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Show Friday, December 4, 1959 THE AMERICAN STATESMAN Where Are The Conservatives? YES, BUT! Sif (feciye Stardnunt During the question and answer session, following a meeting a few months ago, the following question and statement was made. Q: The speakers have discussed taxes and foreign aid and more taxes and I agree BUT dont you think it would be better if our tax structure was just reorganized? Certainly, we must continue with our foreign aid to our friends and I cant help but wonder if we are wise to question the wisdom of our elected representatives who should know best We have only discussed repeal of the income tax amendment It is easier to forget all the dozens of additional taxes. There are excise taxes, such as so- A: cial security, taxes upon luxuries, those taxes which were enacted just as war time measures. Mr. Boardman We have gasoline taxes, corporation taxes, entertainment taxes, liquor taxes and transportation taxes and taxes upon the taxes upon which we have previously paid taxes. Certainly the entire tax structure should be reorganized, AFTER the proposed 23rd Amendment is passed. In the matter of foreign aid lets first examine your remark about the wisdom of , our elected representatives. You will admit, I believe, that those men and women who represent us in Washington, D.C., the people who are also responsible for law and order in D.C. should know whats going on in our Capitol city. In this year of 1959, it is hardly safe for a woman to travel over the streets in the Capitol alone at night The illegitimate birth rate is among the highest in the country. This situation has become worse during the past seven years of the Eisenhower administration. Take a look at the Job our elected representatives have done on their, new office buildings. The expense for each of the two buildings passed the original estimates a couple of years ago and the buildings are not actually completed yet The new House Office building, with six room and three bath suites for the members of the House of Representatives, cost the taxpayers just about one million dollars per Congressman. What kind of wisdom and sincere desire for economy is evidenced by these facts? - There is nor evidence to indicate that we have gained even one friend through our foreign aid. At no other in this century has the prestige of the United States been at such a low ebb. Greece has been moving more and more to the left ever since the United States saved her from communism. The Scandinavian countries are socialist-neutraliMorocco doesnt mind taking a few of our tax dollars providing they can do so without assuming any obligation towards our country. Certainly we have loaned tax dollars to Poland, to Tito and his government and to the Communist Hungarian government Do you think we bought friendship? Every possible excuse for foreign aid has been made. It was important in our defense against communism but we make so called cultural exchange treaties with the enemy against which we are supposedly building our defenses. Foreign aid has been utilized as a stimulus to business, which means we finance everything, then pay ourselves after the bureaucratic cut from the top of the pile. Our national debt grows larger every day. But its only money, say the left wing economists. Isnt it peculiar how the left wingers and socialists who deprecate the importance of money spend all their time trying to steal the money from those who earn st it? Our country is in desperate need of hundreds of bright, new brooms to sweep the dusty beggars of socialism out of Washington, D.C. and to motivate a speedy return to decent govern- ment How many supposedly concerned Americans have started to search for those new brooms, in the shape and image of respectable men and women who will sacrifice a few years of their lives for the good of the country, to save their children and grandchildren from the slavery which is socialism? How many Republicans are looking for new, shining brooms who will fight to redeem the pledges of a once proud political entity, so it will be restored to respectability? How many Democrats are eagerly searching for men and women to take their party out of the abysmal mediocrity of a socialist philosophy which has not the courage to say we are socialists? How many independents actually give a damn for independence? I was asked the other day, Where are the conservatives? That is easy to answer. Many live in Montvale, New Jersey; Torrance, Canoga Park, Santa Ana, California; they write letters from; Baltimore, Maryland; Miami, Florida; Urbana, Illinois; Richmond, Indiana and New Orleans, La. ' Then I began to wonder,. would these people living in cities and towns all over America, like to meet other conservatives who live in their own city and state, across the street and down in the next block? Maybe they would like to get together to discuss ideas over a pot of coffee and a piece of cake. No big party movement, no big idea in mind, just getting to know other folks who believe that men can solve their own problems better than the government can. If you would like to meet other conservatives in your area, if you would like to exchange ideas or letters, write me and give me permission to give others in your area your name and address so that you can get together. Maybe you will never discuss politics together. Maybe you will play a few rubbers of bridge or enjoy small talk in your living rooms. This could turn into a most enjoyable social group whose members will try to find out just who are the conservatives in their block, city, and state. .Then when the time comes that a bill is introduced in the state legislature to have all fire arms registered, or a bill to have all home owners pay a rental income tax on their own homes . . . then they can act as a responsible, informed group. What can one man do to fight for what he believes? Send me permission to give others your name and address and you will find that others who believe as you do want to get together and be heard. Well what do you think? Drop me a line. J. Dohn Lewis, co American Statesman, 345 South State SL, Salt Lake City, Utah. As a strong conservative, have you sent me a new subscription from a friend whom you asked to study this paper? Pages Ciwifptait J Prebtem Whos Taking Christ Out of Christmas hf ftrwjf Mrs. SJ.M. writes: There was something on the radio the other day about thq U.N. symbol being used instead of Christmas decorations in our leading stores and a friend of mine just phoned that she received something in the mail today, stating that there was a definite plot to take Christ" out of Christmas. T CteHitglum day of the Christ Child, the Prince of Peace? No, no, we believe in the godless U.N. which Alger Hiss built The organization which never permits prayer to open or dose any of its proceedings the organization which recognizes no god except the pagan god, Zeus, which it has proudly displayed in its If you really want to do someCan you tell us what this is all about and what we can do about thing to keep Christ in Christmas, keep this in mind as you go it? window-- and shopping Dear Mrs. M: The December, 1958, issue of STORES, published by rite National Retail Merchants Association, launched such a program. The idea was to use the big United Nations shield as part of the Christmas decorations, includWe Being the slogan, U.N. lieve, and a display of flags of the U.N. nations, including those of the Communist countries. this gift-buyin- g month: If you ( see any store that displays the emblem of the U.N. instead of the true theme of Christmas, it might be well to write a little note to the head of that store. Make it brief. Express your thoughts clearly but courteously. Tell him why you think it is inappropriate to drag U.N. propaganda into the celebration of Christmas and why you will reThe pilot store for this experi- gretfully stop patronizing such an until such a correcment was Bambergers in Newark, establishment is made. tion New Jersey, and the plan was to enlist the entire membership of the Remember, the customer is alassociation over 10,000 stores ways right in America. Lets keep by Christmas, 1959. The idea was it that way.. Those who honor the sold to the association by the U.S. U.N. can do so in their own way Committee for the United Nations. at other times of the year, but I This campaign also included plans am sure that most of the American for the stores to print the emblem, people will join you in wanting to U.N. We Belive, on all their keep the Christian spirit in Christstationery, use it in their ads, in mas. t their auditorium, restaurant, etc., also to hold U.N. fashion shows and use their auditoriums for discus-sion- s on the United Nations. This could go on the around, but Jj year the bonanza for & the U.N. would EVERY SATURDAY be decorating the LEE on TV store for the laige 4:45 P.M. Christmas crowds to see the U.N. emblems every-wher- e they- looked, each bearEveringham ing the motto, U.N. We Believe. Harry T. KUTV Channel 2 t Hear what your government is doing to you .... Rather than for you. We believe in what? The Birth- - ALTOONA, PA., MIRROR: Even though Uncle Sam and his asso- ciates, the Congress of the United States, impose severe barriers, the American people are saving money and are practicing the virtues of thrift Thrift is a worthy practice. It should be more widely practiced. IBM FABM & B5687 T0WS BUENA PARK CALIF. Brainwashing in High School Leon H. Canfield and Howard B. It has been reliably stated that soldiers Wilder one-thir-d of the American captured in Korea did not know Americas History, Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti enough about their own country and its citizens to resist the brain- The American Story, Ruth Wood washing the Communists applied to Gavian and William A. Hamm them. Story of America, Ralph Volney Dr. E. Merrill Root, for nearly Harlow thirty years a Professor at Earlham A History of Our Country, David College, Richmond, Indiana, and Saville Muzzey distinguished author of several widely read books, has now written History of United States, Dwight L. Dumond, Edward E. Dale, Edgar Brainwashing in the High Schools. B. Wesley Every American citizen should read it. United States History, Fremont P. Wirth cerDr. Root found that eleven tain text books were used in the History of the American Way, social studies classes in the EvanHarold Underwood Faulkner, ston Township High School in Tyler Kepner, Edward H. Merrill Evanston, Iillinois, one of the largest high schools in the United History of a Free People Henry W. States. Bragdon and Samuel P. The books are as follows: The United States and World ReThe United States Experiment in lations, Lillian T. Mower and Democracy, Avery Craven and Howard H. Cummings Walter Johnson Dr. Root makes clear in his book The Making of Modem America, Brainwashing in the High School, Mc-Cutch- en that the eleven books listed have the undoubted effect on young students of playing down those things that are noble and great in our history, of playing up the evils of facism and of playing down the evils of socialism and communism. . Do you know whether these eleven books, or any of them, are being used in the high school your children or your neighbors children attend? If any of them are, you can be sure that the pupils are being taught to look with contempt on their own country and its capitalist system; and to look with tolerance, if not admiration, on socialism and communism. No more important book has been written for you to read, Mr. and Mrs. Citizen. Brainwashing In the High Schools, by E. Merrill ROot, 268 pages, $4.50 Compostpaid; The Devin-Ada- ir dibe ordered pany. Copies may rect from the National Economic Council, 7501 Empire State Building, New York 1, N.Y. A TRIBUTE TO THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM THAT BUILT THE WEST. Still owned and operated by the founder , MR. and MRS. WALTER KNOTT and FAMILY CHICKEN DINNER RESTAURANT STEAK HOUSE 33 GIFT SHOPS i |
