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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1964
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Warning Signal
For Supreme Court
There has been much criticism, in-
formed and uninformed, of the present
Supreme Court on the general grounds
that it has been making law instead of
interpreting and clarifying law and so
has, to some extent, usurped the preroga-
tives of the legislative branch.
This is a matter involving the whole
division of powers within the national
government. But it is worth noting that
some of the most thoughtful criticisms
of the Court’s majority have been coming
from one of its own members, the highly
respected Justice Harlan. In. the past
year, he wrote 20 dissents and the year
before that 22. In one of the recent ones
he said, “These decisions give support
to a current mistaken view of the Con-
stitution and the constitutional function.
This view, in a nutshell, is that every
major social ill in this country can find
its cure in some constitutional ‘prin-
ciple’, and that this Court should ‘take
the lead’ in promoting reform when other
branches fail to act.
“If the time comes when this Court
is looked upon by well-meaning people—
or, worse yet, by the Court itself—as
the repository of all reforms, I think
the seeds of trouble are being sown for
this institution.’
This is not a matter in which there is
a place for wild charges, recriminations,
or unbridled zealotry. But Justice Har-
lan—among many others—has erected a
warning signal that should not be dis-
regarded.
One Vote Can
Determine Result
The “Get Out the Vote” campaigns are
beginning as November approaches. One
attractive leaflet is entitled “Just One
Vote” and is aimed squarely at the
eligible voters who stay away from the
polls. And they amount to a disgrace-
fully large number. In I960, a presi-
dential election year, more than a third
of the voters failed to exercise their right
of franchise—a right which is at the very
heart of representative government and a
free society. In the off-year elections of
1962 the showing was worse still, with
more than half of the eligible voters
staying away from the polls.
How important is one vote? It can
actually determine the result. In re-
cent elections, a mayor, a city treasur-
er, a councilman and a state legislator
won office by just that margin. And,
moving up the ladder, the late Presi-
dent Kenndy’s plurality in I960 was less
than one vote per precinct. His margin
of victory was less than 120,000 votes
out of almost 69 million cast.
So much for facts and figures. Another
point needs stressing. The country
doesn’t need “Just Voters”. It needs
“Informed Voters’ —men and women
who study the issues and the positions of
the candidates, all the way from town and
country to Capitol Hill and the White
House and know exactly what they are
voting for.
So—vote, and vote intelligently for the
people and the principles you believe in.
ORmons
s£ OPINION
ROSHOLT, S.D., REVIEW: “This
whole spectacle of federal encroachment
on the liberties of the individual pin-
points the fact that Washington is not
solely responsible for the growing cen-
tralization of federal authority. States,
cities and individuals as well must share
part of the blame. The really worrisome
thing abour it too, is that so few people
these days even seem to think about the
likely destination of all these supposedly
free rides on the ‘gravy train.’
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A WONDERFUL LIST OF ENEMIES
By Tom Anderson
The optimists are studying Russian, the
pessimists are studying Chinese and the real-
ists are studying Goldwater. It’s Barry-Pick-
ing Time! “But I’m worried about Gold-
water’s foreign policy,” some brainwashed
people say. First, foreign policy and domes-
tic policy can’t be put in separate vacuums.
Second, the press has deliberately lied about
Goldwater being “trigger-happy.” (He did
not advocate defoliating the Vietnam for-
est.) It boils down, eventually, to courage
and morality. I believe that Senator Gold-
water is a courageous, humble and honest
man. I do not think Lyndon Johnson is.
Johnson has always been a power-hungry
opportunist.
Killer Khrushchev said in a 1960 speech:
“Your grandchildren in America will live
under Communism, and this will be done not
by us but by the workers — the toiling peas-
antry and the toiling intelligentsia of the
United States.” By “toiling peasantry,” the
Comrat meant mainly the Negroes. The
“subjugated” and “deprived” . American Ne-
gro owns more homes, more cars, more TV
sets and more college degrees than all the
other Negroes in the world combined. Aside
from the “Civil Rights” struggle, which the
Communists have infiltrated and taken over,
the Communists haven’t made much pro-
gress with the “toiling peasantry” of Ameri-
ca. It’s the “toiling intelligentsia” — people
like Adlai Stevenson, Milton Eisenhower and
William Fulbright — who are the worse
menace to America.
WHO'S RESPONSIBLE?
The “liberals,” the pacifists, the commu-
nist “peace lovers” and “moderates” now
talk of Armageddon, the last war mentioned
in the Bible when all are destroyed. Who
brought us to the brink of Armageddon, if
that is where we are? Was it Goldwater? Or
Senator Taft? Or Strom Thurmond? The
“liberals” remind me of the boy who mur-
dered his mother and father and then threw
himself on the mercy of the court because he
was an orphan. The pinks who delivered us
to the brink now tell us, “Better Red than
Dead.” Better sink than pink. Pinks are peo-
ple who’re too yellow to be Red. We will not
be attacked if we stay strong. If we continue
disarming, we will inevitably be attacked,
from without and from within. The Chinese
have a saying, “Where there is no power,
there is no peace.”
WHO'S OPPOSED?
The communist and socialist press in Am-
erica and throughout the world are raging
against Goldwater. Every Communist is
against Goldwater. Virtually every union
leader is against Goldwater. Practically ever
misled Negro is against Goldwater. Most of
the big city press, the TV and radio com-
mentators are against Goldwater. Most of
the foreign socialist press is against Gold-
water. Most of the foreign enemies who are
receiving billions of foreign aid from us so
they’ll love us are against Goldwater. Life,
Time, Look, Post, “Newsweak” and the com-
munist Worker are against Goldwater. Nel-
son Rockefeller, Adlai Stevenson, Alger Hiss,
Walt Rostow, Chester Bowles, Averill Har-
riman, Gus Hall, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bobby
Kennedy, Walter Reuther, Soapy Williams,
NAACP, the Council on Foreign Relations,
the American Civil Liberties Union, CORE
and the ADA are against Goldwater. What
a wonderful list of enemies!
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WHAT IS FREEDOM?
By Harry Browne
There are many people working on behalf
of what they call “freedom” today. There
are those who advocate the freedom to be
able to enter transactions without the con-
sent of the other party involved. And there
are those who advocate the freedom to put
in jail those who disagree, etc.
Perhaps the common definition of many
of those who call for freedom is that: “Free-
dom is the right of everyone to do what T
think best.”
At the same time, there are those who re-
ject any notions of controlling the acts of
others, but simply ask for freedom for any-
one. Strangely, these people are often ac-
cused of wanting to impose their will over
others.
Joseph Galambos has defined freedom to
mean that condition of society in which ev-
ery individual has 100 percent control over
his own life and property, but no coercive
control over others.
It would seem implausible to question the
morality of such a definition. For it does
grant to each the right to run his own life,
but not the lives of others.
BENEFITS
What would such a society be like? It
would mean that each man would have the
incentive to produce much more — because
he would be assured that he could keep what
he earns. Obviously, the total wealth of the
nation would thereby be greater.
It would mean that “do-gooders” and “re-
formers” would be powerless to impose their
plans and theories upon others. Instead,
they would be required to sell their ideas on
their merits alone.
It would mean that all forms of charity
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would be voluntary. And so real need would
have to exist, before contributions would be
made Today, government-imposed share-
the-wealth plans are substituted for charity
--—and create a spirit of “getting” instead of
“giving”.
It would mean that each man would know
that his own home and property were truly
his castle — free from the arbitrary whims
of bureaucrats.
Men would be required to produce goods
and services that others need and want —
in order to accumulate riches. There would
be no handout programs, no politically-in-
spired contracts to divert resources and en-
ergy away from productive uses.
CHOICE
Such a condition of freedom would have
another unique feature. It would mean that
those who prefered socialism would have the
right to sell themselves into slavery, if they
voluntarily chose to do so. However, they
would not have the power to take with them
those who prefer freedom. Today, a “majori-
ty” of the voters can impose any kind of
socialistic program upon all.
What it amounts to is simply that every-
one would have the right to pursue the kind
of life he desires, to practice the economic
theories in which he believes, to work or not
to work as he sees fit. But no one would have
a claim upon the life and property of an-
other.
A society in which each individual has
100 percent control of his own life and prop-
erty is the ideal society — and there is no
reason to believe it is unobtainable.
Don’t you agree?
LAKELAND BAPTIST CHURCH
Isaacks and Old Humble Road
Owen Dry, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 10:50 a.m.
Training Service 7 p.m.
Church 7:50 p.m.
Wednesday night 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.
METHODIST CHURCH
800 Main St.
Bill Turner, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 7 p.m.
FIRST PENTECOSTAL 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 Jerome Powers, O.M.I.
Sunday Mass 7:30 a.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.
UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Porter, Texas
M.E. Precise, pastor
Sunday School 11 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evangelistic Service 7:30 p.m.
Bible Study, Wed. 7:30 p.m.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
415 FM 1960
Father Ralph H. Shuffler II
Church 8 a.m.
Church School follows worship service
GREEN VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH
Aldine-Westfield Road
Paul S. Strother, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 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 a.m.
THE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
217 S. Ave. G
J.W. Eddins, pastor
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.
LAKE VIEW PARK BAPTIST MISSION
4 1/2 mi. west on FM 1960
A.L. Draper, pastor
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
EASTEX OAKS PAPTIST
Plumtex at North Belt Dr.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 8 a.m.
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