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THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1960
not leave Japan...flat?
WE'VE never been able to understand the
" military necessity . . . if it actually éxists
... of maintaining U. S. military bases in
Japan at great cost in Ú. S. dollars and con-
stant strain on U. S. diplomacy when there are
friendly islands in the Far East which wóuld
welcome these military establishments and
the Americans who go along with them.
The U. S. military establishments in Japan
are pouring U. S. dollars in vast numbers into
the economy of a country which, only a few
years ago, was our bitter enemy . . . and, only
a few days ago, gave considerable evidence of
still being our bitter enemy.
If ever a nation has furnished international
proof of its innate treachery, it is Japan.
And yet our great military bases in south-
east Asia are in the Japanese islands, where
they must certainly will be useless if ever the
Japanese turn on their American allies . . .
and who dares to trust our national security
to the loyalty of the Jap?
The Phllipine Islands, a short plane flight
to the south, are as strategically located, in
reference to Southeast Asia, as Japan . . . and
have the further advantage of being populated
with people who have a genuine liking for
Americans and a loyalty to America which
they have proved under the greatest stress.
Filipinos, struggling to establish themselves
as an independent nation, would welcome the
economic shot-in-the-arm which comes with
the maintenance of American military bases.
If we must spend billions for defense in the
Far East . . . and we do not question the
need . . . then why can't we spend it among
friends?
The Japs raise the cry "Yankee go home"
. . . and we thing that's exactly what we
should do . . . taking our economic aid with
us.. And if our little brown brothers fall victim
to the Big Red Communists, then it's a fate
they richly deserve, and the free world will
be as well off without them.
The big '60 election issue
(From the Mundoy Times)
BETWEEN now and November the candidates
for the presidency and lesser offices will
argue many an issue. Some of the arguments
will be forthright, some will amount to fence-
straddling.
But, as the Wall Street Journal points out in
EWSPAPiS
THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL .... Editor of Woman's Pages
TED ROGERS Foreman
Entered as second class matter December 20.
m, 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.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Hemphill and Adjoining Counties:
One Year $3.50
Elsewhere $4.50 per Year
Night crawlers
PEOPLE who frequent cabarets and night
clubs got a pleasant surprise recently . . .
Congress passed a law cutting the 20 per cent
tax on night club entertainment to 10 per cent.
But those who prefer driving to the great
out-of-doors for recreation got a different sort
of surprise ... a boost in the Federal tax on
gasoline that kited the rate to 4 cents per gal-
lon. Now the combined state and Federal taxés
on a gallon of gasoline average, nationally,
about 50 per cent of the retail price of the
fuel itself.
Of course, the increase in the gasoliné tax
was labeled "temporary" which simply means
that it has been added to all the other "tem-
porary" taxes that have achieved permanence.
Reducing the entertainment tax by half, of
course, may prove that taxes actually can be
removed ... Or it may just prove that lets of
Congressmen patronize night clubs;
an editorial, there is one over-riding issue
that, about all, should be dealt with squarely.
In the paper's words, "It is nothing less than
the question of the future of the government.
"The argument, it seems to us, must be met
head-on; the American people deserve at least
that much. Are we to surrender to the Com-
munists by in effect imitating them? Or are
we to disprove their hideous philosophy by
making this the freest possible of societies?
That is the great political issue, and it would
be a healthy thing if it became the focus of
this campaign. The American people must
face it sooner or later. The sooner it is got out
in the open, stripped of subterfuge and double-
talk, the better for the American future."
The American people are constantly told
that a way to combat the Communist menace
Is to turn over more and more power, to say
nothing of more and more of their wealth, to
a super-state. If the people allow that to hap-
pen, there will be small need for combatting
Communism—for we will simply adopt a Com-
munism of our own, no matter what label is
given it.
Federal fallacy
(From the Industrial News Review)
■THE FALLACY of federal aid was forcefully
pointed out the other day in a speech
made by Charles R. Sligh jr., executive vice
president of the National Association of Manu-
facturers.
A recent book which describes the lives of
the Eskimos tells about the way they deal
with wolf packs. The story goes that the Eski
mos embed razor-sharp knives clasp down in
the ice, and rub the blades with a little seal
blood. The wolves are attracted by the blood,
and lick the knives, cutting their tongues.
They are delighted by the seemingly inex-
haustible supply of nourishing blood they can
lick off the knives, and stand there licking
until they drop in their tracks from the loss of
blood, and freeze to death in the snow.
This is a clever trick, but we are in no po-
sition to jeer at the stupidity of the wolves.
We Americans have been falling for a similar
trick for a good many years now and it looks
like we are to continue.
Federal support, given from the federal
treasury, is a myth. There is nothing in the
federal treasury except what we put in there.
This treasury uses our taxes, our blood, and
we cannot be nourished by it any more than
those wolves can thrive on their own Mood.
If you've got the impression that the editor of this news-
paper is anti-Japanese, then you're absolutely right We cheer-
fully admit to a strong bias against the Nips and all they
represent.
Our feeling about the Japanese evolved over a period of sev-
eral years . . . preceding, during, and after the "late unpleas-
antness" in which "the little brown brothers" had a hand . . .
and was solidified during a couple of years of first-hand ob-
servation of their mores and manners climaxed by some per-
sonal contacts with the victims of their prisoner-of-war com-
pounds.
We never bought that guff about "it wasn't the Japanese
people ... It was their leaders" ... or that other bit of apol
ogia, "the Japanese are a gentle and courteous people and not
responsible for the savagery of their soldiery."
The Japanese leaders, and the Japanese soldiers, were a
product of the Japanese people and the Japanese civilization
. . . just as the German leaders and the German soldiery were
a product of theirs . . . and neither can escape the ultimate
responsibility.
Nothing that has happened in the 15-year interim since the
end of the war has tended to change our views . . . and we've
got an uncomfortable feeling that we're on a slow-moving
merry-go-round watching some old familiar scenery moving
by. The faces are different, but the background is the same.
♦ * *
Let's change the subject for something more cheerful. Vaca-
tions, for example.
If you're planning to travel, you'll be interested to know
that the Canadian Chamber of Commerce office now has new
up-to-the-minute official state highway maps from forty-one
of the fifty states . . . and not so-new but just-as-official ones
from three others.
Conspicuously missing from the list are the newest additions
to the roll call of states . . . Hawaii and Alaska. Hawaii is a
little short on highway travel and road maps probably won't
be much in demand, but Alaska highway officials advise that
they have official highway maps now in preparation and will
send a supply as soon as they are ready,
Nebraska has also promised a supply of new maps as soon
as they're off the press. New York and California do not pub-
lish official state maps; and so far, no up-to-date copies of
Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina and West Virginia
maps have been received (those on hand are all of 1955 vint-
age).
But if you're going anywhere else in the U.S.A. and want the
latest information about state highways and by-ways, you can
get official highway maps of the states you want to visit from
the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. C-C Manager John Wilk-
inson says the maps are free . . . and you're welcome.
* * * ♦
A few weeks ago, we mentioned "horned frogs" in this col-
umn . . . and promptly performed the old hoof-and-mouth
trick by commenting, knowingly, that they "are really toads."
That bit of intelligence was no sooner in print than the two
juvenile naturalists who function as printers devils at The
Record office . . . Philip Rogers and Ben jr. ... advanced
simultaneously on the editorial sanctum to inform us. deris-
ively. that they're not either frogs or toads . . . but lizards!
These young wise men wouldn't know, of course, but those
of us who can remember the heyday of Sammy Baugh and
Davey O'Brien could tell them the real low-down . . . that
Horned Fogs are neither frogs nor toads nor lizards, but foot-
ball players!
inklings
'HOSE who complain about the way the ball
bounces are often the ones who dropped It.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1960, newspaper, June 23, 1960; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184010/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.