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-nRttllNKmat AMKKICANTI ESDAY. MA* 3% l«6«.—
BRECKENMDGE AMERICAN
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Any .-rr<meous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm, or corporation which may appear in the columns of
the' Hrec ken ridge American will be gladly corrected upon it being
irouirht to the attention of the m.'inagenent.
Government Moral lassitude
Th* Commerce Department prepared formal char-
ge* against Michael J. Lee and William W. Remington tu-
da v with a vie* to firmjr them if they refuse to resign.
A department spokesman said. h<*wevcr. that no
action will lie taken until Wedncartay or Thursday against
the two officials whose loyalty is under investigation.
Secretary of Com metre Charles Sawyer told lee
and Kemington last week to resign or he kicked out. Rem-
dSfton refuse*i point-Man k. and l.ee said he would not
make u decision until he talked to Sawyer.
Informed sources saw! the department would not
try to fire them on disloyalty gr Hinds but week! cttarge
tliem with inepiture and inefficiency.
Thus read a telegram from Washington yesterday
as the parade of disloyalty to the government continues.
In another dispatch it was said the Hollywood bunch now
will serve terms in jail f«w refusing to tell whether they
lunl any red organization connections.
And so it g« es. For months and months we have
had in public print this or that thing, or individual, tearing
at our government until we begin to wonder just what
moral condition our nation is in or coming to.
There has always been thievery and dishouestv in
public affairs and at least two senators we cam think of
have gone to prison. Fall and May—but it seems today cor-
ruption is reaching the point we are losing our standards,
and incurring danger of losing our liberties along with
them.
Think back of (ieneral Vaughan's sponsorship of
Maragon. sponsorship of Hiss, or this or that one accused.
It is getting to where the public appears no longer shocked
which within itself is a danger signal. Public opinion and
the turning of backs by friends is a more potent guarantee
against dishonesty by men in public office than the threat
•ST jail.
Add to this the sordid report of 90-odd perverts on
the staff of the State Department and the picture becomes
^inwholesome indeed. If there is that much smoke there
must ! e some fire. Why haven't they been picked out and
fired. Even if just one.
Men in public office should be of a calibre to com-
giatul the respect of the people, but these days the point
Ras I>con reached where office holders' only concern is how-
much he can get away with, a candidate is not even ex-
pected to keep the promises he makes the people. And
Biany will promise anything they can think of that might
i.in a few votes, with no idea of keeping that promise.
Even the government wfll promise during war times
to tax the people heavily during the time of war with the
assurance of taking it off as soon as the war is over, and
then stretch every point to keep that tax on. Witness the |
excise tax.
To such an extent that faith in government is being j
lust. And when faith is lost democracy will be at an end.
To sum it up we give you some paragraphs from
the Readers D5gest:
Our greatest danger today is not from Russia but
from ourselves, from our growing disregard of principals
and our reliance on expediency. Along this immoral road
we have already gone far. feeling meanwhile more dis-
content than ever before. In bookshops and drugstores in
correspondence courses and lectures, we seek peace of
mind, peace of soul. Our private lives reflect the public
evidences of decay and we are not happy about it. The re-
newal of conscience in modern society is its only hope.
In the darkest days of the Civil War a group of
compromisers called on Abraham Lincoln with a plan for
a patched-up peace. When the President declined to ac-
«?pt it. he was told that his best friends would be shocked
at his stubborness. Old Abe replied:
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this admini-
stration that if at the end. when I come to lay down the
reins of power. I have lost every other friend on earth I
shall, at least, have one friend left and that friend shall
lie down inside of me.**
It is not altogether gone—that old sense of honor
which felt a stain like a wound. Our most important need
is for better men to lift the fallen banners of inegrity and
lead us again to the light.
KERRY DRAKE
Continued from t*age 1
Shakespeare.
SEEN OR HEARD: J. F. Baker
who Has been very low in clinic in
Wichita Falls reported greatly Im-
proved ... . Flags flying for Mem-
orial Day—some West Texas towns
reported closed . . . Possum King-
dom Dam Lake water reported
high and "crappie being taken ov-
er the lake" . . . Breck Belles to
play Eastland tonight, beginning
at 8 o'clock at Recreation Field . . .
Remodeling of old state bank
building going along fast. . . P. M.
Faulkner remarked this is a fine
day and no gripes . . .
Mrs. L. C. Bailiev. and G. A.
Shaw are medical patients in the
htcul hospital . . . George Kenneth
Kausch is being held on $1,000
bond in the county jail. He is charg-
ed with the burglary o( two rooms
in the Miller note! Satuiday morn-
11%. with enteriag and taking
clothes and valuables. The arrest
was made by the Sheriff and Po-
lice dept.- . . . The Driver's Lic-
ense examiner will not be here next
week. June •>. but will be here the
following Tuesday ... A car driv-
en by L. H. Bostick of Dallas
was considerably damaged when he
hit and killed a cow a mile east of
town about lt:S0 p. m. Monday.
He was uninjured . . . Mr. ai d
Mrs. L. R. Bell had as weekend
guests, Mrs. Bell's mother. Mrs.
Lewis Willis, and her nephew. Ray
Powers. b« th of Henrietta . . . Cal-
vin D. Adams and Miss Dorotny
Lee Newton secured a marriage
license last week. Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil W. Mayfield and daughter
Jane nf Haskell, have moved back
to Breckenridge from Haskell. He
is employed by Independent Ex-
ploration Co. Mrs. Mayfield is the
former Melbu Woods, sister of Mrs.
Bob Roth ... And Rev. Amos W.
Myers, pastor of the First Metho-
dist Church, told Rotarians a joke
about two ants who were sitting
around a golf ball. The golfer kept
swinging wildly, hitting every-
thing but the ball. Finally one ant
said to the other, "We better get
on the ball, or we're going to get
hurt."
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Mil I f 9THWIIJ
Continued Frota Page 1
graduate at exercises tonight in-
clude: Helen Ruth Airheart, Helen
Maxine Allen, Rayford Troy Al-
len, Dick Atkins, Julia Lou Baker,
Mary Louise Baker, Billy Bannis-
ter, David Nicholas Barroa, (Vien-
na Frances Beasley, Warren Leon-
idas Bene, Monte Maurice Belew,
Carol Brannan, Elsie Jane Bridges,
Darrell Wayne Brumbelow, Dro-
tha Muriel Burton.
Virginia Joe Christesson, Versie
Jeanette Cravey, Donald Brant
Crenshaw, Jr., Doris Faye Crudg-
ington, Billy Faye Dowel I, Leo
Draper, Charles Ray Elich, Wanda
Jean Ferguson, Mildred Pauline
Fite, Betty Joan Flippin, Carey Jo
Francis, James Lawrence Gallag-
her, Doris Lucile Gat I in, David
Green. Max Burton Green. Jackie
Paul Gunlock.
Tommy Lee Hailey, Otto James
Hall, Nancy Ellen Harris, Bryce
Edw:ird Harrison, Virgie May
Harrison, Kulala Jerrine Head,
Vontelle Higgs, Mary Evelyn
Hood, Jerry Malcolm Jackson,
Ralph Jesse Kimble, Billie Jean
King. Martna Pearl Love, Janice
Louise Lovinggood. Diane Doral-
dynne Lynch, Betty Catherin ftc-
I Carthy, Gloria Ann Maberry, Mary
I Elizabeth Maxwell. Billv George
! Mills, John Wa rren Mullen, James
Clovis Nail. Jr.. Betty Jo Odom.
Jiaome Ruth Parsons, James Oel
Hate. Margaret Elizabeth Pate,
Mar viu Pearson. Johnnie Lee
Peeks, Faye Nell Pendleton, Dix
Lou Pollard, Carolynn Jun# Pot
Charles Nolan Raney, Joseph M
chaet Schwind, Carol Lea Sha
Kenneth Shaw, James Dona
Smith, Louis Henry Sorell, E<tptlf t
Valetta Spencer, Bobbie Rut-ATI
Starr, Floyd Kenneth Standif^
Billie Jean Steele. rith sa-
Carlton Wray Templeton, Jit Vilaa
mie Harold Thomson, James Wt^ iegia-
ter Thornton, Rita Mae Tipttj Wood-
Annabel Lee Trammell, Fra%o that
Phillip Trammell, Wilford Lver tha
Treadway, Bobby Dwain Turn* houda
Tommy B. Watson, and Charl
Holliday Webster. —
Vocational certificates will
awarded to George Deaton, Ira L
Rogers and Atetha Ann S' S
phens. Summer graduates inclu—
Amy Laverne lies, Glenna Ri —
John Calder Vance, Thomas Hau_ $2.1%
Mehat'fev, Thomas Guinn Saw> _ $LM
and James White. ^
Alex Rawlins & Sans
MONUMENTS
Over 6t> Years Service
Weatherford. Texan
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Diet Is Deficient in Vitamin B
new formula can help you build
...help you curb diet deficiency symptoms Hke
UNDERWEIGHT
WEARINESS
CONSTIPATION
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Memorial Diy
Continued Prom Page 1
downtown Eagle Pass yesterday
when police attempted to find out
if he was driving a stolen auto-
mobile.
They found a note in Mitchell's
pocket which said: "I will kill my-
self before I am taken." Police
said the letter disclosed seweral
holdups in and around Del Rio
and Eagle Pass.
Storms accounted for two
deaths. Billy Webb, Jr., stepped
on a live wire at P&niel, a sub-
urb of Greenville, and was elec-
trocuted. Another electrocution
victim was A. U. Reese, 35, of
field truck came in contact with
a high voltage power line near
Walnut Springs.
Ed McKenxie of Tyler, a re-
tired Negro railway employe, suf-
fered a fatal heart attack when
a thunderclap frightened him. He
leaped from his bed during the
storm last night and fell dead on
the floor of his home.
Other Monday deaths recorded
in a United Press survey included:
Mrs. Mary L. Purser, 65 of!
Lake Dallas, who was thrown from
an automobile driven by her
daughter, Mrs. Anna Vandeventer
when it struck a loaded gravel
truck in front of her home,
clethsdbvic-c irLake-vfsec( mgeo
H. H. Rawle, 56, of Dallas, who
hanged himself in his garage.
Ken Shields, 15, of Houston,
who hanged himself in his bath-
q i;;. p (triuapiaatt jo laipua.v y uiooj
was returned. Shields' father said
he knew Ken "didnt do it on pur-
pose. He had too much pep—he
was always doing pranks like tkat
to scare the family."
Ruel J. (Red) Falkenburg, 28,
who received fatal injuries when
a tong struck him as he worked
on a drilling rig near Kingsville.
The Texas department of Public
Safety predicted 24 persons would
die in traffic mishaps during the
period starting at 6 p. m. Friday
and ending at midnight tonight.
FROM THE PEOPLE
BMTOftS NOTE —
pressed ia hlNu fiat the
we those of the writer aad not
MtoaaiHj those of the Breefcen-
ridge American.
Editor, American:
I love Chart? Evans and Van
Parker. In fact, I don't hate any-
body, I am not a member of that
kind of an organization. I like Van
and Charly because they can dis-
agree diametrically and still not
hate each other.
I think they both believe in Dem-
ocracy, what ever that is, but they
seem to have different interpreta-
tions of what the word means. Per-
haps my interpretation is different
from that of either-of them. It
seems to me that this thing, or
these things, we call democracy is
only a magic word for politicians
to get into office on; as it seems
to De subject to change without
notice, like the wholesale price on
prunes. Presto diglot.
I have never known of any gen-
eral prosperity since the so-called
Crvil War, except war prosperity.
It seems that free enterprise does
not help these who are -broke and
have nothing with which to' start
an enterprise. I prefer peace and
poverty rather than war and pros-
perity. It seems that Christ was
willing to work for His living
rather than tax His people and
make them fight in order that He
might become rich and famous.
I have never heard of anybody
who starved to death in the USA,
except someone who got lost or
went nuts over fanatical religion.
The longest war on record was be-
tween the Protestants and Catho-
lics, which last thirty years. I am
for both, so long as they are hu-
man.
The inhumanity of man .to, man
Has made counties thousands
nraum.
!
Oh, why should men be inhuman j
When we are all equally born ?
(Signed:)
J. C. Holley.
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Allegheny State Park covers
57,000 acres of dense forest land.
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Delaware, Nevada, Vermont and
Wyoming each has only one mem-
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Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 154, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 30, 1950, newspaper, May 30, 1950; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth133686/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.