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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, July 7, 1972
MIRROR MIRTH
The Senate and House con
ferees meeting on the ap
propriations bill for the
Department of State, Justice,
and Commerce, the Judiciary,
and related agencies have an
opportunity to put the Sub
versive Activites Control Board
where it belongs—in the history
books.
They can do that by sup
porting the Senate's position to
delete the entire $450,000 ap
propriation for the SACB from
the Ull. The Senate took that
stance on June IS when it voted
42 to 25 to cut off funds for the
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Board.
The size of that margin, I
believe, was based in large
measure upon the fact that the
Board has been a waste of the
taxpayers' money. It has spent
$6.75 million in the course of
doing very little over its 22-year
history.
This year, the SACB
requested $706,000 to continue
fruitless undertakings, but the
House wisely cut the ap
propriation back to $450,000, the
same level as last year. The
Senate, of course, voted to do
away with the entire ap
propriation.
The SACB is a relic of the
time whe McCarthyism ran
rampart in this great nation,
when many people thought
they saw Communists hiding
under every bed and behind
every rosebush. The Board was
created during that time to
ferret out and register Com
munists and Communist-frot,
Communist-action and Com
munist - infiltrated
organizations.
The courts have found most
of the board's functions under
the Internal Security Act of 1950
to be unconstitutional, and as a
result thereof, the SACB has
had virtually nothing to do ex
cept draw its breath and salary.
Efforts by Congress and by
President Nixon to revive the
SACB have proved ineffective.
The latest effort, President
Nixon’s Executive Order 11605
of July 2,1971, was the subject
of hearings by the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Separation of
Powers, of which I am honored
to serve as Chairman, in Oc
tober of 1971. The testimony
adduced and the materials
gathered during those hearings
convinced me that Executive
Order 11605, which purported to
convey power to the Board to
revise the so-called Attorney
General’s list of subversive
organizations, was a usurpation
of the legislative power of (he
Congress.
The State-Commerce-Justice
appropriations bill, as passed
by the Senate, contains
language which would prohibit
the Board from carrying out the
A woman driver is a person
who drives the same way a man
does, only she gets blamed for
it.—Dan Valentine.
I’ve met a few people in my
time who were enthusiastic
about hard work. And it was
just my luck that all of them
happened to be men I was
working for at the time.—Bill
Gold.
The fickleness of the women I
love is only equaled by the in
fernal constancy of the women
who love me.—George Bernard
Shaw.
The only war I ever approved
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There is little bona fide
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what is called gambling is
really the donation of suckers to
swindlers.—E. M. Duvall.
Iffovisions of Executive Order
11605. Should this language be
ret^ned, even though the SACB
be funded for another year, the
Board would once again have
nothing to do. Such a result
would make a mockery of the
appropriations process,
because we would be funding an
agency that would produce
nothing to show for the ex
penditure of the public’s
moneys. We cannot justify this
waste.
The Justice Department and
the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation are quite able to
protect America from those
who would attempt to over
throw her Government by
unconstitutional means. We do
not need the SACB to stigmatize
any individual or group which
might be intelligently or
politically obnoxious to the
established order.
Decide promptly, but never
give any reasons. Your
decisions may be right, but your
reasons are sure to be wrong.—
Lord Mansfleld.
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