Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixty-Second Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 2 Page: 2,065
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April 21, 1971 HOUSE JOURNAL 2065
Representative Traeger entered the House and was announced present.
INTRODUCTION OF HJR 92
Mr. Traeger asked unanimous consent to introduce and have placed on
first reading HJR 92.
There was no objection offered.
Representative Atwood entered the House and was announced present.
ADDRESS BY THE HONORABLE RAY LEMMON
On motion of Mr. Swanson, the following remarks made by the Honorable
Ray Lemmon in addressing the House on today were ordered printed in
the Journal:
OUR TEXAS HERITAGE
It is not popular today to speak too much in praise of the past. You are
surely aware that this is the "now" generation. For we are being endlessly
and noisily reminded of the fact.
We live in a time when an increasing number of people-and not just
the youth-are losing faith in the past. The past, we are told, is error, to-
morrow is unknown. Only today and what we do with it has meaning. What
men and nations have said and done in the past is to be distrusted if not
forgotten, for it only serves to inhibit the free expression of the individual
will.
In the light of such thinking, I must warn you that I speak from a hope-
lessly archaic point of view. I hold the past in respect, in awe, and often
in reverence. I hold to the view that some part of whatever I am is
due in some way to what those before me were.
But I am not a chauvinist. I am not an apologist for the events, the
men, or the ideas of which I speak today. If we understand each other at
this point, I can proceed to discuss with you my thoughts about Our Texas
Heritage-that which has come to us from the past and which serves to
make us the unique state and people that we are.
I do not pretend to impartiality or to lack of bias. I am a Texan. One
of my favorite stories concerns the Texan of another day who, being in a
small town in another state with nothing to do, wandered into a funeral
service for the town reprobate. After reading the service the minister
was at a loss for the eulogy which was expected in those days, so he
looked at the few people there and said, "Does anyone have anything to
say about the deceased?" There was a long silence, whereupon the Texan
stood up and said, "Seeing as how nobody's got anything to say about
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixty-Second Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 2, legislative document, 1971; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193893/m1/89/: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.