The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1967 Page: 2 of 8
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THE HOWE ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1967
THE HOWE ENTERPRISE
Bob Walker, Editor
Published each Thursday at 108 Haning Street by
GRAYSON PUBLISHING COMPANY
Howe, Texas 75059 — Mailing Address, Box 488
Second Class Postage Paid at Howe, Texas 75059
Letters to the Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Grayson County — $2.00 Per Year Other Areas — $6.50
AND THE TREND CONTINUES
The rapid growth of the federal government in the past decade
continues at an accelerating pace and represents a condition of
deep importance to every person making the United States has
home Many people fear that if the present trend continues his-
torians of the future will record that the people of the United
States and their elected representatives gradually lost the power
to control their government, and as the bureaucracy expanded,
the people also lost their freedom. But, no one can predict what
the reaction of some 200 million people will be to developments
now taking shape. Up to this point, evidence suggests one of
three things—either the people have not been paying too much
attention, they are confused by events, or they approve of the
trend.
Ten years ago, when President Eisenhower proposed his 1958
administrative budget of $71.8 billion, the public reaction was
definite. Irate taxpayers demanded reductions in the budget in
a flood of letters to congressmen. The officials of government,
including the President, and the Secretary of the Treasury con-
demned the upward trend of federal spending and joined in
calling for substantial cuts. When Congress adjourned that year,
it had succeeded in cutting the proposed budget by almost $5
billion. Since 1960, the population of the United States has grown
by 10 percent, but the civilian bureaucracy of the government
has increased by 25 per cent and administration requests for
$144 billion of new spending authority in fiscal 1968 have hardly
caused a ripple of public concern.
Some of the facts of growth in the federal establishment
speak for themselves. First of all, the national debt presently
carries a $14 billion annual interest oharge—10 cents out of
every tax dollar. A $300 billion budget is in prospect for 1980
New government welfare programs multiply, increasing from
239 in 1966 to about 450 in 1968. A great many of these have
been started on a shoestring with unlimited potential for in-
creased spending requirements. Forty-two million people now
receive regular checks from the federal government, and this
number is destined to grow every year. Since last year, spending
authority in the fields of health, labor aqd welfare has risen
nearly 28 per cent. The Secretary of the Treasury has requested
a $29 billion increase in the national debt ceiling. In the past,
the debt ceiling has been raised on a “temporary’’basis Tkis
fiction is being dropped in the current request for a “permanent
debt ceiling of $365 billion—up from the “permanent” ceiling
now set at $285 billion.
One of the fundamental myths arising out of the depression
years that any problem can be solved by spending enough fed-
eral money seems still to be with us. Prolonged prosperity, with
little painful inflation until recently has unquestionably dulled
public appraisal. Various levels of government now purchase 30
per cent of the goods and services produced in the nation and
xhe penalties of centralization are beginning to show up in the
form of red tape, waste and duplication.
Some see a stirring concern at the grassroots level and a-
mong intellectuals and administrators in government itself. There
is evidence of a growing recognition that many problems to be
solved or dealt with most effectively, must be handled at the
state and local level. There is much to suggest that the Ameri-
can political system may be entering a decisive period when the
ability of central government to handle an ever-increasing share
of the peoples’ affairs and- responsibilities in a country as large
and diverse as this is to be questioned. In all this, it should
not be forgotten that Congress possesses the power to control
money appropriations which determine the size of government—
and, in the final analysis, the people still control the Congress.
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Denison, Texas
In the days of the horse and
buggy and model T the only as-
sured way of the county raising
money for right of way pur-
chase was to levy a tax on the
land holder as he was consid-
ered the only one able to pay it.
Those men who drew that reso-
lution up were brilliant men of
their time and could not, and
did not, try to lay down a rigid
yardstick to be used forever.
In my letter to editors of the
newspapers of Grayson County
June 8, 1967, I pointed out the
need of a new resolution that
would let the county purchase
right of way on a cash basis
instead of a costly bond.
I challenge the expression by
W. E. Wilcox of Denison that
was carried on the front page
of the Denison Herald June 21
who was co-chairman of the
county wide committee that
backed the project. He describ-
ed the attitude reflected by the
election as “short sighted” The
people who voted against the
bond issue were not short sight-
ed among there many valid rea-
sons they were tired of a min-
ority group being obligated to
pay the cost of the right of way
bond for the benefit of the ma-
jority.
If short sightedness was dis-
played anywhere it was by the
county wide committee that
backed the project by calling
for the third election within six
months on the same issue after
two successive defeats.
I further challenge the co-
chairman and his co-workers to
work with the county officials
to draft a new resolution that
wlil assure that all vehicles reg-
istered in Grayson County shall
pay their share of all right of
way cost as set forth in my
letter to the editors of all news-
papers in Grayson County the
8th day of June, 1967. I will
supply you with a copy of said
letter on request. Since this bill
must be approved by the state
legislature it is possible that
a number of countys will have
to work together to assure its
passage.
Since the past election cover-
ed all proposed right of way
purchases in the county that
there be no more right of way
elections held until a more eq-
ual and just law is past.
V. W. Taylor
Route 1, Box 453
Denison, Texas 75020
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Gee are vacationing this week
in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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visited their son and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Bearden in
Garland Sunday. Monday visi-
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and Mrs. A. W. Bearden from
Houston.
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Walker, Bob. The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1967, newspaper, June 29, 1967; Howe, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth840058/m1/2/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .