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The Humble ECHO
Your Hometown Newspaper
PAGE TWO
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1963
Faith In Competition
We’ve often heard that the railroads are strapped into
competitive handicaps that prevent the shipper and
traveler from receiving the full benefit of constant
advances in operating efficiency resulting from man-
agerial and technological improvements.
Why, if a man can do a better job or perform a
better service, shouldn’t he be allowed to do it?
This may seem a mysterious matter, but the gist of
the story can be easily explained. By the end of the
19th century the railroads had abolished the age-
old frontiers. A truly national transportation system
had come into being—but there was a fly in the oint-
ment. The railroads had a virtual monopoly of a vital
service. So a series of regulatory acts and agencies
—the Interstate Commerce Commission system and
state railroad commissions—were established and
given broad powers to protect the public, and from
time to time these powers were enlarged.
The competing carriers were treated much more
gently than the railroads when it came to regulation.
In some instances, such as the barge lines, there was
little if any regulation. Special laws and privileges
favored them in attracting important classes of
freight, such as agricultural commodities. The trucks
and airlines and bargelines and the buses moved
ahead. They used not only their inherent advantages
but their assorted special privileges. But now the
transportation picture has changed drastically. In
1961 railroads carried only some 26 per cent of
intercity passengers and their share of the intercity
freight market had slumped to less than 45 per cent.
That, without going into all the complex details, is
the story. What’s the cure? President Kennedy summed
it up in a sentence when he told Congress: “The
law should provide...equality of opportunity for all
modes and for all passengers and shippers, without any
special preferences. There should be maximum re-
liance on the forces of competition...’’
Who Can Do Best ?
In principle, there is little difference between
governments and families. Both are supposed to guide
those under them, without becoming paternalistic
octopuses.
Generally speaking, in the average family the parents
try to educate their children, teach them the
importance of thrift and show them the unhappy
results of waste and spending more tjian they earn.
They are not given presents just because they cry
for them. The children return in many ways the love
and guidance bestowed on them.
Government should work along similar lines in
a free society. But unfortunately in the scramble of
individuals seeking to gain power in government by
winning votes, too many political parents try to
teach the people that the parent government can do
for the people better than they can do for themselves.
Octopus parents teach dependence instead of in-
dependence, government domination instead of indivi-
dual responsibility, stifling of individual enterprise,
and the virtue of debt and spending beyond income.
This policy has wrecked every government and
family that has followed it to the bitter end.
Government, then, should encourage, not discour-
age and dominate, initiative and independence.
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It’s the Law
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Texas
The colorful pirate of old
captured your imagination
but not that of the ship-
owners or the governments
that lost their cargoes and
treasures.
Pirates were “enemies
of mankind.’’ Their acts
became crimes against that
government as well as
against the “law of na-
tions.” A government
would try to catch and to
punish them no matter how
and where the piracy took
place.
From these early days,
a rule of international law
called “the piracy prin-
ciple” came into being, as
to crimes against mankind.
Any nation might seize and
punish such a person. He
did not need to be one of
its citizens. The crimes
could be committed inside
or outside its territory.
THE HUMBLE ECHO
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.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, stand-
ing or reputation of any person, firm or corp-
oration which may appear in the columns of The
Humble Echo will gladly be corrected if it is
called to the attention of the Publisher.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Humble Trade Area........................$2.81 per year
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Outside Harris County....................$5.10 per year
EDITOR
Telephone 446-3733
JOHN PUNDT
P.O. Box 606
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Jurisdiction is worldwide.
Nations often punish
their own people for crimes
beyond their borders. Na-
tions can punish aliens for
crimes within their bor-
ders. They can punish
aliens for crimes commit-
ted against that country
when they later come into
that country. A nation can
also punish an alien for
piracy under international
law.
What about war crimes
done on orders of super-
iors? The World War II
allies have declared that
certain Nazi leaders com-
mitted punishable crimes
against nations.
Now and then some na-
tions may allow a court to
try a person “in absentia.”
Such trials without the ac-
cused present were once
popular, but little comes
from such trials, and they
are not as highly regarded
as trials in which a person
has a fair chance to de-
fend himself.
(This newsfeature, pre-
pared by the State Bar of
Texas, is written to inform
—not to advise. No person
should ever apply or inter-
pret any law without the aid
of an attorney who is fully
advised conce rning the
facts involved, because a
slight variance in facts may
change the application of
the law. _
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
Sponsored By:
Rosewood Memorial Park
The Log Cabin
Mr. & Mrs. A.Z. Ward
Home Telephone Co.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
400 Main
Thomas F. Henderson, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.-
Church 11 a.m.
LAKELAND BAPTIST CHURCH
Isaacks and Old Humble Rd.
:Owen Dry, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
^Church 10:50 a.m.
’Training Service 7:00 p.m.
'Church 7:50 p.m.
Wednesday Night 7:30 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
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621 Herman
R. Ervin Driskill, minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Chtrrch 11 a.m.
Evening worship 7 p.m.
METHODIST CHURCH
800 Main
Robert Pate, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11:00 a.m.
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
119 S. Houston Ave.
Irby E. Slaughter, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Church 11:00 a.m.
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
400 S. Houston Ave.
Father Julian Johnson, OMI
Sunday Mass ' 8:00 a:m.
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
410 Granberry
GJohnson, Pastor ^
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Church 11:00 a.m.
UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Porter, Texas
Sunday School
Morn worship service
Childrens’ Church
Young Peoples’ service
Evangelistic service
Bible Study, Wed.
Ladies aux., Tues.
M.E. Precise, Pastor
10:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
10: a.m.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHER
Father Mitchell M Keppler
16126 Old Humble Rd.
'Childrens’ Sunday School 10:15 a.m.
Morning Service 9:00 a.m.
GREEN VALLEY J3AJFT1ST CHURCH
Aldine-Westfield Rd.
Paul S. Strother, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning worship 11:00 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 11:00 a.m.
THE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
217 S. Ave. G
J.W. Eddins, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
vChurch 11:00 a.m.
ST. MATTHEW’S LUTHERAN CHURCH
Westfield, Texas
E.R. Rathgeber, Pastor
Sunday School 9:00 a.m.
Worship service 10:00 a.m.
LAKE VIEW PARK BAPTIST
MISSION
4 1/2 Mi. west on Uwy. 19(>0
A.L. Draper, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
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Pundt, John. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1963, newspaper, July 25, 1963; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1037280/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Humble Museum.