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SWCK
Thoughts for Thursday
Law and Orders
*
— . By H. M. BAGGARLY
AS THE CHRISTMAS SEASON approa-
che people throughout much of the earth
will he observing the occasion. Even those
who ■mbrace non-Christian religions will
join in the festivities.
One aspect of Christmas is the giving
of gijts.
The heart of Christmas should be giving.
Giving at Christmas had its origin more
than 1900 years ago when the wise men
brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh
to the Christ child.
It is to be noted that there is a vast
difference between giving gifts and merely
exebenging gifts. Most of our giving involves
the I tier. VVe "draw names" or we have a
"grab hag " We anticipate those persons who
will give to us and how much they will spend
—and we attempt to reciprocate in value
if not in kind. It becomes a guessing game.
Our giving is almost c.lwavs limited to our
social cliques—and more often than not, we
worry and fret over what to give those
friends who "have everything" while they
worn■ and fret over what to give us.
What a predicament we find ourselves
in if we receive an unexpected gift!
How embarrassed we are if someone
wha n we overlooked gives to us!
Occasionallv the circle becomes so
vicious that in desperation we cry out, “Let's
just call it even this year.’
—THOUGHTS ro» TMIWSDAV—
SUCH IS NOT giving—it is merely the
exchanging of gifts and most all of us would
he better off if we simply “called it even” m-
stead of swapping not-so-plentiful dollars.
How different is it to give! Giving im-
plies no thought of receiving anything in re-
turn, not even appreciation. Giving is a de-
sire born of love. To love is to give. When
we love a person, in us is born a desire not
only to supply his needs but also to give
release to our emotions. Good gifts speak the
language of love. They express our inner
feelings when words fail.
And both the giver and he who receives
is blessed. A mother knows what it means
to receive a crude, homemade bouquet, per-
haps of wildflowcrs and weeds, from that
small son or daughter. Of course the homely
little bouquet may be of no material value
and quite useless—hat oh. how it is appreci-
ated and valued1 What words it speaks!
Such is real giving at Christmas.
— THOUGHTS fOB THUBSOAT
AND NOW A WORD to the one who is
fortunate enough to receive a gift of love—
don't nullify its meaning with a quick trip to
the store to buy something with which to
reciprocate.
To do so is to refuse the friend’s gift.
Sometimes we may he somewhat embar-
rassed when a person gives us something we
know he couldn't afford. Our first impulse
may be to refuse it or perhaps to spend an
equal amount on him
But don't do it! Don't deprive him of the
joy of giving with any such an affront to love
or friendship
Exchanging gifts is meaningless. Gifts
given through a sense of obligation likewise
are as nothing.
If w’c would enter into the true spirit of
Christmas, we would give—not exchange—
good gifts.
BROWSING DOWN
MEMORY LANE
The Dollar Patriots
It is difficult to understand what mo-
tivates people to think as they do. It would
seen that as a rule of thumb practice, when
there is an issue involving the government
vs. the people or big business vs. the people
the people would be inclined to take the side
of tl e people. Of course, after investigation
it rrvght be decided that the government or
big business was in the right . . . but never-
theless. the first impulse, it seems, would be
to defend oneself!
But this is seldom the case.
If the automobile manufacturers turn out
an unsafe vehicle and the government steps
in to protect the people, a large segment of
the people side with the auto manufacturers!
Or if some legislator charges big insur-
ance with over charging the people, these
same people side with big insurance.
Part of this is due to the public rela-
tion- programs of big business. Big oil, for
inst: ice. uses its television commercials not
tq sell oil or gas but to sell the people an the
proj isition that big oil never pollutes.
America's superpatriots, whether en-
gaged in politics, industry, or the work of old
line veterans' organizations, always stand
read, to denounce antiwar protest as a be-
tray il of “the boys who are out rhere ffgflt-
ing or our country" . . . and rightfully so!
Yet, when the military-industrial com-
plex turns out arms, military aircraft, and
otht • equipment whose faulty construction
end. ngers the lives of those same "boys out
ther we hear not a word of condemnation
of the complex! It was “just one of those un-
fort n tte things” with no one to blame!
It was not unexpected that we failed to
heat cries of outrage from the superpatriots
over revelations some time ago involving the
Air tree's C-5A cargo plane and the alleged
deceit practiced by the Colt Industries Fire-
arm- Group in turning out the M-16, the basic
com ict w eapon of U S. armed forces.
We visited Lockheed Aircraft Corpora-
te M Buggorly..............Editor and Publisher
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mr BJ *acn I PKrariOy Oy It* lulio Mftrotd. Inc. «t 124 ISO floit
Amt«tr o Tu n *K*r County. Entered at Be coed dmg mot*
fur rossottice tr* Twlio ondor tfi* act o4 Morafc 1, 1B79
tion at Marietta. Ga , about 13 monts ago
and saw the C-5A in action, we went on the
inside of one, we heard the propaganda of
Lockheed as it sought to defend itself against
its boo boos to a representative group of
newsmen.
The Air Force discovered that seven of
its 60 huge C-5A planes have engine mount-
ings which probably were cracked even be-
fore they left the factory. The C-5A fleet
was grounded after an engine on one broke
loose from the wing and crashed on the run-
way when the pilot applied full power. An
Air Force investigation disclosed that cracks
in the pylons that hold the engine to the
wing had caused the break in the plane whose
staggering cost overruns were brought to
public attention months ago by Senator
Proxmire.
The planes, originally expected to cost
$28 million each, turned out to cost nearly
$60 million each! The planned fleet of 81
planes will cost $4.9 billion—provided there
are no additional overruns.
Proxmire pointed out that the Air Force
said nothing when the engine fell off one of
the planes, hut the story got out anyway.
When a landing gear malfunctioned, the Air
Force was silent again until Proxmire an-
nounced the incident.
Some steps have been taken to correct
faulty practices of both the Air Force and
Lockheed in the production of such a major
item.
Meanwhile Colt, sole supplier of the
M-16 rifle, has been charged with delibera-
tely hidine defects in the manufacture of the
weapons It was revealed that Colt employees
had been ordered over the past several years
"to conceal defects, to switch defective parts
out of sight of government inspectors, and
to straighten crooked barrels bv ‘whacking’
them on the floor.”
The report was based on interviews with
seven present and four former employees of
Colt. Five of those interviewed made their
statements under oath.
Yet . . . did the superpatriots and their
organizations, including the veterans* organ-
izations. rise up and demand that military
sunnliers begin thinking less of corporate
profits and more about “the hoys out there”?
Thev did not'
Did vou rend editorials of outrage in the
papers0 You d;d not'
Thev are too busy attacking those who
oppose the war in Indochina and supporting
the dollar patriotism of defense contractors.
Thev are too big business oriented!
S YEARS AGO
First snow of season falls. . .
Wayne Edwards, 23, in charge of
st.ick at Bob'.-. Super Market is
Tulia Herald ''Salesman of the
Month”. M (1. Hyltin, fath-
er of Nell Mays, dies. . .Death
claims Jr»e Rossi 73. . .Water
conservation - minded residents
boost undergr und wat.r district
Mrs. Vera Hamilton, former-
ly of Tulia, dies in San Antonio.
She was a si-r r of Mrs. Frank
Armstrong. . .lie.in Heard suf-
fers hi art attack. . .George Speer
dies in Houston. . Senator Yar-
boriugi |>M st,. USDA treatment
of Texas cotton farmers. . .Death
claims John E. Toles. 73, of Lub-
bock. . Franklin Moore Keagor
named assistant county agent.
1C YEARS AGO
E W Scheid home again winner
in t'hristmas lighting contest. . .
Funeral held for G *org<* Albert
Vaughn. (17. . Eight men from
Swisher taking army physicals:
Monte Ray Gardn r, Donald Wayne
Park r. Robert lx' >n \ndcrson, Wil-
liam Fianklin Schultz. Carroll Don-
ald Nick‘I, Dewey Wendell Free-
man, Billy Richard Dalluge and
Johnny Cecil Fox. . First Na-
tional Bank begins construction of
drive-in facilities north of Tulia
Herald Building. Alvin Wes-
ley. 78, of Happy cl»-:xs. .Loy
!*y**att and Doug Carlisle named Is
hospital board.
IS YEARS AGO ,
Charge of murd r with malice
filed against Willie With-rspo>n,
cafe operator in Sunset Addition,
in connection with fatal shooting
of Manuel Pryor, Jr. 29 . Fun-
eral held for I, H Clark. 84 . .
Swisher -otton yield prior to Dec.
1 is 41 338 bales .Sam Hugh-
ston. former Tulia sch d super-
intendent, dies at Brownsville.
If YEARS AGO
Mrs. Louise G. Davis s-nd- Her-
ald mripe for sour dough biscuits
. . .Carolyn Meadows and Har-
old Poage are married . Stanley
Sedgwick weds Lucille Co.ik of Lub-
bock.
39 YEARS AGO
Lula Marjorie Conner elected
treasurer of W -I TSMS Club at
Baylor . .Father of Julius Han-
sen buried . .Several Tulia sing-
ers participating in The Messiah
at Amarillo.
IS YEARS AGO
M D. IjiVe'le. presid nt of Tulia
Kiwanis Club, dies of heart at-
tack while attending the Amarillo-
Kerrville state champi<u»ship foot-
ball game at Amarillo. . .Tom-
mie and Jack Littlejohn members
of Texas A&M orchestra which
played recently at Amarillo and
Plamview. . .C J. Vars. 56, prom-
lm-nt farmer, dies of heart attack
. . .Dr. C. L. Jackson succeeds
M D. LaVelle as Kiwanis presi-
dent. . .Ixtcille Helms wins cedar
c h e s t at Kellogg’s Stone. . .
A. M Hancock dies.
« YEARS AGO
John Kellogg buys Pickard Va-
riety Store .Coach Bill And-
er-on’s Hornet cagers to tangle
with undefeated Turkey. Beginning
lint up for Tulia will be Carl Hale,
Bill Evans. Oscar Neal, J. T. Bar-
nett and Ack Simpson. . .Coy
Burton seeks office of county and
district clerk. . .J. W. Kellogg of-
fers to accept wheat at 80c a
bushel on any merchandise in his
store.
47 YEARS AGO
Howard Martin, principal of Hap-
py High School, In Austin spending
holidays with Ills parents . .Her.
R. C. Land, pastor of First Bap-
tist Church, resign*. .Walker
Parker and Juanita return from
M -mphis, Tenn. . Marriage lic-
enses Issued to Hurley Maynard
and Eva MeManigal, both of Hap-
py: Clarence Ward and Sylvia
Payne, both of Tulia: and William
C Smith and Amanda lee New-
ton, both of Happy.
SI YEARS AOO
Son bom to Mr. and Mrs. Har-
ry Rogers. . Sallie Mulkey of
Happy and Scott Ford are married
. . Emma Hankins and James
S Ford wed. . Officers and di-
IWdBrs of C-C are G. C. Hutchi-
son president; Ray G. Jordan, vice
president: R G Porter, C. E.
Dnk-, ('. L. Cooper, and Foster
Klous. directors. . .Carrie Odes-a
Run- -II of Lam.-sa weds James
Herbert W Iker. Mrs. Paul
Ramsey entertains members of her
Sunday School class at her home.
Mrs. Ramsey is untiring and de-
voted in her Sunday School work
and has won the love and respect of
each member of her cla.-is. In a
social way, Mrs Ramsey is equal-
ly pleasing. . Harold E. Rodgers
who ha- be -n attending the School
of Mines at Socnrro, New Mexico,
spends holidays with relatives and
ft :ends
SAM ALLRED in The Prairie (Wert T#*a*
State): NO, I’M NOT MAD: On any given day,
befi.e this column is printed it is read and - or
edited and - or censored by two student editors,
two journalism advisors, anybody ihat walks in
off the -treel and assorted administrators. Then
why, in Wednesday's paper did “Cleopatra, the
sultres*.” come' out “Cleopatra, the slutress"? It
would be kind of funny if that one word did not
make the column read like an advertisement for
an X-rated movie.. There are days you just want to
lay the plow down and trudge across those fertile
fields to freedom.
REN EZZELL in Dm Canadian Record: The
United States Department of State has charged
that India is at fault and the aggressor nation in the
glowing armi'd conflict between India and Pakis-
tan, and |ierhaps this t. true.
Tin* government of India, of course, will pro-
test that it has be.n acting in Fast Pakistan only
in support of the freedom - fighting Bengali people
of Easi Pakistan who have been in revolt against
military attack from the dominant West Pakistan
government of that divided nation, and perhaps
that is true, also.
Certainly the Fast Pakistanis have beam under
heavy attack for months by thr- armed forces of
the Pakistan government, which has forced many
thousands of Bengalis to fli*e into India. . .and
India, which has troubi s of its own, has no need
for the aildr-d burden of starving and homeless re-
fugees from across the border, and conceivably
has some exi use for interfering in the Pakistani
civil war in. • its own borders are involved.
Maybe. . .and maybe not. The case is com-
plex, the India . Pakistan dispute one of long-
standing, and the people of Bengali state of Fast
Pakistan may very well be unwilling recipients of
Indian military aid.
But the point is that tlx* United States Is in no
position to make moral judgments. . a fact which
India’s repr; sentative* in the United Nations will
undoubtedly be not the only ones to point out.
Our own country has been involved for more
than a decade in arm d intervention in an in-
ternal -1 ruggle in another divided Asian nation,
and we have less excus - lor intervention in the
affairs of North and South Vietnam than has India
in ih-* affairs >1 Fast and Wvst Pakistan.
We have no common borders with the Viet-
namese, we hare not been overrun by their refu-
ges, and there is growing evidence that our pre-
sence is not greatly welcomed by the Vietnamese
people on either side of their civil war.
Before we, as a nation, can exercise any effec-
tive moral influence in the international affairs
of other nation;*, we had better cleanse our hands
of our own bloody involvement in Vietnam.
We cannot even offer the excuse on judgment
day that this has been an unpopular war, not of
our making, not of our choosing, fought without
our approval and arranged by an unresponsive
government and a runaway military establishment
. . tv*causr we. the people of the United States
of America, are the world’s foremost representa-
tives of “gov.-innvnt by the |>eople.”
We cannot plead Ihat we are not in control of
the actions of nur own government. .that the
expressed will of tlx* people to end the American
involvement in Vietnam has been ignored by our
elected rulers. Or can we?
BOB W II.SON in The Marea (III.) Prairie Pert:
Do you have difficulty in understanding the
India - Pakistan conflict’ This is in no way un-
usual, a it is not altogether understandable even
to the |x*ople in it.
India appears to haw the greater military
force, and an insuperable advantage in Fast Pak-
i-tan again t Pakistani forces which must be sup-
pled by air or s. a ft'mi lit.* main portion of the
count ry.
It mu t b’ considered probable that Mrs. Indira
Gandhi’s forces will succeed in liberating -‘Bang!a
Desh”, a* the isolated province of I’aki Ian pre-
fers to call itself.
Whether General Yahya Khan of Pakistan will
release his captive Sheik Mujibur Rahman alive,
however, remains to be seen.
Although it would be unfair of us to attempt to
judge this situation on third-hand information, a
number of factors do argue for India’s case.
We Americans are accustomed to look to the
l gitnnacy, to the representative status of a gov-
ernment. India is the world's largest democracy.
Pakistan is a military dictatorship, propped up by
millions in military aid from th* U. S. taxpayer.
Pakistan got into the present difficulties by
holding premised elections . and then going back
on their word when the voto< were counted.
East Pakistan, though p<xir. is more populous
than W st Pakistan Sheik Mujib and his \wami
league were victorious in the election, and Mujlh
was in line to become the next prime minister
of all Pakistan.
Inst'ad. Yahya Khan and his generals clapped
him into jail for “treas-m”, and outlawed his po-
litical party. When revolts followed in East Pakis-
tan, they were suppresed with a merciless fury
that drove 10,000,000 refuges swarming into India.
India, ju t trying to grt her own problems un-
der control, found herself sp.nding $830 million i
year to feed homeless, jobless, propertyless re-
fugees who could contribute nothing to their owp
keep.
What were the alL-mative.s? To s*al th * border
and let Pakistani troops kill the refugees? India
chose in-tead to send troops to the asst tan.e
of tlx* MukP Rahim guerrillas who were fighting to
free their homeland.
Those ragged rebels are not revolutionaries;
their leader is the legally elected chi.4 of gov-
ernment of all Pakistan, who now sits in prison
awaiting death on charges trumped up by the de-
feated candidate. . who aL o happend to be in
charge of the armed forces!
BOB WILSON in Th* Marea (III.) Prairie Past:
Charles R. Engelhard!, Logan County Exten-
sion Adviser, this week suggests that farmers might
benefit from access to a computer to help them
with their farm decisions. A new program of this
sort U now available through his office
Our personal v'iew *s tbat it is highly unlikely
that computers will become helpful to individual
farme-s. Simple arithmetic is en ugh. Generally IT
is more than * nough.
Take the figures set forth this w ok by Warren
E. Myers, Macon County Extension Advis r Fir .
120 bu hel corn it cost $36 |x*r acre, according to
thK-ir Farm Business Faim Management records. ,
H we sell that corn $1 a bu ix*l, this is too high
but if you rraliz-d closer to 90c, the xtra ten
percent would cover a yield of 130 bu-hrls or
over. We want to be generous in our figures and
give this every opportunity to come out rosy. »
$120 worth of corn for only $36 looks like a bar-
gain. Hey, you want to be a farmer? That looks
like doubling y xir money every time. We sincerely
hop-* Mr. Myers did not intend to give anyone the
impression it is an **asy touch.
For one thing, you must rem 'mber that half
that Brain go s to the land, either to an owner, nr *
to pay mortgage and taxes rf you own the lanl
youtrelf. Some of those expen-es are divided with
the landlord, too: some are not.
W« called Mr. Myers, and he was kind enough
to tell us which exprnsps would g ‘n rally b *
thought of as being divided. It came out $17.50 to
the owner and 338.50 to the tenant farmer.
N.iw we come to the contributions from those
two parties which were not inciud d in the calcula- .
tions. If the land is worth $70i) |x*r acre and that j
amount of money would earn him o'C, on deposit, '
here is a capital expense of 335 A.1d $I0 per acre t
taxes and the crop expense of $17.50 and the land-
owner put out 362 50 in order to get bark 350
for 60 bushel- of corn What about costs for
fences, tiling, and iwildiog maintenance’ He is
already in the hole. Where does it come frcm ex- ,
ccpl by t iki ng maybe 3% on his investment, a con-
dition any businessman would consider intolerabl •?
W II, surely somebody mark* a killing on all •
that grain; maybe it was the tenant farmer’ These
records as kept by Fxti-nsion do n it inciud;* TT*
single cost for labor, management, or profit for
the farm r That is uppised to come out of the j
difference wb n you are d.»ne figuring.
Again by Extension figures, the average acre
of corn requires 4>4 hours of labor, though it can .
tun from 3 to 7 according to degree of m *i haniza-
tion. W'iat is a farmer worth by Ihr h >ur’ If |
you sav 1 ss thin 35. you v got to be kidding Have *
you hire a plumber lately’ That gi.es $22 50 for •
labor, and the t;*nant farmer him If has now
got $81 'i *rted in a crop that yielded hun $86 if
he raised 120 buslrd corn at $1 per bu hel'
T!rs pavs h*m nothing for management, noth-
ing for profit: simply a straight five bu ks an hour
for his time, and lx* ends up losing money on what
we regard as a bump t crop. If the yield falters,
figure his losses if you dare.
Or do you expect farmers to continue to take
31 50 ixt hour ju-1 to -tay in business’
What we are trying to tell you is Ihat maize,
urvi or s *nt cost condition*, is not a $l bul a $2
pt busIH cron, if vou expert to pav vour coats,
survive an occasional poor crop, and -h >w a rea-
sonable prefit on your inves nit nt.
If yiu rain* rorn you are being robb d of «|v
pr iximitely half the value of the crop. In a year
when you have flood d th* world with gold n
grain, you can take the Fx';*nsion Se vice’s own
ngttfas and show - once vxi have add d cfverv-
thing - that you are trading dollars nr actually
going in the hole.
How long are you going to tolerate this insanity? ,
DOUGLAS MEADOR in Tha Matador Tribune:
My first adv-nrture into sewing as a boy was
t3 .-'mst-ii t a watch pocket in a new pair of njail
order pants. The work was crud-* bul 1 was proud
of it. However the pant.s were worn out and r -
signed to rags before I acquired tin Ingrrsoll
dollar watch.
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