The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1965 Page: 2 of 8
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THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1965
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.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Humble Trade Area.....$2.81 per year
Harris County............$2.81 per year
Outside County...........$5.00 per year
Phone 446-3733 P.O. Drawer E
John Pundt, EDITOR
The Bureaucrats Notwithstanding
The Reporter of New Holstein, Wis-
consin, has come up with a compelling
idea.
It was inspired by the receipt of a hand-
out sent by the government on behalf
of the Job Corps which, in turn, is a
part of the war on poverty. The young
people entering the Corps will be taught
trades for which there is wide demand
and will receive room and board and $50
a month while learning.
The Reporter’s idea is to give busi-
ness the same privilege the government
enjoys in this instance. As of now, a
barrier to the employment of the young
and the unskilled lies in high minimum
wage and overtime restrictions. Private
enterprise just can’t afford to employ
and train them under these circum-
stances.
Says the Reporter: "If an in-shop
apprentice training program were al-
lowed at reasonable salary rates, a lot
of youths today walking the streets could
be gainfully learning a trade. And they’d
do it at no expense to the taxpayer.
However, such a program is too simple.
There are no bureaucrats mixed up in it.”
But this idea could become a reality,
the desires of the bureaucrats notwith-
standing, if it gained sufficient public
support. There are all manner of busi-
nesses, big and little, which would gladly
cooperate. Adequate safeguards against
abuses could be provided by law. And
the beneficiaries would include all the
taxpayers—as well as young people in
need of the training that will fit them to
be responsible and valuable members of
society.
CHALLENGING TASK
CHURCH
CALENDAR
Sponsored By;
Rosewood Memorial Park
Home Telephone Co.
The Log Cabin
HUMBLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Old Courthouse
John Williams, Pastor
’Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Church 11:00 a.m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
400 Main St.
Everett S. Martin, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 10:55 a.m.
Training Union 6:30 p.m.
Evening Services 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
LAKELAND BAPTIST CHURCH
Isaacks and Old Humble Road
Owen Dry, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 10:50 a.m.
Training Service 7 p.m.
Church 7:50 p.m.
Wednesday night 7:30 p.m.
DOES THE BUSINESSMAN HAVE
SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS?
By Harry Browne
A Welcome Visitor
What interests the readers of weekly
newspapers?
The Suburban Press Foundation con-
ducted a survey to find the answer to
that question, and Editor & Publisher has
printed the results. They cast a revealing
light on the wants of the millions of
people who live in the suburbs.
As expected, local news led the field in
readership, with 92.9 per, cent of those
polled saying they always read it; 6.5
per cent saying they read it sometimes;
and only 0.6 per cent confessing they
never read it.
Next—and close behind—came edi-
torials and local columns. A mere 0.7
per cent said they never read these.
Third in reader interest was adver-
tising. Only 2.7 per cent said they never
read it. All the rest said they always or
sometimes read it.
Actually, the whole weekly paper is
throughly read. Even the poorest read
classification—sports news—drew a
combined "always” and sometimes”
readership of 89.1 per cent.
The weekly paper is one of the most
welcome of visitors to suburban homes.
It stays for seven days, not just one.
And the whole family has a lasting and
hearty appetite for just about everything
in its columns.
WASHINGTON COMMENTS
Patch Work Farm Laws Scored
BY U.S. SENATOR JOHN TOWER
One of the things of considerable con-
cern to Texans is the farm legislation
anticipated this year. Laws that affect
agriculture don’t just affect farmers.
Agricultural laws affect us all because
all of us are consumers of the pro-
duce of our farms and ranches.
I have not been happy with the farm
programs of the past four years. In
all honesty we must say that they have
not solved, and are not solving, the
problems of our farmers and ranchers.
The cost-price squeeze continues to grow
worse for our agricultural producers.
Farm debts continue to rise, until now
the average farmer owes $2.86 for every
dollar of income. That is 50 cents per
dollar more debt than farmers owed at
the height of the 1929 depression. Since
1961, net farm income has remained
virtually at the same level, but farm debt
is up nearly 50 percent.
I am unable to see anything in the Ad-
ministration’s farm proposals that will
offer any relief for farming’s economic
squeeze. I do not believe it is likely
that we will see anything that will be of
grams , with the view of making recom-
mendations to Congress. I hope this
Congress will establish such a com-
mission.
It is true that there is one new ap-
proach in the farm proposals sent to
Congress by the Administration. The
economic planners of the Department
of Agriculture have arranged to shift
the cost of farm programs around a bit
among the taxpayers.
What they have done is to require
millers to pay more to wheat and rice
producers with the Feceral Govern-
ment paying the producers less. This,
of course, means that the millers will
pass on the increase to all consumers
of bread and of other wheat and rice
products.
Thus, the taxpayer retains some money
in his Federal Government pocket and
pays out more money from his grocery
bill pocket. But, unfortunately, the Ad-
ministration plan saves him less than it
costs him. Farm subsidy spending will
be cut $200 million a year, but consumer
costs will go up $300 million a year.
The businessman is continually berated for
concerning himself with profits, and ignoring
any “obligations” of “public service”.
For example, a recent editorial in this vein
(similar to many on the subject) castigated
local businessmen for not expressing proper
gratitude for “the great quantities of wealth
flowing into their coffers.” Proper gratitude,
it was implied, would be to sponsor civic and
charitable organizations in town, and “re-
turn a little of that wealth to the commu-
nity.”
SOURCE OF WEALTH
To put this in its proper light, let’s start
at the beginning . . .
What does the businessman go into busi-
ness for? Obviously, to satisfy his own profit
motive — whatever that may be. He may
want to make as much money as possible—
maybe he just wants to be his own boss—
maybe he’s in love with the particular line of
work involved.
Whatever the nature of his profit motive,
there’s only one way he can satisfy it and
stay in business: by getting people to buy
his products or services.
And how does he do that? Again, there’s
only one way. He must offer people some-
thing they want more than the money they’re
being asked to pay. No one has to buy. The
individual only buys if he wants to.
If an individual buys a product from a
businessman, it’s because he wants the prod-
It occurs to us we may not always have
been entirely fair with that fine body of Civ-
il Service martyrs who operate all the bu-
reaus, agencies, commissions and miscellan-
eous baggage and clutter of the federal gov-
ernment.
Call it the 1776 Syndrome, if you will.
Those of us who have been purposefully ex-
posed to the Declaration of Independence
since childhood, either by an extremist par-
ent or a batty teacher, are inclined to equate
government employes with that dismal com-
plaint of the earliest Americans: “He has
erected a multitude of new offices and sent
hither swarms of officers to harass our peo-
ple and eat out their substance.”
(Obviously the product of the right wing
lunatic fringe.)
Well, let’s forget that crack about
“swarms” as being prejudicial and leading
the witness. How about the jefes, hallboys,
runners and gaggle of satraps who have the
responsibility of pretending to put into effect
all of the melancholy, irrational, contradic-
tory and even incomprehensible dictates of
the Congress? What sort of folks are they?
For one thing, they are smarter than any-
body else you’ll come across because they
have to make decisions of taste and intent
that Heaven itself would leave to the consci-
ence or whim of the individual. We have in
mind, as a handy example, case No. 23-CA-
1765, as decided by an examiner for the Na-
tional Relations Board and subsequently
sanctified by action of the Board itself.
Complainant was an employe of the Rio
Grande Valley Gas Company of Texas. It
was the burden of his, complaint that the
company discriminated against him unfairly
because of its anti-union cussedness. For ex-
ample, he alleged because of his known union
activity the company rescinded his “pan
uct more than the money involved. To make
the sale, the‘businessman must satisfy a need
or desire of the customer.
The more needs and desires he satisfies, the
more sales he’ll make — and the more profit
he will derive. Every sale is the result of ser-
vice to the public. Every sale — because it
was made voluntarily — satisfies any obliga-
tion the businessman may have to his cus-
tomers.
ALL PROFIT
The customers have received as much
satisfaction from the exchange as has the
businessman. In terms of their own desires,
they have profited as much as the business-
man. Is'the customer obligated to return
some of his profit to the businessman? Of
course not.
The businessman’s public service is inher-
ent in his function. He makes available to
people who want them, products and ser-
vices from all over the world. He has made
it possible for an individual to obtain some-
thing he wanted at a price he was willing to
pay — as evidenced by the customer’s volun-
tary purchase.
The finest example of a public servant is
the businessman who profits by providing his
customers with the things they want. They
have said “thank you” with their voluntary
purchases.
What further obligation could either have0
dulce” time. Now, pan dulce is Spanish for
“sweet bread,” or sweet rolls, as we would
say. Most of the good paisanos of the valley
take a pan dulce break a few times a day.
Indeed, some of them make a profession of
this amiable custom.
Well, said the company, never mind about
rescinding the pan dulce break. Subject em-
ploye was in the habit of whistling at girls
as he tooled along in the company truck, a
practice which gave the company, and per-
haps the entire natural gas industry, a bad
name. How about that?
The wheels of govrnment began to turn.
Depositions, testimony, cross-examination. Le-
gal counsel for the government conferred
with legal counsel for the company and the
union. Organizers, straw bosses, superinten-
dents, company executives, NLRB employes
met and mulled.
In due time the vast machine emitted a
decision:
The company may not rescind pan dulce
time because of a man’s union activities.
However, it is not a privilege of employment
that a man should be permitted to whistle at
girls on company time and in the company
vehicles. The company was commanded to
restore the pan dulce privileges and the em-
ploye was ordered by the government of The
United States to whistle at girls only when
it was apparent to the average girl that he
was not acting in behalf of the company or
performing on company time and/or in a
company vehicle.
Perhaps, as the old extremist literature
said, swarms of government employes are
“eating out our substance,” but the service
they perform must be worth a little substance,
considering the sort of work they have to do.
After all, a lot of Americans wouldn’t accept
this kind of job for anything.
permanent help in this regard until
farm problems are removed from poli-
tics. I have introduced legislation that
would provide for a non-partisan com-
mission to review agricultural pro-
This is an example of continuing,
patch-work lawmaking that has constant-
ly increased farmers*costs, consumers’
costs, and taxpayers’ costs.
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A MONUMENTAL DECISION
By D. R. Segal
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.
FIRST PENTECOSTAL 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 Jerome Powers, O.M.I.
Sunday Mass 8:00 a.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.
UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Porter, Texas
M.E. Precise, pastor
Sunday School 11 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evangelistic Service 7:30 p.m.
Bible Study, Wed. 7:30 p.m.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
702 Atascocita Road
Father Ralph H. Shuffler II
Church 8 a.m.
Church School follows worship service
GREEN VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH
Aldine-Westfield Road
Paul S. Strother, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
Wed. Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m.
GREENLEE BAPTIST CHURCH
Bender Road
Rev. James Harrell
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
THE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
217 S. Ave. G
Rev. Dewey Nix
Sunday Schodl 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.
LA REVIEW PARK BAPTIST MISSION
4 1/2 mi. west on FM 1960
A.L. Draper, pastor
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
EASTEX OAKS PAPTIST
Plumtex at North Belt Dr.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 8 a.m.
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