The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1980 Page: 2 of 48
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Sis ¿anadian RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER 1980
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Political choices
POUTICAL CHOICES are not always pala-
table. American voters, under our dominant
two-party system, are often confronted with a
choice between two candidates, neither of whom is
wholly acceptable, so the final choice frequently
boils down to the lesser of two undesirables.
Still, it is a choice which needs to be
made...positively, not negatively...by every citi-
zen. Failure to make the choicc is an evasion of
responsibility unworthy of citizenship.
On that basis, we expect to make some hard
choices next Tuesday among candidates for some
of our public offices, simply on the basis that the
alternative choice would be so much worse.
Top of the list, of course, will be the Presidency,
and we will vote for President Carter for
re-election, not out of any overwhelming enthus-
iasm for his record in the past four years (a record
which has been more lackluster than lacking) but
from a gut feeling that a Republican Presidency
under Ronald Reagan could become a national.
and international, disaster.
Experiences with Republican Party presidencies
within personal memory (Hoover's in the 192830
era. Eisenhower's in the 1950's. and Nixon's in
l%8-75) have not left us with a feeling of much
warmth for that party, its principals or its
principles. But our concern over a Reagan
presidency is less for its potential impact on
domestic policies (no President of whatever
political party is going to have any revolutionary
impact on the entrenched bureaucracy in four
years) than for its potential impact on the volatile
international scene.
Governor Reagan is. we believe, politically
naivc...and especially so in the field of interna-
tional relations. We live in exceedingly hazardous
times. President Carter has maintained a steady
hand, for the most part, in this area, and has surely
learned from experience and gained the confidence
of other world leaders with whom he has conducted
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Something voters should keep in mind, when thev udltiJ
blanket-sized ballot Tveaday, li that if you doa't vote VI
candidate in each race...that ¡a. it you don't put aa
alongside each candidate you want to renter a vote afcj
of...then y ota haven't registered a vote in thai particular race It, J
right... y oar ballot wiD be counted a a \ote lor even tuifa
you've aarked with a positive vote...but no vote wiD be eoutrf J
you in any race in which you haven't nude that choice '
The exception is that you can vote for all the candidates of !
particular political party simply by placing an "X inthesq
alongside the name of the party of your choice at the topofJ
column. That makes it easy, for the voter and for the election «ni I
But if you do that, you ean't switch over and -.ote for any canódasal
whose names are not in that column of part; nominees, even if fal
are some officers for which that party doesn't have a nomas
And probably that means that you can't put a sane afcl
"write-in" column and have it counted. The "straigfet ticta* t«^|
by vstiaig tor a party alate doesn't provide for aay irriten*. I
might be a natter lor the discretion of the eleetioo jadge...ÜKfel
•aya that the Judge should determine beyond reasonable Mtfc|
intent ef the velar and count a ballot that way ...but the urts
to have your ballet counted Just the wsy you want it to be madi I
to mark your "X" in the square beside the name of tbe eaatittl
you want to vote "lor", and leave the rest alone. That «ay ynn|
■kip al acrooe the ballot if you want to.
The bottom line
Henry Wells in The Wellington Leader
AT A RECENT Collingsworth county farm
organizational meeting resolutions were
passed opposing the education of illegal alien
children. In Brownville a suit was filed this month
to halt the education of alien children until the
funding burden on the local school can be
straightened out. In Hereford the recent onion
strike has brought attention to the activities of
the Texas Rural Legal Aid group. In Castro
County TRLA forced a redistricting so that
Spanish surname citizens would be in a majority
in one precinct.
All of these events are in response to the
economic imperative of cheap farm labor. The
labor that happens to be cheap at the moment is
that of migrant Mexican-American farm workers
who are U.S. citizens and that of Mexican citizens
who have crossed the border illegally.
The reason that there is an incentive for these
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RECORD
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BEN f'/znl Editor
NANCY EZZE1X Editor
TDIA MOORE Advertising Manager
Entered as second dass matter December 20. I«MS.
at the tat Office at Canadian. Teaas. under the act
of March 3. 1879. Published each Thursday
afternoon at Canadian. Teaas. by Ben I. and Nancy
One year - S8.00 in Hemphill tad
counties. Elsewhere - SI0.00 per your.
people to come and work in the fields of West
Texas is that there is work to be had. U is hard
work at low pay — work hat most Americans do
not want or need.
The economic fact underlying low pay is low
commodity prices.
And the reason commodity prices are low is
that the federal government's policies have
encouraged high production and low prices.
There is little doubt that the majority of
growers would prefer to pay high wages and lush
benefits to the people that work for them. They
would have a happy, stable work force and they
wouldn't have to worrv about labor problems.
And there's no doubt that people could be found
to take jobs on those conditions.
The problem occurs at the marketplace. If al)
agricultural producers are forced to pay high
wages, then the price for their commodities will
rise because they must make more money to
continue to produce their crops. But higher priced
commodities would be undersold by foreign
competition, competition which the U.S.
government encourages through its trade
policies.
And here is the heart of the problem. The
federal government wants food produced cheaply.
It also wants high wages and good working
conditions for farm workers.
These conditions have conspired to pit farmers
against laborers when they should be working
together for higher farm commodity prices. And
they have resulted in a clash of cultures along the
border states.
The bottom line is that cheap food and cheap
labor go together and you can t have one without
the other. We can have high-priced food and
high-priced labor, just as we have high-priced
United Auto Workers labor and highpriced
automobiles, or we can have the system we now
have. But it is impossible to have it both ways.
The agriculture and immigration labor and trade
authorities in Washington should get their heads
together and decide what is really in the longterm
interest of the nation.
There are three "straight party" columns on the generaleitea
ballot...Republican. Democratic, and Libertarian. The liberta
slate has candidates only for President and. surpnaflfir, k
Railroad Commissioner (Unexpired Term . The Republican slittta
candidates for top national and state offices, President. Coogrmi
couple of Railroad Commission places and two State Suprws
Court places, plus State Senator and State legislature ...and*
local level, a couple of County Commissioner Precinct nominees.ft
Democratic party, as usual, has candidates for every office ...ike é, |
complete slate.
There are two other column on the ballot.-an
in which yen can cast a ballot for John Aadenokl
* if yen wiah; and a "Write-In" column ia wkkbyn*l
it lor anybody you chooee (Art Halliburton for Sd'
the only snuaunrni write-in candidato). He re going u
mmplr el the general elcctian ballet in thin i#«ue ia "Pj
deuring aeaae i en ferien before you get into the pott* P* |
Practice eaarhJag en it if that wiD help.
Absentee voting, by the way. ends tomorrow ^ou car. «¿*1
absentee by going to the County Clerk's office- at the to |
before the 5 p.m. closing time.
General ferecanta In advance ef the eleetioo are
deuda, and coal, with about a 90 percent chance of votiag. '"I
shame, but 90 percent haa been par lor the counie ia ekrt* I
recent years. A 50 pereut turn-out ef voters would be eartHmjl
and 75 to 80 percent would register s ten oo the Rirbter
nufflbtf M
Here in Hemphill County we have the largest nun*
registered voters in history...almost 2500. If *«• a
turn-out well break all records. If we get much more t I
County Oerk Jerry Vandiver will have to crank up 1 ' 1
machines and start cranking out more paper ballot «...only 1- |
ordered from the printers!
Mke to aee the County's Xero* nuchiae
- to meet the demand for baDoU. b* I
I aa Jerry Vandiver. and well
We'd
well be aa
mightly plenaed.
•OST OF US don't do any deep thinking
• we find ourselves in a hole.
until
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1980, newspaper, October 30, 1980; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184194/m1/2/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.