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THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1967
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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Another Name For Socialism
There is coming to be a widespread
feeling that social security benefits and
taxes are getting out of hand. Taxes on
payrolls will soon be passing 10 percent
of a continually rising level of individual
income. For many people, social security
taxes are higher than income taxes.
The obligation of the government to pay
l benefits for which reserves are not now
in hand is estimated at around $400
billion. This mortgage on future tax-
payers is expected to rise soon to $500
billion. Apparently, we are headed in the
same direction as European nations,
where welfare payments take a third or
more of national budgets. If the trend
continues, it is hard to see where the
private savings will come from that in
the past have provided the capital for
industrial development.
Voluntary private investment has built
the great industries of the United States.
As an example, life insurance companies
in this country bought $768 million worth
of public utility bonds during 1965. By
buying life insurance for their own pro-
tection, U.S. citizens in turn provided the
funds for needed growth in the utility
industry. Similar institutional investing
provided funds for countless other in-
dustries. In addition, millions of individ-
uals have made direct investments in the
industries of their choice—investments
that have been made from savings. These
investments give meaning to the phrase
“people’s capitalism”.
As taxes rise—for whatever purpose—
the ability of people to invest voluntarily
and plan a future on an individual basis,
diminish. By the same token, if the day
comes when the capital needs of industry
cannot be met from private sources,
American industry will have no recourse
but to turn to government for capital.
In the long run, it appears that a welfare
state is morely another name for social-
ism.
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OPINION
LEXINGTON, S.C., DISPATCH-NEWS:
“...charged with the shooting of a white
woman civil rights worker, Collie Leroy
Wilkins....was found not guilty this time
around. The first trial had ended in a
hung jury....Now, Attorney General Kat-
zenbach has hinted that Federal legisla-
tion may be upcoming to handle any...
'miscarriage of justice’ murder trials?
Or just those where a civil rights worker
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GREETINGS FROM SUNNY ICELAND
By Tom Anderson
is involved? Maybe federal intervention
in the courts will come only on trials
where the 'unbiased, open-minded*
people of the federal government feel
there is a miscarriage—what will re-
main but an eventual federal jurisdic-
tion of all courts? Oh, well, we may
just as well give in, everything else
is getting that way, isn’t it?”
Reykjavik, Iceland:
Some folks carry coals to Newcastle; and
I go to Iceland in the wintertime. I’m not
sure what I expected. Blizzards, snowdrifts
and Eskimoes, I suppose. Actually, Iceland
winter temperatures are comparable to New
York. That delightful phenomenon, the Gulf
Stream, keeps Iceland from being ice land. It
has probably the warmest climate in Europe
in wintertime.
Iceland is one-fifth larger than Ireland
and is Europe’s most sparsely sett’ed land.
Immigration has been so discouraged and so
sparse that practically everybody in Iceland
is kin to everybody else.
Though Iceland badly wants and needs
immigrants, they want only their own kind.
To put it bluntly, they are what some of our
bigots would call “racists.” Every applicant
for citizenship has to be approved by Parlia-
ment.
Iceland is noted for beautiful women. In
the 9th Century Viking and Celt pirates
headquartered in Iceland, plundering Ireland
and Scotland and kidnapping beautiful wo-
men.
If you want to become a citizen of Ice-
land, you have to wait 10 years — 5 years if
you are a Scandinavian. You have to change
your name to Icelandic.
Icelanders have been happily isolated for
centuries but now are determined to join the
world — for which they may eventually be
sorry. Icelanders formerly traded only with
Denmark. But they cut loose from Denmark
in 1944 and became an independent nation.
The Icelandic speech today is little
changed from what it was in the 9th Century.
Icelandic is the world’s oldest living speech.
If the original pirates came back today, they
could communicate without difficulty.
Iceland does not really want outside capi-
tal. Foreigners can own only about 49 per-
cent of any Icelandic business and can take
none of the profits out of the country. Prices
on most things are high, by our standards.
Gasoline, most of which they buy from Rus-
sia, sells for 60 cents a gallon. Bread is 25
A LITTLE LESS COMPASSION, PLEASE
By Harry Browne
“One cannot be totally honest. To do so
would be to treat people very rudely. One
must show compassion and concern for the
feelings of others; and if that means being
a little dishonest, then dishonesty is all right.”
How many times have you heard a state-
ment similar to that? It is very easy to justify
dishonesty as being for the benefit of the per-
son being lied to.
But, of course, this is merely saying that
the person being lied to “is not strong enough
to face the truth — as I am.”
There are two very bad things that hap-
pen to you as a result of your lying to some-
one else — supposedly to be nice to him. You
(1) destroy any hope of imorovement and
(2) you destroy your own credibility.
First, if you tell someone that something
about him is good when you really believe it
to be bad, how can that person ever hope
to improve the situation? You are giving him
a vested interest in remaining as he is, with
his present faults, since you apparently like
him so much that way.
If a woman tells her husband that he is a
great lover — when she really believes the
exact opposite — she is giving up any hope
of ever having a great lover for a husband.
’Why should he change his ways if she ap-
parently likes him so much the way he is?
Won’t it hurt him to be told the truth?
Very possibly. But the hurt will have long
since been forgotten during the new era of a
better relationship — after the needed im-
provement has taken place.
The second bad result from lying comes
WASHINGTON COMMENTS
cents; milk is 60 cents a quart.
The average salary is $4,000 per working
man. There is a 7 lA percent sales tax on ev-
erything except food.
There are close to 100,000 people in this
city. Most of the homes are of reinforced con-
crete. Ninety percent of the families own
their homes.
Government owns most land in towns. You
can own the home, but not the land, unless
you owned it before the city took over.
Some banks are owned by the government,
as are most key industries and utilities. But
the nation is served by a very progressive,
privately owned airline.
There are four political parties. The most
powerful party is the Independence Party,
which is conservative. The People’s Party is
Communist and Socialist. The Progressive
Party is agrarian and co-op. The Social-Dem-
ocrat Party is basically labor. The division be-
tween parties is mostly on a social-economic
basis.
Iceland is not as pro-Communist as form-
erly. There are 13,000 Communists in Ice-
land, 7,000 of whom are in Reykjavik. Com-
mies have 8 of the 60 Parliament seats.
The only army in Iceland is ours (3,000
personnel). Police are not armed. Iceland is
a member and founder of NATO.
Iceland has: more bathrooms per capita
than the U.S.; compulsory union member-
ship (they don’t even vote on it); a big work-
er shortage; 18 Jews; one of the lowest
death ratios and one of the world’s highest
birth rates; 800,000 sheep and 2 woolen
mills; and only one really large industry—
fish. Almost all food, except fish, is imported.
In Iceland there are no — or practically
no — cattle, Negrces, tennis players, trees,
flies, billboards, hitchhikers, paved roads,
$1.50 an hour minimum wage, coal, oil, un-
employed, pawnshops, private schools, tuber-
culosis patients, topless waitresses, highway
signs, concrete highways, expressways, sky-
scrapers, subways, tips.
On balance, as you can plainly see, Ice-
land has a lot in its favor.
when people no longer believe you. Suppose
you and I are with a third person. In answer
to a question, I pay that third person a nice
compliment. After he leaves, you ask me if I
really meant what I said.
I reply “Of course not. But I don’t want
to hurt the poor fellow. After all, one must
have a heart.”
Now, guess what your reaction will be the
next time I pay you a compliment! Are you
going to be happy because of the “nice”
things I say to you. Obviously not. You’ll sus-
pect that I’m feeling sorry for you — and the
last thing you want is my sympathy.
But suppose you know that I never speak
anything but the truth as I really see it. In
that case, if I say something nice to you,
you have good reason to feel complimented.
Which kind of person would you like to
be known as — the one who lies to people to
make them “feel good” or the one who can
always be depended upon to mean what he
says? You can’t be a little of both. You’re
either 100 percent honest or you’re a liar.
Honesty does not have to hurt people. First
of all, don’t offer advice or judgment unless
it’s requested. Then, temper any adverse
judgment with a hint as to how it can be
improved. Try to point out the good things
the listener will receive as a result of the
improvement — things he is not getting now.
If you handle it correctly, he’ll be glad you
were honest with him and respect you more
for it.
If he doesn’t, why would you want to con-
tinue the relationship?
School Bill
BY U.S. SENATOR RALPH YARBOROUGH
Today the United States is facedby challenges which
can be met only by using all of our available resources.
But the most important of these resources—our
people—is being partially wasted. Many of these
people are crippled by the fact that they cannot read
or write. Our nation desperately needs the talents
and abilities of every citizen and the only way that
those talents can be used is through Education.
Our elementary schools carry the largest res-
ponsibility in training our young people. But they
do not reach everyone. Today there are 24 million
adults in the United States who have not finished
the eighth grade. It is extremely hard for these
people to get a job and make a living.
But even more tragic is the position of the three
million Americans who have never been to school
enough to learn to read or write, Their lives are
just one struggle after another. These people cannot
even work as a night watchman or a maid, because
the maid must be able to fill our laundry lists, and
the night watchman must be able to read time cards.
They have trouble keeping up with the world—unable
to read newspapers or signs.
This is a real problem not only nationwide, but in
Texas, too. In fact, Texas ranks 44th in the nation
in the literacy of the opoulation 14 years of age and
older. This means that 43 of the 50 states have a
higher percentage of the people who are able to read
and write than in Texas.
A start has been made nationally to train these
people and help give them the tools to make their
own living. The Adult Basic Education program is
holding classes all over the nation to teach our
adult citizens to read and write. But the funds for the
program have been nearly used up. Over $26 million
of the original $30 million appropriated has been
spent by the States, and there have been no requests
to provide more money to continue this program.
Already 3,000 classes teaching these adults have
been shut down, and 2,000 more are being forced
to quit by summer.
It is for these reasons that I am offering an
amendment to appropriate $10 million more just
to keep this effective program going. We simply
cannot let these classes shut down because of a
lack of funds. The hopes and dreams of many people
will be shattered, and our nation will be greatly
weakened if the program is forced to an early
death.
Harris County alone has 150,000 illiterates.
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Humble Presbyterian Church, Old Courthouse, Rev.
Bill Coessin, 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
worship 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 Road
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, 702 Atascocita
Road, Rev. George Brookover, Church 11 a.m. Church
School, 9 a.m., Berry Jungle Road Building.
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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