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USE TWO
THE DENISON PRESS, DENISON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1950
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What of the Year 2050?
The Press has been asked to send one
of its front pages to be inserted in a sealed
cache the last day of the Texas State Fair
which has been complied with. There will
be other Texas papers in the group, a se-
lect number being made for the purpose.
The idea is to open the depository in 2050,
or 100 years from this date and let the
people of that day and age see how we
neophytes lived.
We have tried to imagine a few things
that day will bring. The traffic situation,
for one thing will be so complicated that
people will ride in cages suspended on L-
shaped hardware which holds up the
cables on which the car moves. Automatic
stopping devices will let each man be his
own conductor and the stops will be made
on the exact spot. An elevator will let him
down to the ground.
From the elevator he will be trans-
ferred to his domicile by his waiting auto.
Everybody almost now in 1950 rides. And
the generations born in the next 100 years
will see our people very likely having web
between toes and the foot one solid piece.
All because none of the people walk. By
our failing to use our teeth, man, has al-
ready over the past 100 years or so lost
two of his molars. A great per cent of
our people have lost all their teeth—all be
cause we did not eat sound food, but
munched on pro-digested stuff. We have
also lost two of our ribs. They say man
is evoluting. But that looks like devolution.
It we keep on flying, the children may
be born with wing tips or something to
which new inventions may seize to hook on
a pair of wings made to'order and which
are peddled out by floating mail order
houses.
Man is living now on capsules and
the capsule idea is in line with 1950, but
we can’t say about 2050. Man now picks
up a piece of his whisk broom and sprink-
les sugar and compressed milk over it and
calls it breakfast food. On the outside of
the box it reads about iron, vitamin b and
some two other articles, all calculated to
fix a man for a hard morning’s work. Ben-
iamin Franklin and the others of his day
never went to work on that kind of break-
fast. But wait for 2050. Gone will be the
need for dishes and kitchen utensils. A
man will pull a series of strings and his
clothing will be zipped on. He will pass
through a device that will wash his face,
shave him and comb his hair. On the way
out he will reach for his capsule with its
food for the day, ride in a capsule device
suspended from brackets to his work,
work in a ready-made and air-conditioned
place where everything is calculated and
performed by mechanism of some sort
while man will listen to capsule news and
view the news maker from where it is to
where it goes.
He will not have much use for think-
ing or using his muscles. All calculating
will be done mechanically, man will ossify
into one big muscle with no need to use
associative neurons—and who can tell—he
may be a digestive tube only.
Squandered Money
of People, Byrd
Says of US Policy
In an open letter to the Press
this week, Senator Harry F. Byrd,
democrat of Virginia, says that in
tin- past five years since the close
of the second world war, those
years may well go down as the
most irresponsible five years of
the American Republic, and un-
less we begin thinking straight ami
act accordingly, they may be re-
corded as the prelude to the down-
fall of the greatest democracy of
ail time.
In part he says:
"In these five years we have
squandered the greatest prosperity
ever to come to any nation; the
Federal Government has collected
far more taxes than ever before;
it has spent far more money on
purely domestic-civilian program.1
than ever before; it has spent far
more money abroad than ever be-
fore; it has spent far more money
for defense than ever before with-
out achieving preparedness; and
we have failed to curtail the great-
est public debt any nation has ev-
er known, in the past 19 years
our government has been in the
black only 2. We have started
deficit spending again in a large
way, and it is very possible that
cur federal budget may not be bal-
anced before we go over the prec-
ipice of financial disaster.
We were forced to go to war on
Korea without effective prepara-
tion, although we had spent more
that $H0 billion for national de-
fense in the past five years. Be-
fore the invasion, Congress was
told that the South Koreans were
well trained, well equipped, and
well prepared to defend them-
selves. and later we were told that
we did not dare to train them
more, or give them effective mili-
tary equipment for fear they
would attack the North Koreans.
We were told that the EC A
(Marshall Plan) expenditures
abroad are necessary to contain
communism and prevent war, but,
at the same time, we were told by
Administrator Hoffman that the
great effect of the foreign give-
away program in Korea provoked
the communist Koreans into start-
ing a war to hide its benefits.
We unify our armed services,
Uncle Sam Says
You Can’t Stop ’Em!
r
THE YELLOW JACKETS
i ItimB
HIMHWiy
Are Going Down That Field
And
Beat Those Texarkana Tigers
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Anyhow, we don t expect to be around Jatu| j0jn u,e United Nations
to see liow far inventions have carried us
whether forward or backward—but we
do expect there will be a lot of laughter
going on when those capsules are opened
about how backward we forward-looking-
people of this day and age were back in
1950.
•---------•
Letters from People
•—-•
The Press, Denison, Texas.
Gentlemen—While Sam (the
House Speaker) was down here re-
cently telling ’em iri Collin coun-
ty at a farmers’ meeting- what a
great man Mr. Truman is and
Key West for a "rest” and his
frog-hunting trips at night in the
J-million-dollar government yacht,
the Williamsburg; and put his
“pals” on good-paying jobs at
Washington when they are down
at the heels, and tell Gen. McAr-
thur to shut up, and keep Mr.
Acheson in his cabinet, when the
He might feel that he should plant
some other crop on part of that
acreage, in order to better balance
his farming. But—is he gonna
have the right Ao say how much
he can plant in this or that? In
short, can he run his farm any-
more, if he fiddles with price sup-
ports and the Brannan plan?
The farmer is one element in
what a bright boy he keeps in his |nnd all that sort of thinR. Reallv;
cabmet named Acheson, Mr. Tru- didn-t ,ook nj did jt?
public says he ought to he fired, our society that has always been
free man. He may not have
man was calling the U. S. Mar-
. , _ ...... But, more significant along this
ines nasty names and getting him- ,. ., ,
in in™, La farming idea, is the report from
self in position where he had to .... , .
sneak around next dav and apolo- 1 as ln® 0IL 011 1 e cotton C10P
gize to the Marines. ' Don’t look ;|,r°spectl The department of agn-
like a really big man would pull ™lture-Ml; Brannan 8 stall-says I windshield farmers
the prospects are off 4 per cent (drive by the field at
from last month ■ and that it is
school-kid stuff like that, does it?
What made it so ridiculous was .,
that at the very time Mi. Truman because oTgoyernment controls a
(who has no son in the military C0I1CP e
service, thank you) was discred-
iting the Marines, these same
boys were fighting and dying in
the Korean jungles to make it pos-
sible to maintain a free govern-
a
made the most money or driven
the finest car or had the biggest
house—but he owned his own soul.
If he keeps on fooling with "plan-
ned” farming as “thunk out” by
those who
40 miles an
to be the reason. To
Iwhich Mr. Brannan retorts that
the crop isn’t as big as the depart-
j.ment intended, because some of
'the farmers didn’t plant as much
jcotton as they were entitled to—
ment in The"United State's;'also un(ter the oontro1 system-
make it possible for Mr. Truman ( Fateh that word, intended? It
to be president, if the folks say ' "unifies that if the farmers are
so, and at the yearly base-pay sal- |K°nna get "control" protection
ary of $520,000; also to make it they are expected to follow the
possible for his daughter, Marga- department’s advice to the letter,
ret, to go on with her concert ca- bi other words, when it allots a
reer, and Mr. Truman to play his farmer 50 acres for cotton it in-
“pianner” and take his trips to tends for him to plant that much.
hour and guess a.t whether it’s rust
or grasshoppers committing agri-
cultural mayhem, then he’s gonna
run the risk of becoming an ordi-
nary plow-hand for the birds at
Washington — and not for Bill
Jones, as he used to be.
As an original hillbilly farmer,
we’d say it’s something to think
about.
Sincerely,
F. A. Garrett,
Mineral Wells, Texas.
In Belgium, pigeon racing com-
pares with our hasebalf as a na-
tional sport.
DENISON
YELLOW
JACKETS
TEXARKANA
HIGH
TIGERS
GREGORY NEWLAND
Guard
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 8:00 P.M.
MUNSON STADIUM
DOWN THAT FIELD JACKETS AND MAKE A TOUCHDOWN
Babcock Bros. Auto Supply Stores
work as an integrated national and
international team for peace, and,
as we send the Marines to do a
dirty job of shock troop relief at
the war front of our own unified
forces under the direction of the
United Nations, we call them a
bunch of ballyhoo-bedecked police-
men.
Our leaders complained that the
high cost of defense was depriving
socialistic domestic-civilian pro-
grams of Federal funds, but now
we are saying we didn’t spend
enough for defense.
How inconsistent can national
policy be?
To shift the blame, or conceal
it, is a natural and inevitable fol-
low-up to irresponsibility. We thus
have what is a very obvious hos-
tility between the two greatest
and more vital departments in the
executive branch of the govern-
ment. Who is shifting the blame
or whose bla.me is being concealed
remains to be seen.
We have maneuvered the great-
est country, the best form of gov-
ernment, and the finest nation of
people in the history of the world,
into a position where they are fis-
cally vulnerable from within, and
perhaps so greatly extended that
they may be militarily vulnerable
jfrom without. Neither democracy
for freedom can survive in either
the shackles of overwhelming debt
or the bondage of military dicta-
torship.
Here is the situation into which
we have gotten ourselves—the sit-
uation which we must overcome
if we are not to be overcome.
We have only 6 per cent of the
world’s population. We have as-
sumed the responsibility for prop-
ping up the economy of half the
World and defending more than
half the countries of the world
from military attack by commun-
ist dictators who control the other
half of the earth.
These are tremendous responsi-
bilities which we have assumed at
a time when our national debt is
more than a quarter of a trillion
dollars—more than any other na-
tion ever dared to conceive, much
less assume. Our taxes are already
approaching confiscatory levels,
and much greater taxation must
yet come.
Our only hope to meet the re-
sponsibilities we have assumed and
to preserve our free way of life
lies in the capacity of the free en-
terprise system to produce in mass
quantities those goods, materials
and engines of war which are
needed under such conditions in
better quality and greater quan-
tity than all of our adversaries
combined. And there is no reason
for us to expect much help from
the nations who are associated
with us, for they are more wards
than ailies.
Yet, the President and our lead-
ers are still insisting upon expan-
sion of socialistic legislation—so-
ciaiized housing, socialized medi-
cine, socialized farming (the Bran-
I'lie life of Abraham Lincoln, whose
birthday anniversary we observe
*:ls month, provided an example of
i ope, courage and thrift which is
t as important to you today as
> er before. And this applies to ail
if my nephews and nieces. Together
with all of that hope and courage
each of you possesses, there must
h • the respect for thrift. And one of
the safe, sure way* of saving is by
investing in U. S. Savings Bonds.
Each $3 Invested today wlM bring
you $4 in ten short years. STAR I
SAVING IN 1950 FOR 1900.
U.S.Trtu tl mi
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nan plan)—which, if adopted, will
destroy the free enterprise sys-
tem. This free enterprise system
upon which we depend cannot sur-
vive in confiscatory taxes or over-
whelming debt, or state socialism.
What happens to free enterprise
under socialism has been demon-
strated by the British before our
very eyes in these same five years
since World War II.
Whether our communist adver-
saries will continue to weaken us
by prolonging this series of side-
line satellite wars breaking out
here and there all over the globe,
or whether they will risk commit-
ting themselves and their own re-
sources to an all-out third World
War, is to be their decision—not
ours. Russia has the time table—
not us.
Perhaps there is no sadder com-
mentary on the quality of postwar
“Yankee shrewdness” at Washing-
ton than the fact that we have al-
lowed ourselves to be maneuvered
into the shameful position where
communist dictators can call the
tunes to which the free people of
Christian democracies must dance.
At any rate the end of the sacri-
fices we must make—in blood, in
standards of living, and in hard
earned dollars—is not in sight,
whether we continue hopping thi-
ther and yon to put down side-
line wars set off by satellites in
remote areas, or whether we are
called upon to exert our supreme
effort in another world conflagra-
tion,
W’e must do everything it takes
to defend ourselves. Our own de-
fense should be as nearly impreg-
nable as possible and should be our
first consideration. But, even be-
fore we started building our own
military defenses, we committed
ourselves to military defense of
virtually indefensible foreign na-
tions. To defend ourselves in any
circumstances, of course, is our
duty, and to defend the others in
the current cirmustances is a re-
sponsibility to which we have com-
mitted ourselves.
These things the Russians know, j
Apparently they know it better
than we do. And, these things the
Russians are exploiting. They are
especially exploiting oui vulner-
able fiscal condition at home, as
Russia is waging against us today
a war of economic attrition. More
that our own military might, the
Russians are probably counting on
the traditional American reluct-
ance to give up luxuries as usual,
business as usual, and politics as
usual. In short, they want us to
beat ourselves by our own proflig-
Tlie First Game of The Season ....
JACKETS
-vs.-
TEXARKAN A
DENISON
1*
With
You
LUTHER GOHLKL
End
YOU’VE COT W HAT IT TAKES
TO BEAT ’EM
JjDEqgDHfl&g
NORTH SIDE MAIN
acy.
These are the grim facts that
we face but have not been told
about. Unfortunately, the more
gruesome part of the burden we
carry must be borne by the fresh
young armies, navies and air
forces we send abroad. It is not
too much to ask the older genera-
tion to roll up its sleeves and cast
aside its luxury and make the eco-
nomic sacrifices which are neces-
sary to the preservation of the na-
tion, the form of government and
the freedom which was its heri-
tage.
I do not concede that either de-
mocracy, or free enterprise, or
any other American freedom has
run the course of its usefulness in
the world. They have been worth
fighting for and winning for in
the past against both economic and
military challenge, and 1 do not
concede that they were any dear-
er to those who have fought and
won before than they are to us
today. We shall win again, but
not until we begin thinking
straight through all the double
talk that we hear to the hard core
of the problems that confront us;
until we recognize the sacrifices
we must make; until we sec clearly
the course we must take; and un-
til we act accordingly.
In all of these, leadership char-
acterized by unselfish and selfless
patriotism is the first requirement.
We have had it in the past. It is
not too much to ask now.
A horseshoe should be hung
with the ends pointing down.
Those Yellow Jackets Can t Be Stopped!
Watch I hem Go Down the
!’ it hi ami Beat
I E X A R K A N A
After the Game Come by Ashburn’s
and get Your Favorite Flavor of
Ice Cream
CHAS. SHERRARC
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Anderson, LeRoy M. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 22, 1950, newspaper, September 22, 1950; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth527843/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.