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Civil Rightist Chart Path
Toward Total Socialism
By Edith Kormit Roosevelt
WASHINGTON — If certain
leading planners have their way,
> racial reform is in danger of
becoming what land reform was
on the Chinese mainland. That
is, something to be given only
to be taken back, along with a
great deal more. Behind the
scenes are extremist groups
who tactically do not want the
integration movement to suc
ceed so they can continue us
ing it as a training school in
political warfare. This is the
first phase in insurgency.
These agitators are perfectly
willing that the issue in the
South be desegregation, or that
the issue up North be anything
from poverty to Viet Nam, or
academic freedom to disarma
ment. Hie more legitimate an
issue is, the better it is for them.
Each of these is being exploited
primarly as a socialist operation,
with deep Communist infiltra
tion. Though these groups dif
fer on means, their end is the
same. Their single-minded, im
mediate objective is the develop
ment of professional revolution
aries, skilled in applying pres
sures in a scientific manner.
Among the sophisticated tac
tics being developed is the com
pilation and exploitation of per
sonal dossiers on key figures in
government, corporations, and
in the institutions that these
radicals are attacking. These
dossiers do not merely contain
scandals in the lives of these
pepole. They contain an actual
rundown on their financial and
political connections. While de
monstrations are taking place
publicly, behind the scenes co
vert attempts are made to inti
midate key individuals, exploit
ing what are called their vulner
abilities.
Typical of the sort of staff op
eration we are witnessing is a
training manual distributed by
the Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS), a group which
claims a membership of 1,200
“young radicals,” and professors
and students on 30 college cam
puses in 20 states. Their goal,
frankly stated in' their litera
ture, is “democratic trasforma
tion of American political, so
cial, and economic life” through
“education, direct action and
political insurgency.” This or
ganization, which has offices at
119 Fifth Ave., New York, is
part of the League of Industrial
Democracy. This is the tax
exempt Fabian socialist nerve
center for thp United States.
The SDS manual, entitled “The
Care and Feeding of Power
Structures,” instructs young rad
icals how to determine the pres
sure points” in the “power
structures” in their communi
ties. The field operator is taught
how to finrf out whether the de
cisive financial control lies
within the community, the state
or out of the state. How is this
done? First, he must find the
names of the companies by con
sulting a statewide directory of
companies, which he is told can
be obtained at at the Chamber
of Commerce or a library. He
can locate the home offices of
these firms by consulting
Moody’s Industrial Manual, also
found in the library. To learn
the names and address of the
officers of these firms he is told
specifically what other director
ies are available. Through these
means, the SDA manual points
out, demonstrators picketing the
New York Exchange were able
to hand out “the leaflets which
showecfthe involvement of Am
erica’s corporate elite in the
troubles of Birmingham.”
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Ominously, the SDS training
manual instructs in methods of
“assessing weak points” of pow
erful individuals in communities
throughout the nation. It points
out:
“The clerk of court, both mu
nicipal and state, keeps records
of all litigation both civil and
criminal. It is sometimes fruit
ful to run through the civil and
criminal indexes in the clerk’s
office to see what can be turn
ed up about crucial individuals
in the power structure.”
Our free press is also a tar
get of these students and their
professors. They are specifical
ly taught how to find the own
ership of the corporation pub
lishing local newspapers and
their indebtedness. They are
told to learn the names of the
officers and directors of local
publishing companies and ra
dio and television stations.
“These individuals should be
traced out through Poor’s for
their other connections,” the
SDS manual advises.
What is done with all this
data? Here are some typical
applications:
1. Shortly after the Students
Non-Violent Coordinating Com
mittee began demonstrations
against the Toddle House res
taurants in Atlanta, Ga., sever
al SNCC members bought shares
of stock in the restaurant cor
poration. Immediately, the com
pany management was notified
that the new shareholders were
considering a stockholder’s suit
aimed at proving that the res
taurants’ segregation constitut
ed gross mismanagement and
dissipation df assets. Subse
quently, a company official ap
peared in Atlanta and agreed
to substantial desegregation. Ob
viously, a covert operation to
buy up the stock of a company
can be done to accomplish a
number of objectives, good or
bad. In this way, rich radical
prospects can be given a sense
of achievement.
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In a case involving Krystal
restaurants, a potential vulner
ability cited was that one of
the corporation’s directors was
also a director of the American
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Leaf Fanner's Decision
by Vern* Strickland.
N. C. Farm Bureau Federation
Making decisions is no new
task for the farmer. The com
plex business in which he is en
gaged daily puts his judgment
to the test in a multitude of
different situations.
The advance of the agricultur
al sciences has made him
more sure-footed in the moves
which he makes. Still, even sci
ence cannot remove from the
farmer’s shoulders the burden
of final decision. Once armed
with the facts, that is his and
his alone to make.
On May 4, the burden of the
final decision rests - with the
flue-cured tobacco farmer. His
mark on a ballot will write the
future of the nation’s tobacco in
dustry in what has been billed
National Bank and Trust Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn. According
to the SDS manual, “This bank
had, on Oct. 15, 1963, $2,927,
690.15 of Treasury tax and loan
money among its depositories.
It would therefore, have been
vulnerable through an attack
aimed at the U. S. Secretary of
the Treasury.”
What all this adds up to is
that hundreds of highly trained
socialist insurgents, many of
them innocently, are waging
what is in effect a guerilla war.
The SDS manual plainly states
the goal:
“Informing the people about
the nature of the power in the
community strikes a very real
blow at the power structure;
mobilizing the people to united
action toward specific objectives
could unstructure the power
structure.”
In plain English, revolution the
easy way!
as the most important referen
dum in the history of the leaf
program. His choice will be be
tween the present tobacco pro
gram and the move to acreage
poundage.
Hopefully, every farmer who
casts a ballot will make his de
cision on the basis of fact alone.
And the facts are clear. We
have too much tobacco, and will
continue to produce too much
if acreage alone is controlled.
Tobacco quality will never be
at its best as long as the in
centive is on high yield. And
the small grower will be forced
out of business if drastic acre
age cuts continue.
Those are the facts. And no
cries of “alarmism” can reduce
the significance of those facts.
The situation, clearly and sim
ply, is critical. There is an ur
gent need for immediate action.
There has been speculation, of
course. Many persons firmly be
lieve that failure of the refer
endum to carry will lead to the
eventual loss of the price sup
port program. The many dang
er signs indicate that, indeed,
this may be the cause. Still, this
cannot yet be termed a fact.
Is it worth the risk to find
out? The burden of that decis
ion is the farmer’s alone.
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