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THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE -To Plead for a Return of Constitutional Government-
Vol. 10 FORT WORTH, TEXAS, APRIL, 1959 No.4
Swelling Power of Federal Government
Is Driving Nails In Freedom's Coffin
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HEAD ALL SET
TO HIT SOUTHERNERS BELOW THE BELT
According to reports which come to us, Southern delegates to the
so·called Democratic Convention at Los Angeles on July 11 are going
to be about as welcome as a polecat at a picnic.
Paul Butler of Indiana who is chairman of the outfit and whom the
Create: endowed with a big voice but not an intellect to match it, has
already shouted to high heaven that the South is not needed in the
Presidential campaign of 1960 and has practically invited Southerners
to get out of the Party and stay out.
In addition, there is a character out in Los Angeles who wields practically
unlimited authority in Fair Deal circles in California. He will
have charge of convention arrangements and, according to well founded
reports, is going to exert his full authority in embarrassing any poor
white trash from the South who may show up for the festivities.
and
At any rate, according to those who are observing the buildup for
the convention in the City of the Angels, this Ziffren person is carefully
laying his plans with a view of forcing through a type of Civil Rights
plank which the Southern delegates not only cannot digest but can't
even swallow.
Perhaps it should first be explained (as if everybody didn't already
know) that Los Angeles is fast becoming the black capital of the West
Coast and colored people are swarming into the Southern California
metropolis in about the same proportion that White people are flocking
out of Washington, D.C.
Galleries of the auditorium at political conventions have been known
to exert great influence on the action on the first floor, even including
the selection of candidates, and at Los Angeles this section of the con·
vention hall is at least expected to contribute to the adoption of a Civil
Rights plank which will relegate White people to their proper place in
human society and to which the Supreme Court of the United States
has already consigned them.
It has been suggested that as a result of this frame-up, there will be
quite a let-down in the quality of Southern delegates attending the convention
this time, but we doubt it.
Of course there are many honorable and self-respecting Southerners
who, realizing how the cards are stacked, will refuse to attend.
But, on the other hand, there are an overwhelming number who are
so hide-bound and so hipped on "party regularity" and on retaining
committee chairmanships that they will go right along and take the insults
lying down and even if it were decided to go out into Skid Row
and whistle in a wino as the candidate, they would fall in line and vote
the ticket straight.
It is the sacred obligation of every American who has something
to say and knows how to say it to protest the official behavior of Washington
politicians in wasting taxpayers' money and suppressing their
freedom. It may not do any good but it's certain that silence and apathy
are not going to help the situation.
The basic philosophy of those who tore their roots from
English soil and journeyed across an ocean in search
of freedom was that in the new country of their adoption
every voter would be a Sovereign and every citizen
a King. Supreme authority for the citizen and limited
power for those who govern was the bedrock on which
they were later to erect a Constitutional Government
of the people, by the people and for the people and
which they believed would endure so long as human
beings loved liberty and rejected tyranny as an abomination
in the sight of God and man. This lofty and noble
sentiment of early American patriots was crystallized
at Co.1cord where "once the embattled farmers stood
and fired the shot heard around the world.'' Much water
has gone over the dam in the intervening years and
every step of tho rugged path between 1775 and 1959
has been marked by a determined fight on the part of
o o o • GH.en
and to wrest from the peop le control of the pub lic p urse.
Centralized authority has now reached the peak of all
ages in the national capital and un~ess outrased Ameri ..
cans launch a peaceful but firm revolution to regain
their rights from power-mad rulers in Washinqton, triggered
by the same zeal and fervor which ins;>ired the
Men of Concord to repel an English tyrant, the citizens
of this great Republic will inevitab:y join the lowly
vassals behlnd the Iron Curtain who today mourn their
lost freedom as they wa;k in their own personal Garden
of Gethsemane.
In the hands of small men, it is the greatest force for evil the world
has ever known since thl serpent f roffered the apple in the Garden of
Eden.
When the Federal Constitution was submitted to the Virginia As~
sembly for ratification, Patrick Henry, one of the greatest statesmen to
grace any lawmaking body in the history of time, issued a warning which
today must haunt the minds of thoughtful and frightened Americans
who are witnessing the dismal picture of a Federal government wherein
power is all but absolute.
The Virginia patriot felt that the Constitution as drawn and submitted
for ratification could conceivably pave the way for the assumption
and abuse of power by those in authority which would c:mcel out
the rights of the citizen and make a mockery of human freedom. "V.lhen
you give power, you don't know what you give," he shouted to his colleagues.
"I dread the depravity c.f human nature. I wish to guard
against it with proper checks and balances."
In the debate that followed, he indicated loopholes in the document
which was before the Assembly for confirmation. "The Constitution
surrenders the purse and the sword to the Federal Government," he
gravely pointed out to hi:5 compatriots. "In it the creature soars above
the creator and if the power be infinite, what rights have the people
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Millions of Americans Think It-The Southern Conservative Says It
Pogo 2 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Apra, 1959
Only Way To Handle Communists Is
To Kick Them Out Of The Country
All this talk of "summit conferences"
between Communists and
Western leaders and the eternal
yak-yaking with the Bolsheviks
which never gets anywhere, must
be thoroughly discouraging to those
who have the common sense to
realize that trying to ~ason with
the Russian bandits is as purposeless
as a dog chasing its tail.
The Communists have never
kept a promise or treaty and never
intend to and the only ones who
don't seem to realize this are the
leaders of government who arrange
for the endless and futile talkfests.
The tragic aspect of it is that the
Communists could be disposed of
so easily and International Communism
given a lethal set-back that
would halt its rapid ad v.a n c e
throughout the world if those in
authority only had the courage to
do what is necessary.
This would be the withdrawal of
recognition of Russia and all its
satellite countries by the United
States and the cessation of all trade
and every other kind of relations
with the dirty bums. It would be
a blow to Communist prestige
throughout the world which can
never be delivered so long as we
continue to palaver with them and
treat them as if they were a civilized
nation.
By doing this and demanding the
withdrawal of all Communist diplomats
and representatives in the
country, we would then have only
our own domes tic Communists to
deal with.
Removing the Russian Communists
from our boundaries would
be like cutting off the head of the
snake and would make the cleanup
of our own brand of subversives
immeasurably easier.
Perhaps some day we will have
leaders who will unders':.and Communist
psychology and who will
deal with the subject intelli~ently
by kicking all Communists out of
the country.
They don't understand our language,
our way of life or anything
about us but if they were thrown
out on their ear, they would get
the meaning right quick.
CLUB WOMEN MAKE
MOST AMAZING CHOICE
OF CONVENTION SPEAKER
The invitation extended by the
National Federation of Women's
Clubs to Walter Reuther to address
the group's forthcoming convention
in Los Angeles, has engendered
so much opoosition that the
belief is expressed in informed club
circles that the invitation will
either be withdrawn or that the
labor racketeer, sensing the resentment,
will decline to accept.
First opposition to the proposal
is believed to have come from Texas
club members who were frankly
astounded that a man whose political
philosophy would, if adopted,
put an end to Constitutional
Government in the United States,
should be invited to speak to a
group aspiring to retain the national
prestige and distinction which
the National Federation is generaHy
credited with possessing.
California Second in
No. of Communists
After two years of intensive
study of the subject, the Committee
on Un-American Activities of
the House of Representatives in
Washington of which the Honorable
Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania
is chairman, has announced
that California has the second
largest concentration of Communists
in the United States.
It was not revealed where the
strongest concentration of Communists
is located but undoubtedly
this black mark belongs to the
State of New York.
According to Chairman Walter
the Communist conspiracy headquarters
in Southern California
have ramifications in virtually
every segment of society and their
operations cover all areas of the
State.
Communists are under orders to
wear a "new look," the Chairman
stated, and are presenting themselves
as loyal American citizens
who are peace-loving and humanitarian
in purpose.
Chairman Walter reminds the
American people that this nest of
Communists in California is only
one segment of a nationwide Fifth
Column on American soil working
feverishly in the in terests o f International
Communism.
From what we have read of the
new Governor of California and
some of the legislation he has sponsored,
as well as his far left leanings,
we don't imagine the good
people of that State can look to
him to clean out this horde of
enemy agents who are out to overthrow
the government of the
United States.
He's too busy measuring, figuratively,
the distance between Sacramento
and Washington.
We deeply appreciated the ~nvitation
to attend the Congress of
Freedom in Colorado Springs on
April 9 but were unable to do so.
The Congress of Freedom is composed
of a grand group of patriots
who labor unceasingly for a return
of Constitutional Government
in the United States.
Judge .Akio Date of Tokyo, Japan,
is reported in the press as
saying that the stationing of American
troops in that cou"ttry is unConstitutional.
Judge Date is clear
out of date. Doesn't he know that
practically everything we do is
un-Consti.tut{onal?
Politicians who talk about levying
taxes "according to ability to
pay" make us sick. Nowhere in the
Constitution is there one word
about "ability to pay'' taxes. All
the emphasis in that document is
on economy until it gets down to
t he Sixteenth Amendment in
u.•hich the whole conception of
American principles of government
is abandoned.
According to Senator Harry F.
Byrd of Virginia nearly forty million
per.sons are getting direct payments
from the Federal Treasury
this year. This degenerate and immoral
sitnation didn't develop all
at once but crept up on the people
while they slept. It started when
Roosevelt put the nation on a
"temporary" dole in 1933 and has
spread like a cancerous growth
until it has gotten completely out
of hand.
A public servant who fails to
keep his pledge to the people who
elected him is as guilty of a crim~
inal act as a man who passes a
hot check.
Any nation whose leaders ignore
fundamental truths is headed for
the rocks, and one of those eternal
truths was expressed by Thomas
Jefferson when he said: "That
country is governed best that is
go'Verned least."
SWELLING POWER (Cont;nued from Page I)
remaining? The time will come when our Legislatures will exhibit
mournful proofs of their lost liberty without power to restore it."
Haunted by the specter of a governing system across the ocean
based on the Divine Right of Kings, and from which early American
colonists had fled, the immortal Virginian contended that only the people
themselves were endowed with Divine Rights and that the power of
those who govern should be held to the minimum by strong and inflexible
provisions of the Constitution which the assaults of demagogues could
not change nor modify.
It was largely because of the eloquent reasoning of Patrick Henry
and other great statesmen of that day, to whom the Constitution was a
symbol o~ freedom for the people and restraint for those who govern,
that the ftrst ten amendments to the Constitution were added as a precaution
to insure inherent rights of the citizen and limited authority of
the Federal government.
If they had stopped with the Bill of Rights as these first ten amendments
to the Constitution were called, perhaps Patrick Henry's dream
of a Constitutional Republic in which supreme sovereignty was vested
in the citizens composing it, might have come true.
But the eternal fight for power and the relentless contest for the
purse did not cease with the adoption of the Bill of Rights and when
the Sixteenth Amendment levying an income tax was adopted, the
Federal Government won the battle for power and for the purse and the
American people lost their freedom.
The p assage o r this a m endment o p e n ed the door to pru~,; li cu lty
every form of vice and corruption to which weak humanity is heir and
the immorality and dishonesty of Washington politicians in their mad
race to bankrupt the national treasury as a result of this mass grant of
power has not been equalled in the written history of the human race.
The amendment took title to property from those who owned it and
vested it in political con men in Washington. It was a consignment of
unlimited power and a surrender of the public purse and of property
rights to. governing authorities which offered an inducement to the f·•ll
play of the "depravity of the human race" of which Patrick Henry warned
and which the recipients could not, and did not, resist.
As a result of this bestowal of unlimited power on irresponsible
politicians which gave them license to "tax and tax and spend and
spend," the resources and substance of the American people have been
dissipated and the past two decades have witnessed an orgy of extrava ..
gant spending and unbridled corruption which is unmatched since the
days of the dissolute Emperors of ancient Rome.
History proves that retrieving unrestra·ined power from grasping
politicians is like trying to turn back the tides of the ocean for once they
have tasted the heady wine of unlimited authority, their excesses have
seldom been checked except at the point of the sword.
All over the American Republic today there is an insistent and grow ..
ing dem~nd that something be done to restrain the burgeoning power
of Washmgton bureaucrats and to restore some measure of the priceless
freedom which the citizens have lost.
There is nothing that could effect this wholesome objective like the
repeal of the obnoxious and shameful Sixteenth Amendment and while
this project has met with failure heretofore because of strong and bitter
opposition by the human bloodsuckers in Congress who want to continue
to bleed American taxpayers white, honorable and dedicated Americans
are continuing the fight.
As a new beginning, the legislature of the great and sovereign State
of Wyoming recently approved a joint resolution memorializing Congress
to "propose to the people an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States or to call a convention for the purpose of abolishing income,
gift and estate taxes."
Because of the provision in the Constitution for amending that doc~
ument, it is within the power of the Sovereign States to force Congress
to take action in this matter and if the States fail or refuse to discharge
their sacred obligation then the direful warning of Patrick Henry will
have reached its tragic fulfillment:
"The time will come when our Legislatures will exhibit mournful
proofs of their lost liberty without power to restore it.''
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HEAliNG THE NATION'S SICK ECONOMY
IS OBJECTIVE -OF U.S. MEDICAL GROUP
Since Hippocrates, the father of
medicine, first launched the ethical
treatment of disease as one of the
earth's most honored professions,
the physicians of the world have
ministered to ailing humanity with
the dedicated objective of prolonging
human life.
In the United States today, there
is a large segment of physicians
who are going above and beyond
the call of duty and are undertaking
to cure a sick economy from
which their beloved Republic is dyIng.
The name of this medical group
is the Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons of which
Dr. Louis S. Wegryn of Elizabeth,
New Jersey, is the newly elected
president.
Organized in December, 1943 to
preserve quality medical care and
insure the continuation of private
practice, it set up a qualification
for membership which provided
that those joining the group must
be members in good standing of
their county and state societies and
the American Medical Association.
The Association held its sixteenth
annual meeting in Fort
Worth early in April where the
highlight of the occasion was an
address by Honorable Bruce Alger,
Congressman fr_om D a II a s
system is shared by few in the Jawmaking
body in Washington where
he is rendering outstanding and
notable service not only to his district
but to Texas and the entire
nation as well.
Many men high in the medical
profession also spoke during the
four-day session, as well as those
in many fields of patriotic endeavor
and the attendance represented all
sections of the United States.
Perhaps no clearer analysis of
the objectives of the AAPS could
be made than that which is included
in their declaration of purposes
which follows:
Supports constitutional federal
legislation and opposes all unconstitutional
proposals.
Gives support to proper voluntary
plans of sickness insurance
and seeks to protect them and physicians
and their patients from exploitation
by unenlightened promoters
both within and outside the
medical profession.
Interprets national legislation
and its implications for physicians
and their patients-and all Americans-
and exhorts physicians and
their patients to express their
views to Congress.
Reports succinctly and factually
on issues and programs of the government,
hospitals, labor bosses,
insurance carriers, and other socalled
third party interventionists
who seek to control physicians and
their patients.
Distributes libertarian literature
which upholds and explains the advantages
of our American systet;I
Supplies Congress with information
on pending legislation and persuasive
reasons why the voting decisions
of individual Congressmen
should be based on strict adherence
to constitutional govern·
ment and states' rights.
Public Indignation Concerning
Nepotism Embarrasses Lawmakers
The continued revelation of relatives on the payroll of members of
both Houses of Congress has aroused widespread indignation throughout
the country even by those who seem to take the general wasting of the
taxpayers money without protest.
There was so much embarrassment caused to those participating in
the practice of nepotism that officials of both the House and Senate have
made it practically impossible for any more information on the subject
to be given out to those investigating the matter.
Before the lid was clamped down however, it was revealed that an
Iowa lawmaker had his teen-age son on the payroll for $11,872. A Texas
solon was also reported to have his brother on the payroll for $1050 per
month and various other instances were cited which showed that the
practice is freely indulged in by our great statesmen in Washington.
The amount of money actually involved is infinitesimal when compared
to the billions of dollars which are annually confiscated from the
taxpayers and scattered all over the world to any group of beggars who
hold out their itching palms to Uncle Sam.
About the only thing involved in the practice of Nepotism is principle,
or rather a lack of it, for it indicates that those who are honored
with the vote of the electorate to these high positions are not above doing
a little cheap grafting on the side.
That they have larceny in their souls is generally accepted because of
their wholesale theft from the public treasury but, somehow, the public
is shocked when they descend to petty pilfering of taxpayers money.
The overall policy of our government
under Socialist administration
rewards failure and penalizes
Redistribution of property by
law is public theft and legalized
burglary.
Who Will. Be The Presidential
Nominees In Nineteen Sixty?
Many of our subscribers write us and ask our opinion on who will
be nominated by Modern Republicans and Fair Deal Democrats for
President in 1960.
We, of course, know no more about it than the man in the moon
but we have no hesitancy in making a guess just as many other Americans
are doing.
It is our private opinion, publicly expressed, that both of these Socialist
parties will nominate the very worst and least desirable men in
their stable of candidates. This conclusion is based on their performance
for the past quarter century.
As to who those candidates will be, that is on the lap of the gods.
All we can safely predict is that they will be One-Worlders, racial mongrelizers,
and all-round strong opponents of Americanism and Constitutional
Government.
Our own personal belief is that the so-called Republicans will put
up Nelson Rockefeller, one of the most politically dangerous men in the
United States as their candidate. With billions of dollars at his command,
Rockefeller is in position to buy the nomination and any one who does
not think this nomination can be bought has only to think back to 1952
when trainloads of money from New York defeated Robert Taft and
secured the nomination for Eisenhower. With Rockefeller in the White
House the campaign to Socialize the world which has been carried on
for generations with Rockefeller Foundation money would receive heavy
impetus.
All indications are that either Adlai Stevenson, two-time loser in
the Presidential sweepstakes, or Stuart Symington will be the offering
of the so-called Democratic Party, both of whom could be expected to
plunge the nation further into the mire of Socialism into which it has
been gradually sinking since 1933.
When American voters have to choose between Rockefeller and
Stevenson or Rockefeller and Symington, the matter could just as well be
settled by the method used in the selection of Darius for King of Persia.
n · · d a on · ·
f'Or' the throne c e on w: o arse e e rs s ou possess
the kingdom. Darius' horse, which had probably been tipped off in advance,
beat his equine comrades to the draw with a quick short snort
and so his master ascended the throne.
Another time-tested device for settling arguments is the flipping of
a coin and this is also recommended in the event the voters have to
choose between two International Socialists because if the above cand idates,
or others like them, are chosen for President, it is going to be a
case of heads they win and tails the American people lose.
Meantime, the only faint hope for decent, upright and Constitutionminded
Americans is that the Elector Plan now being pushed in the
South will succeed and the election thrown into the House of Representatives.
In that case almost any White man who may be put up would be an
improvement over those now proposed by both parties for the job.
Movement Which Could Spell Trouble
For 1960 Nominee Of Democratic Party
The only rainbow of hope in the
political skies continues to rest
with the efforts which are being
made to get the Southern States
to abandon the traditional party
loyalty oath and release presidential
electors from their commitment
to national party nominees.
Great impetus was given to the
movement when Alabama's State
Democratic Executive Committee
recently voted 45 to 25 to throw
out the pledge which had heretofore
bound presidential electors to
support the national party nominee.
This means that Alabama electors
will attend the National Democratic
Convention in Los Angeles
with open minds and a free
hand and can withhold endorsement
of any of the South-hating
candidates which Paul Butler's
gang of Fair Dealers may choose to
nominate
The fact that the States of Arkansas,
Georgia and Virginia have
enacted legislation w h i c h frees
t b e i r presidential electors from
their oath to support anybody the
Democrats may put up, together
with ~he expectation that several
other States of the Deep South will
do likewise, presents a situation
which could result in throwing the
election into the House of Representatives
in ihe event such election
is close.
Those who are promoting the
free electors movement figure that
regardless of who might be elected
if the matter were thrown into
Congress, he couldn't be any worse
than the specimens who, so far,
have been paraded across the public
stage as those most likely to be
nominated.
Practically anybody would be an
improvement.
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THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES:
The powers not deleg.ated to the United
Stolltes by the Constitution, nor prohibited
byittotheSt.ates.arereservedtothe
St.atesrespecfively,ortothepeople.
Communist Words Are Empty
Sounds To Disguise Meaning
Apparently the American people
are going to have to witness again
the humiliating spectacle of the
President journeying to Geneva to
;:>alaver and harangue with the barJarian,
Khrushchev.
A small measure of dignity might
have been saved if the forthcoming
"summit conference" were to be
held in Washington as first anticipated.
But Khrushchev didn't want
to make the trip and so vetoed the
idea, and since what Nikita wants
Nikita seems to get, Western leaders
will go to Geneva or some other
foreign seat of intrigue where the
cards will all be stacked.
Wherever the conference is held
and whoever attends it, the millions
of words exchanged between the
participants will add up to exactly
nothing and any promises the Moscow
Monster makes to the conferees
will prove about as firm and
binding as a spider web. ·
The credo of the Communists is
that words are merely empty
sounds to disguise the real meaning
of those who utter them.
Somehow, the United States always
manages to lose the argument
at the conference table and
if the Geneva confab takes place,
only a hopeless optimist can anticipate
that results will be any different
this time.
In the fiscal year of 1958, the
State of Texas paid to Washington
in income tax $2,697,309,000. During
that period Texas received
back through grants-in-aid $452,-
710,484 or 16.78 per cent. Any
one who cannot see the evil of our
taxing laws, is an imbecile, and
this includes the educators who
are screaming for uFederal Aid.,
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
Somebody G~vE~ Us A Big· Farm. And We'll
Haul Down The Dough For Doing Nothing
. It is believed that persons in the United States, seizing on opportunities
offered by corrupt Congressional practices, have developed a
new racket which is making those who operate it rich.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration in the Department of
Agriculture in \Vashington administers the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
While it is difficult for sane, honest and normal persons to believe it, this
Act provides that the Federal Government will pay cash subsidies to
farmers for not raising certain crops specified by fountain pen farmers
on Capitol Hill. It also penalizes farmers who produce one bushel of
grain or farm one acre of land above that allotted to them by the bureaucrats.
This not only applies to farmers who were stupid enough to sign
the pact but to any man who tills the soil for a living.
Consequently, large corporations owning thousands of acres of
"farm" land are springing up all over the country and drawing millions
of dollars from the government for not doing anything but just sitting
back and receiving_ the checks. \Vhile these "corporation farmers" never
had it so good, thousands of small farmers all over the country who
were in the business to make a living for their families are joining the
dodo bird in oblivion.
Recently Senator John Williams of Delaware revealed that the government
had sent a check for $1,167,502 to one of these farm corporations
which is owned in its entirety by a British firm, although its land
lies in the State of Mississippi. The check was listed as a "price support
loan." This same•firm was also paid an additional $20,761 in 1957
not for raising rice but for NOT raising rice.
A corporation which owns a farm in Arkansas also got a subsidy
from the government of $1,460,902; a Mississippi farm corporation received
a subsidy of $1,167,502 and a California farm corporation was
the beneficiary of a subsidy check in the amount of $854,450, all for not
raising crops on their land.
The original purpose of enacting this legislation was inspired by a
desire on the part of members of the two major political parties to capture
the farm vote and both have been playing football with the issue
ever since.
In view of the old saying that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, we
wish that we could get in on this racket and make a pile of money.
We are therefore earnestly requesting some of our well-heeled subscribers
to buy us a large acreage which we will designate as a "farm"
and start drawing down big chunks of other people's money without
having to turn a hand.
In that way we might be able to finance our paper adequately.
As it is, we don't even have a front porch which we can rent to the
government.
POWERFUL WOMEN'S GROUP MEETS FOR
DISCUSSION OF ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
As we went to press, Fort Worth
was being honored as the site of
the 26th annual convention of National
Association of Pro-America
which was meeting in a five-day
session for serious discussion of
such economic problems as States'
Rights, freedom of speech, religion,
assembly, press and other questions
of national import in which
this great ·organization is concerned.
Membership of Pro America, of
which Mrs. John Howland Snow
of Connecticut was re-elected president,
is drawn from every State in
the Union and is composed largely
of women in the upper intellectual
strata who have greatly curtailed
lesser activities in favor of dedicated
study .of the serious problems
confronting the American Republic
as a result of twenty-five years of
rapidly advancing Socialism in government.
The organization is non-partisan
and is open to all women interested
in good government regardless of
their political affiliation.
Pro America was set up in Seattle
in 1933 and has steadily grown
We have heard so many responsible
persons express the hope that
the Honorable Bruce Alger, Congressman
from Dallas, will become
a United States Senator from Texas,
that we are wondering if a
trend along this line may develop.
Personally we doubt it because we
just don't think anything that good
could happen to Texas which for a
long time now has had to make do
with definitely inferior representation
in the upper chamber of
Congress.
in membership and prestige until
today it is reckoned as one of the
most powerful organizations of
women on the national scene.
Principal address of the convention
was delivered by the Honorable
George W. Malone, former
United States Senator from Nevada
and one of the foremost proponents
of Constitutional Government
in the United States.
Another outstanding s p e a k e r
was E. Victor Milione of Philadelphia,
executive vice president of
the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists.
Apdl, 1959
Surely There's A Beiter
Answer Than This One
Some members of the Texas Legislature
are trying to revive and
breathe life into a proposed Constitutional
amendment suggested
by John Nance Garner many years
ago in which Texas would be divided
into five states, a procedure
authorized in the State's Constitution.
Those favoring such an amendment
argue that it would give the
Lone Star State a much heavier
representation in Washington and
provide for ten United States senators
instead of only two as at
present, thereby partly neutralizing
Northern D e.m ocr at i c Party
strength.
That's true and if it's only quantity
rather than quality that is
needed to lift our prevailing standard
of statesmanship perhaps it
would be a good idea.
But the catch is that there is no
assurance that Texas voters would
exercise any better judgment when
operating under five separate units
than they have when performing as
a whole.
There would be the awful possibility
that we would get eight
more senators of the same calibre
as the two we already have.
In our· opinion, that would not
provide redress for our grievances.
I t vvould Jncrcly be compounding
a felony.
Washington has a new mystery
on its hands, according to the press,
as well as a case of petty graft as
distinguished from the usual type.
A chair costing $200 disappeared
from the House storeroom and
turned up in the office of a police
precinct captain. The captain happens
to be married to a congressman's
daughter, according to the
press report.
Mr. Verne P. Kaub of Madison,
Wisconsin, and president of the
American Council of Christian
Laymen has protested the proposed
issuance by Postmaster General
Summerfield of a stamp "for
World Peace through W o r l d
Trade." Mr. Kaub told the P.G.
very properly that "World Peace
through World Trade" has never
been accepted as a settled policy
of the United States. Also, he
pointed out, the proposed stamp
will carry a laurel spray and a
globe which was borrowed from
the Soviets. Such a stamp has no
place in our American Republic,
he added.
The brutal murder of a little
five-year-old boy in Milwaukee
by a fiend in human form is re·
ported in the press to have angered
the entire Mid-West. We only
hope that it has angered enough
people that there Will be a general
squelching of the soft-headed dogooders
who are trying to do away
with capital punishment and turn
criminals loose to commit murder,
rape and robbery to their heart's
content.
Apr;!, 1959 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE PageS
SACRILEGIOUS PERFORMANCE IN NEW · ·
ENGLAND CHURCH SHOCKS THE NATION
Th~ National Council of Churches is a political propaganda organization
claiming a membership of 40,000,000 which takes keen interest in
practically all subjects except religion.
Throughou~ the years conventional Christians in various Protestant
churches have been shocked and embarrassed by the policies of the
Council which closely follow those laid down by the American Communist
Party, but no organized protest so far has developed the strength
to curb the unorthodox activities of the group.
Serious-minded churchmen believe, however, that the recent disgraceful
and sacrilegious performance in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church in Norwalk, Connecticut, which was the scene of a "Jazz Mass"
where sacred music was replaced by rock 'n roll and where a thumping
four-piece combo substituted for the solemn tones of the organ, will do
more to bring discredit to the NCC which approved the stunt, than all
the left-wing political activities in which it has heretofore engaged.
The bacchanalian spiritual orgy took place, according to press reports,
on Sunday morning, April 5, and representatives of the National
Council were on hand to observe approvingly the swing and sway of the
younger communicants who tapped their feet and swung their hips as
the hot cha cha and the blast of a jazz piano, drums, alto sax and bull fiddle
pierced the quiet and peaceful air of the calm New England sabbath.
The Law Is The Law Is Huts Knaves May Reform
(Fort Worth Press)
Evetts Haley Jr. owes the gov- But Fools are Hopeless
ernment $506.11 because he harvested
473 bushels of wheat without
the government's permission.
And he'll have to pay, or else, because
the Supreme Court has just
brushed off his argument that he
had a right to grow grain to feed
his own cattle.
Out in Michigan another farmer
still owes the government $2643 in
fines for raisin his own chicken
~ (The gdV ment already has
grabbed his $1701 bank account.)
So this farmer, Stanley Yankus, is
selling his farm and taking off for
Australia, where he hopes he can
run a farm his own way.
This punishment for small farmers
is being levied under the same
law which permits the government
to pay out nearly $1.5 million to a
single corporation farm to prop up
the price of the rice it produced.
It is the same law which got a
California corporation farm $854,-
450 in 1957 for growing cotton -
and the same corporation another
$125,942 for not growing cotton.
It is the same law which in 1957
gave sums ranging from $10,000 to
$322,000 each to 2422 large-size
farmers who took land out of production.
It is the same law which
has piled up such a hoard of sur·
plus crops that it costs the taxpayers
$1 bil1ion a year just to store
them.
The farm bloc diehards who in·
sist on keeping this anti-consumer,
anti-taxpayer, anti-farmer law on
the books loudly proclaim it is ·for
the benefit of the "little" farmer.
It sure is.
A small farmer in Indiana had
his tractor seized because he plant··
ed 16 more acres of wheat than the
government said he could. A small
farmer in Pennsylvania was fined
$404 for raising 24 acres of wheat
to feed his cattle, and threatened
with sale of his farm If he didn't
pay. Mr. Haley is being socked for
raising 43 acres of wheat and Mr.
Yankus is leaving the country because
the government wouldn't let
him run his egg farm the best way
he knew how.
It's the law, all right. But it's
crazy.
The most dangerous element of
citizenship in the United States -
not even excluding card-carrying
Communists - is the vast assemblage
of dupes and fools in the
three branches of the Federal government,
in educational institutions,
in the churches and religious
fields and in private life who are
unwittingly helping to promote
Comm · · U it
They are infinitely more of a
menace than those who are deliberately
plotting for a Communist
world of the future because they
are heavily in the majority and,
with typical stupidity of the dogooder,
they are convinced that
they are ·engaged in a cause designed
for the betterment of man~
kind.
It would be comparatively easy
to deal with outright Communist
Party members but the dupes and
the foOls who ar~ their pawns constitute
a hazard to national secur·
ity which is frightening to contemplate.
The Honorable Joseph Weldon
Bailey, former United States sena~
tor from Texas, once said that if he
were forced to choose between a
knave and a fool, he would unhesi~
tatingly select the knave.
He reasoned that a knave is usually
a villain from choice and that
in his case there is a chance for
reformation but a fool is a product
of nature which denied him his
rightful share of brains and he is,
therefore, hopeless.
If the patriots of this country
only had to combat the knaves of
Communism, their task would be
comparatively minor. It is the fools
and dupes who present the almost
insuperable barrier to good government
and national security.
The (/National Defense Education
Act" requires students receiving
loans to sign a loyalty oath.
Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts
has introduced a bill to
remove this requirement. Why,
we wonder, would he do ·that?
What's wrong with a loyalty oath?
Or rather, what's wrong with Senator
Kennedy?
Senator More Concerned A-i· Threat
Of Outrage Than At Outrage Itself
On March 26, the Senate Rackets
Committee in Washington investigating
racketeering on the part of
labor unions in the Miami area developed
an alleged plot to use racial
tensions as a weapon in labor disputes.
A Miami official of the Teamster's
Union was revealed, according
to evidence in the hands of the
Committee, to have threatened to
locate Negroes in \Vhite neighborhoods
in that city in order to intimidate
contractors with whom
the unions were having labor disputes.
The scheme, according to the
committee, was originated by a person
named Bennie Rubin, the head
of three Miami labor union locals.
The plan was for the union head
to take $15,000 of labor union
funds and march into a housing
project where White persons were
negotiating for residence and offer
to buy the house for the Negro
who accompanied him. This usually
brought the contractor into line, it
was stated.
Several senators became hot under
the collar at the "outrage" revealed
in the investigation and
threatened to take the matter to
the Justice Department and to the
Civil Rights Commission for proper
action.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho
was especially reported to be incensed
at this "exploitation of the
minority race" but that seemed to
be the only phase of the subject to
arouse his anger.
If the Idaho senator thinks it
outrageous for a person to "threaten"
to locate Negroes in White
neighborhoods, why is he unable to
see how much more outrageous it
is for this step to actually be taken?
There have been hundreds of cases
since Communists first started agitating
for racial mixing where Negroes
have been moved into White
neighborhoods but we have seen
no objection on the part of the ""
Idaho senator to this disgraceful
procedure. But he goes into a tizzy
when a smart labor union racketeer
merely threatens to take this action
in order to gain his point.
Any way, what does a senator
from Idaho know about the Negro
situation as it relates to a State
in the Deep South?
According to the last census,
Idaho had a population of 588,637,
only 1,050 of whom were Negroes.
No Greater Wisdom Than This
ol rt
Straining at a Gnat
Swallowing a Camel
Mariner S. Eccles, former head
of the Federal Reserve System, has
appealed to Congress to try to win
back full "public confidence" by
passing legislation which will put
an end to the disgraceful padding
of payrolls with relatives by the
nation's lawmakers as pictured in
the headlines in recent weeks.
Mr. Eccles thinks the p eo p I e
throughout the country are thoroughly
aroused over the situation
and feels that American voters are
"beginning to doubt the good judgment
of our lawmakers."
If this is true, then American
voters are straining at a gnat and
swallowing a camel because these
same lawmakers have been taxing
them out of house and home for
years and, in the majority of cases,
getting re-elected by these same
voters.
Mr. Eccles appeared before a
joint Committee of the Senate and
House to make his plea for a cessation
of this petty grafting being indulged
in by many members of
both the House and Senate.
The pay-off was that three members
of that s~me committee -
Sparkman of Alabama, Patman of
Texas and Boggs of Louisiana -
themselves have relatives on their
payroll.
Perhaps Senator Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee should be awarded
some kind of medal for originality
and genius in analyzing and pinpointing
the factors which lead to
inflation and for proposing a sure
cure for it.
Inflation, the legislative wizard
from the Volunteer St?te informs
us, is brought about through price
increases.
Now why couldn't we have
thought of that? Here we've been _
figuring all along that the cause of
inflation was falling prices, and the
practice of economy in the conduct
of the affairs of government.
Along with his amazing discovery
of the causes of inflation, Senator
Kefa4ver has unerringly hit
upon the way to end it.
He proposes to create another
Cabinet post called the "Department
of Consumers."
If there is any quicker and more
effective way to contribute to the
cause of good government and
sound economy than to add another
bureau, board or commission,
it has not yet been discovered and
Senator Kefauver is to be congrat·
ulated for his acumen and firm
grasp of the subject.
When the senator gets this new
agency set up with a passel of civil
service employees to keep it tick- · ~
ing, we have no doubt that inflation
will take off like a Texas steer
running from a swarm of heel flies.
short of drastic treatment at the
polls where the only possibility for -
Mr. Eccles has been around a general clean-up rests.
Washington long enough to realize To handle the situation in any
that corruption is too widespread other manner is like trying to kill
and deep-seated to be eliminated an elephant with a squirt gun. ·
Page 6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Apdl, 1959
When We Run Out Of Places To
Go We'll Attend A Book Review
t Man~ women consider it smart and a mark of culture to go in for
book reviews. Sometimes it may be, but many times it is just the
opposite.
1 One of the most effective mediums for brainwashing the American
people is through book reviews where professionals make a career of it
and which are becoming so widespread and numerous as to constitute
a leading public institution.
At the present time scores of subversive books are being "reviewed''
by those who, either through ignorance or design, are promoting propaganda
for United Nations, UNESCO, One-World Government, racial integration
and practically everything else under the sun except Americanism.
It is unbelievable how many persons, and especially women, who
will foregather to hear some touted book reviewer discuss the latest
non·ficdon "best seller" and the interpretation such reviewer will give
of the volume. And nine times out of ten these women will leave the
review chattering like magpies about how they have acquired a better
grasp or a subject they have not heretofore understood.
Personally, we have always had a very unconventional opinion of
book r~ views and book reviewers.
\Ve look upon book reviewers as egotistical ~nd opinionated per·
sons w.10 feel qualiiied to direct public thought; and we regard those
who attend book reviews as suckers who. are unable to think for themselves.
There are very few persons in this world whom we would trust to
read a book and interpret its meaning for us. If we are too busy or too
lazy to read it ourselves and make our own appraisal of the message it
convey.:;, then it will go unread so far as we are concerned, because the
chances are that the ideas of the reviewer would not jibe with our own
concepdon of the subject under discussion.
Having made a long and painful study of the fine art of propaganda,
we see not only the printed word but, from long habit, are able to read
between the lines and to spot the subtle phrases and nuances which are
designed to shape and mold public opinion in preparation for the "new
world order" which is ,peing prepared for us.
These women who flock to teas and other events where the main
attraction is a book review had better familiarize th em selves with the
book to be reviewed in advance or else they are liable to come away
with their pretty little heads chock full of propaganda of a nature which
will be of no help whatever to them in carrying on as good American
citizens.
So far, we have been able to successfully fend off all invitations
to such events with the simple and uncomplicated crack that we consider
them, at best, silly and boring and, at worst, sinister and subversive.
Have You A Little 'Depression' In
Your 'Area'? If So, Here's Answer
Acting under the inspiration of
one of its frequent bursts of constructive
statesmanship, the United
States Senate recently passed the
''depressed area" bill designed to
pep up stricken communities and
provide a crutch for unemploy·
ment.
The President had asked for such
a bill but had requested that the
measure carry an appropriation of
approximately $55,000,000 but the
august statesmen in the Senate to
whom any suggested appropriation
less than a billion dollars is a bald
insult, promptly upped the figure
to seven times the amount desig·
nated by the White House and recommended
$389,500,000 be allotted
for putting the program into
effect.
l After all, what are a few million
dollars, more or less, between
friends and especially with an elec·
tion coming up in 1960? And the
unemployed have to vote for some·
body, don't they?
I Personally, we'd like to get in on
the deal and think we are entitled
, to. The "area" around us has been
~ ~~~~;::~oe~" t~~~a~~n~0 nt~ t~~~o~:
permanent. We are "depressed"
Bills have been introduced in the
United States Senate by Eastland
of Mississippi which would amend
the Immigration and Neutrality
Act to provide for the deportation
of aliens who became Communists
while residing in the United States
and which would permit the State
Department to refuse passports to
Communists and others engaged in
subversive activities. The strongest
opponent of this legislation wilt
probably be Justices of the Supreme
Court whose official rulings
have made such legislation necessary.
The supreme test of the morality
and efficiency of any government
is the care which those who administer
it exercise in preserving
the individual and property rights
of the people who support such
government.
not only from lack of money but
from having to study, year after
year, the depressing record of the
political maniacs in Washington
who are doing their dead-level best
to bankrupt the treasury and destroy
the economy of the Ameri·
can Republic.
Rackets Committee Probe Has Only
Covered One Half Of The Subject
The Senate Rackets Committee
of which the Honorable John L.
McClellan of Arkansas is chairman
has done. very fine work in exposing
crooks in the Teamsters Union
and in turning up various forms of
corruption on the part of smalltime
criminals in the labor union
racket, but it would seem that it
is a waste of time and money for
his committee to continue its investigation
so long as it sidesteps
vital angles of the subject.
The great disappointment of the
public lies in the fact that Walter
Reuther and his goons have escaped
scot free In the probe with the exception
of a perfunctory examination
of the CIO Czar early in the
investigation when he used the occasion
to hog the limelight with
pronouncements of his Socialistic
theories of government and an~
swered practically no questions.
No informed American will deny
that Senator McClellan is an honorable
and upright lawmaker but
Button, Button Who
Got The Button?
Here's a case for the experts to
figure out.
The City Council of Fort Worth
acce pted $100,000 fr om th e Fede ral
Government as a sort of advance
payment on Urban Renewal
projects which the Council felt
sure would be passed on favorably
by the voters.
The voters fooled them, how~
ever, and turned the proposition
down cold and by an overwhelming
majority.
Meantime the council had gone
ahead and spent $57,550 of this
money in making a "survey" in a
Negro section of the city where
their fir.st project was to be car~
ried out.
The Council says that the bal-ance
of the money is to be returned
to the Federal Government, but
what about the $57,000 which had
already been spent and can't be
returned.
Of course we realize that in a
transaction involving only $57,-
000 which is regarded as mere
chicken feed, the Government
probably will not lower its dignity
enough to try to recover it,
but what became of it.
Who was the loser besides the
taxpayers and who got the money?
Isn't there some sort of ethics
it also can't be denied that he is a
politician first, last and always.
Also, 1960 is approaching and Walter
Reuther's unioneers are expected
to come through with the necessary
votes to put the Democratic
candidate for President over the
wire.
The failure of the McClellan
Committee to subject Reuther to
the same going over which was applied
to Hoffa, Beck and others
may be smart politics but it's dirty
pool and also political immorality
of the first order.
It has been published time and
again that in the 1956 national campaign
COPE, Reuther's political action
committee, and some individ4
ual unions spent $ 1,079,852 and
that over ninety-six per cent of this
amount went to the campaigns of
Democratic candidates for the
House and Senate. It has also been
published that Reuther's United
Auto Workers spent $725,000 in
the interest of the campaign of Sen·
ator Patrick V. McNamara of Mich4
igan alone.
Either these charges are true or
they are untrue and it would seem
to be a responsibility of the rackets
committee to let the people have
the facts and settle once and for all
whether or not in this country a
powerful group like COPE can purchase
House and Senate members
as casually as a customer would
buy a bag of potatoes.
Vle have no illusions about our
suggestions being considered by
our statesmen in Washington but
that does not cause us to hesitate
for one moment in making them.
Accordingly, we suggest that
unless the McClellan Committee is
going to do a whole job on the
unions, they just drop the matter
and take up some more useful
study such as, for instance, trying
to figure out how far a peanut will
have to fall in order to break a tin
roof.
The battle cry of uacademic
freedom" which has been used in
this country in support of the right
of schools and universities to teach
Communism to American students
is now ringing throughout the
wilds of Africa, according to a
writer in the South Africa Observer
in Capetown. Which proves, all
over again, that the Communist
propaganda campaign is worldwide
in its scope and that the same
methods, and even the same t erms,
are employed in aU countries.
involved in a deal of this type and It was in 1934 when Roosevelt
wasn't somebody responsible for was in the White House that Con~
holding this money in trust until gress abdi:ated its authority to
it could be legally used and when write tariff legislation and dumped
it could not so be used, wasn't this authority on the President
somebody in honor bound to return who had asked for it. The purpose
it to the s,ource from which it of this transfer was to destroy aU
came, not just a part of it? . industry in this country while
buildinq up that of foreign countries.
The objective of ki!ling off
American industry has received
greater impetus ander the Eisenhower
administration than during
the two previous ones.
It's a small matter and we
would not mention it except there
is a big principle involved and it
poses a question which should be
answered.
April, 1959 THE SOUTHERN CONS!RVATIVE Page 7
DIVISIVE TACTICS WHICH REDS USE IN I WISCONSIN SOCIETY OF D.A.R. TAKES
BREAKING UP CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS SOUND POSITION ON NATIONAL ISSUES
Every American who has ever True to the traditions of the
attended a patriotic meeting is fa- S d h "f S W"ll" H I Daughters of the American Revo .. ~~i~~ct':i~~~fo"'y;~~t~e o~~~d~~~vf~ pen t r1 t oapy 1 1ams e ps ~~~~~ ~~~~~i~~~i::,g~~i~i~~o~~f!
break up the gathering. T 0 Bankrupt State Of Michigan ~~a;f~e~~e~~w~~~~~· 4~\aa;Ja~~
An interesting discussion of the The d e 1 i b e r a t e attempts to reaffirmed the position of the
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who has conducted a wide study ~~~ig~~~e~~~;:t;t~~~~ b~n W ,:~~~~; slap-happy politicians who head statesmanlike as to put to shame
of the divisive tactics engaged in ceasing. The President is reported them has been tragically demon- our national lawmakers who pos·
~~ds~~~:t~~~~~ i~~~~r~:~o;/~~~na1 in the press to have told the Ex- strated in the case of Michigan. !~~sa~~ ~~~~nu~~eJ!~~fn~n!it~o~;
Americans who may assemble to ~~~t~:nJe~r:;::!tt:~a~f u~:le~~vte;:~ af~~t~~~~~:s ~~=~: ~~n~~;~; \t~f: problems confronting the Republic.
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Government. compulsory federal standards." ernor of that great State, Michigan Kohler, State Chairman ResoluFollowing
the address and during
an open forum when orderly
questions are to be asked, a strange
man in the audience will jump up
and get the floor under the pretense
of making a legitimate query,
says Mrs. Staples. Instead, he
adroitly brings up a counter~subject
and heads the discussion toward
extraneous matters having
no place on the agenda.
Meantime, and before questioner
No. 1 has taken his seat, another
man who has been planted some
distance away is on his feet, perhaps
taking issue with the firstat
any rate prolonging the crosscurrent
which has been started.
From opposite positions in the. auditorium,
two other strangers join in
smoothly and unexpectedly, obviously
to sidetrack the platform
_......,,.._. ,·~ liltabli.-bed -theme, to
help control the forum and to intimidate
questioners who, though
sincere, are not over-bold.
Sometimes one of the intruders
will even grab the floor and sound
off violently against a group, a
creed or a race-his purpose, of
course, being to brand the assembly
as a bunch of crackpots and
race haters, even though there was
not even the vaguest intention of
those who called the meeting to
indulge in any such discussion.
The net result is that the audience
leaves the meeting exhausted,
confused and frustrated and is
thereby discouraged from taking
part in similar gatherings of the
future.
Accordingly, the next time efforts
are made to get a discussion
group together, it is extremely difficult
as most of those who attend
such meetings do so with a sincere
desire to learn and not to become
embroiled in extraneous discussions.
In the meantime, declares Mrs.
Staples, Communists will have
chalked up another victory in the
Cold War which Russia is gradually
heating toward the boiling
point, and the attitude of the average
American is that there is no
point in attending meetings and
trying to get results in view of the
headwstart which the Russians have
on us, a fact which is constantly
blazoned in the controlled press.
Communist tactics in breaking
up a gathering of loyal Americans
are not new and have been successfully
used since the early twenties,
according to Mrs. Staples who
And if any of the Governors re- is fresh out of money and desper- tions Committee of the Wisconsin
minded the President that this ate measures must be employed in Society DAR, we have been furmatter
was strictly a State affair the emergency. Issuing scrip to pay nished with a copy of the proceedand
none of his or Congress' busi- school teachers is even being sug- ings of the meeting and while the
ness, there was nothing said about gested, this scrip to be reclaimed document is too lengthy for reproit
in the press. at a later date when, and if, Michi- duction here, a review of their regan
ever gets back in the black affirmation of policy on national
If the United Nations is fulfiUing
the promise of its founders,
including Alger Hiss, and is a compelling
force for world peace why
has it been necessary for the United
States to spend $200,000,000,000
for the defense of this nation and
the free world from Communist
conspirators since the end of the
Korean war which is the figure
named by Congressman Gordan H.
Scherer of Ohio in a speech to
Congress recently?
points out some of the tricks of
the trade.
When a patriotic meeting has
been called and indications are for
a heavy attendance, a minimum
of three glib talkers will enter the
hall where such a gathering is to
take place. They take sea',s in a
triangle pattern--one down front,
one well back on eac:1 side and
often several others wJl bz scattered
throughout the audience.
When the time comes, they cue
each other to create delay and disorder.
They may pretend to disagree
and so cause disturbance.
They have a picked and experienced
leader strategically placed
and wl~o calls the plays like a disguised
quarterback.
There's no chance for positive
action from an audience after the
trained trouble-makers take over.
Sidney Hillman's Political Action
Handbook will have instructed
them thoroughly in procedure and
they seldom fail to create disorder,
chaos and confusion sufficient to
break up a meeting when the
"team" is going strong and is hitting
on all cylinders.
Mrs. Staples has hit the nail
squarely on the head and it would
be well for those who sponsor conservative
political or patriotic
meetings to be prepared for these
off-beat characters in the future.
The first requisite would seem
to be to get a few bold members
of their own group who are wise
to such tactics to deal with the
intruders and expose them to the
.audience.
If this does not serve to pipe
them down, a committee with good
strong muscles should be quickly
named from the rostrum to bounce
the bums out and lock the doors.
again. questions is given below:
Apparently the one remedy Active support ot our churches,
which is not being considered is a schools, civic groups and law enprogram
of economy since the ir- forcement agencies in combatting
repressible Soapy has submitted juvenile delinquency.
a budget which exceeds by forty~ Continued support of the Immi ..
four million dollars, the one for the gration and Nationality Act as our
last fiscal year. first line of defense against Com ..
And still certain New Dealers
have had the effrontery to project
this man as a possible candidate
for the Presidency of the United
States.
That would seem to be scraping
the bo'.:tom of the barrel with a
vengeance.
Speaking of Stanley Yankus, the
displaced Ame1·ican farmer who
was forced. out of business and
out of the country by the Agricultural
Adjustment Act, The Creek
County Adviser of Sapulpa, Oklahoma,
said in part: "Yankus is but
one of millions who have been
driven from their farms under
laws which pretend to have been
conceived and enacted for relief
of the farmers. Had the Supreme
Court of the United States not
been corrupted, had the Constitution
limiting the power of the fed~
eral government been respected,
had we adhered to a sound policy
of government by law rather than
by vain dictators posing as supermen,
we would not be in the fix
that now confronts us-hurrying
along the road to a Sovietized America,
bribed with our own money
to part with that freedom and liberty
which in other days cost our
forebears through long generations
blood and sweat and sacrifice and
tet;trs--and is worth all it cost, and
more."
The Pentagon has only 3.7 million
employees, and only a $40,-
000,000,000 budget so they had to
farm out part of their work. They
sublet their Training School for
Officers Assigned to Foreign Aid
to The American Institute for Research
of Pittsburgh, whereupon
the Institute spent $274,000 of taxpayers
money in renovating their
headquarters before they could
undertake the job. The economy of
Washington agencies and the careful
manner in which bureaucrats
conserve public funds is really remarkable.
No wonder we are recognized
as world leaders.
munist infiltration.
Opposition to the recognition of
Red China and its admission into
the United Nations.
Endorsement of the fundamental
principle of the original Bricker
Amendment.
Reaffirm our opposition to
United States participation in
GATT.
Urge that examinations requiring
a thorough knowledge of the
Constitution of the United States
and American History be made
mandatory for graduation from all
high schools and colleges in Wisconsin.
Oppose legislation requiring the
registration of privately owned
firearms.
Continued opposition to participation
of the United States in the
International Labor Organization
(lLO) where we are outvoted 36
to 4 by the Soviet bloc of nations.
Urge the Congress to vigilance
in the economical operation of government.
·1
Unaltered opposition to the entry
of the United States into any
form of Atlantic Union or World
Government. t;j
Continued opposition to UNES ..
CO which advocates World Citizenship
and undermines the national
allegiance of our teachers and
students.
Uphold the Freedom to Work
and oppose compulsory member•
ship in any organization as a con ..
dition of employment. 1
Oppose "Summit" m e e t i n g s
which serve as propaganda outlets
for Soviet Russia and are detrimental
'to the free world. 1
Reaffirm our stand against the
so-called Atoms for Peace plans. 1
Urge repeal of the criminal jurisdiction
provisions of the Status of
Forces Agreement.
ContinUe our opposition to Federal
financial aid to education and
its inevitable government controls.
Page 8 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
Pulitzer Prize Winner's Wife Distorted Political Conception
G~:c~r~~!: ~! ~!:t~a~~:!~!! Of The American Right To Own
Evening Star of March 20, a prominent
woman in the nation's capital
was brutally attacked in broad daylight
in Rock Creek Park and received
injuries which sent her to
1the hospital with a broken nose,
an arm injury and contusions on
the head and knee.
The woman was Mrs. Edgar Ansel
Mowrer, wife of a Pulitzer prize
winning columnist, and her attackers
were three Negro girls ranging
from ten to fourteen years of age.
HI was walking toward home
over the path I had used 100 times
when I noticed the three girls,"
Mrs. Mowrer stated from her hospital
bed. "Suddenly they sprang
on me from behind, one putting a
foot in front of mine and pushing
me to the ground. It was obviously
not their first experience. I went
down like a ton of bricks." The
victim's purse was then rifled of
seventeen dollars after which the
assailants disappeared before help
arrived.
It was stated that it would be
necessary for the injured woman
to resort to plastic surgery to restore
her broken nose.
Since the lady is the wife of a
Pulitzer prize winner, it is to be
assumed that she is not a pronounced
opponent of social racial
mixing as Pulitzer prizes do not go
to those who combat Communist
racial propaganda.
This surprise attack on her
should make her more careful in
the future as vicious assaults on
White people by Negro thugs are
taking place practically every day
all over the country and in spite
of efforts of the pink press to play
down or suppress all mention of
t hem, these beastly crimes are
showing a tremendous increase.
I The psychology back of increasing
Negro crime is simple and clear.
They can neither take, understand
nor deal with a situation in which
they are coddled by vote-seeking
1.White politicians and their natural
reaction is to exercise their baser
Instincts to the fullest without fear
of proper punishment.
Only the people of the South understand
Negro psychology and
they were able to hold them in
check unt il the barrage of propaganda
for social racial mixing was
trained on us from Moscow and
taken up by a worthless class of
colored people and soft-headed
White reformers in the United
States.
The full penalty which must be
paid for this exhibition of mass insanity
is something which only the
future can reveal.
A member of the Texas Senate
recently put in a station to station
call from Austin to his home in a
nearby city. His eight-year-old son
answered the phone and the fol~
lowing conversation took place:
"Hello, son, whe1·e's your mother?"
uShe's gone after me."
"What do you mean she's gone
after you? You are there aren't
you?'"
uYes, but she don't know it."
The action of the Honorable Stephen M. Young in disposing of
$234,000 worth of valuable stock in order to technically qualify in the
"conflict of interest" ballyhoo in connection with his new job as United
States Senator from Ohio, has been widely commended by his colleagues
and by the press.
To us, however, it seems a silly and senseless procedure since it
constitutes a concession to a very unwholesome and un-American sentiment
which has been fostered by demagogues in this country and which
holds that the possession of property and money is something sinister
and that it brands the possessor as an undesirable citizen.
This subversive idea should be stamped out and not encouraged and
catered to unless we are ready to admit that such philosophy is part of
our national pattern and that it is a disgrace in the American Republic
to own property and have money in the bank.
If we are prepared to adhere to that line of reasoning, then we must
also concede that a tramp in the jungle is the ideal citizen and that he
occupies a more honorable status than we are willing to accord a man
of wealth.
We, for one, repudiate such idiocy.
We, personally, are inordinately proud of the American Free Enterprise
system and of such initiative as has been left to individuals in this
country to accumulate wealth to the extent of their ability. We believe
that every other healthy-minded American feels the same way.
Also, we honor those who have the judgment and business acumen
to acquire their full share of this world's goods through the proper exercise
of their ingenuity.
As to Senator Young, we have far more respect for him because he
came into office as a man of achievement and substance than we have
for the human leeches who spend their lives drawing sustenance from
the public teat because they can't make a living any other way.
Perhaps Senator Young would have been more politically acceptable
as a lawmaker if he were in such straitened financial circumstances
that he would have to rent his front porch to the government in order to
-make both ends meet.
Any American who claims to look down on persons because of their
wealth and who denies that he, himself, would like to be rich is a rank
hypocrite and is lying through his teeth.
The desire to own is a normal human impulse and those who rate
failure above success and pay political homage to a shiftless bum on the
relief rolls which they deny to a top-ranking business executive have a
twisted brain and a distorted conception of life's proper aims, ideals
and dreams.
As a political tenet, this false philosophy is base, contemptible and
untenable and will be rejected by all honest American citizens.
Travesty Of Professional
Brotherhood Is Denounced
One of the most sensible, sane and wholesome statements concerning
"brotherhood" to come from a religious leader in a long while was
that of The Reverend John R. Leatherbury, highly revered and universally
respected Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, which appeared
in St. John's official church paper, The Tribune, on February 27.
In his editorial in that publication, Rev. Leatherbury said in part:
"This past week we have seen and heard a great deal about 'brotherhood.'
In fact, children in the public schools have been compelled to
listen to a great deal of dribble from professional religious teachers.
Since many of us advocate the separation of Church from State, there
is absolutely no foundation for Brotherhood Week to be stressed in the
Public Schools. This is just another gimmick of 'do-gooders' to confuse
the issue. No doubt the men who gave the talks were sincere and yet,
they were talking with tongue in cheek and stressing attributes which
they do not believe nor do they teach in their separate denominations ... "
Rev. Leatherbury pointed out what a travesty it was for Priests,
Rabbis and Protestant ministers ''to stand on the same platform and
say 'all men are brothers' and then to return to their own churches and
preach contrary doctrine."
''I, for one, believe that church teaching belongs in the home and
in the Church so that it can be carried into the world properly," Rev.
Leatherbury said and added:
"Those of us who are parents must take a definite stand and see
to it that the Public School is not a sounding board for politics, dogooders,
one-worlders and the great classification of 'oddballs' who
have arisen in the last 25 years."
This good man's sound philosophy will be resented by the "oddballs"
to whom he refers and their followers but all right-thinking
Christian citizens will honor him for his forthright and honest discussion
of the subject.
AprH, 1959
University Lecture Career
Nipped In Bud By Mothers
We have long realized that Eliz~
abeth Taylor, the Hollywood movie
actress, was quite versatile and
could play many different roles assigned
her but, somehow, we had
never quite pictured her as exactly
a person who would be asked to
lecture to young university stu~
dents and give instruction and ad~
vice to America's citizens of to·
But, according to press reports.
that is exactly what Miss Taylor
was invited to do by the University
of California at Los Angeles.
No sooner had news of Miss Taylor's
impending appearance before
UCLA students been made public
than a veritable hornet's nest was
unloosed on officials of the university.
Not only from California, but
from all over the country protests
poured in against the project in
such proportions that school offi4
cials gave up, cancelled the speak4
ing and ran for cover.
For some reason a large per4
centage of American housewives
and mothers don't seem to care
much for Miss Taylor.
Apparently they think she performs
better as a cat on a hot tin
roof than as a mentor in a university
class room.
Any. way, Miss Taylor had the
last v.rord. When informed that her
lecture had been cancelled, she re~
torted that she had never in tended
to make the ta\k as a\on.~ about
the time she was scheduled to ap·
pear before the students, she would
have urgent business in Las Vegas.
With hundreds to choose from,
it was typical that the President
should select General Lyman L.
Lemnitzer as Army Chief of Staff.
Apparently his action in withhold·
ing supplies from Korea which had
been allotted to that country and
which was widely publicized some
years ago, was all in the day's
work. In view of his appointment
it can only be concluded that his
performance in that connection
had the approval of the admini~
stration.
Because the printing of transac~
tions between the United States
and foreign governments, full doc·
umentation on our involvement in
World War II, the Yalta and Teheran
agreements and similar com~
mitments, have been J ~lowed to
fall in arrears and are not, therefore,
available to the American
people, the Wisconsin DAR has
urged Congress to insist that the:
State Department fulfil! its obligation
and proceed without delay
to make full records available to
the American public.
The Income Tax amendment to
the Constitution gave Government
unlimited authority in tax levies
and took title to private property
away from the individual citizen
and conferred it on irresponsible
politicians in Washington. This
amendment was perhaps the most
evil act ever committed against a
free people and should be repeal~
ed.
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