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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1964
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
Commies Find
Profit Plan Works
Numerous surveys have been published
illustrating the vast difference in living
standards between this country and the
communist nations. They commonly take
the form of graphs, detailing the hours
of work that must be put in to earn enough
money to buy various kinds of consumer
goods.
These comparisons have sometimes
been criticized on the grounds that they
cannot take into consideration the great
differences in background, customs,
availability of resources, geographical
location and other factors that exist in
the United States on the one hand and
Russia on the other. But it is signifi-
cant to report the comparisons work out
in much the same way when applied to
two nations without such differences,
West Germany and East Germany—the
first a capitalist state, the second pure
communist.
A worker in West Germany earns
enough wage in 8 minutes to buy a quart
of milk—across the communist border
it takes 18 minutes. The West German
can buy a refrigerator with 103 hours
and 55 minutes of work—his East Ger-
man counterpart must labor 625 hours.
The figures for a car are 1,238 hours and
56 minutes and 6,391 hours and 18 min-
utes respectively. So it goes.
In the closing months of the Khrushchev
era, there were definite signs that the
Soviet government, plagued by consumer
unrest, was leaning toward capitalist
incentives, such as the once-reviled pro-
fit motive, in an attempt to spur pro-
duction. Wonder if the new masters in
the Kremlin will follow along.
DA INGE R FIE LD, TEXAS, NEWS:
“Simple logic should teach us that any
dollars which go to Washington will at
least have to pay their own way back and
therefore not get home as strong as they
left.”
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ABILENE, KAN., REFLECTOR-
CHRONICLE: “A news dispatch says the
government has brought monopoly
charges against the bubble gum manu-
facturers. They are accused of corner-
ing the market on pictures of baseball
stars to put in bubble gum wrappers.
One’s first reaction to this is that if
our people in government don’t have
more to do than fret about bubble gum
wrappers we have too many people in
government.”
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What to do until
an emergency happens
Emergencies have practically no
sense of fair play. And almost al-
ways pick the worst possible time
to happen.
People seem to prefer the day
your insurance lapses to trip on
your sidewalk, for example.
And the car usually waits until
your bank account registers empty
before demanding expensive repairs.
There’s no fighting it. But you can
be ready. By tucking away some re-
serve funds in U.S. Savings Bonds.
Bonds, themselves, are emergency
proof. You can’t lose the money you
invest in them, even if fire, flood,
robbers or plain carelessness causes
you to lose the Bonds.
And when something expensive
happens, you can just take them
into any bank and get yourself
solvent again.
In the meantime, Uncle Sam uses
your Bond dollars to handle other
urgent matters, like taking care of
your freedom.
Buy Bonds where you bank or
on the Payroll Savings Plan where
you work. Get yourself really pre-
pared and you might even discour-
age a few emergencies from ever
happening.
Keep freedom in your future with
U. S. SAVINGS BONDS
The U.S. Government doen not. pan for thin advertining. The Treanury Dept,
thankii The Advertining Council and thin publication for their patriotic nupport.
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THINGS TO COME
BRIGHTON, MICH., ARGUS: “Of all'
the grim records of violence and death
down through mankind’s long history,
perhaps the strangest and most tragic
is the story of the automobile and its
annual army of victims. Since the first
horseless carriage chugged noisily down
cobblestone streets, more than 60 million
Americans—killed, crippled and maimed
—have inscribed their names on what
has been aptly referred to as ‘the dis-
honor roll’. By whatever name, the yearly
casualty count continues its shameful,
senseless growth.’
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"BON SOIR, MON CONGRESSMAN”
By Tom Anderson
It’s junketing time again! No sooner had
Congress been gaveled to a close than many
of our statesmen scattered to the four cor-
ners of the world at our expense. The usual
lie used to justify foreign junkets is that the
congressmen need to study at first hand the
problems upon which they will be called to
vote. Yet at this time, at least five “lame
duck” (defeated) congressmen are on world
junkets at taxpayer’s expense.
Strangely, these “problems” are hardly
ever in such places as the jungles of South
Vietnam. Invariably, the problems are in
Paris, London, Geneva, Rome, Tokyo, Ma-
drid and Hawaii, where Adam Clayton Pow-
ell, the Negro Democrat from New York, is
now studying conditions with his beauteous
secretary. I believe I am correct in stating
that the secretary this trip is even a little
whiter and a little younger than the one on
Powell’s last tour. Possibly she is a better
typist too.
But not all congressmen take their secre-
taries. Some take their wives and underpriv-
ileged relatives. The congressmen themselves,
however, are required to pay the travel ex-
pense of the others. In government transports
the rates can be very attractive though, and
there are many offsetting, as well as onset-
ting, benefits.
Many congressmen and senators are now
in Paris attending the NATO conferences.
Last year the Paris group took the head-
waiter of the House of Representatives res-
taurant along. Some people, maybe non-gov-
ernment restaurateurs who pay taxes, com-
plained. And after all, Paris does have Max-
im’s and some pretty fair hash houses, n’est-
ce pas? Admitted, the congressmen counter-
ed, but the headwaiter was not taken along
to prepare meals, nor even to serve meals.
“To carry messages from one visiting con-
gressman to other visiting congressmen” is
the reason the headwaiter was taken — and
the reason you taxpayers were “taken.”
You’ve heard the term “counterpart
funds.” This is part of our foreign aid which
is given back to us to spend in the country
involved — a cute cover-up for fraud and
the fantastic foreign aid insanity. Instead of
getting dollars, we get local currency. Much
of the local currency is spent on swank em-
bassy buildings, parties and payola. One em-
bassy official in Sweden confided to me that
much of his job was entertaining drunk
congressmen and visiting “dignitaries,” at
your expense. “Counterpart funds” have been
manna from heaven to certain playboy offi-
cials who, because of their jobs, must confine
their drinking, woman-chasing and gambling
to “official business” in foreign lands far
from their constituents.
Congressmen make many “investigative”
trips for which you pay the $400,000 annual
bill, in “counterpart” play money. Then
there is a paltry $15 million or so more
appropriated for investigations which just
happen to require travel. But who gets it and
how they spend it is a better-kept secret than
our defense secrets, if we have any. Congress,
which spends a great deal of time “investi-
gating,” needs to put its own House in order.
Someone needs to investigate the investi-
gators.
IS CHRISTMAS TOO COMMERCIAL?
By Harry Browne
Is Christmas getting too commercial? Ev-
ery year about this time we hear the pious
pronouncements of those who condemn mer-
chants for making Christmas one big sale.
They bewail the advertisements and special
products that are produced to “make more
money” out of Christmas.
These critics confuse our private enter-
prise system with governmental directives.
When a government policy is wrong, it can
only be corrected by propaganda programs
and‘majority votes. For the wrong decision
is imposed on all by the government’s mo-
nopoly.
But private enterprise operates differently.
In the free market, a man can only make a
profit by supplying a product or service that
other people want. Why is this? Simply be-
cause people will not voluntarily buy some-
thing they don’t want. Hence, the acquisition
of a profit through private enterprise is evi-
dence of satisfying other people’s desires.
SUPPLYING DEMAND
When merchants make profits selling
Christmas items, they do so only because they
are correctly offering the things that people
want to buy. Should they be prevented from
doing so? Would we prefer that people be
deprived of the products and services they
want to make their holidays happier?
The so-called “over-commercialization” of
Christmas is merely evidence of the high
standard of living we enjoy in a partially-free
economy. We can change that very easily, if
we choose to do so. We can allow the gov-
ernment to make more and more of our
economic decisions for us — and pretty soon
we won’t have to worry about the “over-
commercialization” of anything.
For then we will be reduced to the pov-
erty-stricken state of the people who live in
the Old V/orld socialist countries. There is
very little criticism of the “over-commerciali-
zation” of Christmas there. People have just
barely enough to survive (if that), and there
are no resources available to purchase expen-
sive gifts and decorations to celebrate Christ-
mas.
Why do people buy so many things at
Christmas time? Probably because they en-
joy making gifts available to their friends
and family. The higher our standard of liv-
ing becomes, the more resources will be
available for our choosing.
FREE ECONOMY
The free economy leads to abundance for
all. The state-run economy leads to poverty
and slavery. As we remove government from
more areas of our economy, everything be-
comes more “commercialized” — because ev-
eryone has more property to exchange for
the things he desires.
The prosperity in evidence at Christmas
time is a symbol of the great wealth genera-
ted by the private enterprise system. It should
never be a source of shame to us — but
rather a stimulus to make our economy even
freer, so that we can celebrate future Christ-
mases in ever greater abundance.
CHURCH
CALENDAR
Sponsored By:
Rosewood Memorial Park
Home Telephone Co.
The Log Cabin
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
400 Main St.
Everett S. Martin, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 10:55 a.m.
Training Union 6:30 p.m.
Evening Services 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
LAKELAND BAPTIST CHURCH
Isaacks and Old Humble Road
Owen Dry, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 10:50 a.m.
Training Service 7 p.m.
Church 7:50 p.m.
Wednesday night 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 Jerome Powers, O.M.I.
Sunday Mass 8:00 a.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.
UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Porter, Texas
M.E. Precise, pastor
Sunday School 11 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evangelistic Service 7:30 p.m.
Bible Study, Wed. 7:30 p.m.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
415 FM 1960
Father Ralph H. Shuffler II
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.
Wed. Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m.
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GREENLEE BAPTIST CHURCH
Bender Road
Rev. James Harrell
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
THE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
217 S. Ave. G
J.W. Eddins, pastor
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.
LAKE VIEW PARK BAPTIST MISSION
4 1/2 mi. west on FM 1960
A.L. Draper, pastor
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
EASTEX OAKS PAPTIST
Plumtex at North Belt Dr.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 8 a.m.
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