The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1990 Page: 2 of 32
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Confidence in the future
IGHT YEARS AGO (on January 22, 1982)
Am# in these columns we published an editorial
under the caption, "Welcome back, Diane" in
which we greeted with enthusiasm the return to
her home town of Diane Jackson Black to become
Manager of the Canadian Chamber of Com-
merce.
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1990
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Our enthusiasm for that move has never
waned, nor has hers. Diane has given the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce eight years of
outstanding leadership, some of it during trying
economic times in the wake of the collapse of the
oil and gas boom in the mid-eighties, and our
community is better for it.
Now it is with regret that we report her resig-
nation from that position, but with gladness that
we can also report that she plans to remain in
Canadian and will operate a private business
here, and that she also plans to continue to be an
active and enthusiastic member of the Chamber
of Commerce.
Quoting from that 1982 editorial: "We believe
that the leadership of an active Chamber of Com-
merce is vital to the growth and development of
our community. And we believe that Diane, be-
cause of her knowledge of her home town, her
interest in it, and her enthusiasm for it is uni-
quely equipped to become the professional
manager of the Canadian Chamber of Com-
merce."
We have no reason to revise that estimate,
and every reason to reaffirm our faith in the
future of Canadian, Texas. Diane’s stewardship
may be a hard act to follow, but she leaves a great
foundation to build on.
We won’t be going back to square one. The
Canadian Chamber of Commerce, like the city it
represents, is a viable organization, with on-
going programs in operation and plans for the
future. It will be a challenge to its board of
directors to replace Diane’s energetic and en-
thusiastic leadership, but it can be done...and
must be done.
We will look to the past with pride, and to the
future with confidence.
No public figure in maturing years should be held
politically account ~x-'° for mistakes of youthful judgment.
The problem arises when the public figure, having
reached what should be a mature age, can’t seem to resist
publicly reviewing those events of the teen-years and even
boasting of them, and doesn’t see anything wrong about
it.
There’s no question at all of Clayton Williams’ status as a
member of the "Good Ole Boy Club." His credentials are impec-
cable. And if his life hasn’t been an open book up to now, he seems
determined to make it one. He likes to boast of his prowess with
his fists, tell off-color stories around the campfire, and now to
recall for the press tales of his "coming to manhood" adventures
across the border in Juarez "pleasure places" and as an A&M
Aggie at the off-campus brothels because they were the only place
to "get serviced."
To good of boy Claytie it was all matter of course
because everybody does it, and what’s the big deal? One
big deal is that Clayton Williams is no longer a boastful
teen-ager. At any rate, in his mid-fifties he’s no longer a
teen-ager. His judgment should have matured along with
his body, and as a man who aspires to become Governor
of the State, he ought to e conscious of the obligations of
a role-model for those who are Still teen-agers in fact as
well as in mind.
Another big deal is that it hasn’t occurred to Claytie that
maybe, just maybe, not everybody does do it that way...and that
some teen-agers may exercise more mature judgment than he did
in this tomcat days, and should be respected for it.
Just a few weeks back Clayton Williams revealed his
insensitivity to women with a poor-taste joke about
rape...”just relax and enjoy it"...and now he reinforces that
insensitivity with stories for the press about his youthful
sexual prowess in the for-pay parlors where rape isn’t an
issue.
Maybe Candidate Williams thinks there’s enough "good ole
boy" vote in Texas to put him in the Governor’s office and t’hell
with the women and children. He may be right, but we hope he’s
not.
Recent experience isn’t encouraging, but we’d like to
believe that one requirement for being elected Governor
of Texas ought to be that the candidate grows up first.
Maybe the electorate is going to have to grow up instead.
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Or maybe it isn’t that important. Editor Lynn Brisendine of
the Brownfield News, reviewing this same situation the other
day, concludes that "the governor’s seat may not mean that much
in Texas. After all, we have survived thus far after another four
years of the crusty old man who holds the position at this time.
Continued on Page 4
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1990, newspaper, May 3, 1990; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth519848/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.