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THE CANADIAN RECORD. Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
THURSDAY, JAN. 31, I960
Demand of justice
Not honor
"THE MEN who serve as magistrates of our
police courts and Justice courts are fre-
quently maligned as "little dictators" by traf.
fic violators who are brought before them. Oc-
casionally these criticism are deserved, per-
haps . . . but many of these men are honest
and conscinetious officers who perform diffi-
cult duties with tact and wisdom.
And they are human.
The following "open letter" was written by
a Texico (New Mexico) Justice of the Peace,
and published a few weeks ago in the State
Line Tribune at Farwell. This fellow not only
speaks, eloquently, for himself . . . but prob-
MEWS PAP EP
CONTESTS
THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL Editor
TED ROGERS Foreman
Entered as second class matter December 20.
1945, at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. y Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas,
by Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
Strength for life
(From Religion in American Life)
|?AR FROM limiting the importance of re-
ligion, our modern scientific advances un-
derscore the need for a more dynamic and
vital religious faith. In the race to conquer
space, we should not lose sight of moral and
spiritual values. For when the count reaches
zero, all we can do is pray.
Certainly the U. S. needs the best possible
sysem of military defense. But our real se-
curity is based on the spiritual strength of
the American people. Fundamentally, we grow
stronger as we come to depend more upon
God's help for the courage and patience to
live through these testing times.
That is why we cannot entrust the safety of
our future solely to our growing military es-
tablishment. Our future is in God's hands,
and we must look to Him in rayerful humility
for the disciplined strength of character and
spirit needed to win through to a world of
peace and justice.
We are living in a truly remarkable age.
Now that satellites are commonplace and the
energy of the atom is being used increasingly
for peaceful purposes, we can look forward
hopefully to even greater scientific revela-
tions and achievements.
These will be further evidences not only of
what man can achieve, but also of the mar-
velous universe God has created. As the uni-
verse yields its secrets, new and immense di-
mensions will be added to man's knowledge
of God's creation.
That is why the national Religion in Amer-
lean Life Program calls upon all Americans to
worship regularly in the House of God. In ac-
knowledging that all final power over this
world remains in God's hands, it is possible to
"Find the strength for your life."
. just respect
ably speaks for many of his fellow justices as
well.
Part of his letter follows:
"Having been your Justice of the Peace for
one year, January 8, 1959 to January 8, 1960, I
feel a debt of gratitude to the people who
elected me. And to you who voted for my good
friend Sam Lewis, my hope is that I have
been better than you expected.
"During this 12 months I have had people
in my office from Canada to the Gulf of Mex-
ico, from New York to California — editors,
lawyers, judges, doctors, ministers, priests, na-
vy and army officers, and one policeman —
people who rank high above me in this edu-
cated world. And as perhaps you know, class
can make you feel very small, and I certainly
have felt my smallness, as these people have
come before me.
"I have taken abuse from some of these
people, and in most cases have suffered in
silence, knowing that it is almost impossible
to reap happiness from a citation, but when
someone gets insulting, I have something like
this to say:
"You have told me the state police were nice
to you, and I am treating you with all the
respect that I know how. You have pled guilty
to violating one of our state laws. You are
angry at the state police, the State of New
Mexico, and me, when you are the only one
who could have avoided this citation."
Then I have this to say to him: "The State
of New Mexico has vested in me quite a lot of
authority, but I am conscious of the fact that
this authority wasn't given me to abuse those
who came before me, but rather think it was
given me to keep you from abusing me, and
unless you cool down, I'm fixing to use it."
This usually gets a "your honor" out of him,
but you dont have to honor me. Respect is all
I am asking.
Carr's rolling
ANE MAN who apparently hasn't been sway-
ed by the game of "musical chairs" going
on recently in Austin is former House Speaker
Waggoner Carr, whose hat is in the ring for
the office of Attorney General of Texas.
Carr got into the race when it seemed cer-
tain that Attorney General Will Wilson had
set his sights on the Governor's chair.
Wilson, however, did a hurried about-face
when Price Daniel announced that he would
be a candidate for a third term as governor;
and felt duty's call to remain in the Attorney
General's office.
At any rate, he's offering In . . . and the
concensus among downstate observers seems
to be that he's a shoo-in for the office and has
left Waggoner out on a political limb.
West Texan Carr, however, is showing no
signs of retreating to the safety of his House
seat, where he could probably win re-election
without much difficulty, and apparently means
to make a race of it for the Attorney General's
office.
Power to him . . . we wish him all the suc-
cess in the world.
There may be, as the downstate daily news-
papers report, a big public demand for Wil-
son's return to office for another term, but
we'll be hanged if we can understand what
prompts it. Not his record in office, certainly.
Waggoner Carr has showed a lot of execu-
itve ability as Speaker of Texas' House of Rep-
resentatives, and anybody who can ride herd
on that bunch of mavericks ought to be able
to corral a respectable number of voters over
the state.
4<k*
For years . . . since we first visited Lake Marvin a down
years ago, as a matter of fact . . . we've been curious about
the white rock outcropping which forms a prominent landmark
about a mile to the southeast of the lake, and have always
been "going to" hike to the spat and inspect it. Somehow
we've never got around to it.
On a bright sunshiny afternoon a couple or three weeks ago,
however, Nancy and the kids, on a sightseeing drive around
the lake, put the impulse into action and actually did hike
across to the white rock and climbed to the top for a look
around.
To their surprise, they found that it is not a rock at all, but
a soft clay-like substance which is chock-full of tiny sea shells
. . . and they brought home a double-handful of shells to
prove it.
Now we're more curious than ever, and determined to hike
out for a personal look-see if the week-end weather ever mod-
erates enough to make hiking inviting again.
♦ * ♦ *
Matter of fact, we've already recruited a companion for this
expedition. Biologist A. S. Jackson of the Game Department
was the first person we turned to for information about the
outcrop, he being our ambulatory encyclopedia of the out-of-
doors . . . but Jack pleads ignorance. Like the writer, he says
"I've been noticing the outcrop for years, and have always
meant to go over and look at it but never have got around
to doing it."
After we passed on our second-hand description, however,
and re-stated our resolution to hike over that way on the first
warm week-end day, Jack promptly said "call me and I'll go
with you." Anybody else like to go along?
This would be a fine reducing exercise for all of you char*
acters who are fat and forty-ish . . . and good exercise fee
those of us who are just forty-ish without being fat. A lot of
us desk-jockeys could profit from a little more first-hand ac-
quaintance with this land we live in.
Besides, this may be the finest chance any of us will ever
have to bask on a bit of primeval beach without resorting to
either the science-fictionist's time machine or the archaeolog-
st's shovel. Presence of the tiny sea fossils in the formation
may indicate that this outcrop is a bit of ocean bed from the
Pleistocene epoch, which was a long time ago.
On the other hand, it might simply indicate that ifs a some-
what less ancient garbage dump used by a band of migratory
Indians with a taste for snails ... but the lee Age theory is
more romantic, and more likely.
Down at Quanah a few weeks ago, a Humble Oil company
geologist found a stack of whale bones in the Pease River
breaks . . . further proof of a geological theory that the Pan-
andle was once an ocean bed . . . and if this winter moisture
keeps coming at the rate of the past thirty days, we may be
wet enough around here to float whales again.
If the "white rock" east of Lake Marvin really is a relic of
the last lee Age, it must have felt fust like old time* last
week-end.
We were surprised . . . and disappointed ... the other day
to learn that, since the advent of, the dial telephone system.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company operators no longer
tell us the correct time.
Anyhow the operator, when asked for the time, informed us
tersely that "we do not give time service."
Surely a company like Southwestern Bell, which spends a
lot of time and money and energy developing and maintaining
good public relations, is overlooking a good thing in this
How about this. Joe McDonald? Couldn't the operator on
duty give local subscriben the time of day en request?
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1960, newspaper, January 21, 1960; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183988/m1/2/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.