Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, December 30, 1966 Page: 2 of 6
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DELL CITY MERCANTILE
DELL CITY
PAGE 2, HUDSPETH .COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, DEC. 30. 1966 -
THE RIGHTLY ANGRY YOUNG -- BY PAUL HARVEY
Dell City
'Roughly Yours"
December 22, 1966
PAUL HARVEY
Dear Mrs. Lynch:
Tn: Late ton Ife ww
Another tradition that had been
abolished earlier, was the city-
wide custom of holding "open
house" on New Year's. At the
turn of the century, it was the
habit of Washingtonians to list
their names in the newspapers,
with announcement of the hours
during which they would be at
home to their friends. This re-
sulted in such abuse of hospital-
ity that hosts were obliged to
hire guards to prevent hordes of
free-loaders from invading their
homes and insulting their guests.
Today's gate-crashers are of a
different breed; but now, as
then, the capital is infested with
them. Mannerly, and impecca-
bly dressed, they turn up at em-
House functions remained severe-
ly "dry" until repeal of the 18th
Amendment.
Among other changes that came
in with the New Deal was aban-
donment of the official New
Year's Day reception. Ostensibly
a war-time economy measure,
it served also to spare FDR the
ordeal of standing for long hours
Mrs. James Lynch,
Publisher
Hudspeth County Herald
Dell City, Texas 79837
invitations or cards of admission.
Some have become so well-kn-
own as "regulars" that they are
simply accepted as an inevitable
part of the Washington social
scene.
After all, George and Martha
started it.
Feliz Ano Nuevo!
Observer
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THE OBSERVER...
DURING THE FIRST of the seven years that Philadelphia was the
capital city, President George Washington and the first First Lady
introduced the custom of holding "open house" to the public on ’
New Year's Day. This egalitarian funcion became an annual event
and was continued in Washington until Franklin Roosevelt's time.
Some of the early White House receptions took on an orgiastic
tinge. Uncouth characters from the hinterland, accompanied by
their kith and kin, flocked into
the small city to partake of the
Presidential hospitality. Tides
are told of food and drink splash-
ed on the elegant new carpets;
of furniture broken, draperies
ruined and walls and paintings
spattered with tobacco juice; of
art objects damaged beyond re-
pair or carted off as souvenirs.
These lively doings gave place
to pomp and protocol as the rougl in a receiving line,
edges of the new Republic were
smoothed and polished; but Wash-
ington retained something of its
frontier atmosphere until long
after it became a glittering
world capital. Even as recently
as the Kennedy administration
it was noted by critics that New
Frontiersmen were much like
the old frontiersmen in their gus-
ty enjoyment of convivial gath-
erings. Word seeped out to the
newspapers of high-jinks at Hic-
kory Hill, home of fun-loving
Bobby and Ethel, where to be
dunked fully-clad in the swimm-
ing pool was a coveted mark of
distinction.
New Year’s Day receptions at
the White House probably reach-
ed their apogee of formality and bassy parties and other social
elegance during the Taft Admin- functions, with or without forged
istration. But by this time they
had long since lost their "public
character.
Prohibition put a blight on
White House entertaining for 18
arid years. While illicit liquor
flowed freely in Washington, as
elsewhere in the country, and
. officialdom in general made no
secret of its tippling. WhiteYOU
in an Envelope
Your recent conservation edition
was sent me by Work Unit Con-
servationist Jerry L. Isbell of
Dell City and Area Conservation-
ist Thomas G. Rockenbaugh of
Pecos. You are commended for
a fine job.
Your coverage of water con-
servation, an important element
in the local economy, was es-
pecially well done. Your em-
phasis on preventing a recurrence
of the recent disastrous floods
should materially help to clear
the way for an effective flood
prevention program.
The hard work, time and mon-
ey which go into publishing these
editions are known and apprec-
iated by all of us doing conserva-
tion work. Many times the re-
sults are intangible and difficult
made in soil and water conserva-
tion over the past three decades
to evaluate. However, the very
real orogress which has been
cont'd on page 2
Why
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"So I'll go to jail; that's better than Vietnam!"
Juvenile authorities are hearing that statement or some variation
of it with increasing frequency.
Youngsters facing what many construe to be at least two years at
hard labor, at worst a sentence of death, figure what's the use,
"Maybe a criminal record is an easy out... "
So one of every six boys under 18 now has a police record.
It's not just in the United States. The disillusion of young peo-
ple is apparent in the Teddy Boy Violence and flaunted sex of
"swinging London", and it is apparent in the note of Atsushi Ohas-
hi, a high school student in Nagoya, Japan.
He wrote, "I want to go to some other world where there is no
war, no politics, no college en-
trance examinations and where
money is not needed... " Then
he threw himself beneath the
wheels of an express train.
Our universally unpopular war
has "made" Stokely Carmichael.
His vicious statements would be
ignored"as the ravings of a chron-
ic crank, except that too many
find themselves forced to agree
with his condamnation (CQ) of
our involvement in Vietnam,
"I'll go to jail rather than be
drafted."
I know that our government's
regimentation of young Ameri-
cans is sacrosanct, is supposed to
be above criticism, but I spend
as much time as possible during
my almost constant travels list-
ening to high school and college
age young folks asking questions
about the things that concern
them, and they are fed up mostly with an apathetic generation's
tolerance of this intolerable no-win war.
Of course, other things bug them, too. But uppermost in the
minds of most is the draft. The weak ones run from reality into
excesses of sex or narcotics or both. Others resort to supporting
communist causes, demonstrating, rioting — crime.
"So I'll go to jail; it's better than Vietnam!"
Understand, I am not condoning that coward's refuge; merely
explaining it.
Would all this change overnight if the question-mark of mili-
tary conscription were suddenly removed from the horizon? Not all
of it.
For, as our young people see their nation's leaders opposing
communism in Asia and ignoring it in Cuba, so they recognize
comparable hypocrisy in other facets of our society. Laws which
penalize the industrious to subsidize the goof-off are conspicuous
absurdities to rational young people.
They are likewise unwilling to accept without protest many of
tire restraints with which we have willingly encumbered ourselves.
But most of the disgust and despair of our intelligent progeny de-
rives from our country trying to housebreak Asia in our own image.
They don't think we can do it, and they're not sure we should.
The rightly angry young remember that the "Charge of thesLight
Brigade" and "Custer's Last Stand" were both melodramatically
stupid. /
Hudspeth Coun
•r4 DILI VALLEY REVIEW
Second Class postage paid in Dell City, Texas 79837
Subsidiary MARY-MA RY INC.
Mrs. James Lynch Publisher
Mrs. Michael Lynch ...............Publisher
Dianne Addington. ......Sierra Blanca Editor
Julia Brown Ft. Hancock Editor
Joyce Gilmore. Salt Flat Editor
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