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PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12,1967
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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'No Disagreements...’
People often wonder why economic and
political liberty are inseparable. What is
wrong, they say, with the government be-
coming a primary employer of American
citizens? Why do we need tens of thou-
sands of individual enterprises in which
workers can move about freely from one
job to another seeking the employer that
suits them? What has this to do with
political liberty?
Well, the answer has come from no
less than the Civil Service Commission
which has issued a regulation stating,
“An employee shall not make public
any disagreements with, or criticism of,
officials, policies, or practices of the
Commission or of other Federal agencies
in areas relating to the Commission’s
functions. Such matters may be brought
to the executive director’s attention for
appropriate action.”
There, in straight-forward language,
is the reason why government should
never become the master employer of
U.S. citizens. What good would a polling
booth be with Washington holding the
power of life and death over all jobs
in the nation.
COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK
By Tom Anderson
Placating The Voters
As people brace themselves for a tax
increase, quite logically there is renewed
GRAsaans
OPINION
NEWARK, CALIF., ARGUS: “We are
taxed in our bread and our wine, in our
income and our investments, on our land
and our property, not only for base
creatures who do not deserve the name
of men, but for foreign nations, for com-
plaisant nations who will bow to us and
accept our largess and promise to assist
us in the keeping of the peace—these
mendicant nations who will destroy us
when we show a moment of weakness
or our treasury is bare, and surely it
is becoming bare....‘Now who was it
said that? Must have been some mem-
ber of the U.S. Senate for it fits exactly
what has been going on in Washington.
No, the orator was Cicero of ancient
Rome—the Rome that fell as a result
of corruption at home and over-extension
abroad.”
discussion of how to plug tax loopholes.
The idea seems to be to placate voters,
who must soon pay higher taxes, by con-
ducting a campaign to tighten up the laws
to prevent anyone escaping his share of
the tax burden—which is all well and
good. But, there is one glaring ommission
so far in all plans to plug tax loopholes.
Nothing has been said about taxing gov-
ernment business enterprises that com-
pete with taxpaying private citizens.
Most notable of these, of course, are
the gigantic federal power projects. They
not only escape taxes but preempt a com-
mercial service that would otherwise fall
within the province of the taxpaying,
investor-owned electric industry. Thus,
the taxpayers are hit twice when gov-
ernment goes into the electric power
business, because it simultaneously es-
capes taxes and eliminates investor-
owned power companies which pay heavy
taxes.
This combination of tax favoritism and
the destruction of lucrative sources of
tax revenue has cost U.S. taxpayers
billions of dollars. If our national leg-
islators are serious about closing “tax
loopholes,’ they should address their
attention to the privileged public power
projects.
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If we have what could properly be called a
Foreign Policy it is this: the Communists are
mellowing into Socialism, Capitalism is mel-
lowing into Socialism, and we will eventually
bring about a comfortable merger of the two
in a one-world, Socialist, non-profit brother-
hood under the United Nations.
The Big Press and networks constantly brain-
wash the American people with the Big Lie
that the Communists (except Red China) are
mellowing and that we can live together as
brothers.
Life magazine has serialized the “life story”
of Stalin’s daughter. The October 3rd issue of
“Look” is devoted entirely to the Soviets, and
to advertisers who paid the brainwashing bill,
of course.
Celebrating the Soviet Union’s 50th anni-
versary, “Look” sent a team of 10 Editors and
photographers to Russia. It is remarkable how
little truth they came back with.
“It (Communism) works,” “Look” proclaims.
So do cesspools and firing squads. According
to “Look,” “Soviet citizens think they have a
good thing going for them . . . most of them
feel free. Political terror has shriveled.”
Free? The Russians don’t know the meaning
of freedom. Both under the Czars and the
killers of the Kremlin, they have always been
slaves.
Terror? Admittedly there are now fewer fir-
ing squads, fewer 4AM knocks on the door.
Those who had the morality and courage to
rebel have long ago been slaughtered or sent to
slave labor camps.
“Look,” “Life,” “Newsweek,” ‘Time,” Hunt-
ley and Binkley, Howard K. Smith—the list
goes on and on, and so do they, softening up
the American people on Communism. Com-
munism is a far greater menace than its brother
tyranny, Fascism, ever was.
Germany was never a comparable menace
to Russia. Nor is Red China, which is a “paper
tiger” and will be for many years. Even if Red
China should develop the capacity to drop the
Bomb on us within a few years, which is possi-
bly true, she lacks the capacity to defend her-
self against us. She lacks the war machine and
productive capacity to stand up to us. Russia
is the head of the rattlesnake and Red China
is the rattle.
Why don’t our “news” magazines (other than
U.S. News and World Report), our networks,
wire services, and movies ever tell the truth
about the Soviet Union? Why are they still
fighting “Fascism” which is all but dead? Why
are they still trying to track down some of Hit-
ler’s helpers while they wine and dine far
greater criminals like Kosygin, Tito, Khrus-
chev? Why are they deliberately helping our
enemies?
Communism does not work! In spite of tre-
mendous natural resources, Russia is still
one of the most backward nations in the world.
Russia has been waging an implacable war
against us for 50 years. Russia’s undying enemy
is the United States, for when she can destroy
us, the world is hers. Right now Russia is step-
ping up its program to communize all of
Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
As the head of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Boris
M. Ponomarev, has said time and again, the
Soviet goal in stirring up racial riots here is to
establish a guerrilla force to be used to take
the United States from within. As the criminal
Ponomarev says, the revolution in the United
States has already begun.
My lawyer has advised me not to say what
I really think about “Life” and “Look” because
I don’t have the time and money to fight libel
suits. But I hope you get the idea anyway.
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By Marilyn Manion
PLEASE USE
A growing uneasiness pervades America.
No matter what the sociologists have “dis-
covered” about its causes, or how much the
politicians try to make hay from its fears, it
abides.
In plain words, millions of people in thou-
sands of cities are afraid to go out of their
houses alone after dark. They fear a new breed
of criminal—the kind who knows that the law
and the Supreme Court will protect his “rights.”
A good many of these millions have modified
their fears by taking defensive precautions.
Books on self-defense are best-sellers. The hat-
pin industry is enjoying an unexpected re-
surgence—hatpins being recommended equip-
ment for ladies who are forced to embark on
such dangerous ventures as a two-block walk
to the grocery store after sundown. Tear gas
guns, battery-powered pocket sirens, and other
such unlikely items are becoming standard
furnishings for the twentieth-century American
home. And quite a few individuals are prepared
for the worst with firearms.
Heretofore, the federal courts have been
the villains in the eyes of these law-abiding
citizens who wish to keep their property and
their skins intact. But the courts’ opinions have
seeped down—unless it is merely a coinci-
dence—to the police departments which protect
the people. A case in point is the new penal
code which becomes effective in New York
State this month. A recent guest on the Manion
Forum radio and television programs was a
New York City policeman, Robert B. Walsh.
Here is some of his uncomforting testimony:
“To explain the official purpose of the new
code, I’ll use the words of the reframers of it.
In the introduction, called the ‘Commission
Foreword’, they say: ‘Entirely new in structure,
form and general pattern, it revises virtually
every substantial area of the existing penal law
in varying degrees, ranging from the mild to
the drastic. . . .’ Going through this from the
standpoint of a law enforcement officer, I can’t
see how this code will give to the community
added order, needed discipline, or a better,
more fundamental understanding of the need
KID GLOVES!
for law and order.”
Mr. Walsh then proceeded to tell the Manion
Forum audience some of the specifics in the
code. What, for instance, used to be a crime
in New York, but isn’t now? “One thing that
comes immediately to mind,” said Walsh, “is
the crime of abandonment. Abandonment of a
pregnant woman by her husband—leaving her
to destitute circumstances, and therefore a
ward of the city or state. Under the old law
that was a crime; in the new code it isn’t even
mentioned.
“The use of force is another sphere with
which police officers and citizens alike should*
concern themselves. Let us say that you, as a
homeowner, while asleep in bed, hear glass
tinkling from a broken window or a forced
door. You awaken and look down the stairwell
to find somebody dumping the silverware and
family jewels into a pillowcase. The intention,
of course, is to burglarize the place.
“Now as long as Mr. Thief does not present
a threat of violence by brandishing a weapon,
or advance toward you to offer physical harm,
you are not empowered by this new law to
avail yourself of a weapon in order to stop him.
If you have a shotgun hanging on the wall or
a licensed pistol under your pillow, woe be
unto you if you use it against him.
“On the subject of juvenile delinquency, the
new penal law, under a title called ‘Infancy,’
categorically states that no one under the age
of sixteen is capable of committing a crime.”
There is much, much more. But the above
examples should suffice. Beware, gentle reader,
of using undue force when you find an intruder
in your bedroom at midnight. Remember that
he, not you, must make the first move—if you
move first, you might be violating the law.
And if it’s not too late by the time he’s
made his first and possibly fatal move, do recall
that if he is not yet sixteen, he isn’t even cap-
able of doing wrong. You might ask him—
nicely, of course—for his birth certificate.
He, of course, might seal your death certifi-
cate. But those are the chances you take. Sweet
dreams!
WASHINGTON COMMENTS
Oil Imports
&Y U.S. SENATOR RALPH YARBOROUGH
Texas is the largest oil-producing state in the
United States. That’s why a bill which I am co-
sponsoring with 26 other members of the United
States Senate, a bill to write into law present-day
restrictions on oil imports, is so vital to our state.
This is known as the Long bill, because Senator
Russell Long of Louisiana is principal author.
The United States uses more than 12 million
barrels of crude petroleum each day. Oil imports
have been under restrictions by the Interior De-
partment for the past eight years under a pro-
clamation by President Eisenhower in 1959, pro-
mulgated under a 1955 law. But we have never
had adequate laws to control the flood of foreign oil
into the United States from overseas.
Under present Interior Department regulations com-
panies cannot import more than 12.2 per cent of the
total U.S. production of crude petroleum and natural
gas liquids east of the Western Rocky Mountain states.
The bill I am co-sponsoring writes that 12.2 per
cent import limitation into law, creating a new mar-
ket stability factor. If we can pass our law only 12.2
per cent of current production could be imported,
unless Congress changes the law. At present, the
percentage of imports is regulated by an order of
the Secretary of Interior, who can change it any day
of the week without Congress being consulted.
By enforcing these limits on oil imports, we
strengthen our own oil industry. Every drop of oil
that comes into the United States from another
country means oil that was produced without U.S.
labor, largely by companies that do not pay U.S.
taxes, and which do not contribute to the economic
growth of the United States. Certain large American
interests have developed big holdings overseas, and
are using foreign oil to compete withour own pro-
ducers here in the United States. The foreign oil
is cheaper, and these companies find it easier to
obtain and bring in than drilling wells here in the
United States. The result has been a disastrous de-
cline in the status of the independent oil man in
Texas and throughout the United States during the
past ten years.
Without careful limitation, this flood of foreign
oil could drown our domestic oil industry and weaken
our national defense.
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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.
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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 7 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
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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 9 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.
rirst 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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