The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1951 Page: 2 of 10
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Object: Safer Driving
Two new laws which have as their purpose
making Texas streets and highways safer take
effect soon.
The so-called drivers' responsibility law
takes effect Jan. 1, and requires drivers involv-
ed in accidents where damage exceeds a mini-
mum figure to show proof of financial ability to
meet any possible claims, up to a maximum
total of $15,000.
This financial ability may take the form of
a bank balance, non-homestead property, stocks
or bonds; but for most drivers it will have to
take the form of more insurance.
Failure to provide such proof of ability to
pay might result in loss of all driving privileges,
and suspension of registration of all vehicles
owned by that person.
Our advice is that all drivers .figure out a
way to post this security, or take out Insurance.
Now is the time, rather than after that accident
which you don't expect occurs.
The second law requires the inspection of
all motor vehicles before they can be registered
for 1952. This law takes effect April 1, 1952, when
all vehicles must be registered, or earlier if you
secure your license plates prior to the deadline.
Sponsors of this law have high hopes for
what it will accomplish. If Inspections of vehicles
are thorough enough, and if OK stickers aren't
given out simply on payment of a fee, as in
some neighboring states, dangerous autos will
be taken off the streets and highways or re-
paired.
Approved inspection stations will be an-
nounced soon. Already one has been applied for
and been approved here. But it's not too early
to take your car to your favorite garage or deal-
er and have It put in top-notch shape. Motorists
are not required to have repair work done by
the inspecting garage.
Muzzle for the Ox
We read of a fellow in a central Texas city
who has been charged with embezzling $125,000
from the place where he wqrks.
In a statement to officers the man said he
had worked there for 30 years, and was making
$250 per month. The man added that he had a
wife and four children, and found it difficult to
live on his salary.
Certainly the size of the man's small salary
was no excuse for theft, for he could have quit
his job, even though he had worked there 30
years, and sought a better-paying position.
Nevertheless, his employers were virtually
Inviting this employee to let some of the green
stuff stick to his fingers by such a flagrant case
of underpayment
Several cases of this type which have made
the newspapers have called attention to some
low salaries paid In the various professions, but
other employers are equally, or more so, guilty.
It's just a hard matter for a waitress, who
makes $7.50 per week "and tips," to embezzle
enough eggs, silverware and the like to get
the FBI on her trail.
Novel Giving
We once heard about a woman who did her
Christmas giving in a novel way.
She lacked the money to purchase gifts for
al! those on her list, so she wrote out IOU's
for services to be performed.
For some young parents she promised to
baby sit free of charge several times. For a
working mother of three she offered a complete
house cleaning job. She would make a dress
for a teen-age girl, and even mow a lawn one
time for the girl's brother.
There's a moral to this true story for all of
us. We can give of ourselves to those we love,
and to those things which we have responsibili-
ties—church, civic clubs, boy scouts, govern-
ment.
We might even write out IOU's for the in-
tangibles—imagine a husband writing his wife a
dozen IOU's for compliments on her hair, or
cooking, or housekeeping. Or a son giving his
Dad a dozen IOU's for taking his advice and
counsel.
Some people on your gift list might appreci-
ate these gifts more than anything money could
buy.
Death Can Take Your Holidav
During the last decade more persons have
been killed in auto accidents during December
than in any other month.
This is due to several factors: shorter days,
icy highways, snow and rain, more inter-city
traffic and too much alcoholic celebration.
The National Safety Council says this year's
Christmas fatalities will mean more than here-
tofore, for one of these will be the one millionth
person to die in an auto accident, since the in-
fernal machine took its first life in 1896.
The Council has guessed tnat No. 1,000,000
will meet his death on Dec. 21—that's tomorrow.
Be a little more careful tomorrow, and all
through the Christmas season. oYu wouldn't
want to spoil your family's Christmas, would
you?
He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also; and greater works than these
shall he do; beca_u.se I go unto my Father.
— Christ Jesus.
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THURSDAY, DFX'. 20, 1951
Published Weekly fcvery Thursday at the Sentin-
el Building at 112 Avenue B SW, Seminole, Tex.
P. O. Drawer 8 Dial 4442
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postofflce
at Semlnele, Texas, under the act of March 3,
1879.
LEWIS A. REDDELL.
MELVIN STEAKLEY...
-...Publisher
.Editor
Every loyal, honest citizen must obey the law,
even while seeking to improve it.—Robert McNutt
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character of
any person or firm appearing In these columns
will be gladly and promptly corrected upon being
brought to the attention of the management
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CANADA'S RAILROADS
By George Peck
Any Americans who have paid
the slighest attentiion to the
"Put-the-Federal - Government-
into-the-Railway-Business" pro-
ponents should take a good look
at Canada. That examination
will disabuse their minds of any
thought that transportation
would be improved in the United
States, were Federal Govern-
ment to take the railroads out
of private ownership. In fact,
it will convince them that trans-
portation would be both less ef-
ficient and more costly.
Canada with an economy more
more closely approximating ours
than that of any other country,
has experiemented in govern-
ment ownership of railroads—to
its sorrow, as you will see as
you read on. Our good neighbor
to the North has two trans-conti-
nental railway systems: The
Canadian National Railways,
publicly-owned; and the Can-
adian Pacific Railway, privately
owned. Therefore, Canada pro-
vides an excellent proving
ground to determine which bet-
ter serves the people, the public-
ly-owned or privately-owned rail-
road.
, Both types of Canadian rail-
ways operate under the same
passenger and freight rates.
Neither enjoys any special privi-
leges. Both operate across the
whole of Canada, so that neither
enjoys and advantage over the
other due to carrying passengers
and freight In a more profitable
operating territory. Now, let's
pore over a few statistics to see
what transpires railway-wise up
north of the border.
The Canadian National Rail-
ways (Government-owned) oper-
ates a total of 33,122 miles of
track. For the year, 1948, its
deficit was $33,532,741; for 1949,
$42,043,027; and for 1950, $3,261,-
235; or a total deficit for the
three-year period amounting to
$78,837,003. That huge sum came
out of the taxpayers' pockets
via the Canadian treasury.
The Canadian Pacific Railway
(privately-owned) operates a to-
tal of 17,080 miles of track in
Canada. For the year, 1948, it
paid in taxes $8,024,445; for 1949,
$6,615,460; for 1950, $17,226,607;
or a total for the three-year
period amounting to $31,866,512.
That huge sum was put into
the public treasury to help
ligliten the burden of the Can-
adian taxpayers.
But that's only part of the
story. In 1948, the C.P.R. paid
dividends of $21,307,682 to its
stockholders; in 1949, $20,622,-
769; and in 1950, $23,488,648; or
for the three-year period a total
of $65,419,098.
So, there you have the govern-
ment-owned railway adding to
the burden of the Canadian tax-
payers, while the privately-own-
ed railway contributes to the
general welfare and prosperity
of the Dominion of Canada.
And in case you may be won-
dering if perhaps the Canadian
people receive some compensa-
tion for the tax-money required
to maintain the government-
owned railway by way of getting
better service, disabuse your
mind of that thought also. The
Canadian Pacific service is equal-
ly as good as that of the Can-
adian National. In fact, many
Canadians claim that it is better.
To sum up: the publicly-owned
railway takes out of the public
treasury while the privately-
owned puts In, the while the lat-
ter gives the Canadian shipper
and passenger at least equal
value per dollar expended.
Canada's experience with its
railways constitutes just one
private ownership over public
more proof of the superiority of
ownership — an experience that
should convince us that if we
wish to have the maximum cost,
we'd better leave the railroads
just where they are — in the
hands of private owners.
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TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS
FIVE!
A group of university profes-
sors conducted a radio panel dis-
cussion on a New Orleans sta-
tion a few nights ago. When
teachers get together in such
manner, and discuss frankly and
publicly some of the faults of
their own profession, the results
can be of value not only to the
school people but to the parents
and and the general public. The
question discussed was: Are our
schools turning, out young men
and women unable to work the
simple arithmetic problems they
meet in everyday life?
The agreed opinion on the
question was, "Yes—they are."
The professors were from Loy-
ola and Tulane Universities. Al-
so on the panel was a Loyola
student representing students of
today. He too felt that "we are
growing up a generation who
can't work simple arithmetic."
He based his opinion on his own
experience with students in his
own college.
Failed Simple Test
One of the important facts
brought out came from a test
given this year to 400 high
school graduates who entered
the freshman class of one of the
New Orleans colleges. The test
was in simple arithmetic. Yet,
of the 400 freshmen taking it,
180 failed!
The professors were of the
opinion that similar weaknesses
were to be found among students
throughout the country. There-
fore, the major part of the dis-
cussion was given over to the
question of "Where is education
failing?"
There seemed to be general
agreement that teachers nowa-
days are themselves being
taught "too much about new
methods of teaching and not
enough about the basic subjects
themselves." The professors
were also of the opinion that "so
many new things are being
brought into the grade school
and high school curriculums
that basic 'tool' subjects are ne-
glected."
'Progressive Education Again'
Panel members were of the
opinion that this neglect of
basic subjects was due, at the
grade school and high school
level, to the return of "progres-
sive education" in varying de-
grees. "Progressive education,"
which had a short-lived popular-
ity early in the century, was
fathered by Wm. H. Kilpatrick
and John Dewey at Teachers
College, Columbia University.
These educational "moderns"
placed greatest importance on
new methods of teaching, almost
discarded the basic orthodox
studies ' of reading, writing and
arithmetic, and declared there
were no fundamental truths.
At various points around the
country controversy has been
stirred up in recent years over
claims of parents that certain
teaching practices and even
some basic philosophy of "pro-
gressive education" had been
quietly worked into school
courses of study without the
knowledge or consent of school
patrons generally. Whatever the
outcome of such controversies
there are examples, besides the
ones cited by the New Orleans
professors, of a serious failing'
somewhere along the line in
many schools.
Something; Wrong
The Babson Institute in Massa-
chusetts made a study of the
level of knowledge of 30,000 stu-
dents in 100 New England
schools and reported the aver-
age schoolboy could not read
well and that "many high school
graduates cannot solve a simple
arithmetic problem." In Los
Anpeles, to silence parental ob-
jections to some "progressive"
methods used in the school sys-
tem, the school authorities them-
selves have just conducted an
examination of 11,000 high
school juniors. To their surprise
and embarrassment, they found
that 18 per cent of the juniors
did not know how many months
there are in a year, 600 couldn't
work a simple arithmetic prob-
lem such as dividing 70 by two,
and about 400 couldn't tell the
time of day on a clock.
It- would seem therefore that
we need more self-critical radio
panels such as the one in New
Orleans. And above all we need
somehow to encourage the in-
telligent, active interests of all
school patrons—at the primary,
the high school and college
levels. The principles of human
freedom rest on the structure of
American education. But only
through sound, common sense
teachings based on the funda-
mental truths of life can the
Lowdown From
Hickory Grove
Now and then I will get up
my nerve—venture out a 100 or
200 miles on the highway. So
far I have made it back home.
I marvel that I actually came
through unscathed.
Why will folks at the steering
wheel--young ones and spavins,
male and female—cross a double,
do-not-cross, line. First I reckon
it must be that they are not too
hefty in the belfry, to begins
with-—a head-on collision is asw
apt to kill or maim the dumb
drivers as it is to kill the inno-
cent ones who can't avoid the
killer. Maybe the guy or dame
has hoisted one too many shorts,
beers blended with fire watef
mixes, and don't know whether
it is a double line or one line or
a flock of lines they are barg-
ing over in their flamboyant.
How these guys and dames got
their drivers license in the first
place, is a 5 buck question.
In this short essay—my bright
idea is this—print up a flock of
j neat little signs reading, "I cross
double lines, nonchalant." Put
one such sign on the back of
each person's car, as the driver
is up for the first offense—and
keep it there for 30 days—and
see what happens.
And for the second bright idea
—and look into the distant fu-
ture—put "manners" as a re-
quired one-half hour per day
into every curriculum, grade
school, high school, and clear up
to the big university. Soft pedal
in the school house, social up-
lift, and substitute therefor
"good manners" and "horse
sense."
Yours with the low-down,
JO SERRA
A
American heritage of freedom
and individual opportunity be
passed up from generation to
generation.
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Steakley, Melvin. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1951, newspaper, December 20, 1951; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth412436/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.