The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1960 Page: 2 of 16
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THURSDAY, MARCH it I960
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Personal freedom is first!
CONGRESSMAN Walter Rogers, in his weekly
"newsletter" irom Washington, explains
his opposition to the current "Civil Rights"
legislation at considerable length and with
some heat but precious little light.
Congressman Rogers detects a vast but vague
plot to overthrow democracy and declares that
"if the So-called civil rights bills had been
limited to the voting right question, there
would have been no filibuster in the Senate
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL ... Editor
TED ROGERS _ Foreman
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Hemphill and Adjoining Counties:
One Year $3.50
Elsewhere $4.50 per Year
Entered as second class matter December 20.
1945, at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas,
by Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
and no long delay in the committees in the
House."
And Senator Lyndon Johnson, who has been
giving a remarkable balancing performance
on the Senate high wire during the Civil
Rights debates, has come out flat-footedly as
favoring "voting rights for all citizens" but
plants the other foot just as firmly on the
other side of the fence in announcing his op-
position to giving the U. S. Attorney General
legal power to take court action against civil
rights violations.
Senator Johnson, in other words . . . like
Congressman Rogers ... is willing to pay lip
service to the principle that all citizens are
entitled to vote on an equal basis . . . but un-
willing to provide for any effective enforce-
ment of the principle when voting rights are
violated.
Like many of their Southern colleagues in
Senate and House, they rise in righteous wrath
to defend "states rights" against encroaching
power of the federal government . . . which is
all very well. We too believe that "states'
rights" are paramount to the rights of the fed-
eral government, except where specifically
delegated to the federal government by the
Constitution.
But we believe that individual rights, as
guaranteed by the Constitution, are paramount
to either . . . and when states' rights are ex-
ercised to abridge the constitutional rights of
individuals (as they have been in the case of
voting franchises in many southern states)
then the federal government has not only the
right but the obligation to step in and uphold
the Constitution of the United States, even
.when it means overriding the acts of indi-
vidual states.
Debate... or debacle ?
ffNITED States Senators like to think of the
Senate as a dignified forum where deep
thought can be given . . . with unlimited time
for discussion ... to public issues.
Ostensibly for this reason, Seators tradition-
ally refuse to vote to limit debate . . . thus
making possible the filibuster in which im-
portant legislation can be literally talked to
death by a militantly-opposed minority.
If limitless debate actually was devoted to
the subject at hand, it might be defensible.
But when it is devoted instead to preventing
any discussion of the subject at hand, as in
the case of the filibuster, then it is indefensi-
ble, undignified, and undeniably demagogic
. . . and reveals the Senate as the hot-air
chamber which it too frequently is.
The net result of a filibuster is not unlimited
debate . . . but an unlimited debacle.
Not a sohool job
Teach them (at home) to work
(From the Pittsburgh Gazette)
PROM several speakers of late we've heard
* the recommendation, "Teach your kids to
work." We'd like to add "at home teach . . ."
to this plea.
Many American youngsters are busier now
than their parents ever were in their youth.
They participate in so many activities they
are being criticized for not spendng enough
time on their education.
In our busy type of society more activities
are required to keep the wheels rolling. Wheels
that were set in motion by adult demands in
an adult-ruled way of life . . . not by the
children.
Actually there's nothing wrong with active
minds and the fact that youngsters are kept
busy.
What has been lost in this accelerated
schedule is a sense of values>
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce will survive without
the support of the City of Canadian . . . and apparently it
will have to do so.
And the City of Canadian, perhaps, could survive without
the Canadian Chamber of Commerce . . . although it isn't
likely to be put to the test. The primary purpose of a Chamber
of Commerce organization is the support and improvement of
the community which it represents, and C-C members are go-
ing to keep right on working toward that end whether the or-
ganization has official city support or official city approval
or not.
But both would do better wth mutual support
think it's too bad that it can't be tha way.
and we
Our schedules are based on too much enter-
tainment. Youngsters grow up with the idea
that they need to be entertained in their
leisure hours . . . yet there's no place or time
allotted to work. The word is old-fashioned.
Some still have chores to do and they are
better off because of it. For they are learning
to place a value on work, while hundreds of
others are being uneducated in this field of
endeavor. They won't learn until the respon-
sibilities of adulthood, marriage and such, hit
them squarely in the face and they learn for
the first time that It takes work to produce
dollars to maintain such high standards of
living as they now enjoy.
Hurrah for the dinner table lecturers in
urging American parents to re-discover the
value of work and turn their children back to
it. When they do marriages may last longer.
It is a field of education being neglected in
the home, not the school.
The city's withdrawal of that $120-a-year dues payment to
the Chamber of Commerce isn't going to break the C-C budget
. . . any more than continued payment would break the city's
budget. The money isn't that important.
But to the extent that it reflects opposition on the City Coun-
cil to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and to the pro-
gressive element of the business community which it repre-
sents, we think this act of the council is damaging to the
community.
It is one more indication that we are still "a house divided"
. . . that old rifts are not healed and axe not going to be per-
mitted to heed . . . and* this is hardly the sort of climate which
promotes civic growth and development.
The $120 membership assessment, incidentally, was not and
never has been an assessment against tax money. It is a
membership fee for the city-owned power and light plant . . .
a public utility and one of Canadian's bigge.st businesses . . .
and the same membership fee which many other (and smaller)
Canadian businesses pay annually for the support of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Of course, we are prejudiced in this matter . . . because we
believe firmly that a town without an active Chamber of Com-
merce organization is apt to be a pretty dead burg. Like a
town without an active community newspaper.
We have citizens in Canadian who are just as firm in the
belief that this community can get along very well without
either.
They may be in the majority. We hope not . . . but they
may be. At any rate, the present City Council might, with
considerable logic, take the position that in withdrawing from
the Chamber of Commerce . . . and all that that implies . . .
they are simply carrying out the wishes of the citizens who
were in the majority at the last election. We couldn't argue
very much with that position, if that is the feeling of the
Council. They may be right.
But because we love Canadian, and would like to sec it
grow and prosper, and would like to grow and prosper with it,
we're going to continue to beg and plead for a better feeling
of community solidarity in and out of official circles ... be-
cause we don't think our town can grow and prosper without
it.
This is not. in any sense, an attempt to speak for the mem-
bers or the officers of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. It
is simply the heartfelt expression of opinion o! the publishers
of this newspaper . . . just that and nothing more.
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A New York columnist reorts that a Texas newspaper has
been running a contest on "why I am glad to be a Texan" . . .
in 25,000 words or less.
Which is strictly a New York tall tale, of course.
No Texan is going to waste 25,000 words ... or 25 words . . .
trying to tell anybody "why I am glad to be a Texan." Being
Texans. wo don't have to convince ourselves that we're qlaH
... wo can lust rolan and enjoy it I
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1960, newspaper, March 17, 1960; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183996/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.