The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1968 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1968
Published every Thursday .at Humble, Texas, by the Humble Publishing
Co. Entered as second class matter July 18, 1942, at the U.S. Post Office
in Humble, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1870.
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John Pundt, Editor
Alternative To Catastrophe
In the next 35 years, it has been
estimated that quite possibly one bil-
lion people will succumb to starva-
tion with the greatest blows falling on
Latin American nations, Asia and
Africa. The movement toward birth
control of itself will not stem the
rising population curve in time to pre-
vent the greatest catastrophe the human
race has ever suffered.
How would the death of a billion
souls from starvation in other parts of
the world affect the people of the U.S.
and other more fortunate nations? Com-
menting on a cosmic disaster of this
magnitude, Robert White-Stevens of the
Agricultural Division of a chemical
company says, “Its socio-political im-
pact upon our civilization can only be
vaguely predicted, but all intelligent
people must surely realize that its
repercussions will sweep like some
monstrous tidal wave across every
land, into every home and affect every
man, woman and child on earth.” Crises
such as Viet Nam, Israel, Cuba, Congo,
Nigeria and China will recur until the
structure of civilization has been vir-
tually destroyed.
As an alternative to placidly ac-
cepting this melancholy prospect,
Stevens feels, as do many other author-
ities on the subject, that we should
begin at once a massive exportation of
the advanced agricultural techniques
of this country. Among the most im-
portant of these exports would be
pesticides. The time is long past when
superstitious shibboleths regarding
pesticide use should be abandoned. At-
tempting to increase production with-
out the aid of pesticides, Steves points
out, “...will merely aggravate rather
than resolve the problem, for weeds,
insects and disease will promptly ab-
sorb the added fertility and destroy
the increased growth.” In short, every
weapon in the arsenal of modern ag-
riculture should be brought to bear
on the growing world food shortage.
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By Marilyn Manion
MAYBE THIS YEAR WILL BE BETTER
The New Year has begun—and already it is
old. Thousands of New Year’s resolutions have
no doubt by now been broken.
But before we leave the reflective mood that
always accompanies the annual end and begin-
ning of the calendar, we ought quite seriously
to hope for a happy new year. God willing, it
will be happier than the last.
It was not a very good year. Race riots in
our cities—and the evidence that government-
employed “poverty workers” helped instigate
them. “Practically all the agitators, the snipers
and the arsonists who have been identified
have well-paying jobs, many of them with the
Anti-Poverty Corps,” declared Dean Clarence
Manion over the Manion Forum network last
August.
The announcement came last year that crime
has risen, since 1960, 88%—while the popula-
tion increased only 10%. It was a year in
which criminals were told their “rights”—and
law-abiding citizens discovered that they were
less safe than the criminals.
The war in Vietnam took its toll in Amer-
ican lives throughout 1967. The Reds con-
tinue to kill our boys as we go to press. Yet,
our Administration will not make a decision as
to whether to win or get out. Instead, it pur-
sues the “middle way”—an agonizing, drawn-
out, no-win war. “There is no such thing as a
merciful kind of war,” stated Jack Gore,
Editor of the Fort Lauderdale News, as he
spoke over the Manion Forum in March of
1967. “War has always been a hellish and a
dirty business, and we don’t make it any less
hellish or less dirty by stretching it out over
a longer period than necessary because we
don’t want to employ sufficient force to bring it
to a military conclusion.”
The Communists went about their grisly
tasks elsewhere in the world last year; Cuba,
an armed enemy camp, was the scene last
summer of a meeting of Communists from all
over the world. They met to plan revolutions
in Africa, Latin America and maybe even the
U.S.A. Yet, at this moment, we may be honor-
ing a reputed “deal” between Khrushchev and
President Kennedy, to the effect that the
U.S.A. will never invade, help invade or even
allow invasion of Communist Cuba.
The Soviets and Eastern European Com-
munists spent last year sending supplies to
North Vietnam so that Ho Chi Minh could
have the wherewithal to kill more American
boys. But our government has actively en-
couraged trade with the Reds—even removing
from the strategic list such “innocent” items
as scrap iron.
Here in the United States the Communist
Party conceived, organized and successfully
brought off a “Vietnam Week” to protest the
war. American Reds took part in other such
rallies last year as well, hoodwinking thousands
of American youths into aiding the enemy. A
few months after the disgusting spectacle of
“Vietnam Week,” our Supreme Court declared
that Communists cannot lawfully be barred
from working in United States defense plants.
We could go on and on with this doleful
recitation—but doing so would be of no avail.
The only way to change things for the better
is to accent the positive. Fortunately, the
American people have a chance to save their
country this year—for it is an election year.
The question is, do they know enough to act in
their own behalf?—American Way Features
By D. R. Segal
A TITLE BY ANY
One of my most faithful correspondents is
a medical man who has a Cause. It is his
earnest wish that laws should be passed to
prevent anyone but M.D.’s from using the title
“doctor.” I was inclined to write this guy off
as a blood brother of the calendar revisionists
and the simplified spellers, when it began to
come through to me that there was something
significant (maybe even Significant) about all
this. Here is a doctor who knows he is a doctor
and whose patients, presumably, know he is a
doctor. He knows what kind of doctor he is
and so do his patients. He is not mistaken by
a man with a gallstone for a reverend doctor;
and pregnant ladies do not frequent his shop in
the belief he is a doctor of law? And so it
seemed to me, at first, to be a foolish affair—
this struggling for identity.
But, now, after putting this thing through
the mill, it occurs that this is no fey matter.
What is more important than identity? What
man wants to go through medical school,
internship, residency and advanced training
only to be mistaken for a Ph.D. in English
Lit? Or, even worse, a preacher? And the
use of “doctor” by eye-glass merchants drives
them wild.
The Mexicans have solved this, pretty
much. Lawyers are called by a title—Lie.
Thus: Lie. Francisco Villa. Engineers are
Ing.’s. Thus: Ing. Augusto Mordido. You
don’t have to wonder what an Ing. or a Lie.
does for a living. These titles are flourished
OTHER NAME . . .
with as ■•'much savor as Doctor in our own
country.
A few years ago 1 ran into a gaggle of Ger-
man editors brought over here by the State
Department to find out what hot guys we are
and how lovable. Every one of them, as far
as I could determine, was a doctor. (Wheri
you call for a doctor in Germany, Lord knows
what you’re going to get.) By extension of
the service, we might give just about every-
body a title:
Plmbr. Joe Trapp.
Elctrcn. Sam Spark.
Btcher. Marvin Jointt.
Brtndr. George Gulph.
And on and on. If this satisfies some deep
urge within the human breast to be recognized
as a man of special skill or learning, a person
of superior status, then let us all have a
title on the door if not a rug on the floor.
Perhaps it will—like all good plans—prevent
war, eliminate poverty, eradicate corruption
and elevate the human race.
It might even take the place of the UN
and the Great Society.
After all, if you have a fancy title in front
of your name, you’re not going to go out and
kill somebody, or lead a march against city
hall. You’ll be home nursing your status and
protecting your position in the community.
By all means, let’s have Ing’s, Lie’s, Brtndr’s,
Grbgmn (to pick up the grbg, of course) and
maybe even Pltcn’s to corrupt it all with pol-
itics.—American Way Features
WASHINGTON COMMENTS
New Session /
BY U.S. SENATOR RALPH YARBOROUGH
The first session of the 90th Congress was a long
and hard one. We were in session 340 days, a near
record, but many good laws were passed. In this final
session we should complete action on many important |
bills introduced last year, and consider new ideas for
the needs of today and tomorrow.
As we enter this new session the problem of crime
in our nation continues to be a paramount problem. I >
support the Safe Streets and Crime Control Bill pro- l
posed by President Johnson, designed to channel new
funds into hiring and training policemen and into re-
search for crime detection and prevention.
I co-sponsored this bill with Senator McClellan of )
Arkansas, the President’s anti crime bill, and I believe ?
it is badly needed.
One of my most important bills in this new session
is my proposal to establish a well co-ordinated Health, ,
Education, and Labor exchange between the United :
States and the developing nations. My bill brings in pri- ;
vate and government resources jointly, to broaden our \
assistance and our influence overseas, especially with ?
young people. Communist governments spend a fortune
each year on programs and propaganda to win the ;
friendship of other nations, but today the United States
has nothing to counter this activity. My bill will openly jj
finance these non-political programs and will help the
United States win the admiration of freedom-loving '
peoples around the world.
A bill much closer to home is my Big Thicket
National Park Bill introduced last year. I intend tc ~
continue my fight to make this fabulous Southeast
Texas area a preserve for all Texans and for future
generations of Americans to enjoy. I hope the Big
Thicket National Park will become a reality in 1968.
We have many other vital proposals to consider.
The horror of Hurricane Beulah’s attack on South Texas
last year has dramatized the need for a Flood Insurance
Program, and also for a broader system of aid to indi-
viduals and businesses hurt by disasters like Beulah.
Finally, the crucial Higher Education Act which has
provided aid to colleges and universities all over the
nation expires next year. I favor renewing that bill and
I have an amendment which would open a study of ways
to finance a complete higher education for every
qualified student who wants one, without regard to his
ability to pay for it. We must also consider broadening
the very successful Hill-Burton hospital construction
bill. It promises to be a busy year in Congress.
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Humble Presbyterian Church, Old Courthouse, Rev.
Bill Loessin, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Church 11 a.m.
a.m.
First Baptist Church, 400 Main St., Everett S.
Martin Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church
10:55 a.m., Evening Services 7:30 p.m., Wednesday
7:30 p.m.
Lakeland Baptist Church, Isaacks and Old Hum-
ble Road, Owen Dry Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m.,
Church 10:50 a.m., Church 7:50 p.m., Wednesday
7:30 p.m.
Church of Christ, 621 Herman St., Herbert Thornton
Minister, Sunday School 10 a.m., Church 10:50 a.m.,
Evening Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m.,
Bible class 9:30 a.m.
Methodist Church, 800 Main St., Bill Turner Pastor,
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church 11 a.m., Evening
Worship 7 p.m.
Evangel Church, 119 S. Houston Ave., Irby E.
Slaughter Pastor, Sunday School 10 a.m., Church
11 a.m.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 400 S. Houston Ave.,
Father George Swilley, Sunday Mass 8:30 a.m.,
10:30 a.m., Evening Mass 6:30 p.m., Wednesday
.Mass 7:30 p.m.
First Assembly of God Church, 410 Granberry
St., G.L, Johnson Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m.,
Church 11 a.m., Childrens Church 6 p.m., Young
Peoples Church 6 p.m., Evangelistic Service 7 p.m.
Forest Cove Baptist Chapel, 1711 Hamblen Road,
Thomas F. Henderson Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m.,
Sunday - morning worship 11 a.m., Sunday evening
worsnip 7 p.m.
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 702 Atasco-
cita Road, Father Douglas W. Hutchings, Church § a.m.,
Church School follows worship service.
First Assembly of God, Porter, Texas on FM Ri M
1314, B.B. Follis, Pastor. Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m., Young People 6 p.m., Evangelistic
Service 7 p.m.
Holy Comforter Lutheran Church, 7630 N. Belt Dr.,
Rev. George Brookover, Church 11 a,m., Church School
9:30 a.m.
The United Pentecostal Church, 217 S. Ave. G.,
Rev. Dewey Nix, Sunday School 10 a.m., Church 11
a.m.
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Westfield, Texas,
E.R. Rathgeber Pastor, Sunday School 9 a.m., Church
10 a.m.
Lakeview Park Baptist Mission, 4 1/2 mi. west on
FM 1960. , Joe Silvio • Pastor, Sunday School 10 a.m.,
Church 11 a.m.
First Baptist Church, Eastex Oaks, 7534 N. Belt
Dr., Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church 11 a.m,, Training
Union 6 p.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
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Pundt, John. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1968, newspaper, January 25, 1968; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1036320/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Humble Museum.