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PLEASANT VISIT
Made a pleasant visit to the gen-
erating plant of the Southwestern
Public Service Company last Thurs-
day night with my class. It was a
very enjoyable visit. The plant looks
like it would cost almost as much
as The Claude News but the most
impressive tiling was the personnel
and their attitude toward their job.
Each man from the tolier room
to the control room acted as if his
job was important. Their combined
attitudes were not one of a cog in
a machine, but an individual doing
an important bit of work that pro-
duced power for the whole area.
Each man seemed to have an over-
all picture of what was going on
in the whole system. It speaks
well of the administrative system
in that they are able to produce
this feeling of "belonging" in all of
their personnel. That accounts for
the reason your Public Service is
so efficient. A wealth of machinery
does not determine production but
man-hours do, and I have in mind
the type of man-hours I saw here,
each man working as though the
plant was his. The sum-total is ef-
ficiency and production.
Byron Vermillion, service man-
ager for the company, directed
our group through the plant, and
he showed a depth of knowledge of
the over all picture, a delightful
humor and a sense of belonging,
as well as human understanding,
We learned a lot from him in the
short space of one hour. It was his
plant and he was proud of it and
the men who ran it.
Thanks, fellows, for an enjoyable
tour. Come down ana we'll show
you through The Claude News.
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BLINDING BUSHELS
When Jesus said: "Neither do
men light a candle, and put it un-
der a bushel," he was speaking
truly, in the literal sense.
Figuratively he implied that they
do snuff out their spiritual influ-
ence by .devious retreats. His fol-
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CECIL O. WAGGONER
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mav appear in the columns of The
Claude News, will gladly be correct-
ed upon its being brought to the
attention of the publishers.
In the case of error In legal or
other advertising the publishers do
not hold themselves liable for da-
maees in excess of the amount paid
for such advertising.
All resolutions of respect, card of
thanks, advertising of church or
society functiogs. when srtmtwtnr Is
charged, will ba treated M
lowers see the folly of such prac-
tice. Hers ton Travers, In the South
Carolina Methodist Advocate, has
listed what he terms a row of
hushel measures which we hold In
readiness for our convenience—such
labels as:
It's not my job to say anything.
Times have changed, and we with
time.
I shall get such a name for in-
terfering.
It's only a bit of fun.
Live and let live.
I don't make any parade of my
religion.
Every one does it.
I didn't enter into any discussion
on the matter.
We must be all things to all men.
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TRAIL DUST
By Douglas Meador in Matador
Tribune:
Frank Sweeney is gone. Back into
the Limbo of wandering men, back
to a strange half-world that knows
no peace but continued journeys;
back to the skeletons of his dreams.
A few scars on his tired heart are
healed but the poison of restless-
ness has become chronic in his soul.
The thorn of uncertainty is fest-
ered in his thoughts: in the El
Dorado beyond another journey. He
said his life had been processed
through the catalyst of alcohol but
others have survived the disease.
He needed faith. Without it men
perish like smoke in the sky. A
piece of driftwood caught on the
shores of futility.
• * *
HOOVER IS AT IT AGAIN
Strange how leapords refuse to
change their spots. Men quite often
do change their minds, but the Re-
publicans. it r.ppears, may never
change its Hoover complex. They
blew hot during the campaign but
not they Hoover over the farmer
with desire of rule and ruin. This
may be the death knell of the
"grand old party^"
I have in mind'a column by Drew-
Pearson in Wednesday's Globe-
Times, in which he relates things
to come: We quote Pearson:
"It will be a blow to the little
farmers, but the Hoover .Commis-
sion will soon spring drastic, new
recommendations to tighten farm
credit. The main effect will be to
transfer the benefits of farm price
supports, in part, from the farmers
to the bankers.
"These to-heck-with-the-farmers
recommendations aren't supposed
to be made public for several weeks,
but this column has received a copy
of the forthcoming Hoover Com-
mission's report on streamlining the
farm financing agencies.
"Most jolting to farmers will be
a recommendation 'that the Com-
modity Credit Corporation cease to
make loans on commodities and
that it confine itself to purchase a-
greements on commodities.'
"This would revolutionize the
whole price-support program, since
most farmers draw their price sup-
ports in advance in the form of
commodity loans. At harvest time,
the farmers repay the government
on as much of their crop as they
can sell, then forfeit the rest as
collateral.
"The Hoover Commission's idea
is to turn the juicy, $3,000,000,000.
annual crop-loan business over to
private banks. Explains the forth-
coming report: 'A considerable sav-
ing of administrative expenditures
could be made if the corporation
abandoned making loans to farmers
on commodities and used the me-
thod of purchase agreements alone.
The farmer could with such a gov-
ernment contract finance himself
,:y loans on his commodities from
private institutions pending his de-
termination as to when he would
sell, and thus the private financial
machinery could finance the crop
at a considerbale saving to the gov-
ernment.'
"In other words, the farmers would
be forced to go to their banks and
pay commercial interest rates for
their crop loans. The bankers
wouldn't risk a nickel since the
purchase agreements would be tan-
tamount to a government guarantee
of the loans. What this would a-
mount to is price supports for
bankers.
"Another Hoover recommenda-
tion that will knock the little far-
mers for a loop, calls for tighten-
ing credit on farm home loans. This
will make it next to impossible for
little farmers to buy their own
homes. As it now stands the Far-
mers Home Administration' will loan
up to 90 per cent of the appraised
value of a farm. The Hoover Com-
mission, however, wants the FHA
to 'require adequate facilities under
all its loan programs except disas-
ter and emergency crop and feed
loans.'
"Though vague, this indicates the
FHA should, in Hoover's opinion,
toughen its loan policy in line with
private banks. Yet the whole pur-
pose of FHA is to provide loans to
farmers who have been turned
down by their local bankers.
"The Hoover report further urges
'that the Congress require such in-
terest fees, premiums or other
charges as will cover administra-
tive expenses, cost of money to the
treasury and losses.'
The effect of this will be to boost
interest rates to the little farmers
up to 12 or 13 per cent. One of the
biggest 'administrative expenses,'
for example, is to make sure these
small farm loans are sound. This
has resulted in a 99 per cent FHA
repayment record.
"The Hoover proposals would
practically knock out the small-
farm ownership program on the
justification that 'this Commission,
except in disaster and emergency
loans, cannot approve of indirect
subsidies to a fraction of the peo-
ple from the taxpayers at large.'
"Yet in the same breath, the
Commission proposes what amounts
to 'indirect subsidies' to the bank-
ers who, mysteriously, seem to be
the beneficiaries of so many Hoov-
er recommendations.
"This same thinking is applied to
the recommendations on crop in-
surance. Urges the forthcoming
Hoover report: 'We recommend
that premiums charged by the Fed-
eral Crop Insurance Corporation be
increased to an amount which will
cover losses, the cost of administra-
tion, provide reserves and provide
for repayment of federal capital
and thus its mutualization and
ownership by the farmers.'
"Again this would result. in an
enormous increase in the cost to
farmers. In fact, the Cost would
be so high that most farmers
wouldn't be able to afford federal
crop insurance. Rather than lead
to 'ownership by the farmers,' it
would more likely kill the program
altogether.
"The Hoover Commission will also
come out with a host of minor,
technical recommendations on str-
eamlining the Farm Credit Admin-
istration. Almost without exception,
these recommendations would tend
to increase interest rates and gen-
erally dry up rural credit/.
"If the Hoover proposals go
through, the little farmers can look
forward to a new kind of drouth—
a credit drouth."
• • •
DREARY THIRTIES
I've heard a lot of jaw about,
"Hoover didn't cause the depres-
sion" and I went along with that
but blamed him for not doing any-
thing about it. But if he succeeds
in getting his recommendations a-
cross do you think there will be
another depression? Of course there
will! And that Is what he wants have a hard-headed Democratic
and that is what he did in the Congress and I don't think they
dreary thirities! If you don't believe will let Hoover and cronies get a-
it Just keep the Republicans in for way with this bit of mis-rule.
four more years. Fortunately we —
THERE is every indication that
the present probe by the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy into
the hows and whys of the Atomic
Energy Commission's handling of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954
and the application of atomic en-
ergy to private business, may
mushroom into a full-scale investi-
gation as a result which some
heads may roll.
Even to the uninitiated in the
atomic energy field, the country
and the rapid development of
atomic energy for peacetime pur-
poses in industry, medicine and
agriculture are being hurt be-
cause; There is no top-grade in-
dustrialist on the Commission; the
Commission is deadlocked at pres-
ent due to dissention; it's able
chairman, Lewis L. Strauss, is
attempting to play the role of
dictator on the Commission, while
the law makes each commissioner
equal; the Commission is being
used as a political football and a
power broker in the fight between
public vs private power, when
such an issue has no place on the
Commission's agenda. All-told, the
country's most important inde-
pendent government agency, in
charge of its most important na-
tional security measures, is floun-
dering along with three members
when there should be five, two of
the three members are at sword's
point and the third tries to play
he's not there. ;
What is happening is that im-
portant people who have been
trained by years of service with
the Commission are leaving almost
daily.
The Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy of the Congress, under the
new Act has almost life and death
oower over the Commission. Not
only must all legislation start with
the committee, but the committee
must pass on all requests for ap-
propriations needed by the Com-
mission, and, under the new act,
the Commission cannot make
blanket expenditures of money as
it did under the 1946 McMahon Act.
Each expenditure must be a sepa-
rately approved appropriation. And
yet when the Joint Committee
called upon the Commission to
either cancel the much discussed
Dixon-Yates contract, or turn it
over to some other federal agency,
Chairman Strauss defied the com-
mittee and refused to cancel,
which means that in all likelihood
the Commission will not get the
appropriations with whifh to carry
out the contract.
Senator Clinton Anderson (D-
N. M.) who succeeded Congress-
man W. Sterling Cole, (R-N. Y.)
as chairman of the Joint Commit-
tee, has declared that there must
be some sort of unity and coher-
ence reestablished within the
Atomic Energy Commission. Busi-
nessmen are not complimentary
in their relations with the Com-
mission. Walter L. Cisler, presi-
dent of Detroit Edison Company,
which spearheads a multi-million
dollar group of companies seeking
to invest in an atomic reactor for
electric generating facilities, in
testimony before the committee
warned that actions of the Com-
mission are too weak; are too
little and too late in seeking to
woo private industry to play the
part they should pipy in the de-
velopment of atomic energy for
peacetime purposes
ideas
From the Etowah News Journal,
Attala, Alabama: Not too long ago
this writer can recall when his
chore was to bring in the kindling
and wood to build a fire, Now. we
merely turn a switch or press a
button and the fire that keeps us
warm or the stove that cooks our
meals is going full blast
Not long ago. it is recalled we
had to take a coal oil can to the
grocery store to get it filled so
that our home could be lighted at
night. Now we only press a button
or flip a switch and the house is
flowing with a light. The radio is
turned on and the TV set furnishes
us with shows in our home
Noi long ago, this writer recalls
when you desired to converse with
some person you had to walk to
see him or her Now we lift the
phone receiver from a hook and
dial a number and begin talking
Not long ago, we recall when it
was a day's trip to travel from
Attala to Birmingham. Now the
time is a matter of only one hour
and three minutes and when we
ride the train we travel in air
conditioned comfort; w do not
have to pick cinders from our
eyes nor be bumped out of the
seat when the train starts and
(tops.
Yes, this is a great era and we
wonder if any person who hat or
will soon reach the age of three
score years would like to go back
to the way of living when they
were a child Yes, we recall those
days, with fond and pleasant rec-
ollections. but when v-e stop and
think of the hardships that were
ours forty and fifty years ago, we
would not trade yesterday foi to-
day We would however trade to-
day for tomorrow
• •
From the lluneannon Record,
Duneaunon, Pennsylvania The
Birch rod is standard equipment
in British schools and everybody
knows the low rate of both juvenile
delinquency and adult crime in
the British Isles We think there
is a conneetinn Self discipline, the
ultimate goal of education and
the most important quality of the
good life, does not come as the
gentle rain from Heaven. It has
to be learned young. Apparently
the British way of learning is to
impose It at n very early age until
it becomes a habit.
And while we would oppose the
abuse of the podding "privilege,"
we nevertheless ore reminded of
the retort George Bernard Shaw
gave to the unfortunate woman
who asked him If he approved of
striking a child in anger. "Of
course," ha purportedly replied.
"To think of bitting « child in
cold blood is appalling I"
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Waggoner, William J. B. & Waggoner, Cecil O. Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1955, newspaper, March 17, 1955; Claude, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth355777/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Richard S. and Leah Morris Memorial Library.