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Donal L. Beddo
Box 273
Richmond, Ks 66080
February 21, 1982
Mr. Morton Blackwell
Special Assistant to the President
Whitehouse
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Sir:
I am writing you in regard to a Legislative amendment to
Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Resolution
# 59). This amendment will violate the principle of separation
of church and state.
This bill has vague, ambiguous language which gives the IRS
the benefit of the doubt and places the church on the defensive,
subject to the removal of the tax-exempt status.
I am as much against "racism" as anyone. However, this
bill in question would walk on first amendment Constitutional
rights of everyone behind a guise of protecting the social rights
of the few. The amendment as proposed authorizes the IRS to in-
vestigate records of all churches which operate educational
ministries and, based on the opinion of the IRS agent, not only
removes the churches' tax-exempt status, but also forces all
contributors to pay tax on contributions retroactive to July, 1970.
I urge you, Mr. President to instruct your staff and Congress
to withdraw this proposal because of its awkward wording regarding
"racially-discriminatory policies," to further instruct Congress
to give astute review of the IRS posture toward church-schools,
and to make more definitive guidelines that protect our fundamental
American heritage of religious freedom.
Sincerely,
Donal L Beddo
Mary Martin
424 W 7th
Garnett, Ks 66032
Mr. Morton Blackwell
Special Assistant to the President
Whitehouse
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Sir:
I am writing you in regard to a Legislative amendment to
Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Resolution
# 59). This amendment will violate the principle of separation
of church and state.
This bill has vague, ambiguous language which gives the IRS
the benefit of the doubt and places the church on the defensive,
subject to the removal of the tax-exempt status.
I am as much against "racism" as anyone. However, this
bill in question would walk on first amendment Constitutional
rights of everyone behind a guise of protecting the social rights
of the few. The amendment as proposed authorizes the IRS to in-
vestigate records of all churches which operate educational
ministries and, based. on the opinion of the IRS agent, not only
removes the churches' tax-exempt status, but also forces all
contributors to pay tax on contribution retroactive to July, 1970.
I urge you, Mr. President to instruct your staff and Congress
to withdraw this proposal because of its awkward wording regarding
"racially-discriminatory policies," to further instruct Congress
to give astute review of the IRS posture toward church-schools,
and to make more definitive guidelines that protect our fundamental
American heritage of religious freedom.
Sincerely,
May Martin
Mary Martin
Jack Martin
424 W 3th
Garnett, Ks 66032
Mr. Morton Blackwell
Special Assistant to the President
Whitehouse
Washington, D. C. 205.00
Dear Sir:
I am writing you in regard to a Legislative amendment to
Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Resolution
# 59). This amendment will violate the principle of separation
of church and state.
This bill has vague, ambiguous language which gives the IRS
the benefit of the doubt and places the church on the defensive,
subject to the removal of the tax-exempt status.
I am as much against "racism" as anyone. However, this
bill in question would walk on first amendment Constitutional
rights of everyone behind a guise of protecting the social rights
of the few. The amendment as proposed authorizes the IRS to in-
vestigate records of all churches which operate educational
ministries and, based on the opinion of the IRS agent, not only
removes the churches' tax-exempt status, but also forces all
contributors to pay tax on contributions retroactive to July, 1970.
I urge you, Mr. President to instruct your staff and Congress
to withdraw this proposal because of its awkward wording regarding
"racially-discriminatory policies," to further instruct Congress
to give astute review of the IRS posture toward church-schools,
and to make more definitive guidelines that protect our fundamental
American heritage of religious freedom.
Sincerely,
Jail
Jack Martin
Dear Mr. Blackwell,
9 am writing to you to express
my concern over Pres Reagan's sup-
porting a Legislative amendment to Sec -
tion 501 of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1954. 9 believe This will violate
the principle of church and state.
9 understand that this amendment is
worded awhwardly concerning racially
discriminatory policies / and places
The chuch on the defensive and puts
the bruden of proof on the church as of
it was guitty until proven innocent.
9 uge you to review IRS pos-
ture toward church schools,
and to make difinitive guidelines
that protect our fundamental american hei-
tage of religious freedom
Bruce DiSarle
Respectfully yours,
8507 NW 59PLACE
Bruce Dr Sarle
TAMATAC,FLA.33321
Jacqueline J. Beddo
Box 273
Richmond, Ks 66080
February 21, 1982
Mr. Morton Blackwell
Special Assistant to the President
Whitehouse
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Sir:
I am writing you in regard to a Legislative amendment to
Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Resolution
# 59). This amendment will violate the principle of separation
of church and state.
This bill has vague, ambiguous language which gives the IRS
the benefit of the doubt and places the church on the defensive,
subject to the removal of the tax-exempt status.
I am as much against "racism" as anyone. However, this
bill in question would walk on first amendment Constitutional
rights of everyone behind a guise of protecting the social rights
of the few. The amendment as proposed authorizes the IRS to in-
vestigate records of all churches which operate educational
ministries and, based on the opinion of the IRS agent, not only
removes the churches' tax-exempt status, but also forces all
contributore to pay tax on contributions retroactive to July, 1970.
I urge you, Mr. President to instruct your staff and Congress
to withdraw this proposal because of its awkward wording regarding
"racially-discriminatory policies," to further instruct Congress
to give astute review of the IRS posture toward church-schools,
and to make more definitive guidelines that protect our fundamental
American heritage of religious freedom.
Sincerely,
Jacqueline J. Beddo
Diana Godby
Route 2 Box 305
Lewisburg, WV 24901
Morton C. Blackwell
Special Assistant To President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear President Reagon:
I am sending this letter concerning the Legislative amendment
to Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code which violates the
principle of separation of church and state. I am also against
"racism" but the wording of this amendment gives the IRS the
benefit of the doubt and places the church on the defensive. I
would like to request that you instruct Congress to withdraw the
proposed amendment to the International Revenue Code because of
its awkward wording regarding "racially-discriminatory policies."
Please ask that Congress give a good review of the IRS posture
toward church-schools, and make more definite guidelines that
protect our fundamental American heritage of religious freedom.
Sincerely,
Drana Godby
Diana Godby
Mrs. Raymond D. Carpenter
RR# 1
Richmond, Kansas, 66080
March 2, 1982
Mr. Morten Blackwell
Special Assistant to the President
Whitehouse
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Sir:
I am writing you in regard to a Legislative amendment to Section 501 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Resolution # 59). This amendment will violate the
principle of separation of church and state.
This bill has vague, ambiguous language which gives the IRS the benefit of
the deubt and places the church on the defensive, subject to the removal of the
tax-exempt status.
I am as much against "racism" as anyone. However, this bill in question
would walk on first amendment Constitutional rights of everyone behind a guise
of protection the seciall rights of the few. The amendment as proposed authorizes
the IRS to investigate records of all churches which operate educational ministries
and, based on the opinion of the IRS agent, not only removes the churches' tax-
exempt status, but also forces all contributors to pay tax on contributions re-
troactive to July, 1970.
I urge you, Mr. President to instruct your staff and Congress to withdraw
this proposal because of its awkward wording regarding "racially-discriminatery
policies," to further instruct Congress to give astute review of the IRS pesture
toward church-schools, and to make more definitive guidelines that protect our
fundamental American heritage of religious freedom.
Sincerely,
Mrsh Raymond D. Carpenter
Mrs. Raymond D. Carpenter
BOND
HERRY
FIBRE
ms Eunice E. Dray
4458.105 are
Harnett, Kans.
66032
Feb. 19.
me morton Blackwell
special assestant to ih President
Whitehause
washington, W.C. 20500
bear Sir:
I am writting you in regard to a
Legislative amendment to section 501 of
the internal revenue cade of 1954
(resolution # 59) This amendment nice
violate the prencipal of seperation of church
and state.
This lice, has vague, ambiguous
language which gives ih IR52h
henifit of the doubt and places the church
on the defensive, subject to the removal
of the tax- - exempt status.
I am as much against "racism" as
would anyone, thowever, the his in question
rights of everyone hehind a guise of protecting
mach on first amendent constitutions
the social rights phe few, The amendment
as propased authorizes the 9.R.S. to
investigate records I all churches which
aperate educational ministeries and, based
removes on the opinion of the I.R.S. agent, not only
but the churchis tay status
also forus all contributors erempt to pay
tay on contributions retroactive to July 1970
I urge you, mr. President to instruct
your staff and congress to withdraw
this proposal because of its awkard
wording regarding "racially disarim
inatory policies", to further instruct
congress to give astute review of
the I.R.S. posture toward church
schools, and to make more definitive
guidelines that protect dur,
fundamental American theritage of
religious freedom.
Sincerely
mrs Eurnie E. Gray.
Mul P.Gray
Mrs Darathyw Ellington
Route 10 Box 123A
Lake city The 32055
Dear Mr Blackwell
2im writing to you about
the Bill dealing with tay
examptions for Christion Schools
If tax exemptions are denied to
these schools., it will put and
unfair lunder on us parents
who are now sacrificing to pay
for our children's education.
Chistion schools do not ask for
government money, only for tax
exemption. Marorities are now
accepted in these schools by the
some standards as our children
as by entrance examination, paying
their school fees and obeying the
rules and regulations.
I
I
2
please see that the president
reads this letter and, that he
Will Consider the warding 8 this
lice caufully. to make sure the
2 R.S. con't interfore with our
religious freedoms. guaranteed tinder
the Constitution.
Thank you
This Darathy Ellington
P.S. We are paying taxes for public
schools that are Do prov. our
children Were denied a good
education. now if we have to
pay topes on Christian schools we
will be daily taked. please help
us maintain ? Our freedom.
Melvin R. Gray
Box 146
Garnett, Ks. 66032
Feb. 18, 1982
Mr. Morton Blackwell
Special Assistant to the President
Whitehouse
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Sir:
I am writing you in regard to a Legislative amendment
to Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Resolu-
tion # 59). This amendmant will violate the principle of
separation of church and state.
This bill has vague, ambiguous language which gives the
IRS the benefit of the doubt and places the church on the
defensive, subject to the removal of the tax-exempt status.
I am as much against "racism" as anyone. However, this
bill in question would walk on first amendment Constitutional
rights of everyone behind a guise of protecting the social
rights of the few. The amendment as proposed authorizes the
IRS to investigate records of all churches which operate
educational ministries and, based on the opinion of the IRS
agent, not only removes the churches' tax-exempt status, but
also forces all contributors to pay tax on contributions
retroactive to July, 1970.
I urge you, Mr. President to instruct your staff and
Congress to withdraw this proposal because of its awkward
wording regarding "racially-discriminatory policies, to
further instruct Congress to give astute review of the IRS
posture toward church-schools, and to make more definitive
guidelines that protect our fundamental American heritage
of religious freedom.
Sincerely,
Mehin R. Groy, Pastor
Melvin R. Gray, Pastor
FEB 8 REC'D
Peovid, Illinois 61604
February 3, 1982
mr + mrs Robert Dole
C
White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear mrs mrs Dole;
When you consider a bill that is
aimed at Christian Schools like B of Jones Unive
to take away tax exemption, that you
will remember that a Christian School has E
right to freedom of religion
Bab Jones Unive is not segregated.
to allow inter-racial dating is a disaster
when leading to marriage. 99% of all of
these end up in divorce and if they have
children, what about the blight on them.
you will allow an organization as
mentioned in the attached to have a tax
exemption, a group that is out todestroy
the united states
Remember Bob Jenes has never had aniot.
( Like Kent state). they do not allow their boys and
girls to sleep together & run around the dorm
with out their clothes on (as Bradley kniv.) we do
not give our students pills to keep from
having babies, at tax payers expense las University
of Illinois allow.) Bob Jones doesnot behive in
pre-marital sex.
they do not allow drinking, as Illinois
state Univ where a boy was drunk and fell
of the dorm balcomy and was killed.
all of the above are tax exempt plus
they receive federal aide
Bob Jenes has never had a demonstration
against the U.SA.
this great school sets high moral standards
unlike most schools who receive federal aid,
rather they have lowered morals to the gutter
no wonder the u.s is in the situation
they are, we need to get back to the Bible,
the Word of God.
If you take away their tax exemption
you will destroy freedom of religion in
this country and it won't be long until
we are like Russia
Sincerely
Ken Lingle
2617 W. Barker ave
Peoria, Ill. 61604
NEWS & VIEWS
Eternal Vigilance is Forever the Price of Freedom
ISSN: 0191-5118
Vol. 45, No. 1
WHEATON, ILLINOIS 60187
January 1982
HOW THE RADICAL FORCES IN THE UNITED STATES
FINANCE THEIR PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS
From time to time, mouthpieces of the leftist and revolutionary forces operating within the
United States, of which there are more than 2,000 organizations, have accused the so-called
"extremists of the right-wing" of raking in millions of dollars to finance their operations and
programs. This charge is laughable in the ultimate when one discovers, first of all, that most
conservative organizations in the United States are operating on a shoestring, many "in the red"
financially, and others going out of business for lack of sufficient funds.
On the other hand, very few American citizens know the sources of financing for the
multitudes of propaganda groups which are seeking to destroy the American way of life, morals,
ethics, traditional religious beliefs, and to neutralize the population of the nation in regard to any
opposition against atheistic Communism and its spread.
The Church League of America, for 45 years, has been massing tons of information on the
operations of the old and new left, carding and indexing it, so that complete reports can be
compiled from the publications and actions of these organizations, as provided by their own
mailings, observers attending their meetings and the accounts in the public domain.
To enumerate the various causes and campaigns initiated by the radical forces in the United
States, since the end of World War I, would be a six-year university course, with attendance in
classrooms every day for at least eight hours, in order to enlighten those who simply go about their
daily tasks of earning a living and caring for their families.
While the bulk of America's population sleeps or watches entertainment or sports events, the
destructive revolutionary termites are at work, night and day, and are eroding the foundations
upon which the American republic was built.
Of course, these forces cannot do what they are and have been doing without sufficient
financial backing. Unknown to the average American is the fact that the left has been raking in
untold millions of dollars, annually, and a great deal of it from unsuspecting donors, who do not
investigate the organizations or their goals before signing their names to the ibution checks
The Church League of America Research Department herewith deals with two of the major
fund-raising organizations in the United States for the revolutionary and radical left.
The first is one called ANACAPA FUND OF Montecito, California.
A poll of conservative, direct-mail, fund-raising organizations has revealed that not a single
one of them, at the time contacted, had ever heard of the ANACAPA FUND. Yet, this group, in a
suburb of Santa Barbara, California, has been raising millions of dollars for its clients and the head
of ANACAPA FUND stated, in no uncertain terms, that they raise funds only for liberal-radical
organizations. Later on in this report, we will list their clients.
The following information was supplied by the ANACAPA FUND, itself, in printed form and
attested to by its president, Mr. E. F. "Gene" Zannon:
"ANACAPA FUND was established as a for-profit California corporation in 1974
with the purpose of providing the highest level of direct mail marketing expertise
and professionalism to fundraising organizations.
"In its seven years of existence, ANACAPA FUND has demonstrated its ability to
produce, through direct mail solicitation, a steady source of operational revenues for
our clientele.
"In all cases, such performance has relied upon a highly professional staff committed
to principles which have been identified in the direct mail response business after
decades of experiences and annual expenditures exceeding four billion dollars.
"ANACAPA FUND, in 1981, is supervising direct mail programs for eight
different clients."
Now just how does ANACAPA FUND solicit the money for its clientele?
ANACAPA FUND handles everything for the client, including such things as: direct mail
copy (including testing of revisions and new packages as needed); design for all components of the
direct mail package(s); finished mechanical art, drawings and photographs; printing and
production of all package components; lettersop functions; selects, orders, receives, codes and
supervises all mailing lists; manages donor list for exchanges with other organizations and client's
use; advances outgoing postage (reply postage is paid by client); coordinates all fulfillment services at
outside computer service bureau; and any number of services and information to the client
organization.
What do ANACAPA FUND's services cost their clients? ANACAPA FUND charges per
thousand pieces of mail, which it has prepared entirely for the client and dropped into the post
office. The rate is approximately 15 cents per individual letter of solicitation or $150 per thousand
pieces mailed.
Astonishingly, ANACAPA FUND states:
"The per thousand cost includes all the services listed above, plus the cost of the
account executive's time and that of other ANACAPA personnel. ANACAPA does
not invoice for travel, telephone, copying, etc."
The most astonishing revelation of all is that ANACAPA advances all of the money for the
clients and does not get paid unless those to whom the mail is sent respond with contributions to
the client!
We know of no conservative fund-raising organization in the United States that will do this for
their clients. Almost without exception, the conservative direct mail, fund-raising organizations
want large fees for services in advance, plus a fee for each letter mailed, plus the postage, plus the
cost of the printed material, the mailing envelopes, the return envelopes and all other enclosures
in each piece of mail; and, the invoices for these charges to be paid within 30 days' time by the
client from the date the mail is dropped in the post office.
Many conservative organizations have wound up in the financial "hole" and others have
merely broken even without any money left to enlarge their operations or as a "cushion" for future
projects.
But, you have not heard it all, yet, by any means! Let's continue on in the revelation of how
ANACAPA FUND raises money for some of the largest radical organizations and causes in our
country.
Under the heading, "What if returns do not equal costs?", ANACAPA states as follows:
"In the event the balance of contributions generated from a mailing is not sufficient
to pay the contract fee, payments will be made from any subsequent direct mail
program ANACAPA may be requested to conduct on the client's behalf. If the client
terminates the agreement or ceases its mailing program and there are still accumu-
lated fees due, ANACAPA agrees that any such debt shall be waived and no longer
considered a liability of the client."
Where does ANACAPA get the lists of names to solicit funds on behalf of its clients? A major
source is one called "Names in the News," located at 535 Bush Street, San Francisco, California
94108 (telephone: 415/989-3350). This list broker has tens of thousands of names of persons who
contribute only to liberal or radical causes. Such names and addresses are available to ANACAPA
or any liberal-radical organization, and only to such organizations, at rates from $35 to $50 per
thousand, plus a 20 per cent commission.
Another source of such names, particularly in the religious field, is Russ Reid & Company at
80 S. Lake Avenue, Pasadena, California 91101 (telephone: 213/449-6100).
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Here is how the system works in summary:
A radical organization approaches ANACAPA FUND and asks to become a client. If
ANACAPA FUND is satisfied that this is a legitimate liberal-radical organization,
with a "cause" that will appeal to liberals throughout the nation, then it consults with
the head of that organization as to how much money needs to be raised. ANACAPA
takes it, then, from the very beginning, plus all the promotion, layouts, printing, etc.,
clear through to the finished product, drops all the mail in, and all the client has to do
is sit back and wait for funds to arrive.
Here are ANACAPA's clients for 1981:
Amnesty International, USA
Friends of the Earth, Inc.
Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT)
National Coalition to Ban Handguns
National Campaign for Radioactive Waste Safety
National Voters Initiative
National Peace Academy Campaign
Public Citizen
If the Church League of America were to take the time to pull out of its extensive research
files all of the background, operations and causes of these organizations since their initial start, this
report would have to encompass hundreds of pages of facts.
At random, we picked several of the organizations and asked the following questions: How
many Americans know that the Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT) has a completely
unscientific and phony cause, which is an outright, vicious attack on the manufacturers of a
breast-feeding substitute for the nourishment of babies known as infant formula? How many know
that this is headed by a little-known figure by the name of Douglas Johnson, whose organization
operates out of the basement of the Roman Catholic Student Newman Center on the campus of
the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, and that he lives in an apartment in New York City
and travels extensively all over the world, making contact with radicals and revolutionaries, espe-
cially in Third World countries?
Johnson and INFACT have been vicious in their attacks on the Nestlé Corporation, Abbott
Laboratories and the Carnation Milk Company, to name but a few, with completely false supposi-
tion that "millions of the babies in the Third World" are being killed because the infant formula is
being used as a substitute by ignorant mothers, who mix it with polluted water, thus killing their
babies.
The ridiculous fallacy in the whole charge is that INFACT never mentions the fact that it is the
polluted water which is killing the babies, not the infant formula, which is a highly nutritious food
which malnutritious mothers can raise their babies on to become healthy adults! Instead of John-
son and his INFACT revolutionaries forming teams to educate mothers in the Third World, who
can't read, how to boil water and make it safe for mixing with the formula, they attack a perfectly
good formula used successfully by millions of mothers around the globe.
This is nothing but downright deceit! And yet: ANACAPA FUND raised, for this same
INFACT, hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1980, according to INFACT's own financial report,
prepared by certified public accountant J. Donovan Carpenter of Minneapolis!
Now, just how many of the people who sent checks into this organization realized how their
money was being misused to attack great multi-national corporations, who have brought a better
way of life to millions on this planet? INFACT has used "the big lie technique" of the late Adolf
Hitler, and the same technique which the Marxists are using today, to discredit America's corpora-
tions and the capitalistic system.
How many Americans know that the National Coalition to Ban Handguns is a brainchild of
the radical Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, which church is a
multi-billion dollar operation and whose controversial Board of Church and Society has been filled
with radicals, gay persons and other assorted freaks, who are not engaged in preaching the Gospel
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of the Lord Jesus Christ to lost men and women, but rather supporting radical causes in the name
of religion?
How many people know that another of ANACAPA's clients is one of Ralph Nader's
offspring, Public Citizen? Nader's Raiders have been raking in untold sums of money from
unsuspecting Americans to attack American industry and the major corporations which have given
the United States the highest standard of living of any civilization in history?
So much for the ANACAPA FUND.
The New York Times came out, on October 8, 1981, with a three-column wide picture and story,
over half a page in length, entitled, "Liberals Open Purses to Fund-Raiser." Pictured is one
Thomas R. Mathews, co-founder of the fund-raising company known as Craver, Mathews, Smith
& Company of Falls Church, Virginia, located at 282 N. Washington Street, 22046.
Under the byline of Warren Weaver, Jr., the New York Times states:
"FALLS CHURCH, Va., Oct. 7-All around Washington, the old liberal issues have
fallen from fashion. In Congress, the White House and the thousand offices that
watch them both, the themes of the left are seldom heard, and then only in subdued
tones.
"But in a restored Victorian mansion here in the Virginia suburbs of the Capital, the
old era lives. Here the battered causes of civil liberties, abortion, gun control and
religious freedom not only thrive philosophically, but also generate millions of dol-
lars in contributions.
"Contrary to expectations, the first year of Ronald Reagan's Presidency, with its
pervasive climate of conservatism, has not dampened either the idealism or the gross
receipts of the company of Craver, Mathews & Smith, whose business is raising
money by mail for a wide range of causes such as the environment, birth control and
women's rights.
"In fact, the eight-year-old company expects to collect a record $85 million, or about
40 percent more on the average, for its 30-odd liberal causes this year than it did last
year with Jimmy Carter in the White House and the Democrats controlling both
houses of Congress."
Mr. Mathews is 60 years of age and, up to 11 years ago, he had never drafted a fund-raising
letter. Then, former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) John W. Gardner, who
was starting his liberal organization called "Common Cause," hired Roger Craver, present partner
of Mr. Mathews, as Director of Development of Common Cause and Mathews as Vice President.
Thomas Mathews recalls:
"We ran a few newspaper ads and sent out 250,000 letters to a variety of lists. Six
months later we had raised $2 million and had a live list of 100,000 contributors of
our own. During the next two years, we blew $1 million of Common Cause money
learning how to keep the system working. It was a sort of Rosencrantz and Guilden-
stern operation."
By 1974, Craver and Mathews had started their own company, with Common Cause as a
client, and, since then, have sold their services to such radical groups as:
American Civil Liberties Union
Birch Bayh for Senator Committee (Bayh, Democratic liberal, was defeated in the
1980 election)
Friends of Liz Holtzman
Handgun Control, Inc.
League of Women Voters
McGovern for Senate
National Abortion Rights Action League
National Call for Kennedy
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Planned Parenthood
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Operation PUSH
Sierra Club
A partial list of clients served by Craver, Mathews, Smith & Company, distributed in 1981,
shows 42 clients of this type.
Ironically, the New York Times reports: "Politically, money raised by Craver, Mathews & Smith
has yet to produce a winner in a general election."
The Times further reports:
"In 1979, they raised the first money for the movement to draft Senator Edward M.
Kennedy as a Presidential candidate, which may have had something to do with their
dismissal by the Carter-controlled Democratic National Committee after a six-month
tryout. In 1980, Mr. Mathews personally persuaded Representative John B. Ander-
son to run as an independent after his Republican campaign for the Presidency
faded and the firm raised some $14 million for the effort."
It is especially interesting to note that this firm considers one of the stimuli to liberal
contributing as "the activity of groups like Moral Majority, which are probably at least as effective
in arousing opposition as they are in cultivating support."
Mathews reports that 1981 has been a promising year for fund-raising by non-profit
organizations and that "authorities report collections up about 10 to 15 percent, with liberal causes
overall doing somewhat better."
Through the efforts of this one firm, alone, Common Cause has now grown to a membership
of more than 300,000.
Besides being vice president of Common Cause, Mathews held the position of Vice President
of Communications for the National Urban Coalition and Director of Information for the Peace
Corps. He has been a White House consultant and, in 1968, was Washington press chief of the
campaign for the presidency of the United States by the late Senator Robert Kennedy.
The third partner of this liberal cause fund-raising firm, Robert M. Smith, Vice President, also
worked for three years with Common Cause and is a graduate of the University of California at
Berkeley in Political Science and Sociology.
This firm enters into "trial contracts" with its clients after evaluating their publications and
conducting a survey of their publications programs. The firm supplies expertise in the total
publications production and development field, with the purpose in mind of bringing in new
subscribers and contributors to the organization.
The distinguished lawyer and former chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on
Internal Security, former president of a university and distinguished New Jersey judge, Robert
Morris, wrote a book some years ago entitled, NO WONDER WE ARE LOSING. We will borrow
the title of this book from Judge Morris for a moment as a proper description of what is happening
to the conservative organizations and their causes within the United States.
First of all, to repeat what we said earlier in this report, we know of no conservative direct-mail
or advertising fund-raising organization that will do for the conservatives what the liberal
fund-raising groups are doing for the radicals, with great financial and propaganda success.
The Church League of America has used the "expertise" of the most widely known, so-called
conservative fund-raising organizations within the U.S. and has wound up with thousands of
dollars coming in the front door, as a result of the mail response, and then has watched it go out
the back door in payment to these same fund-raising organizations for their services, with the
Church League "left holding the bag" and not even having enough funds to provide the services
promised to the people who contributed and who were promised these services in the fund
solicitation appeals.
Many facts could be related by the Church League's Board of Directors, comptroller and
executive secretary in regard to the unbelievable experiences which the League has had with these
professional "conservative" fund-raisers. No wonder the conservative cause is not only losing; but,
no wonder, also, that a number of these same fund-raisers became wealthy!
Is there truly the dedication to preserve our country, our family life, our economic system, our
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freedom of religion and the educational system, that will produce great future leaders who love
America, and a moral climate in the U.S. which future generations will bless, actually extant among
those who profess to be working for such preservations, especially in the field of finance? Or, are
we dealing with people who are in "the conservative movement" solely for personal gain? How
many of them publish a certified public accountant's annual report of receipts and expenditures
and show were the money goes?
It is time that dedicated Americans, who want the country to remain free and who want it to
retain a moral and religious base upon which future generations can build, start investigating and
asking questions in regard to how funds for conservative causes are raised and, also, ask questions
as to the integrity of the organizations and their objectives which solicit support from the general
public.
Most important is for conservative organizations and causes, which have impeccable records
of handling finances and which can show, with irrefutable proof, how every cent of contributors'
money has been used and for the cause intended and publicized, to be supported with adequate
gifts.
Until persons in the United States, including American business and industry, are willing to
put their purse where their mouth is and get in the fight to defeat the radical-revolutionary forces
working within our midst and seeking to destroy us, the whole leftist cabal will continue to march
on, adequately supported by professional, liberal fund-raisers, who are willing to lay cash on the
line to pay all the expenses, ahead of time, for fund-raising campaigns to fill the coffers of the
revolutionary organizations.
Some of the radical-liberal organizations have grown up "overnight." Some are only 5-10
years of age. And yet, they have raised bigger budgets and propagandized more widely than
legitimate conservative organizations that have been in the fight for nearly half a century. Why
should this be? The answer is in the word "dedication."
How truly dedicated are conservatives and their pocketbooks?
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Dear Su:
l would like to protest on the
strongest terms possible Senate Bill-
59. l feel that such a bill if
passed will further leap the walls
of separation between church and
state and open the door for
more federal involvement in church
policy and sound biblical beliefs
d therefore urge your support
in the defeat of the bill.
I appreciate your attention in
this matter of grest concern
Rev. Timity A Can
705 South Washington
Dwass, Michael
48867
Neal Rathke
519 W Pikes Peak
Colo. Spgs, Colo. 80905
Dear Sit
my feelings about the Chuch Regulation
Thank you for the opportunity to share
Bill", proposed by President Reagah.
appropriations amendment (sponsbred by
Noted their approval overwhelmingly of an
Last year the Senate of the House
Reps. Bob Dainan & John ashbrook). The
taking any action against religious
amendment prohibited the d.R.S. from hools
resulting status in the loss of their tax-exempt
The "Chuch Regulation Bill" would
seek to reverse the Ashbrook Dornan amend-
ments 9 que the IRS power to tax
churches & schools whose doctional beliefs
conflict Sir, with this would public be school detrimental policy. not only
States as well. For the youth of today
to the welfare of the church but the United
will be the future leadys of america. It
is the responsibility of Dod's people to
raise their own childun to fear Dad &
respect I uphold the government.
this dangelous piece of legislation by
d urge you Sir, to Note against
President Reagan.
neal Rathke
Sincerely yours,
SMYRNA BAPTIST CHURCH
UNION CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
308 W. JACKSON RD.
UNION, MS 39365
308 W. Jackson Rd.
Union, Ms. 39365
Feb. 9, 1982
Mr. Morton C. Blackwell
Spec. Asst. to President
White House
Dear Mr. Blackwell:
I'm writing in regards to the amendment supporting Sec. 501
of the Internal Rev. Code of 1954 which violates the
principle of church and state.
I respectfully ask you to please request the President to
withdraw the proposal because of its awkward wording re-
garding "racially-discriminatory policies." and to further
instruct Congress to give close review to the IRS posture
toward church-schools, and to make definite guidelines
that protect our fundamental American heritage of
religious freedom.
Mr. Blackwell, this resolution (along with Resolution #59
introduced by some senators last week) is a "green light"
for the IRS to commit flagrant abuses of power against
all churches.
Our Church-schools are a missionary arm of our churches and
should not have to be approved by the state or IRS. I am
not working in our church-school for maney ($50.00 wk. and
some weeks nothing). Money certainly couldn't be the
reason the IRS has for checking our churches so--it has
to be the desire for control.
As you said in your letter to me dated 12-29-81, "Church-
related schools are growing in numbers and effectiveness
because parents are willing to make economic sacrifices to
give their children the education these schools provide."
Mr. Blackwell, must we not dly sacrifice but, alsow be
taken to court, for the right to give our children the
education we know God wants them to1 have?
My heart is broken because, I love our country so much,
I value our freedom, and how I long to see our boys and
giràs become God fearing men and women of tomorrow who
will lead our beloved country.
Because I care,
Mrs. S.
Route 1
Kittrel, N. C. 27544
February 6, 1982
Mr. Morton Blackwell
Special Assistant to the President
The Whitehouse
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Mr. Blackwell:
Please insure Religious Freedom, as guarenteed
by the first Ammendment of the Constitution in any
legislation concerning tax exemption for private
schools. This is a church issue. The U. S. District
Court says Bob Jones University is a church.
Government can't tell the Bob Jones Church and our
church how to manage the social conduct of our
young people. You can't tell our church whose
wedding to perform and who to baptize. If the IRS
can run the Bob Jones Church, it can run our church.
Is this Russia or America? Our church is a religious
sanctuary, a hallowed place away from government
where the rules can be made by conscience; a place
as protected as the sanctuary of a foreign ambassador.
It is not just another government office with steeple
and organ.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
mrs mary see Pulley
Mrs. Mary Lee Pulley
jap
Danny D. Totten
Route 1, Box 253
Ronceverte, W. Va. 24970
February 10, 1982
Morton C. Blackwell
Special Assistant to President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Mr. President:
I strongly urge you not to support Concurrent Resolution #59, a
legislative amendment to Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954,
which has recently been introduced by a majority of our nation's senators.
At the same time, I assure you that I am opposed to racial discrimination of
any kind. However, I fear that the legislation now proposed will allow the
IRS to commit flagrant abuses of power against all churches. Please move
to withdraw this unfair and unconstitutional resolution and propose measures
with more definitive guidelines which protect the fundamental American
heritage of religious freedom.
Sincerely,
Danny D. Totten
Bob Jones
Feb. 15,1982
Morton C. Blackwell
Special assistant to President
the White House
Washington, W. C. 20515
Dear Mr. Resident
this letter is to strongly urge you
to do all you can to defeat the
Legislative amendment to Section 501 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1954
which will violate the principle of
separation of church and state. the
wording of the amendment is awkward
regarding racially discriminatory
policies. l urge you to give review
of the IRS posture tow and church schools,
and make more definite guidelines
that will protect ow fund amental
American heritage of religious freedom.
Please do not allow the IRS to commit
flogrant churches, abuses of power against all
a concerned Cityen,
Linda Bennett
Linda Bennett
Rt. 2, Box 211
Ronceverte, W. Ja,
24970