The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16

The authors: Anderson is a vetel
an who was stationed in China dun
ing War II. Since 1947 he has bee
on the staff of Drew Pearson's WASH
ington-M Merry Go-Round and first me
Mccarthy in 1947. Mccarthy attend
ed Anderson's wedding reception i
1919. May is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, also attende
Marquette University in Milwaukee
where Mccarthy matriculated toe
He had three years of Navy servic
in War II and in research for thi
book spent two months in Appleton
Wisconsin, which is McCarthy's hom
town. Prior to getting on Mccarthy
trail May was radio news write
for the Madison office of United
Press and Chief Record Clerk il
Wisconsin State Senate. Factual as
sertions in the book seem to have
been well checked and much docu
mentary evidence is either cited OF
quoted.
Now comes most difficult task
for this reviewer. In newspapers
and magazines and on the radio
he has previously heard enough
of Mccarthy and his tactics TO in
cur considerable dislike for BOTH
Now the whole story seems to have
been told and your reviewer has
difficulty believing such thing
possible in enlightened America. He
cannot repeat all the double deal
ing, chicanery, corruption, law vio-
lations and other shocking indec-
encies this man seems to have COM
mitted without a feeling that it
must constitute libel. Neither can
he understand how a man, so de-
void of respectable principles, with
out any real program, without
money and without any particular
talent except nerve and buster,
worked himself into the exalted po-
sition of a US. Senator and then
secured reelection.
Joe Mccarthy was born November
IA, 1908, the fifth of seven children |
en- a small farm near Appleton in
Northern Wisconsin. Like other fam
lily members, he was physically |
strong, hard worker and a two |
listed fighter but shy in company
and without regard for the welfare |
of others. He finished grammer
school at IA with one outstanding |
talent. He could read one or more |
pages of print and thereafter al
most quote this text. With S65 he
started a one acre chicken farm and
in years had $4,000 chickens with
housing facilities and a truck. Then
he made the first trip away from
his birth community to haul a load
of poultry to Chicago. Shortly there
after a series of misfortunes over
took him and the chicken farm went
broke. He moved into Manawa, a
town of 5000 people, 80 miles away.
Manawa liked joe He was a dy-
namo of energy and the best back
;lapping, glad handed mixer the
Town had ever seen. In few months
ne was manager of Cashway store
until at the age of 20 Joe decided
20 get an education. In one year,
With considerable help, he completed
" four year high school course and
rave boxing lessons to its students.
lie ceased to look after the store and |
vas finally dropped off its payroll.
BY some Justification of application
le then got into Marquette Univer-
ity, Jesuit college in Milwaukee.
Iere he started an engineering
curse but found he knew too little |
mathematics and switched to law. /
BY shrewd politics and little cheat \
ng he was soon class president and Il
he Invest mixer and best known man II
n the campus. A livelihood was earn
d by cooking, washing dishes, col
Getting garbage or any other job that II
anne to hand supplemented by lit II
lie poker playing. II
Six hours after being sworn in
as member of the Wisconsin bar, II
Mccarthy opened a law office in
Waupaca. Here in nine months he
participated in only a small court II
cases but did develop into a ruth II
less and successful "big pot" poker II
player in the back room of Ben II
J ohnson's bar. He spent money II
freely, continued as a mixer and II
joined half dozen civic and So II
cial organizations. II
Then Mike Eberlein, an elderly and II
uccessful lawyer in a nearby town II
ook Joe in as an assistant. Eberlein, H
lready prominent in political affairs, H
yas grooming himself to become cir II
uit court judge. Eberlein was Re- II
ublican and Mccarthy a Democrat. II
In less than a year Joe became H
resident of the Young Democratic H
Tub in a Congressional District of H
IN counties. He then announced as II
r .