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THE HUMBLE ECHO
More Than 3,600 Readers Every Week
PAGE TWO_THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1964
Police Force Is
Most Needed Addition
Although a report on one parking survey is still
to be given another check is in progress this week,
(see stories on front page), sentiment among mer-
chants seems to be generally opposed to parking
meters in the downtown area. Many feel, probably
correctly, that whatever parking problems exist
at various times during the week will be largely
cured when the new courthouse is opened next month
and cars now parked on or near Main St. will be
in the courthouse lot.
So while the survey reports are still to come,
the consensus is that parking meters aren’t needed--
or wanted.
But the discussion and opinion-taking connected
primarily with parking meters have produced at
least two things of value. One is an awareness
that overparking — more than two hours in one --
spot — be it a commuter’s car or a merchant’s
car, hurts all the way up and down the street.
There is a realization that the two-hour parking
limit can’t be effectively enforced without a city
law officer. That brings up the second, and most
important, result of the parking meter discussion.
Most merchants, and many residents, too, are
solidly in favor of a full time city police force —
not just to enforce parking time limits, but to en-
force all of the city’s ordinances. Parking meters
are beside the point. It seems to us that a police
force is the most needed addition to the city at
this time.
And policemen and cars and equipment cost money.
We think the majority of Humble residents want a
police force — whether it can be worked into the
present financial setup or whether it takes a raise
in taxes. According to some who should know, a
police force would pay for itself through fines and
fees. It may not be completely self-sustaining, es-
pecially at the start. But its worth the extra cost.
Poverty And Politics
The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
has cast some light on the “war against poverty.”
According to him, the federal government now has 42
individual programs costing some $42 billion in fis-
cal 1964, designed to combat poverty and to overcome
its causes. In 1962 it is estimated that the total
national effort for “social welfare”—by all levels
of government and private organizations—came to the
amazing figure of $100 billion.
Statistics such as these, of course, cover a wide
list of projects, some of which approach the poverty
problem indirectly as well as directly. But they do show
thq urgent need for a top-level review of all the pro-
grams before we start spending billions for new
schemes to be administered by a vast new bureaucracy
with a poverty chief at its head. And they show, too,
that local government and private enterprise are doing
much more in this direction than is generally recog-
nized. It will be a sad day for all the taxpayers of
this country and for all those who honestly are in'
need of assistance if “poverty” and politics” become
synonomous.
It’s the Law
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JOHN PUNDT
P.O. Box 606
Is a bet with a friend,
with witnesses present, a
valid contract upon which
you can collect in court?
Can you force a person to
pay off a bet that he macle
with you?
Jim was the town’s most
loyal supporter of the
Marysville baseball team,
even though the team was
having a disappointing sea-
son. Tom, a supporter of
Johnstown, a rival team,
offered to bet Jim a sizable
sum of money that Johns-
town would beat Marys-
ville.
Jim was quick to accept
and asked several bystand-
ers if they would be wit-
nesses to the bet.
That weekend Marysville
won, but Tom refused to
pay. Jim claimed that the
bet amounted to a valid
and binding contract. He
wanted to bring a lawsuit
against Tom to collect the
money that he felt Tom
legally owed him. How-
ever, he was advised that
he did not have a case.
The bet that they made
was a gambling contract,
and as such was illegal.
Where both parties assert
rights founded on a con-
tract which is illegal and
void, the court will re-
fuse to enforce it, leaving
the parties just where they
placed themselves, and as
they were before coming
into court. The court has
said that they owe it to
public justice and to their
own integrity to refuse to
enforce contracts essen-
tially violating morality or
public policy. It is a judi-
cial duty always to turn a
claimant upon such a con-
tract out of court regard-
less of how the character
of the contract is made to
appear.
In this case, even though
Jim could prove that he had
made a contract with Tom,
and regardless of the num-
ber of witnesses Jim could
call into court to swear to
the terms of the contract
the contract itself was an
illegal one, made for an
illegal purpose, gambling,
and as such the courts will
refuse to enforce it.
The courts will allow
great freedom to people
in the making of agree-
ments between themselves,
but they draw the line when
the agreement made is ill-
egal. The courts will not
aid people in breaking the
law.
(This newsfeature, pre
pared by the State Bar of
Texas, is written to in
form—not to advise. No
person should ever apply or
interpret any law without
the aid of an attorney who
is fully advised concern
ing the facts involved, be
cause a slight variance in
facts may change the appli
cation of the law.)
There is no joy and no
peace which can compare
with the joy and peace of
him who is understood and
forgiven.
-Dr. Charles Malik
str’Stiglrt
SAD STATE IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT
By Tom Anderson
Bryton Barron was in the State Depart-
ment 26 years, serving under seven succes-
sive Secretaries of State. In the June Amer-
ican Opinion” Magazine Mr. Barron makes
another of his eloquent appeals for a full
exposure of suspected Communists, known
pro-Communists, alcoholics, homosexuals and
dupes in the State Department.
“If Congress does not now act promptly
and vigorously to remove the danger, then
the opportunity to do so may never again
be ours, and treason will prevail,” says this
former Chief of the Treaty Section of the
State Department. Mr. Barron quotes from
the memorandum signed by the late Scott
McLeod, then Administrator of the Bureau
of Security and Consular Affairs in the State
Department. This memorandum, which was
uncovered by congressional investigators,
contains a list of 800 State Department em-
ployees who are suspect. The author says 60
percent hold high-level jobs.
OTEPKA CASE
Remember Otto Otepka? You may pos-
sibly have seen a short item about him in the
paper a few months ago. There should have
been headlines and a constant barrage on the
networks. And there would have been, ex-
cept that the news media are infiltrated with
Socialists and Communists. Otepka was the
top security officer in the State Department
who was fired for cooperating with the Sen-
ate Internal Security Subcommittee in the
investigation of our security situation. Bry-
ton Barron reports that Otepka is still on the
payroll of State because Johnson and Rusk
“are evidently afraid to act on his appeal
lest it either bring his reinstatement or blow
the lid off the whole mess right in the midst
of a national election.”
A key defector from the Secret Police, a
Pole known as Michal Golenicwski recently
gave to two Congressmen the names of 19
Americans who are acting as secret agents
for the Communists. Goleniewski is report-
edly in custody of the C.I.A., whatever that
is. Hardly anybody but the enemy knows
what it is, although it costs the American
taxpayer a fabulous but secret amount of
money. Killer Khrushchev remarked when
one of our leaders was bragging about the
C.I.A. Reports: “I read those before you
do.” I believe him. I don’t believe our gov-
ernment has any secrets — except from the
American people. Treason is the reason.
EVIDENCE
According to Barron’s informants Golen-
iewski has revealed: (1) that the C.I.A.
gave $1.2 million of our money to the Reds
who redivided it among the K.G.B. (Soviet
Secret Police), the American Communist
Party and the Italian Communist Party;
(2) that K.G.B. has placed agents in all
U.S. embassies located in important cities
abroad as well as in every U. S. Agency ex-
cept the F.B.I. And so the Lefties are now
smearing Goleniewski as they did Bang-Jen-
sen before his “suicide.” The Polish defec-
tor, they imply, has gone off his rocker. The
American people will go off their rockers if
they wake up in time.
One of the best waker-uppers available is
John Stormer’s sensational new book, “None
Dare Call It Treason,” now well over one
and a half million sales (Order from Amer-
ican Opinion Bookstore, 2102 Pierce Ave-
nue, Nashville, Tennessee; $1.00).
“Treason doth never prosper, what’s the
reason? For if it prosper, None Dare Call
it Treason.”
Our State Department is like a poisoned
candy bar: A yummy mixture of nuts, fruits,
chocolate and jelly, with artificial coloring
and flavoring and a tasteless poison added.
The American people must rise up in right-
eous indignation and demand congressional
investigation of our State Department.
WHAT ARE "CIVIL RIGHTS”?
By Harry Browne
According to Webster’s Dictionary, the
word “civil” means: “pertaining to the af-
fairs of a city or government.” In modern
usage, the term “civil rights” is generally
thought of as meaning rights that have been
conferred by government decree.
Can government bestow rights?
Not according to the men who founded
the American Republic. According to the
writings of Paine, Jefferson and their asso-
ciates, men are endowed by their Creator
with rights to life, liberty and property.
These men supported the idea that all
men are equal — in the sense that they are
all equally subject to the laws of nature.
In America, as in most civilizations, gov-
ernments at various levels have been dele-
gated the responsibilities to protect the
rights of life, liberty and property. It was
never intended to mean that government
was the creator of these rights. It is only
when a government becomes powerful
enough to surpress these rights that it can
appear to be granting them.
VIOLATOR
If a “civil right” means that government
may give property or privilege to one man —
at the expense of another man’s property or
liberty — then obviously government has
violated its role as the protector of life, lib-
erty and property.
But isn’t that what we see in America to-
day? So-called “public accommodations”
laws and “fair employment” commissions
are nothing more than governmental agen-
cies designed to restrict the liberty and prop-
erty rights of certain businessmen.
Debates on these issues have suggested a
confusing conflict between “human rights.
“civil rights” and “property rights.” These,
however, are meaningless cliches that only
disguise the real principle involved.
There are human rights: life, liberty and
property. Everything else can only be an
extension of these basic rights. For if a man
can rest secure that his life, liberty and prop-
erty are protected, he is free to do anything
that his talent and ambition justify.
INCENTIVE
If a man is in complete control of his
own property — including his ideas and
talent — he is in no position to claim that
he is discriminated against. For a man who
knows that what he earns will be his, is
free to exchange his services and property
with anyone who will do the same. To-
gether, they can make mutually-profitable
exchanges that will improve the position
of both.
But when a man has no control over his
own property — when he sees government
claiming jurisdiction over what is his — he
has no incentive to do anything. Why should
he work when the fruits of his labor will be
taken from him?
So-called “civil rights” are nothing more
than the use of government to steal from
one man and give to another. As such, they
are a fraud, a taking away from man of
his unalienable human rights.
There is a shortage of rights in America
today. Every American citizen is deprived of
his inherent right to control his own life and
property. Those who wish to crusade are
missing a bet. There is a great need to re-
store to all Americans the human rights that
have been denied them by their own gov-
ernment.
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Sunday School 9:45 a,m.>
Church 11 a.m.
LAKELAND BAPTIST CHURCH
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Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
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'Training Service 7:00 p.m.
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Wednesday Night 7:30 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
621 Herman
R. Ervin Driskill, minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Church 10:50 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m.
Young Peoples Class 5 p.m.
METHODIST CHURCH
800 Main
Bill Turner, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11:00 a.m.
FIRST PENTECOSTAL. CHURCH
119 S. Houston Ave.
Irby E. Slaughter, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Church -00 a.m.
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
400 S. Houston Ave.
Father Jerome Powers, O.M.I.
Sunday Mass 7:30 a.m.
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
410 Granberry St.
G.L. Johnson, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship Service 11:00 a.m.
Childrens Church 6:00 p.m.
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