The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1966 Page: 4 of 8
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WASHINGTON COMMENTS
PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1966
Published every Thursday at Humble, Texas, by the Humble Publishing
Co. Entered as second class matter July 18, 1942, at the U.S. Post Office
in Humble, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1870.
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John Pundt, Editor
The Unresolved Question
A plan to establish regional a-
gencies of the federal government
to help direct the growth and de-
velopment of rural American com-
munities is the newest blueprint
for extension of central authority
to come off the bureaucratic draw-
ing board. Neatly packaged in legis-
lative form under the title of Com-
munity District Development Act,
the program would create federally
administered planning bodies to pro-
vice doordination and advice in the
development of cities and counties
sharing common social, economic
and geographic interests.
Regional districts would be made
up of territories embracing fowns
and counties surrounding a general
marketing center and could possibly
cross state lines. District directors,
representing the various elected
bodies of political planning and “ad-
vising” as well as guiding all fed-
eral funds to approved projects.
Federal grant-giving agencies
would have to abide by district de-
velopment plans. Washington offi-
cials admit special doses of econ-
omic and social aid are planned to
entice regions to get the first dis-
tricts going.
The Department of Agriculture
and its Rural Community Develop-
ment Service would run the program.
Agricultural officials say they vis-
ualize all nonmetropolitan areas of
the country eventually divided into
community development districts,
but there is nothing in the loosely-
worded bill limiting districts to the
countryside or exempting metro-
politan areas.
Nation’s Business quoted a for-
mer Agriculture Department offi-
cial who said the authority ori-
ginally sought by the Department
would have bypassed state govern-
ments. While Congress would likely
have opposed it, the desire to by-
pass the states indicates there is
potential danger of federal circum-
vention of state and local authority
once districts are established.
A major critic of the bill is
Idaho Governor Robert E. Smylie,
whose opinion is, “...that all...our
experience...with the programs un-
der the Economic Opportunity Act
shows that the superimposition of
federally dominated administrative
units between our traditional gov-
ernmental units does more to con-
found the problems we are all in-
terested in solving than it does to
solve them.” He declares that com-
munity development districts would
“...be totally destructive of the ca-
pacity—and the will—of the small
towns to work out their own pro-
blems....And they’re just not that
hard up.”
Governor Smylie thus brings up
a question which must be answered
not only for the community deve-
lopment district proposal, but of
all federally sponsored programs
to offer advice and assistance to
local communities. Just how hard
up for help is rural America?
Chances are that federal planners
would be looking elsewhere for re-
cipients of their plans if the ques-
tion were every objectively an-
swered by Congress. Moreover,
there is the matter of how far the
American people wish to go in a-
bandoning the principles of repre-
sentative self-government. That is
the unresolved question.
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"WAR CRIMES” COMING HOME TO ROOST
By Tom Anderson
And now the criminal communists in North
Vietnam will "try" our captured flyers. These
trials would "enrage the American people'1
we and the comrats are told. How come?
The Viet Cong have already executed three
American prisoners in reprisal for execu-
tions by the South Vietnamese of Viet Cong
soldiers.
How many Americans do you know who
were enraged by that? How many Ameri-
cans do you know who have demanded
all-out victory over the comrats? How many
bridge games, garden and civic clubs do you
know which devoted their sessions to writing
letters of protest to their congressmen, sena-
tors and President? How many Americans
do you know who are doing anything to save
their country and the freedom of the world?
And, better than tat, what are yffu doing?
Are the American people now incapable
of being enraged?
It is rumored that Ho Chi Minh will stage
a show trial in Hanoi of several captured
American pilots. Two or three of them are
claimed to have “confessed1". These will be
found guilty and sentenced to die in the
midst of the resultant propaganda orgy. The
reported plan is for our criminal Russian
“friends” who are financing the war against
us to step in and mediate, getting the death
sentences commuted.
The comrats plan to stir up worldwide re-
sentment against America by publicizing the
so-called confessions in which our pilots
would admit bombing hospitals, schools, and
civilian centers. This would lose us friends
throughout the world, it is claimed. What
friends? Reckon maybe the 99 “nations" get-
ting foreign aid from us might cancel out on
us? What a horrible blow to Big Business and
the Bureaucrats.
All “news reports” thus far say there is
nothing the United States can do to alter
this course events. But there is. We can trade
Henry Sabot Lodge for one of the pilots.
There is no way we could lose.
So we don’t believe in “war criminal”
trials? Since when? Our government helped
organize and conduct the Nuremburg trials.
We helped execute men who were following
out orders of their superibrs and doing what
they considered the patriotic thing to do' for
their country.
Defendants at the Nuremberg trials were
charged with “crimes against humanity,” not
for mere bombing of civilian populations. In
other words, it’s all right to kill by the mil-
lions as long as the victims are not discrimi-
nated against by race, creed or color?
Two wrongs don’t make a right. But the
North Vietnamese have as much right, mor-
ally and legally, to murder our men, as we
had to murder the Germans convicted at the
Nuremberg trials.
In “war trials” justice is not served; vic-
tory and vengeance are. The guilty winners
are never brought to trial. Only one promi-
nent American voice stands out in my mem-
ory' in opposition to the Nuremberg trials.
He was a man of great intellect and achieve-
ment. He was a man too good and too hon-
est, sadly enough, to be President of the
United Stales. His name was Robert A. Taft.
There is one principle involved in “war
crimes” trials which the cleverest lawyer can-
not obliterate: the losers never have an op-
portunity to try the winners.
WHAT DO LAWS DO FOR US?
By Harry Browne
It is obvious that if there were no govern-
ment, some people would be plundered some
of the time. Robert Clifton has pointed out
that this self-evident fact causes most peo-
ple to be afraid of a society without gov-
ernment. Instead, as he put it, they prefer
a society with government — where everyone
is plundered all of the time.
The fear of an absence of “law and order”
prompts most people to overlook the chaos
and violence that exists as a result of “law
and order”. Let’s look at some examples:
1. Laws making unions immune from dam-
ages for violence caused by them has made it
possible for millions of dollars of property to
be destroyed and for many lives to be lost.
2. Laws providing for benefits to the post-
riot Watts area have provided inducements
for new riots all over the country.
3. Laws providing for plunder to foreign
governments have sapped every American
family of thousands of dollars — without
obtaining the permission of a single family.
4. Laws make it possible for you to pay—
without your consent — for other people’s
electricity bills, over-production, medical
bills, retirement, etc., etc.
These few examples illustrate the point.
Where is the “law and order” the govern-
ment assures us would be unavailable in its
absence?
Obviously, governments are the greatest
destroyers of order. They upset the orderly
supply and demand system with price con-
trols, subsidies and regulations. They provide
inducements for violence and steal property
from you to make it possible for others not
to work. >
We are plundered constantly by taxes that
are levied without personal consent. We are
told that we must abide by the majority’s de-
cisions — but we’re never told why we must
— and even the “majority” has no hand in
making decisions, because there is no way
the majority could ever be polled politically
on every single issue.
Freedom will come when individuals are
capable of protecting themselves from those
who, in the name of government, seek to
plunder them. Any man with ingenuity can
protect himself from private thieves. If not,
he can contract with a man of ingeunity for
that purpose or insure his property. But no
man is strong enough to stand up to govern-
ment alone.
We do not need new laws to protect our-
selves from thieves, murderers and other
plunderers. We need ways to protect our-
selves from the laws enacted by government.
More Benefits
BY U.S. SENATOR RALPH YARBOROUGH
This week I want to tell you about the need to
increase our Social Security payments for older
persons and to find a new source of money to pay
for this juster program.
In Texas and the nation, today, many of our
older people on Social Security must struggle to
live upon the meager benefits they receive. This
particularly is true of widows, who are not covered
completely under the present law.
Because of this, and the many changes in our
national economy-*--with the declining purchasing
power of the dollar and the low monthly payments
to Social Security retirees, particularly the widows—
new directions are needed both for the payment of
benefits and for the financing Of Social Security.
For this reason, 1 have co-authored a bill (with
Senator Robert Kennedy of New York) to provide
a new source of money for Social Security and to
increase the benefits—-particularly the payments to
the widows.
This new Social Security bill would tap the general
tax money as a new source for financing. It would
raise and make fairer and more livable the Social
Security payments available to many millions of
retired Americans—-retired on previous low wages
and hurt by low purchasing power of the inflated
dollar.
This bill would mean almost a 50v per cent increase
in retirement payments. Pay to widows would be raised
by almost 20 per cent.
Any rise in the cost of living—aS measured by
the Consumer Price Index—will be met by a like
increase in payments. Every time there is a 3 per
cent boost in living costs, there would be a 3 per
cent rise in the living cost payments.
Widows of the nation and Texas receive special
attention in this bill because of the present low
payments to widows. But instead Of waiting until
age 60 to get the lowered benefits, a widow who has
never worked outside the home should receive benefits
at age 45 or 50.
Not only should we consider raising the benefits
to the widow from 82-1/2 per cent of a husband’s
Social Security nestegg to 100 per cent as in this
bill for his widow, but we should lower the age.
This would ease the financial burden a widow of
45 or 50 might have to bear*
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Humble Presbyterian Church, Old Courthouse, Rev.
Bill Loessin, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Church 8:30
a.m.
First Baptist Church, 400 Main St., Everett S.
Martin Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church
10:55 a.m., Evening Services 7:30 p.m., Wednesday
7:30 p.m.
Lakeland Baptist ChUrch, Isaacks and Old Hum-
ble Road, Owen Dry Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m.,
Church 10:50 a.m., Church 7:50 p.m., Wednesday
7:30 p.m.
Church of Christ, 621 Herman St*, Herbert Thornton
Minister, Sunday School 10 a.m., Church 10:50 a.m.,
Evening Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m.,
Bible class 9:30 a.m.
Methodist Church, 800 Main St., Bill Turner Pastor,
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church 11 a.m., Evening
Worship 7 p.m.
First Pentecostal Church, 119 S. Houston Ave.,
Irby E. Slaughter Pastor, Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Church 11 a.m.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 400 S. Houston Ave.,
Father George Swilley, Sunday Mass 8:30 a.m.,
11 a.m., Evening Mass 6:30 p.m., Wednesday and
Saturday Mass 7:30 p.m.
First Assembly of God Church, 410 Granberry
St., G.L. Johnson Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m.,
Church 11 a.m., Childrens Church 6 p.m., Young
Peoples Church 6 p.m., Evangelistic Service 7 p.m.
Forest Cove Baptist Chapel, 1711 Hamblen Road,
Thomas F. Henderson Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m,,
Sunday morning worship 11 a.m., Sunday evening
worship 8 p.m.
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 702 Atasco-
cita Road, Father Douglas W.Hutchings, Church 8 a.m.,
Church School follows worship service.
Green Valley Baptist Church, Aldine-Westfield
Road, Paul S. Strother Pastor, Sunday School 9:45
a.m., Church 11 a.m., Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.,
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Greenlee Baptist Church, Bender Road, Rev. James
Harrell, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church 11 a.m.
The United Pentecostal Church, 211 S. Ave. G.,
Rev. Dewey Nix, Sunday School 10 a.m., Church 11
a.m.
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Westfield, Texas,
E.R. Rathgeber Pastor, Sunday School 9 a.m., Church
10 a.m.
Lakeview Park Baptist Mission, 4 1/2 mi. west on
FM 1960, A.L. Draper Pastor, Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Church 11 a.m.
First Baptist Church, Eastex Oaks, 7534 N. Belt
Dr., Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Churchlla.m., Training
Union 6 p.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
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