From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ 1313's MAIL ORDER LAWS ARE RESHAPING AMERICA The Montgomery County Observer The Observer published this story back in 1993, but since there is a new effort for a "Conference of States" by the Council of State Governments (CSG) it is important that our readers know what CSG is and it's historical backgroud. Back in 1990 "Congressman James Greenwood (R) of Bucks County was one of 32 individuals from across the nation who was "groomed for leadership" in the Council of State Governments 1990 Henry Toll Fellowship Program, a five-day symposium that was held in Kentucky." This announcement that appeared in a Bucks County newspaper aroused our curiosity as to what is the Council of State Governments? As we found out with the help of Ed Balajeski, CSG is one of the bellwethers of the 1313 political syndicate, that operates as one of the mail-order law factories that are reshaping American Legislature. The Inner Core Presidents of the United States from Franklin D. Roosevelt to the present have taken whacks at the attempt to do over representative government and to substitute an administrative dictatorship. FDR got things rolling by appointing an administrative management team (1936-37) headed by Louis Brownlow with Luther Gulick and Charles E. Merriam, all Co-founders of the Public Administration Center (clearing-house), 1313 E. 60th St., Chicago 60637. Self-named "1313," the political syndicate propagated Metro regional governance, the current embodiment of the reform movement. President Nixon presented his reorganization plan Doc. No. 92-75) March 25, 1971, praising the committee among others. Nixon made no mention of where FDR got his radical ideas. One tracing leads to Jacob L. Moreno, European psychiatrist, who entered the U.S. in 1925 and eventually reached President Roosevelt at Hyde Park who said to him, "When I am back in Washington, I will see where your ideas can be put to use." Moreno boasted that he had come to implant his social-change notions in the United States rather than in Soviet Russia because another fellow, Marx, had already got a similar system working in the U.S.S.R. Moreno envisioned for the U.S.A. an administrative Dept. of Human Relations as a nuclear structure reaching down to sub-group units at the neighborhood level. Today, Moreno's structure is stunningly evident in the "model cities" neighborhood voter systems where low income/welfare cases vote for their "needs" in elections that are not based on legal voting rolls. The group consensus is directed by city managers (administrative sector) upward to the federal Housing and Urban Development Dept. (HUD). The process bypasses the U.S. Congress, and people are conditioned to shun their representative processes of government. Metro grew like crabweed during the 30's and 40's due to anonymity. Louis Brownlow, founder of the Metro-1313 syndicate, titled the second half of his autobiography "A Passion For Anonymity." The Administration Clearing House was born in Europe at Geneva over a bottle of burgundy shared by Brownlow and Beardsley Ruml. Brownlow, Franklin D. Roosevelt legman, had the political connections. Ruml, director of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fund, had access to the money. Rockefeller money from the tax-exempt Spelman Fund put CSG on its feet in 1930. That original $40,000 grant conditioned on Henry W. Toll becoming CSG's director, was the first on many appropriations by the tax-exempt R-S fund. Later financial boosters included the tax-exempt Carnegie Corporation. Today, CSG is on the verge of remaking all fifty state legislatures. The Carnegie Corporation appropriated $260,000 in 1968 to hold bull sessions among state legislators. It illustrates how the abused tax-exempt privilege is keeping political meddling and manipulation alive against the best interests of citizens self-government. Perhaps CSG became embarrassed by the notorious 1313 address. Reportedly, CSC's governing board's executive committee met April 1967, in Lexington to give its members a preview of site possibilities. In Spring 1969, CSG moved from the "1313" Chicago core into the splendored headquarters provided by the State of Kentucky on a 40 acre site in the Lexington bluegrass country. As one non-Metro visitor put it, "far from the madding crowd and maddening information seekers. CSG's new rectangular building is designed with thirteen tall arches on each of the longer sides at Iron Works Pike, Lexington, Ky. 40505. Thirteen-Thirteen. CSG regional offices are in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco. Its midwestern office remains at the Chicago address. The Governors Conference, is one of the many 1313 organizations which CSG staffs and manages. On top of the tax-exempt Foundation funds, CSG collects whopping annual tribute from all fifty states. Your tax dollars are sent to a politico-economic syndicate which tampers with your State's law-making machinery. Today, Metro-executive governance administered by appointees, is in sight of its goal to take over American representative government. An interlocking directorate, self-perpetuated by 1313, steers the giant holding group. The impropriety of such undue concentration of power is concealed by talk about the need to "modernize" and to "innovate." In mid-1969, the giant politico-economic 1313 conglomerate moved closer to its kin in the financial field, a banking conglomerate which seeks the vast power inherent in the present One-Bank Holding Company Law. Chase Manhattan Bank, a Rockefeller adjunct, attempted to condition a Congressional committee to favor non-restrictive status quo legislation. A horrified Congressman, warning against the possible takeover of small and large businesses to be operated by giant "one-banks," regrets that so few businessmen step forward to protest their economic death warrant. It is Congress that stays silent. THE LAWYERS HAVE KNOWN IT ALL ALONG By now, a couple of million Americans know what the trouble is: Americans are losing ground, falling back step by step as the bureaucratic dictatorship spreads out from Wash., DC. It regulates Americans by non-laws enforced through the regional Metro system. When the President regulates the whole United States, he does so by Executive Orders. The non-laws and orders both are part of the non-American practice. "We have developed something quite different than what our Founding Fathers talked about," said Dr. Frank Newman of the University of California. "I think it is very clear that most of our laws-certainly our most important laws-at the present time are not enacted by the legislature-by the Congress-but rather by government officials to whom Congress has delegated legislative power. The lawyers know that!" The professor of international law was speaking to a meeting of the World Peace Through Law group (WPTL) reportedly of the American Bar Assn. Its members, occupationally slanted, claim that worldwide law could bring peace. In his taped remarks, the lawyer went on to say that the bulk of legal work today is concerned "with that kind of law, that is-laws from the bureaucrats, rather than law from the Congress." Why don't the many Americans who know about the peril defeat the peril? Sadly, in trying to make themselves heard, they can't compete with the prizes among the popcorn in the Federal Cracker Jacks. Mayors and other public officials throng Washington, DC., leaving unsolved problems at home while they jostle each other in competition for federal aid. "We want that money," they say, "We've got it coming to us." World Citizenship The 20th century is drawing to a close with Americans confronted by Declarations of a New World Order, drawn and signed by public officials in the United States without the consent and sometimes without the knowledge of the citizens. The documents are signed by grown men and women violating their oaths of office as elected officials or their oaths of loyalty and allegiance as citizens of the United States of America. After the appearance of the first world citizenship document in the United States in 1968, other declarations followed, each bolder than the last. American citizens have nothing to gain from being world citizens. But they have much to lose. That is the organization that "groomed for leadership" Congressman James Greenwood (R) of Bucks County back in 1990. As we started digging for more information, we came across an article by Jo Hindman published back in 1962 in DAR Magazine that sheds some light on this organization. We reprint portions this article so our readers may understand the plan that are letting collectivists take over our government through planted legislation. 1313's MAIL ORDER LAWS "A political law factory in Chicago has been drafting legislation engineered to rob millions of Americans of their freedoms, such as the right to vote and the right to own property. Legislators who lack judgment or intentionally collaborate are betraying their constituents by enacting mail-order legislation's. Trafficking in mail-order laws, drafted by political ghost writers, may seem so zany as to challenge belief, yet proof exists. Plainly traced political transmission belts lead from the seat of Metropolitan Government at 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, the notorious " 1313" University of Chicago address, to the capitals of the states and the federal government. Troublesome and oddly uniform bills, appearing simultaneously in various state legislatures back in 1959 sessions, aroused citizen curiosity and led to detection of the amazing law factory hidden in the Council of State Governments (CSG) at the collectivistic Metropolitan Government capitol. The entire "1313" cadre, which includes organizations in addition to CSG, is known around the globe as the Public Administration Clearinghouse. "1313" legislation, generally, proposes collectivism through features such as consolidation of government units, imposition of extra-layer metropolitan authorities, multi-purpose districts and regions, government by appointed executives, the "short ballot," and expansion of "trillion dollar" urban renewal redevelopment at taxpayer expense. The secretariat of the Council of State Governments operates the Metro-" 1313" lawmaking machine which, ironically enough, is financed by American taxpayers, including those in, Hawaii. CSG was swaddled in New Deal blankets and placed on the doorstep of America, back in the thirties. States of the Union hold "membership" in the CSG, pay tribute in the form of "dues" and take orders written up in the form of "model" and uniform slate laws. Most of the states follow a pattern laid down by CSG which involves statutory creation of a State Commission on Interstate Cooperation. Some states claim that approval of the state appropriation. act covering "dues" to the CSG is the only provision legalizing the CSG-State hookup. Other state CSG "memberships" are bought by action of Governors, who dip into contingent funds for the money when both statutory and appropriation approval are lacking. The state agencies-Commissions on Interstate (or Intergovernmental) Cooperation-transmit the dues and handle CSG activity. Some of the state commissions render published reports, some do not. At federal level, the Bureau of the Budget acts in liaison capacity with CSG and gathers together proposals on which federal agencies wish state approval. A wartime emergency-involving federal-state cooperation in drafting state legislation by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ( NCCUSL ), the CSG and the U.S. Department of Justice- was seized upon as a device to perpetuate CSG control. As a result, CSG created its Committee on Suggested State Legislation and established a cooperative arrangement with Nickels. which provides CG with a handy network through State Commissions on Uniform Laws. Via this belt, which CG controls by veto, CG transmits suggested proposals to the states, and to the Executive Office of the President of the United States, which, in turn, sends state-directed proposals through the CSG for handling in a process bluntly referred to in Washington as "selling the program." The right of state legislatures to pass laws as they see fit is a fundamental principle of federalism reserved by the Tenth Amendment, but collectivists worship uniformity and fear diversity. The "1313" mentality deals in sophist argumentation (e.g. that a traffic light should mean the same thing in Rhode Island as it does in Oregon) to blur the fact that the evil of an unconstitutional law can be dangerously magnified by " 1313's" mail-order distribution. The lawmaking arrangement of CSG has had the effect of moving the seat of American government from the states and the national capital to the dismal " 1313" building on the University of Chicago campus. Even the NCCUSL maintains headquarters near the CSG at a campus address, 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago 37. CSG states that "there is no regional 'separatism' in the Council (of state governments). All who serve the council serve all the states." Therefore, the following typical setup will illustrate the CSG mail-order apparatus. The CSG circulates a mail-order catalogue of laws-title: Suggested State Legislation-Program for (year), prepared by the Committee of State Officials on Suggested State Legislation ( CSOSSL ). Originally issued on a biennial basis, publication has been annual since 1947. (See Index to Suggested State Legislation, Programs for 1941-57, Council of State Governments, " 1313." ) Proposals for draft laws are discussed in sessions sponsored by CSG's CSOSSL. The following example of a proposal, U.S. Government sponsored, which flunked the CSG examination, illustrates the extent to which American lawmaking has been captured by the silent "1313" government. (See 30th Report, Committee on Government Operations, House Report No. 2533, August 8, 1958, page 74): In December, 1954, an interdepartmental committee was formed within the executive branch of the Federal Government to make a study of problems relating to the jurisdiction of federally-owned areas within the several states. Part I of the Interdepartmental committee's report, released in April, 1956, recommended certain administrative action, federal legislation and complementary state legislation. The state statute proposed by the committee was reviewed by CSG's Committee on Suggested State Legislation, but was not recommended for inclusion in the program of suggested state legislation. Regardless of the merits or demerits of the federally-proposed statute, things have come to a sorry pass in America when a clique guided by bootstrap bureaucrats can sit in judgment upon what is suitable or not suitable to be considered as a law in the United States, and to substitute draft laws of their own invention. The CSG factor of conformity, twinned with the smoothly-geared CSG communication system, has been causing the headaches of Americans whose legislatures have been hit by the Metro legislative shrapnel. Half-baked experiments in weird fields, such as urban renewal demolition and mental health legislation, have led to ill-considered adoption in various states due to the mail-order operation. For instance, CSG's mail-order law covering mental health community services has been adapted and passed in New York, New Jersey, Vermont, California and Minnesota. The foregoing draft act which forms a legislative research exchange appears to be the springboard for another Metro shortcut-the ''short session," or a way to shorten Legislative sessions by relieving elected legislators from writing their proposed laws-Metro interns to provide the research and bill-drafting. The Ford Foundation is collaborating along these lines by furnishing assistance for legislative and congressional internships through grants of $200,000 to the University of California and $211,250 to the American Political Science Association, Washington. California participates in the experimental arrangement through its Legislative Intern Program whereby the State Assembly agrees to employ approximately ten of the "interns" who serve as confidential aides to the members of the Legislature and receive $400 monthly, the controversial foundation paying half of the salary. This raises the question: Why should any non-government organization be permitted to contribute any part of the salary of any person employed in any branch of government, either as legislative, judicial or administrative aides? The CSG machinery is as formidable as it is ruinous to grass-root home rule. In given time, the uniform mail-order law movement could bind all states of the republic under disastrous collectivistic Metro government. Evidence of Metro-"1313's" inroads are nationwide by 1959: Indiana. A bill proposed to abolish the board of county commissioners, then to provide for appointment by a county council of an administrative officer (county manager) who would be the head of county government. Illinois. A sleeper law had its firing pin pulled by Metro amendment. Altered sections of the 1941 "Revised Cities and Villages Act," set in motion activity Ieading toward abolishment of the offices of mayor, clerk, treasurer and all other elected officials. Florida. A Metro-"1313"-backed move was attempted to pry open the state to federal urban renewal funds. The legislation was beaten down early in the 1959 Legislature, revived and beaten down again almost as the closing gong sounded. Iowa. Another hoary Metro objective was furthered in promoting a "short ballot" attempt. Abolishing elective offices shortens the ballot. The bill, which provided for appointment rather than election of three members of the Iowa Commerce Commission, beginning in 1963, passed both houses of the Iowa Legislature. Challenged, a State Assemblyman admitted his connection with "1313" and blustered: "Government is terribly corrupt; we're just trying to clean it up." Upon the same dusty excuse did Metro-" 1313's" parent body, the National Municipal League, introduce itself at the turn of the century. Today the collectivism of ~'1313" penetrates practically every level of government. The crazy hawking of "1313" Legislation throughout the states may carry graver undertones, due to a fact recently uncovered: CSG is part of a linkage that leads into Red Russia, as follows: (See Appendix 24 of UNESCO, 10c/41, Paris, June 30, 1958). CSG interlocks with Committee on International Municipal Cooperation which transmits funds raised in the United States to International Union of Local Authorities, the organization that commingles with Communist Yugoslavia and Communist East Germany, the latter through International Federation for Documentation an international information pool. Records further reveal that IFD collaborates with USSR, through the International Committee Social Sciences Documentation in sharing Legal information, included an annotated up-to-data bibliography on law in the United States of America. This raises the serious question: Is the entire CSG alliance of states a direct violation of the Constitution of the United States, Article 1, Sec.10 (1), which expressly forbids states from entering into any confederation? Legislation that enables CSG membership, through commissions on interstate cooperation, is regarded as a "compact" by certain authorities. Constitution of the United States, Article I, Sec. 10 (3), requires the consent of Congress to validate compacts between states. Have the CSG member states gained this consent? Or are their statutes of interstate cooperation unconstitutional? Montana did not come into the CSG fold by statute until 1959, although Montana's first payment to CSG from an appropriation of the governor's office was made in 1955. Hawaii has come into the CSG orbit in similar manner, without statute, upon action taken by the governor, who allotted $ 1000 from his contingent fund in 1958 as the first payment of Hawaii's membership dues to CSG and another $1000 for 1959. State payments to CSG have been determined on the basis of a formula that assigns a quota to all the states of the Union. The current suggested contribution schedule is based upon a revision adopted December, 1958, by the CSG, board of managers and would raise the rate from $469,472 to $610,250 per year. The new formula is based on the estimated population of the states on July 1957, and a dollar factor of $1,750 per 500,000 inhabitants. Thus a state civilian population of ten million, using the $3,500 per-million-inhabitants-rate would produce a quota of $35,000. States commit themselves to unlimited and sweeping CSG allegiance by charging their (CSG) Commissions on Interstate/Intergovernmental Cooperation, as follows: "It shall be the function of this Commission, (1) to carry forward the participation of this state as a member of the CSG . . . in short, to do all such acts as will in the opinion of the Commission, enable this state to do its part or more than its part in forming a more perfect union among the various governments in the United States and in developing Council of State Governments for that purpose." In many state statutes, the following typical section sounds like more of the New Deal hokus pokus: "The Council of State Governments is hereby declared to be a joint governmental agency of this state and of the other states which cooperate through it." Operating from " 1313" headquarters, CSG maintains branches in New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. It claims that it is the secretariat for America's 7,500 state legislators, the Governor's Conference, the Conference of Chief Justices, the National Association of Attorneys General, the National Association of State Budget Officers, the National Legislative Conference, the National Association of State Purchasing Officials, the Parole and Probation Compact Administrators' Association, the Association of Juvenile Compact Administrators and the National Conference of Court Administrative Officers; and that it works closely with other organizations serving state government. In addition to its mail-order law business, CSG machinery runs "quick surveys," gathers copies of laws passed by the states, operates programs including information service, research and publications, arranges national and regional meetings where elected public officials are wined and dined by attaches of the CSG shadow government that anonymously conducts the proceedings. The freeloading politician sees nothing wrong in taking " 1313" prompting-taxpayers be hanged! The "experts" from " 1313" see the American population as a vast force to be regimented and taxed. CSG instrumentation has enacted legislation, such as "emergency" location of state and political subdivisions' governments outside territorial limits, and has approved motorboat registration in which aliens are exempted from identifying their craft, but American owners are subject to punishment for non-conformance. CSG keeps an up-to-date file on urban renewal activities including bill drafting and referral services on "model" amendments to existing housing laws. CSG has thrown its weight at the federal level by cooperating closely with the Federal Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (the Kestenbaum Commission), whose recommendations appear to be a favorite reservoir frequently tapped by CSG in drafting legislation. In 1958 CSG provided staff services to the Joint Federal-State Action Committee, appointed by the President of the United States, (I) to study federal-state-local relationships with emphasis on federal grants-in-aid, and (2) to evaluate the recommendations of the Kestnbaum Commission, the very body whose work was assisted by CSG! CSG's pose as champion of the states appears preposterous when measured beside its ultimate objectives; these are stated thoroughly in the CSG Report to the Governors Conference, published in 1956, and forecasting a progressing consolidation of governmental units. Under a collectivistic program such as that, political state boundaries and state sovereignty would disappear. A new height of boldness has been reached by a " 1313" bid for U.S. cabinet status. National Municipal League, ' 1313" parent body suggests a U.S. Council on Metro, a multi-member agency to provide the President with Metro information. The " 1313 " advance in 1959 through CSG's Metro laws, generated such friction between citizens and their pro-Metro legislators that intraMetro criticism has developed. A certain planner whose advice was ignored by a counterpart in another state, crowed: "I might have predicted that if the job were well done on a limited basis that there would be created a climate agreeable to reorganizing." Warning against rash haste also sounded from " 1313" headquarters in a CSG publication that reads: "These adjustments can hardly be effected without some friction. How much friction will develop depends in part upon the wisdom of those empowered to alter the boundaries [of political power] and in part upon the speed with which such changes are effected. Of course, the question of speed really involves the exercise of judgment and the use of wisdom...." Collectivists are running away with American governments under a veneer of legality provided by cooperative legislators. This is driving ranked-file Americans into the position of battling against the overwhelming flood of welfare statism introduced by legislators whose CSG-collaboration transforms them from elected Jekylls into " 1313" Hydes. Add to all this the fact that CSG has destroyed the power and integrity of certain governmental commissions and committees by supplying silent "staffs" and secretariats which slant research, rig public hearings and write self-serving reports. It is time for modern Americans to assert who is to control American government-citizens or agents of a bloated political fungus growing within the Republic? A cure could be instantly obtained by a requirement that governmental officials, appointees, employees and aides and interns submit sworn statements listing the names of organizations in which the elected representative or the public servant has held, or holds, membership, the statement to be placed on public file. A correcting step can be taken simply by withholding state funds from the CSG for the wealthier and more powerful CSG grows, the worse will become the plight of government that rightfully belongs to American citizens. Check to learn what your state is paying the Council of State Governments. Portions from the May 1962 issue of the DAR MAGAZINE. ___________________________________________ Reprinted with permission of Montgomery County Observer Publisher Francis Laping Posted with explicit reservation of rights per UCC 1-207 ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Radio Free Michigan archives by the archive maintainer. All files are ZIP archives for fast download. E-mail bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu)