·
mended for his courage but the
chances are that he won't get any ..
where. He is fighting a force of
whose organized strength in the
United States he probably does not
dream.
SO-CALLED 'NEUTRAL
NATIONS' AR~ JUST
PLAYING US FOR SUCKERS
We are so sick and tired of reading
about our need to give Ameri·
can taxpayers' money to "neutral''
countries to prevent them from go·
ing Communist, that we could
scream.
In the first place, if a country
can be influenced in Its position
on a matter of principle by the
amount of money poured into its
coffers, it's not worth saving any
way and we're all for letting the
Communists have it.
In the second place there is no
such thing as a 40neutral" coun ..
try because there lo no half-way
ground between freedom and slav•
ery and any country whieh is wav•
ering en the brink between these
two ideologies is an outlaw among
decent nations.
There are some countries which
call themselves "neutral" but they
aro merely playing both onds
again9t tho middle and taking
money from both sides. And when
they finally flop one way or the
other, the side whioh gets them is
the lose•.
Foreign Aid to such oountrle•
is untenable it not criminal and
cannot be defended from any standpoint
or logic,
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