The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1972 Page: 4 of 10
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Take a break
America has changed considerably
since 1940, when Thomas Wolfe wrote
"You Can't Go Home Again." Now it's
almost impossible to leave home.
Television has almost completely
taken over the lives of homes across
the country.
According to an article in TV Guide,
"There are those who mourn the pass-
ing of the old sectional distinctions,
of the different accents and customs
and rivalries, and it is indeed sad to
see the end of so much that was unique
and charming. We are becoming
homogenized.
"It was said that television is stan-
dardizing Americans — standardizing
our speech, our dress, our atitudes,
and our entertainment standards.
"But if our homogenization means
a reunification of our country and a
return to the strong sense of our
country ...."
Saturday night, you can get away from
other views
the homogenized world of television
and its fantasies.
You can go out and be with a group
of people who are sincerely interested
in the growth of a town, its people and
the town's progress.
It will be like the good old days when
people got together for an old-fashioned
family-style meal to talk to neighbors
that they don't see every day.
It's time for the annual Naples
Chamber of Commerce Ladies Night
and Banquet at the Naples Motor Inn.
It should be a grand affair with the
annual awards to be handed out, the
speaker, the banquet meal and the
fellowship of townspeople that you don't
get to really visit with during the
week.
If you don't have your tickets yet,
get them now. You would probably
enjoy a night out of the house and
away from that hypnotizing tube that
you stare at every night.
Childhood needed
Manhattan Psychoanalyst Peter Bios,
in the current issue of Daedalus, in-
sists that youthful behavior need not
follow biology, and that "a prolongation
rather than an abbreviation of childhood
is imperative."
It today's children are reaching sex-
ual maturity earlier than previous
generations, this is no reason - accord-
ing to Bios - for parents to condone
early dating, or the use of the pill by
girls barely into their teens. Bios
believes that this kind of permissive-
ness can have harmful consequences
because the young adolescent is still
a child psychologically, "regardless
of the status of his primary and
secondary sex characteristics."
There is no way to hurry his emo-
tional maturation. Encouraged to grow
up too fast, the young adolescent may
never really grow at all. Bios finds
that the boy who shows a precocious
preference for girls is often the one
'whose maleness proves in later years
shakily established," while the boy
who prefers the company of boys during
his early adolescence "tends to settle,
later on, more firmly and lastingly in
his masculine identity."
Bios believes parents should set
limits, affirm their personal values,
deny the "clamor for grown-up status,'
and refuse to be intimidated by charges
of authoritarianism. That is bound to
cause family tensions, but antagonism
between parent and adolescent is
normal. Without learning to cope with
it, Bios believes that there is no
growth.
Bios rejects as false the notion that
thwarting a youngster's new-found sex-
ual drive will be harmful. When a child
is sexually mature, his personality
is strong enough to tolerate and even
profit from delay, repression and sub-
limation. The Christian ethic has been
psychologically sound in this respect,
whereas the ideals of the sexual revo-
lution and new morality wreck psycho-
logical havoc among America's youth.
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Dear Editor:
Included in the by-laws of the Naples Park Board
Association is the following statement. "The purpose
of the City Park of Naples Is to provide a place of
wholesome recreation for our citizens with emphasis
on our youth. As such facilities are made available
through donations."
Now — to put it bluntly — the park needs money.
Money to pay for tables and chairs recently bought
for the community center building.
The park board urges you to help with this project.
Your donations will be greatly appreciated and are
badly needed.
Please contact any of the following park board
members with your donation, no matter how small
or how large.
Thank you,
Hayden Lee
Kerry Hicks
Mrs. Ed Smith
Ken Alexander
Mrs. Myra Hummel
Lowell G. McMichael
Dear Editor:
First, I wish to offer delayed congratulations on
your acquisition of the Monitor. I have read this
paper for many years and think it is one of the finest
weeklies. I am sorry that Mr. Narramore's health
would not permit him to continue with the paper but
I feel that it remains in very competent hands.
Secondly, I want to thank you for the publicity given
in this week's issue of the Monitor to our problem
of losing street lamps in Naples to BB and pellet guns.
This is a problem that is common to all our towns
and it seems to get worse after Christmas when many
youngsters receive air rifles and pellet guns as
presents. Your editorial and front page publicity of
the matter should prompt parents to discourage
destruction of property with these guns. Your interest
in this matter is greatly appreciated.
Yours very truly,
J. D. Sawyer,
Division Manager,
Southwestern Electric
Power Company
The Monitor
Thursday, Feb. 10, 1972
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Except First Thursday After Christmas At
NAPLES, TEXAS 75568
Morris G. Craig Editor and Publisher
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too much on a cowboy's pay!"
Sage of Sulphur Bottom
A new tax olan
Entered as second class mall at Naples, Texas
Subscription Rate Per Year
Local $3.00 Non-Local $5.00
(Editor's note: The Sage of Sulphur
Bottom on his johnson grass farm
comes up with a counter tax pro-
posal this week. Its success seems
dim.)
Dear editar:
As I understand it, Washington, faced,
like you and me, with the problem of
having more demands for money than
it has, is considering a new kind of
tax called the Value-Added Tax.
The way it works, I've been told, is
that every time a product is improved,
from the iron ore stage through the
steel process through manufacturing to
the finished automobile or tractor or
whatnot, a Value-Added Tax is im-
posed.
When a steel company turns ore
into steel, it has increased its value
so at that point a tax is assessed.
The company pays the tax but adds
the amount to the price of steel.
When the steel is forged into a knife
or a car bumper, naturally its value
has increased so another tax is as-
sessed there, which that manufacturer
pays and then ups his price by that
much, and so it goes, every step being
taxes and added to the cost of the
finished product, which by then is car-
rying a pretty heavy load which is
paid In the end by the consumer.
This is being heralded as a new
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source of tax revenue, which in politi-
cal phraseology means a new way of
getting at the same old source, you
and me and the rest of us.
Now understand I don't object to this
tax, anymore than I object to any
other tax, and after all land and othej
property can stand just so much t
and that point has already been reac.^
ed and passed in most places, but the
consumer ought to be entitled to some
small break in this new tax proposal,
and I have a suggestion.
If he's going to pay a Value-Added
Tax all the way from iron ore to the
finished car, he ought to be entitled
to a Value-Lowered Refund every time
the finished car heads back down on its
way to scrap metal.
Say you pay $3,500 for a new car
and 4 years later when you trade it in
on a new one, the dealer looks in his
book and says it's worth $500. It is
clear that you ought to be able to throw
the Value-Added Tax into reverse and
collect a Value-Lowered Refund. The
same would apply to refrigerators,
television sets, tires, tractors, furni-
ture, etc.
I hope you'll call this to the at-
tention of congress. A dealer just
offered me $75 for my old car, pro-
vided I d bring it around to the back.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
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Craig, Morris G. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1972, newspaper, February 10, 1972; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329743/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.