The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1960 Page: 2 of 16
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THURSDAY, NOV. 24, 1960
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LCT US give thanks, this Thanksgiving Day,
for many blessings that are peculiarly
American.
We can be thankful, for example, that the
presidential election is over . . . the shouting
phases of it, at any rate . . . and our national
prestige abroad is no longer getting kicked
around at home. We haven't heard the United
States mentioned as a "second rate nation," as
a matter of fact, since the evening of No«
vember 7.
Nor is our domestic economic condition as
desperate as it was up to and including No-
vember 7. Millions of Americans, undoubtedly,
are still going to bed hungry ... but as Sená-
tor Kennedy has probably discovered by now,
it's because of Metrecal, not starvation.
Foreign aid for Americans
PRESIDENT Elsenhower's order for families
of overseas servicemen to come home to
cut down on the flow of U. S. dollars abroad
is causing a good deal of puzzlement on the
home front, and, we judge from all reports,
considerable outrage among military person-
el abroad.
The reason for the order is simple enough.
We've got more dollars going abroad than
we've got coming in. And U. S. dollars which
get into foreign channels are redeemable in
gold from the U. S. Treasury if they're not re-
deemed in trade from U. S. producers.
Since a large proportion of our dollars
which go abroad are not being used by for-
eign sources to purchase U. S. goods, but in-
CONTEST*
THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill Cotfaty) Texas
BEN EZZELL . Editor
NANCY EZZELL Editor of Woman's Pages
TED ROGERS Foreman
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.
stead are being turned into hard currency to
purchase goods from other countries, the drain
on the gold which backs up the U. S. dollar on
the world market is becoming alarming.
And since dollars are not in inexhaustible
supply . . . contrary to the political opinions
of some U. S. leaders . . . the inevitable result
is going to be the exhaustion of the U. S.
treasury.
U. S. military families abroad are, of course,
paid in U. S. dollars. And, naturally, they
spend most of these dollars where they're liv-
ing. Hence the order to reduce the number of
military families living abroad as a measure
to cut down the outward flow of U. S. dollars.
This we can understand.
We can also understand the effect on the
morale of U. S. military personnel at overseas
bases when they are told they can no longer
have their families with them.
What we can't understand is why the fami-
lies of military personnel arc being made the
scapegoats in this situation.
Surely the flow of dollars through U. S.
military bases abroad is small compared with
the outward flow of U. S. dollars through
other sources . . . such as foreign aid to not-
too-friendly nations.
In view of the obvious costs in terms of
morale of our military people, it seems to us
that this should be one of the last places to
start saving . . . not the first.
The payroll dollars that military families
spend abroad at least purchase something of
value for some Americans. We're not so sure
about some of the foreign aid dollars.
Farm problem is city's, too
■WHS is National Farm-City Week in the U. S.
It began last. Friday, November 18, and
extends through Thanksgiving Day.
There are hundreds of nationally proclaimed
weeks, ranging from the sublime to the ridic-
ulous, and certainly we can live without many
of them.
This one, however, makes more than a little
sense . . J especially In this agriculturally-
Judicial error?
<*OURT of Criminal Appeals refused to re-
^ consider Its 2-to-l decision that former
Insurance Commissioner J. Byron Saunders
could not be convicted for perjury as a result
of testimony before a legislative committee.
But It did not make the opinion final. Travis
County District Attorney Les Proctor Is filing
a second motion for re-hearing in hopes of
keeping the issue alive until after the first of
the year.
At that time one of the members holding in
Saunders' favor, Judge Lloyd Davidson, goes
out of office. If incoming Judge W. T. McDon-
ald took the other side, the scales would be
tilted and Saunders' conviction upheld.
And if he doesn't, the citizens of Texas have
made another terrible mistake in the selection
of its high court justices.
conscious area. It is simply seven days set
aside to promote good will and understanding
between farmers and businessmen ... be-
tween those who produce raw materials and
food from the land, and those who retail
these same items as manufactured or pro-
cessed goods through their stores.
Here, where farmer and retailer rub shoul-
ders in daily trade and live as neighbors and
friends, we should have a closer understand-
ing of mutual problems than those in more
urban areas.
But even here we're inclined, each of us, to
see only our own problems and to overlook or
ignore the problems of the fellow next door,
or the neighbor down the road.
If National Farm-City Week succeeds, in
some measure, in making us aware of the
inter-relation of the problems of agriculture
and business, then it is serving a useful pur-
pose.
We talk a lot about the "Farm Problem"
. . . but there is no farm problem that is not
also a problem of business. And we complain
of government regulation of business prac-
tices . . . but there is no business problem
which does not also concern the farmer and
rancher.
Our problems . . . and our goals and our
hopes for the future . . . are mutual prob-
lems, and mutual hopes and mutual goals
. . . and the purpose of Farm-City Week is to
remind us all of that
Texas is due to get a 2.3rd congressman in 1962. The final
figures from the 1960 census show the state's population to
be up 24.2 per cent, to 9,579,677 . . . making it the sixth most
populous state in the nation. That means an extra seat in the
House of Representatives when Congress convenes in 1962.
And it gives the Texas legislature a brand nsw political
football to kick around ... or a hot potato to fumble, de-
pending on your point of view.
When the state gained an extra congressional seat after the
1960 census, the lawmakers couldn't decide what to do with it.
for four years and so we had a state-wide "flotorial" district
with Martin Dies as Congressman-at-Large. Then Martin got
too hot to handle and the Legislature districted him out of a
job, giving the new seat to populous Houston.
Now Da Mas county is the most populous Congressional dis-
trice, with 614,000 people (the smallest has 227,000) but don't
make any bets that Big D will get the extra Congressional
seat this time. The reason: Dallas now sends Texas' only
Republican to Washington, and a Democratic legislature isn't
likely to give the G.O.P. an opportunity for another seat.
Don't be surprised if the Legislature does a repeat of its
post-1950 performance and fails to agree for a while on loca-
tion of the new Congressional district. If it does, we'll be
voting on another Congressman-at-Large in 1962.
This time, however, he won't be able to lay claim to the na-
tion's biggest Congressional district . . . Alaska, with only
one Congressman, is going to beat him out.
It's a toss up these days as to whether Jack Frost or Santa
Claus will be first to arrive on the autumn scene.
That doesn't mean that the first frost is likely to be delayed
until after Christmas ... it just means that the first Santa
Claus is likely to put in his appearance before Hallowe'en.
We noted at any rate, that Santa Claus was slated to appear
... in person ... at a certain shopping center In Amarillo
last week-end. Probably lie was peddling Thanksgiving tur-
keys.
We suppose it's inevitable, in this fast-paced modern world,
that seasons and holidays are going to overlap. We start
playing football in the baseball season, basketball players
nudge the gridders off the sports pages before they're half
through battling for pigskin championships, and All-American
football teams are picked by "experts" who may never see
their favorites in action and actually pass judgment before
they have a chance to.
But we wish things would slow up enough to let us digest
our Thanksgiving turkey before we have to start lilling San-
ta's sack.
Repeal of Oklahoma's dry laws has posed a new problem
for border counties. From Perryton, Editor Harold Hudson has
a beef about the stateline beer situation. Saye he: "Tine pro-
prietor gets the money, Oklahoma gets the tax, the Texas
Highway Department gets the beer cans, and Perryton gets
the drunks."
inklings
"ANCE a fool and his money were soon part-
cd," observes the Second Street Philos-
opher, "but today Uncle Sam makes no dis-
tinction."
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1960, newspaper, November 24, 1960; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184032/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.