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Show Friday, November IS, 1959 CteHfftah J PrcMep Yes, But! II The speaker had been reciting ing -- to lend respectability to a chapter and verse on the records measure designed to bilk the peoof the socialist leaders of both ma-ij- ple who earn a living, out of milpolitical par- lions of new tax dollars on behalf ities and their ilk of socialist beggars. He attempts land he used the to lend an air of decency to a part Ifollowing expres-fslo- n of the political am" game, be--' frequently, to find If .the American cause next week he hopessurroundof aura an respectability i people want decent govern- ing his own attempt to buy votes ment During by pretending the voters will be the question and able to get something for nothing. answer period Yes elected and appointed ofvhich followed ficials like to assume an air of rethe talk, an spectability while they are selling Boardman terested lady us down the socialist sewer. made this remark: Q: I agree that our government Q: "Since you have been quotthese days is not all It should be ing the record with great acBUT when you refer to decent curacy I cannot dispute your dont you run the government statements, BUT, dont you think of risk bring called a "rabble your reference to decent governrouser?" ment implies that our present A: The who applies the government is indecent and dont term alsoperson indicates' there is you find this creates an unpleasarouse.' Peculiarly, left rabble to ant reaction?" who most frequently use A: I hope it does but I also wingers the expression pretend a concern hope the reactions against what I for the common people which have recited is against the unde-ce- nt makes the expression rabble exand not against my statement plode in their own faces. When Time after time, in connection with socialism or comrights anyone correspondence with politicians, I munism, socialists and Communists have read replies which go like call him a rabble rouser plus a this, "While 1 cannot disagree with standard list of names like reacwhat you say because you have tionary, isolationist, obstructions stated the case exactly, I would and on and on, despite the fact state the case in a manner less that most left wingers are staunch vitriolic." You will notice this ADL of the supporters places the emphasis upon the fervor League). of a statement in an attempt to who fights against soAnyone minimize the evil about which I cialism, communism, welfare state-ishave spoken and written. and governmental giantism runs Elected and appointed public of- the risk of being called unpleasan ficials have worked hard at selling names and names which have us a bill of goods which implies earned unpleasant connotations bethat political lies are just "part of cause of the manner in which they the game. Theyve explained that have been used. Most socialists political betrayal of the voters is want to pretend they are not not really betrayal at all but just Q: I am against socialism BUT something we voters do not quite maity. of . the., people . involved understand. Theyve tried to "con" with what you call socialism are into thinking that political im considered to be our most illusus ' morality, effecting, thousands of trious leaders. millions of people is somehow less A When Petrarch, noted Italian immoral than private immorality poet wrote of the relics of a once which might effect one or two peo-- . great Roman Empire, the tremenpie. If we must decide which of dous destruction of the Empire, 'he two evils is less evil, we will have also remarked that the destruction to go with the idea that the lies of Rome was perpetrated by her - and betrayals and immoralities own citizens, " by the most illuswhich effect the greatest number trious of her sons." of victims are the worst-certainl- y Truer words were never written no amount of intelligent rationaliza- and they apply, with frightening tion can alter this evaluation. realism, to the situation which now When a Senator gets up in the confronts sincerely concerned Senate and prefaces a lengthy state- Americans. ment with an equally lengthy stateCertainly you CAN do something ment explaining how he does not about it, if you will First find and doubt the integrity or the honor then elect uncompromising conor the ability of the man who in- servatives to Congress, from every troduced the legislative monstros- section of the country. It can be ity under discussion, he is attempt done, if YOU will go to work at it or in-Mr- . (Anti-Defamati- on m Atomic City School House A slender but welcome ray of hope for the future of America and its present younger generation appeared recently in THE INTERS MOUNTAIN, of Alameda, Idaho. The courage of a little band of parents out on the Arco desert, wrote Editor and Publisher Perry Swisher, has brought off a victory for children all over Idaho. A victory over brick and mortar and buses, over efficiency and ofridous-nes- s. On Monday, District Judge Faber Tway ruled that the grade school in Atomic City shall be reopened. To close it, he said, was an arbitrary, unreasonable and capricious act Officials of the Snake Riv?r District had ordered abandonment of the school. Parents of the elementary pupils living in the desert town, when the buses came to haul their children to the central school in Moreland, refused to put them on the bus. After years of surly and shabby treatment they took their plea to court . us -- Atomic City won ' on two counts the community had not been allowed a proper hearing, nor an election, on the lockup of the desert school, and the school boards action was an unreasonable imposition on small children, too many hours, too many miles away from home . . . The tykes do their best work in a cosy environment of a small school. There they know the children and the teachers around' them. Home, they know is just around the comer. These simple facts, understood by any parent or teacher with normal affection for and empathy with kids, has been walked all over by administrators intent on efficiency and by trustees intent on building big, beautiful schools as memorials to their own importance The iigly little school at Atomic City is therefore a shrine to courage and reason. The kids desks who sit at those beat-u- p most Idahos are privileged ... V Editor: Dan Smoot was born in Missouri. Took his BA and MA at SMU in Dallas, Texas. He joined the faculty at Harvard as HoNi Teaching Fellow in English. In Ctoritykam took he 1942, leave of absence Mrs, K. W. writes: Why is it play up what they call the evils and joined the that in our patriotic organizations of Capitalism. They extoll class FBL For three there are so few young people? struggle. They make the leaders and a half years, When I go to meetings of the of the American Revolution and the DA.R,. FOR AMERICA, or WE, Founders of the Constitution men he worked of on THE PEOPLE!, most of the people property or elderly. Is communist in seem middle-age-d who were against educavestigations . in there something in modem the common the industrial tion that deliberately destroys people. midwest. For partiotism? The books carry two years folDear Mrs. W.: "Yes, for thirty insidious these lowing that, he years the Socialists have been redistinctions of was on FBI writing our textbooks. So in' that t Mr. SmOOt class bias down )ypHqiiar time most Jiigh school students in ' as an Adto the' present staff in Washington, the United States have been braintime. They faster J. to ministrative Assistant Edgar washed of any feelings of patriotT. the idea that the Harry Hoover. ism or national loyalty. This wait Capitalist System so that in the Korean War it Everingham After nine and a half years wasfardiscovered that one-thir- d of has been evil, and its accomplishwith the FBI he resigned to cany the American soldiers did not know ments have at best been mediocre; on Ms present type of work. enough about American traditions whereas the accomplishments of It will be the policy of this paper to resist being brainwashed when Stateism are greatly commended. to quote from the Dan Smoot Re- captured by the Communists. Socialism and Communism, when not port. If you would like to read the praised, are played down in Read the book, BRAINWASHfull report and subscribe to the ING IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS, such a way as to deceive the young by weekly Dan Smoot Report rates Dr. E. Merrill Root, Professor of reader. No wonder so many Amerare $10.00 a year. Write P.O. Box Earlham College. Dr. Root, a dis- ican boys were easily brainwashed . 1305, Dallas, Texas. tinguished author and authority on by their Communist captors in Smoot "Dan the of copies Single Americanism, was asked to make a Korea. Report are 25 cents each. study of textbooks used in the These eleven books are used Social Studies classes at Evanston Vol. 5, No. 3A March 30, 1959 Township High School,' Evanston, widely in high schools throughout the United States. If they are Illinois. In his book Dr. Root lists used in high schools, you may FARM PRICE SUPPORTS eleven textbooks that are designed be sure your the pupils are being that to play down to the students those look with contempt upon to On January 9, 1959, Senator taught things in our history that would and Harry F. Byrd (Democrat, Virginia' lead to a feeling of national pride their own form of .government look1 to but the Recon system capitalist read into the Congressional or patriotism. These eleven books one of his speeches containin ; alos play down the evils of Social- with tolerance, if not admiration, statistics on federal spending. A ism and Communism, at the same upon Socialism and Communism. table showing expenditures from time attacking Fascism, which is A list of these books will be sent 1954 through 1959 (fiscal year) also a form of 'Socialism. upon receipt of a stamped, shows Agriculture and agriculOn the other hand, the books envelope. , tural resources for' the 1959 fisca year as 6 billion, four hundred mil Red China is the so called "peoWe like a man who will not lion dollars. to his with compromise principles bilples government. After the ComOf that amount, roughly 5 comif win will an For he election. munists kill 29,000,000 we dont lion dollars will' be' spent this year promise to win then he probably see how there are for farm price supports. any people left will with his constitAnyone who doubts that this uentscompromise to govern. after he is in office. preposterous program could and should be stopped owes it to himself to obtain a copy of the Congressional Record . for September 12, 1958, and examine the statistics which occupy 13 pages of very fine print, beginning at page A8347. The Department of Agriculture compiled the statistics at the request of Congressman Charles B. BrOwnson (Indiana) who put them in the Record. The official tabulation lists approximately 2,210 farms which received crop loans (that is, farm price' support payments) during the year- 1957 in excess of BUENA PARK CALIF. each. The first eleven on the list received over $100,000.00 each: 1. John W. Baughman Farms Co. $322,012.89 Liberal, Kansas 2. Garvey Farms, $278,187.38 Colby, Kansas 3. Harris Ranches, $209,701.80 Sahaurita, Ariz. 4 Ray Flanagan, Red Top, Calif. $138,12220 5. Ranch Tierra Pries ta, $135,107.45 Eloy Ariz. 6. Sutter Basin Corp., Ltd., $128,442.88 Robbins, Calif. ; 7. Westlake Farms, $125,942.50 Stratford, Calif. 8. Robert Pelletier, Bakersfield, Calif. $124378.80 9. J. H. Williams, Natchitoches, La. $120,088.50 10. Crews Farm, $107,200.00 Pecos, Texas 11. Vista Del Llano Farms, Firebaugh, Calif. $103,411.02 A TRIBUTE TO THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM which poliThis is the program THAT BUILT THE WEST. ticians sell to the public each year as necessary to help our poor little Stilt owned and operated by the founder, farmers. It is actually turning farmMR. and MRS. WALTER KNOTT and FAMILY ing over to the big syndicates and industrial operators, putting the traditional American family farm CHICKEN DINNER RESTAURANT out of business, and costing the STEAK HOUSE taxpayers a minimum' of 5 billion 33 GIFT SHOPS, dollars a year. Brainwashing In High School (jmye Btanfnun 30-pl- Pace S THE AMERICAN STATESMAN 7. tefS . . -- self-addre&s- . $10,-000.- - - . 00 m? FA2M AfflOR JBW ed |