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WASHINGTON COMMENTS
PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 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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Planners And Natural Laws
Since time immemorial, countless po-
litical and economic theories have e-
volved in an effort to bring order and
stability to human existence. Civiliza-
tions have risen and fallen with clock-
like regularity, and about the only thing
that has remained consistent is a pat-
tern of chaos. Yet, somehow through it
all, man has managed to survive and
thrive.
In the United States at the moment,
amidst the undercurrent of inflation,
many of the indices point to recession.
On top of this, a group of economists
surprised the Joint Economic Commit-
tee of Congress by questioning the val-
idity of the “new economic” theories
of managing the country. A spokesman
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for the group remarked, “The hallmark
of the new economics is that alert
government officials can consistently
prescribe the proper public policies
for maintaining economic stability
(steady growth without inflation or re-
cession). Despite the obvious political
attraction of such a posture, there is
little evidence that it can be successful.”
The spokesman then went on to point out
that the government has been wrong 45
per cent of the time in the last ten years
in gauging the condition of the economy.
We may yet discover that it is smarter
to learn to live intelligently with immu-
table natural laws than to endeavor to
change them.
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EDITOR
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HELP YOURSELF
By Tom Anderson
Last Sunday night shortly after mid-
night I was in Ray’s Cafe and had ordered
my food had just been served when the
City Chief (Clarence Lee) came in and
told me he wanted to talk to me. I left
my purse and food on the table and went
outside with him and sit in his car with
him. He asked me who the man was that
brought me there. I told him “Charlie”
he said is he drunk I told him no we
had been drinking but was not drunk.
He said he would follow him and if he
was drunk and put him in jail. He
stopped Charlie. I saw Charlie get out
of his car and Clarence Lee looked at
his billfold then Charlie drove off.
Then Clarence Lee got back in the car
and told me if I had not wanted Charlie
to see me he would have put him in jail
but he would just put me in there. We
drove back to Ray’s he went inside and
got my purse and told the waitress they
could come up and file charges on me
for not paying for my food. At this time
Jack Norris got into the car. As we
were passing the Harris County Annex -
I told him I thought he was taking me to
jail. He then hit me and told me he was
taking me where he wanted to and hit me
again. I can’t write all that happened in
this ordeal the paper wouldn’t print it.
He called me names and when my lawyer
came in I made bond and came home
Margarette Ward Meek was here and I
filed charges on Clarence Lee. I am not
the only one that has been mistreated
by this man. He kept telling me that he
was big dog in this town and would run
it the way he wanted to. This has not only
happened to me but others. I don’t think
we have any big dogs in this town that
runs it although we do need a dog cat-
cher and garbage pick-up. And then we
could rid ourselves of all the big dogs
running loose and have trash off the
streets.
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“PEACE” negotiations are now underway.
Momentarily the “conflict” in Vietnam may
be over. Another Korea. A coalition govern-
ment will probably take over. If so, the Com-
munists will proceed to take Southeast Asia.
And our traitors will continue “building
bridges” as the free world continues to lose
faith in us.
President Johnson said in a 1966 speech:
“I have reason to believe that the Soviet
leadership would welcome my visit to their
country (applause) as I would be very glad
to do (applause) ... I am very hopeful that
before the year is out this exchange of visits
would reassure an anxious world that our
two nations are each striving toward the goal
of peace.’*9.^
The Administration not only ignores the
fact that we are at war with Russia in Viet-
nam but also lies about it. President Johnson
says, in support of the Administration policy
of “building bridges to the East,” that “we do
not intend to let our differences on Vietnam
or elsewhere prevent us from exploring all
opportunities.”
In other words, mother, ignore the friend-
ly Russian mortars and bullets destroying
your sons and concentrate on the real enemy,
Rhodesia!
Practically all our responsible military lead-
ers are convinced that if we blockade Haip-
thong harbor and other smaller North Viet-
nam ports that Russia would renege on her
treaty commitments to defend North Viet-
nam. Russia would thus lose face in the en-
tire world, particularly the Communist
world. Red China, thus convinced that Am-
erica was willing to risk all-out war, would
cease support of Ho Chi Minh. Thus the Viet
Cong would collapse in a few weeks. Instead
of this, Johnson tries to bribe the Russians
with “buy now and pay later” trade offers,
further disarmament and cultural exchange.
This sea of sameness we are being drowned
in is named Treason. Learn to swim!
The great Teddy Roosevelt once addressed
a classic statexnent. to those many misguided
and mistaken souls who assume that it is un-
patriotic to criticize our leaders.
Theodore Roosevelt said: “Patriotism
means to stand by the country. It doesn’t
mean to stand by the President or any other
public official save exactly to the degree in
which he himself stands by the country.
“It is patriotic to support him insofar as he
efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic
not to oppose him to the exact extent that by
inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty
to stand by the country.
“In either event, it is unpatriotic not to
tell the truth — whether about the President
or anyone else — save in the rare cases
where this would make known to the enemy
information of military value which would
otherwise be unknown to him.”
' “Ye shall know the truth and the truth
shall make you free” — if you do something
about it.
Some students of the Bible are convinced
that we are living in the last days. No mor-
tal knows whether the last day is tomorrow
or 2,000 years from tomorrow.
But informed Christians do know that their
Bible admonishes them to do the best they
can, to the end. God alone can save the
world, but God won’t save the world alone.
Nor will prayer alone.
God helps those who help themselves.
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YOUR HOME IS THEIR CASTLE
By Harry Browne
In Torrance, California, 100 houses recent-
ly displayed signs saying “This house is not
open for inspection as long as the citizens of
this country are free to refuse entry into their
homes.”
The incident is part of a local controversy
that was brought about when the city officials
attempted to qualify for federal urban renew-
al funds. It was deemed necessary to inspect
244 homes to see if they qualified to become
a part of the program.
Surprisingly, 40 percent of the homeown-
ers in the area were willing to stand up and
be counted as protesting the right of some-
one else to invade their homes.
And why should anyone be legally quali-
fied to enter a man’s home? Did the building
inspector, the bureaucrat or the politician
work to earn the resources to build the home?
Does it represent the finished product of a
single city official?
Of course not.
So it is said that the rights of the city or
the public supersede any individual rights.
Why? Who is the city? Who is the public?
What claim do they have on the labor of the
individuals who worked so hard to acquire
their own homes?
Zoning laws, urban renewal projects, build-
ing codes — these things are invasions of the
ability of the homeowner to actually own and
control his property. Why should a man buy
a home that someone else will control?
As we can see from the Torrance example,
government regulations do not create stabili-
ty in the marketplace — they create chaos.
For the homeowners purchased their proper-
ties believing that they could keep them and
live there as long as they chose. But the gov-
ernment has disrupted that by arbitrarily
choosing to make these homeowners pawns
in an urban renewal project.
Does your government protect you — or
does it disrupt your life and long-term plans?
The Torrance homeowners are suffering
the natural consequences of having asked the
government to regulate their lives — to “pro-
tect” them from the cold, cruel world.
Perhaps it will be well to think twice the
next time you plan on calling upon the gov-
ernment for help of any kind.
Tax Sharing
BY U.S. SENATOR JOHN TOWER
This is a period when taxes are very much on dr
minds. It’s particularly obvious to us during these
income-tax paying days that a very great percentage
of our tax payments are going to the federal govern-
ment.
In fact, so many of our tax funds now go to the
federal government that our states and our local
communities are hard put to find a source for their
own tax revenue needs. And, since they cannot find
tax funds to finance local efforts, it is a sad necessity
for them to depend more and more on the federal
government to contribute to the solving of local
problems.
It follows rather obviously that the federal govern-
ment will control that which it finances. Therefore,
we have sunk into a situation in which our distant,
impersonal, red-tape-cluttered, federal government
controls, interferes with and complicates essen-
tially local matters—because it alone has the money
to spend.
Because of these inadequate financial resources,
state and local governments are rapidly becoming
mere service stations to federalism. The national
government, with its superior taxing power, has
moved into more and more areas of activity and has
virtually buried state and local governments under
a mass of some 400 federal-aid programs.
For more than three decades, our Federal system
—upon which the nation was founded and grew
strong—has been steadily eroding. This erosion
is in the equality and viability of the states as
opposed to the central government.
As the National government has increasingly become
the source of nearly-absolute authority; the principle
collector and spender of the peoples’ money; and the
central point of control over our lives, the position
and strength of the individual states has been under-
mined and weakened.
Because I fear this destruction of the American
Federal system of co-ordinant and co-operating
state and national governments—-governments that
preserve local initiative and diversity—I have joined
in urging that there be begun by this Congress
studies that can lead to the sharing of tax revenues
between the National government and the individual
states.
By such means, among others, I believe the erosion
of our Federal system can be arrested; that strangling
National controls can be loosened; and that the rights
and responsibilities of our people in states and local
communities can be restored.
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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.,
Sundav 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, A ye 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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