The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 292, Ed. 1 Monday, October 26, 1959 Page: 2 of 6
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Many mn ago a vetaran fore%n
tormpoMwt, speaking ot the Rus-
sian* he had recently been watching
firelhand, laid:
“If ita donrarant* pm want, the
Equating will get 'em for you by the
drifted.” '
Hi* point was that the Etesian* had
come to understand a free democratic
society’s dependence upon evidence,
especially of the written variety, in
the making of its dec Metis. They were
only too happy to ablige, by providing
maniifaclured documents in volume.
8enw of this, unfortunately, goto
on within our society itself. But of
much greater peril ti a subtler prac-
tice, which has become painfully com-
mon in the public life or this natio'n.
This is the practice of arguing a
case, whether it be on a political is-
sue, on a matter of government policy,
in a labor dispute or whatevnr, from
what one sharp observer haa called
‘ self-serv ing statistics."
We live In an age that is truly ov-
errun with statisticians, date comput-
ers and a host of other information
gatherers and analysts.
They supply enough material for
everybody in the country who wants
to argue anything at ail. Just pick
your topic, pick your side, dip into the
huge reservoir of facts and statistics,
and you can make out a cas#.
It's been happening for years in
the union-management
sufferable practical ItiMh be had nothing te
to wttti gib He was, that is, 100 per cest
pure flier.
Up is.the sir sver IDtieb one Sark night
Itiewswii Is kksls fly ss sad os. to Chi-
cago. Msw fork. London, Paris — and the
revet eti prize. St. Louis mrnjy harked him, hs
superetMd the eooatru«Jte* of Ms own single-
motor cruft se tho Ryan airUSWS, is Ban Dbg*.
He flow to BE book, then to Long Island, and
took off, Jest mtittig WlitiTfttfleetop#. from
Roosevelt Field.
Writes a wash after Ms ashievement, oil-
OH totatieg ever live Million daiisrs had baas
made to him. end won Ml relected. Ha earn#
tame tit a battleship, wsa a gsrat of PraaMaat
Coatidire, met Dwight Marrow end Ansa wham
ha would marry.
But already thare had developed the germ
of ramrtios, critkriam sad oppeeition. Newsmen
with wham ha Wosld not cooperate got their
dstis is spite of him. He followed not tho
fSitinl soetif path of Me fattier in A mentis
aid mm eorilav forebear in Sweden, hot the
erasers* trie economies of hie father-in-law,
htiphur to make aviation big business, aad in-
cMmtmDy etiMctieg a ftfMM cheek far hie
sarviane to TAT slrtti#
After the kidnaping of kis son, ha with-
draw with hlS family to England. He mid some
good wear A far Hitler's air fares, some critical
ears of the titie*Ians’, bo accepted the Service
Geese of the German Eagle from Goaring,
oad thus proas reported ha might eettta is Bar-
bit by the crowd/' Miller ex-
Ua hi apartments mads available by the "re-
seat abandonment of many Jewish homes."
He sppesiri Rkoseveti and ovary move toward
war, resigned hie Air Perea eoaesaisetoa, was
breaded pro-Nazi and anti-Berntti* — Wilkie
(triad Ms Dm Moines speech In September,
Ittl, "dm meat un-American taHt made in my
ttie by say pwrson of national reputation."
Davis writes! "That was the end of the hero."
Ha nerved valiantly aftor Pearl Harbor, both
am the heme front and in tnemy skies.
Drivie zass bars some "latent aeU-mtaUee*
tsaHsm." aad a dangerous drive to power, a
man in affaet touched by tka smorality of the
the union-management disputes in
steel and other big industries. It go«l
on all the time in political arguments
over the federal budget. Seif-serving
figures are dealt out relentlessly by
all kinds of organizations and Individ-
uals seeking license* and privileges
from government agencies.
Pity the poor commissioner* who
posing seta of
He arbitrators
.......
must choose between opponi
foolproof statistic*, or tf
who seek the truth in the high-flying
ammunition fired by management and
union,
. .Mo*t *11. pity the poor public,
trying to decide where the truth Ilea *o
it can weigh issue*, policies and meh
wtorily,
What we need, obviously, to a Bu- sad who's to pratie and eta's to bis me
reau of Selfless Statistics, Independent ----
of government, business and labor,
drawing upon the resources of all but
answering only to the public’s crying
*******^y f°r balanced, thoroughly
mad* at a landless by os. of tho guests. "Who*, that. Bradt"
she ssked, to see if the Russian's visit had made any impression
upon the child's mind. «« . ,
"It's Mr. Clean," the bop Immsdistsly replied, "the funny
mss why wipes >*sy dtryog trtfwisdcs.” ■ ■ !/..
If aayonw hsdresuea- te fled sal whsn Khrushchev’s visit
Mfpf ended ft was the Sutler Hotel bsrbers. For members of
die Soviet Chiefs entourage were the best customers that they
have' had in yean. ?
Each day the barbership was pecked with Rusatins who al-
weys ordered haircut, hair singe, manicure, shampoo, facial mas-
sage, shave ami ahoeshins. Seme earn# back fOrth* Works two
and threo thmas daring theti stay. ...........
What startled the barber* most was dm Russian who walk-
ed into tbs ahoy, flashed a flO hill and? asked, “hi thb enough
for a hairedtT” ^ '
It is more then a ed the liberals in their battle
he day when the against s censtenrative party
it of t h e United leadership working fee Etian-
m elected, but ti hower. But the same group,
*• ti on. now the Democrat# of itane
until Nov.'S, lHjL Club member*, will have to
* year of th« mo*l to *ace of their old
tic si activity tha Morn*, Rayburn, tf they decide
is known. opvn opposition to Senator
mkeTfiem I,,. JM«woa tMs year. .
c starting gun by Some DOTer* have pledged
i all-out campeb* JohnMn support. Bat Mrs. R.
Democratic presl- D- Randolph, leader, refused
imtffh fog U. g. to commit horsolf on grounds
Johnson. Rayburn the senator has not declared
Johnson-for-Prwi,. hhncelf a candidate,
stkmo ti grdtfr Candidate or not, Senator
mssklwsry he mastered. The sdmirahty detailed
documentation may not spore this beak from
Whoa you make ttie bast of things It’s
surprising how little cause you have for
worry.
ft won’t be long until ws’ll have snow
again, end lots of auto driven win go slay-
inf. ;
Johnson ti whisgtig around
Texas for personal appearances,
scheduled at the rate of more
Men one o day in the months
•T W. C. Rogers
THE HERO: Charles A. Lindbergh aad the
American Dream. By Kenneth S. Dark
Doubieday.
I* was still the days when newspapers pub-
lbbed extras, and still the time of tho crystal
'***• *#t* — by one moans or the other,
millions of ecstatically thankful Americans
learned that "Lucky" Lindbergh landed the
Spirit of St. tool* at Le Bourget airport out-
tide Parti late Saturday evening, May ti,
* XtS.SSSlLl!',
icUii) who run oiitn Mill i
ad "Mr. Democrat" gay* «
moos Inftwtus to tile aetivl
of Johnson supporters. 1
jonnson <
rdf future
chibs, rallies and ety
iloMomed over the
state, dot, Price Dentil and
the state executive committee
area at the law.
to the ease at hand, the
mother, unwed at ttie tiara of
tho child’s birth, wanted to
keep the baby. After a doctor
and wolf are officials talked to
had prevtouety pledged support, Hickman, m*o beeame
Speaker Rayburn s sponsor- a commissioner on the high*
ts-wwa? *«
liberal wing Democrats who Texas history,
have bean cool toward the sen- Notts* that he b 7#, ttie
a tor sine* toe convention has- Judge said ha felt the tiara had
alas of MM. coma "to surrender the duties
la ltti, Rayburn ehaaspten- and rsspentihiMtiea ot my at-
Soma day that famous "sick friend'
going te get tired of having other asm
up with him.
1W7.
Sam# men hed already flown the Atlantic;
others died trying to; other plane# were being
readied at the very moment Lindbergh took
oft; but he wee the first to fly nonstop New
York to Paris and he did. it alone — it was
“bio," he said, including the plane Itself—and
won the 186,0*0 Ortsig prise. But he iron also
s fabulous, an incredible, an unjniaginable
repututatioo as a flier. If ti thb century the
Americas people has# idolised, apothaoebsd,
adulated and saissssed to any single figure,
it was Lindy.
Here for the first time, by the experienced
biographer of the much lees baffling person-
slltiee of both Kisenhower and Stevenson, his
story-6 told is fell. He wsa bom in Detroit,
Peh. 4, mu, and brought up in Little Foils,
Mian., where his father was Congressman.
Dout was the word for the w b o 1 o family.
Graduated from high school ti IBM, tall and
timky, ha entered the University of Wisconsin;
bis interest# were his motorcycle, and any sad
all machinery, end he experienced, says Dart*
whether the property tag
Supreme Oast r
of a woman who
to allow her drift
*d, then changed
A juvenile judge declared
ttiw child "dependent and neg-
lected” and bent Mag-to ast oth-
er county for adoption. Within
• fow week s, haswovra, the
mother married the child’s
father tori, AM* salt fto the
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 292, Ed. 1 Monday, October 26, 1959, newspaper, October 26, 1959; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth815081/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.