The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1953 Page: 3 of 8
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the American
It is idle to deny that the trend
*in America for some years was
toward Totalitarianism. During
■v ^he past several months, this trend
, has been halted. But there are
still many among us who persist
in trying to propel this nation
into an all-out socialistic economy.
One is led to wonder why. We
* have had an opportunity to wit-
ness the devastating effects on
countries that have adopted
4 planned economies. On the other
hand, we have before us the in-
disputable evidence of the benifi-
cence of our American System of
Capitalistic Private Enterprise.
We know that competition un-
der Private Enterprise is the
* greatest assurance to the con-
sumer of reasonable prices and
cy, instead of profit, there may
be loss. Why should any Ameri-
can, therefore, object to any in-
dividual or corporation making a
reasonable profit?
We know that money invested
in competitive enterprise, in the
main, represents people’s savings
earned by toil, and put aside by
practicing thrift and self-denial.
Investment in industry is in part
venture capital which has been
risked in the hope of making a
profit. Such investment surely is
entitled to profit commensurate
with the hazards involved and ser-
vice performed. We know that
millions of Americans have a
government cease all competition
with provate industries; that it
turn back all businesses it has
unconstitutionally usurped, to pri-
vate enterprise, of course, under
regulations.?
Under competitive enterprise in
peace, we became the wealthiest
nation in the world. Under the
dirction of men trained in com-
petitive enterprise, in war, we be-
came the arsenal of the world.
Why then should anyone have the
slightest doubt that this same
competitive enterprise, which has
served us so magnificently in
peace and in war, will not go
on to even greater accomplish-
ments and benefits for all the
American people?
* * *
Private Enterprise, variously re-
ferred to as the Profit and Loss
System, American Capitalism,
Competitive Enterprise, or Free
THE AMERICAN WAY
Friday, Aug. 7, 1953, Mathis, Tex. — THE MATHIS NEWS — Page 3
either in direct ownership of
stocks and bonds or indirectly
high and ever-improving quality j through savings bank deposits or
of products; that by and through; equities in life insurance. Why
stake in competitive enterprise, Enterprise, is not merely a sys-
competition, the consumer has
gotten ever increasing value for
his expended dollar. Why should
any consumer (and that’s all of
us) wish to have this nation
abandon such a beneficial system?
We know that the profit motive
of competitive enterprise is the
vital, propelling force that creates
efficiency and stimulates effect-
iveness in industrial operation;
and that constituting a further
stimulus to initiative is the con-
stant threat that without efficien-
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should anyone who owns part of
competitive enterprise not stoutly
resist any move toward totalitar-
iansim which would rob him of
his hard-earned savings?
Why, knowing all the fore-
going truths, did we march along
the road to government owner-
ship and centralized, paternalistic
government (milestones on the
way to totalitarianism) the past
two decades? Why did many of
tern of producing, distributing,
and consuming things—it is a way
of life.
Under our American System of
Competitive Enterprise — let us
call it, for sake of brevity, The
American Way — we live, move
about, know certain facts, have
certain ideas speak and write as
the spirit moves us, worship God
according to the dictates of con-
science, wear the, kind of clothes
we desire, reside where we wish,
buy what we like and can afford,
follow whatever occupation suits
our fancy, select our public ser-
us come to believe that govern- }vants and change or control our
ment only, has the panacea to government,
cure all our ails and ills? * That briefly is The American
Could it be that we were los-
ing faith in ourselves? It cannot
be that competitive enterprise has
failed us. Its performance curing
the World War II emergency
electrified the entire world. The
system admittedly is not perfect
and it is true that some of the
men running it were not without
sin. But the sinners were very
few; their careers short-lived, as
the system eliminates those who
do not play the game of business
fairly and squarely.
In the post war period we have
found that we have needed the
Way of Life; and it and the way
of making a living are insepara-
ble—as a matter of fact, they are
identical. All of the privileges
under The American Way exist
together. Take away or destroy a
single one of them and the whole
system will start to crumble and
inevitably collapse. That is what
happens in an authoritarian or
totalitarian state—more commonly
known as Dictatorship. At first
only a few of these privileges are
limited or taken away by the des-
potic bureaucrats at the helm,
but finally all of them cease to
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petitive enterprise as we have
never needed them before. It has
provided the billions to set up our
own national defense in the cold
war, and further billions to help
other nations resist communist
aggressions. Why not insist that
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Therefore, the distinction be-
tween The American Way and
The Dictatorial Way does not lie
soley in the manner in which
people make their living—it lies
in the whole way of life.
The American Way is a coop-
erative process. In fact, all econ-
omic systems under which people
jmake their living in modern so-
Sciety are cooperative. The funda-
| mental difference between The
American Way and the Totalitar-
ian System is that the cooperative
[ process in the former is uncon-
Iscious and voluntary, while in the
latter, it is conscious and compul-
sory.
Due to the complexities of mod-
ern life few individuals can make
their living alone. This has to be
accomplished by supplementing
and intensifying individual efforts
of others through cooperative re-
lationships.
What we have to decide is:
Are we going to continue to co-
operate voluntarily, free and un-
trammeled, under The American
Way; or are we going to let this
nation drift into a planned econ-
omy and eventual dictatorship
under which we will be forced to
cooperate?
Do we wish to continue to do
our own planning of our own
individual lives, to enjoy freedom
of speech, press, worship, oppor-
tunity and assembly, as we now
do under The American Way; or
have we become bored with and
no longer grateful for these free-
doms? Have we grown weary of
planning our own lives and are
ready to let bureaucrats take over
to regulate our every thought,
word and action?
Benjamin Franklin, after the
drafting our Constitution, was
asked “What kind of a govern-
ment have you given us?” His
reply was, “A Republic, if we cani
keep it.”
Surely most of the American
people have a burning desire to
keep that Republic. The descen-
dants of the Founding Fathers,
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Killing insects is a lot like a
marriage proposal. A little thought
beforehand may prevent a pack
of grief afterwards.
A fellow rarely has the chance
to repeat his pre-marital mistakes.
But fortunately, we can profit
from our previous errors in in-
sect control. And Texas Depart-
ment o fAgriculture entomologists
are under pressure now for some
quick answers to our pest pro-
blems.
Biological control is very prom-
ising. Milky disease has reduced
the ravages of the Japanese beetle
in the U. S. but we are always
looking for ways to breed and
distribute more natural enemies of
destructive insects. Such research
envolves a world-wide search for
insect predators, parasites and
diseases of the pests we want to
control.
The more we know about the
causes of the rise and fall in
numbers of an insect, the better
we can forecast and prevent these
epidemics and the resultant dam-
age. It is essential that our tech-
niques of survey a dnidentification
be rapid, sure, and inexpensive.
Timber losses caused by insects
surpass those due to fire in many
parts of Texas. Some years, our
national loss from the cotton boll
weevil exceeds 500 million dollars.
Other insects that have caused
losses exceeding 100 million dollars
in a single year include grass-
hoppers, cattle grubs, corn ear-
worms, greenbugs, bollworms and
European corn borers.
In the past 10 years, more than
a score of new organic-type in-
secticides have been tested and
marketed. There are hundreds
more awaiting further study. Re-
sults, thus far, of entomological
research have been a big factor
in increasing crop yields, yet the
above losses demonstrate the need
to discover even better control
procedures.
Results of research, when appli-
ed on farm, ranch, forest, and in
the home, will prevent waste and
suffering by controlling more than
600 major destructive insects as
well as the pests that transmit
diseases of plants, livestock mad
man.
We need research—and plenty of
it.
AN ORDINANCE by the Board
of Commissioners of the City of
Mathis, Texas, prescribing rates
to be charged for services fur-
nished by the City’s Waterworks
and Sanitary Sewer System; re-
pealing all ordinances, orders, re-
solutions, or parts thereof, in con-
flict; enacting provisions incident
and relating to the subject and
purpose of this ordinance; and
declaring an emergency.”
WHEREAS, heretofore, to-wit:
on the 16th day of May, 1953, at
an election duly held for the pur-
pose, a majority of the qualified
electors of said City, voting at
such election, authorized the is-
sunce of Waterworks and Sewer
System Revenue Bonds of said
City in the total principal sum ct
$640,500; and
WHEREAS, thereafter to-wit:
on the 19th day of June, 1953, the
Board of Commissioners of said
City passed and adopted that cer-
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An easy nudge on the pedal
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It's heavier for
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You’re in for a pleasant sur-
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big-car ride of this new Chev-
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for model, Chevrolet will weigh
up to 200 pounds more than
the other low-priced cars.
You get greater getaway
with the new Powerglide*
A lot finer performance on a
lot less gas. That’s what you
get with the new Powerglide
automatic transmission. There’s
no more advanced automatic
transmission at any price.
You get more power
on less gas
That’s because Chevrolet’s two
great valve-in-head engines are
high-compression engines. In
Powerglide* models, you get
the most powerful engine in
Chevrolet’s field — the new
115-h.p. “Blue-Flame.” Gear-
shift models offer the advanced
108-h.p “Thrift-King” engine.
And it’s the
lowest-priced line
A demonstration will show you
that Chevrolet offers just about
everything you could want. Yet
it’s the lowest-priced line in the
low-price field.
*Combination of Powerglide auto-
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"Blue-Flame" engine optional on
"Two-Ten” and Bel Air models at
extra cost.
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Mathis, Texas
who bled and died to set up The
American Way, most certainly can
want no part of totalitarianism.
The descendants of those people
who came to America to escape
tyranny in their native lands, can-
not wish to create here the kind
of system from which their an-
cestors fled.
Seemingly that leaves only a
handful of bureaucratic planned
economists who would have us
abandon The American Way of
Voluntary Cooperation. They must
not be permitted to force their
way of compulsory cooperation
upon free America.
tain ordinance authorizing the is-
surance of $350,000 of said bonds,
under authority of Articles 1111 et
seq., Texas Revised Civil Statutes
of 1925, as amended, being —
“AN ORDINANCE by the Board
of Commissioners of the City of
Mathis, Texas authorizing the is-
suance of ‘City of Mathis, Texas,
Waterworks and Sewer System
Revenue Bonds’, dated August 1,
1953, in the principal sum of
$350,000 (being the first parcel or
installment of a total voted au-
thorization of $638,000 bonds) of
which the sum of $38000 shall
be for the purpose of paying off,
refunding and cancelling an equal
amount of outstanding indebted-
ness of the City’s Waterworks
System,, and the sum of $312,000
shall be for the purpose of con-
structing improvements and ex-
tensions to the City’s Waterworks
and Sanitary Sewer System, as
authorized by the general laws? of
the State of Texas, particularly
Articles 1111 et seq., Revised
Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as
amended; proscribing the form of
the bonds and the form of interest
coupons; pledging the revenues of
the City’s combined Waterworks
and Sanitary Sewer System to the
payment of the principal of and
interest on said bonds, after de-
duction of reasonable operation
and maintenance expenses; en-
acting provisions incident and re-
lating to the subject and purpose
of this ordinance; and declaring
an emergency.”
and which said ordinance is re-
corded in Book 3, page 1, et seq.,
of the Minutes of this Board of
Commissioners, to which reference
is here made, and which said
ordinance provides and stipulates
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County Births
Mr. and Mrs. Florentine Monte-
mayor, Sinton, a girl born July 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Hernan-
dez, Sinton, a girl born July 28.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ballantine,
Sinton, a girl born July 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Cardenas,
Sinton, a girl born July 29. "
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Mertz, Odem,
a boy bom July 29.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Davis, Ar-
ansas Pass, a boy born July 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martinez,
Taft, a girl born July 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonel Bazan,
Mission, a boy born July 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonel Paz, Sin-
ton, a boy born July 31.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicarno Gonzalez,
Hondo, a boy born July 31.
Mr. and Mrs. Casma Torres,
Sinton, a girl born Aug. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gimez,
Odem, a girl born Aug. 2.
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Barrier,
Sinton, a boy born Aug. 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Santiago Zapata,
Taft, a boy born Aug. 2.
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justifies expansion, or increase.
* * *
In addition, there is no substi-
tute for money in circulation for
local community prosperity.
Some economists claim that a
dollar spent locally with a local-
ly owned concern, by the time
it completes its cycle, will pro-
duce eight dollars worth of busi-
ness. On the other hand, they
feel that a dollar spent with a
non-independent concern often
results in the production of about
two dollars worth of business be-
fore it leaves the community.
* * +
While this is a theory that can
he debated extensively, the fact
remains that just as the strength
of a nation rests on the basic
family unit, so does national
prosperity rest on the well being
of the smaller towns.
* * *
Many observers claim this. For
generations, country people were
considered inferior in educa-
tion and ability because under
a feudal system, facilities for
the education of the children of
the rural areas was limited.
* * *
This was changed by the devel-
opment of independent trading
centers through the nation which
provided centers of population
that could support schools, librar-
ies, and other advantages equal
to that which the big metropoli-
tan centers could offer.
* * *
But these observers also feel
that the trend is turning back to
the old pattern, because growth
of smaller communities is not
keeping pace, due to profits of
local trading being siphoned to
distant financial centers.
* * *
The only way to reverse this
trend, they feel, is for the public
in the local communities to sup-
port their independent business
establishments and thus in turn,
draw moif» business to their
communities creating more em-
ployment, more sources of sup-
port for the community.
Often those who work for sal-
aries or wages, or those engaged
in agriculture, write this column,
asking a question on this theme.
* * *
“What,” they ask, “can I as an
individual do to help promote
small business and the free en-
terprise system?”
Many inquir-
ersare in smaHflP®9
communities.
They go on to
explain that
their town is
not keeping
pace with the
progress of
some nearby
trading center
where many C. W. Harder
nationally owned concerns have
retail outlets.
* * *
The problem is common to
many towns, and with the need
for new school capacity, and
other improvements to cope
with population growth, small
city management is hard pressed
to find ways of raising money.
* * *
In meeting their problems, all
residents of these communities
can take one helpful step.
* * *
That step is to patronize to the
fullest extent possible the local
independent businessmen. This
should not be undertaken, either,
from the spirit of helping the
local businessmen out.
* * ♦
Instead, the approach should
be one of self-interest. If ade-
quate schooling and other facil-
ities are to be maintained with-
out prohibitive burdens on the
residents of a community, it is
necessary to have more enter-
prises to share the tax load.
* * *
Independent business establish-
ments have long carried a heavy
proportionate share of any com-
munities revenue needs. But an
increase in these establishments
is only possible if local business
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