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f/ie Graham Leader Editorials
Page 4 The Graham Leader, Thursday, Ju'y 11, 1937
SIX DAM PROJECT ON BRAZOS
RIVER IS ILL-ADVISED PLAN
The Brazott River Authority’s all-out
drive to get approval for its s^x-dam pro-
'posal has run into some reversals which
show up the project as even more question-
able than it already appeared.
1'he Corps of Army Engineers has refused
to recommend approval of the dams to t'on-
gress^the I’niversity of Houston repudiated
a priss release from, jhe authority which
made it appear two of the university'» pro-
fessors had endorsed the project.: .ami W. A.
Parish, president of the HoiISSon Lighting
and Power Co., wrote Governor Price Dan-
iel listing strong reasons why the project is
not sound.
The authority wants to build five new
dams between Possum Kingdom Dam, own-
id and operated by the authority as a power
project, and Whitney Dam, operated by the
federal government as a flood control facil-
ity; to raise the height of Possum Kingdom
Dam Id feet; and, according to reports, get
the federal government ty deed Whitney
Dam to the authority.
MAIL CUT IS NOT JUSTIFIED
The continued threat of Postmaster Gen-
eral Arthur Sunvnerfieid to discontinue
isjstal service on Saturdays is beginning
to look more than ever like bald blackmail
of Congress. President Eisenhower is aid-
ing and abetting Summer field's schema
When he signed the appropriation bill in
which post office funds were included fie
said the amount was nut enough to run the
department and a supplementary appropri-
ation probably would have to be made.
The fact that the Post Office Department
didn't get all it asked Congress for is no
reason to penalize American citizens. Com-'
petent members of Congress studied the
department budget very l-losely. The cut
made in the department’s request was not Thp g uas fur lh„
done arbitrarily. Curtailment of postal serv- lng thu mornjnj[ of ,,raham .
ice would react against members of (on- Anniversar.v Festival, and i
greas more than anyone else. They are aware political speeches were scheduled
of it. * fur this afternoon
A thorough-going investigation of the sit- The weather man continued to
uation by Congress should be forthcoming, he generous in the matter of nuns
If Sumnterfield is pressuring Congress during ihe= past jnomh (Ira-
without justification, his resignation should
be demanded.—Houston Chronicle.
YOUNG COUNTY LONG AGO
terns of 25 ond 50 years ogo
raken from the early files of
The Graham Leader.
THIS I BELIEVE
By JOHNNIE WARD
A JUST REVISION
.
25 YEARS AGO
50 YEARS AGO
-Int, _
The authority would sell bonds to private
investors to raise about $120,000,000 of the
i >st and is seeking $.>(bUU0,0Oii loan from the
federal government, which in reality would
T>e- a second mortgage. Hills to authorize
the federal loan have been introduced in the
House by Rep. Omar Burleson and in the
's-'Q't-. I^e st.T. . 1 f-rnlrm H J.ihnwiin ___
The Arm.' engineers’ report indicates that
the- pi'LiUa.1 -S not eeohoniit ally feasible UD-
rier bcnrrt'th:-e»t-ratios, even when the most
"Ufcimistic st and interest rate estimates
’at; used, It ^ as for this reason that the
thorps of Engineers refused to recommend
approval of the project.
Water users of South Texas are opposed
to the :■••••!•-. \ claiming it will decrease the
anemilt ' water available to South Texas,
iser* in dry years, when the water is most
■ riled. Par -h noted this in his letter to the
governor.
Parish'
ham received 4 55 inches far June.
Total rainfall for the year thus far
is 2066 inches, almost twice as
much as th? total o1 10.59 inches
for the first six months of. 1931.
Fifty-two golfers participated in
CAPTIVE WORKERS
In a column on the labor union problem,
Dorothy Thompson quotes Lord Acton's fa- the annual invitation golf tourft >
mous saying—“all power corrupts and abso- ment held at the Shawnee t’oun-
lute power corrupts absolutely.” Then She (D t lljh Mondaj in :he first ih in
••tv.., i___ t e i J T Carter and R. M. Williams
adds. The policy-makers of powerful Jr of the loca, club and Kd rt,.r
Jacksb'
- - ------- • old homo
■vauvaoL. work Wtnmit a. union, caxdu hia dues Haskcl 1 Easterling Visited friends the'slate
Among the long list of "musts"
for national security is the Prei
dent's proposed $144,000 000 for
the UnPrd States Information Ag-
ency. (L'SlAi which sponsors the
doubtful Voice of America Any
slash in funds for this o‘r other
agencies wilT Tfemiriafo -rivlcr.(
which the American people do
maud, according to the White
House. Along this line, we quote
from the Southern Conservative.
“A close and searching PjP"
Hon of the Appropriations Bill
submitted to Congress has left
members of that body "all shook
up’’’ as they contemplate with am-
, uzement the State Department's
I Vaughan is visiting in interpretation of "essential s i-
Olmy this week. vices" which the people are sup
Mr Allen Craig pf Graham and posed to be demanding The man
Miss Audrej Henderson of Fort ner in which the diplomats go
Wurth were marred lust sun :. , about fighting the "battle for
at the home of tin bride in that men's minds" and the odd method
city they employ in "keeping -freedom
J. St. Helton of Rabble Creek alive" in the wortd" •is’atnsWrr.
wat here Monday. ,M addition to building butlmin-
M 1). Harrell of South Bend was !°” cm,r,s l" Iraq, night clubs in
a visitor in Graham. Monday. Indonesia beach huts in New
,. ,, . , » Guinea, there are »\ummin* pools,
(„ ( IU.nne.vcut le t Tuesday sk) cabjn boats, club btlll8(,s
morning on a business trip to I'al- a|1(j l.abanail ,U1U l(t>rUnt, tb(. land.
, - scape in remote parts of the world,
.1 A. Mel lari n called on the vil-.i,ch the 5 ate Ilepf. has provi-
Lcatlcr Mon l„- .a d dropped M*ba
ut.V/cE^Y Worker
The right to
Join a union
Aware of I
Mrs .1
NAM
Progri
The Nation;
Manufacturers'
Committee, as i
all activities, is
live educations
axemen! in (h<
safety, Janies
assuming chain
mittee recently
Mr. Fairman
Consolidated f
New York, Ini
John J. Hopki
of General Dy
as chairman o
tee. which is nr
era in the alor
"The commi
program initial
will seek widi
ing of our view
the industria
peaceful OMt
and ne plan ti
program for tl
agement in th
safety," Mr. F
Fine S
ded iat your expense.)
»,*.■ . captive «*«*. They aVLar.a'SE S*S BABAS
exercise a monopoly over their jobs. A man pV‘ce ^ okL&e in the sou, ,-rn part U S of ..5SE1* Uln"!s'.JkccH. 1,1 ,nlnd de,r tax !><•"*» "<»« was accompaniedby
thou......
are usually collected automatically out of his in Padgett Sunday?
pay envelope; some unions require very high Hardy Price was
initiation fees; the worker Cannot resign."
for the spread- tennis." (keep in
tl"' southern part ot mg of lerpi-,Korean culture all payer, this is for national security lecture! on "Jazz
tnruuiihnut the world and which anj
an Art" $ho
a visitor
Eastland first of the week
1
Later in her column. Thomp^n , Pau‘ w** '" Stamford the
M______ ______ , ' fourth attending the Rodeo
makes this significant statement: "Work-
fnrnt a prospretmg trip In Kansas-pUl to fairly drip
and Ok I a Isom a ""when a vast auditorium wo are
I.ast Saturday. Sunday and Mon- planning there is completed and
.. .......- day were three of the hottest days the State Dept.'s proposed square
, , , . . , Misses May and C. Crtzart were dh the history of the citizens of dance program is launched in
ers themselves are revolting, charging Utl- Wichita Falls visitors Wednesday. Graham. The mercury wept to !12 Rangdoon." (Should not such con-
fair practices ill their own unions. Organiz- Mrs. Ted Williams is spending in the shade on Slindav tribute much ton ational securiiy
ing campaigns are slowing down. The move- the week in Jaeksboro visiting her S tl Bettson and George C. wju-n the Burmese master the
ment against- the closed shop is grow ing." parents. - Shearer were in town Monday and square dance and really "cut a
......{The Senate investigation into lalior rack- Mr an<1 NIrs rhas F>*her wer, called at the Leader office1. rug" in Asia")
During the summer of 1958 the
or Belgium rrro gorng to
have a Fair in Brussels wijh per-
forming clowns, pink lemonade, curity?)
spoke unly English to audiencex
who spoke no Englfsti. Would you
say the American people ara da-
manding this type of uational sa-
vin II games and everything. Fairs These are only a few of the re-
are wonderful events and are us- diculous items listed by the Uni-
ually staged by the people of a
Stale or a Nation to indicate the
Horn of .Plenty has been turned
ted States Information Agency and
which the White House declares
are essential to national security.
upside down. That i- probably how Gradually the hard pressed tax
the Belgians feel as the eelebra payer is awakening to the facts of
letter and the reports of the
Ai'nv eng ■ ceis both emphasize that the
• i .-t wir'.i-e more electricity—810,000.-
'"in k. hours annually—that it pro-
ii M's Tin.000,000 kilowatt hours annually.
B .' i • |e_ is. he strange plan the authority
ha' '! hamllirg the generation of power.
D r. ;g the day it will run water over the
r- g p'.’Wer. At night it will take
eteering has led to a hunt of legislative pro- Breckcnridge visitors Monday J. H House of Gooseneck was in ... If there is one thing the
iwwaU M»nv nf the**. Mr anf1 Mrs.-Joe Woodeii were town Monday and said the weather Slate Dept, does better than to
fi ‘ • „ , ■ , ' Fort Worth visitors first 0T lhe--was sir hot that the honey combs send out a "special mission ", it is . . . j . . . ,w„
«S Ti - ................znj?,sr.^.rzeaS‘wrtfvft
turn is going to cost them no hing. waste and idiocy and U is daubt-
Everything isi on the house and ful that a "lame duck” President
I 111. 1 It..1 Li.it. ., ia t R ti A m
is certainly a necessary step—but it is not first of the week in Stamford at here to vender " This is some hot. outsider named Allie Kitaenbcrg,
ill him on (he payroll at Si 133.00 ln* al an
all that is needed by any means. The mon- tending the rodeo. Postmaster J. T. Cunningham, pu
opoty power of union heads can be broken Mr. and Mrs. finest Heighten wife, and daughter. Miss Lou, went per month and with the secrecy . . . . . .
only in one way_by outlawing the closed a 11 d children spent Monday in down to Fort Worth fast Saturday, usually attending a hush hush dip- J' ,'i -Kn 11,1 air
i . 1 *1 a 1 .1 . » .laf'lfghnrn nttonHillP -the* Hod^o * 11 «><-l « •> !r..» Inmntin r\i I iteinsniti. L..n,ll«/J L..»
is planning to erect a huge build-
undeteriTiined cost in
which the Fair will be held, and
over will
ing starving people, or arming
people with the will to dafend
themselves against an enemy. It
appears that adloscent thinking in
All interested
dams,
■electrivity from private electric companies
hi-d t'tinw the water’ back over the dams so
the water can be run forward the next day
to create power. - _
Raising the height of the Possum King-
dom Dam will jeopardize the city pf Graham
so mudi a levee,will have py.-bezblirlt around
it. Kven then the flood danger will tve- ever-
present. -» r -
All of this complicated rigamarole is pro-
posed in the face of the fact that no addition-
al ixiwer is needed in the area to be served.
The only argument for justification would
Is* conservation. In view of <h'e anticipated
effort orr the South Texas users, a claim for
conservation is hardly warranted.
The whole project appears ill-advised, to
say the least.—Houston Chronicle.
shop and the uniop shop. And the way to do ^'rtx l’, p
sort that now exist in 18 states. These laws cher wtt'^first"*.f* th!-'week'"
put union membership oh a straight VOlun--Haud’Keiim il.i. tii.niy Vm-mVi ;jn'if.mi"inwi'
tary basis. The union cannot force a man and Boh Fowler spent the p t (|a>
ver bad it
goodi.
to join ih penalty, of dismissal from his weekend visiting at the
job, and the employer cannot prevent a man Banch near Palo Pinto
from joining if he so desires. The individual
worker has freedom of choice—and he isn't
anyone's captive.
The right to work, free of dictation or
coercion, ia as fnilamejital as any right,
and the law should so regard it. The closed
shop or union shop has no place in a sup-,
posedly free country. Let the unions obtain
their membership on the basis of probity
and service.
high wire* lomatic pilgrimage, bundled him
and telephone line from Rabbit Greek off on a special assignment in
Ai to Midway are requested to meet Port Au Prince. When members of In keeping with the Dept.'s con-
wiih .1 M Helton" id California Congress- were delving into the viction that aggression can be hal-
s—HM-thao third Satur- appropriations bill'item by item, ted. wars eternally outlawed and
I ' dav cvenn in this month they stumbled on the Ritzenberg peace resulted to.all na<i»na of the
( estelT) Mis Nannie f,. . ’and of Geivter deal and Were curious to learn earth through the medium of Rock
Bulge i- visiting, friends in this what part be played in the battle 'N Roll music, lhe USIA hired
Glenn Stegall-has rutCirned from city for men's minds and in "k■ eping Ni-.'ro Dizzy Gillespie at the rate
Old Mexico and o'her points west Vq-. .' S. Fisher an I (laipliiuis. \vi;h freedoms cause in' Haiti. of $103,000.00 per veal', as well as
where he spent the past, two week- M -- Minnie and M - Lizzie Bryan It turned out that he had hern th, expenses of his hep cats, aqd
on his vacation. .aid children, \i->iU-d Mrs Drum on hired at this labulous salary and pi ue.no oqi ssojae Unq paddiqs
(People over seas, ne- spending policies may have hit a
snag.
There are only two things that
II stop office gossip; the hands
A man who is contented with
what he has done witt Tievpr be-
come famous for what he will do.
Washington
News Lettter
Sunday.
lie that brings sunshine Into tba
_ , . ,, - lives of others cannot keep it from
m ntfZo Haiti, to ihat backward Re wow the people of Europe—Ilsar, himself..—
MORE THAN LIP SERVICE
(An editorial from the Camper Wpomiiiff
Trihtttte-HemH. datid June 11, 1957)
W*1 are indebted to a reader for evidence
By Cong. Frank Tkerd
DESTROYING THE
IRREPLACEABLE
At
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of A m»-i .
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lion pa'S*
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T hH*y pas'i
hi.
rl a rni'l-
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• irt'l the -
peu*
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oil the \V
all
only abht
it'*
hL-m. ...
am
loll years ago. John James Audu-
Iti" ..f tiie monumental "Birds
,-t 'hiated t hptt lie saw 2 bil-
I-/goons ati (in<1 tirne. They
,v and whitened th - earth as
stern
century^
•the
arly in this
• > - is now extinct.
■ ntury ago, buffalo roam-
i": i»lain> in vast herds. Now
'1' have been counted n the
to whi h they n.igrate.
' 4 'ha'. Th;s spectas puiv"'
way of ' -• passenger pj'gean.
uar
The date of the adjournment of
this session oi Congress continues
to be uncertain It all hinges on
, .. . , ,. , what is finallv done about the
that there are some people left who pay ,.civil nKbts- bill Tbis mal.rr i,
more than lip service to government econ- m.w pending in the Senate, and it
omy.’ seems that the debate there on thi>
” Down in Graham. Tex., on the flooded-measure may pos'ponc adjourn
Brazos River, a ftsleral-state team dropped meat indefinitely. Senator Rich-
into town to receive applications for federal ar<l ,{u»sell ot Georgia tirert tr;
disaster relief funds only to learn from the J)p*nin® [ounc* in llu' l,anl°
mayor and council that they were making l^ndum^u'' ^h,- * nut
no application. Said the mavoi . It is ti ue riuhth question. Wjjile this v - u.d
that our sewer plant is in bad condition, he a unique-procedure, n woqld
having be«.*n submerged for the past nearly be an excellent way'-to acquaint
40 days. Our streets will require some $20,. the people with the provisions of
600 to pu! them back in good condition. Our ,hls b*ll. There can h< little doubt
sewers are partially filled with mud and but if the people knew what a con-
should be cleaned out. Mosquitoes are lie-
coming a major problem.”
But he Went on To say:
The ONLY AAedtff
Tr* •' th.G u'e can destroy wild-
ir- xiestrov them relatively
.1 - ■ II we ■ ■ ^’*'7! p! (l ^ I lie rhliack from
’*’■ •'' u'„- <■ r 4.--tj't, tom oi lv w rt-h the great-
i! T'f:. .:ty- -anii often- we can not’ bring
tained that it would nut be adopted.
The Committee nn Agriculture
has held more hearing- i n cotton
,, . , , . , prices Till cotton mill arc be
However, we feel that we can handle these coming quite insistent that they
problems ourselves and not call on tthe over- be given some relief lrom the
BpTlw bIIi •
It ' a rare American who has no Vtake
find ii" interest in the out-nf-doors and (ts
■■atures In a rei .-nt year something like
14 n'-.ilion fishing licenses were sold. Many
mi. ons go hunting. Untold numbers go to
nt streams, the moimtains, the seashores
and tl- forests for recreation and restora-
tion f 'he siirit. It is mot the jiart of the
m+*st elemenUu y wisdom—selfish wisdom—
for everyone to help conserve these resour-
ces to the limit of his ability?-
< areie-sness, ignorance, and exploitation
ire enemies we must fight. Fire, stream
jiollution. game hogs, the litterhugs who
leave trails of trash and filth—these men-
ace the'existence of the irreplaceable. Don't
be i ne -of them.
iiurdniied federal government to come to our present high priced cotton at home
assistance.' and cheap cotton abroad. The t'om-
_ The.Junta..which you have the. power to puttee continues to direct c- s'ud.v
disperse are for the communities which are *ir thp 'riiirctirnr'-nf-srhtevtm*
......lunger able to help themselves. We do not markiT Uis't
^*xA8 (TpRESS^littnuTfM
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The Graham Leader
come under that category.- \ week the Committee favorable re
'Our prime interest ls^a sensible reduc- p„ri,.d the humaBe slaughter lull
tion of taxes, and taxes cannot come down and the bill which would allow
as long as everyone has his hand out for his farmers to u>e up to thirty acres
share of paternalistic care from the federal of wheat for food and feed without
government.” penalty
It is easy to imagine the sense of pride- The President has directed that
that went into speaking the words, and thev another study be made of the < il
were words backed by deep conviction. Onlv 'mPortx question this matter has
*17 ® vv 2,U*h4m ":™ STJfeSJS.'lft
had turned do^n a ((rant of federal assist- timr to take some positive action
ance to its airport. to limit imports if the indepen-
Unfortunately, it takes more than, indi- dent industry in this country is
vidua! self-denial to accomplish the wanted not to be driven out of business,
purpose. Many people think that the oil
C'asper, through its Chamber of Com- ‘mport4 C0,iC('rn onl>' oil ',ro'
merce. has long taken a sttong position on “Nothing could be further from
economy in the federa government, assert- u,,. trulh Each riay lbd, the oil
ing that it wanted nothing and askeij noth- wells in Texas are shut down, the
ing. But recently the city has accepted both State of Texas loses millions of
airport and sewage disposal grants, the lat- dollars in tax revenue H imports
ter in the maximum amount of $250,000 continue to be uncurbed and in
offered by federal authority. cre*s*’ *' tb* ra,<' 'hat ‘bey have
The justification is that What Caiper ****.'18 D,cl“' fc«' m""*hV' wiL'
______,, ,_i._________ , K_ , be necessary for our State to s< ek
F B Harris E B Harris, Jr Owners and Publisher!
M rs E. B Harris, Associate Editor
new sources of revenue. In this
way the imports question affects
Published every Monday and Thursday at Graham.
Texas, and entered at the Post Office as second-
class-mail matter, under act of Congress of March
3, 1879
Any erroneous reflection upon th? character of any
person or firm appearing' in these columns wdll be
gladly and promptly corrected upon being brought
to the attention of the management.
The liability of The Graham Leader and of ita
ublishers for any error tfl_!ny advertise meat ia
publisher* for any error ip any advertiM
limited to the cost of such ^advertisement.
doesn’t take, some other city will get. and
taxes will go on anyway, and so long as the .............
system of federal grants for numerous pur- every man, womanT and child
poses is maintained, the argument is con- Texas,
vincing. The appropriations bills approv-
NonetHelena, it is satisfying to find some- ,‘d to <la,r b>' the congress repre-
orte speaking up, as do the mayor and coun- * c.V*ltof *°,nt',hlnK (,ver four
d ,( Gr.h.m, T«, ,nd „ p.r.icul.rl, like taSSS.'wi
their reference to * the over-hurdnened fed- to be rendered ... se.er.l larw
eral government. * appropriations. Chances >p»*m to
Actually a government confrohted with be good that the total rcduciions
$276 billion of debt and levying taxes al- will run around Five Billion Dol-
ready oppressive is over-burdened. ,ar*
The trouble is that much of the public
SUBSCRIPTION RATES — Young and adjoining
Countie*, $3 00 per year; elsewhere Id 00 per year.
ia necessary is to ask and receive. That sweet mill near Frankfort, Pennsylvania,
dream could twrn into a nightmare. for Washington s Army.
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