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WASHINGTON COMMENTS
THE HUMBU ECHO
PAGE FOUR
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 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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Phone 446-3733 P.O. Drawer E John Pundt, Editor
A Spirit Of Lawlessness
Climbing at a pace that is nearly
six times the rate of population
growth, crime in the United States
is fast becoming the nation’s number
one problem. Law-enforcement offi-
cials are calling it a national crisis,
as riots erupt in city after city and
crime rates soar. In the five years
since 1960, crimes have increased
47 per cent, as reported by the FBI,
and there is wide spread fear among
officials that the crime wave will
get worse before it gets better.
A magazine recently surveyed the
scope of the crime problem in a
long feature article. Among the con-
clusions reached were these: more
and better police officers are needed,
the courts are too lenient with offen-
ders and public attitude breeds dis-
respect for the law. One of the built-
in difficulties of strengthening law
enforcement is that many qualified
men are not attracted to police work
because of low pay and the lack of
cooperation and respect by the com-
munity and the courts. The median
pay last year ranged from $4,740 a
year in some small cities to $5,515
in large cities. Likewise, the term
“police brutality” has deterred good
men from going into police work.
The International Association of
Chiefs of Police reports, “Many high-
type men are reluctant to go into
police work today because of the
kicking around that police are get-
ting.......”
Court leniency is widely criticized,
and “Many law-enforcement officials
complain that the police are ham-
pered by Supreme Court rulings de-
signed to protect the rights of crimi-
nals, and that local courts too often
release guilty defendants on techniy
calities or punish them too lightly.”
The crime problem is further ag-
gravated by public attitudes. “A spirit
of lawlessness” and a “contempt for
law” are said to be growing among
the American people. A breakdown
in family life is cited as a cause, and
moral values are described as de-
teriorating. Civil rights leaders are
accused of contributing to contempt
for law by telling Negroes they have
a right to disobey laws they consider
unjust.
A chief assistant prosecuting attor-
ney in Michigan says, “We are seeing
more and more crimes of a violent
nature,” and noted there is also a
drop in the number of people willing
to press charges of such offenses as
rape and assault. “The victims tell
us they are afraid the man will go
free and come after them and reta-
liate. So they will not try to prose-
cute,” he said.
Despite an array of new sophis-
ticated weapons to fight crime, many
officials insist that there is little
which can be done to curb the in-
crease in crime until public atti-
tudes change. But, David Lawrence,
raised several questions about the
attitudes and inactions of public offi-
cials and declared, “Discontent is
increasing largely because of a feeling
that persons elected to public office
have failed to take the steps necessary
to maintain law and order. Congress
seems hesitant to enact corrective
laws for fear of offending Negro
voters.”
Debate and disagreement over the
cause, as well as the cure, of rising
crime and violence that plagues the
United States will go on. Ultimately,
there may be no clear-cut solution
except as will come from widespread
public concern. This is the force that
will be reflected all the way from
Congress to the local station house
and neighborhood patrolman. Massive
public disapproval of wrongdoing and
disregard of the law and rights of
others conbined with greater cer-
tainty of punishment would seem to
be the most effective forces to deter
the potential criminal.
The upcoming political wars will
focus public attention on the growing
crime rate as a major national pro-
blem. This could be a significant
factor in establishing the kind of
concern on the part of the people
that will bring reasonable, fair and
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SOMETHING IN THE WIND
By Harry Browne
“The sins we do two by two
Are paid for one by one.”
My memory may fail me slightly with re-
gard to the phrasing of the above adage, but
the point has hung onto me for years. It is
easier to commit a sin than to pay the price
for it.
Every act has a consequence. Good acts
have good consequences. Sins produce misery
ultimatelv to the sinner. The crucial point is
when the price of the first sin comes due.
Then the individual will either accept his
punishment as the price of clearing the rec-
ord, or he will attempt to evade the price by
commiting the second sin.
Since it often seems easier to commit the
second sin, they rapidly mount — “two by
two.”
What is a sin?
Men have wrestled with this question for
ages. Ultimately, there can be only one ans-
wer — a subjective one — rendered from
your viewpoint as a happiness-seeking human
being. A sin is any mistake that you make,
impairing your ability to gain happiness for
yourself.
If you make the mistake of putting your-
self in the position where you can fall off a
ledge, you have sinned. And you will pay for
this sin through the pain that will result.
You will minimize your punishment if you
accept it as the inevitable consequence of
your own acts. You will compound the ulti-
mate punishment if you try to excuse your
own acts and refuse to face the reality of the
situation. This will only heighten the possi-*
bility of your repeating the mistake.
If you make the mistake of lying to an-
other individual, you will pay for this sin in
the discomfort and pressure it will place
upon you. Also, when you are found out, you
will be punished in the market place of hu-
man relationships; you will lose opportunities
you possessed before being classified as a liar.
At that point, you can acknowledge your
mistake and accept your punishment. Unfor-
tunately, the temptation is to lie again —-
hoping to ward off the price of the first lie.
Because this is such an inviting possibility,
sins often mount up “two by two.”
But it is not profitable to commit the sec-
ond sin. As discomforting as it may be
have to acknowledge one’s mistake, it is the
fastest way toward neutralizing thespn^of
the mistake and moving toward a happier
life.
Have I made unsound decisions regarding
my business, my family or my future? Then
it will always be less expensive to my repu-
tation and well-being to admit those mistakes
light now — instead of trying to invent bo-
gus principles to justify them.
Yes, it is terrifying sometimes to face the
punishment coming due for one s sins. But
nature — the reality of the world as it is —
will never be denied.
So there is something worse than facing
the price of one’s sin: And that is to pay the
price of that sin plus the price of the cover-
up sin that followed it.
lotion’s Appetite
BY U.S. SENATOR JOHN TOWER
We are suffering an attack of what is called
“tight money.” Let’s take a look at some of the
pressures inflation has forced upon us:
—Consumer prices have risen alarmingly to their
highest point in our nation’s history. On a 100-point
index based on 1959, consumer prices have risen
to 112.9. . ^ .
—The current annual rate of cost inflation is
between four and five percent. In only six months
the cost of food has risen 2.5 percent. Commodities
have risen 1.6 percent. Services are up 2.5 percent.
—The 1933 dollar is now worth 40 cents. The
1940 dollar is worth 43 cents. The 1959 dollar is
worth 88 cents. Never before has the value of our
dollar been so low.
—Higher taxes and higher prices more than wiped
out whatever additional income Americans earned in
April, May and June. The average American had
$10 less purchasing power in those months than he
did during the first quarter of this year.
—Interest rates have risen to their highest point,
and bank liquidity has fallen to its lowest point in
36 years. The prime rate for bank loans is now
5 3/4 percent. Home mortgage rates are averaging
over six percent, and rates of seven to eight per-
cent and climbing are reported.
—The U.S. Treasury’s national debt managers are
borrowing money at the highest interest rate the
government has paid in 45 years.
—Interest rates on automobile loans and install-
ment credit have increased in many areas.
—A general credit contraction has occurred. It
has become increasingly difficult for both businesses
and individuals to obtain loans.
—Because loan money is not available, residential
construction has dropped sharply—in some places
30 percent—in reaction to both increased costs and
the credit contraction. Home building last month
hit a five-year low.
—And, in the fact of these ominous trends, the
Administration is operating with a budget sure to
run a deficit of between $5 and $10 Billion or more,
the largest budget and possibly the largest deficit
in our history.
We are now faced with this deteriorating situation
because of federal insistance on following a policy
of “administered inflation.” Inflation, which some
bureaucrats hoped could be tolerated and controlled
in small doses, has not been contained. It has grown
beyond all safe proportions and has turned from threat
into reality.
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FAMOUS - AFTER 25,000 YEARS
By D. R. Segal
Editor, Brownsville (Texas) Herald
I have rather more sympathy for Luci’s
daddy than I did the last time we met here.
Now I know what it’s like to be famous; and
let me tell you, it’s a strain.
Lyndon and I got to be famous the same
route but for different reasons. We were
both, to hear us tell it, innocent victims.
Lyndon may be famouser than I am, but
I’m innocenter. It’s just a matter of degree.
Everybody knows how Lyndon got to be fa-
mous. It was when he sassed young John
Kennedy and got his britches took off and
his backside tanned in a television debate.
I got mine in much the same way, except
I hadn’t tagged anybody. I was just sitting
around digesting beefsteak and red wine one
noon, as an invited guest at an affair honor-
ing the new Roman Catholic bishop of our
diocese, when up jumped a padre who told
the 750 assembled dignitaries that Bob Se-
gal. -was, in his view, “a Neanderthal man,
returned to life after 25,000 or 25,000,000
years.” It was his assessment that my political
views—(I had cracked off about priests get-
ting mixed-up in leftwing political demon-
strations)—were relics of a pre-church era
and that I was better associated with p. stone
axe than a Remington portable.
Due to the industry of my affectionate
staff, the story was spread throughout the
country via press wires. In several accounts,
the press associations even went so far as to
spell my name right.
That was two weeks ago, as this is written.
I have scarcely been off the phone; the post-
office had to feed dexadrene to a few of our
civil servants so they could handle the extra
burden of my mail; mysterious messengers
have delivered packages to my door; total
strangers smile knowingly at me on the street
and call me Ugh and Ogg and Fred Flint-
stone.
Today I got a magazine from France in
which I am mentioned, favorably. But, so is
LBJ. I have a bale of “literature” from God
Bless Li’l Ole America outfits, some of them
quoting me, some misquoting me. I am de-
nounced in a highbrow “class” magazine. I
have received a stone axe, a skull, a rattle-
snake’s rattle, a genyuwine oil painting of a
caveman (the paint came off on my pants),
a few pieces of badly-done pornography, and
a totally incomprehensible letter from what
appears to be an elderly person who writes
in red and blue crayon.
I have had an offer to write a daily col-
umn — which I don’t have time to do —
and make an appeaarnce on a national tele-
vision show — which I haven’t guts to do.
I just mention this so you’ll have a little
more respect for the column after this. They
don’t let me write as often as Tom Ander-
son, but probably nobody’s ever called him a
Neanderthal man, either.
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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, 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
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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Pundt, John. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1966, newspaper, August 25, 1966; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1036962/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Humble Museum.