Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1957 Page: 3 of 16
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MAT 90,
Ernest Joiner in his
'It Sez Here'
Things will improve when we
learn how to make the truth sound
as thrilling, persuasive and plaus-
ible as the well-concocted lie now
Is.
"Jbe McCarthy faded from the
scene last week, a victim of alcohol
. . . Three times in recent months
he had been hospitalized-not for
a leg injury as stated, but because
of alcohol. This last time he was
under neurological care. He had
been on an almost straight whisky
diet for three weeks."
So wrote H. M. Baggarly in The
Tulia Herald last week. If his in-
formation is correct, the episode
points up the dishonesty and Ir-
responsibility of the American press.
The late senator would not be the
first figure on the American scene
to be "protected by the daily
press from condemnation by citizens
who have a direct interest in that
person's conduct. A former Texas
governor was said to have died
of "natural causes" when those
who knew him intimately admitted
he died in a fit of alcoholism.
If McCarthy drank himself to
death, it was the duty of the press
to inform the people of the mat-
ter. When a man submits himself
to the evaluation of the people by
standing for election, he loses many
tooi ram
THIS WEEK IN
American History
By WILLIAM BRODIE itHWWWWHWml
PURCHASE OF MANHATTAN
One of the best bargains of a
real estate deal in America was
wade on May 24, 1626 in what is
now New York City. The deal
was made by a 46-year-old Dutch-
man, Peter Minuit, the new Di-
rector-General of the Dutch West
Indies Company's settlement in
America, known as New Nether-
lands.
Peter Minuit landed In New
Amsterdam, the tiny Dutch trad-
ing post at the tip of Manhat-
tan Island, during the first week
In May of 1626 He built & fort,
togethei with a warehouse and
mill, called Fort Amsterdam
Around it huddled the bark-cov-
ered huts of the first Dutch set-
tlers, about two hundred in num-
ber
The Dutch claimed theli big
portion of the New World by
right of discovery, mostly that ol
Henry Hudson, and held the land
by right of occupation One of
the first thingi Peter Minuit de-
cided to do in New Amsterdam
was to strengthen the Dutch
company's hold on Manhattan
Island by purchasing the title to
It from the Indians Petei Minuit
wanted to make Manhattan Island
the center of Dutch settlement
On May 24th Director-General
Minuit called the chiefs of thc-
neighboring Indian tribes into
council and told them, in friend-
ly fashion, that we wanted to buy
all of Manhattan Island tiom
them. The chiefs were also
friendly They had no more idea
of land values than the deei of
the forest. To them, buying and
selling land that was free for
everybody to roam over, was a
white man's foolishness The
chiefs were willing to sell and
humor the white man, for a suit-
able exchange of goods.
Peter Minuit brought out
pieces of bright cloth, beads, and
other trinkets to a total of sixty
guilders, oi $24 in today's money.
The chiefs were satisfied. The
bargain was struck, (the Indians
were stuck, but they didn't know
It), and now the Dutch owned
all of Manhattan by right of pur-
chase.
The island of Manhattan, so-
called by the Dutch from the
name of the Indian tribe which
used it as a punting ground, was
a beautiful land, 22,000 acres of
grand forest abounding In game,
rivers and brooks full of fish, and
the woodland full of wild fruits,
roots, herbs and plants that were
good to eat, as well as for medi-
cinal purposes. And Peter Minuit
bought it all at the rate of about
ten acres for one cent.
This deal was Indicative of the
way the Dutch in New Amster-
dam went about their coloniz-
ation They didn't enslave the na-
tives. and order "Fire!" as did the
Spaniards in their conquests
They weren't as prayerful and as
ready to thank God on their
knees as the Puritans and Quak-
ers In their settlements. The
Dutch attitude was, "Hoevel?"
(How much?)
That it worked well is clearly
seen from the first real estate
deal in Manhattan In the many
thousands of deals made there
since then, there never has been
one as big, oi at such a bargain
rate, as the one that Peter Min-
uit made on May 24, 1626
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This an' That
Louisville, Kentucky has set out
to make "hay" of the famous Ken-
tucky Derby by building a week-
long festival around the horse race.
Added attractions of this year's
Derby included a nationally-tele-
vised boxing match, a highly suc-
cessful Kentucky Derby Open Golf
Tournament and a big parade. Bill
Corum and others responsible for
the Derby, while backing Louis-
ville's bigger ambitions, would
prefer not to have too many events
•o close to Derby post time. Hun-
dreds of sports writers from over
the world come to Louisville to
witness the race and write about
it and they'd like to keep it that
way .. , The fourth time was the
charm for Sugar Ray Robinson.
When the great fighter kayoed
Gene Fullmer to regain the middle-
weight title he earned enough
money to pay off his back debt to
"Uncle Sam and at the same time
Mt himself up for the biggest pay-
day ef tola oareer. A match against
Came* 1—tHe will pot plenty of
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TOPS AGAIN . . . Sugar Ray
Robinson, 37, won middleweight
boxing championship in Chica-
go for fourth time, knocking
out In fifth round favored Gene
Fullmer who took title from him
last January.
privileges he owns as a private
citizen. Once elected, he has no
private life. He is a representative
of the people. What he eats, drinks,
thinks, says and listens to are mat-
ters, of public concern and debate.
If a senator is a drunk, certainly
his constituents have a right to
know of it, since it obviously will
affect his ability to discharge
duties of the office. We know the
type of pressure brought to bear on
editors and publishers in affairs
of this kind. No domagogue ever
lived who did not have powerful
friends at court. McCarthy was no
exception. He had the most pow-
erful church organization in the
world at his command, plus half
the nationalistic crackpots of the
land. No amount of rationalization
could justify McCarthy's "white-
wash" in this case. If it was done
to "protect" his gopd name and
his family, it is high irony. His-
tory would stand falsified to "pro-
tect" the good name of a man
whose sole claim to fame is that
he brought ill-founded and unjust
accusations against hundreds of
innocent people, wrecking their
careers and their homes. If Mc-
Carthy has been protected by the
press, then the press is equally ir-
responsible.
SPECIAL SUNDAY
DINNER
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BETTY'S CAFE
SEE ME FOR TV
Leon Osborn
Phone 900-F-4 Claude, Texas
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Waggoner, William J. B. & Waggoner, Cecil O. Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1957, newspaper, May 30, 1957; Claude, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth355493/m1/3/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Armstrong+County+-+Claude%22: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Richard S. and Leah Morris Memorial Library.