The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1955 Page: 2 of 10
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before the opening session of the
Press Association in Galveston last week,
ey General John Ben Shepperd declared
t "tub thumpers, motivated by politics and
jealousy, have caused great loss of public con-
fidence over veterans land." —
That may well have been the understatement
of the year.
There has certainly been a great public loss of
Confidence in the Veterans Land Program, but
we doubt if the "tub thumpers," whatever their
motives, are responsible for it.
While it is perfectly true that a number of
political opportunists have attempted to take, ad-
vantage of the disclosure of scandals in the land
office to make political hay for themselves, the
Scandal alone ... in its plain and unvarnished
truth . . . was amply sufficient to shake public
confidence in the land program.
Attorney General Shepperd's point that 44,000
State officeholders and employees should not be
newspaper
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Entered as second class matter December 20,1945,
•t the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas, under the
act of March 3, 1879. Published each Thursday
afternoon at Canadian, Texas, by the Lockhart
Publishing Company, a Texas corporation.
Sell the Home Town . . .
. . . To Home-Towners First
"TYac
(From The Stafe-Line Tribune)
ide at home" is a universally-popular theme
at any chamber of commerce meeting. Other
civic-minded organizations take up the banner
and wave it around until residents feel like they
have committed a felony if they spend a nickel
in Amarillo.
We think that less time ought to be spent on
this philosophy, and more invested in another
theme: Let's keep our youngsters in the commun-
ity in which they grew up.
Why does a young man or woman, after col-
lege training, so often seek employment in dis-
tant cities? Why do so many high school gradu-
ates, unable to pursue college training, leave
their home towns for other areas?
Is it because of better pay elsewhere? We feel
that this is partly the answer. Yet, on the other
hand, there are many jobs in the small town that
pay as well as comparable jobs in larger towns.
Is it lack of opportunity? Certainly not! We
don't know of a better place in the world for a
young man or woman to start out than in a grow-
ing small town. In many cases, they will be able
to advance as the town advances, where this is
not possible in larger places.
We feel that the biggest reason that our chil-
dren don't stay in the communities which they
call home is because we have failed to have a
sales program to tell them of the advantages of
staying where they are.
Perhaps we feel that it should be perfectly ob-
vious that smaller towns are friendlier; there is
less competition; there is more opportunity for
growth.
But maybe these things aren't obvious to the
young graduate who looks over a handsomely-
printel brochure from an airplane factory, or a
wholesale concern, or nicely-typed, personal letter
from a big retailer.
Maybe they WOULD stay at home if we'd try
to point out a few advantages of our own!
condemned because "one was found wanting" is
well-taken . . . but that has little bearing on
the soundness of the land program itself.
The Veterans Land Program was, from its in-
ception,open invitation to graft. And it never
was, from its inception, any great boon to Texas
veterans.
Properly administered, the Land Program might
have been an aid to a minority of veterans who
wanted to buy land for small farm and ranch
operations . . . but even under the most favorable
auspices, it was never designed to benefit more
than a minority.
As a token of gratitude from the State to the
Texas veterans of World War II, the Veterans
Land Program was a fraud from the beginning.
It dangled a plum before the few . . . while ig-
noring the many . . . and of the relatively few
veterans who were interested in purchasing land
through the Veterans Land Board, many quit in
disgust after a brief investigation of the offer.
The action of the current Legislature in putting
stricter controls on operation of the program in
an effort to plug the loopholes through which
millions of dollars of graft have disappeared al-
ready were certainly overdue . . . although there
is little left in the fund now to save. But no ac-
tion by the Legislature can make further exten-
sion of the Veterans Land Program palatable.
This newspaper will go on record right now as
opposing any constitutional amendment ... or
any legislation . . . designed to add one more
dollar of public funds to the Veterans Land
Fund . . . not because of the scandals which
have grown out of the first $100,000,000 appropri-
ated, but because we see no justification for
continuing a program which was inequitable
from the beginning.
* ♦ ♦
Government Is Still . . .
. . . Our Biggest Business
This Administration has made a praiseworthy
start in getting government out of commercial
business. But it has a mighty long way to go.
A leaflet issued by the Chamber of Commerce
of the USA states: "The government is still the
nation's biggest electric power producer, the big-
gest power consumer, the biggest banker, biggest
employer, biggest insurance company, biggest
landlord, biggest tenant and biggest publisher.
In fact. Uncle Sam owns more wheat than the
wheat farmers, more grass land than the cattle-
men and more trucks than General Motors."
The same leaflet says: "No one—not even the
government—has a complete list in any one
place of all its businesses and industries."
No one knows either how much government in
business has cost, is costing, and will cost the
taxpayers, but it's a sure bet the figure would
make any mind reel. Let the "get-government-
out-of-business" campaign move into top gear!
* *
Right to Work . . .
... Is Fundamental Right
One of the charges made by opponents of the
right-to-work laws which forbid compulsory un-
ion membership as a condition of employment,
is that these laws are sure to force down wages
and undermine business conditions and living
standards generally.
The National Right To Work Committee has
surveyed the 12 states which have had the laws
on their books since 1947, and so have had a
chance to find out what happens (six more states
have passed similar laws since). It found that
these 12 states have equalled or exceeded na-
tional average gains in non-farm employment,
businesses in operation, per capita income, retail
sales, population growth, and other barometers
of economic well-being.
The right to work should be considered as
fundamental as the right to breathe. Without it,
there is no real freedom.
♦ ♦ ♦
The more you lean on others the leaner your
chances are for success.
♦ *
Love may make the world go 'round; but it
also makes a lot of people dizzy.
If the TV sets used in cheap bars don't make
you blind — the liquor will.
• * *
Texas' King Ranch is so large that there is a
month's difference in the growing season between
the north and south edges.
A Lot More to Hatch
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l^ELLOW in Los 'Angeles who
1 won $28,000 on the Irish
Sweepstakes says he's going to
"eat four times a day." At one
Los Angeles restaurant we've
; heard about, that dough won't
last very long.
♦ • •
Long Island Railroad is going
to install welded rails on one
stretch of its line, eliminating the
wheels.
clickety
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What the road really needs is
something to eliminate the yack-
! cty-yack of the commuters when
! a fellow's trying to sleep.
* * •
Dental technician up for prac-
ticing dentistry without a license
in Lima, Ohio, really has pull.
Got his case postponed. Said he
had a dental appointment.
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We have been assured by a
number of people who saw
last Thursday night's Curtain
Club production of "Blithe
Spirit" that it was a most en-
joyable success . . • from the
audience's point of view. Such
praise is gratifying, of course,
and we feel that the members
of the cast deserve all of it
for a near-professional per-
formance;
But if the play was án artistic
success, it was also a financial
disappointment. We don't mean
to say that the production lost
money ... it didn't. The Youth
Program, will be, probably, a
hundred dollars or more richer
as a result of it. But the return
is small in comparison to the
amount of work which went into
it.
* * *
Thursday night's crowd was
enthusiastic and appreciative,
but it was also small. No more
than four hundred of the audi-
torium's eight hundred seats
were filled . . . and with ad-
missions averaging about 50
cents a seat, that adds up to
only a S200 gross.
* *
Maybe the admission prices
should have been higher. Several
people have suggested to us that
those who attended the play
would have paid a dollar for
seats as readily as they paid
fifty cents . . . particularly since
it was for the benefit of the
Youth Program. How about this?
The Curtain Club will be pre
senting other plays in the fu
ture, probably, to aid various lo
cal projects . . . and it's mem-
bers would like to know how
you feel about ticket prices to
these plays.
• * •
The Curtain Club itself, re-
member, is a non-profit organ-
ization. Its plays are presented
only under the auspices of oth-
er organizations which need to
raise money for worthy local
funds. And the plays which
Curtain Clubbers are produc-
ing are not the typical run-of-
the-mill home-talent comedies
. . . which are a dime a dozen
. . . but top-notch Broadway
hits which not only carry a
sizeable royalty fee but re-
quire considerably more work
to produce.
♦ ♦ *
The royalty for one perform
ance of "Blithe Spirit," for ex-
ample, was $50. To get it ready
for one evening's entertainment,
the members of the cast went
through approximately twenty
rehearsals averaging three hours
at each, over a period of about
five weeks. That runs into quite
a lot of hours . . . and doesn't
take into account the time spent
in preparing a stage set, gather
ing costumes and properties, and
experimenting with make - up
and lighting ... in addition to
hours of study required to learn
parts.
• • *
All that the members of a
Curtain Club play cast get out
of all this is the enjoyment of
taking part in a good stage
play (and a lot of us are un-
cured hams at heart) and the
satisfaction of contributing to
a worthy cause. But we think
that they also deserve a lot of
community support for their
efforts.
* * *
The Curtain Club has made
tentativo plans for another play
• . . probably James Thurber's
"The Male Animal" . . . early in
.September, also for benefit of
the Youth Program. From all
present indications, the money
is going to be needed. So what
about those admission prices? Is
a dollar too much for a reserved
;°at at a top-notch play ... or
should the prices stay down?
•
The medical profession has
made great progress in the
last generation, says Harold
Hudson in the Ochiltree Coun-
ty Herald. What used to be
merely an itch is now an al-
lergy.
♦ *
Highway safety experts specu
late that a lot of unexplainable
accidents may be due to drivers
intent on committing suicide.
It's reasonable. After all, a man
planning to commit suicide can
avoid the stigma, leave his in
surance intact, and even collect
double-Indemnity for his heirs
by using his car as the lethal
Santa Fe Post
T. J. Anderson, superintendent
of the Santa Fe's Plains Division
at Amarillo, has been promoted
to assistant general manager of
the Northern District, Western
Lines, at La Junta, Colo., effec-
tive May 1, according to C. R.
Tucker, Santa Fe's operating vice
president, Chicago.
Warren R. Henry, Plains Di-
vision trainmaster at Amarillo
since November 1, 1954, succeeds
Anderson as superintendent.
E. B. Jones, Gulf Lines train-
master at Brownwood, has been
transferred to Amarillo to suc-
ceed Henry.
The moves were brought about
by the appointment of Jack E.
Lester, Northern District assist-
ant general manager, to the po-
sition of assistant general man-
ager of Santa Fe's Eastern Lines
at Topeka, Kansas. While he has
been on the northern segment of
the line since 1941, Lester started
railroading on the Plains Divi-
sion in 1918, and advanced to
trainmaster at Slaton from Aug-
ust 1, 1938 to January 1, 1940
when he was made superintend-
ent of the Pecos Division at Clo-
vls. He held that spot until Feb-
ruary, 1941, when he went to
Pueblo as superintendent of the
Colorado Division.
Anderson has been superin
tendent at Amarillo since March
1, 1952, when he succeeded F. J.
Stuppi, who just recently ad-
vanced to assistant general man-
ager of the Coast Lines at Los
Angeles.
Tour FRIENDLY Canadian
Merchant Wants to Serve Too.
weapon instead of the tradition-
al gun, knife, rope or poison.
Just as quick, too.
•
We have no particular ob-
jection if some guy who is in-
tent on ending it all wants to
do it with an automobile . . .
but the fear that haunts us
when driving is that we may
meet up with one of these
characters just at the moment
of decision. He may be ready
to go . . . but we're not.
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From where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh
Handle With Care
Tractors are like horses—or
mules—in more ways than one.
They can be pretty tricky if you
don't handle them right.
Too many tractor accidents
happen because of carelessness.
The day grows hot and drowsy,
the job grows monotonous-and
bingo! Someone forgets to throt-
tle down when making a turn, or
something, and there's a bad spill.
I Credit Slim Hartman's missus
for the fact that there's never
been tractor trouble on their
place. Midway through every
morning and afternoon she
brings him snacks. "Hell stay on
the alert," she says, "if I get him
off the tractor for ten minutes."
From where I sit, carelessness
can cause plenty of harm in our
off-the-job personal lives, too. For
instance, suppose a neighbor pre-
fers a glass of beer with supper.
You might not share this particu-
lar preference with him—but if
you're careless about protecting
Am right to choose, your own
freedom of choice is in danger of
being "plowed under."
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1955, newspaper, June 16, 1955; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183752/m1/2/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.