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The Bootleg Philosopher
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The Penultimate Word
THE TROUBLE WITH UMBRELLAS
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THE LEMONADE GLUT
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RAN OUT OF SUGAR!
that costs $50,000 an acre to
operate and hasn't produced
House Speaker Bill Clayton. Texas House at Represen-
tatives, PO Box 2910, Austin. Tx 78769. Pho 512-4753400.
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map. He hated the whole world and got even.
Last Sunday it rained. I was dressed in my
Sunday suit and decided to give the old um*
brella a try. The first thing I noticed is the
thing will only keep the top of you dry. What
about the crease in my pants?
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COMMENTARY
Don Graff
U.S. Sen. John Tower, Room 142. Old Senate Office Bldg ,
Washington, D.C. 20510. Pho. 202-224-3121
U.S. Rep Kent Hance. U.S. House of Representatives.
1610 Iong worth Bldg.. Washington. D.C. 20615 Pho
202-225-4005
State Sen Bill Sarpalius, Texas Senate. P.O. Box 12088
Capitol Station. Austin, Tex. 78711. Pho 512-475-3222
ered and
Commu-
one salable commodity in
years.
The land is located in
Washington, D.C. It’s the 10
acres surrounding the White
House. It takes 20 full-time
employees at a cost of
0000,000 a year to keep that
While attending a recent meeting, we heard
the speaker introduced as an expert in his
field. The speaker responded by saying he had
found that “you have to be at least 50 miles
from home to qualify as an expert.” We
suspect he had rend that Bible verse.
We have a number of outstanding citizens in
Hereford who have probably learned the truth
of that verse. They are people with unique
Warm fuzzies,
Doug Manning
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You must understand that I am not an ex-
pert on umbrellas. I have lived in a simi-arid
area of the world all of my life. I have only
needed an umbrella about fifty times during
my lifetime. Forty-three of those times the
umbrella was in the closet at home while I was
in the rain somewhere else.
That’s the trouble with umbrellas. They are
never there when you need them. When you
don’t need them they are an absolute pain to
have around. What do you do with an umbrella
when it isn’t raining? You can throw it in the
backseat of the car. This works fine until so-
meone sits on it. Then the thing is bent and will
never work again. You can put it in the trunk
of the car and drown while trying to get the
thing when it rains. You can get one of the new
fold-up models and put it in the car pocket.
This fills up the car pocket so nothing else can
ever be put there. The thing will fall out
everytime the pocket is opened and rattle
when the pocket is closed. Besides all of this, I
can’t figure out how to open one of these in-
genious little tyrants.
The guy who invented the fold-up umbrella
was the same guy who invented the fold-up
goal was to become rich.
Now we hear poor people
complain because they can’t
go to college. The poor are not
supposed to go to college just
as the poor are not supposed
to vacation on the Riviera -
unless they work their way
there
If he can, great. If he can't,
that's tough luck.
Where does any poor per-
son get off claiming he has a
"right" to things he can't pay
for, or even a right to luck’
People who used to be
ashamed of being poor are
now arrogant about it;
they're enjoying it; to heck
with them!
Oniy when poverty is the
miserable state it should be
will all Americana again be
motivated to get back to work
- any work any wage
Mr. Reese sounds tough,
but he means "the profes-
sional poor" and my mail
from a lot of people includes a
rising chorus of similar com-
plaints.
Editor's note: The Bootleg
Philosopher on his Deaf
Smith grass farm on Tkm
Blanca Creek reports sa the
fanning situation this week,
■ore or less.
On Your Payroll
US. Sen Loyd Bentsen, Room 246. Senate Office
Building. Washington, D.C. 20610. Pho 202-224-3121
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The second thing I noticed is when you get to
the car, you then have a problem. How do you
get in the car with an open umbrella? You hold
the thing outside the door until you are in and
then you have to reach out in the rain to fold it
up. When you do so, the top half of you gets
wet.
Then comes the biggie ... what do you do
with a wet umbrella in a car? You are forced
to drag the thing across your lap to get it onto
the floor board on the other side. So the rest of
you gets wet. Then the thing sits there and
drips all over the car. I concluded I would
have been a lot drier if I had left the thing in
the closet where it belongs.
At least I know now where to put an um-
brella !
It would be wrong, however, for that reason to dismiss the
Mexican sgrtem ja «»thjn| democratic by North American
The important points are that it is the product of Mexican
conditions and that it has worked in those conditions for half
These are no easy times for Mexico. Economic develop-
ment has brought economic problems. Growth has been
uneven Having had difficulty C------------
wealth, the----
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
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I YEAR AGO
Dallas blacks who want their own congressman rose
Thursday and applauded Sen. John Wilson, D-La Grange,
author of a Senate plan that gives them their wish.
Senators were scheduled to take a final vote today on
Wilson’s statewide congressional redistricting plan, to
which they voted preliminary approval Wednesday.
11 YEARS AGO
A tentative agreement on land for cable television tower
has been reached, according to officials of the cablevision
firm, but actual construction still is at least three weeks
away.
A cut in the hospital district's tax rate for 1973. a move
that seemed very possible after Tuesday's regular
meeting, failed by a 3-2 vote of board members during a
special meeting Thursday evening in the board room.
25 YEARS AGO
City officials have approved starting legal action
against one property owner in order to start the first
phase of a 2151,000 city street paving project in the nor-
thwest part of Hereford With Poteet Construction Co.
employers and men already here. City Manager Dudley
Bayne, said work on several streets in that area is ex-
pected to get underway in the immediate future.
58 YEARS AGO
The slight indications of rain the past couple of days
keep the farmers hopeful that much needed moisture will
fall on the row crops soon. The heavier precipitation of a
month or more ago. followed by the recent hot weather,
has caused an abnormal growth of weeds in all crops that
have sapped the moisture from the ground, and rain is
badly needed
Without having to go to the bother of counting votes, Mexi-
co has elected a new president.
All of which makes this election and the electoral commia-
sion’s final count of the results much more than orMomir
exercises in democracy, Mexican style
Mexicans have a lot riding on the resilience at their politi-
cal system and its ability to evolve to meet the needs of an
increasingly complex society
So do their neighbors.
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The Mexican system is at least Mexico’s own. As such, it
has to be adaptable to changing Mexican conditions if it is to
survive.
That has been the real issue of this election.
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75 YEARS AGO
The Brand is in receipt of a letter from a doctor whose
home is in Rochester, N.Y., inquiring about the conditions
of the Panhandle. He states that the papers outside of
Texas speak harshly of the drowthy condition of the
Panhandle. No wonder Outside papers must find
something to check the tide of immigration to this great
Southwest
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and getting in deeper to continue financing ambitfous indus-
trial projecta.
MEMBER _
cux vnuur
sector. The General Accoun-
ting Office has estimated that
the federal government now
performs some 11,000 com-
mercial or industrial ac-
tivities at a cost of $19 billion
per year Rather than com-
pete unfairly with the private
sector at the taxpayers' ex-
pense. Uncle Sam could hire
businesses, particularly
small businesses, to perform
many of these services more
efficiently and at a cheaper
cost. In fact, procurement ex-
perts estimate that com-
petitive contracts can reduce
a century, containing the social violence and political insta-
bility that characterized independent Mexico throughout the
previous century and enabling the country to begin to devel-
op a modern economy.
For all its obvious flaws, which include growing corrup-
tion at the top, Mexicans have considerably more to show for
their one-party democracy than do the military Juntas that
are such an unrewarding Latin tradition, or for that matter
most of the presidential-style republics Cut from the Ameri-
can pattern, the tetter's democratic institutions are usually
more ritual than substance and all too often facades for one
man rale.
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who insist that the Defense
budget can be trimmed
without interfering with our
needed military buildup are
frequently challenged by
Pentagon officials to
demonstrate where such sav-
ings can be made.
That's not always an easy
task for those without access
to complete information on
the department's operations,
but there is one area that
clearly offers opportunities
for savings - the contracting
out to the private sector of
certain commercial and in-
dustrial services now per-
formed "in-house."
Unfortunately, Congress
appears to be moving in the
opposite direction. In its draft
of Department of Defense
Authorization Bill for fiscal
year 1963 H R 60301, the
House Armed Services com-
mittee has strongly recom-
ICECOLD
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1HeORIGINIAL!
And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is
respected everywhere except in his home
town and by his family.” - Matthew 13:57.
While the governing party's victory was never in question,
there was more opposition this time than ever Wore - a
total of six other parties, five of them newly n
distributed across the political spectrum with_____
nist-dominated Unified Socialist Party at the extreme left
responsible and deserve to be The proliferation has been encouraged by the government
poor forever to provide political channels for dissent in an increasingly
Every decent poor person sophisticated .talsoha
I’ve ever nown hoped fervent- * more skeptical critics add, of splitting the opPosition
ly that his poverty was tern- Whatever the motivation, the size of that opposition vote
porary. He certainly didn't go and its distribution are of intense interest not only to Mex-
around bragging about it. His cans.
folks. It’s not they they get no respect; they
simply are not seen as experts.
What brought this subject to mind was an
item we read in the Slaton newspaper. It
reported that a rape victim had been taken to
Hereford so that Sheriff Travis McPherson
could hypnotize her in an attempt to gain addi-
tional details about the rapist.
McPherson is well known throughout the
Southwest for his expertise in forsenic hyp-
sosis. He has been called on frequently to
speak on the subject and to aid investigations
where the recall of witnesses is vital to the
case.
Other local leaders who we sometime take
for granted, just to name a few, include:
Wayne Thomas, who has gained top stature as
a member of the state College Coordinating
Board; Clint Formby, Tech board of regents
and a past state and national officer in the
broadcast field; Doug Manning, a featured
speaker and author across the nation; Bruce
Coleman, who represents the county as a
director of the National Association of County
Organizations and is also known for his work
with mental health agencies; Margaret Form-
by, president of the National Cowgirl Hall of
Fame and Western Heritage; Frank Ford,
known internationally for his natural foods
products; Jim Conkwright, a cattleman who
has made his mark across the nation and was
the youngest president ever elected by the
Texas Hereford Association (1971 J; Leo
Witkowski, active in the state and nation on
wheat growers’ boards; James Witherspoon,
" prominent attorney wholkTBSb longtime ex-
ecutive secretary on theTexas .New.
Sugar Beet Growers, and the list goes on.
We have an idea the message imparted in
the Biblical verse covers more than prophets
and experts. How many young men have
found it difficult to make a name for
themselves In their home towns?
If a young man returns to his home town as a
doctor, for instance, many folks would
remember only that he was "John Doe’s little
boy,” and they might be wary of going to him
for surgery.
Such is life, now and in Jesus’ time.
k. A. AMD
ASWEEr
Anybody familiar with the piece at land in shape That
matter knows that farming is figures out to be 850,000 an
in financial trouble, just as acre.
any business would be when Farmers ought to send a
it’s paying 1982 costs and gel- delegation to Washington to
ting 1932 income. try to figure out how it's done.
You can get by paying a if you can spend 650,000 an
Congressman 1982 wages acre, not produce one penny
while getting 1932 results, but of income, and still not gel
you can't do it farming. The foreclosed on, you'd have the
government can spend more kind of information farmers
than it takes in and keep go- have been needing for years,
ing, or at least it has for a
long time now, but no As for having 26 employees
agricultural experts have working 18 acres, which is not
figure out how a farmer can. quite 7 tenths of an acre
Small town bankers take a apiece, even a farm in the
different view toward deficit shape of this one out here
financing then Washington. could get by on a few less Oh,
I can’t say it'd be any com- it might take 28 for a few
fort to a farmer trying to keep months to straighten things
his head above water but I’ve out, but after that I could cut
just read about a tract of land back quite a few.
.qal
Historically in our nation stamps, medical care, child
poor people were looked down support. education. low rent,
upon. even by themselves Only recently have I begun
Grandparents now living to notice a backlash - at first
remember well the expres- subtle. then vigorous - an
sion, "Poor people have poor escalation of resentment
ways." against the voluntary poor
Compassion for the poor The first tenent of civiliza-
was manifest mostly by tion has been "you don’t kick
church-sponsored charity, by a man when he’s down "
Charistmas food baskets and Now there is an increasing
by Salvation Army soup kit- chorus of dues-paying
chens. Americans suggesting that
it was politicians of the ‘30s may be just what some peo-
who, for altruistic or pie need.
pragmatic motives, began to And at the crescendo of this
relate their campaigns to backlash I read an editorial
"the poor.” to helping poor in the Flonda Suncoast News,
people." Suncoast News editor
And there is a compassion Charles Reese says, "To heck
characteristic of most with the poor."
Americans which soon Let me synopsize what he
elevated "charity" to a "na- writes:
tional obligation " "We’ve been talking about
From that day to this, there the poor as though they were
has been no safer political some special species of
posture than charity for poor human with inherent virtues,
people I have been poor and let me
The word "charity " to out- tail you there is no virtue in it.
distance the stigma, became Poor people are a liability,
"welfare." They don’t invest in their
More recently the word country. they are parasites,
"welfare" was supplanted by consuming what others pro-
the word "entitlements." duce.
Poor people were entitled." Some people are poor
they decided, to certain through no fault of their own;
special priviledges - untax just bad luck. But some peo-
able unemployment pay. food pie are lazy. dishonest and ir-
He is Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. The Mexican electoral
commission assures that while it may be awhile before ali
the ballots from the July 4 election are tabulated and the
official results released, he is definitely the president-elect.
While the delay in the count occasioned some muted dis-
satisfaction among the opposition, there is no reason to ques-
tion the commission's word. De la Madrid is the candidaleaf
the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has
won every election since 1929. His victory was considered
sealed a year ago when he was personally selected by outgo-
ing President Jose Lopez Portillo, the traditional Mexican
nominating process that does away with all the bother of
party-splitting rival candidacies and unruly conventions
The obvious question at this point is why the Mexicans go
to the bother of a campaign and election at all. The tradi-
tional answer is that the process allows Mexicans to get to
anv av rav • S 1 —I the man who will be their next leader. And in this
Congress Can Trim Military Fat
rJ . . e take this policy seriously. decisions for assured ratification by an obedient public.
The greatest source of op- Taxpayers should insist that superficially it would appear to have more in common with
position to this effort comes when these defense bills the empty rituals ot Soviet-style people’s democracies,
from federal employees and reach the floor of Congress
their advocates in Congress for final action later this
who fear a loss of jobs and month, that they be made to
turf. encourage rather than inhibit
It has been 26 years now greater reliance on contracts
since the Eisenhower Ad- for needed goods and ser-
ministration issued a direc- vices. The Pentagon, our na-
tive that the government tional defense and the civil
should not provide services service would all survive this
that put it in competition with modest belt-tightening - and
private industry It is time the private sector could sure
that the federal establish- use the business!
mended a one-year
moratorium on contracting
out by the Pentagon, which
could spell disaster for many
small businesses that depend
on Defense as a customer As
if that were not enough, the
bill would also provide 17,000
additional civil service per-
sonnel for commercial ac-
tivities It deletes all funding
for cost comparison studies to
evaluate the potential
Military Pay Bill <H.R. 6317)
contains language that essen-
tially prohibits the conver-
sion of fire fighting and
security services to the
private sector.
As for the Senate, it has
already approved an amend-
ment by Sen. George Mitchell
(D-Maine) to prohibit the
contracting out of fire
fighting and security needs at
military installations. The
amendment passed, despite a
Pentagon estimate that it will
cost the taxpayer an addi-
tional 150 million
Defense is not the only
department in which your tax
dollars could be saved by tur-
ning to competitive bidding
for contracts in the private
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