Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1956 Page: 4 of 16
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PUN IS FUN, MAYBE?
We're sorry Pitts.
We couldn't resist it last week.
After running the story about
Pitts Crudgington winning the
Class C Trap Shoot in Amarillo
last week, we reset the heading
to read, "Crudgington Champ
Crap Shooter." We printed three
copies, mailed one to Pitts and
one to Bob Ashworth.
When Pitts read the head he
grabbed his shot gun and was
headed for the news office until
Bob finally convinced him that it
was a joke. But Pitts is still check-
ing 'everybody's Claude News.
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SLEEPING SHEEP
After running my story about
the Great Magician hypnotizing
his sheep last week, had one sheep
raiser contact us. He asked "Just
how do you go about hypnotizing
sheep?"
Seems he has too many rams.
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PRINTER'S DEVIL NEEDED
Since Eddie Watson has decided
to become a "good windmill man"
we are looking for a lad in about
the eighth or ninth grade who
would like to apply himself in
the printing trade. He will run the
gauntlet of experiences but must
be able to take lots of critizism,
inasmuch as we will blame all our
errors and mismanagement on him.
Such a lad will learn to spell
backwards, farwards and upside-
down not to mention being able
to get good and dirty. Some boy
ought to love that.
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CORPORATE GOVERNMENT
The government relaxing of laws
against monopolies and control of
large corporations are slowly driv-
ing the small business man against
the wall. And that wall is becom-
ing increasingly poxmarked with
squeeze outs by large chains, sec-
ret business agreements and every
known device to stimy competition.
The Claude News
ESTABLISHED IN 1890
Co-Editors & Publishers
V/m. J. B. WAGGONER
CECIL O. WAGGONER
Entered as second class mail matter
at the post office at Claude, Texas,
under the Act of March 30, 1879.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Subscription Rates :-
In Armstrong County, year $2.00
Outside the county, year $2.50
Deadlines: General and club news,
morning following the event. Adver-
tisements: Tuesday noon each week.
All accounts with The Claude News,
Claude, Texas, are due at our office
on or before the 10th day of the
month following delivery of such
services and/or printing. No other
arrangements are authorized.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation ol
any person, firm or corporation that
may appear in the columns of The
Claude News, will gladly be correct-
ed upon it being brought to the at-
tention of the publishers.
In the case of error in legal or
other advertising the publishers do
not hold themselves liable for da-
mages in excess of the amount paid
for such service.
All revolutions of
card of
Ronnie Dugger In lite Texas
Observer (Austin) cites the same
thing when he wrote:
."Everything is corporate. A young
man coming out of college these
days has almost no place to go
but some corporation. In twenty
years if the big ones keep gobbling
up the little ones like this, the
only small businesses left will be
prostitution and the corner peanut
stand. Corporate ethics, which is
to say, personal nonethics, will
squash against the cash register
all individualities with its domain.
"The big corporations: impassive,
marble fronted, hungry for more.
"The individual: volatile, naked,
and alone."
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ALWAYS A WAY
W. H. Curry in the Crosbyton
Review reports this one:
C. W. Hask, Sr., is telling about
seeing a hitchhiker down the road
as he traveled toward his home
on the East Plains. This particular
hitchhiker had a unusual jacket
and Mr. Hash slowed down to
investigate. A large sign on the
back of the jacket proclaimed, "If
you don't pick me up I'll vote for
him again." Applying the brakes
Mr. Hash urged the young man
into the car. "Just name the des-
tination—'I'll get you there, " he
said.
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TEENAGE TIME SAVERS
The Kansas University Witan
gives some terse precepts to those
of teen-age, under the caption
of "Ten Things I Wish I had
Known Before I Was 21:"
1. What I was going to do for
a living—exactly what my life-
work would be.
2. That my health after 30 de-
pended in a large degree on what
I put into my stomach before I
was 21.
3. How to take care of money.
4. The commercial asset of being
neatly and sensibly dressed.
5. That habits are mighty hard
to change after you're 21.
G. That worthwhile things require
time, patience, and work.
7. That the world would give
me just about what I deserved.
8. That a through education not
only pays better wages than hard
labor, but it brings the best of
everything else.
9. The value of absolute truthful-
ness in everything.
10. That my parents weren't old
fogies after all.
* * *
COLLEGE EDUCATION
Alfred Reck was in a suandary
last week. He received the follow-
ing letter from John Neal, a
Freshman at TCU:
Dear Dad: Everything is fine at
school. I'm getting plenty of sleep
but working hard. Incidentally
I'm enclosing my fraternity bill.
Love—Neal.
Alfred wired right back:
Dear John Neal: Don't, repeat,
DON'T buy any more fraternities.
Love—Alfred.
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ERNEST JOINER . . .
... of the Ralls Banner, sez:
Good morning, Crosby farmers!
Let's make things cheerful for our
Republican farmers in the county
by quoting from a March 10, 1955
utterance of President Ike's As-
sistant Secretary of Agriculture.
Ready? "Adapt or die, resist and
perish . . . Agriculture is now big
business. Too many people are try-
ing to stay in agriculture that
would do better some place else."
And don't forget, you can vote
Republican again next month!
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YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS
Human nature seems turned to
become vitally concerned about
youth after its too latel Below I
am running an unusual article on
"Brain Washing." You might say,
"How does that concern youth?"
After reading the article you will
understand.
An oddity in the lives of the
young men who succumbed to
"brain washing" during Korea, not
one had been actively connected
with a Youth Organization. Most
of them seemed to have had the
average family, school and church
life, though the latter was very
weak.
In the past Claude has had some
very active youth organizations but
today they stand to lose them. The
Girl Scout leaders tell me that due
to the lack of interested girls the
Girl Scouts here may fold up. The
Boy Scouts are having trouble be-
cause they cannot find enough
adult leaders or a sponsoring or-
ganization. The Cubs are having
similiar trouble. The Brownies seem
to be doing fairly well as do the
Girls and- Boys 4-H Clubs.
Some adults are concerned about
this, but most of us are not! We
can't invision the future of these
youngsters therefore we are not
greatly concerned. Perhaps we don't
need them. Only ten years from
now wiil tell and then it will be
too late. Read the article below:
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THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
"The American soldier has weak
loyalties to his family, his com-
munity, his country, his religion,
and to his fellow soldier. His con-
cepts of right and wrong are hazy;
opportunism is easy. . . There is
little knowledge of understanding,
even among United States uni-
versity graduates, of American pol-
itical history and philosophy; the
federal, state and community or-
ginizations; states' rights and
civil rights; freedom safeguards,
and how these things supposedly
operate within his own system. . .
He resents hardship and sacrifiice
of any description, as if these
things were unfair and unreason-
able to him personally."
That was written in 1951 by the
Chief of Intelligence of Red China's
army in North Korea. Thus, it is
an enemy appraisal. But there is
in it—as a top American authority
has now testified.
The authority is Major William
E. Mayer. A former Navy officcr
who saw service in Korea with
the Marines, he has been an Army
medical officer in later years. He
was in medical (psychiatric) mem-
ber of an intelligence team studi-
ed our returned prisoners from
Korea. Two hundred of these
former prisoners were personally
examined .along with records of
800 others. Some of the findings
are described by Mayor Mayer in
an address entitled "American
Prisoners and Communist Brain-
washing."
At the beginning, Mayor Mayer
says, the team had the usual pre-
conceived idea as to what brain-
washing, Chinese style, consisted of
—torture, degradation, and brut-
alities of every kind. Actually,
they found that (though conditions
in the prisoner-of-war camps were
appallingly bad) less than 5 per
cent of the prisoners were given
such treatment. For, to quote him
directly, brainwashing "is a pro-
cess of education in the theory of
a way of life based on perfectly
familiar and completely sound
principles of psychology and psy-
chiatry."
The Americans chosen for this
process went to schools. A long
lecture was followed by a thorough
discussion period. This went on
each and every day, in accordance
with the Chinese proverb that
tells how the constant drip of
water will wear away the hardest
stone. Additionally, petty rewards
and punishments were used, prison-
ers were led to distrust out an-
other .and it was everlastingly
argued that they were "abandon-
ed victims of an unpopular war.«'
Only a proportion of prisoners
succumbed—but 'that proportion
was alarmingly high. When suc-
cess was achieved by the Chinese,
Major Mayer states, "Prisoners
became sniveling shells of individ-
uals without confidence in them-
selves or their fellows."
This, he goes on, was partly,
but only partly ,the fault of mili-
tary training. "The prisoners cav-
ed in because of defects in the
training in the homes, the schools
and the churches." The prisoners
were totally unequipped, it seems,
to deal with criticisms of. this
country, no matter how outrageous,
wrong, and exaggerated those crit-
icisms were.
What is the answer? The mili-
tary services are taking steps, as
in the President's new "Code of
Conduct" for American prisoners
of war. But these steps, Mayor
Mayer is convinced, can only go a
part of the way. To quote him
again: "Informed parents and tea-
chers can give American youngs-
ters the understanding, the pride
and the patriotism with which to
fight 'brainwashing.' . . . Charac-
ter development that creates a
shell too hard for any 'enemy" to
crack must be the objective of
parents, educators and the military
alike."
OSS ill
ideas front othe
eatlorj
From the Page News and Cour-
ier, Luray, Virginia: While the
front pages have been pretty well
filled with the soil bank discussion
and the price support hassle, a
new and highly practical form of
farm aid—that costs the taxpayer
nothing—has been quietly sweep-
ing rural America.
Without fanfare or armwaving
in Washington, the nation's tree
farmers have been busily turning
out pulp-wood to supply those 50-
pound multiwall paper feed sacks
that are making life simpler and
stock and poultry raising more
efficient and profitable for all the
other farmers.
You might wonder—as we did—
what difference it makes whether
feed comes in a paper bag, bar-
rel, or a discarded piano box. But
it seems that both the 50-pound
size and the paper are important in
these days of farm-labor shortage
and rising machinery costs. These
bags are not only easier to handle,
stack better and store better, but
make record-keeping easier and
more accurate—in a day when it's
vital to know the cost of producing
a pound of pork chops or a pound
;not a dozen) of eggs.
Protection of the ingredients of
today's quality feeds—medicated
feeds for preventing or treating
disease, new growth stimulants,
and dewormer feeds for parasite
control—has becom# highly im-
portant.
Of course, if . <■ not r. farm-
er, maybe you don't c.nrc a:• .'
the animals gel ic;! out i.i >r
bags, a pipline or gc-t f.:r.-;od M.t
in the fields lo forage for them-
selves. But you should. That is, if
you eat—and you hove a fa.-::
budget you're trying to live with—
you certainly should.
• • *
From the Catskill Mountain Star,
Saugerties, New York: "Wood-
man, spare that tree! Touch not a
single bough! In my youth it
sheltered me, and I'll protcct it
now."
This sentiment was expressed
by George Pope Morris back in
1830. "That tree," in a collective
sense, did more than shelter
America in her youth. It sustained
and gave her strength. From the
time of the first settlers in this
country the seemingly limitless
forests have been a primary re-
source from which the nation was
built.
In 350 years twice as much wood
has been removed as was stand-
ing when the colonists landed at
Jamestown and Plymouth. Only &
little over one-third of this went
for useful purposes, the rest hav-
ing been lost to fire, insects, and
disease. Yet forests still cover
more than a third of the U. S. land
area today for trees grow and re-
place themselves if given a chance.
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TRIPLE CHAMP . . . New York
Yankees great switch-hitting out-
fielder Mickey Mantle, 24, is first
major leaguer since 1947 (Ted
Williams) to win all three batting
titles: hitting, .3587; home runs,
IS, runs batted In, 1S«.
This an' That
Ju^t f;>r change: Usually you
rend t the many factors that
are keeping baseball attendance
i down. This year there was a
| switch in Cincinnati, where thea-
ter operators asked the city to
! relieve them of a 3 per cent
amusement tax. Attendance had
dropped "drastically", they said,
citin? as one of the main reasons
(he success of the Cincinnati base-
hall club . . . The International
Rawing Federation has announced
that Argentina is banned from all
internaticnal and Olympic rowing
events because "a number of ama-
teur rowers have received and
accepted con-iderable compensa-
tion" . Informed sources say
that Ted Williams will definitely
be back for the 1957 baseball sea-
son . . . William Hers, a German
motorcyclist, has raced a stream-
lined bike at the record speed of
305 kilometers an hour over Bon-
neyville salt flats In Western Utah.
The speed, abont 190.5 miles an
hew, la 7 kilometer* an hour fast-
er than the wuM record for
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