The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1958 Page: 2 of 8
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Memorial Day Is...
... More Than a Holiday
Tomorrow is Memorial Day . . . the day set
aside each year across this nation for paying
tribute to the memory of our honored dead.
In Canadian, nearly all business establish-
ments will be closed in accordance with tra-
dition . . . and tomorrow morning before the
11 o'clock hour, veterans of American wars will
assemble at the American Legion Hall for the
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Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945, at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas,
muter the act of March 3, 1879. Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas,
by Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
At a traffic intersection, the U. S. Mail truck
has the right of way over all other vehicles,
at all times.
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Alexander the Great was born in Macedonia,
died in Babylon, and was buried in Egypt.
• •
Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman
sail around the world.
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Last week-end's Wildflower
tour wat an outstanding suc-
cess from every angle, and an
even bigger turn-out may be
expected here this week-end
as word-of-mouth advertising
from first-time visitors to this
area spreads the story of
Hemphill county's scenic
traditional march to the cerrtetery for formal
memorial services.
The simple act of closing doors to "business
as usual" and declaring a holiday is not
much of a gesture of respect in itself. Why
not take the time for a drive to the cemetery
to stand with bared heads for the brief me-
morial service, and show your respect for our
soldier dead in a tangible way?
It is Surely a small sacrifice to ask of us
who enjoy the fruits of their victories to take
the time from our holiday to pay this small
tribute.
Veterans will march tomorrow . . . and con-
duct their solemn rites in memory of their de-
parted friends and comrades . . . whether the
streets through which they march are deserted
or jammed.
But it seems to us that the whole ceremony
would take on a deeper meaning if the gen-
eral public would share in these rites of re-
membrance and respect.
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Adults Are Interested . . .
... In Girl Scouting, Too!
With applications pouring in from interest-
ed girls ranging in age from seven to seven-
teen, organization of at least two or three Girl
Scout troops in Canadian seems assured this
summer. Certainly there will be no shortage
of raw material.
More important, however . . . and most en-
couraging to the organizers of the movement
... is the number of parents and older girls
who have expressed willingness to work with
the troops as leaders, supervisors, or in ad-
visory capacities.
Youth programs of any kind are stymied
without adult leadership, and too often it is
difficult to find grown-ups willing to devote
the necessary time and energy to make Scout-
ing organizations, and other youth activities,
possible.
This does not seem to be the case with the
Girl Scouts in Canadian, and if adult interest
even begins to match the enthusiasm of the
youngsters, the Girl Scout organization should
be assured of success.
We hope that it is. Our community is well
organized . . . with Boy Scout troops, Little
League baseball, and other athletic activities
... for younger boys; but there has been
mighty little in the way of planned activity
for the girls of our town, and we think they
should enjoy the benefits of this sort or thing
too.
STRICTLY FRESH
Marrying the Boss' daughter
isn't a guarantee of success but
it is pretty fair unemployment
insurance.
• • •
There isn't one, single clock
watcher in this office. They all
dial the time signal service of-
fered by the telephone company.
• • •
Farm forecast: bumper corn
crop on TV for the balance of
the summer.
* • •
The true vacation time occurs
after you've clcared up all the
work that accumulated while you
were vacationing.
• • •
Simile: as hard to recondition
aa a scrambled egg.
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Canadian owes a vote of
thanks to the Amarillo Daily
News and Amarillo's KGNC-
TV staff for the generous pub-
licity given this project in the
newspapers and on radio and
television broadcasts. Without
their assistance, the story of
the wildflower tour could not
have been spread across the
Panhandle-Plains area.
Canadian and Hemphill
county . . . and Lake Marvin
. have had the kind of ad-
vertising that money can't
buy. thanks to the enthusias-
tic support of Wes lizard and
his Globe-News and KGNC
staffers.
A. S. Jackson, biologist for
the State Game Department,
not only likes to talk about
wildflowers but, unlike many
of us, knows what he's talk-
ing about. Last week • end.
Jack had a golden opportunity
to talk about his hobby to
his heart's content. For about
seven or eight hours Sunday,
he stationed himself at the
"Y" south of town ... an
area Which he describes, ac-
curately, as "a natural garden
of wildflowers" . . . and en-
tertained an estimated 250 to
300 visitors with guided tours
of the small tract in which
more than twenty-five differ-
ent varieties of flowers were
blooming.
By sundown Sunday after-1-
noon. Jack's tongue was hang-
ing out but he was a happy
man. "I've taught more bot-
any here this afternoon than
many teachers have an oppor-
tunity to teach in a year in
the classroom," he said, "and
no teacher has ever had more
interested pupils."
Jack plans to be back at
the "Y' 'this week-end . . .
this time with a little help
from the Chamber of Com-
merce greeters ... and visi-
tors who are really interested
in seeing and learning about
wildflowers from a man who
really knows about them will
do well to stop for half an
hour and take the tour.
One unexpected problem
has cropped up in connection
with the wildflower tour . . .
and that came with the ap-
pearance last week • end of
State Highway Department
mower crews, intent on mow-
ing the roadsides clean. As a
result, a lot of. the flower bor-
ders which beautify our high-
ways in this section at this
season of the year have been
closely cropped. "
Of course there are plenty
of flowers in the fields and
on the hills beyond the right-
of-way fences, but it seems a
shame that the natural beau-
ty along the roadsides can't
be permitted to remain. Cer-
tainly the low-growing plants
which are blooming in profu-
sion at this season of the year
can't pase any problem of vis-
ibility along the highways,
and they do add a great deal
to the attractiveness of the
travelled routes.
We aren't tossing rocks at
the highway maintenance
men, because they are simply
doing the Job they've been
hired and ordered to do. But
surely some appeal can be
made to the State Highway
Department ... or to the
Highway Commission ... to
delay the mowing operations
in this section until after the
wildflower show is over in the
spring. Ifs too late for this
year, perhaps . . . but new is
the time to start looking
ahead to seasons to come.
How about it Marshall Form-
by?
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Christ Asks Us Nowi What
Think To of Christ?
What think ye of Christ?
Jesus asked this question
obviously to confound those
in league against Him. They
challenged His right to teach
and do good - works. He did
not have the official badge of
their particular authority.
The scribes and Pharisees
who confronted Christ were
probably no worse — and no
better — than those officious
religious leaders who, from
time to time, have disputed
His truth.
Among those scribes'1 and
Pharisees were some of the
finest men in Israel. But
among them also were those
whose religion was merely
one of form and who cared a
great deal more for their own
power than for truth and fair-
ness toward their fellowmen.
This is the age-old tragedy
in religion — that so many
who have made great profes-
sions of faith were not living
lives based in goodnéss and
kindliness. This Is the ulti-
mate test of a man's religion.
Is he essentially a good man,
fair toward his fellowmen,
and manifesting all those
fruits of the spirit which St.
Paul enumerated with such
delicate care?
Christ made the conflict be-
tween hypocrisy and formal-
ism on the one hand, and the
religion of love and goodness
on the other, so unmistakably
plain that it is strange that
men should not have profited
more from the instruction.
Still, the spirit of those an-
cient detractors continues to
be far too manifest in our
modern world. Those who
make the greatest profession
of being God's chosen quite
frequently give too little evi-
dence of having chosen God
and made His love the domi-
nant power of their lives.
So, what think ye of Christ?
The answer is manifest in the
heartfelt acceptance of the
example and way that Christ
exemplified. We must believe
Him and follow Him if we
would be saved.
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"A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet" Oft
heard, oft repeated, the meaning is clear. No matter what you
call it the meaning Is still the same. For the purpose of this
dissertation a more apt Illustration is that you can call a
"skunk" á "woods pussy" but as far as this nose is concerned
he's still a little "stinker."
The president of the World Federation for Mental Health,
past Director General of WHO (World Health Organization)
would have us to believe, 'What basic psychological distor-
tion can be found in every civilization? There is—-just one. The
only psychological force capable of producing these perver-
sions is morality, the concept of right and wrong, the poison
long ago described and warned against as The fruit of the
tree of knowledge or good and evil.'
... For many generations we have bowed our necks to
the yoke of the conviction of sin. We have swallowed all man-
ner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday
and day school teachers, our priests, and others with a vested
interest in controlling us . . ." Dr. Chisholm goes on to state
that "psychiatry must now decide what is to be the immediate
future of the human race. No one else can." (Presented at the
W. A. White Memorial Lectures in Washington, D. C.)
Upon the first perusal of this effort to reject sin as a myth,
we are brought to a quick boiling point until we remember
that the psalmist said of such "He that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision." Like the
poem ,
I stood one evening by the blacksmith's door
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime,
And looking in I saw upon the floor
Old hammers worn with years of beating time.
"How many anvils have you had," said I,
"To wear and beat these hammers so?"
"Just one," the blacksmith said with twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know,"
So methought the anvil of God's Word
For ages skeptic blows have beat upon.
And though the sound of clanging blows is heard,
The anvil is unharmed, the hammers gone.
We know that God's word will still stand even after the Dr.
Chisholms all the centuries have been planted, still it grieves
our heart for those foolish fledglings who will swallow such
tripe to the damning of their own souls.
Let us remember that no matter how much we would like
to escape the fact "all have sinned and fallen short of the
glory of God" (Rom. 3:23) and some day we will have to face
HIM because of our sins unless we show a little more interest
in His kingdom here.
Guess I'd better bring an end to this critique. Sure is a fine
day to go fishing. Hmmm, wonder if I could slip off and go.
No one would know. After all if I'm the only one who knows
about it there won't be any punishment for it.
Slyly yours,
The Preacher.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1958, newspaper, May 29, 1958; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183902/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.