Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1967 Page: 2 of 10
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PAGE 2. HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, DECEMBER 22,1967
TEXANS VOTE FOR HIGHER TAXES—Paul Harvey
By Ace Reid
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PAUL HARVEY
Naw, I ain't got the flu, I'm sufferin' from a banker's chilly reception.
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the child's sense of "reality".
Fortunately, this foolish idea
was soon abandonedjthe won-
derful, exciting world of make-
believe,which should be ver
child's heritage,remains intact.
Besides,psychologists and others
are constantly forced to revise
their concepts of "reality" - .
thye can no longer be cocksure
that they have all the answers.
To children growing up in an
age of man-made miracles,no-
thing is improbable. To them,
Santa's little gift-laden sleigh
is no less credible than the
missle - propelled space ship
they see launched? from Cape
Kennedy - and makes a lot
more sense, if you ask them!
Modern critics of Santa Claus
charge him with fostering self-
ishness in children - with en-
couraging then to expect too
.much and making then dissa-
tisfied if they don't get what
they asked for. Others insist
that chidlren are quick to note
that some receive more and
nicer toys than others and
that this seeming discrimina-
tion creates bitterness and re-
sentment.
We think such objections lack
validity. Children young enough
to play with toys are yoo young
to make comparisons; and if
they are old enough to be dis-
satisfied and resentful they are
too' old to believe in Santa Cl-
aus.
Most children have more grace
and wisdom in these matters,
than they are given credit for.
When the time comes that they
cease to believe in Santa as a
"person", they simply transfer
him to another dimension. He
becomes immortal and invul-
nerable as he joins his friends
and theirs in the lovely land
of make-believe - the ualm
where earthly troubles; never
intrude, and everybody lives
happily forever after.
THE OBSERVER
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THE OBSERVER...
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THERE WAS a TIME, now happily forgotten,when parents were
warned not to let their children believe in Santa Claus. In fact,
in that early period of child psychology,some practitioners ad-
vocated the banishment of all fairv tales,the idea being that ass-
ociation with such fraudulent characters as Hansel and Gretel,Ked
Riding Hood, Peter Cottontail,etc, might permanently damage
You made trouble for yourself when you moved to town.
A generation ago, down on the farm, when your garbage accumu-
lated you dumped it in the compost pit.
To protect your farmstead you had a dog at the gate and a shot-
gun over the mantle.
If the brush fire got away from you,you rang the big bell on the
back porch or the little bell on the party line and summoned neigh-
bors with buckets.
rYou had no street lights be-
cause you had no streets, no
sewers because the septic
tank served that purpose.
You got water from the well
and electricity from the Del-
co generator.
You were almost entirely
self-sufficient.
But then you moved to town
where it was more convenient
for you and your neighbors to
pipe water from a common
well, bring power from a cen-
tral source, dispose of waste
in a common sewer.
Because most of your neigh-
bors wanted streets, lighted
and paved, you voted for the
civic leaders who promised to
provide them. And better
schools. And police protection
and fire protection and traffic
regulation.
Politicians, reflecting your appetite for more and more conven-
iences, " promised and delivered them.
You were "sort of aware" that you'd have to pay for these increas-
ing services with increasing taxes, and, for a while, you willingly
did. . , ...
But the increasing complexity and sophistication of these facili-
ties began to cost more and more. A modem cloverleaf is astrono-
mically costly compared to a farm-to-market intersection.
And with labor costs rising, the men your city employs to replace,
improve and maintain those power sources, water systems and sew-
ers wanted and got higher salaries.
Your taxes went up-- and up.
And yet, because the increasing costs can be obscured m cam-
paign oratory, you continued to vote for the men who promised to
provide "more improvements, " "better services. ''
Our generation accepted a political Ponzi promise that we could
all stand in a circle with our hands in each other's pockets and
somehow get rich thereby.
But a new generation of voters is upcoming.
Today's healthier, stronger, taller, handsomer young marneds
are smarter, too. ,
Aware of the economic facts of life, the enlightened younger vo-
ter knows that government cannot "give us" anything without pay-
ing for it—with our money.
When we ask some increasing government service, we must pay
for the service and the servant--directly or indirectly.
This new awareness is apparent in the manner in which Texans
have recently been voting to raise their municipal sales taxes.
More than 25 cities, as of this writing. A hundred cities will have
so voted by January. ... , ,
This way, the rural people who come to town to shop will help
pay a share of the streets they use and the street lights and the parks
and recreational facilities and the comforts and conveniences that
pavement, power and plumbing provide. .
It is unlikely that the costs of maintaining and expanding and im-
proving cities will decrease. But the new breed of statesman will
not double-talk the electorate about "something for nothing. "
He’ll be able more honestly to campaign on more legitimate issues.
Historically, it would have been political suicide for incumbent
and hopeful mayors to insist that the people who use public facili-
ties and services must pay for them. But, as I say, we re smarter
than we used to be.
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Neely, Mrs. Joe Abb; Brown, Julia & Gilmore, Joyce. Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1967, newspaper, December 22, 1967; Dell City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1178490/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .