Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 24, 1950 Page: 4 of 6
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What Columbu* Did
Mill Iona of people in the United State* celebrated Columbu*
Day on the twelfth of thi* month and many of the state* of the
Union observed the anniversary a* a legal holiday.
We sometime* wonder whether we lose sight of the signifi-
cance of some of our national celebration*. What is it, for ex-
ample. that lie* behind the discovery of the New World by Col-
umbu*? How many of u* stop to analyze the event or to reflect
upon it* coqseonences ?
' In our "taking a holiday” spirit, we rarely appreciate the
occasion we celebrate. So it ia with the historical date on which
Columbus and his small group cam* acroaa the islands of the
pew world. This region was not “discovered” on that dav, be-
cause historical records prove that the early Norsemen came to
the continent many decade* before Columbus. Moreover, his-
torians are about convinced that ancient explorer* from Asia
were familiar with what we call the American Continents thous-
ands of years before the small ships of Columbus got into the
surrounding waters.
The significance of the discovery by Columbu* is not the
event itself, but the consequences that followed. Asiatics, despite
being lirst in th& Continents, did not seriously affect the course
of world history, even if they brought to us such plants as the
sweet potato, cotton and some flowers and weeds.
From the date of Columbus and his return to Spain, how-
ever, there set in a colonization period in which the people of
Western Europe crossed the Atlantic, took possession of the
land and set up what we generally term, for want of a better
expression, the Anglo-Saxon civilization.
This ia the significance of the so-called “discovery.” A
Genoese navigator added to the information of the men of his
race and region when he reported the results of his westward
trip to the Indies. From that time on, the men of Western Europe
gave thought to the new world and, gradually, the area became
settled with White people and, after much effort and fighting,
it came about that the region was dominated and directed by
English-speaking people.
This observation, It should be noted, doe* not apply to South
America. In this area, the culture and civilization of a continent
represent the fruits of Spanish conquerors. There is, as one
can readily observe in the world today, a tremendous difference
between the cultures and civilization of the English and the
Spanish-speaking peoples. Whatever one may thing of their re-
spective virtues and vices, it ia perfectly plain that the economic,
social and political development of the modern world stem from
beginnings that are indubitably and associated with the Anglo-
Saxon tribes and their Teutonic ancestors.
, It might be an interesting mental exercise for readers of the
Daily Empire to conaider the respective development of North
and South America for the purpose of seeking to understand the
whys and wherefores of what has transpired.
When this little problem has been satisfactorily settled,
the idividual might go further and consider the present condi-
tion of Africa. Asia and certain sections of Europe to determine,
if possible, the factors that have been responsible for the differ-
ences in culture and civilization.
If one attempts this in a study encompassing the ages, on
the basis of the best available information, one is apt to under-
stand more about the problems of the Twentieth century, the
behavior and attitude of its peoples and, what is as interesting,
the significance of Columbus Day. , »-
Colombia’s Program of Development
Colombia is expected to be the first Latin-American coun-
try to negotiate the technical assistance contract with the United
Nations. The five-year development program, envisioned by the
Colombians, will tost $2,500,000,000.
We are not familiar with all the details of the financing
that will enable Colombia to carry out her program. It will be
under the supervision of United Nations experts, of course,
and will be possible because the imports necessary can he fi-
nanced by export* of coffee. A plan is involved to permit in-
vestment of private funds under something like a guarantee. •
This is an interesting development, representing the first
over-ail project to improve conditions in an under-developed
country. Work projects will be launched in almost every field
intimately associated with the economic, social, financial and
political life of the country. It will be interesting to see how
the program carries out the general purposes of what has been
expected to be a means by which standards of living can be
elevated in under-developed areas.
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children spent the weekend at
House with her parents, Mr.
Mrs. S. E. Conner, and brother,
Kenneth Conner end family.
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Mr. end Mrs. E. V. Caver, of
Dalles, are here visiting in the
homes of Mr. end Mrs. Prank Hen-
sen, Mr. and Mrs. Autis McMahan
and daughters and Mrs. Craik
Pierson.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Birdett and
children and Mr. and Mrs. B. C.
Thompson and children visited in
Mineral Wells Bunday with the
ladies parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
’ Stephens.
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i Mr. and Mrs. Bursey Grixsard
' and children of Fort Worth visited
j during the weekend with their re-
‘ spective parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Winburn and Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Simmons. '*!■£*•■$. 3% w .
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Crites of
Dallas are here in attendance at
the bedside of his brother E. B.
(Lige) Crites of Granbury, who
underwent major surgery at the
With Nichols in Washington
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Preu Staff Corretpondent
Washington, Oct. 24 tut—Maybe
the golf caddie had better look
for another job.
One Guess Allowed
At Lake Success, the delegates to the United Nations dis-
cussed the question of financial assistance for the economic
development of the undeveloped areas of the world.
It is freely admitted that the determent to great progress
along this lino, including road-building, bush-clearing and basic
public services, is the lack of cash.
Can any smart reader figure out where the talking delegates
expect to get the money?
El Paso Sheriff
Says Mickey Cohen
Was Tine Host’
El Paso, Oct. 24 <W—Sheriff Joe
Campbell kept mum today on the
purpose of his weekend visit with
California’s notorious Mickey Coh-
en, but praised the little gambling
boss as a “fine host.”
Campbell, who hit the headlines
early this year when he climbed a
telegraph pole near here and Snip-
ped wires serving a racing news
service, declined to say why he
visited Cohen in Los Angeles.
“Cohen knows a lot that would
held a sheriff, but I didn’t have
any luck,” said Campbell. He re-
fused to elaborate.
The Texas sheriff, a wealthy cot-
ton farmer who leaves office in
January, said he was given use of
Cohen’s Cadillac and chauffeur
during his West Coast visit and
was a guest in the Cohen home for
Saturday night dinner.
“He (Cohen) makes his guests
feel at home and sees that they
have plenty to eat and drink,” said
Campbell. “Mickey seemed busy
while we were at his home, but he
wasn’t worried.”
Cohen, in turn, told Los Angeles
newsmen that Campbell was “the
only guy who treated me decent”
in a flying trip to Texas in August.
Texas Rangers and police auth-
orities in Fort Worth, Wichita
Falls and other cities advised Coh-
en to get out of Texas and stay
out.
However, Campbell aroused crit-
icism by meeting Cohen at the air-
port and accompanying him on a
tour of night spots in Juarez, ad-
jacent Mexican border city.
The El Paso county sheriff said
Cohen was so popular on the West
Coast he would) be elected “if he
ever runs for office.”
“The most important men in Los
Angeles are Sheriff Eugene Bis-
cailus and Cohen,” said Campbell.
"They represent both sides of
life."
Somebody has invented a set of
clubs a man can carry in his hip
pocket.
Actually, they are four steel
club, heads, which you can whip out
and play on any shot on the course
if you stick same into a steel golf
shaft. •• -r----- - - ~r%
Sam Taran, of Miami, Fla., has
bought up all of the patent rights
on same.
The whole business wrapped up
weighs something like five pounds.
U comes in a leather case and looks
like a bunch of fishing tackle.
All a man has to carry is a shaft
—plus the four club heads—to play
a round of golf.
The number one club—adjusted
to the head of the club by a lock
—can be either a brassie or a
driver. Then there is the midiron,
a mashie, a mashie-niblick, a full
niblick, a chipper or a putter.
It is just a simple twist of the
wrist. You have -the shaft—and
then you turn the lock on the other
end and you turn a mashie into a
spoon.
To test the gadget Johnny Web-
ster, a lawyer, and I, went out to
Congressional Country Club. John-
ny is quite a golfer. He won the
National Press Club tournament a
couple of years ago when he shot
113—his handicaps was 56, which
gave him a net of 57.
So We teed off with the new
clubs. I hadn’t had a club in hand
for 18 yean. I whacked one down
the middle. Johnny didn't do, so
good; he sliced.
It went like }that all the way
around.
Congressional has a par of 71
for 18 holes. Congressional can
write this down: Nichols 107, Web-
ster 110. (Nine holes.)
Anyhow, these new dubs hare
a lot to their credit.
They can be put in a brief case
for traveling purposes.
The idea eventually is to put
them up in p case something like
fishing poles. With the shaft part
folding up.
The new gimmiok .worked Hoc.
When you want a No. 1-iron, all
you have to do is reach in the
side pocket. When you want a No.
9, dig into another part of you,
jeans.
And the while the caddies likely
are pondering what they will do
when school lets out the next time.
Elsie, the Cow,
Better Known Than
Jane Russell
Amarillo, Oct. 24 (W—Adver-
tising has made Elsie the Cow
better known to the public than
buxom movie star Jane Russell,
an official of Borden’s- Milk
Company said yesterday.
A. Milton Fairman of New
York, director of public relations
for Bordens, said a national sur-
vey showed glamorous Miss Rus-
sell came out second-best to the
Borden’s bovine—thus, proving
the value of advertising.
Fairman was a featured speak-
er at the 10th district convention
of the Advertising Federaltion
of America.
U. S. Will Crack-
Down on Commies
Under NeW Law
Washington, Oct. 24 (If)—The
Justice Department promised to-
day to crack down on the Commu-
nist party as soon as possible for
its defiance of the registration fea-
tures of the anti-subversive law.
The deadline for voluntary reg-
istration passed yesterday.
The department intends to use
the act’s enforcement provisions to
compel the party to sign up. Under
the law, it must draw up a peti-
tion and a statement of facts to
the newly-appointed Subversive
Activities Control Board. After
hearings, the board has the author-
ity to order the Communists to
register. *
The Immigration Service, mean-
while, continued its round-up of
86 top alien Communists for de-
portation. Many already have de-
portation orders pending against
them but have managed to remain
at large because of loopholes in
the old law. The new law gave the
government broad new powers in
this regard.
We are about set to see another industrial miracle provided
the government puts up the money to pay for the miracle.
If you look over this issue of the Daily Empire you will find
some items that could not have been published except to serve
the public interests.
Organized business used to say, “What helps business helps
you.” Now comes the Advertising Council to remind us that
"what helps people, helps business.”
Football is a great game to the boys that manage to keep
from getting a permanent injury.
Most anybody will attend a conference if somebody offers
to pay; all expenses.
The
people even
free, public school system
ui if it costs money.
lever you reed of a miracle, believe it if you must bnt
don’t invest any money in it
Id is so filled with propaganda -that people often
most authentic information.
Is the bulwark of a free
people get the idea that they can make some money
they are pnueually attentive.
(HOW LINE—Enjoying themselves at the recent Scholarship Society picnic In Dr. Dick
Smith's backyard are the host, Dr. Smith, Nelson Kabler. Dean Cunyns, Lola Jordan, Dorothy
Center. Mary Lon Riley, Virginia Hel**, Fierice f arothera, Gene Ragsdale and Vara Beenlg,
JOB WELL DONE—Pleased over last week's 29-0 victery
over Midwestern Bees are Plowboy Coach Willie Zapalsc
and backs Joe Bill Fox, Jim McKie (now withdrawn), Edsal
January. Rennie Miller, and Ewell Pearcy.
underwent major surgery at the _
local hospital Saturday. His condi- What Does Vishinsky Mean Halfway?
tion is reported satisfactory.
• • •
Mrs. R. E. Martin Jr., little
daughter, Diane, and Mrs. R. E.
Martin Sr. went to Dallas Thurs-
day to see "South Pacific." They
were house guests of Mrs; Fred
Shelton, niece of the senior Mrs.
Martin.
• • •
Mr .and Mrs. Jack Brittain of
Fort Worth were in the city over
the weekend, guests in the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Sikes of West Sloan Street. Mrs.
Brittain Was the former Miss
Daisy Sikes.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hambright
attended a meeting of White Auto
Store managers in Dallas Sunday
and acquainted themselves with
new merchandising methods being
adopted by White Auto Stores.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Cox spent
the week-end in Justin with their
son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Cox and daughter Marie,
and with another granddaughter,
Mrs. Gary Knox, Mr. Knox and
their young son, Price Edward.
• • • .
Miss Mary Smith of Cleburne
■pent the week-end here with Miss
Dorothy White. Miaa Smith is for-
mer secretary of the First Baptist
Church %gd is new secretary of the
First Baptist Church in Cleburne.
She is taking a training course at
Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Fort Worth.
* • •
Emmett Adams was carried to a
Fort Worth hospital Thursday for
treatment and possible surgery.
His case has baffled doctors for
some time« His daughter, Mrs.
Lemon Blain of Fort Worth came
out and escorted him to the hos-
pital. Mrs. Adams also is with her
husband.
■, • * •
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Hicks, edi-
tors and publishers of the De Leon
Free Press, spent several hours in
Stephenville Monday. They were
on their way to Glen Rose where
they visited friends they knew at
the, time they made their home
here. Both are well known in Ste-
phenville and all sections of Texas.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hawkins
and children and Mrs. Emms Haw- 1
kins of Fotr Worth spent Satur-
day night in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Stephans. Sunday
morning the group, joined by Mrs.
Stephen* and her little daughter,
Sharon, drove to Albany and spent
the day with Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Stephens.
• • *
Bobby Jack Stigler, an instruc-
tor in the Carrollton public schools,
spent the weekend with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stigler.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar White visit-
ed Sunday in Fort Worth with their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Carol Sheffield. Their son,
Harold White and family of Cam-
eron were there and altogether the
family enjoyed a happy reunion. <
The Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky urges tl*e
United States to give up its “new tough policy" toward the
Soviet Union and reutrn to the wartime policy of cooperntion
that it followed under President Roosevelt. The Russian diplo-
mat says that his country is willing to go “half way” but no
further id seeking an agreement.
The Russian delegate contrasted the policy followed by this
country during the war with the present effort to build “areas
of strength” before seeking an agreement with Russia. .He
charged that this country was trying to make the Soviet Union
“shake in its shoes” but emphasized that the history of his
country shows that the Russians never would do so "before
anyone.”
The interesting part of the statement by Mr. Vishinsky. |s
his suggestion that the Soviet Union is willing to go “half w*y.”
This sounds like a reasonable proposal but one must analyze
it in connection with the problems that confront the world. It
may be conceivable that the Russians mean that they will take
oyer half of the world and let the United States have tiie other
half, if ws desire or can acquire control of it."
There would be some hope, in the words of the Russian
diplomat, if it could be construed as an invitation to compromise
differences in the troubled spots of the world, such, as, tlie
eastern area of Europe, where a number of nations, formerly
containing free peoples, enjoying substantial freedom, are no^v
in the vise of the Communist regime. Unfortunately, there is
no reason to expect such s significant meaning to the statement
made by Mr. Vishinsky before a group of the United Nations
General Assembly. In fact, unless there is something besides
words to support any assertion of peaceful intentions by-the
Russians, it might be just as well to-wait and see what the Rus-
sians do rather than to become confused over what they say.
—
American Majority Is Unorganized
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The development of politics in the United States has reach-
ed the point where practically every minority is militantly ag-
gressive, thus forcing office-holders to pay particular attention
to them in order to capture a minority vote.
This is a strange situation. The majority, in most electoral
districts, is not as well organized as the aggressive minorities,
and, consequently, what the majority thinks and what it ^anta
often fails to receive as much attention as the vociferous de-
mands of the minorities.
This is a distance danger to the successful operation of the
government of the United States. Eventually, the vast majority
of Americans will become tired of the successful strategy of
the organized minorities. Then, the majority will organize itself
and the prospects of the minorities will be bad.
It ia important that minorities understand that most of their
rights, privileges and opportunities come to them through the
tolerance of the majority. In few countries of the world can one
find a situation where the majority is persistently heckled and
criticized by minorities which enjoy equal, and sometimes,
superior rights.
There are congressmen in the United States who dare not
take any position that conflicts with the prejudices or desires
of minorities that are, to say the least, not thoroughly American.
* Large districts in Northern and Western states contain huge
foreign-born populations. Some of these people have had no
training whatever in Democracy and many of them are not con-
cerned with the American system of government. They want re-
sults and they organize politically to get them.
If the majority should organize and seek to play a dominant
role in the management of American political affairs, the cry
would instantly be heard that the majority was intolerant. Cer-
tainly, this is foolishness. It can hardly be tolerant for minorities
to organize and aggressively assert themselves and intolerant
for the majority to do the same thing. >
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When men seek to win, regardless of what it takes, they
can easily forget the principles of fair play.
ipy reunion. > II song writers knew how some people would sing their
They also visited Mr. White’s sis-1 songs they would probably quit working.
ter, Mrs. E. M. Ennis in Fort I —--_____
Worth, and Mrs. White’s sister and | An intelligent patient, who expects to get well, will not try
to tell the doctor how to treat his ailment. ■ {
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brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
A. McEachin at Acton.
• * •
Mrs. W. B. Sensing has received
word from her son, William S.
who reported at Pensa-
cola, Fla., Oct 16 for acthre mili-
tary service that he has been as-
to the duty of officer in
charge of officer candidate mess on
Corry Field, which is located about
a mils from the regular Naval Air
Station at Pensacola. He has 41
men under his command; 39 of
them are Negro and Fillipino beys
termed as stewards or mass boys.
They are cooks and waiters. Bill
further itatee that the men under
his commend serve about 800 men
at each meal. They are naval cadets
who are training to bo pilots and
also will. be officer* when they
receive their wings. This assign-
ment came as quite a surprise to
Sensing since he was with the
intelligence department during
World War II. Mrs. Sensing and
their son are living in the fa
home at Amarillo.
family
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