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GRAHAM LIADIR, THURSDAY, JUNI 22. 10SO
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Washington News Letter
By Congressman Ed Gossett
1949 Winner Best .All-Round Weekly Newspaper and Best
Community Service Awards by West Texas Press Association.
THE MEAT OF IT
The necessity for the United States to defend the land ond
to handle international affairs is not enough to transfer prop-
erty rights in the marginal sea from Texas to the United
States
The needs of defense and foreign laffairs alone can not
transfer ownership of an ocean bed trqm a state to a federal
government any more than they could transfer iron ore under
uplands from state to federal ownership.
National responsibility is no greater in. respect to the
marginal sea than it is toward every other particle of Ameri-
can- terfitory.
Lest you think that this is outraged Texas chauvinism cry-
ing out against the unholy expropriation authorized by an
acting Federal Supreme Court majority Monday, this page
hastens to assure you that the three paragraphs above are
lifted bodily from the dissenting tidelands opinion of Justices
Stanley F. Reed (Kentucky) and Sherman Minton (Indiana).
Read the seven print columns in which their four col-
leagues seek to justify setting aside (1 I the constitution and
(2) the pledged word of_the nation to Texas ond nothing in
dH they said refytes the iron logic and integrity of fbpse three
plain sentences—Dallas News. "/ /
THE UBERTTTO.L-——~
SYMBOL OF INDEPENDENCE
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When the original Liberty Bell was cast , in England Some
two hundred years oao. a long ond dramatic adventure‘be-
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9.
The moet sensational new* in
Washington was made by the Su-
preme Court when they handed
down numerous decisions, tome of
which will become historic.
In the Texas Tidelands Case the
Court brushed aside all of our con-
tentions and laid federal claim to
all of the marginal sea within the
described boundaries of Texas. It
is my hope and belief that Con-
gress will override the Supreme
Court’s actions in these tidelands
cases. We will probably not get
this job accomplished before the
next session of Congress.
Three other cases decided by
the Court give evidence of a social
revolution ^hat- is going on in this
country. Congress will probably
do littte or- nothing to stop this
revdtution. In the Sweatt Case the
Court held that the University of
jiTeAs must admit Negroes to her
Law School. In the Henderson
Case the Court held that separate
facilities on trains for Negroes
was unlawful. In the McLaurin
Case the Court held that Okla-
homa University’s separate seat-
ing of the Negro, McLaurin, in the
classroom was discriminatory. In
other words, these three cases in
effect set the stage for outlaw-
ing all-forms of segregation.
On the day following the Court's
action in these cases, under the
one minute rule, I made the fol-'
lowing statement to the House of
Representatives:
“Mr. Speaker. Yesterdav might
well be called 'Black Monday.’
Yesterday’s Supreme Court deci-
sions in the Tidelands Cases, the
Sweatt Case, the Henderson Case
and the McLaurin Case, mark a
pew low in Anglo-Saxon jurispru-
dence. The Supreme Court has def-
initely established itself as a poli-
tical arm of those who would wit-
tingly, dr unwittingly, destroy
*A npl o-Saxon -civi heat ion: 1 ,—
‘Tn the absence of congression-
al action,- the Tidelands Case le- _____i______, . _
j-nlitty theft of property by. .Wuwuw—foU. thrywttl Be' raised
superior sovereign. This how-
ever is a minor evil compared to
the destruction of ehnraeter which
portends from the other decisions.
State* rights. State laws and State
r re irraHlinlly being
tions, tha Ruasian* can one day
take this country without firing
q.shoL The delivery of atomic se-
crets to the Russians by spies and
traitor*'!* of small cor sequence
when cjynpared to the destruction
of American principles by execu-
tive fiat and judicial decree. Our
foundations are rotting and are
being eaten away.
“Mr. Speaker, I hope the gloom
and pessimism to which I now suc-
cumb is not justified. I hope there
is enough integrity and intelli-
gence left in this country to stem
the tide that now threatens to
overwhelm u».
"However, Mr. Speaker, the time
may well come when the inscrip-
tion al>ove the Supreme Court
should be changed to read:
’Gas Chamber of American Li-
berties’.’’ \
On February 22, 1832, speaking
at a George Washington centen-
nial birthday celebration, Daniel
Webster had the following to say
of constitutional government:
‘‘Other misfortunes may be
borne, or their effects overcome.
If disastrous war should sweep
our commerce from the ocean, an-
other generation may renew it; if
it exhauat our treasury, future in-
dustry may replenish it; if it-deso-
late and lay waste our fields, still,
under a new cultivation, they will
grow green again, abd ripen to
future harvests. It were but a
trifle even if the walls‘of yonder
Capitol were to crumble, if it*
lifty pillars should fall, and its
gorgeous decorations b“ all cov-
ered by the dust of the valley.
All thgse .might be rebuilt. But
who shall reconstruct the fabric of
demolished government? Who
shall rear again the well-propor-
tioned columns of constitutional
liberty? Who shall frame togeth-
er the skillful architecture which
unites -* national- sen
States rights, indiridua! security,
and public pro*|>erity ? No. if these
YOUNG QOUNTY LONG AGO
items of 25 and 50 yeor> ago
taken from tho early files of
The Graham Leader.
potjigain. Like, the Coliseum and
the Parthenon-, they will he des-
tined to a mournful,, a melancholy
immorality. Bitterer tears, how-
ever, will flow over them, than
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25 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hinson and
daughter, Miss • Evelyn, were in
Fort Worth Monday and Tuesday.
Messrs. J. T. Rickman, Dan Or,
Edgar Steele, Earl Gilbert, Jessie
Beach, “Red” Moore, Earl Hutch-
ings, McKinley Norman and oth-
ers went to Ingleside Tuesday to
put the Encampment in order for
the big encampment which meets
next month.
Miss Lillie May Calvin return-
ed the first of the week from
Cincinnati, Ohio, where she com-
pleted her music course in that
great musical conservatory.
Mrs. A. M Graham returned
Monday from‘Galveston where she
has been the past two weeks.
I. W. Steele of Ivan wa* a Gra-
ham visitor last Friday.
Mrs. E. H. Griffin and little
niece, Pattie Fsin, will return
this week from Galveston.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ford re-
turned Tuesday from a visit to
Houston and Galveston.
Mrs. M. M. lAr and daugh-
ters, Maude and Grace, returned
last week from a visit to Wichita
Falls.
Postmaster C. L. Long is on
his vacation.
P. K. Deats and family spent
the week end in Wichita Falls.
John Ware was in Stephens
County Sunday.
A. J. Cantwell oIf Jean was *
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day. • t_________
.—At-Gr-Cwey“5f Farmer was in
Graham Saturday.
Mrs. F. H. Bowron and daugh-
ter, Miss Francis, went to Fort
Worth Monday.
Miss Julia Craig of- New Al-
bany, Indiana, 'is visiting Mrs; P.
~ - end Mine-Alien Graham.
state ticket and selecting delegates
to the national convention at Kan-
sas City.
Henry G. Arnold and family of
Miller Bend, visited relatives here
this week.
J. D. Carr and family have left
the Belmont Hotel and returned
to their farm in Boggy Valley.
C. J. Cox of the Belknap com-
munity waa In Graham Monday.
A party consisting of F. M.
Burkett and family, Rev. S. A.
Barnes and family, A. A. Morri-
son and frinily, Mrs. G- S. Wyatt
and two sons, Misses Mabel and
Ira Wyatt, Leila and Hattie Mc-
Jimsey and Mesars. M. K. Gra-
ham and Boyd Street went out to
the ranch of Geo. H. Craig to
■pend the week.
J. W. Groves and wife of Olney
were in town Wednesday. Groves
saya that wheat ia turning oub
from 20 to 25 bu*l)fls per acre.
W. C. Padgett, senior member
of the well known firm of Padgett
Bros, of Dallas, accompanied by
three sons, wa* in Graham this
week. They came through in a
spring wagon and ace delighted
with the trip and the country. *
Frank Herron’s residence on
South Elm Street 1* nearing com-
pletion.
We learn that C. W. Johnson has
contracted with J. C. Casbum to
build a two story, ten room dwell-
ing on North Oak Streeet, con-
sideration, I2.035..00.
Er -A. - Sullivan whu -1ms been
peiigpeitiag TfOT~so'me time, has
decided to locate in Griham for
the practice of law.
Hall Morrisoa.^TSiM»iJ* start-
ed last Friday on a visit to rela-
tives and friends at Haskell.
Miss Georgia Jewell started.,
for Denton -tp attend'
Wednesday
till! LXmUitj
Denton Normal.. School.
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-,--Drive salat of
eerie* ■ bead* in Tan* a* raeahr-
ad and credited by tha Federal Re-
serve Bank, Jana 9, reveal that
$7,728 of E sale* have baas ■ada
in Young County erhdie quota ia
$79,800. The County has attained
7.50** of the quota. Tho current
drive will end on July 4.
Archer Livestock
Association
Presents Their
SIXTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR
RODEO
Jane 22,23,24
Night Shows Only
8:00 P. M.
Archer City, Texas
LeSAGE
MOTOR CO.
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gan, climaxed in 1776, when the Libe.rty BeFi sounded
America's freedonj.
-Today, the Savings Bonds Division of the Treasury De-
partrrient is conducting a national stimulation bond drive to
increase public participation in the bond program and aware-
ness of the opportunity Savings Bonds afford a better future.
When Secretary ok, the Treasury, John W. Snyder, an-
nounced that the Independence Bond Drive would be sym-
bolized by the Liberty Bell, six of America's copper producers
volunteered to have fifty-two exoct replicas of the Liberty
Bell mode, to highlight the drive—May 15 through July 4.
Next week one of these replicas will arrive in Graham to
spotlight sales activities and rallies.1 This Liberty Bell will
be given to Texas at the conclusion of the Drive on July 4, and
the Bell that we will hear and see during its appearance, is
exactly like the original Liberty Bell even to its tone.
BeIJmasters throughout the country haxe exomined the
duplicates and assert that because of this exact similarity of
structure to the original bell is the same sound that was heard
in Philadelphia in 1776
All citizens are urged to see the bell and hear the mes-
sage "Save for your Independence "
SCIENTIFIC FARMING
The terrific loss ip farm population in this and other coun-
ties have its lessons in different ways. A trend that appears
above all the rest is less man power it takes now to do the
farming Another potent factor is the know-how on the part
of those who produce from the soil. And a factor of this know-
how is .the qtte'ntiop that has been paid to the science of
farmingAgficultsiral schools hove done a lot. Agricultural
agents hove, done a lot. Soft conservation has entered into
the picture And a vast deal has been learned by observent
farmers who have been willing to accept an advancement that
has been mode by others, and profit by it.
More is to be learned yet And more still will be learned
when the admission is mode freely that none of us know all
there is to be learned on the subject. In the post few years
many new ideas have been advanced, which is only an intima-
tion of the very great deal thot all of us didn’t know; ond
perhaps on intimation of the vast knowledge fhatSs still un-
tapped Just to be receptive to ideas that differ from those
we have held, is something on the rood to .progress. Just to
years we hove been told that deep breaking sh
destroyed.
“If Solicitor General Perlman
ha* his way, Amtrica will eventu-
ally be Cpmmnniited. If the Perl-
man gang continues their success-
ful attack upon American jnstitu-
ment* of Roman or Grecian artt- ■
for they will he- the remnant* ^f
more glorious edifice than
Greece or Rome ever saw, the edP
fice of constitutional American
liberty.’’
zooxmo
AHEAD
m GEORGE 1 BENSON
PtmUal—Jhtlit CtlUft
tmm. Artum
HOW THE PLOTTERS WORK
It has been difficult for the
American mind to accept the fact
that Tor many yeajs there has
been at work in America a well-
organized, adequately - financed
and shrewdly directed Commun-
ist conspiracy to destroy our form
of government. Some otherwise
intelligent people, including high
placed educators, commentators,
editors and writer who influence
public thinking, all the while have
referred to the Coommunist con-
spiratorial apparatus cs a "poli-
tical party” in the ordinary sense
of that term and have pleaded the
case of its members on the basis
of American "rights.” t
. This fuzzy thinking has even
prevailed in some quarter* despite
the repeated statements of. FBI
Chief J. Edgar, Hoover branding
the Communist plotters for what
they are, and in suite of the New
York jury verdict finding 11 top
American Communist Party lead-
ers guil.ty of teaching the violent
overthrow of our government. I
hope the cold facta of Mr. Hoo-
ver’s recent testimony to Cot
will aid in correrong this danger-
Communist conspiracy /until the
traitors and spiea began to be root-
ed out of our Federal government
find it (till more difficult to un-
derstand that they effort* of the
present Socialist Planners would
have the same effect on our form
of government. This state of mind
is, of course, a help to the organ-
ized planners. Infact, they have al-
most succeeded in creating an at-
mosphere in which anyone who
raises a cry of “Socialism’’ agaihst
any measure or statement is im-
mediately stigmatized as a “crack-
pot’’ or “reactionary,” or. “dis-
ciple of doom.’’
In England the Fabian Social-
ists who gained control of that
country didn’t reveal their actual
intention* until afterthey had tak-
141**" Mary Glenn Vick returned
to her home in Port Worth Sun-
day after a pleasant visit with
Miss Louise Graham.
Miss Myrtle Kemp and Miss
Sadie Timmons left Monday for
Mullen, Texas, for a viait.
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of it on top would not produce good crops. Another notion
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held by the eorly settlers was that the native grasses were the
best that could be grown. This idea did sound reasonable.
Science has unfolded wonderful visions in every field, but
somehow we have been slow to take odvantoge of it in agri-
culture. Even some of the elementary* things hove not been
learned from o scientific viewpoint. Take the matter of cul-
tivation. The origthol idea was that you hod to plow the corn
to kill the weeds And when you plowed it, the surfoce was
cultivated, which benefited the corn as much as killing the
weeds Then later, we cultivate the crops to hold the mois-
ture; but while doing sp it would hove been just as easy to
know why it held the moisture From the scientific point of
^iew, they tell us that >vhe na hord rain falls on the soil thot
jsillions of little capillary tubes form, and through these
the moisture is conveyed to the surfoce ond out into
rthe air. It is unbeievoble the amount of water these tubes con
You know thot, though, by the speed with which soaked
ground dries out in the hot sun Then the little capillaries are
broken by the plow, they form again, to lesser extent, in about
ten da vs, ond plowing needs to be repeated, dll Summer. Other
scientific things obout farming ore less known Forming will
be still more successful when more of its scientific secrets ore
learned.—Seymotsr Bonner.
50 YEARS AGO
Thomas Price of Eliasville was
in town Wednesday.
T. E. Williamson of True neigh-
borhood was in town Monday.
Mrs. M. A. Wallace and her
daughters have returned from
visiting the family of E. M. Wal-
lace on Fish Creek. i. ’
Dr. M. H. Chism teturned Sat-
urday from Pari* Texas where he
attended a convention of the
Christian Church.
E. O. McNew and family start-
ed Wednesday to Bowie to visit
relatives and friends.
Capt. A. T. Gay started Tues.
. - , - . day to attend the State Conven-
er! over the Labor Party; and even. which met at Auatin the 20th
"Wq hove tofked entirely too much about ‘security' There
hos been too much emphasis on ’riskless savings' and a 'safe
future.' We should do more talking obout people becoming
owners of business "—Emil Schrom, President, New ork Stock
Exchange.
today than during World War II.
Burrewiag la
Of, special significance was Mr
Hoover’s statements that the Com-
munist have made “amazing
strides” in gaining a foothold in
the legal profession and are now
concentrating on strengthening
their position among the unions
in America’s heavy, strategic in-
dustries end in our highly-impor-
.tant media of communications
such at the newspapers, the maga-
zines, radio, movies, television, etc.
Even while the FBI chief was
thus trying again to alert the na-
tion to the Communist internal
menace, another crusade, almost
identical to Communism in its bas-
ic objective, ws* being carried on
in our country in a highly organ-
ized way. Not enough Americans
realize this movement carries a
threat to their freedom. For that
reason it is even more dangerous,
ss an internal force .than Com-
munism. The groups of this move
tnent call themselves by various
names, hut alt are working for an
American Socialistic State*
‘ Hard to Believe
Many Americans who found it
difficult to accept tha facts of the
then they lalxlled their objective
n^t as a “Socialist State,” but as
• The Welfare State.’ The Fabians
got control of England by work-
ing in “nests” to infiltrate vari-
ous political, social, government
afynand labor groups. «
Out of the Bag
The Socialist! Planners have
been burrowing into the fabric of
our nation’s life for more than 25
years. Some of their talkative
members have “let the cat out; of
the bag” as to technique. Here^
what one, H. Stephen Raushen-
bush, wrote in the Socialist “New
Leader” 23 years ago: “One good
man with his eyes, ears and wits
about him inside the Department
of Interior or the Treasury can do
more to perfect the technique of
control over industry than a hun-
dred men outside.” Twelve years'
later Raushenbush was chief of
plsnning in the power division of
the Department of Interior. He
ia now a consultant in the United
Nations organisation.
The Socialist plan is to infil-
trate both American political in-
stitutions and American minds. In
the institutions, they establish
Socialist policies and practices so
gradually hardly anyone is aware;
and through infiltration of our
thought-shaping media such as the
press, radio, textbooks, the mov-
ies, etc., they condition the Amer-
ican mind to accept the gradual
change at “progressive” and to
hold in contempt those who chal-
lenge ’’Socialism.” Truth will al-
ws*** out. But I hope it will not
be too late for America when the
naked facts about the Socialist de
signs are also fully exposed.
(for th
ie purpose of nominating a
R. L. Tankersley and mother
the Murray community, were in
town Tuesday.
Dr. M. H. Logan and W. D-
Spivey of Finis were among their
friends in Graham Monday.
Edgar Matthews and Cletn
Vaughn made a buatnaa* trip tp l
Fort worth tilth wWK.
1 Judge R. F. Arnold will deliver
an address on July 4 at Archer
City.
Strained honey, Comb honey.
Pure honey, Sweet honey, Good
honey at Matthews, Tidwell and
Norman's.
Jason Mayes and wife of the
Salt Creek country were among
their friends in town Tuesday.
Why Eds Skip Town
“An hysterical mother asked
police to search for her 141-year-
old daughter.”—New York paper.
• • •
"Rev. Horace G— has returned
to town and will take up his cuties
at the church.”—North Dakota
paper.
ON THEIR
"BT "
30th
ANNIVERSARY
JUNE 24, 1950
EW. HARRISON
•CONGRATULATIONS
FROM AN OLD TIMER TO
LeSAGE MOTOR CO.
Keep the garden producing on a
year-round basis. The surplus from
the garden may he canned or
froten and by this method the
family can enjoy freah vagetablse
the year-reead.
ON THEIR
30th ANNIVERSARY
t '
WE ALSO ARE OBSERVING OUR 30th ANNIVERSARY
MOODY BROS.
Plymouth ond DuSoto Automobile*
"WI GIVI S.GH. GRIIN STAMPS
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