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PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1968
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,
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Outside County.............$5.00 per year
Phone 446-3733 P.O. Drawer E John Pundt, Editor
Stubbornest Field In Texas
Petroleum Today tells of an oil field
in Texas, where there are 50 million
barrels of top quality petroleum just
450 feet below the surface of the ground.
This oil field is waiting for someone
to tap it, but before you take off with
your pick and shovel, here are a few
of the facts about this unexploited bonan-
za. While the oil seems to be there for
the taking, many have tried, but no one
has yet been able to successfully extract
it in any quantity.
More than 100 wells costing over $5
million have been drilled without suc-
cess. The oil is in a bed of sand. It is
thick and heavy like chilled molasses,
and it floats like a bubble on top of water.
To get one barrel of this oil, you may
have to pump out 200 barrels of water.
Oilmen have mustered all sorts of de-
vices to free the trapped petroleum.
They have used water, steam and fire to
flood the reservoir in hopes of releasing
the oil, but to no avail. The magazine,
observed that there is hope that scien-
tists may find a way to use atomic
energy to break out the oil. But, until
some genius does find a method to bring
the oil to the surface, this particular
spot in Texas will remain ‘'the world’s
stubbornest oil field.”
All of which emphasizes a chilling
truth about the oil business. Prospecting
for oil is a risk-filled venture. Only
three out of every 100 wildcat wells ever
produce enough oil or natural gas to be-
come profitable. Doubtless one day, the
stubbornest field in Texas will relin-
quish its black gold if the incentives to
go after it remain attractive enough to
venturesome oilmen.
A Sterile Philosophy
Back in the depression ridden 1930’s,
the idea of removing land from pro-
ductive use gained currency and farmers
were paid by :the federal government
not to raise crops and animals. As far
as agriculture is concerned, the sterile
philosophy of removing land from pro-
duction is coming to an end. The world
needs food. But nevertheless, the basic
idea of taking land out of productive use
still persists although in a different
form.
Today, there is great pressure to
set aside more and more of our timber
lands as wilderness or recreation areas
that will forever preclude their utiliza-
tion for both recreation and timber
harvesting. A productive timber in-
dustry is no less essential than a pro-
ductive agricultural industry. They are
both elements of the food and fiber
story. The theme of that story is ef-
ficient use of land. The forest indust-
ries, through modern timber harvest-
ing practices and the development of
high-yield tree farms, are learning the
secrets of efficient land use. They pre-
sent impressive arguments in favor
of blending both recreation and timber
harvesting on the nation’s forest land.
The “multiple-use” doctrine is in keep-
ing with the needs of a growing popula-
tion.
Without reference to the needs of our
population, it would be nice to see the
widlerness retained as it was a century
ago, but in most instances, that is no
longer possible. Those who advocate it,
in a sense, represent the kind of sterile
philosophy that plowed under pigs and
crops a generation ago.
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By Tom Anderson
MORE FROM GREECE
Athens, Greece:
As I was saying, my wife and I came over
here on account of Spender Bird talking against
foreign travel so much that we couldn’t resist.
Also, we felt that we just had to see Europe
once more, before the Europeans find out
about Urban Renewal. Just imagine Lisbon,
once it becomes a “Model City.”
When a friend once asked my brother, “Bill,
have I told you about my trip to Europe?” Bill
replied: “No, and 1 sure do appreciate it.”
Possibly the reason 1 am subjecting you to
this travelogue is because I, too, hate travel-
ogues. My psychiatrist could probably explain
that to me if he ever gets out of that mental
hospital he’s been locked in since our last in-
terview. And, speaking of psychiatrists, 1 heard
about a fellow who was having his last psy-
chiatric visit after being treated for a long per-
iod of years. “Since this is our last session Em
now cured,” he told the psychiatrist, “kiss me
goodbye.”
“I’m sorry,” replied the psychiatrist, “1 can’t
kiss you. We really shouldn't even be lying
here on the couch together.”
Well, anyhow, though we really shouldn’t
even be doing this, here we are spending
American dollars in Europe.
“Liberal” columnists such as Evans and No-
vak urge that the U.S.A. should underwrite an
overthrow of the “Junta.” One U.P.I. reporter
on assignment in Greece reportedly resigned
because his editors refused to print his material
as he sent it: it was objective and therefore
favorable to the new military regime. And 1
confess I lost my usually stolid objectivity, too.
With such enemies as the Washington “Post,”
Drew Pearson, Bobby Kennedy, Senator Ful-
bright and the New York “Times,” I decided
the new military government must he good.
The Greek people hate Communists, yet the
Left would have won the scheduled election in
May. To form a government, Papandreou’s
Center Union (equal to our Democrat Party)
would have had to align itself with Commun-
ists.
The Greek military government will release
all of the less than 2,000 remaining prisoners
(practically all Communists) merely on the
prisoner's word that he will henceforth make
no effort to overthrow the government by
force. Fair enough? Too fair I think. 1 wish the
United States government would imprison the
20,000 or more American Communists and
anarchists who are dedicated to overthrowing
our government by force, although 1 don’t
know what our universities would then do for
guest speakers.
"When it has realized its objectives: sound
economic and educational principles, principles
of individual freedom and liberty which also
mean respect for the freedom of your neighbor,
then this revolution will step back into history
and will not become a political party,” Prime
Minister Papadopoulos promises. Of course,
there is always the possibility that once the
leaders of the National Revolution Greek gov-
ernment have breathed deeply of the heady
fumes of power, they will not want to relin-
quish it. “Power tends to corrupt and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.” (Most people can
stand adversity; few people can stand power.)
1 believe, however, that Prime Minister
Papadopoulos and his group have every inten-
tion of restoring the King to his throne, and
re-establishing a constitutional monarchy,
along with freedom of the press.
The new government has made mistakes and
will make more. But the biggest mistake the
government made was to turn loose Andreas
Papandreou to recontaminate his Communist
and “liberal” friends in the United States. A
Christian gentleman like lan Smith, Prime
Minister of Rhodesia, can’t even get into the
United States, remember?
On his way to the States and presumably a
professorship in California, Papandreou told
the French press, “All I want to do is fight
for democracy.” (Which in Red jargon means
Com munisrn.)
But just because Papandreou talks like a
Red and acts like a Red, don’t get the wrong
idea about him, folks—he is a Red.—American
Way Features
WASHINGTON COMMENTS
Trying Days
BY U.S. SENATOR RALPH YARBOROUGH
These past few days have been tryping days for
all Americans — especially those who live in Wash-
ington, Chicago, Baltimore and many of our other
large cities. Rioting and anarchy in American cities
have resulted in the loss of over 30 lives, in hundreds
of millions of dollars in property damage, and in
thousands of personal family tragedies.
The senseless shooting in Memphis of the Rev.
Dr„ Martin Luther King, Jr., was an act of madness,
and the events that followed were just as irrational.
The trouble began that same night, and became
worse the next day. Mrs. Yarborough and I cancelled
our plans to go to San Antonio for the opening of
Hemisfair. I felt it was my duty to remain at my post
here in Washington because that day the fires were
crackling through the city.
The next day, I joined the chief of the Capitol Police
Force for a three-hour inspection of the riot areas. It
was one of the most shocking sights of my life.
Certainly this rioting and looting was not done by
the followers of Dr. King, who preached non-violence
like Mahatma Ghandi. Many of the looters and trouble-
makers seemed unaware that Dr. King’s tragic death
should be a cause for silence and mourning. It was
a seige of lawlessness that has no real parallel in the
history of this country.
More than 5,000 persons were arrested in Wash-
ington, and at least eight were killed. Small business-
es owned by Negro businessmen who had worked hard
all their lives in a true free enterprise fashion were
wiped out in a few hours by madness. The majority
in Washington — Negro and white alike — were
searching their souls for a way to stop this tragedy.
We cannot tolerate this lawlessness. We cannot
let our cities be burned down. Part of the answer
lies in bigger and better trained police forces —
expensive though that will be.
But no one wants to live under a police state.
We had thousands of armed troops and policemen
guarding the streets of Washington these past few
days.
We must find a more basic answer—a means of
ending the causes which allow hatred and frustration
to fester and finally explode. We have terrible un-
employment in these slum areas of our cities. We
must find jobs and provide training for jobs to end
this unemployment.
Welfare giveaways are not the answer.
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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.y
Martin Pastor, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Church f
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 h ,
Slaughter Pastor, Sunday School 10 a.m., Churcl
11 a.m. »,
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 400 S. Houston Ave.,
FREE GOVERNMENT SERVICES Father George Swilley, Sunday Mass 8:30 a.m.,
10:30 a.m., Evening Mass 6:30 p.m., Wednesday
By Willis E. Stone -lass 7:30 p.m.
A small item in the Phillips (Wis.) “Bee”
put a “bee in my bonnet” recently which helps
straighten out a question of direction. It deals
with two sets of facts which tend to develop a
major fallacy.
“Inflation, which inevitably accompanies un-
checked government spending,” according to
the article, “is growing at an alarming rate with
no end in sight and still the demands for fed-
eral handouts continue.”
There are two facts—“unchecked govern-
ment spending” is one and the “demands for
federal handouts” is the other.
“Simple economics, which most of us seem
to have forgotten,” the “Bee” article continues,
“should show us that we cannot have the high-
est government spending in the world and at
the same time have low-priced bread, milk,
potatoes, beef and overalls.” Again the two
sides of the question—“high prices” for one
and “highest government spending” for the
other.
The "Bee” article then properly asserts, “The
prices of food and commodities have risen
alarmingly in recent weeks and will continue to
soar unchecked as long as Americans continue
to clamor for ‘free’ government services!”
Again the two opposing facts—high prices
on the one hand and “free” government serv-
ices on the other. Which one produces the
other? Which is the cause that produces the
effect of which we complain? Do we only com-
plain of “demand for federal handouts” as be-
ing the cause of “inflation,” or do we under-
stand that it is “unchecked government spend-
ing” which is the basis of our troubles?
Is it the high prices of commodities that
creates difficulties, or is it the “highest govern-
ment spending” that forces prices up?
The knowledge that prices will continue to
soar if the causes of it go unchecked is indeed
a matter of universal concern, but are not the
steadily increasing prices the inevitable con-
sequence of the expanding pretense of free
government services?
There is no such thing as “free” government
services. Whatever government does is enor-
mously costly because government does not
operate as a business and does not seek a profit
nor economy. So when government or any of
its agencies escapes the limitations of the Con-
stitution and competes with the enterprises of
the people under the pretense of providing
“free” services, the tragic developments pro-
duce the complaints about taxes, inflation, high
prices and all the rest of the evidence of un-
checked government spending and unauthor-
ized government services.
Our Founding Fathers knew this, and there-
fore limited governmental activities to carefully
defined functions. But our bureaucracy has
escaped those limitations. That is our real com-
plaint these days—and it puts it right up to
every American to reinforce the Constitution
and thus put government back within the orig-
inal constitutional limitations.
That is the purpose of the Liberty Amend-
ment, which declares in its first section that
"The povernment of the United States shall
not engage in any business, professional, com-
mercial, financial or industrial enterprise ex-
cept as specified in the Constitution.”—Ameri-
can Way Features
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 9 a.m.,'
Church School follows worship service.
First Assembly of God, Porter, Texas on FM Roau
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, 7630 N. Belt Dr.,
Rev. George Brookover, Church 11 a.m., Church School
9:30 a.m.
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 oe 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 1.1 a.m., Training
Union 6 p.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
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