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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1965
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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Phone 446-3733 P.O. Drawer E John Pundt, EDITOR
Applying Federal 'Expertise’
“The first session of the 89th Con-
gress is now history,” says a publi-
cation of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States. “And only history
can adequately appraise it.”
Controversy over what the session
did will be long continued. There are
those who regard it as one of the most
constructive sessions in our whole his-
tory. And there are those who consider
it a rubber stamp of the Executive branch,
wfiich started this nation along dan-
gerous roads.
Whatever the view as to any parti-
cular legislation or to the mass of it,
one thing seems sure. In the words of
the Chamber's release, “Stripped to its
bdre essentials, the program of ‘change
and progress’ is the use of the taxing
and spending power of the Federal
Government to apply Federal ‘exper-
tise’ and Federal subsidies to the solu-
tion of both national and individual prob-
lems.’* 1*
The guiding philosophy behind almost
all the major legislative acts of the
session was that federal programs and
federal controls are necessary to meet
the problems of this time and to create
an ever-more prosperous and happy
nation. The federal planning authority
was extended to whole regions. The same
authority was extended to deal with the
needs and wants of individuals. All this,
of course, has been done before to some
extent. But it was never done on such
a sweeping and costly scale. The very
scope of the programs is what has caused
many commentators — including both
those who favor and who oppose — to
call the overall legislative package
“revolutionary.”
To take some examples, the Appala-
chian development program establishes
the principle of federal responsibility
for the problems of a region. The Ele-
v
Individual, joint, and other types of checking accounts
are available to those who wish to use checks for effi-
ciency, economy and convenience. A checking account
provides safety for your money, a saving of time in
paying, records, receipts, and increased prestige, too.
Save where you do your other banking. You’ll benefit
by eliminating wasted time and steps going from one
place to another. Your savings kept here are handy
when needed, carefully safeguarded for you, and earn
regular interest which helps make your balance grow.
Loans for financing the purchase of automobiles are
supplied at low cost and with favorable terms. You are
assured of prompt, helpful Service, freedom from red
tape, a confidential and business-like transaction that
will add a great deal to your car-owning satisfaction.
Financing of home modernization and repair projects
can be arranged quickly and easily here at the bank.
Repayments may be made monthly from income while
you enjoy the improvements. Rates are low. Up to five
years to repay. Make your plans, get costs, and see us.
Individuals, business men, home owners, and others
can obtain a wide variety of bank loans for various
purposes. Low cost loans are available on approved
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Member F.D.I.C.
mentary and Secondary Education. The
Higher Education Act establishes the
principle of a Federal Teachers Corps,
federally financed. The amendments
made to the Social Security Act gives
the federal government hitherto unknown
powers and responsibilities in connection
with medical care for those over 65.,
And the newest of the federal depart-
ments, Housing and Urban Development,
sets up machinery for transferring re-
sponsibility for the solution of city and
urban problems to the federal estab-
lishment. These are only a few of the
major legislative steps which have been
taken and become a part of the law.
The Peace Corps, highway beautifica-
tion, air and water pollution, export
controls—the list is a long one and in
many instances moves into areas where
there are few if any past guides.
That is why it is generally believed
that in the next session there will be
much less new legislation, and that the
principal emphasis will be laid on re-
viewing that which has already passed
and in correcting oversights, gaps and
errors. Beyond that, two big questions
face the nation. The Chamber’s publi-
cation puts it this way: “Can a line be
drawn? Where do we stop, in view of
always existing pressures for ‘every-
thing for everybody’? Second, if it is
possible to draw the line, how are the
limited Federal funds to be distributed,
in view of what will probably be mount-
ing pressures from all segments of the
society—business, labor, agriculture,
cities, towns, schools, and even churches
—for what they consider to be their
‘fair share* of the limited Federal lar-
gesse? Finding satisfactory answers to
both questions will test both the fabric
of representative Government and the
character of the American people in
the years ahead.”
• *
Inqood shape for an ailing man —
str- SLiglitffcaxte
PLAYING ON BOTH SIDES
By Tom Anderson
Several years ago two men walked into my
office, reached into their pockets, beating me
to the draw, and flashed their FBI cards.
“O.K., I’ll go quietly,” I responded.
They laughed and seated themselves at my
invitation.
“Did you know,” one inquired, “that Mr.
So-and-Sosky in the Russian Embassy in
Washington subscribes to your magazine and
sends it on to Moscow each month?”
“I had no idea!”
“Do you want him to have it?”
“I don’t want him to have the breath of
life,” I responded. “I shall write the criminal
and tell him why he is being removed from
our mailing list.”
“Oh, no! Please, don’t do that. We don’t
want him to know that we know every mi-
nute detail of his life,” one agent replied.
“Well,” I said, “you have certainly made
me feel some better, but I’m confused. A
short time ago I returned from Russia, Yugo-
slavia, and Poland where I went with the
Secretary of Agriculture who was delegated
to go them and see what further service we
could be in helping their communist govern-
ments. Our government had already set up
textile plants and steel mills, given them
jeeps, generators, tires, bulls, hybrid corn,
wheat and what-have-you, all stolen from
our own people without their knowledge or
consent. The United States has done more
and continues to do more to help the Com-
munists enslave the world than have all the
combined non-communist nations of the
world.
“What form of insanity is it?” I inquired
innocently, “which gives billions of dollars of
goods and know-how to the enemy and then
tries to keep him from getting a little insignifi-
cant magazine?”
“Sorry,” came the reply, “we can’t answer
that. We’re just trying to do our job.”
Thank you, F.B.I. It’s so nice to know
there’s somebody in authority on our side.
But after J. Edgar Hoover, what? Can any-
body imagine Lyndon Johnson making a
non-political appointment to head the FBI—
or anything else? Can anybody imagine the
present Congress bucking Daddybird on that
or anything else? Can anybody imagine what
life in this country would be like if a men-
tality such as Bobby Kennedy’s headed the
FBI?
In Vietnam we are supposedly at war with-
Russia and Red China and their Communist
allies who are supplying our North Vietnam
enemy with men, machines, food, guns and
the other necessities of war. The North Viet-
namese are killing American boys not only
with supplies sent them by our Communist
enemies but also with supplies sent them by
Our allies.
Are we really at war in Vietnam? Of
course not. In war, you don’t help the ene-
my. Or do you?
From January 1, 1964 to June 30, 1965,
477 ships flying “free world” flags carried
supplies to our North Vietnamese enemy.
Some of the ships carried American surplus
food. This is like feeding a buzzard to pick
out your own eyes. And now, as if feeding
the enemy weren’t enough, Senator Robert
F. Kennedy, now of New York, has stated
that there is nothing wrong in sending Am-
erican blood to our enemies.
I suggest that we send them Bobby Ken-
nedy — for keeps.
THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
By Harry Browne
Politicians love to tell us about the order,
harmony and tranquility brought about by
their programs of control. We are told that
we have graduated from the days when the
“law of the jungle” prevailed. Now, we no
longer see the ruthless, dog-eat-dog competi-
tion that once ruled the free "market.
Does the State bring us order? Harmony?
Cooperation?
Obviously not.
The State is our protector. But no one w'as
safe for a period of several days in Los An-
geles, during the recent riots. After obtaining
our property through relief laws, unemploy-
ment insurance, etc., the rioters followed the
lead of the State and took more direct action.
The State is our educator. And yet our
college entrants cannot read; the schools
have become hovels*of terror; and there are
perpetual shortages of adequate facilities.
The State administers our monetary sys-
tem. Our gold is practically gone. There is a
tremendous coin shortage — brought about
by fear of future State monetary policies. We
are now told that a copper-nickel token
worth two cents is really the equivalent of a
silver coin worth 25 cents.
In New York City, the city-owned water
company has created a critical water short-
age. In foreign affairs, our property is con-
fiscated and used to finance two sides of a
war in the Dominican Republic. The State
has usurped property rights and brought
about physical strife in labor relations and in-
ter-racial relations. And, as long as tariffs
have been known to states, wars have been
fought as a result of the hostility they create.
That is the order, the tranquility, the har-
mony the State has given us.
CONTRAST
Meanwhile, what’s going on in the jungle?
Companies like General Motors satisfy the
needs and desires for transportation of mil-
WASHINGTON COMMENTS
More Than One War
BY U.S. SENATOR JOHN TOWER
As you know, I serve on the Senate’s Armed Ser-
vices Committee. In that capacity, and as your repre-
sentative, it is my responsibility to help assure
the strength of America’s defenses.
Certainly, the greatest test for America’s strength
is the current war in Vietnam. The chairman of
the Armed Services Committee, Senator Richard Rus-
sell of Georgia, has authorized me to conduct an
investigation of the Vietnam operations on behalf
of the Armed Services Committee.
I hope to make this inspection tour next month;
and in anticipation of that tour, I’d like to review
with you the very great stakes now in the balance
in Vietnam.
The Armed Services Committee has maintained
continuing oversight of the Vietnam situation through-
out the year, and I have joined its other members
in insisting that our government face up to the
fact that we are at war.
Indeed, I have suggested several times to the
Secretary of Defense—and have discussed in several
Texas speeches—the need for him to request suf-
ficient additional funds to adequately meet the needs
both of our forces in Vietnam and everywhere else
in this nation and abroad.
Repeatedly during the spring and summer, I point-
ed out the danger in the Defense Department’s re-
fusal to seek money to pay the cost of the Vietnam
war, rather than draining necessary weapons and
equipment from our other military forces.
I was convinced—and I still am—that we could
not afford to let the demand for weapons and equip-
ment in Vietnam result in lowering the readiness of
our worldwide forces that are on standby to meet
any challenge which might arise in other potential
trouble spots.
The Armed Services Committee called for addi-
tional funds to replace those arms and equipment
sent from existing forces to Vietnam, and for funds
to replace the resulting shortages facing our troops
at home and in Europe. The Congress added an
additional $1.7 Billion to the Defense Appropriations
bill for this purpose.
But, many times that amount doubtless will be
required next year.
It is a matter of concern to me that, in spite
of the huge expenditures already required for the
fighting in Vietnam, the Congress was asked to pass
new and untested welfare and social programs cost-
ing millions and billions of dollars.
I believe too many Executive Branch bureaucrats
fail to realize that the war on poverty is not the
only war we are fighting.
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lions of consumers yearly — at the same time
that they provide paychecks for hundreds of
thousands of employees, and businss for thou-
sands of suppliers. Cooperation is the essen-
tial ingredient; without it, these millions of
separate and diverse profit motives could
never be satisfied.
From the smallest vegetable stand to the
largest corporation, cooperation is the key-
note in the free economy. Why? Because no
one ever has to buy. And anyone who wants
to succeed can only do so by cooperating
with others to help them get what they want.
Where in the “jungle of private enter-
prise” do you find huge, wasteful surpluses
(like the State has created in agriculture) ?
Where in the “anarchy of the free market”
do you find severe shortages of criticallv-
necdcd services (like the State-created water
and coin shortages) ?
Where do you find companies engaging in
physical warfare between themselves?
REASON WHY
The difference between the total inefficien-
cy of political programs and the smooth func-
tioning of the free market is no accident. It
can be traced directly to the State’s basic
ingredient: coercion.
Once a program enters the realm of the
State, it becomes a coercive program in
which individuals are forced to participate.
So dog-eat-dog competition becomes inevi-
table — as various pressure groups vie to
gain the coercive control.
In the free market, you must provide a
positive benefit to someone, to gain their vol-
untary acceptance — so none of the ruth-
less activities of politics ever enter the free
market.
Where does your future lie? In the chaos
created by the State? Or with the continual
uplifting progress of private enterprise?
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Humble Presbyterian Church, Old Courthouse, Rev.
Bill Loessin, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Church 11:00
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 Thorn-
ton Minister, Sunday School 10a.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.,
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 Atas-
cocita Road, 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-.
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.,
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 FM1960, A .L. Draper Pastor, Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Church 11 a.m.
Eastex Oaks Baptist, Plumtex at North Belt Dr.,
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church 11 a.m., Evening
Worship 8 a.m.
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