Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1964 Page: 4 of 16
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4 THE CLAUDE NEWS
AUG. 20, 1964. Claude, Tens
COON
Cecil 0.
/AGGONER^
Mm tooo?
I'm beginning to wonder. I once
predicted the Presidential Cam-
paign could well become another
contest of "me tooism." After
looking over the results of the
Republican Peace Parley it ap-
pears much closer than I thought.
Mr. Goldwater made the follow-
ing points in the recent peace
parley:
1. A policy of peace through
strength which was the hallmark
of the Eisenhower years. Johnson
has already started this policy in
Asia and the Congo.
2. Mr. Goldwater would not
choose his major cabinet posts
without consulting the experienc-
ed leaders of the party. Those
leaders happen to be liberal.
3. He would improve the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization. Who
wouldn't?
4. He would support and try
to improve the United Nations.
This is what most of the so-called
conservatives are opposed to.
5. He would work for free en-
terprise ana fiscal responsibility.
Mr. Johnson says the same thing.
6. Mr. Goldwater says he sup-
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ports the social security system
and wants to see it strengthened.
So does Mr. Johnson.
7. As President, he would use
the great moral influence of the
Presidency to promote prompt and
peaceful observance of civil rights
laws. Johnson is doing this now.
8. The Republican nominee does
not seek the support of any ex-
tremist groups, either the left or
the right. Mr. Johnson has voiced
the same opinion.
9. They repudiate character
assassins vigilantes Communists,
etc. So does Mr. Johnson.
In voting for Mr. Goldwater, a
conservative may feel like he is
going somewhere, but I seriously
doubt it. The only way a major
change could be made in gov-
ernment would be a clean sweep
in both houses, but even then
the results would be doubtful. In
ctherwords. you just can't get
them thair kinda changes no
more. Regardless of who becomes
President, things will go on about
the same as in the past.
Political bets
Of course a lot of things will
change between now and election
time in November. However. I ran
into this interesting parley re-
cently as to whether gamblers
are placing their money right
now:
1. Even money that Johnson will
get 55 per cent of the popular
vote and Goldwater not more
than 45 per cent.
2. A $5 wager that Goldwater
will curry all 11 Southern states
v. ill set you $25 from those con-
vinced that this can not happen.
3. Even money that you can't
name 12 states whose electoral
voters v. ill go to LBJ in Novem-
ber. The same even money bet on
12 specific states in the Goldwater
camp.
A great deal of speculation is
also going on that Johnson will
p 11 all the Negro votes and this
will win him the election. But
I seriously doubt the Negro will
vote as a block. Surely they are
not tliat easily led. Actually the
Catholic, labor and related groups
never vote as a block and its an
hisult to their intelligence to sug-
gest that they do.
If this were the case then
Johnson would have a cinch by
merely selecting a female colored
Catholic with Jewish parents as
a running-mate.
But one interesting fact about
the election is, several months
ago Johnson was given all odds
that he would win in all 50 states.
If the odds can be cut so quickly
there's no telling what will hap-
pen come November.
A split ballot?
According to The Dallas News,
Texas voters who may want to
vote in November for one party's
national candidates and the oth-
er's state candidates likely will
find the ballot arranged for them
to do so conveniently. All federal
offices will be listed ahead of the
state offices under present plans.
That would place the names of
president, vice president, U. S.
Senate and Congress candidates
above those for governor and
other state offices.
Civil rights?
The so-called Civil Rights bill
is going to have hard sleding
simply because man. determined
to justify his own rights, will find
a legal way to defy it.
A sign posted in some Southern
restaurants say, "Money received
from Negroes will be donated to
Goldwater's campaign fund."
A barber near Lubbock has
posted a sign, "Straight Hair, $1.
Kinky Hair, $5."
A number of restaurants and
tourist courts have set up a two
price system and we practicing
slow downs and toe-stumping with
the salt and pepper, etc.
One tourist court has a room
with special mattress they rent
only to colored.
These appears to be minor har-
assments but they can grow into
pandemonium before it is ever
settled. When a people feel justi-
fied, they will defy any law re-
gardless of its intent.
Chickens come home to roost
Wonder where the old boys are
today who lambasted the "witch
hunters" and blamed the extreme
right for the assassination of Pre-
sident Kennedy?
We are now reaping what those
of the "extreme-right" warned us
about. Notice the youth who went
to Cuba; the race riots; and all
along the front the termites are
coming out of the wood-work.
Now a report from the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities make these points heard:
1. Lee Harvey Oswald, slayer of
President Kennedy, was a man
"whose life and conduct—by his
own admissions and actions—was
shaped largely by Communist pro-
paganda."
2. The Puerto Rican national-
ists who tried to assassinate Pre-
sident Truman belonged to a
group which had "for years been
defended and aided by the U.S.
Communist Party."
Representative Edwin E. Willis,
<D.-La.i. chairman of the Com-
mittee. said in a preface that Mr.
Kennedy might not have been as-
sinated if Americans had worked
harder "to disclose the lies and
half-truths in domestic Commun-
ist propaganda."
Where are all those bleeding-
hearts who said domestic - Com-
munism in this country is nothing
to worry about? Surprisingly en-
ough. they are still singing the
same song.
Oddity of life
I'm sure some would doubt it
and give irrefutable proof that it
is not so. but the Bible, in a few
passages, seems to hint that there
was a superior race of beings on
earth prior to Adam. It is also
pointed out that this race destroy-
ed itself in an atomic war.
Are the people of the world
prone to repeat this ewfttf The
Good Books says. "Y«." except
the Lord will stop it before all
flesh perish.
Jeremiah gives an account or
this pre-Adam war of the giants
in chapter 4, verses 19 to 31.
In Jeremiah 4:23-26 we read:
"I beheld the earth, and lo, it
was without form, and void,; and
the heavens, and they had no
light. I beheld the mountains,
and, lo, they trembled, and all the
hills moved lightly. I beheld, and,
lo, there was no man and all the
birds of the heavens were fled. I
beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place
was a wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down
at the presence of the Lord, and
by his fierce anger."
An even more graphic idea that
beings existed on earth prior to
Adam are also hinted at in Ec-
clesiastes 1:9-11: "The thing that
hath been, it is that which shall
be: and that which is done is
that which shall be done; and
there is no new thing under the
sun. Is there any thing whereof
it may be said. See, this is new?
it hath been already of old time,
which was before us. There is no
remembrance of former things;
neither shall there be any remem-
brance of things that are to come
with those that shall come after."
Ecclesiastes 3:15 also hints at
this thought: "That which hath
been is now; and that which is
to be hath already been; and God
requireth that which is past."
You take it from there.
Preacher's qualifications
Here is an interesting article
that keeps making the rounds of
weekly papers. It seems a pulpit
committee of a certain church
was seeking a new minister and
"1 have many Qualifications,
I've been a preacher with much
success, and ako have had some
success as a writer. Some say I'm
a good organizer. I've been a lead-
er most places I've been. I am 50
years of age. I have never preach-
ed in one place more than three
years In some places I have left
town after my work caused riots
and disturbances. I must admit I
have been in jail three or four
times, but not because of any real
wrong doing. My health is not
too good, though I still get a
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Waggoner, William J. B. & Waggoner, Cecil O. Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1964, newspaper, August 20, 1964; Claude, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth355601/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Richard S. and Leah Morris Memorial Library.