The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1960 Page: 2 of 16
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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1960
from various viewpoints
Liberty is never free
Eternal vigilance is price
(From The Daily Oklahoman)
pTERNAL vigilance often is called the price
"* of liberty.
On the other hand eteranl diligence is the
olitical price of getting elected.
Incumbent politicians therefore are eternal-
ly diligent in matters affecting their re-elec-
tion. But the people are politically vigilant
only when thoroughly aroused. Unfortunately
that isn't often.
The people were aroused by the McClellan
senate rackets committee's disclosures last
year. In consequence they poured enough in-
dignant mail into Washington to persuade an
obviously reluctant congress to enact what
everybody thought was going to be a reason-
ably effective labor reform bill.
Certainly the labor bosses gave every indi-
cation of thinking it was effective.
Not long after congress passed the Landrum-
Griffin bill Sen. John Kennedy addressed a
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CONTESTS
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.
at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas,
üñder the Act of March 3, 1879. Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas,
by Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
False front too?
(From the State Line Tribune)
MOW that government investigators have
found bribery in labor unions, rigging in
the quiz shows, payola in the recording in-
dustry and the spiffs in the retail sales busi-
ness, the steam roller against false fronts is
really crushing along at a momentous pace.
Last month the Federal Trade Commission
jumped down the throat of a candy manufac-
turer. Why? Simply because this particular
business was marketing its candy bar in the
same size wrapping as its competitive confec-
tioner but was. in fact, using a smaller candy
bar than was the competing company. Unfair!
cried the FTC, you are trying to deceive the
public.
This business regulation kick that the gov-
ernment is off on is getting to be ridiculous.
Anyone who doesn't have enough education
to realize that the size of the candy bar is
getting smaller while the wrapper remains the
same, deserves to be took.
Don't be surprised if the next thing that the
federal watchdogs do is to put a string of
eligible lasses on the stand and cite them for
wearing girdles, lipstick and falsies. The but
reaucrats might well say, "The parties in
question sought to deceive the consumers"
San Francisco convention of the AFL • CIO
Building and Construction Trades Department.
He said it was apparent that advances would-
n't be made in "progressive social legislation
unless those who are sympathetic with the as-
pirations of the working people of this coun-
try .. . are placed in greater numbers in both
the house and senate and at 1600 Pennsylvania
avenue."
Sen. Kennedy aspires to live at 1600 Penn-
sylvania avenue. That's the address of the
White House. He accordingly is proposing
some changes in the Landrum-Griffin act that
certainly appear sympathetic with the aspira-
tions of the labor bosses if not the working
people.
Teamster Boss Hoffa's most effective weapon
has been the secondary boycott, including par-
ticularly the notorious "hot cargo" clause in
labor contracts. With certain exceptions Lan-
drum-Griffin outlaws "hot cargo" clauses
whereunder employers agree in advance not
to do business with "unfair" or struck firms.
With tho support of eight house members.
Sen. Kennedy has introduced legislation to
permit, boycotts which are limited in their ef-
fects to employers at the site of picketing.
Such boycotts if sanctioned could apparently
stop all business operations of any employer
at whose premises a construction, alteration
or repair project was in progress. A manufac-
turer with a remodeling job afoot could suffer
paralysis of his whole business as a result of
"on site" picketing ostensibly aimed at a pri-
mary construction contractor.
The precedent thus set would extend almost
inevitably to every other labor union seeking
similar immunity from the secondary boycott
provisions of the Landrum-Griffin act.
Mother's work is never done and neither is
that of the voters if they hope to keep their
hard won reform laws from coming unglued
in advance of every new election.
Common problem
pOMMUNITY problems, we suspect, are pretty
much the same . . . whether the commun-
ity is a village or a city. The following editor-
ial was written by Editor Walter Humphrey
of the Fort Worth Press, and published in that
newspaper:
"Our interest in this community is the com-
munity only. We have no other masters to
serve. We are in no other business but tho
public service.
"Nobody desires moro to s'-r thh city grow
and prosper and bfecomr truly great. We share
that ideal with all good citizens, for it is no
copyrighted ideal.
"We cannot always serve as a prod or a
cheering section; sometimes we must serve as
a brake. Often we must raise a red flag of
warning.
"Whichever way it goes, we have no selfish
purpose to serve.
"People cuss the newspaper just as they do
the council and the city manager. Or they
praise us, if we are lucky.
"Those on the public scene are not in a
popularity contest. They should not expect to
be, for public scrvice is hard and demanding
and often seems to have no reward at all.
"We share a common purpose: the prosper-
ity of our city and its development in a way
that will make it a good city for our home and
our business.
"Yet we will differ many ways and many
times in the direction It must take. That is
healthy and right. Good citizenship can be
properly lined up on both sides of an issue."
"No matter what the weatherman sends us from now on."
writes Editor Gillentine, "we vdll be able to grin and take it
after Tuesday. Truly it was like old times. When an old Pan*
handle boy gets sand between his teeth and Vitamin X cours-
ing through his veins, he can face almost anything!"
Easter ... a tiny rural community in Castro county . . .
over on the west side of the Panhandle . . . has just acquired
a new post office; or, to be more exact, a postal sub-station
under supervision of the Hereford Post Office. The important
thing is that the postmark will read "Easter, Texas" and it
aims to cash in on the same post-mark craze which has made
"Santa Claus, Indiana" a big name in stamp-cancelling circles.
This will be the only "Easter" in the United States.
And Postmaster Herman Paetzold is looking forward to a
big seasonal business. "Although we opened up Just a day
before St. Patrick's Day," he told a Hereford reporter with a
hint of a grin, "we feel that the substation is going to be a
good thing for Easter I"
But if you're thinking that the creation of "Easter" as a
new official postmark is just a publicity gimmick by the Post
Office Department, think again. Ths sub-station is really in
business . . . from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. Mondays through Satur-
days . . . which is a darned sight more service than most post
office patrons are getting. It makes our 9-to-5:30 and half-a-
day-Saturdady service look a little more sparse than usual!
Maybe it's just that the best things come in the smallest
packages. Sometimes that seems to be the way with post of-
fices. The bigger they are, the lousier the mall service gets.
We've had steady complaints, for example, from a couple of
Record subscribers in Dallas about the frequent non-delivery
of their favorite home-town newspaper. Our problem is what
to do about it . . . and it isn't easy. We have several sub-
scribers in Dallas, and all of these papers are mailed each
Thursday afternoon in a single bundle addressed to the Dallas
post office. Since some of them are being delivered in Dallas,
we know that all of them must be getting there. We suspect
that some Dallas mail carrier may be getting tired of his
week end load and dumping part of it in the nearest culvert
occasionally . . . but we can't go to Dallas every week-end
and trail these weary public servants, so all we can do is ask
the Dallas Postmaster to look into it. Which is about as far as
we ever get.
Same thing happens in Amarillo . . . where our newspapers
are also delivered in a special "tie." When our papers are un-
deliverable for any reason . . . because of incorrect or illegible
addresses, etc. . . . the postal department returns them to us
with a 5-cent "postage-due" notice and we have to pay up.
But we've never had papers returned from these Amarillo and
Dallas addresses, so apparently something else is happening
to them.
So ... to Mrs. H. W. Acreman and Miss Christine Stone in
Dallas, and to the Kenneth Rowleys in Amarillo, and to others
with occasional similar complaints ... all we can say is
"we're sorry" and to assure you that we're mailing your news-
papers every Thursday afternoon, with postage pre-paid, and
if they're not being delivered in a reasonable time, or at all,
we hope you'll take this note to your local postmaster and rub
his nose in it.
We see by the papers that Postmaster General Summerfisld
is honestly concerned about the vanishing purchasing power of
the nickel . . . and wants to raise first-class postal rates to
5-cents so there'll be something for the nickel to buyl
Fashion note on these changing times: Southern Pacific
railroad detectives traced a long extension cord Into an idle
boxcar and found a hobo innocently sleeping under an electric
blanket!
* * * *
At least one Panhandle editor has something good to say
about sandstorms after this somewhat soggy winter. Jim Gil-
letine of The Hereford Brand greeted the blowing sand of a
week or so ago with a cheerful earful reminiscent of Old
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1960, newspaper, March 24, 1960; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183997/m1/2/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.