The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23
Montana, and the well shows no
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| Montana, and the well shows no
signs of running dry.
In Cincinnati, another group Gale,
NOW OR NEVER is finding good
pickings in the orchard of American
Illustration. One ti-Communisn
seminar of NON brought in $4,000
BUCK BONANZA
But NON is small potatoes com
pared with either the smooth-func.
tioning Schwarz salient or Kent anc
Phoebe Courtney's CONSERVATIVE
SOCIETY OF AMERICA, head
quartered in New Orleans. The Court
neys, LIFE reports, have a real bo-
nanza for a man-wife operation. In
1860 they took in $4,000 as gross
remuneration in their efforts to save
America. Business was much better
in 1861, and they estimate their final
audit will show gross of $180,O00.
Periodically motivated, the
Courtneys dashed off book about
General Edwin Walkers difficult
ties in trying to convert from
foot soldier to 'cavalryman" (sic,
man on horseback, which LIFE
editorially had dismissed as SILLY.
Courtney told Wheeler, GO right
on calling it silly. That silly book
just bought me a new Ford station
wagon
LIES Wheeler, in addition to the
above, also did some objective writ
ing on the Birch Society, DIR. Ben
sons Harding College and National
Education Program, the direct action
Dean Clarence Man
ion. and a number of the longtime
fixtures in the anti-Communism
garden such as Rev. Billy Hargis and
his greenback producing CHRIS
TAN CRUSADE.
FIVE CATEGORISS
Wheeler breaks the rightwing down
INTO five categories: 1. The respon-
sible, practicing conservatives like
Sens. Barry Goldwater and John
Tower; 2. The idealists, particularly
found among tn e inexperienced
age brackets, such as Young
Americans for Freedom; 8. The
faculty" like DR.. Schwarz, ct al,
who have created a new profession
tut Of the mass study of Communism"
at a profit; a. The pushers, cpl
omized by the Birch Society which |
frankly emulates the ruthless meth
IDS of Communism, and 5. the mill
ant extremists and crackpots. These
Il, IL I,
he bomb tossers like those who
yrecked the homes of two Protestant
minister's in California a few weeks
go, etc.
fANY OTHERS CASH IN
LIES correspondent, like the
vOICE, issue of February 9, found
pace limitations mitigated against
aiming any except the more widely
ased right-wing groups. He did, how
yer, list some additional fronts
hitch may have interest to Mon
anans. These include:
Freedom Forum, of which there is
ne or more local chapters in Mon
ana;
Project Alert, directed by Schwarz's
kousen, and of which Cong. James
attn is an advisory board member;
Freedoms Foundation, headed by
r. Kenneth D. Wells, who is as t
armist in his outpourings as the s
aders of Project Alert, or the &
M as
Freedoms Foundation is currently t
liciting funds on nationwide basis 6
a NBC spot announcements.
Americans For Constitutional Ac-
on: A group on which some Mon f
ma Republican groups rely to find s
1T how badly misrepresented the
,tremists are by Sens. Mansfield d
I'd Metcalf and Cong. Olsen;
National Right to Work Commit +
e: This is an old acquaintance of {
ontana workers, and has one or
ore Montana businessmen on it's
ecutive board. This group, accord +