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RAYMONDVILLE CHRONICLE, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1952, Page 2B
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A Job Nobody Wonts
WITH THE POLITICAL pots boiling, here and else-
where, there seems to be one office nobody in Willacy
County seems to want. It’s the rather high sounding but
altogether unrenumerative- office of state representative.
Under the new Texas redistricting law enacted at the
last session of the legislature Willacy and Cameron coun-
ties were united in a single representative district.
The intention of the new1 law was to allow the district
three representatives, two of which would be from Cam-
eron and a “flotorial” representative from Willacy.
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IF YOU KNOW anything about the manner in which
state representatives are renumerated you’ll under-
stand that a good cotton picker can make more in a short
season that a representative gets during a whole session.
The legislature check amounts to about $5 per day which
doesn’t quite pay for a room in the better hotels.
What happens is that a legislator either has other
business in Austin or digs down in his pocket to make
up the balance of his expenses.
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THIS APPEARS to be the main reason why little old
Willacy County doesn’t have anybody anxious to
throw his hat in the district political ring. The job means
out-of-pocket money and until that long awaited cotton
field soaking rain comes, local folks just don’t seem to be
in the mood for campaigning for political office.
Come to think about it, some junior or senior at the
University of Texas might run for the post and get elect-
ed. When the legislature wasn’t in session he might at-
tend classes.
He, too, could probably earn more than legislator’s pay
delivering milk.
Over-Population
A DEPARTMENT of Agriculture official recently testi-
fied before a House of Representatives hearing that
U. S. population would be 190,000,000 by 1975 and that
farms might not be able to feed this number of inhabi-
tants at present-day levels.
“It will require 530,000,000 acres of crop land to pro-
vide for that population of 190,000,000 at the 1935-39 diet
levels and that 530,000,000 acres is 68,000,000 acres more
than we now have available for that purpose; it is 23,-
000,000 more than the 507,000,000 acres that were pro-
jected as being available by 1975,” B. T. Shaw, chief of
the Agriculture Research Administration, said.
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THE GOVERNMENT official is presenting an argument
which was presented decades ago when forecasters
then feared a rapidly rising U. S. population would out-
strip agricultural production.
However, scientific advances in agriculture have kept
pace with the increases in population, so that today
Americans are enjoying a better balanced diet than ever
before.
We’ll bet our hat that by 1975 new fertilizers, new
farm production techniques, new farm equipment and
improved varieties of foodstuffs will have advanced to an
extent which will enable farmers to feed more people
per acre of cultivation than ever before;
Even if the government official’s prediction proves
accurate, the United States population can always de-
pend on agricultural cultivation in Canada and Alaska to
provide large amounts of foodstuffs for domestic con-
sumption. Don’t begin stockpiling food for the prospec-
tive shortage now, or in 1975, for that matter.
Most people would prefer to tell the truth, but would
rather be courteous.
Tis said that twins and triplets are on the increase
because a baby is afraid to come into this hectic world
alone.
Labor is that part of the human populace which works
a specified number of hours a week for a guaranteed sum
of money. Capital is that part of the populace which stays
on the job after labor goes home and worries about how
to pay that guaranteed amount of money.
Too many of us are blessed with presence of mind but
troubled with absence of thought.
If we’d pay the same attention to the1 weeds as we do
to the flowers perhaps they would die like the rest of the
plants.
Pop knows he is about to get nicked but good when
thd wife and kids present him with long-desired gifts.
The big advantage in having more than one child is
that they climb over each othdr instead of over mom and
pop.
RAYMONDVILLE CHRONICLE
Formerly WILLACY COUNTY CHRONICLE
Published every Thursday In the Chronicle*Building, 378 West Kimball Avenue. Hay-
mondvllle, Texas.
Entered as second-class matter, April 18, 1947 at the post office at Raymondvtlle,
Texas under the act of March 3, 1879.
Carl R. Miller, Publisher
Mrs. Carl R. Miller, Advtg. Manager
Subscription Rates: In Willacy County, 1 year, $2; 6 months, 81.25; outside Willacy
County, 1 year, $3. payable in advance.__
The Chronicle covers thoroughly the cities and communities of Raymondville (the
county seat), Lyford, Sebastian, San Perlita, Lasara, Santa Margarita, Turner Tract,
Clark Orchards, and 384,000 acres of rich farming area surrounding them.
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being brought to the attention of publisher.
A Slogan For 1952
This is the story of a little red-
white-and-biue lapel tag inscrib-
ed “I Have Voted! Have You?”
It was menitoned in several
columns written earlier this yeat"
discussing a get-out-the vote pro-
ject developed in the Harding
College Freedom Forums. One of
the suggestions in the project was
that every community in America
use the little tags for tagging
voters on election days through-
out 1952—as a stimulator to get
people vote conscious.
Our government in America is
no better than the people we elect
to public office. Only half the
people of voting age vote in presi-
dential elections; only 20 per-
cent vote regularly in all elec-
tions. Twenty per cent of the
people are making the election
decisions for the other 80 per
cent. This is neither democracy
nor representative government. It
is a minority government and its
continuation endangers the very
right to vote that maintains all
our freedoms.
Election in Shreveport
So this is a report on how the
little lapel tag got out the vote
in Shreveport, Louisiana, last
month. The story begins with the
state Democratic primary, on Jan-
uary 15-, at which time the tag was
not used. In this election a heavy
vote was forecast in Shreveport
where there were 70 local candi-
dates contending for posts as
well as eight candidates for the
governorship and a number run-
ning for other state offices. Vic-
tory in the Democratic primaries
means victory in the general
elections in heavliy Democratic
Louisiana, and this fact, too, fore-
shadowed a heavy vote.
But the vote was disappointing-
ly light in the eyes of the Shreve-
port Junior Chamber of Com-
merce whose members had been
conducting registration drives and
get-out-the-vote programs. Im-
mediately following this election,
the Shreveport Jaycees heard
about the little lapel tag idea and
decided to use it in the forthcom-
ing runoff primary. They tele-
phoned us in Searcy and ordered
20,000 tags. Perhaps it should be
noted here that this isn’t a plug
for selling tags; the tags are sold
at cost, since Harding College’s
Americanism program is a non-
profit project.
Good Publicity
The Jaycees formed a Tag Day
Committee and it immediately
visited editors of the newspapers,
the JOURNAL and the TIMES,
and explained the tag-the-voters
project. The editors were en-
thusiastic. They began running
feature stories, photographs and
editorials. Shreveport radio sta-
tions pitched in too. The Jaycees
mobilized a women’s corps to ac-
tually tag the voters at the vot-
ing precincts— including their
own wives, members of the
League of Women Voters, and
other groups.
Election day came. Normally
the vote in this second run-off
primary is lighter than in the
first primary since so many of the
local races are decided in the
first one. Instead of 70 local can-
didates there were now only four.
But the Jaycees were hopeful that
the little lapel tags would shame
the laggard citizens and encourage
them to vote. By noon the tags
were to be seen on men’s lapels
and hanging from women’s coat
buttons all over Shreveport — in
department stores, office buildings
and community centers, on busses
and on the streets.
Supply Exhausted
By early afternoon all the 20,-
000 tags — which the Jaycees
thought would be sufficient to
tag all voters—were used up. But
voters still came to the polls, and
all clamored for the tags. The
Jaycee offices were flooded with
telephone calls from citizens who
wanted tags; many tagless voters
presented themselves in person
at the Jaycee offices. The young
men were slightly embarrassed—
but happy, when the final count
was in it showed that an all-time
record vote — 36,400 — had been
polled! i-«
In a letter reporting the re-
sults, the Jaycee Tag Day Com-
mittee said: “The tags were in
a great part responsible for the
record vote. We received, con-
tinually, exxpressions from local
citizens on the novelty of the tag
day activity. We heartily recom-
mend the use of these tags to any
organization interested in a get-
out-the-vote project.” This is just
one election in one town but
groups of people in hundreds of
other communities have made
plans to conduct the tag day, and
other hundreds of communities
have written in for details. “I
Have Voted! Have You?” This is
a ringing challenge to all good
Americans. Let’s make it a na-
tional citizenship slogan for 1952.
Foot-ln-the-Door Policy
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WHAT FRIENDS WERE DOING
Long, Long Time Ago
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March 24, 1932
The Boggus Motor Company
will move into the remodeled'
building on Hidalgo avenue for-
merly occupied by the Edelstein
Furniture Company.
•
The Raymondville K i w a n i s
Club will sponsor separate Easter
egg hunts for American, Mexican,
and Negro children.
•
High figures paid for onions a
few weeks ago were topped still
further by sales made by a num-
ber of growers over the county.
•
Official check at the end of the
Willacy County Interscholastic
League meet here last week show-
ed Raymondville winner by 9
points.
March 25. 1937
The Raymondville School Band
went to Kingsville to defend
the state championship won last
year. About fifty students made
the trip. The contests are ex-
pected to draw over 3500 students
from thirty-four schools.
• -
The condition of Joe Turner,
first sheriff to serve Willacy
County after it was organized, is
improving at the Beeville Hospi-
tal where he was taken following
an auto collision.
Robstown, Corpus Christi, Alice
and practically all Valley towns
are planning to bring delegations
to the annual Onion Fiesta which
will be held in Raymondville
April 9, according to information
received this week, by H. W.
Cook, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce.
IHINGTON
WASHINGTON—There is con-one services maintains a Chief of
March 27, 1947
Funeral services were held for
C. C. McElroy, 43, at the Duddles-
ten chapel. Rev. Wesley Butcher
officiated.
•
R. R. Rodriguez, S. F. Lozano,
Sutton Meyers, Felton Fitch, Hu-
bert Wright, and Harvey Maddy,
sought re-election in the school
trustee race.
•
Mrs. Russell Cherry was install-
ed president of Chapter A Q of
PEO held at the home of Mrs.
W. G. Heciit.
•
Miss Wilma Cutler, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Fulbright,
was elected president of the Ray-
mondville 4-H chapter.
siderable dissatisfaction in Con-
gress, and even in the Secretary of
the Air Force’s office, with cer-
tain top officers in the air arm of
the military. This delicate situa-
tion has been hushed up in this
election year but broke into the
news when it leaked out that
Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg
was headed for a sacking.
Apparently the man who de-
cided this step was necessary is
the Secretary of the Air Force
himself, Thomas K. Finletter—a
quiet worker, liked by President
Truman and respected by the
intellectuals in Washington. It
has taken Finletter a long time
to sift facts and performances and
and personalities of many top Air
Force officers. Because the service
is a young one, and because many
problems of the Air Force are tied
in with flying considerations, it
is often hard to judge ability.
•
But the conclusion has been
sadly reached that the Air Force
needs more brains and less glam-
or in the top command. In the
years since World War II the
Air Force has been strongly in-
fluenced by the kids who made
themselves heroes in that war.
All were not kids, and some of
these would have advanced to
high posts in time anyhow. Some,
however, have survived the years
since the war in a high position
merely on the strength of their
war record. These are the glam-
or boys, the party boys, the so-
called hot pilots.
Essential as these reckless,
dashing fellows are in wartime,
they are not suited to many top
command desk jobs and some of
the present, trouble in the Air
Force stems from this fact, Of
course, all things being equal,
the good job^ should go to a com-
bat veteran with a good record,
but those who are “over the hill”
ought not to be treated like foot-
ball heroes who have to produce
little to earn their pay and posi-
tion.
©
Vandenberg, on the verge of dis-
missal, is to stay on fourteen
months more, until his retirement
—it is announced by the White
House. President Truman is said
to have consented to tnis in order
not to hurt Vandenberg’s feelings.
It is however, a sad state when
Staff merely to allow him to fill
out thirty years of service Thai
isn’t exactly the idea behind the
national defense effort, nor ih
building the most effective mili-
tary arm possible.
There is some talk about Lauri
Norstad — General ExsenhowerT
air chief in Europe—or Curtis Le-
May replacing Vandenberg. Mam,
observers doubt that either have
the qualifications to properly dis-
charge the duities of Chief of
Staff. Both these Generals have
many qualifications, but LeMay
tends to avoid diplomacy ana
Norstead tends toward the glamor
type. The Air Force, it seems,
needs men strong on grey matter,
forcefulness and soberness, tem-
pered with reason and gooa
judgment.
•
Vandenberg may have all of
this. Maybe, reporters, watching
period like that after World War
I when the military machine was
almost completely abandoned.
This sort of isolationist policy
isn’t expected again, however:
thus defense spending and the na-
tion’s heavy industry are to com-
bine to form a semi-pc-rmanent
business swell, likely to affect
every American, economically, in
the coming years,
©
Biggest surprise of the New
Hampshire primary of course, was
Senator Estes Kefauver’s impres-
sive defeat of President Harry
Truman, 20.240 to 10,128 votes.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
triumph over Senator Taft also
merits national attention but the
Kefauver victory v/as even bigger
news. Kefauver is supposed to be
out of the running, for all prac-
tical purposes. He doesn’t have
the South, r.cr the party machine
in the North and West.
The smart boys, including some
columnists, are saying such a
combination cannot be overcome
—and they may be right. But
nevertheless Kefauver is carrying
his case to the people, and in New
Hampshire they liked it enough to
choose him over the President.
Is it possible for Kefauver to
build such a popular following
him over the years still, cannot that he will still be in the race
NOTES and
COMMENTS
Modesty is usually only skin
deep.
Most people are a little smarter
than they seem.
•
Why is it that the truth is so
painful sometimes?
•
The hardest job we know is
trying to be impartial.
•
We have yet to see anyone who
thought he was overpaid.
•
Money loses its fascination and
mystic powers as it is acquired.
•
Pretty soon you will be invited
out on a picnic into the country.
•
When one learns to play golf
he learns more than the sport it-
self.
*
In case you have forgotten,
this week will see the arrival of
spring.
•
The person who always says
what he thinks is honest but un-
popular.
•
Revolutions seem to be getting
economical in South and Central
America.
•
A little politeness goes a long
way with most people, and is
usually repaid twofold.
•
This is the time of year to buy
the seed and plants for that gar-
den you plan each year.
•
The quickest way to make a
friend is to start out with a good
honest disagreement.
•
It’s about time for that spring
change, which means different
things to different people.
•
If you don’t believe in advertis-
ing you will never achieve the
success you could achieve.
•
The trouble with most social
movements is that they call for
work from the same people.
•
Going to school or college in
the spring is tough but not as
tough as paying for someone to
go.
•
The editor isn’t knocking off
these lines without some pain and
egg-laying, but they do represent
an honest try.
•
One of the miracles of this ci-
vilization is how the young people
manage to survive the advice of
the preceding generation.
©
Some editors know so much
about the military situation they
should be wearing five stars—on
the battlefront, and battle stars.
e
Now that football and basket-
ball scandals have about died
down we can look forward to a
normal baseball season:—we hope.
•
Some people are now beginning
to wonder if they didn’t miss a
chance for a lot of free publicity
by failing to announce fer the
presidency.
•
After the excitement of 16
presidential primaries, the na-
tional conventions will probably
choose candidates who did not
win most of the state primaries.
decide whether he has or has not.
ft appears that the opinion on
LeMay and Norstead is more defi-
nite. Just what the reasons be-
hind the move to get rid of Van-
denberg are have never been re-
vealed in detail. Some say Van-
denberg lacks the force to shar-
pen up the air service and its
person el. Others deny this. On
this conclusion, however, one is
safe: Vandenberg may or may
not be the best man for his job.
LeMay and Norstad are highly
doubtful a & proper replacements.
The Air Force needs top-flight
men in its top-flight jobs.
•
Government experts are now
predicting that military business
after several ballots at Chicago?
Thought impossible a few days
ago, still thought impossible by
•many, others are today wonder-
ing — after seeing Kefauver’s
popularity in New Hampshire.
Other primaries may provide the
answer, in the next three months,
including Minnesota’s (this week),
and fourteen others ending with
California’s June 3.
Not Like the Flood
An American died and went to
Heaven, and promptly started to
boast about his native land. “Do
you know,” he told a group of
spirits, that “that at Niagara
Falls eight billion cubic feet of
running into the scores of billions ! water flow over the cliffs every
annually may keep the industrial secon(f!
pump primed for at least fifteen
years to come. If these predic-
tions are accurate it will make a
major depression more' unlikely
than ever. These sources point
out that heavy military equip-
ment, such as that we are now
building, requires extensive re-
placement, becomes obsolete in
relatively short periods of time.
Each new hardware item seems
to cost Uncle Sam more and more
and the continuous replacement
and perfection process, and con-
struction of all new conventional
and atomic weapons, is to keep
defense spending high — unless
the U. S. lapses into another
Poof!” said Noah, scornfully.
Dew-drops!”
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