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Keep America Strong...
Support Your Schools
PAGE FOUR
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1967
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
Delinquent Taxpayer Has
No Place On School Board
It is conceivable that delinquent
taxes, for a very short term, could
be justified on the basis of death,
serious illness or some unexpected
financial crisis. It is difficult to see
any valid reason for delinquent taxes
over a period of years and it is even
more difficult to see a reason for
several years of unpaid taxes by an
elected official, as is the case with
one Humble School Board member,
J.D. Brown, who last week filed for
re-election to a fifth term on the
School District Board of Trustees
(story, page 1).
It was the Humble School Board
which three years ago hired the firm
of Advalorem Records of Houston
to collect delinquent school taxes at
a fee of 12 per cent. The fee has since
gone to 15 per cent of collections.
Perhaps the thinking here is “do
as we say, not as we do,” since
Brown’s delinquent taxes, first re-
ported in The ECHO on April 15,
1965, go as far back as 1960, ac-
cording to school district tax records.
In effect, delinquent taxes place an
added burden upon those taxpayers
who each year come up with their
payments on time. To make up for the
missing revenue that is tied up on
the delinquent tax rolls, the tax rate
includes a margin allowing for delin-
quents. And this margin is paid by
those who meet their tax payments
on time.
In addition, 15 per cent of the total
delinquent tax, including penalties
and interest, is soaked up in collec-
tion fees. If court action is under-
taken for collection, attorneys’ fees
come to 15 per cent.
Delinquent taxes, then, penalize
the great majority of on-time tax-
payers. They must pay enough to
cover the lack of revenue tied up
on the delinquent tax books, plus meet
the drain of the 15 per cent collection
fee that comes off the top whenever
a delinquent tax payment is made.
The ECHO has been a solid sup-
porter of the programs of the Hum-
ble Independent School District, from
academic instruction and athletics
through building programs and overall
administration. We fail to see, how-
ever, what place a several-years-
delinquent School Trustee has on the
governing body of the very school dis-
trict to which he owes back taxes and
to which, therefore, his fellow tax-
payers must pay extra.
Race For A Free Meal Ticket
Writing from London, columnist Gran-
ville Wilson reports on what is happening
to magazines and newspapers in welfare-
state-ridden Great Britain. He says that
although Britain’s economic freeze is
only six months old, some small news-
papers and magazines have ceased publi-
cation. He goes on to say, “....if the
freeze continues for another 12 months
it will hit Britain’s press so hard that
the restriction of choice will make a
mockery of democratic freedom to read
minority opinion. If that happens, fi-
nancial stringency will have achieved
what Nazi Germany’s bombers failed to
accomplish during six years of war.”
A free press is the lifeblood of a cul-
tured civilized society. Without it, in
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20TH CENTURY HERE WE COME
By Tom Anderson
Milton’s famous words, “We can grow
ignorant again, brutish, formal, and
slavish.”
Britain is farther along the road of
inflation and welfarism than the United
States. But, the penalty of setting security
as the highest goal of life is becoming
apparent in both countries. The crushing
burden of the welfare programs and
profitless prosperity gradually squeeze
the quality of life to the point where
anything that does not contribute to our
material comfort becomes “nonessen-
tial”.
Newspapers and a free press are
expendable, when living becomes a race
for a free meal ticket.
WE “conservatives” are often accused of
being neanderthal characters who have to be
dragged, screaming and clawing, into the 20th
Century. We are reportedly against all chan-
ges. I’m for every good change, but not for
change just to be changing, like the young
fellow who just for a change started parting
his hair crossways, ear to ear. His one re-
maining friend asked him: “How do you like
your hair parted ear to ear?”
“Fine, except for one thing,” he replied.
“People are always whispering into my nose!”
Here are a few things I’m for:
For more expensive teachers and less ex-
pensive buildings. For more emphasis in
schools on courage and character — the two
priceless ingredients which far outrank brains
and knowledge in making a real man. For
encouraging individualism, the desire to ex-
cel, to win, to profit.
I’m for all churches which teach the divin-
ity of a personal God who rewards goodness,
punishes evil; and against any group which
' would force One Church on everybody.
For living today! If we put it off ’till to-
morrow, there may be a law against it. “Liv-
ing” does not mean living it up. Those who
live it up also have to live it down.
I’m for veterinarians. They are the best
doctors in the world; they can’t ask their
patients what’s the matter — they’ve got to
know.
For J. Edgar Hoover who can catch
Communists faster than the Supreme Court
can turn ’em loose. Although it’s a race. For
an upward reach for our nation toward more
mora'ity and spiritual values, starting at the
Presidential level.
I’m for a law requiring that the total num-
ber of federal agricultural employees shall
not exceed the total number of farmers. For
outlawing the Communist Party and jailing
or deporting all known Communists, includ-
ing those in our State Department. For pay-
ing as we go.
In the olden days, as my daughter calls it,
when charity was a virtue instead of a gov-
ernment department, Herbert Hoover spent
less on everything than we spend for interest
on the federal debt. I’m for putting Christ
back in Christmas, not Xmas but Christmas.
And speaking of abbreviations, for restoring
what should again become our national pur-
pose, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
The American people seem to have shorten-
ed that to just plain “gimme.”
I’m for reapportionment in the United Na-
tions, where we get 1 percent of the vote and
pay one-third of the bills. Eighty-four of the
one hundred and four nations in the United
Nations don’t pay their dues and assess-
ments. The only organization probably any-
where in the world where you can refrain
from paying any dues and assessments and
still vote. I’m for relieving human suffering
by repealing the 16th Amendment, the per-
sonal income tax.
For winning in Vietnam now! For defeat-
ing the Consular Treaty (being sponsored by
President Johnson), which would legalize
Communisct spy nests throughout our coun-
try.
The human race — to which many poli-
ticians belong — has made no measurable
improvement morally and intellectually in all
human history. How sad! And it won’t unless
Christianity prevails. Communism, the great-
est organized threat to Christianity ever, has
in less than half a century, captured more
souls than Christianity can now count, living,
after 2,000 years. I’m for Christianity.
There can be no universal peace and bro-
therhood until that far off millenium when
God chooses to radically alter the character
of man.
The Communists have tried to stamp out
God. God, with our help, will stamp out the
Communist heathens. I’m for making Com-
munism fail.
WASHINGTON COMMENTS
BY U.S- SENATOR JOHN TOWER
I have delayed the beginning of this series of
reports until today because, as you probably know,
I’ve been overseas in Southeast Asia for the better
part of February on another inspection trip for
the Armed Services Committee. I wanted this first
report to be an assessment for you of just what the
situation is now in Vietnam.
I visited with our officers and men, not just
in South Vietnam but throughout Southeast Asia,
including Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea. I pur-
posely went to Hong Kong where we maintain our
best listening post on the internal happenings of,
Red China. And, I found clear evidence that our
over-all American policy of helping develop and
preserve viable, free buffer states on Red China’s
borders is meeting with success. We are severely
inhibiting Red China’s aggressive tendencies. She
is now far less able than in years past to interfere
in the affairs of smaller Asian nations.
On the basis of what I saw and learned last month,
I believe this is a perfect time for us to intensify
our efforts for victory against the North Vietnamese
without fear of serious Red Chinese action.
We are winning the struggle in Vietnam.
But, we can win much more rapidly by an inten-
sification of our military pressure. I firmly be-
lieve that we must apply unrelenting pressure on
the Viet Cong and on North Vietnam. As one officer
bluntly told me, “We are winning the war — the
question is how fast do we do it.”
Now, when the advantage is ours, certainly is not
the time to relax the pressure on the communist
North.
Letting up of Allied military pressure now would
be dangerously tragic. I hope all Texans will under-
stand that every stop in our military effort during a
truce period must eventually be paid for with Ameri-
can lives.
A five-day truce may mean that our boys are not
being shot at for five days, but let every American
understand that it also means our boys will for months
after that truce face a stronger enemy who is
shooting bullets and living on supplies brought in
during the truce.
I stood with one grim Marine officer near the
border between North and South Vietnam as we looked
at air photos of a steady stream of trucks — safe
from our air attack because of the truce — bringing
arms, ammunition and equipment to the North Viet-
namese soldiers stationed opposite the Marine’s
camp.
“Take a good look, senator,” he said, those
trucks mean more dead Marines.”
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IF THE WORLD WAS PERFECT. . .
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By Harry Browne
If the world was perfect, I would be recog-
nized for the great man I am. .
If the world was perfect, people would un-
derstand and respect everything I say.
If the world was perfect, there would be no
thieves, no murderers, no villians of any kind
—and I would not have to worry about pro-
tecting myself.
If the world was perfect, no one would ever
do anything to hurt me.
If the world was perfect, everyone’s moral-
ity would be exactly like mine.
If the world was perfect, people would
want'to live their lives the way I think best.
But this morning I made an amazing dis-
covery: the world is not perfect!
I have discovered that there are thieves,
there are murderers, there are villians, there
are people who would hurt me if they could.
I have found that, because the world is
not perfect, there are individuals who do not
choose to respect me or to recognize me for
what I am.
It has come to my attention that there are
individuals (quite a few of them) who do
not choose to live by my concept of morality
—who will live their lives the ways that they
think best, no matter how much that goes
against my grain.
What should I do about all this?
Well, it appears that I had better forget
about the possibilities of a perfect world and
think more in terms of trying to create a per-
fect me.
Unfortunately, I just don’t control anyone
but myself. I can’t make other people live
the way I think they should live. Laws won’t
even make them do that. And besides, I
can’t even make anyone pass the laws that
would try to make people live as I want them
to.
If I am living my life in expectation of a
perfect world that is just around the corner
awaiting the right election or the right revo-
lution or whatever, I am going to be sadly
disappointed.
Because — no matter what the nature of
the social system — I must still, protect my-
self against thieves and others who would
hurt me. I must still find a way of dealing
with people who do not see life in the same
way I do.
I must still recognize that others are living
for themselves, not for me — and they are
certainly not living to respect my wisdom or
understanding. They will determine for them-
selves the nature of life, no matter how smart
I think I may be.
Ah, if the world was perfect . . .
But it isn’t. So what am I going to do tc
gain as much happiness as possible in this
imperfect world — just as it is now?
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Humble Presbyterian Church, Old Courthouse, Rev.
Bill Loessin, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Church 11 a.m.
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.
Evangel 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.,
10:30 a.m., Evening Mass 6:30 p.m., Wednesday
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 t morning worship 11 a.m., Sunday evening
worsnip 7 p.m.
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 702 Atasco-
cita Road, Father Douglas W. Hutchings, Church $ a.m..
Church School follows worship service.
First Assembly of God, Porter, Texas on FM Road
1314, B.B. Follis, Pastor. Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m., Young People 6 p.m., Evangelistic
Service 7 p.m.
Holy Comforter Lutheran Ghurch, 702 Atascocita
Road, Rev. George Brookover, Church 11 a.m. Church
School, 9 a.m., Berry Jungle Road Building.
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, /Joe Silvio Pastor, Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Church 11 a.iWi
First Baptist Church, Eastex uaKs, 7534 N. Belt
Dr*, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church 11 a.m., Training
Union 6 p.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
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