The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 15, 1949 Page: 2 of 4
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Free Industry and the Power Problem
When the governmentcrats would get
their Fuller brush feet in the front door
of American business, they shouted that
we were in dire need .of more power, that
a war was on and the private companies
could not measure up to the need.
We, the people on the inside of the
door, listened to the sales talk and let the
door-to-door salesman get his foot inside.
We did it because we wanted plenty of
power and, being uninformed on the real
situation, let them sell us a bill of goods in
TVA.
We did not know what the private
concerns were doing and the government
set up a "yard stick" which they stated
would give us all immeasurable amounts
of electric energy at relatively no cost at
all to the people. They talked of the pri-
vate companies not being able to meet the
power situation and berated their ubility to
measure up to what the American people
would need.
What is the truth in the matter?
In the light of the past ten years, pri-
vate electrical concerns are "incredibly
stronger and healthier than ever." The
utilities went through the war which made
vast demand for power, coupled with
shortage in construction materials, while
at the same time the government could get
all the needed material for TVA construc-
tion. ¥et in the face of this, the private
concerns outgeneraled the government
management of their power projects, pro-
duced electric power cheaper than the
government and showed the world what
private industry could do.
At the same time the private com-
panies offered a field for snipers for all
sorts of isms, and were subjected to a field
of unjust criticism by half-baked men.
Today they show the greatest field
of expansion in their history. Their service
was never better, their rates are lower,
and they have carried to every nook and
corner of our town and country services
which lighten the burdens of the house-
wife and shorten the hours of the work-
ing man.
This is not a word of advertisement
for the power companies. For what we
can say about that industry could also be
said about the gas industry, the railroad
concerns, and all other private business ol
this country on whose management and
field of work the socialistic hand of the
government has not been laid.
America, under our form of govern-
ment and its free industrial opportunities,
will soon have available for all alike from
the farmer in the remote part of the coun-
try, on up to the crowded city, motorized
devices with which to carry on his work
with an ease the like of which the world
has never known.
Free industry will not only make a
nation free and great and powerful, but it
will keep the people that way. For what
makes a nation great must also* sustain that
nation by the same source.«
Down at Garland where the Kraft
Foods people moved when they left Deni-
son, that little city is having a serious wa-
ter shortage and arrests are threatened
where persons water lawns or in any way
use water above a minimum which hardly
supplies the housewife with water. The
situation bids fair to get worse. The ap-
peal is made for the homes to do without
water that industries may be supplied.
Here in Denison where Kraft used to be
we have plenty of water and the summer
rates will likely go on this week which is
to encourage the people to keep their
lawns looking beautiful. Meantime our in-
dustries have millions of gallons of water
at their disposal with no threat of a short-
age. Come on to Denison if you want wa-
ter.
Letters from People
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The Press,
Denison, Tex.
Gentlemen:
A short time ago, Collier's
Weekly "awarded" Speaker Sam
Rayburn with a chromo of some
kind, "for outstanding services to
his country," or something of the
sort.
Now, comes the House, of which
Sam is speaker, and "votes" Bro-
ther Albin Barkley, president of
the Senate, a gold medal for about
the same thing as the aforesaid
Weekly remembered Sam. The
House made $2500 available for
the medal, and provided that,
while the original memento to Al-
bin must stay in Washington, fac-
similes of the "medal" could be
made and sent to anyone any-
where, who might have time
enough to play with it.
All of which brings up the sub-
ject of what is Congress elected
for and what has it been doing,
that it has time to celebrate these
purely personal slants of its mem-
bers? It is supposed to be a hard-
working body of public servants,
not a mutual admiration society.
The current Congress was to be
humdinger. Harry the handy
from around K. C. said so
himself. It was to make the 80th
* Congress look like a speckled vest
at a full-dress function. Instead
somebody has already described it
as the 80-Worst Congress.
But assuming that it has done
enough to wangle a halo from
somewhere for each of its mem-
bers, just what are these "outstand-
ing" services that Sam and Albln
have lugged in? Of course, [we
are all familiar with the fact that
soon after the bunch got together
the first of the year, Albin and
a
man
Sam got a "raise in salary" that
would stop a clock, and Harry, the
wonder boy of the Pendergast Res-
ervation, got an "upping" to a.
basis, for income tax figuring, of
$520,000 a year. But any school
kid who knows that 9x9 doesn't
make 99 knows that these jumps
in salary for the home boys is not
exactly a great service in the pub-
lic interest.
Of similar warp and woof are
their heroic efforts to put through
Brother Truman's civil rights pro-
gram, his promised repeal of the
Taft-Hartley La,w, his big "gim-
me" of a 4 billion hike in taxes,
his efforts to take away from Tex-
as the tide-lands revenues (now
the main support of our public
schools) his feverish efforts to
give millions of our fast diminish-
ing money to the South Sea Is-
landers and other "far a,way'
backward hunks of indolence and
shiftlessness; his insistence that
the Communist investigations by a
regularly authorized Committee of
Congress were only "red herrings
out on a lark, and all that other
vast herd of wild and un-American
ideas that Harry "thunk up" be-
tween launch trips on the Potomac.
If these two "leaders" are rep-
resentative of the rank and file of
Congress, then, instead of "me-
dals" and "citations for public
service," maybe there ought to be
an investigation to see who is to
blame for the hike in our public
debt load from a nominal sum in
1932 to a sum so big that, if the
tax-payers were asked to pay off
tomorrow, about 90 per cent of
the heads of families would go
bankrupt; and yet SOMEBODY
has got to pay* that debt, or we are
common national bankrupts and
cheats.
Mr. Truman says he wants to
cut the national debt by 2 billion,
The Low Down
From Hickory Grovfe
• •
"Littlo fellers" doing "big
things" is what we have been hav-
ing too much of—that is how I di-
agnose our symptoms. We are in
bud shape, says Mr. Uranium. Mr.
Brannan is our Dept. of Agricul-
ture Big Smoke. H'e says that
"the biggest economic crash in
history" is around the corner—but
he can fix it, he says.
For years now, Govt, doetors
have been prescribing. But no^,
after all this time—and the same
doctoring—the undertaker is hov-
ering around the corner. That is
what the man says—Mr. Brannan
that is. But open up, he says—this
new elixir is just the ticket. And
gullible as we ar«—^congress, too—
and a sucker for shenanigans, we
will likely say okay. Wc will dig
up the do re mi to keep prices up
for the farmer and at the same
time, he says, we can buy cheap-
er at the coiner grocery. Mr.
Barnum and Mr. Bailey—both of
'em—if they were living now,
would need take a back seat to
this new and great "Govt, wizard"
—and round and round she goes.
And now—with a tip to our TJ.
S. A. senators. The senate is in-
vestigating gasoline prices. Jump
on a boat, I say, for socialistic
France or Italy where gas sells
at 2 times as much as here, or
take a squint at the crepe hanging
on the Texas gas pumps where new
taxes there are jacking up prices.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
but that a little bunch in Congress
,won't let him. How does he want
to cut down the debt 2 billions?
By taxing the already tax-soaked
public 4 billion more dollars. Even
if there was any sense in an in-
crease of 4 billions in taxes, why
not cut the debt down by 4 bil-
lions instead of two? Does it
take 50 cents on the dollar to write
a check and take a receipt; or does
the program envision some 100,-
000 more little federal job-holders
(and vote-getters) standing around
wtih watery mouths, waiting fori
Uncle Sam to let them get their
hands into the cash register?
This week, the financial report
on the state of the Union showed
that there jwere 6,219,000 job-hold-
ers on the public payroll, counting
state, county, and city, in addition
to the millions on the FEDERAL
trough; and that the cost for June
was $1,375,000,000, the GREAT-
EST of any month in our history.
In addition, the deficit for the
fiscal year just closing will be
$1,600,000,000 — two or three
times what the great "Water Boy"
from up on the Kaw, had guessed.
And still, there is NO WAR going
on; instead it has been four years
since the shooting stopped.
Medals for public service? If
members of Congress who hold so
fast to the New Deal philosophy,
are to get medals for being the
big boys in the process that has
led us into the unholy fix we are
in, then WHAT KIND OF RECOG-
NITION WOULD BE DUE the fel
lows who have the sound judgment
to LEAD US OUT OF IT?
Bill Jones, It looks like some-
body is taking you for a dumb
cluck. How much longer are you
going to fiddle around before you
look into the matter?
Sincerely,
F. A. Garrett.
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DEATHS
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CURTIS PATTEN COFFMAiN
Curtis Patten Coffman, who
died suddenly at his home, 220 W.
Murray, last Saturday, was buried
Sunday afternoon in Fail-view cem-
etery. Funeral services ,were con-
ducted at the Freewill Baptist
church, of which he was a mem-
ber, by Rev. Robert Sampson.
Mr. Coffman was born In Lee
County, Virginia, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Coffman, on Feb
8, 1890. He was educated in Vir-
ginia, and was married In Hills-
boro„ Texas, in 1914 to Miss Laura
Alive Bya.rs. He was a carpenter
by trade, and was a member of the
Carpenters' Local and the Billy
Mosse Lodge No. 1152, of the or-
der of Masons.
Deceased is survived by two
sons, Curtis Coffman and Earl
Coffman of Denison; three broth-
ers, P. H. Coffman and J. W.
Coffman of Denison, and C. E.
Coffman of Washington state; two
sisters, Mrs. W. E. Singleton and
Mrs. O. R. Norie of Denison.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Notice is hereby jfiven that seal-
ed bids will be received by the
City of Denison until 12:00 o'clock
noon on Monday, July 25, 1949,
in the Council Chamber at the
City Hall, Denison, Texas, on the
welding of all holes in the Police
Department radio tower located in
the rear of the Municipal Building,
Denison, Texas. Contractors are
invited to inspect said tower prior
to bidding.
The City of Denison reserves the
riifht to reject any or all bids.
The City ol" Denison,
H'arry Glidden, Mayor
ATTEST:
Harold Schmitzer,
City Secretary
3-2t
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Notice is hereby given that seal-
ed bids will be received by the
City of Denison until 12:00 o'clock
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ald Prince, minister of the First
Baptist chftrch officiated at the
burial service and Bratcher-Moore
was in charge of arrangements.
Interment was in Oakwood ceme-
tery.
Mr. Manery was born in Tennes-
see, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Manery. He was educated in Ten-
nessee and was married in Deni-
son in 1927 to Miss Pearl Mosier.
He was a member of the First
Baptist church. Mr. Manery was
superintendent of the Denison
Mattress Factory, where he had
been employed for the past thirty-
four years.
He is survived by his widow, one
daughter, Miss Billie June Manery;
three brothers, J. U. Manery, Pete
Manery and Joe Ma.nery; four sis-
ters, Miss Tillie Manery, Mrs.
Johnnie Redmon and Mrs. Tom
Stafford, all of Denison, and one
sister, Mrs. Nettie Carpenter of
Wichita Falls.
noon on Monday, July 25, 1949,
in the Council Chamber at the
City Hall, Denison, Texas, on the
painting of the Denison City wa-
terworks standpipe and the Deni-
son Police Department's radio
tower.
Labor and material to be furn
ished by contractor. One coat o.,
red lead and one coat ot' aluminum
paint to be used. All loose paint
and rust to be scraped from the
standptpe and radio tower prior to
the red lead coat. Aluminum paint
ready-mixed No. 'J 18, as used by
the City of Denison Water De-
partment, or equal, and red lead
paint to consist of fourteen pounds
of dry red lead and one gallon
pure linseed oil mixed.
The City of Denison reserves
the right to reject any or all bids.
The City of Denison,
Hurry Glidden, Mayor
ATTEST:
Harold Schmitzer,
City Secretary
3-2t
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Anderson
and sons Tommy and Ray, spent
Sunday afternoon in Denison, vis-
iting relatives. Tommy will remain
in Denison for a week with his
grandmother, Mrs. M. B. Cox,
1000 West Chestnut street.
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