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DtNttON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, JUNE 10,
1955
■EDITORIAL
The Decree
The decree that segregation should end as made by the
Supreme Court will not be any more popular a year from now
than it is at present.
The people who have lived together in harmony and with
a desire to be at peace one with the other, are going to be slow,
if not stubborn, about taking an order to change over social
practices that have been ingrained in the very basic things
of life.
One judge says the fiat sounds like it came from Hitler
days when that party had his fiat endorsed by a controlled high
court.
Just how many Communists have gotten in the bed with
some of our high jurists has not developed as yet, but some
things have come into the open about both Judge Black and
Justice William O. Douglas that bring mighty close to their
royal skirts influences of Southern Conference of Human Welfare,
and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Among some of the authorities referred to by some of
the Sup.eme Court members in their segregation decision are
cases that smell to high heaven with Communistic background.
A Mississippi Senator, James O. Eastland, talks of Com-
munistic influences behind the school segregation decision.
He contends that the Supreme Court had been ' indoctrinated
and brain washed by left-wing pressure groups;" had based
its school segregation on decision upon sociology and psychol-
ogy instead of upon the law and precedent."
About the only other comparable system of jurisprudence
with that of the act of the Supreme Court in this matter, appears
to be "the peoplfe's court of Soviet Russia."
The fiat from the court this time lacked, it seems, in the ;
voice of authority—an authority that comes not from a throne
which represents mad power, but from a voice that understands
JSjt
AUSTIN — Despite the big
ntws about final passage of the
huge tax bill, news about Bascom
Giles stole the spotlight from the
Legislature the past week.
This time events tool; quite a
different turn.
The climax came when a 75-
year-old, retired mail carrier,
John Cass Adrian, was arrested
and charged with attempting to
oxter $800,000 from the former
lend commissioner.
Filing of the charge against
Adrian was preceded by a serie
of events, all kept secret, dating
bac': to Feb. 1.
Giles reported receiving two
letters, prior to the one Adrian is
charged with mailing, in which
the writer each time asked for
$5,100.
Travis Co. Sheriff T. 0. Lang
revealed that the first letter, re-
ceived by Giles before he was in-
dicted, threatened to expose doc-
umentary evidence unless $5,100
was paid. With this letter was a
crude drawing. It directed Giles
to a culvert south of Austin where
he was to leave the money, wrap-
ped in a burlap sack. He was to
drop the money there at 4 p.m.
en Feb. 4. Included was a prom
the family like voice of a father to his children, or the voice ] ise t0 return the money in f.U
of a shepherd to his sheep. days—after using it “to pull a
Thrones, office per se, do not carry authority when such deal on the border” that would
authority would ignore domestic relations that have long been , net $100,000
tie
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(jJaAhinqion
operating and which have been the source of unity, happy As <;iles ”as out ,of t<nvn’ he
livinn tnnpther nnH n lihprtu nnrl frporlpm ie > did not receive the fiist etter in
living together and a liberty and freedom that is not put on
like a coat, or is given by inexperience.
The people as a whole are not yet ready to be brain
washed into something that hundreds of years have established
as custom and harmonious fellowship. Unity does not rest
in divergent orders that tear at the root of society's practices.
Unity and dissimilarity are the policy for Democracy and that
is what we have and that is what we want to keep alive.
The People Liked It
Several of our readers are being awakened who read our
reference to the fact that Denison's 200 block was having thrust
on it conditions which made it the most despicable block on
j time to act.
When the second letter arrived,
dated Feb. 9, it directed Giles to
leave the money in the culvert
by 4:30 p.m., Feb. 11, or “the
evidence could not be bought at
any price.”
A trap was set. Giles drove to
the drop site and left $70 in a
burlap sack, as deputies watched
the area. No one stopped to pick
up the sack. But a man later
identified as Adrian drove by. Af-
ter 36 hours of waiting, Giles re-
turned to the culvert and picked
up the money.
A third letter then came. It
dated Feb. 11. It advised
Main street. The Press called attention to several things which
are practiced and which makes this a dirty block from several
standpoints. Also the block (and we mean the people who could
change it) are having things fostered daily which no other block Giles that the writer was aware
in Denison would stand for. No, not one day. I of the trap. It read “All three
Many of our readers have said to us "we had no idea ; *>f us was watching you with field
that you had such things, but now that I have had my eyes 1 glasses when you place ie aw
open I can see it. People have come in and commended us, ?hjf. ]ettel. djrected Giles to
for the fight to clean up the block. And we mean all the way ; prepal.e $800,000 in $20, $50 and
around the block, avenues, streets and all. The good that we ^100 bdjs for deijVery at a place
have in this block is badly offset by the bad things, the unsightly j and t;me t0 be designated in a
things, the loafing; decrepid buildings that are fire traps; the
Strewn liquor bottles, the spittle from tobacco chewers, the
idle whittlers.
All of this cheapens the property that men have spent money
to acquire and maintain.
If the Press is condemned for fighting to clean up a situation
that no reader of the Press would stand for around their own
door or back yard, then we hold a more high regard for such
people than we should.
If there can be found another such block—and we mean
all the way around the four sides—in Denison, then we will
cease for a period at this thing of showing the gutter rather
than the mountaintop.
If anyone hos an idea that property is saved by such en-
virons, or that it rents more readily, let him invest a few thou-
sand in a building and see what we mean.
bond. Trial wag set for June
More Tum Coining
Jefferson Davis’ birthday was
celebrated by the Legislature. The
solons handed Governor Shivers
a tax bill! It levied an additional
$49,000,000 per year. Thus ended
another bitter tax battle.
As finally voted, the measure
pr^v.des $37,038,000 added re-
venue for general purposes dur-
ing the next two years. Also $41,-
069,000 additional for road work.
Thu it furnishes the funds to
unblock the $56,000,000 new
money requirements of the $1,-
525,000,000 appropriations bill al-
ready passed.
It’s biggest take was from beer.
And a bitter-end fight by beer
partisans nearly wrecked the
measure in its final stages. Their
argument was based on the fact
that conferees dropped out of the
final bill the Senate’s “token”
$2,000,000 levy on “dedicated”
natural gas and an intangible as-
sets tax on gas pipelines.
On final passage the tax bill
cleared the house only by a 72
to 67 vote.; and the Senate by a
scarce 18 to 13 margin.
Included in the tax bill was a
one-cent increase in the present
four-cent gasoline tax; a one
cent increase in the present four-
cent cigarette tax; and an in-
crease of $2.30 per barrel, or six
mills per bottle, on beer.
Senators voted a $3.30 per bar-
rel beer increase while Represent-
atives favored small increases in
beer and wine dealers’ license
fees.
Dropped on the final round
were the House taxes on cigars,
tobacco, trading stamps, and an
increase in the natural gas pro-
duction tax.
Rejected were numerous Sen-
ate proposals for gross receipts
levies on manufacturers, hotels,
motels, department stores, metals
and chemical industries.
A $6,500,000 cushion was given
the general revenue fund for the
next two years. This permitted
passage of several small appropri-
ation bills for new courts; for
By PRICE DANIEL
V. S. Senator
future letter. But the promised in-
structions were never received.
When arrested, Adrian flatly
denied knowing anything about
the extortion attempt .He was re-
leased after posting a $1,500
Evils of the narcotic traffic-
are being forceful'y described in
Washington this the second week
f tl.e Senate hearings.
A; chairman of the Senate
Judiciary subcommittee to invest-
ga'.e the narcotics problem in the
aton, it falls my lot to conduct
these hearings. This is the first
ime that a nationwide investiga-
ion has been made of this vicious
traffic which causes so much
mise;y and death. It is truly a
multimillion-dollar traffic. Our
first witness, Harry J. Anslinger,
Commissioner of Narcotics, es-
timates an annual expenditure of
:om 300 million to 400 million
dollars by the nation’s 60,000
drug addicts, and he says that
much of this money comes from
thefts, robberies and other crimes
committed by the addicts in order
to buy their dope. Anslinger is
the world’s foremost authority on
the drug problem, having served
as head of the Narcotics Bureau
since it was organized, and he
also represents our country on
the United Nations Commission
on Narcotics.
Texas Facet Problem
Due to much publicity recently
about narcotics traffic in Texas,
it was heartening to find out
from Mr. Anslinger’s figures that
our State is making progress on
arrests and convictions of these
law violators. The problem is still
bad enough, with our State rank-
ing 7th highest in the nation in
number of drug addicts thus far
reported and 6th in the number
of narcotic and marijuana arrests.
Encouraging is the fact that Tex-
as is 4th in the number of con-
victions.
Texas officials have reported
771 drug addicts during the past
two yeais as compared with 9,458
for New York, over 7,000 in
Illinois, 2,350 in California, 1,229
in Michigan, 887 in the District
of Columbia, and 785 in Ohio.
During 1953 and 1954 Texas
had 1,465 narcotic and marijuana
u additional facts
are brought out This is especially
true in view of the uncontradicted
statements that the main source
of narcotic drugs which appear
in the United States and its
neighboring countries-is Commun-
ist-China. In purchasing drugs the
addict is not only degrading the
mo?al fiber of our own nation
but at the same time is sending
dollars necessary for the build-up
of our enemies straight to the
Communists.
Release of Communist-held Flyers
It was good news last week that
four of the American service-
men being held by the Commun-
ist Chinese were released. How-
ver, there are others still being
held in Communist prisons. Ev-
ery means should be used to ob-
tain their release. So long as
world tensions make it necessary
for the United States to continue
to draft our sons for service it;
the armed forces of our country,
we should afford them every pro-
tection which this government
can extend. We would like to see
stronger measures taken to secure
the release of the Americans
held in prison in Communist
China and have urged this to
President Eisenhower and the
State Department.
DENISON
81-71-54
YEARS AGO
EDITOR’S NOTE—The fol-
lowing accounts of incidents in
the city were taken from the
files of the old Denison News by
Miss Dulce Murray, whose fa-
ther, the late B. C. Murray,
established the first newspaper
in Denison.
Letter* from People
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Jane 1, 1955
Mr. LeRoy Anderson, Publisher
The Denison Press
putting state employees undei . fonvjctions as compared with over
federal social security; another , 6 000 each fo], New York an(,
$475,000 for legislative expenses, Galifornia and over 3,000 for
and grants to state agencies for j jujnojs
further investigation of the Land
Office and Veterans’ Land Board
Bureau of Narcotics reports
show four Texas cities to tie
Four Texa* Cities Affected
affairs.
Different Money Problems
An entirely different money
problem faced the State Board of
Education.
Where to find eligible secur-
ities in which to invest a cash
among the top 45 cities in the
nation in narcotic and marijuana
arrests and convictions. Houston
ranked 11th in the nation, with
647 arrests and 179 convictions.
San Antonio was 18th with 292
I arrests and 226 convictions. Dal-
1 las was rated 21st with 248 ar
‘Entered as second class matter May 15, 1947, at the Post Office resjs and 85 convictions. Fort
THE DENISON PRESS
Those Marked Senators
According to the news bureau of the Texas Press association,
HB-12 received no consideration by the committee on State
Affairs. The bill was scheduled to be considered on Wednesday,
May 25th. The bill is a simple one, but is WANTED by many
county commissioners. It merely PERMITS the county commission-
ers to publish their proceeding in order that the public might
know what is going on. In other words it establishes the right j
of the people to know what is going on and where their money j
is going.
Although the House had voted for the bill WITHOUT ANY
OPPOSITION, the following members of the State Affairs com- ;
mittee absented themselves from the meeting which would only j
vote on the RIGHT of the people to express themselves. The I
absent ones were Senators Ashley, Fuller, Hazlewood, Kelley, Lane,:
Moore, Phillips, Ratliff, Secrest, Strauss, Weinert and Willis. The \
following members of State Affairs committee DID meet, but i
lacked only two more members present to act on the bill. Mem- I
bers on hand were Aiken, Martin, Moffett, Parkhouse, Shireman j
and Wagonseller.
LeRoy M. Anderson, Sr.
LeRoy M. Anderson, Jr.
Carey L. Anderson .
Mary Lou Cox......
Marcelle Nelson
Raymond Martin
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DENISON and GRAYSON COUNTY
Grayson county, accredited by Texas Almanac 1955
of having the "most diversified economy of any Texas
county, with income from crops, livestock, manufacturing
and trade, oil, tourists and recreation seekers."
Blackland soils and terrain in the southeast, grand
prairies characteristics in the southwest, gray lands on
divide in central section; sandy lands and hilly topo-
graphy in north part along Red River. Drains to Red
River on north, Trinity on south. Post oak, walnut, hickory,
pecan, elm, bois d' arc. Oil, brick clay, cement material,
silica.
Lake Texoma has six million acre feet capacity, many
bays for fishing, boating on large scale, lake 1300 miles
around perimeter, and declared the ninth ranking in
capacity among the world's reservoirs. Lake four miles
north of Denison.
County has population of 70,000; 53.4 per cent urban;
90.9 per cent Anglo-Americans; 8.7 per cent negro; .04
per cent Latin American. Annual rainfall 37.55 inches;
temperature averages Jan. 43 deg., July 84 deg., mean
annually 65 deg.
mm
Worth was 38th with 69 arrests
and 51 convictions. As serious as
these figuj es may be, they are
far below such cities as Los An-
geles with over 12,000 arrests
4.000 convictions, New York City
with over 8,000 arrests and 6,000
convictions, Chicago with over
6.000 arrests and 3,000 convic-
tions and Detroit with over 3,000
arrests and 430 convictions.
Canadian Senate Committee
Senator Tom Reid of Canada,
chairman of the Canadian Sen-
ate’s Narcotics Committee, con-
sulted with us last week and sat
with our committee at the open
ing session. It is a coincidence
that the Senates of these two
countries should be investigating
the narcotic traffic at the same
time. Op the other hand, it should
not be surprising, because our
countries have the same problems
in combating the illicit traffic in
narcotic drugs. International
gangsters are supplying retailers
I in both countries from the same
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October 5, 1874
The black-and-tans held theii
Congressional convention at
Montgomery’s office Thursday
evening. The attendance was re
markably small but we presume
there was no doubt in the min I
of those present that they were
the representative men of their
party, so it was nil light. F. P
Baker was chosen president; Red
ma, of Cooke county, vice-pres-
•dent; Darnell, of the Sherman
Patriot, secretary, nil the colored
delegates left to do the voting.
Th.; convention got into quite
a squabble over the civil lights
Denison, Texas
Dear Mr. Anderson;
Looking back over the years I
have served the City of Denison
as Fire Chief, I am made aware
of the fine manner in which your
newspaper covered every fire, and
the complimentary manner in
which the articles were written.
To you as Publisher, and
through you to your employees,
I say “Thank You”.
Yours very truly,
Pat S. Lowe
Fire Chief
City of Denison
Other Ed* Thougl.b
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CHARLES T. MCELVANEY
Funeral services for Charles T.
McElvaney, 65, of Dallas, former-
ly of Denison, were held at
Uatchei-Moore chapel Wednes-
luy afternoon with Rev. Duke
B r o.i, pastor of Waples Mem-
orial Methodist church officiating.
Burial was in Oakwood cemetery
with Masonic ceremony.
McElvaney had been in ill
health for an extended time-, and
had been hospitalized for two
months. He was the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. C. T. McEl-
vaney whose home for many
ye.is was at 518 W. Crawford.
His father was at one time mayor
of Denison and an employee of,
the Katy railroad.
Deceased was born in New
York and received his schooling
in Denison. He was married in
Sherman to Eula Carter who sur-
vives him. He had retired several
years ago as general foreman of
the Katy roundhouse because of
illness. He was a member of
Waples Methodist church and
Gate City Masonic Lodge.
Aside from his wife he is sur-
vived by a daughter, Mrs. Tom
Jeffrey, Dallas; two brothers, Eu-
gene McElvaney, Dallas and Lyle
McElvaney, San Francisco; three
daughters, Mrs. W. G. Holmes,
Denison, Mrs. Charles M. Crowe,
Wilmette, 111., and Miss Maud
McElvaney, Dallas, and four
grandchildren.
suiplus of $12,060,095 of its per-
manent fund was this board’s
problem.
Spending Bills
Wrapped up near the close of
the session was Sen. George Mof-
fett’s bill appropriating $7,000,-
000 for the construction of a new
state courts building and a state
office building in Austin.
It also provides $500,000 for
repairing and air-conditioning the
Capitol; and $500,000 for oper-
ation of the new State Building
Commission.
All the money comes from the
surplus of the Confederate Pen-
sion Fund, as authorized by a
constitutional amendment approv-
ed by the people last year.
The pension fund will have a
further $1,000,000 surplus after
all Confederate widows’ pensions
are paid for the ensuing two
years.
Acres Appointed
Governor Shivers appointed his
former executive secretary, Maur-
ice Acres, as a member of the
Texas Employment Commission.
Hesucceeds Col. Djvlght Horton
of BUnco.
PFC. TOMMY DANIEL
Funeral services for Pfe. Tom-
my Daniels, 21, casualty of the
fighting in Korea, were held at
Bratcher-Moore funeral chapel
Sunday afternoon with Foster
Ramsey, pastor of Central Church
of Christ, officiating. Burial was
in Cedarlawn Memorial Park.
Pfc. Daniel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Daniel, was born in
Denison, Dec. 21, 1928, and at-
tended Denison public schools. He
was employed at Ashburn’s
Creamery before joining the
Marines in 1947. After training
in San Diego he was sent to Kor-
ea in August 1950, and was
wounded. He was hospitalized in
Japan and on the first night after
rejoining his group, the First
Marine Division, “D” Company,
he was killed. His body was sent
home for reburial.
Survivors are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Daniel, 814 W.
Woodard; two brothers, Don
Daniel, New Orleans, La., and
Ross Daniel, Abilene, Texas and
one sister, Mrs. Charlsie Jack-
son, Denison.
JOHN ROE ANDERSON
Bratcher-Moore funeral direct-
ors were in charge of local ar-
rangements for the funeral in
Smithville Tuesday of John Roe
Anderson, 68, who died Monday
morning at the MKT Employees
Hospital, where he had been a
patient since March 12. He had
been il! for an extended period.
Anderson’s home was in Smith-
ville where he had resided for 40
years. He was a retired brakeman
for the MKT RR. He was born in
Delhi, Texas, March 21, 1887, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. An-
derson. He was married in Austin
to Katie Zaphlaz. He was a Bap-
tist and a member of the B of RT
and Odd Fellows.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Katie Anderson, Smithville;
his mother, Mrs. Mary Anderson,
Ft. Worth; a son, J. R. Anderson,
Jr., Valentine, Texas; four bro-
thers, Guy Anderson, Waco;
Frank Anderson, St. Louis, Price
Anderson, New Mexico and Aug-
ust Anderson, Oklahoma City,
Okla.; three sisters, Mrs. Leona
Searcy, and Mrs. Dot Threlkeld,
Waco, and Mrs. Iva Hutchinson,
Brenham, Texas and two grand-
children.
Antique ears take part in an
"Old Crock’s Race" between Lon-
don and Brighton, England, each
year.
question, in the discussion of
which Dave Williams, the barber,
colored, and Darnell, took active
part. It was finally decided to
drop that subject entirely for the
sake of harmony.
Ray, chairman of the repub-
lican congressional executive
committee, telegraphed the con-
vention from Dallas not to make
:■ nomination, but the represent-
. ative men heeded him not and
| ' hose F. W. Sumner, of Sherman
as a fit man to be sacrificed. Sum-
ner, of course, was highly flat-
tered, and didn’t see that he was
being made a fool of.
A large number of the strong-
est republicans in the city did
not go near the convention hall.
Indeed they looked upon it from
the start as a private scheme got-
ten up by F. P. Baker & Co. The
electing of Baker chairman was
i| a death blow to the ticket in
Denison, for he is the most up-
popular Republican in the burg.
It is even considered doubtful if
he is a citizen of Texas, as he
has never removed his family
from Kansas. He will, however,
.-lay here as long as he can hold
onto the postoffice; how much
longer we leave our readers to
guess.
October 5, 1886
At two different times Sunday
night an attempt was made by
buiglars to enter the residence
of Mr. Wilson, on Crawford
street. About 11 o’clock, Ed Bur-
ton, druggist at Guteau and Wal-
dron, who has a room in the
house, was awakened by a noise
as of someone trying to effect an
entrance to his room from the
outside. Mr. Burton sprang out!
of bed and the thief, taking
flight, ran away. Mr. Burton re-
tired again to bed, but about 2
o’clock was again awakened by
someone trying to open the screen
door from the outside. He sprang
out of bed and discharged his
pistol at the miscreant, shooting
a hole through the screen, but as
the thief got away, it is presum-
able that he did not hit him.
The debris is being removed
from the lot where the old Led-
lick furniture store stood, as a
fine two story brick building will
be erected upon the same some-
time in the near future.
G. B. Roger’s new brick four-
story is approaching completion.
This building has gone up in a
hurry, it being only three weeks
since the old one was burned.
A hunting party consisting of
Fred Hibbard, John Aiken, Dell
Hibbard, Hill La Baume and a
colored attendant started for the
Territory this morning. They will
spend the day in chasing (he
bounding jackrabbit over the
western plains.
For once in the past three
months, the Gazetteer’s weather
signals were correct, today.
October 5, 1901
Died after a few days illness
of inflammation of the bowels,
Mrs. Harry Platter at the family
home. Mrs. Caddie Lingo Platter
was the eldest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Levi Lingo. She was
born in Chillicothe, Missouri, July
30, 1867 and came to Denison
with her parents seventeen years
ago. She was married to Harry
Platter Junq 30, 1888 and to them
three children were born. Two, a
boy and girl, together with her
husband and parents survive. Fun-
eral services were held Monday
afternoon from the Episcopal
church with interment in Fair-
view cemetery.
Mrs. Platter was very popular
and a large circle mourns her
early death and sympathize with
the young husband and little chil-
dren, too young to realize what
a great loss they have sustained.
The old Boss residence, oc-
cupied by Conductor Jule Cud-
gell, was destroyed by fire Wed-
nesday night, the damage is prob-
ably several hundred dollars to
the building. The contents were
damaged about $600 with an in-
surance of $1,000.
The Katy machine shops will
shut down nights and work only
on regular schedule until further
notice.
IKE IN THE SOUTH
(Dallas Newt)
The Gallup poll shows that
President Eisenhower is increas-
ingly more popular than Adlai
Stevenson in the Southern States.
It is something for Democratic-
Party leaders to think about.
The majority of Southerners
have never liked the New Deal
prilosophy. They liked Truman’s
Fair Deal less than they liked
Roosevelt’s New Deal. But a ma-
jority of the Southern States vot-
ed for Stevenson (1) because of
traditional loyalty to the Demo-
cratic Party and (2) because of
the fear that any Republican
President would bring another
“Hoover” depression.
To date there is no evidence of
the latter. This may make it a
little less difficult for Southern
Democrats to see that there is
also no evidence of the Demo-
cratic Party of Adlai Stevenson
xeturning to traditional Demo-
cratic principles, which are held
today almost exclusively by South-
erners.
You have only
700 feet road
space, revealed
According to figures released
by Publishers’ Auxiliary, a pub-
lication for newspaper men pub-
lished in Chicago and edited by
Byron V. Cook, “there is one ve-
hicle for every 700 feet of road.”
The interesting article is repro-
duced.
“There is one vehicle for every
700 feet of every lane in both
directions of all the streets and
highways in the United States.
We weren’t really too surprised
when this statement appeared in
a recent issue of Automobile
Facts, a publication of the Auto-
mobile Manufacturers assn.
It’s pretty apparent that there
are a lot of automobiles and
trucks around, but we were glad
to have the figures on exactly
how many, in relation to avail-
able space.
This figure, of course, plays a
significant part in our economy—
in our entire way of life, for that
matter. It must be kept in mind
when considering highway acci-
dents, the appalling death toll on
the road, the traffic congestion in
cities, tlie parking problem—and
possibly the need of evacuating a
city under threat of an atomic
bomb.
And of course the automobile
industry provides a huge prop in
the nation’s economy.
Automobile Facts adds these in-
teresting points to the report:
“A seventh of all US employees
work in highway transportation
industries.
“A sixth of all retail, whole-
sale and service business is auto-
motive.
“Two thirds of all workers liv-
ing a mile or more from the job
depend on cars to reach work.”
And McGraw Hill Publishing
co. comes up with the fact that
the number of vehicles in the
United States has reached the
amazing total of 57,593,376,
which is 65 per cent of all the
registered cars, busses and trucks
in the world.
That’s a vehicle for about ev-
ery three persons in the nation.
That means the automobile is
playing an extremely significant
role in America today, more than
ever before. Robert and Helen
Lynd, who published their socio-
logical study “Middletown” in
1929, pointed out that, even in
the 20’s, the automobile had
brought tremendous changes in
American life. If the Lynds had
been able to look into the future,
they might have added a foot-
note, using a phrase of a pretty
popular jazz singer of the same
period: “You ain’t seen nothing
yet.”
How much more will the auto-
mobile change us, as a nation?
What is its relation to other mod-
ern, time saving machinery? Witli
washing machines, garbage dis-
posal units, television — more
things to play with, more things
to do, more places to go, more
places to see?
This is fine; but we hope all
of us can manage to keep a cer-
tain calm perspective, and some-
times just sit down and read an
old book—i.e,, one published be-
fore 1955.
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