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(Flip Ennis BatUj Nputa
Founded in 1891
Manager-Editor ...........................................................Charles E. Gentry
Advertising ........................................................................ VVavne Gentry
Staff Writers: Gene Nowlin. Editorial Assistant: Mary H. Gentry.
Society Editor: Nada Wilson. Reporter.
T4uesday, March 4, 1958
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FORGOTTEN FACTS
It has taken the Kremlin two years to de-
termine the dialectics to be used in describing
the iate Josef V. Staim in Volume -tu of trie
Soviet Encyclopedia. The rest of the forty-nine
volumes of this official Soviet publication, the
la'-t word on the party line had already been
issued.
Some of the harsh accusations against him by
Khrushchev have been mitigated. The article on
Stalin gives his own opinion of himself. Khrush-
chev's opinion and the encvcolpedia’s analysis.
"Stalin’* own opinion, circulated widely
throughout the USSR. held him as an all-
wise genius, impeccable in ideology, in ad-
ministration. and in care for his subjects.
Ilis wisdom and courage virtually single-
handedly won the Great Patriotic War
against the Nazis.
^Khrushchev denounced Stalin before
the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Com-
munist party as "ver> distrustful, sickly,
suspicions and one who practiced brutal
violence and produced mass terror hv bar-
baric tortures. Par from winning the war.
Stalin very nearly lost it and had lapsed
into nervousness and hysteria after the in-
itial Soviet disasters."
*The encyclopedia adds, that Stalin was
acknowledged to have made some mistakes,
but only after 1934. when "he began to
believe in his own infallibility and to act
along without taking account of the Central
Committee’s advice." However, it would be
a misrepresentation of history “to spread
through his whole life the errors of the last
years of his long career.”
The reason for this atonement to Stalin is
quite clear.vThe cold truth about his rule hits
at the very foundations of Khrushchev’s regime.
The Soviet historians are using the old artifice
of making Khrushchev's relative truth compar-
ed to Stalins complete falsehood come out smel-
ling like a rose. Henrik Ibsen aptly described
this process in 1867 when he penned, "A lie.
turned topsy-turvev. can be prinked and tin-
seled out. decked in plumage new and fine, till
none knows its lean old carcass.” There is little
doubt that Russian adaptation of this technique
pre-dated Ibsen. And Khrushchev has become
one of its most perspicacious proponents what
with his offer of happiness to all the world
(decked out in military attire) and simultaneous-
ly announcing increasing quantities of military
weapons.
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Opinions
(2* On Dr Robert J. Oppenheimer:
“Not the slightest I have ever heard of I
thought Mr Oppenheimer. Dr Oppenheimer's
case was completely settled and was an issue
that was in the past.
“But i would say this: That any information
that new information that became available that
could make it look that a reopening of this case
would be wise I certainly would have no objec-
tions. because personally 1 don't know the in-
dividual. so I would just say this: There is no
move that I know of any kind to reopen the
issue.”
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It makes not the remotest sense to permit Air
Force. Navy and Army to set up their own
missile teams, often working toward the same
results, duplicating effort that should be shared
for maximum achievement in defense
“The best scientific and inventive brains of
the country should be working in unison, under
a single competent direction. Probably civilian
direction would be best, with top military ad-
visers. We are defeating ourselves in the race
for space weapons by this hobbling system of
Balkanization.
—The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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25 YEARS AGO
Six hundred and fifty thou-
sand brick for the new federal
building on West Tenth Street
will be purchased from the Bar-
ron Brick Company of Palmer.
George P. Hines of Alsdort.
formerly a prominent attorney
of Sherman, has opened a law of-
fice in Ennis and is located in
the First National Bank Build-
ing.
Mrs. J. S Telfair spent the day
in Dallas with her mother.
Judge and Mrs. W. D Colvin
of Waxahachie were visitors in
Ennis Thursday.
Mrs. Minnie D Woodlief and
Mrs. George Betts of Greenville
were guests in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Neal.
10 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Tom Mayfield will leave
Friday for a visit in New Or-
leans. in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Bowen.
Mrs. P. Griffin and baby were
brought From Sparks Clinic in
Dallas to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W H. Clements here.
Homer Me,Elroy. president , of
the Lake.-ide Country (Tub an-
nounces that an open house for
the member,--, and their families
will he held on the evening of
March 5. from 7 to 9 p.m.
The line was long, the picture
was also long, but many an En-
nis person was out to see, or
re - .j me With The Wind"
Tuesday. The feature started at
5 10 and the line reached
around to the alley by Pool
Manufacturing Company and
started in the other direction.
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WASHINGTON. D. C. March
4.—President Eisenho w e r* s
staunch defense of Ezra Taft
Benson results first from 1 h e
fact that Benson is a sincere
gentleman with whom nobody
can differ personally: second —
from the fact that Ike’s brother
Milton is Benson’s strong cham-
pion. Ike always relies on Milt—
who served under Secretary of
Agriculture Henry Wallace, for
his farm advice.
However in the latest report
of The- House Appropriations
Committee on agriculture a r e
some interesting figures which
neither Ike. nor Milton—n o r
most farmers of the nation know
much about. They tell a signifi-
cant story of what’s wrong with
Benson’s administration on
American agriculture.
The figures are official and
come from The Agriculture De-
partment itself. They s h o w
that between the time Benson
took over the department a n d
today he lias added alomst 20.-
000 extra bureaucrats and one
billion dollars of expense. This
billion does not include the cost
of crop supports or the Soil
Bank. It only covers the actual
barebones operation of The Ag-
riculture Department.
Here is a breakdown of the
figures:
In 1952, The Agriculture De-
partment budget under outgoing
Secretary Charley Brennan was
$796,000,000, Under Benson, the
1958 budget for operating the
department is $1,728,000,000.
The overall agricultural
budget as Brannan went out of
office, including the cost of
storing surpluses, crop price
supports, and everything <else
was $850,000,000
The over-all budget under
Benson today is $7,400,000,000.
This is an increase of 750 p e r
cent.
$7,000,000,000 MORE
The big question is how did
the over-all budget jump from
less than $1,000,000,000 to more
than $7,000,000,000 in five short
years, when Benson simultan-
eously reduced price supports
from 90 per cent of parity down
to below 75 per cent of parity?
He was reducing price sup-
ports in order to get rid of sur-
pluses, yet his costs and his sur-
pluses increased. What is t h e
reason?
The answer goes to the root
of why Mr. Benson, with all
his sincerity—has been a failure
as Secretary of Agriculture.
Though it cannot be spelled out
in a few words, here is part of
the answer
1 — BUREAUCRATS VS. VOL-
UNTEERS—Benson i m m e d i-
ately fired the farmers' com-
mittees which were enforcing
the farm acreage program, and
substituted paid bureaucrats.
The volunteer farm committee-
men had been paid $57 a year,
chiefly for travel to attend
meetings The bureaucrats are
each paid around $5,000 a year.
This not only increased Ben-
son’s budget but it tended to
put policemen in charge of farm
acreage restrictions Volunteer
farm committees did an excel-
lent Job of restricting average.
By DREW PEARSON
They knew' exactly what each
neighbor was doing and let no
one get away with anything.
But w hen paid bureauc r a t s
took over, the psychology of the
program shifted It was like the
Russian peasant who is always
out to beat the Soviet inspector
on the collective farms. From
democracy on the farm. as un-
der the old volunteer system—
tlie system shifted to bureau-
cracy on the farm. So there was
less compliance with crop re-
duction, less cooperation with
The Agriculture Department.
2. MIDDLEMAN’S PROFIT —
Benson has operated the Agri-
culture Department with an eye
to helping the middleman—not
the farmer. His whole back-
ground in Washington befor he
became Secretary of Agricul-
ture was with the processor,
the equipment manufacurer,
not the farmer
In 1956-57 when Benson mov-
ed into the hog market to sup-
port the price of pork, he omit-
ted from iiis hog - purchasing
contract a clause which requires
packers to buy hogs at parity
prices. He signed contracts with
the meat packers to buy up
pork, with a guarantee to take' it
off their hands But he did no’
require them to pay the farmers
a guaranteed price.
Thus—they could step into
the hog market and buy below
parity, and sell to Benson at a
guaranteed price—which was
exactly what they did. Result
was that the price of hogs went
below parity, the farmers didn't
benefit—the packers did bene-
fit. and the taxpayers paid out
$98,600,000 supposedly to sup-
port the price of pork, while the
price of pork simultaneously
was going down and down.
Benson was favoring the mid-
dleman—not the farmer.
In contrast—Brannan step-
ped into the market to support
hogs in 1949—but put a clause
in his contract by which t h e
packers had to buy hogs from
farmers at parity prices. As a
result, the price of hogs did not
drop below parity except on one
day. Brannan then gave his sur-
plus hams immediately to the
school lunch program, thus sav-
ing the cost of storage The total
cost to the taxpayer was $18.-
000,000
The farmers and school chil-
dren — not the meat packers,
profited.
And if you want to see who is
making the big money today,
take a lok at the stock market
quotations during last fall’s
Wall Street slump and see what
happened to the big packers and
middlemen’s stock. They went
up while the stock market went
down.
More on Mr Benson's
snafus in an earlv column
ANTI-BENSON REVOLT
Most outspoken Congresman
in his op post ion to Ezra Taft
Benson during the closed door
revolt of Western Republicans
was Rep. H. R Gross of Iowa.
He declared
“This man (Benson) has n o 1
represented the farmer and he
has not represented the con
sumer Both have suffered be-
cause of his unrealistic farm
policies. Farm prices have gone
down 14 per cent sine e 1940.
Benson lias done nothing to stop
the decline. If anything—t h e
situation has become worse un-
der his administration.
"If the Secretary of Labor
gave the working man as little
represenation as Benson h a s
given the farmer, organized la-
bor unions would have his hide
nailed to the door before sun-
down.”
Congressman Walter H. Judd
of Minnesota was about t h e
only man at the meeting to speak
a kind word for Benson. Judd—
who represents an urban dis-
trict (Minneapolis) said he had
no fault to find with Benson's
program, adding that in his op-
inion the program hadn’t been
given enough time to prove it-
self.
“However." declared Judd—
•i’ll admit that he is a political
liability and should resign for
the good of the party."
■ Time." exclaimed Rep. A. L.
(Duel Miller of Nebraska. "He
has been in office since 1953
and conditions have become
progressively worse for t h e
farmer since he took over #as
Secretary What I'm wondering
is if we have waited too long to
demand his resignation. It may
be too late now to help us in
the coming election even if he
does get out. We should have
demanded his resignation a
year ago. However, late or not—
we should see to it that he gets
ou mow- ’before he does any
more harm.”
"As far as I am concerned, he
should never have been ap-
pointed in the first place," as-
serted Gross of Iowa. "1 ha v e
been against him and his poli-
cies since the first speech he
made after taking office when
he said that he would reluctant-
ly go along for a time with the
price support program then in
effect."
Note — What teed off t h e
revolt of Republican Congress-
men was the razor-edge victors
of RepublicarrCundulate Albeit
Quie of Minnesota, which lias
been overwhelmingly Republi-
can since 1893. The Democratic
candidate. Eugene Foley, a
Catholic running in a strong
Lutheran district with three
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Gentry, Charles E. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 53, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 4, 1958, newspaper, March 4, 1958; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth785908/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.