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THE ALTO HERALD. ALTO. TEXAS. AL'nrST 2!1. i9.17
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THE ALTO HERALD
TEXAS )[Jp R E S $3) ASSOCtATtON
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Frank L Weimar and Son, Editors and Owners.
A Leader in South Cherokee County Since 1890.
Entered as second c!ass matter in 1896 at the post office in Alto,
Cherokee County, Texas, under the act of Congress of March 3. 1887.
Published every Thursday at Alto. Texas.
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tion ot any person, firm or corporation which may appear in the
columns of the Herald wit) be gladly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the Publishers.
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Obituaries, Cards of Thanks and all like matter that is not news will
be charged for at two cents a word in advance.
ADMINISTRATE GUILTY
The Eisenhower Administration
is guilty of causing an almost
scandalous reduction in GI home-
building. The Veterans Admin-
istration reported recentiythnt
only 151,870 applications for Gl
home loans had been made during
the first six months of 1957.
When viewed in comparison
with the figure for the first six
months of last year, the figure is
a tremendous reduction. In the
first six months of 1956, 254.827
applications were made.
In June of 1957, the number of
applications received for G! home
loans was the lowest for any June
since the end of World War II—
twelve years ago. In testimony be-
fore congressional committees re-
cently, VA spokesmen have ad-
mitted that very little money is
being made avaiiablc for the GI
program.
A Democratic senator has
charged that the Administration's
latest change in interest policies—
raising the interest rate on FHA-
tnsured home mortgages to five
and one-fourth per cent—might
even further reduce the volume of
GI home-building activity.
The record of the present ad-
ministration concerning GI home
loans, is not a good one. Despite
all the excuses nd explanations
a drop such as that experienced in
the last twelve months is not to be
tolerated. Not only doos it seem to
us morally wrong, since the high
interest rates of the Adminis-
tration and its tight money policies
have slowed up housing construct-
ion, but the reduced building
aflect the sales of appliances,
furnishings and other things,
which also affect the general
economy of the nation.
NEW FREIGHT INCREASES
The railroad industry recently
received permission from the In-
terstate Commerce Commission
to increase freight charges again.
His Me thirteenth time since
World War II that the railroads
have been allowed to revise their
freight rates upward.
We realize that the railroads
suffer from some unfair circum-
stances in their competition with
air and highway freight carriers.
On the other hand, railroad pro-
cedure is so fossilized and mum-
mifide, that a streamlining and
efficiency program could reduce
costs of handling freight.
And, in the case of passengers,
ticket procedure and the red tape
involved — in the old railroad
{style — is so complicated and out-
^ dated that we suspect the constant
rate increases are partly necessi-
j tated by decadent procedures, red
! tape and inefficient operating
j methods.
THE TEEN-AGE MURDER
SHOULD LAWYERS
REPRESENT THE
GUILTY
One of the cardinal principles
}<if American law is that a man is;
considered innocent until proven i
guitty by proper legal proceedings. }
Practically everyone pays lip!
-ervice to this ideal, but many fail
o realize that the right to be}
represented by counsel is a logical !
nd essential corollary of that !
theory of justice. There is a good
deal of criticism of attorneys
representing defendants in crimi-
nal cases. Much of this criticism
is unjust.
Should lawyers defend in court
persons whom they know or have
good reason to believe are guilty
of the crimes charged against
them? A few years ago a scientific
sampling of the attitude of the
public in Texas toward lawyers
and law problems showed that
more than half of all persons in-
terviewed thought it was wrong
for a lawyer to defend such a
))erson.
Such an attitude is rather
startling to many thinking citizens
and to members of the Bar. Surely
the guiltiest criminal has a right'
to a fair trial by the law of the
land. Such a trial he cannot have
without a competent attorney to
see that a fair jury is selected and
that only lawful evidence is
introduced against him.
With reference to this feeling
on the part of a sizeable portion
of the public, a certain District
Judge who tries many criminal
cases, and who served eighteen
years as a prosecuting attorney
before his election to the Bench,
once offered the following
comments:
"The results of this survey is no I
surprise to me, in that during my ,
eighteen years of prosecuting, this
feeling has been made known to ^
me by hundreds of persons.
"The feeling on the part of the
general public in this regard is ^
brought about to a great extent by }
the sincere efforts on the part of
the counsel to see that his client
receives the benefit of every legal
safeguard to which he is entitled.
These legal maneuvers are often
misunderstood by the layman as
an unethical effort to defeat
justice, by delay of the trial, and
by taking advantage of certain
defenses that to the layman appear
to be trivial technicalities.
"Attorneys are the only ones
who can correct the erroneous
feeling of the general public
regarding the defence of one who
appears to be guilty as charged.
We attorneys should emphatically
state to the inquiring person that
it is one of the cardinal rights of
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the individual in a democratic ' eggs in Texas.
Three youngsters, one of them
only seventeen years old, were
recently charged by a grand jury
with murdering a Georgia Tech
professor. The irony of the murder
charge is that the professor was
murdered for $15 in a robbery and
beating.
The late Dr. Wiiliam Knox Purs-
ley, 32-years-old, was the victim
of the attack by the three young-
sters. He was a native of Clover,
S. C. and taught optics in Georgia
Tech's department of physics.
He met death after being run
down on foot on the street, robbed
and brutally beaten in the early
hours of the morning. Policc say
three youths held have signed
statements saying they killed Dr.
Pursley.
This crime is an especially
shocking one. One can hardly
imagine the thoughts or motiva-
tions of three young men in com-
imitting such a crime. The murder
i emphasizes the fact that juvenile
delinquency and teen-age crime
is a serious problem in all parts of
the country, and that parents must
accept responsibility for the con-
duct of today's youth.
If such crimes continue, and if
juvenile delinquency continues to
increase, we would be in favor of
dealing with youngsters severely,
if necessary to make those who
may be tempted to commit such
crimes, think twice before they
assume that their lawlessness
might be excused or passed off as
pranks of youngsters.
Moreover, we are in favor of
holding parents responsible for the
conduct of their sons and daugh-
ters until they reach a responsible
age, and of calling them to account
for lawlessness and crime, which
is rapidly on the increase among
the youngsters of the nation.
society to be considered innocent
until his guilt is established beyond
a reasonable doubt by legal and
competent evidence.
"The public must be brought to
the realization that all who are
charged with crimes arc entitled
to the expert oounsel and aid of
an attorney, and that the swom
duty of such attorney is to see that
each protective legal right, to
which the accused is entitled, is
afforded him."
Now and then a lawyer will
overstep the bounds of his duty in
defending those charged with
crime. When that happens, the
legal profession is even more
in d i g n a n t than the public
generally, and appropriate
disciplinary proceedings are
instituted where warranted.
Agriculture Commissioner John
White said application forms for
licenses under the new law were
sent to approximate^' 12.000 re-
tail outicts this week. Lists are in
preparation of about 23.000 other
egg industrymen who must obtain
a license before the Oct. 23 dead-
line.
Retaiiers exempt from a license
upon
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Concord. Calif.—Coming
}minor three-car collision,
Drotsch. 40, swerved his pickup
:;u. . <<ff the pavement, then back
t) The truck sideswiped another
<ar and overturned. Drotsch was
lin^tantiy kitted, but none of the
lothrr drivers was hurt.
fee uniess they sell more than one
case of eggs a week to persons
other than consumers. The fee for
other gradesmen is based on the
number of eggs handled. Egg pro-
ducers who do not claim a grade !
on their eggs will not have to ob-
tain a license.
The law took effect Wednesday.
However, license may be obtained
To protect the life of the Presi-
d< nt and to suppress counterfeiters
arc the two statutory duties of the
U. S Secret Service.
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taxes per year as ourst^,,,
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demand for economy.
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BARK DROMES
Sequel, Cal. — Mr \';r{
Brown left her !8-" r.'i
baby girt. Janice, in 3
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chine. When she r-'urr.:: ]
baby had fallen frm. '..e
and was face-down ;r. :h-
tub. Firemen were una'...:
vive the child.
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Austin.— The State Agricuiture
Department began the job of
licensing an estimated 30.000 pro-
ducers, handlers and sellers of
^ within the next 60 days, and en- I
iforcement of all phases of the p
!new law begins Feb. 18 of next] g
Lvear. White said.
"Veto" comes from the Latin
}meaning"l forbid."
One way to have typhoid fever
is to go on a vacation and drink
water anywhere you find it.
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THE POUO RATE
Despite stories making the
rounds and surprising reports of
polio — even among some who
had received the polio vaccine —
the number of cases of paralytic
infantile paralysis reported in the
United States so far this year is
far less than that in 1956.
In fact, the Public Health
Service figures reveal that through
July, the number of paralytic
polio cases reported in the nation
was less than 800 as against a
2,016 figure for the same period
of 1955.
Thus, there are iess than fifty
per cent of cases of paralytic polio
being reported this year than were
reported in 1956.
Therefore, poiio serum seems
to be doing an excellent job. We
advise those who have hesitated
to take the shots, because of
reports, rumors and early troubles
j with the vaccine, to consider these
.figures.
A HUNTING NOTE
The Interior Department an-
nounced rocentiy that hunting of
most migratory birds wii) be per-
mitted between October 1st, 1957
and January 15. 1958. Individuai
states, of course, set specific dates
within that period.
The states are allowed to open
season on migrant waterfowl and
coots for seventy consecutive full
days. If they choose to spiit the
season, they take a penalty of
seven days and can open hunting
in their states for sixty-three full
days of a splitseason.
Shooting hours are to be one-
half hour before sunrise to sunset
on ali flyways except the Miss-
issippi flyway, where there are
variations by the individual states.
The Interior Department an-
nouncement says that the daiiy
j bag and possession limit on ducks
, wili be five and eight and on geese
jtwo and four. A bag and possession
[limit of ten coots was also an-
nounced by the department.
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