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My Son, the S.O.B. We live, God help us, in a world of well-meaning women—or so, at any rate, it would seem—or is It that it is the well-meaning ones who make all the noise? NaUirally, it is good that women should cate, but would it not be better if they would consider as well as care? That is what is wrong with the League of Women Voters—that, though it has the most honorable of intentions, it is too impatient and impulsive. If only it would be still a second, if only it would give a little thought to the eventual outcome of its actions. If only the League of Women Voters would stop I to consider that if it had behaved with more in telligence than braver)-, we might never have had to pat up with Foster Furcolo, that old Blue who believes not only in "For God, for country, and for. Yale," but in "for Foster Furcolo" as well. And not only that, but we might also have never had to squirm at the sound of that man's lather's being quoted as having once observed, "I couldn't even trust that s.o.b. son of mine." Nor does it matter whether he did say it or not, for the point is that things have come to such an unpleasant pass that someone should have had occasion, either false or authentic, to say that he said it What kind of talk is that—my son the s.o.b., indeed! • • • AND YET IT NEED NEVER have been. If only the League of Women Voters had exerted its Influence a little more intelligently in that time when Mr. Furcolo was begging for our ballots! But, even so, you would think that it would learn, would you not? You would think that out of error would come an enlightenment with which to endow the electorate. But the ignorance of those women—or, rather, of the women who lay down the law to the League—is apparently impervious. Theirs is the arrogance of ignorance. And that they mean well is not enough, tor, as James Russell Lowell remarked: "There's nothing we read in torture's inventions Like a well-meaning dunce with the best of intentions." For has it not been said that the road to hell is mtved with good intentions? • • • BUT IT DOES SEEM that we must suffer be- cause some women have such unhappy home lives that they must rush out of the house and harangue us as to our civic duties. Nor is it as if they knew %at they were talking about, either. But women can be wondrous—and the worst of them were born, •it would seem, to be meddlesome midwives to our t mere are, wr example, uiuoe wuy uw» s.sa^a.. -rod not for sweet ctarity, but for their own vast vanity. And then^thene.oik those who ..re s^tuiM* in their choir loO^U the mezzo sopranos .who succumb when tbe dSvl^is devious enough to preach that "Nearer my &MWo\me\OMm^ putting an end to innocence. All those women—I'm sore that they must mean well—they and the leaders of the League of Women Voters. But if only they were not so uninformed. For If they were, then there might have been more license in Lexington last Thursday night. * • • THAT WAS WHEN the Lexington League of Women Voters held its "All-Lexington Candidates Night," a forum at which the electorate was urged to question the candidates whose names will appear on the ballot at tomorrow's election. To have candidates confronted with pertinent probing—nothing could be more educational than that, nothing more splendidly civic, except—except that what was deemed pertinent was determined, not by the questioner, but by the League of Women Voters. And that, as things turned out, was a suppression of speech. Thus, when Sir. and Mrs. Fred Youngren submitted the question, "Are you a member of the John Bjrch LSociety?" to all five candidates for the two pusslllons on the school committee, they were ignored—as, for that matter, was Mrs. Theodore Mair- son, who wished to ask much lhe same question of Mrs. Charles Ward, one of the five. The League of Women Voters—and not, apparently, the Lexington League of Women Voters, but the national leaders—deemed such interrogation impertinent, thereby leaving much of Lexington in ignorance. * • • IT SEEMS, I SUPPOSE, such a little thing—a little thing in the little town of Lexington. Massachusetts. And perhaps it is at that—but, if so, then so, too, was what happened in that town 187 years ago this 19th of April, when 366 were killed or wounded in a cause that some might think trifling. * • • Still, there are those who fee! otherwise—those who denounce their being denied the right to ask candidates certain questions. But the leaders of the League of Women Voters are not among them. It is those women's quaint notion that membership in the John Birch Society has no bearing at all on one's qualifications to serve on a*TcTR>ol committee. But, naturally, they are naive and uninformed and perhaps even dangerous. For if they are to dictate, then they should know whereof they speak. To affirm that about membership in the Birch Society is simply stupid— and. what's more, the John Birch Society thinks so, too. and, in its Bulletin of September, 1960 it said as much. "JOIN YOUR LOCAL PTA at the beginning of this school year" counselled the Bulletin, "get your conservative friends to do likewise, and go to work to take it over. You will run into real battles, against determined leftists who have had everything their way. But it is time we went on the offensive to make such groups the instruments of conservative purpose, with tbe same- vigor and determination that the 'liberals' haw.used the op- ' posite aims. When you and your friends get your local PTA group | straightened out, move up the ladder as soon as you can to exert a wider influence. And don't let the duty tactics of the opposition get you down. Some of them are playing for t M
Object Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970 |
Box Number | 187 |
Folder Number | 06 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Access | Request Access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970 |
Box Number | 187 |
Folder Number | 06 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Description |
Activities Rightists and Anti-Communists John Birch Society Subject Files Printed Material |
Access | Request Access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Transcript | My Son, the S.O.B. We live, God help us, in a world of well-meaning women—or so, at any rate, it would seem—or is It that it is the well-meaning ones who make all the noise? NaUirally, it is good that women should cate, but would it not be better if they would consider as well as care? That is what is wrong with the League of Women Voters—that, though it has the most honorable of intentions, it is too impatient and impulsive. If only it would be still a second, if only it would give a little thought to the eventual outcome of its actions. If only the League of Women Voters would stop I to consider that if it had behaved with more in telligence than braver)-, we might never have had to pat up with Foster Furcolo, that old Blue who believes not only in "For God, for country, and for. Yale," but in "for Foster Furcolo" as well. And not only that, but we might also have never had to squirm at the sound of that man's lather's being quoted as having once observed, "I couldn't even trust that s.o.b. son of mine." Nor does it matter whether he did say it or not, for the point is that things have come to such an unpleasant pass that someone should have had occasion, either false or authentic, to say that he said it What kind of talk is that—my son the s.o.b., indeed! • • • AND YET IT NEED NEVER have been. If only the League of Women Voters had exerted its Influence a little more intelligently in that time when Mr. Furcolo was begging for our ballots! But, even so, you would think that it would learn, would you not? You would think that out of error would come an enlightenment with which to endow the electorate. But the ignorance of those women—or, rather, of the women who lay down the law to the League—is apparently impervious. Theirs is the arrogance of ignorance. And that they mean well is not enough, tor, as James Russell Lowell remarked: "There's nothing we read in torture's inventions Like a well-meaning dunce with the best of intentions." For has it not been said that the road to hell is mtved with good intentions? • • • BUT IT DOES SEEM that we must suffer be- cause some women have such unhappy home lives that they must rush out of the house and harangue us as to our civic duties. Nor is it as if they knew %at they were talking about, either. But women can be wondrous—and the worst of them were born, •it would seem, to be meddlesome midwives to our t mere are, wr example, uiuoe wuy uw» s.sa^a.. -rod not for sweet ctarity, but for their own vast vanity. And then^thene.oik those who ..re s^tuiM* in their choir loO^U the mezzo sopranos .who succumb when tbe dSvl^is devious enough to preach that "Nearer my &MWo\me\OMm^ putting an end to innocence. All those women—I'm sore that they must mean well—they and the leaders of the League of Women Voters. But if only they were not so uninformed. For If they were, then there might have been more license in Lexington last Thursday night. * • • THAT WAS WHEN the Lexington League of Women Voters held its "All-Lexington Candidates Night," a forum at which the electorate was urged to question the candidates whose names will appear on the ballot at tomorrow's election. To have candidates confronted with pertinent probing—nothing could be more educational than that, nothing more splendidly civic, except—except that what was deemed pertinent was determined, not by the questioner, but by the League of Women Voters. And that, as things turned out, was a suppression of speech. Thus, when Sir. and Mrs. Fred Youngren submitted the question, "Are you a member of the John Bjrch LSociety?" to all five candidates for the two pusslllons on the school committee, they were ignored—as, for that matter, was Mrs. Theodore Mair- son, who wished to ask much lhe same question of Mrs. Charles Ward, one of the five. The League of Women Voters—and not, apparently, the Lexington League of Women Voters, but the national leaders—deemed such interrogation impertinent, thereby leaving much of Lexington in ignorance. * • • IT SEEMS, I SUPPOSE, such a little thing—a little thing in the little town of Lexington. Massachusetts. And perhaps it is at that—but, if so, then so, too, was what happened in that town 187 years ago this 19th of April, when 366 were killed or wounded in a cause that some might think trifling. * • • Still, there are those who fee! otherwise—those who denounce their being denied the right to ask candidates certain questions. But the leaders of the League of Women Voters are not among them. It is those women's quaint notion that membership in the John Birch Society has no bearing at all on one's qualifications to serve on a*TcTR>ol committee. But, naturally, they are naive and uninformed and perhaps even dangerous. For if they are to dictate, then they should know whereof they speak. To affirm that about membership in the Birch Society is simply stupid— and. what's more, the John Birch Society thinks so, too. and, in its Bulletin of September, 1960 it said as much. "JOIN YOUR LOCAL PTA at the beginning of this school year" counselled the Bulletin, "get your conservative friends to do likewise, and go to work to take it over. You will run into real battles, against determined leftists who have had everything their way. But it is time we went on the offensive to make such groups the instruments of conservative purpose, with tbe same- vigor and determination that the 'liberals' haw.used the op- ' posite aims. When you and your friends get your local PTA group | straightened out, move up the ladder as soon as you can to exert a wider influence. And don't let the duty tactics of the opposition get you down. Some of them are playing for t M |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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