The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 266, Ed. 1 Friday, November 11, 1960 Page: 4 of 12
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MIDAV, N0VIM1IK 11. 1WO
EDITORIAL RAGE THE ORANGE LEADER
Moment of Meditation
For in Him we live, and move, and have our being;
as certain also of your own poets have said, For we
are also His offspring. Acts 17:28.
Actom the Editor's Desk . . .
Cotton-Gin Economy
It Still Unchanged
By J, CULLEN BROWNING
f MAV8E I A
HATE CAT'S EtCMSt
WREAllV AFRAID;
v OF THEM... y
MAV0E MY KATE AND MV f£A*
and mV prejudice have 60he
T06ETHER TO R08 ME OF AN
APPRECIATION OF ONE OF DM
(OORIOS MOSTDflJftfffOL CREATURES
thk omw
COELL BE TRUE-.
IT MUST BE NOISY IN THE KREMLIN
rm just a simple-minded coun-
try boy whose basic education in
economics was pegged to the price
of cotton. These lessons went some-
thing like this: :
Each springtime the head of the
household in which I grew up went
to the bank and borrowed some
moeey. This required that he brief
the banker on the number of acrea
and kind of cotton which the fam-
ily expected to grow that year; an
itemization of the tools, feed and
other things for which the loan
would be used; and a report on
any debt then owed by the fimiiy
to the general mercantile etore.
At the same time, or perhaps
beforehand, the head of the house-
hold. being a tenant farmer, en-
tered into an agreement with the
owner of the lend on which the
family proposed to raise the cot-
on.
Being a cut above the lowest
ranking sharecroppers, the family
owned a pah of mules, a wagon,
some plow* and other tools. As a
result, the agreement with the
landlord provided that he wjuld
b* »fv*n one-third of the cash re-
ceded from the sale of the cotton
ocDiicsred to the r-.e helf he would
have received if he had supplied
the livestock and equipment.
This particular landlord also
owned a amall mercantile store
and at times durinR the growing
seasrn — if the crop looked good
and the shareertmper appeared to
be diligent in tilling their rented
acres—the family was allowed to
put a little something on the books
at the s‘ore.
Came harvest time and all hands
and the cook turned out to gather
the cotton. The staple was collect-
ed in e wagon with high side-
boards and when it held enough
to gin out a bale the head of the
household and n'l or most of the
boys in the family hitched ui> and
took off for the nee "eat villa'”!.
Subsequently, a b«le of ginned
cotton—still wj'tn from the hy-
draulic energy exerted in trussing
it un in burlap and steel bands—
would com# tumbling down from
the gin platform into the wagon.
Then off to the cotton yard
where the hs*e was weighed and a
certificate of weight end delivery
receipt i"ued to the h-ad of the
household. Th*n a. fellow with a
sharp, h^avy-bladed knife cut a
crescent-shaped gash in each side
of tha bale took samnles from
both and rolled them up in a piece
of paper.
After that, the head of the house,
hold made the rounds of the sev-
eral cotton buyers in the village.
Each would ccei the piece of pa-
per, extract a small part of the
•ample, pull It apart between his
thumbt and forefingers, peer at It
and say hmmmm.
Each buyer would make an offer
lor the bale of cotton in term* of
•ome number of cents a pound.
The highest bid would be accepted
and the cotton yard cartlficate-re-
celpt plus the remains of the sam-
ple would be exchanged for the
you a*»ht havb known
•mw5
ip you
HA.HA/
STARTIN# TO
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jyer'a check.
The head of the household took
this check to ths bank. If all or
any part of the loan made that
springtime was still outstanding
the banker kept a part of the mon-
clothing and a few sticks of pep-
permint candy for the boys.
On the way home the wagon
pulled up at the landlord’* house.
He got his third of the money paid
for the bale of cotton plus all or a
part of any sum which the family
had outstanding on the books at
his store.
When all the cotton had been
harvested, the banker and the land-
lord paid off. and immediate basic
needs of the household met, the
family was able to compute its
"pront-and-kws" statement for the
year.
The final figure on this state-
ment was governed by a number
of things — some controllable,
some uncontrollable — such things
BEETLE BAILEY
WE'LL Bfi IN BOSTON
come With me, my dear. i
KNOW A RESTAURANT WHICH
SERVES THE. MST BAKED
NEITHER HAVE I,
AND I LOVE THEM!
ANY TIME NOWJ
00 YOU KNOW WHAT.
1 HAVEN’T EATEN /
IN YEARS f -^rn
GOOOOLD-|?7l,
FASHIONED! T *
BAKSD / "AA
V BSAMSJ J jA
No Mandate for New Administration
We respectfully direct to the attention of President-
elect John Kennedy, Vice President-elect Lyndon John-
son and other members of the incoming Democratic ad-
ministration this part of a recent report by the Tax
Foundation, Inc., of New York City:
“New developments in state government have
strengthened the ability of the states to help in provid-
INTHE
WORLD!
BHBTd'o ooVdoo'1
ihg the services which the American people require
from from their government.
_ \“TWenty-five years ago it was widely believed that
the states simply could not meet the needs of the time
or of the future, and it was forecast that their impor-
tance as governmental units would diminish steadily.
} “To4ay the climate is quite different. The existence
of the states not only now but in the future is fully
accepted and even those most critical of the perform-
ance of the states are not likely to suggest they either
should or will disappear from our governmental system.
“This change in expectations regarding the states
has been matched by a new vitality.
“A good example of the new role of the states is their
effort in the field of education. The states have assumed
a position of leadership in education which they did not
occupy 15 years ago. "
“During this same period there has been a continuing
debate about the role of the national government in
education. Undoubtedly the demand for federal funds
for elementary and ‘secondary education would have
been successful before now if the states had not greatly
expanded their efforts to meet the school needs of this
nation.”
The report goes on to point out that this is but one
of a number of areas in which the states have strength-
ened their ability and the abilitv of their political sub-
divisions to help in providing the services which the
American peoole require from their government.
But will this trend continue—can it continue—if the
new Democratic administration which takes over in
Washington next January actually undertakes to imt>]e-
ment the pie-in-the-sky political platform on which it
was elected? ^
We believe the answer is no. We believe that any
further broadening of federal intervention and influ-
ence in state and local'‘Bffairs inevitably must lead to
destruction of the initiative from which the new de-
velopments m state government have sprung.
The margin of the popular vote with which it won
the presidency and vice-presidency is much too thin
for the Democratic administration to consider them-
selves under arty mandate to pursue the road to social-
ism blueprinted in their party platform.
So we would urge this administration to go slow in
that area and give the states and their political subdi-
visions every change to demonstrate that they can keep
pushing ahead and do not need any more intervention
by the federal government in state and local affairs.
MR. ABERNATHY
while at work, the nation's econom-
ic status, the price of tools and
feed, the cost of fertilizer, the
weather, taxes, boil weevils, army
worma, and boys who sneaked off
rabbit twirUng when thev were
supposed to be chopping cotton.
For a long tim* after I ceased
to be a cotton-pickin' country boy
and started earn'ng my keep t*
the keyboard of a typewriter I
failed to recognize a very impor-
•nt fact: That the basics of the
cotton-gin economy are precisely
th* same as the basics of the busi-
ness-industrial economy in which
I began to labor after leaving the
oagwood.vou shouldn't
■—g FOOL ME LIKE THAT/r'
OH, MY GOODNESS--
' AND MS LOOKING
--f LIKETHiS y
vjho jus r
CAME IN '
MARLON
BFANDO
fa-m.
And in case you’re wondering
what promoted the discussion lead-
ing up to that point, it was a labor
newspaoer's demand that a cer-
tain industrial union’s members be
granted a big pAy increase a
demand which wi* not accompa-
nied by a pledge that th# hike
would be followed by an equally
BI.ONDIE
WE'VE GOT
TO RAISE
FUTURE
SCIENTISTS/
ONE FALSE
MOVE AND M3U*U.
RAISE THE ROOF .
Right off <
THE SCHOOL' 1
\ BUT -
J this
/ ONE IS
DIFFERENT/
ARE YOU
MESSING
WITH
MISSILES
AGAIN?
big increase in productivity of
workers in the fields.
THE OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT ...
What This Country Needs
Is Play-as-You-Go Party
By HAL BOYLE
ARCHIE
NEW YORK (\P) - What this
country nerds is a new play-n-
you-go political party that could
make fres.t promi-'s to meet ev-
eryone’* real needs.
The ele.tkm cf lSSO proved that.
The most common remark
made by the average voter after
carting his ballot Tuesday was
this: ‘What difference" does it
really make to me who wins? I'll
still have to work for a living.”
This attitude reflects a deep un-
derlying dissatisfaction in the
elerto,'ate. They are unhappy with
both the Democratic aad ftepub-
lican parties, both of which are a
bit out of touch with the people *
real desires.
% A third party — perhaps to be
called tfte True Welfare of Better
World party—might sweep the na-
tion in 19M.
„ Here are a few suggested planks
in such a party's national plat-
form:
HOUSING — Two barbecue pits
would provided for every
home, one m the front yard, one
in the hack yard. No wife would
have to stay home every night
unless she wanted to.. If her hus-
band was too tired to take* her
out, a government-tested male es-
cort would be at her service one
evening a week.
WELFARE — A f-ee guaranteed
parking space would be available
without charge, to every citizen—
and located within one-minute
walking time of hia job.
HEALTH — Federal authorities
would expend half a "billion dol-
lars annually for the discovery of
an all-purpose wender drug that
would cure male baldness, prevent
women from wrinkling, prevent
th* common handover, and enable
anyone to #jt as much of anything
as he wanted nnd still keep him
from gaining an ounce.
JOBS—No man or woman would
be denied the right of working aft-
er 85—or forced to work before
he was 85. Pensions would begin
WHAT ACE WE J
WAITING for « L
COME ON/LETS
RAID THE FRIDGE-'
HER POP'S IN THE
VENDING MACHINE BIZ.'
ISN'T DOREENS
PARTY A REAL
ball? V
SOFT
DRINKS
SANDWI
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DEPOSIT
MONEY
money
ho SLuas
at birth.
WAOE5 — A salary that lasted;
from payday to payday would be r.TTA KfcTT
the government goal for all—in-
stead of the present salary which
only last from payday to the day
after payday.
CONDITIONS—Every office and
A Word for the Veterans Among Us
There was a time within the memory of large num-T
bers of our readers when “Aripistice Day” was an occa-
sion for flag-waving, oratory, parades and rededication
to the cause of peace.
Onlv in a few Ame.rican communities—and this ia
not one of them—is there any extensive celebration of
this date any more. Nov. 11 has become Veterans Dav,
end we are among those who regret that the change in
designation was not accompanied by a rebirth of the
former spirit of the occasion.
America’s veterans number more than 22.6 million.
Veterans, together with their families, make up 40 per
cer* of our nation’s nqpulation. *v ’ ■
Ovp>- 15 million of todav’s veterans saw service in
World War U more than ^ million served in the Korean
conflict J>nd about milUon were doughboys in World
War T. The rest—old timers-^-saw service in America’s
earlier military expeditions, some as far back as the
Sna "ish-American War.
And we’re a little saddened on this Veterans Day
because our own end manv other American communities
are not naving what we consider proper tribute to th*
men and women who served in our wars and still sur-
vive.
is ir imperative that
TtU WEAR fr|>SS», CLUMSY ?
HECK
NO.
factory would be patterned after
modern progressive schools. The
hired hands would do their chores
in the morning, eat a free govern-
ment lunch, take a long nap. then
spend the afternoon finger paint-
ing, playing hop scotch or square
dancing. As • sop to manage-
UkiG^nefs True Life Adventures |
LESSONS in UV1NO W7W \'j
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THE ORANGE LEADER
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THE MALE PA«ADISK-WBH
V/ATOHES CVS* THE BUBBLE NEST WHICH
B<s»G»© ARE HATOHlMd. HE SEEMS TO BE
THE UOEAU FATHER. e>«•
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t. O'llen Browning .
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Philip Tillv ___
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J. K. Davis
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 266, Ed. 1 Friday, November 11, 1960, newspaper, November 11, 1960; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth558867/m1/4/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.