The one great rule We will serve no of composition is to • t group or party but speak the truth. ,fi 6v will hew hard to the —TiroREAu truth as we find it 4)#.• and the right as we .4■2;S> G'c, o Trurr see it. ff` hidepoident-/;' - C3, • $, Vol. 50 TEXAS, 0. A% 10c per copy No. 38 Strange Doin's A Juperintendent Exults BURNET anything political. I just don't get A s c h o o 1 superintendent Defends Program the connection. I don't guess I In a Water Unit who is taking an active part know politics well enough to get in the public school projects On Freedom specific points like that." of the busines s-financed Gift to a Colonel, Phone in a Car, Early Sale Asked to comment on Wells's Texas Bureau of Economic Protector, not a Provider. Please prediction that "Russia is warm- Of One-Fifth of Water to Lone Star Steel Co. Understanding (Obs. Nov. let every Burnet teacher redouble ing us up for the kill but not un- 28) said this week, "If we DAINGERFIELD, The 19,000 residents of the seven his efforts in teaching American til we are softened up by left- continue our socialistic move- Heritage in every class and grade wing commentators, left-wing edi- HUGHES SPRINGS, towns have an assessed valuation ments, we'll just become LONE STAR of $11 million, roughly a third of throughout the system." torial writers, left-wing teachers, more like Russia. The people and left-wing union leaders," Strange doin's in the actual values. One of the towns are afraid of strong central- Northeast Texas Water Dis- is Lone Star, home of the Lone `Misunderstood' Petty said he thought Dr. Wells ized power and government was right, "but I guess it all de- trict have set some of the pine Star Steel Co., but the company's The Observer asked Petty -if by in competition with busi- pends on how you define left- country folk in these parts to extensive properties are not in- first .quoting the criticism of anti- ness." wing." Petty said the study pro- wondering. cluded as part of the town. Negro, anti-Semitic remarks and gram was "not interested in the Marvin Watson, president of This means that Lone Star In an interview with the Ob- then asking the teachers to redou- server, J. C. Petty, Burnet County left-wing, the right-wing, or the the water district at $300 a month Steel's $150 million operation, or, ble their efforts, he meant to en- middle-wing." and also a "full-time" public re- for tax valuation purposes, $50 school superintendent, explained dorse such remarks. lations staff man for Lone Star million; pays no taxes to the water that the Observer "misunderstood Smiling, Petty said, "No, no, I Steel Co., has installed a private district. Were the company prop- our economics studies program" don't see how you can twist that `Too Detailed' mobile unit telephone at the erties included, the tax rate, in- and added, "It is not political." into there. We're an integrated water district's expense — more stead of $1.65 per $100, would be Petty, a slight, deferential man school here, been integrated for He said he thought the Ob- server had also misunderstood the than $30 a month — in the 1955 about 33 cents per $100. of about 45, said the program, over a year. I talked to Harvey Chrysler car he drives. The car Lone Star Steel Co. already has sponsored by the TBEU, a Dallas Bellew (the Lampasas superin- Texas Bureau of Economic Under- standing. "They're helping a study belongs to the Lone Star Steel Co. a pre-emptive right to 80,000 acre- business group, and the Texas tendent), and he and I both think of American heritage," Petty said, Watson is regarded in this area feet of water from the Ellison res- Educational Association, a Fort you people just misunderstood Dr. "not anything political." Petty as the right-hand man to E. B. ervoir adjacent to its properties. Worth business group, is a "study Wells—what did you think of said the management-labor-agri- Germany, president\ of Lone Star In addition, the firm has already of America's heritage" and that those things Dr. Wells told us culture - education panel teams Steel. In the company heirarchy bought one-fifth of all the water his teachers and their students about his trip to Russia?" Petty sponsored by the University of he works under L.D. "Red" Web- district's water. The water district have participated in the program asked quickly. (The reporter said Texas (Obs. Dec. 5) "were too de- ster, public relations director for issued $500,000 more bonds than for four years. he agreed that Dr. Wells had some tailed, over the heads of ignorant Lone Star Steel. He is the district it needed money for construction; "We're trying to raise a genera- shocking things to say about Rus- fellows like me," but that the pro- one man on the state Democratic Lone Star bought the bonds; held tion of students who will assume, sia, but he didn't quite under- grams of the Dallas and Fort executive committee. now in trust by Republic Bank, their own responsibilitids and not stand what relationship they had Worth business groups were "good The water district, at Watson's they are scheduled for cancella- look to the government for sup- with slum clearance or social se- programs." instance, paid more than $400 for tion as soon as the district can pay port, not feel that the government curity in the United States; that a gift of a tea set to a federal off its debts on almost $2'million owes them a living," he explained. for a talk on "America's Heri- Petty said that he thought Army engineer, a colonel, at the more in bonds it also issued. "America is moving toward tage," the speaker had somehow "what is important is the strong dedication of Ferrell's Dam July 5, Meantime the interest on them is stronger centralized control, more failed to say anything about centralized power in the federal 1958, the Observer has learned. used for the operating costs of the federal support than 50 years ago Thomas Jefferson or any other government that is leading us to The colonel, William A. Lewis, water district. —I'm not objecting to that—but American.) "Well, I think you socialism." He said a guide to was in charge of the New Orleans The district has issued $2.45 mil- we don't want any more. The bus- people just misunderstood him," what would be socialism would be office of the Army Engineers. He lion in bonds to date, but Watson inessmen in town tell me they said Petty. "I didn't think Dr. "any assistance received from the was about to retire and has' done says only $1.9 million was needed cannot operate a day without vio- Wells's talk was political. We're federal government that you so. for construction. Republic Bank lating hundreds of government studying American heritage, not (Continued on Page 2) Water district tax money has got the $500,000 from Lone Star regulations." also been used to entertain the and holds the extra half million The Observer interviewed Petty colonel and in one instance to pay worth of bonds. "We don't owe after learning of a "Faculty Bulle- motel costs for two of the federal $2.45 million, we owe $1.95 mil- tin" the Burnet Superintendent engineers. lion," Watson said. Then why had- published in response to the Ob- Educational Byplays . The water district is supported n't the district issued bonds for server's critical editorial appraisal by a $1.65 tax rate per $100 prop- only $1.95 million? "We had to of the address made before 300 erty valuation in just seven towns have the income to operate the Hill Country teachers by Dr. Ken- On Dollars, Standards ringing the Ferrell's Dam reser- district," he said. Privately a neth Wells. Petty's faculty bulle- voir, the largest body of im- water district official said the op- tin declared: "The first attack on AUSTIN • in Tyler "we cannot continue to pounded water in Texas, which erating income might have been our program came after Dr. Wells University of Texas and hold our heads in the sand, trying backs up conveniently to the dam reduced by application for federal talk. The Texas Observer, an Aus- Texas A&M officials braved to buy first rate education for our and lake adjacent to. Lone Star forbearance on some debts. tin paper, declared that 'It is only direct and indirect criticism youngsters at cut-rate prices." Steel Co. (Continued on Page 2) after a while, after 15 or 20 min- of the Governor of the state (5) At Lufkin, , Dr. Ralph Steen, utes of his oratory, that it be- while the National Education president of Stephen F . Austin comes apparent that Dr. Wells is Association was fur t her State College, said the public has a shrewd rabble-rouser seeking to down-rating the state's public been "treating as old wives' tales" infiltrate the public schools with school system. stories of "low teachers' salaries, Loan License Law, ideas curiously like the propa- Governor Daniel dealt U.T. and crowded classrooms, inferior li- ganda once parceled out by the A&M what their officials re- braries, and laboratories and easy followers of Father Coughlin and garded as solar plexus blows in academic standards," called on the Traffic Safety Urged Gerald L. K. Smith.' Also, an- his budget recommendations (see state to climb out of the "lower other quote. 'We demand to know last issue). half" of the national education ef- AUSTIN charge and trial of juveniles 14 or whether the Texas Education Ag- Here j,s what has now hap- fort. The chief research arm of over under regular courts, not the ency is formally or informally pened: (6) Asked by the Observer the legislature, the Texas juvenile courts, for traffic viola- sponsoring the dissemination of (1) Dr. Logan Wilson, president about the Governor's cuts in the Legislative Co unci 1, advo- tions. right-wing slush into public of the University of Texas, said Commission'• r e c o m mendations cates a small loan licensing Council reports on several other schools through the so - called Daniel's recommendations, if en- for the University of Texas, Dr. law which would skip over issues are summarized later in "Texas Bureau of Economic Un- acted, "would not only halt fur- Ralph Green, executive secretary the vital interest-rate ques- this story. derstanding." This propagandistic ther progress, but would also of the Higher Education Com- tion until the people approve Small loans, says the council's outfit is pouring anti-social drivel cause a serious setback ... that mission, said, "We feel that the or reject the abolition of the report, are a legitimate economic and eyen anti-Negro and anti- could turn a crisis into disaster." funds we recommended are the ten percent interest rate in activity but are the most expen- Semitic hate-mongering into mass (2) Daniel's budget director, minimum. The need is not only the Constitution. sive loans to make because of the meetings of teachers under the Jess Irwin, in denying the budget strong but critical in faculty sal- paperwork for small return, so guise of official state approval ...' represents a 'serious slash In aries, and the libraries are a sadly The council recommended a that only the largest lending insti- Therefore (continues Supt. Petty's higher education, said the recom- neglected area." controversial traffic safety-tough- tutions can make small loans "at bulletin) it appears our Anti-So- mendations did not apply avail- (7) The latest National Educa- ening program including arrest of reasonable rates," forcing most cialists, Anti-Communist Program able funds of the University which tion Association report released citizens by highway patrolmen small borrowers to turn to "high- has stepped on some toes. It only are left to the discretion of the in Washington reported El Paso's without a warrant; the use of raters" whose abuses include goes to prove that we are making school. Herald-PoSt, said Texas ranked drunkometer tests in court prose- "overcharging, pyramiding of headway on the Freedom Move- (3) J. R. Sorrell, chairman of 43rd among the states in average cutions; revocation of drivers' li- loans, and harassment of borrow- ment and attracting enough at- the University of Texas Board of salaries for high school teachers, censes of "frequent violators" of ers." tention to stir up opposition of Regents, said the Governor's rec- 42nd in salaries for teachers in all traffic laws or drivers who fail to The council recommends a con- jealous parties .... I can't see ommendations "come as quite a grades, and 33rd in expenditures, show up in court on a traffic stitutional amendment giving the how a true American can object blow to the Board of Regents and $308 per pupil compared to $390 ticket; authority for the Depart- legislature authority to set small to our 8 principles: (1) Trust in. other interested Texas citizens for New Mexico. Next to North ment of Public Safety to require loan interest rates and abolishing God, (2) Importance of the Indi- who have been trying to build a Dakota, more teachers on the av- attendance at a ten-hour driving the ten percent constitutional in- vidual, (3) Freedom of the Indi- University in keeping with the erage are leaving the profession school; the addition of $1 to every terest limit as soon as the legisla- vidual, (4) Dignity of Work, (5) real needs and opportunities of in Texas to enter other types of traffic fine except overtime park- ture does so. Private Ownership of Property, our state." employment than in any other ing to encourage courts' reporting For the 1959 legislature, the (6) The Profit Motive, (7) Free (4) Dr. M. T. Harrington, presi- state in the union, presaging what of offenses to the DPS; and the (Continued on Page 3) Competition, (8) Government as a dent of Texas A&M College, said NEA called "a large shortage." the district could avoid taxes, and that "we probably won't have any The Northeast Texas Water District taxes and, if we do it won't be a year or two years." Freeman said•, (Continued from Page 1) water into Ellison reservoir, from ,not thinking about his operation. As for the tea set, Tittle said, "We were sold a bill of goods, no "This is the first time this has which it has the right already to Of course," Tittle added, "while "I have nothing at all to do about question about that ... They soft- ever been done," Watson said. A withdraw 80,000 acre-feet. The he's here he's not working for the that—it was the board of direc- soaped those things." He said district cannot buy its own bonds, water district has agreed to build water district as much as when tors." Webster of Lone Star Steel told "so there was an agreement that the pumping installation at Lone he's anywhere else." Although Tittle insisted that him "we've got company after the trustee would buy the last Star Steel's request, Lone Star Lone Star has a headquarters in Lone Star Steel "paid for that company waiting to come in here" $500,000 of them." "The tax asses- Steel then to repay the water dis- Dallas. Minutes in late 1957 and dedication" of Ferrell's Dam July to buy the water. sor-collector has an agreement trict over a 35-year period. 1958 reflect that Watson made 5—that "very little of anything we "This is exactly what was said," with Lone Star that when the For a time the water district various trips to Washington, New paid at all, that was Lone Star Watson replied. "Let me tell you (water district's) income is great was financed by "donation's," and Orleans, Austin, and Dallas on Steel's party"—the minutes reflect how we tried to get to the people. enough to pay the bonds, except then by loans, from Lone 'Star water district business. the following expenditures out of Of course that's always the prob- the $500,000, we can resolve it by Steel Co., Southwestern Gas & In December, 1957, he spent two water district tax money to help lem in this sort of thing. We had cancelling the $500,000 bonds," Electric Co. of Shreveport, and clays in Austin, Dec. 12-13, in con- finance the dedication: 30 speakers in a bureau ... we Watson said. Convair, which has some plant nection with a bond sale comple- Buses and drivers to the dedi- went through the press, and then In sum, Lone Star Steel Co. is space on the Lone Star Steel prop- tion, the minutes reflect. At the cation, •$255.75; boating' expense, in. each town we had a mass meet- not a part of the water district erty. (According to district min- March 10 meeting, expenses of $42.48; "Perkin's Jewelry — Tea ing .... We said that on the ex- but has already purchased one- utes Aug. 11, Watson is negotiat- $870.73 were approved for him, in- Service, $402.29"; "G. W. Keeling, isting valuation it'd take a $1.75 fifth of the water the district will ing with Southwestern Gas & cluding trips to New Orleans Jan. Cleaners, Band Suits," $60, total tax rate per $100 valuation and have. The district's contract with Electric Co. "relative to their pro- 8-10, Dallas Dec. 31, and Wash- $770.52. that the only relief we could get Lone Star says the district will posed plans for possible construc- ington Jan. 19-22 and again Feb. Looking over these figures, out of the thing was when we never sell any of Lone Star's fifth tion of a power plant near the 11-16. Hughes Springs city secretary sold storage." of the water to any other users. dam." As far as the water dis- April 14 he collected expenses Freeman said, "If I did that in Watson said, in parting, "I wish Lone Star Steel is to pay trict is concerned, the Ferrell's for a trip to Austin for the water this office they'd kick me out you'd slant the story to say we've for the raw industrial water Dam project has no public power district managers' association. On right quick." got a lot of 'water for new indus- half a cent per thousand gallons. features. The federal project is Jude 25 he was paid $92.53 "ex- try up here." He gave the re- This is in addition to the $500,000 for flood control and conserva- pense Pittsburg show and Col. Watson's Views porter brochures mailed to indus- it anted up for the storage space. tion.) Lewis," about • which Tittle said, tries by the water district, calling At the present time, the city of The ubiquity of Lone Star "they had a sports show and big Watson, a genial, earnest man, attention to cheap water, good Lone Star buys treated water Steel's influence in the water dis- promotion deal and had booths told the Observer in an interview civic conditions, "favorable labor from Lone Star Steel Co. at ten trict's area is demonstrated by around, so he set up a booth for that he taught economics at Bay- climate," low taxes, and the ab- cents per thousand gallons, and these facts: the water district and all." For lor two terms, having earned his sence of "unhappy, problem-be- the city then charges residents Watson, president of the water travel in July and August he re- BBA and MA degrees there in set people to live and deal with." $2.50 for the first 2,000 gallons and district, is a key man in Lone ceived $69.24; but on Oct. 13, his economics. His masters' thesis, he R.D. , 1 lesser amounts down to 40 cents Star Steel, and L. W. Bramlett, expense total check was only said, •was "on profits." He moved per thousand gallons for all over another of the seven directors of $13.65, and on Nov. 10, $6.47. into Northeast Texas in. Feb., 15,000 gallons. the district, is the superintendent 1901, soon becoming president of The Week in Texas Watson told the Observer first of the electrical department of the The Car Phone the Daingerfield Chamber of Com- merce. Along about April that that the residents of the cities company. Watson had the "mobile unit" would get the water free. Then he Three of the seven mayors of year, he said, various people be- • Twenty-seven railroads peti- phone installed in Lone Star Steel gan thinking about getting in on added: "Or I say free ..." It de- the town's in. the water district tioned the Texas. Railroad Co.'s Chrysler last June 10. The veloped that as of now delivered are supervisory personnel at Lone the Ferrell's Dam project for local Commission to raise freight rates monthly bills, paid by the tax- water would cost Hughes Springs Star. One is a union man who water supply. - It was ascertained on- intrastate shipments about five payers of the water district, have residents, ten miles from the res- works in the plant. that by adding 27.5 feet to tithe percent. At Ore City, one of the seven ranged from $33 to $37. height of the dam, another 251,100 ervoir, 33 cents per thousand gal- • Saying that the program is towns, five out of the six city Freeman, secretary of the city acre-feet of water could be stored. lons. As time passes the cost is designed to protect the in- councilmen and mayor are super- council at Hughes Springs, said In effect a decision was made for expected to decrease. vestment Texas taxpayers have in visory employeeS of Lone Star. At the taxpayers generally do not local interests to reimburse the Dusty Freeman, city secretary their public roads, Texas High- Lone Star, the town, three of the know about the phone, although federal government for the costs of Hughes Springs, one of the par- way Commission chairman Mar- six city officials are company they in his office "may have it in attendant to the heightening of ticipating cities, says: "If enough shall Formby announced a $20 supervisors of one kind or an- our minds" what the phone bills the dam in return for the water industry buys the water, the cit- million highway - rehabilitation other. At Daingerfield, four of the were for. that might thereby be impounded. ies not only will get the water program that will involve road- five are supervisory employees of "The little taxpayers, they don't Watson says the water is going free, they will get part • of the know too much," he said. i'You to cost $8 or $9 per acre foot, widening, shoulder work and pav- profits. They could benefit when Lone Star or Convair. take an old fella, pays $12 to $15 which will be extremely cheap ing on 2,385 miles of the state the district goes to selling it." The Pay a year tax to the water district comparatively. road system. He said he doesn't want Lone out of his old age pension—he • Ending a three-and-a-half Watson works "full-time," he In October, 1954, seven towns- Star Steel participating in the dis- hates to see a telephone like that. month investigation of the said, for Lone Star Steel Co.; he Daingerfield, Lone Star, Ore City, trict. "If Lone Star will buy all If Marvin Watson is being paid firm by state insurance commis- also receives $20 a day for 15 days Jefferson, Hughes Springs, Avin- the water it might, we could get money from E. B. Germany, it sioners, National Bankers Life every month—a total of $300—for ger, and Pittsburg—voted to form it free," he said. "The seven towns makes the old fella say, 'Well Insurance Company of Dallas his work as president of the water the water district, only eleven want to own the water and then Damn.' " settled its claims against former district. voters dissenting. On Feb. 23, 1957, they can sell it." Watson said he uses the phone -board chairman Pierce Brooks by Ed Burke, mayor of Hughes a bond issue of $2.6 million was. 0. B. Tittle, retiring office man- for "calls in the district." As for accepting a $1 million settlement. Springs, who is a clerk at Lone approved, with 89 percesit of the ager of the district, does not think long distance calls he might make ...The Senate investigating com- Star Steel, said he thinks a water voters favoring it. Lone Star will have any use for on it, "I try to keep up with it mittee will resume its inquiry into district should be like a school Loren Brantley, staff represen- all the water it will have a right and reimburse the district." board, members serving free. tative of the steelworkers for the the liquidation division and the to when it is available from the "The board pretty well looks to "I put in a good bit of time on Lone Star local, said he was as- comptroller's office after Christ- district. • He says he cannot see me to keep up with what's going this thing," Watson said to the sured that by selling the water, mas. how they could have uses for it on," he said. "It's just a means Observer. "I possibly Could charge all within 15 years. of communication. Of course it's 'em every day of the month. I At present Lone Star Steel is one of those things you can do 'suggested the 15 days per month. the only major • industry in the without." I've worked on this thing seven Superintendent Exults area. Watson says several other The mobile unit is licensed out days a week since 1951." heavy industries are interested in of Longview. (Continued from Page 1) sort of thing. They want to get the area. The water district's minutes for ought to do yourself." part of that road coming through Meanwhile the residents of the March 10 this year reflect that The Tea Set The Observer asked him the town so the people can get seven towns will continue paying Watson told the directors he did whether various programs were work and the businessmen can get for the retirement of the district's not begrudge any of the time and The $400 tea service from the socialistic. On rural electrifica- business, and that's why they do bonds, as well as Watson's' $300 a effort he had spent, but he would water district to the federal Army tion, Petty said "socialism could it. There has been a broadening month and mobile car telephone. have to have some pay. They Engineers colonel came about in include programs like that, yes." of these social movements in the voted him the $300 a month. At this manner. On slum clearance, "wouldn't that last 50 years. Everybody accord- Tittle Quits the next month's meeting, a reso- "First," Watson said, "he was be a local problem?" he said. ing to his need, instead of his abil- lution was adopted providing that retiring. I guess he was still in "The federal government builds ity." Tittle does not think the tax "in accordance with. the provi- service. All his bosses were here. these things and collects rent, it's On social security, Petty said, rate will persist four more years. sions of Section 3, Vernon's Arti- ...He certainly didn't know he just going into competition with "It's all right but it should just be He also believes Lone Star Steel's cle 8280-147," Watson be paid $20 was gonna get a tea set. free enterprise." On the new Na- for people who are absolutely in price for the water is fair. for 15 days' work each month for "He had given his time nights tional Defense Education Act pro- need of social security. If we can Tittle has resigned, giving per- the water district. The resolution very generously to try to help viding loans to science, math, and raise the school children thinking sonal. reasons. His friends here are provided "that the propriety of us with our problems up here. It foreign language students, Petty thataway, we have nothing to apprised that he was upset by the continuation of this arrange- was just a free will gift that we said, "It seems to me like that is fear." some aspects of the water dis- ment be determined by the board were trying to show our appreci- socialism." On TVA, Petty re- trict's operation. of directors after its reorganiza- ation ..." plied, "What's that?" The reporter At the last meeting of the water tion in June, 1958." Evidently the Since Lone Star Steel was the explained TVA, and Petty said `Well' district, Watson, who has been in new board regarded the arrange- host at the dedication, why had it "when the government goes into As the interview drew to a effect in charge in the past, asked ment as proper, since it is still in not paid for the gift to Lewis? "I competition with business, then close, the reporter mentioned that to be allowed to hire the secre- effect. wanted it to come from the water you're bringing on socialism." some people called railroad regu- tary of Dave Abernathy, an offi- Tittle, asked how often Watson. district," Watson said. "I could'a Asked about the large business lation communistic back in 1880 cial of Lone Star Steel, to replace is in the area, replied: "It varies. collected the money very easily." support that the federal highway when it was first proposed. "They Tittle, but was voted down. Sometimes he's here a day. Some- The minutes reflect that Tittle program received when it was did?" said Petty. "They called When completed, the water dis- times lie's here a week. His is ss was paid $150 by the water dis- considered by Congress, Petty railroad regulation communistic? trict will have storage capacity of separate and cistinct business. I'm trict on July 14 for "Expense for said "A lot of 'businessmen are Back in 1880? .... Well." There 251,000 acre-feet and a total "firm Col. Lewis Party." Tittle said of guilty of this sort of thing, too, was no further comment. yield" of 182,000,000 gallons a day. NOTE this: "They had a party for Col. letting the federal government do , The next gathering of teachers The reservoir will be 26 miles (A Political Intelligence feature Lewis—that was some of the ex- everything." Asked for his com- from the four counties taking part long with an overage width of 2.5 summarizing important trends penses for a feed that I bought ment on the highway bill pass:ng in TBEU's study of American miles. The dam will be 10,600 feet and events in politics will appear for 'em—I didn't buy for 'em, I the Senate without a dissenting heritage will take place in Febru- long and 77 feet above the valley next week. The Way of Life and just drew out the money and vote, Petty said, "lots of senators ary at Lampasas. L.G. floor. Political Intelligence features are turned the money over to 'em. Lone Star will be able to pump now regarded as weekly alter- That was down on Lone Star Lake and representatives—I don't care THE TEXAS OBSERVER its one-fifth of the Water district's nates.—Ed.) at somebody's cabin down there." what party—are going for this Page 2 Dec. 26, 1958 LOAN, TRAFFIC SAFETY CHANGES ASKED (Continued from Page 1) sonable rate of interest and there- court in answer to any traffic out of $1,333,000,000 In the state spite the fact that 12 states out- council recommends a small loan fore might defeat the constitu- ticket ("has unlawfully failed to treasury Aug. 31, only $9 million rank Texas in both number of licensing and regulatory bill—but tional amendment. comply with a written promise to was apparently available for ap- parks and park acreage, 16 states no change in the 10 percent inter- C. Read Granbery, staff director appear in court in answer to a propriation. Major commitments receive higher annual appropria- est limit. Rate-setting it would of the council, told the Observer: charge of a traffic law violation"), of the funds: ' the permanent tions, and seven Texas cities allot leave to a subsequent legislature. "We heard it (the recommended or has failed ':,to report for and school and university funds, $684 more for their municipal parks The 1959 law would make the program) is going to meet with submit to any examination ... million; funds spendable for spe- than is -spent by the entire state banking commissioner the regula- pretty broad approval throughout (or) consultation" the DPS di- cific purposes, like the available parks system in one year, our tor of the small loan business and the entire industry. With two- rects. school and state highway funds, parks are a credit to the state." would require every small lender thirds of both houses required to Authority to require drivers to $173 million; trust or pledged Submerged areas: The absence to gel a license, without which he get a constitutional amendment, funds, $387 million. "report to a duly authorized rep- of authority in any one executive could be jailed six months and you've got to have a pretty broad resentative of the Department" The total of the balances of all agency of the state to negotiate fined $1000 for every day's opera- cohesion." for "special consultation and-or state funds Aug. 31 was $2.2 bil- tion. for the state on submerged areas He characterized the recommen- special examination" and to "re- lion. In addition to the $1.3 billion and islands has "deprived the In the council's subcommittee, dations as "a one-two punch in quire his attendance at a traffic in the treasury, this included $813 state of much-needed revenue" Rep. Kennard, Fort Worth, fa- time," in one session submitting school ... not to exceed 10 hours million deposited "w i t h" the and resulted in "-stalemate or un- vored including, in the 1959 bill, the constitutional amendment to . 1 1 Treasurer, mostly trust funds or authorized developments." The an interest limit, but Lt. Gov. Ben the voters and enacting. a licens- "Sec. 42. Arrest without warrant. funds deposited in compliance School Land Board should be Ramsey had made clear his own ing bill, and in a session two years —Any peace officer is authorized with state law; and another $75 considered "as held in trust by the position against such "a cap," and later having "the scrap on rates." to arrest without warrant any million "outside" the treasury, in- state for the use, benefit, and en- the other four members, Sens. Ka- "Frankly if you pitched the rate person found committing a viola- cluding $66 million controlled by joyment of the general public," zen, Laredo, and Reagan, Corpus issue into this session we'd have tion of any provision of this Act." institutions of higher education, and no exclusive right to these Christi, and Reps. Hughes, Dallas, an awful scramble," Granbery The new law would apply the $8 million controlled by state ag- beaches should be granted to any and Roberts, Lamesa, opposed in- said. penalties of the act to "all persons encies, and $1 million controlled private interest unless authorized cluding rate-making in the 1959 Discussing the absence of any who have passed their 14th birth- by state hospitals and special by the legislature. An act should law. criminal penalties in the licensing day" notwithstanding other state schools. be passed regulating construction This would mean that the legis- bill except for making small loans laws, and the juveniles would be The committee on state services of any obstructions on the shores lature would ask the people to do without a license, Granbery said tried in regular courts, "not under for the mentally retarded, physi- and arms of the Gulf which hin- away with the ten percent limita- that such penalties might involve the jurisdiction of the Juvenile cally handicapped, and chroni- der public access to the public- tion without advising them how litigants with the Court of Crim- Courts." cally ill was directed by the Sen- owned beach and shore areas. much interest the legislature was inal Appeals and said instead the Finally, the new law, to encour- ate to conduct "a complete and going to authorize as legal. If the council decided on "a strong ad- age reporting of violations, from thorough study" of all problems Lands, Schools people approved the constitutional ministrative structure" based on which overtime parking would for of educating, training, caring, and State land: The state owns about amendment, the legislature would licensing. the first time be excluded, would treating such people, including 264,132 acres of land of an inven- come back and set the new inter- The proposed bill distinguishes require the courts to "add a re- "an examination of existing facili- tory value of $25 million and a est rate. between lenders from $5 to $100 porting fee of $1 to any fine col- ties, both public and private" and current market value of more and from $100 to $3000; condemns lected for reportable offenses," "recommendations concerning the than $100 million. The land is be- "usurious overcharges, entrap- which the court would split with improvement, expansion, and co- `Broad Cohesion' ing used for state offices, conser- ment in perpetual debt, and vi- the state in return for reporting ordination of all these facilities." vation of fish and wildlife, higher In the .behind-the-scenes argu- cious harassment"; exempts from the offenses. The offenses which The House resolution on the sub- education, highway s, hospitals ments, the small lenders strongly the definition of "charges" on would have to be thus reported— ject was less sweeping, calling for and special schools, armories and favored this sequence for the leg- loans "insurance premiums" ap- and for every one of which an ex- "a study concerning all physically military reservations, law en- islation. State officials who took proved by state law; exempts tra fine of $1 would therefore be handicapped persons in Texas, forcement, parks, and prisons. this position argued that to open from the law itself anyone doing added—are, according to Sec. 20 both children and adults, as to the Some is leased to private people the rate-making issue in the 1959 business under a 1931 law "relat- of the draft law, any violations of number of such persons, treat- or firms, some is unused, and legislature would prevent enact- ing to loan and brokerage com- any traffic laws or ordinances ment facilities available, and pos .- some is forest land. Although the ment of the • proposed constitu- panies," as well as other credit "other than regulations governing sibilities for their vocational Comptroller is designated as the tional amendment and-or the li- associations; requires everyone overtime parking." training or rehabilitation." custodian of deeds for the state, censing act during the session. lending small loans to get a li- In the report on. auto insurance, The legislative committee of the state agencies are not using this On the other hand there was the cense and to have $15,000 in capi- the council recommended Texas council declined to recommend depository. The General Land Of- fear that the people might not tal; authorizes annual inspections retain its uniform rate-setting any of the "numerous specific fice should have all such records trust the legislature to set a rea- of small loan companies and re- law, under which companies can, proposals" concerning welfare ser- and should report regularly to the quires annual reports; prohibits if they wish, rebate part of their vices for the handicapped and legislature on the state lands. false or deceptive advertising; re- premiums to their policyholderS.- chronically ill. Instead it advo- quires lenders to disclose fully The council reported that 47 out cated a co-ordinating agency over School laws codification: The and in writing to borrowers the of 51 states and territories let state welfare -services "to deal M. D. Anderson Foundation of conditions of loans and to receipt companies file their rates with the with all phases of the state's wel- Houston gave the council $20,500 all loan payments; and prohibits regulatory agencies, which then fare activities." This agency is for the study. The council hired splitting of loans or garnishing approve or disapprove them, but needed, said the committee—Sens. Looney, Clark, Mathews, Thomas, more than ten percent of a bor- that Texas and four other states Colson and Reagan, Reps. Jami- and Harris to undertake the codi- rower's wages. The law does not have the fixed rate pattern, which son, Parish, and Schwartz—"be- fication, which will be published define or prohibit "vicious harass- it reports is obviously "stronger cause the state's welfare activi- in mid-1960. Laws "appearing to ment," although it uses this term control", of the rate-making pro- ties require the third largest ex- need" substantive changes are to in its declaration of legislative in- cess. Thirty - two states have penditure category of state funds." -be brought to the attention of the tent. higher average auto insurance In the bill proposed by the council by the law firm. rates than Texas, the council said. council on this "coordinating corn- Narcotics treatment: Do not Driving Penalties (On the economics of auto in- mission for state welfare serv- construct new hospitals for treat- surance, the council reported that ices," it is stipulated that "the ing drug addicts, since only one The council, through its com- —to summarize its figures—about chairman shall be a member of patient asked to be admitted to a BRAINPOWER mittee on "traffic accidents," pro- 45 percent of a person's auto in- the legislature" rather than any state hospital for drug addiction posed defining by law the pre- surance premiums go to the corn- of the private citizens or state of- treatment since the 1957 authori- IS OUR MOST sumptions about drunkenness to panies for overhead and profit ficials on the commission. zation of the program, while the VITAL RESOURCE! be established in court eases and and about 55 percent is used to It is further provided that: U. S. Public Health Service Hos- accepted as evidence from DWI pay claims.) "Members of the commission shall pital in Fort Worth processed 242 You can't •dig education est tre drunkometer tests; permitting the Texas patients, 203 of them volun- earth. Theres only ens plass serve without compensation, but highway commission a n d the members' of the commission who tary, in 1957. Include paregoric where business and industry ens `Spe9ial Funds' among drugs which may be sold get the educated men and 111•1111111 Texas Turnpike Authority to alter are members of the legislature so vitally needed for future speed limits (presumably up to 70 The council completed a study shall be reimbursed for their ac- by prescription only. progress. That's from our eid- of the special funds which tie up Constitutional r e v i s i o n: No ai and =bromides. on superhighways) ; higher pay tual and necessary expenses while for highway patrolmen, and 200 a considerable portion of the in attendance upon meetings of funds, no report. R. D. Today these institutions are state's revenue in expenditures doing their best to meet the new patrolmen; and adding driver the commission ..." need. But they face a crisis. The education as an activity supported over which the legislature has lit- The' commission would study demand for brains is by the foundation school program. tle or no present control. Under "cost and adequacy," "duplica- BOW WILLIAMS fa*, and so is the presturein vul Its most controversial ideas terms of an instruction which Automobite and eollew applications. tion," "institution of additional were embodied in a proposed noted that such funds prevent the services,'' and other aspects of General Insurance More stoney most be raised amended version of the Texas legislature and the governor "from state welfare programs. Budget Payment each year to expand f ►alties- ' bring faculty salaries up _to ea driver license law. A careful read- considering the relative and total Plan adequate standard—provide a ing of this draft reveals that the needs of state agencies in the Strong Stook sound education for the young council has proposed these new light of total state revenues" and Parks, Beaches Companies people wit* need and deserve it authorities for the Department of asked for recommendations on Other Council reports: GReenwood 24545 As a practical business mew Public Safety: abolishing or continuing the vari- State parks: Establish a commit- 624 LAMAR, AUSTIN imm, kelp the colleges or =liver- ous funds, the council declined to sides el your ehoiee—nowt The Authority to revoke the drivers' tee to screen proposals for new Let's Abolish the Poll Tax! aster= will be• greater than yes licenses of a person who "is a make such recommendations. parks and consider abandoning think. frequent violator of the traffic In an inventory of the special old ones. Give priority to main- If yes wont to know what the cape laws," or has failed to appear in funds, the council discovered that tenance over new parks; reject crisis aeon to you, write Ise • Ism new parks over which the state Member of the Piano Technicians booklet .08 MGM EDUCATION, would not have full control. Bring sox 36, Thee. Square Soafiatt, liner San Jacinto State Park, the Bat- Guild, Inc. York 36, New Yak. Insurance tleship Texas, Fannin State Park, Over $1 1 0 Million In Force and the Alamo under the State Douglas R. Strong Shaw Parks Board and abolish the sep- arate commissions governing them PIANO TECHNICIAN now. Acton State Park—a ceme- Tuning, Repairing, Transportation Ci I 1/e,- ea (4 4ie tery lot bearing a marker to Davy Rebuilding Crockett's wife—might be given INSURANCE COMPANY up by the state. The parks board Ackson 3-1278 808 Harold, Houston 6, Texas Company, Inc. P. 0. Box 8098 Houston, Texas now manages 58 parks with 61,- 838 acres and a total value of $7 X. P. SHAW, PRESIDENT million; in 1958 there were more THE TEXAS OBSERVER Hoodoos Texas than five million visitors. "De- Page 3 Dec. 26, 1958 Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art. —JEFFERSON U. S. House Liberals Meaning 101° 5reeC10171 Texan John Henry Faulk was a big he once ranked among the best earn- Buck Sam on Rules name for CBS television in New York ers. In the Dec. 20 Nation magazine, when entertainment industry vigil- he explains why he chose legal action WASHINGTON of Minnesota should be the Democrat ates accused him of subversive con- and unemployment over "making a Democratic congressmen who have to be added. nections. His advertisers dropped deal" on the lawsuit and employment. stormed against secrecy policies of "We are not here to plan any up- the Eisenhower administration took an rising against the Speaker or majority him ; he sued his accusers for defama- "The day I decided I could just as oath of secrecy that they would di- leader John McCormack," declared tion; his frightened accusers withdrew well run a filling station in East vulge nothing of what they themselves Congressman Frank Thompson. of their accusations ; but he is still un- Texas as be a success in New York, planned and plotted against their New Jersey. "On the contrary, we able to get work in the field where I knew I was a free man," he said. leader, Speaker Sam Rayburn of want to work with them in curbing Texas. Smith's obstructionist tactics against Within 30 minutes after the meet- liberal legislation. We want a show- ing broke up, however, a full report down with Smith, not the Speaker." n elicitor and crynclon on what the "naughty boys" did be- Actually, however, the meeting was o hind closed doors was on its way to something of a revolt against Mr. Mr. Sam. Structurally, the uneasiness among Meany's or the national office's con- Sam. For it was the Democrats under The Democrat who urged secrecy Rayburn who had thrown out the 21- some liberals in Texas about the pos- cern about hostility to Johnson in was Congressman Sid Yates of Illi- day rule in 1951 and reinstated the sibility of a labor-Lyndon entente in Texas labor, they have not been given, nois. The liberal Democrats were throttle power of the rules committee. 1960 is a tension between those on nor have they passed along, any in- meeting to break the throttle-hold of It was Speaker Rayburn who put this the one hand who regard Texas con- structions to be nice to Johnson, nor Congressman Howard Smith of Vir- across. Thus it may take a lot more cerns as primary in Texas events, and have they made deals concerning ginia and the rules committee over than loving caresses to persuade Mr. those who, as part of a national move- 1960 ; were they to do so, we would legislation Smith doesn't want to Sam to remove his gag. ment to which Texas is only a frac- add, they would do so in terms of reach a full vote of the house of rep- tional concern, might one day decide their owl). responsibilities. What we resentatives. Smith will debate the M R. SAM was quite irate have wished to say, saying it again, is "Love Life of a Raccoon" or "Dis- last August when his friend, Mr. that the national organization's rea- eases of Horses," but he is opposed to that as far as we are concerned liber- Smith, went to tend his dairy cows in soning about Texas affairs is better letting the so-called "representatives Northern Virginia and wouldn't even than that of the exponents of an inde- alism in Texas cannot be compro- of the people" debate slum clearance, answer the phone. This automatically pendent regional liberalism. We re- mised in the name of another move- public housing, sewage disposal, or killed vitally important legislation, gard the leaders of the Texas AFL- ment or its legislative purposes. Either other measures opposed by the big such as the TVA refinancing bill, the CIO as acute, hard-headed men of the liberals in Texas mean to persist utilities or the real estate lobby. public housing bill, and the urban de- good will and integrity. We have been as liberals in Texas, or they do not, "We must be certain that what we velopment bill affecting millions of assured that e x c e p t for George and it's all a grotesque provincial joke. do 'here doesn't have the appearance people. Whether Mr. Sam is still sore of a revolt against the Speaker," said remains to be seen. He is reported Yates. "We're for the Speaker. We sending word to his Southern col- passed, or it won't be passed. The loan love him dearly and we'll vote with leagues that he is with them, not with sharks are exploiters of the poor, and him. So we must be careful about any the liberals. In this case the secret 42nd now publicity against him." moves of the liberal Democrats won't if the point of the legislation is not so Accordingly each congressman took get far. They will have to have an out- a pledge to say nothing. The latest report on the rankings of to declare them, it will be a, waste of in-the-open battle. time. At present they have 100 votes in the states in public education ought to T WAS AGREED: the house and have over half of the humiliate the Governor, the legisla- We advocate a law in the next leg- islature which not only licenses and 1. To stroke Rayburn's barren bean newly elected 68 Democratic congress- ture, the Texas Education Agency, lovingly and get him to go along with men. This gives them more than the and every school board in the state ... regulates, but also limits the profit taken by, small lenders, contingent on the move to overthrow Smith's throt- necessary 144 votes to force Mr. not to mention the corporate interests tle-hold. Sam's hand in the Democratic caucus. which are escaping their fair share of the people approving the abolition of 2. To revive the "21" day rule, by But whether they will really fight re- the ten percent interest rate. As for the taxes. which a bill bottled up by Smith would mains to be seen. According to the National Educa- what rate would be reasonable, Atty. come out of the rules committee after "I've seen Howard Smith go fish- tion Assn.'s statistics, Texas ranks Gen. Wilson has said bankers tell him 21 days on the motion of a committee ing too many times while important liberal bills languished in his commit- forty-second among the states, sixth 15 or 20 percent allows small lenders chairman or by a ranking congress- a reasonable profit, and that sounds man on an interested committee who tee," said one man who believes in a from the bottom, in salaries paid favored a certain bill. fight, Rep. Lester Johnson of Wis- teachers, and more teachers are leav- like a good place to start the argu- ment. 3. As, an alternative, to change the consin. "I feel that I was given a man- ing the profession percentagewise in membership ratio on the rules corn- date like the rest of you in the last Texas than in any other state in the mittee so as to give the Democrats a election to lift the Smith embargo on union except North Dakota! 9-3 edge. This would mean dropping liberal legislation and I won't rest until Governor Daniel says we have to one Republican and adding a Demo- something is done about it." put off the Hale-Aikin recommenda- crat. It was agreed that John Blatnik DREW PEARSON tions, which include the teachers' sal- We are shocked by the irregular ary raise. Why don't the parents of enforcement procedures advocated by children in school just put off their the legislative council against traffic Post Backs Defender Law children's 'educations until Governor violators. Arrest without a warrant— Daniel gets ready for the state to fi- prosecution of juveniles as young as nance adequate teaching staffs ? , (The Observer recently, in an edi- you are guilty or innocent, but it's bet- 14 for felonies in adult courts—use of torial, advocated a public defender ter if you have a smart lawyer . unless drunkometer tests in court cases—au- law for Texas. We reprint this edi- you have money. First and last it's a thority for the Department of Public torial, "Texas Should Join With question of money .... Safety to require drivers to "report" let me illustrate. Take the poorest 11. 'Cap States Having Public Defender Law," person in this room. If the community for "consultations" and a ten-hour from the Houston Post Dec. 16.— driving school—jerking of driver's had provided a system of doing jus- In bowing to the shrewd advice of Ed.) tice, the poorest person in this room the loan shark industry to put of f licenses for failure to turn up in court would have as good a lawyer as the for, say, parking at a yellow curb— richest, would he not? ... Your case placing "a cap" on interest charges The Houston Post long has be- until after the people are asked to these are extremes which policemen would not be tried in 15 or 20 minutes, demand and free men deny them. We lieved the State of Texas should have whereas it would take 15 days to get authorize repeal of the ten percent are much more taken by the Massa- a public defender law. A new Legisla- through with a rich man's case.' ture will come into being in January. limit now in effect, the Texas Legis- chusetts plan : we might try some- It is to the great credit of some of It probably will consider proposed the lawyers who are appointed to aid lative Council, we believe, made a fun- thing like it here—say, raise the limit changes in our criminal laws. One of to 70 on the best superhighways only, indigents accused of crime that they damental mistake. the best changes it could make would work conscientiously in behalf of their The voters are not going to under- and jerk the license for three days for be to pass a law permitting the estab- clients. But they cannot be asked to stand why the legislature would not the first case of speeding, ten days the lishment of the office of public de- pay the costs of investigative work trust them with such elementary in- second case, thirty days the third, and fender in those counties which wish which many criminal cases require, if a year the fourth. Nothing—including to have them. true justice is to be served. And no formation as how much the borrower Let us face it. Anyone who follows should pay for a small loan. the irregular enforcement powers the one knows in how many cases court- patrolmen now demand—would be as the working of our criminal courts is appointed lawyers merely advise their aware that the present system by We find disturbing the thinking in effective for traffic safety as clearly clients to plead guilty and let it go at the council that the loan sharks have which courts appoint defense attor- that. Innocent men have gone to understood and evenly enforced penal- neys for persons unable to pay for to be pleased by the legislation to be ties for speeding. prison under such circumstances. legal help may result in miscarriages Eleven years after Darrow talked of justice. to the men in the Cook County jail The Texas Observer, an. Austin the tide turned. In Los Angeles, Cali- publication, quoted in a recent issue fornia, the first office of public de- ge3C415 Mitatruer fender in this country was established. from a speech made in 1902 by the late, famed Clarence Darrow to in- The theory behind it is that tinder the American principle that all men are Published by Texas Observer Co., Ltd. HOUSTON OFFICE: 1012 Dennis, Mrs. mates of the Cook County (Chicago) presumed innocent until proven guilty, R. D. Randolph, Dean Johnston. jail. He took the side of criminals in the accused should stand equal with DECEMBER 26, 1958 Published once a week from Austin, Ronnie Dogger Texas. Delivered postage prepaid $4 per jail against criminals outside of jail the prosecution before the bar of jus- Editor and General Manager annum. Advertising rates available on re- who were able to employ smart law- tice. Larry Goodwyn, Associate Editor quest. Extra copies 10c ,each. Quattity yers. In the 11 states which now have Sarah Payne, Office Manager prices available' on drders. public `See what the law is,' he told them public defender systems, the Dean Johnston, Circulation-Advertising defender is the opposite number of EDItORIAL aid BUSINESS OFFICE: Entered as second-class matter, April `... when your case gets into court, it 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, 504 West 24th St., Austin, Texas. Phone little difference whether (Continued Next Page) GReenwood 7-0748. Texas, under the. Act of March 3, 1879. will make FROM MAVERICK IN 1952 TO NOW

AUSTIN chinery into the Republican camp post Texas labor's respect for Lyndon in their triumphant present only the For those who would be liberal and haste? Johnson. He should have realized that Negro will silently pay the price of Southern, the native soil is crowded For their weak compromise, the when his personal emissary, Andy their callow opportunism. with enemies. Indignant with injus- Northerners got only defeat, nation- Biemiller, told the state labor conven- tice, and sometimes simply to survive, ally and in Texas, too, with Shivers tion in Houston that Meany had told THERE IS NO built-in Southern liberals have battled on their "Democrats" carrying the day for the him to tell them how great Lyndon guarantee of victory in the cause of home grounds their assorted foes, the Republicans. For his idealism, Maver- Johnson and Sam Rayburn were—and justice. It has advanced waveringly early railroad barons, the later oil ick got another battle-scar in his fight was greeted with complete and total through the centuries. Individual men kings, today the corporate personali- for liberal democracy, the admiration silence from the thousand labor dele- have had to see their own hopes suf- ties operating subtly and crushingly of many the nation over, and abuse at gates. But the of fort, however ill- fer temporary setbacks in order to ad- through their lobbyists to distort the home. fated, is symptomatic of a sort of vance the cause of justice as a whole. aspirations of the people and mock the fumbling, pragmatic political outlook We have to look back no further than spirit of the Republic. Now, 18 months before the next that has been all too present in the to the life of Maury Maverick to real- Democratic Party for a generation. It ize that real victory is won by men A formidable array, all these, yet conclave of the mighty, ominous signs of more pragmatism and less liberal- is the sort of straw in the wind that who accept defeat rather than corn- Southern liberals have had yet other ism are already appearing before hag- could foretell a watered down civil promise what they know to be right. foes, more elusive and thus more seri- rights plank in 1960, reminiscent of ous—the historic legacy of racial ani- gard Southern eyes. Mr. Meany, he of the AFL-CIO, is hoping his Texas the watered-down loyalty pledge in In the mid-twentieth century, the mosity, the violent insular pride, the 1952. value of the American democracy hin- unflinching defensive posture smoth- labor brethren will be nice to Lyndon. That Johnson has throttled the cause ges on the Republic's willingness to ering thought in the region. With Southern liberals w h o have of Texas liberalism for a decade is of openly advocated full rights for • Ne- fight to bring to full reality the prin- these Northern liberals have not had ciple the founding fathers stated as an to cope ; in a sense they are the lesser less concern to Mr. Meany than get- groes when the faint-hearted were be- ting appropriate labor legislation aspiration : that all men are created for it, deprived as they have been of ing covert or actually paying lip-ser- through Lyndon's senatorial bailiwick. vice to racist demagogues mock their equal. Southern liberals should insist the necessity of snuggling closer to that the Democratic party have the their ideals for comfort in times of Thus for a political ingratiation na- own courage if they do less than de- near extermination. The Southern lib- tionally, Meany would harbor those mand responsible liberalism from the guts to do what they have already eral who has stood alone in his particu- who stifle the future of liberalism in party as a whole. To the fair-weather done throughout the South, refuse to lar neighborhood, like a fragile young the South. Practical, perhaps, but un- liberals of the North who have never be compromised by those who are just. plant in an undergrowth of Virgina seen red-neck violence or been called wrong or silent on the fundamental Creepers, has been so busy trying to a communist because of belief in hu- questions of civil rights. breathe in the local climate, he has As liberals we react to the injustice. man justice, winning an election may, As Southern liberals, it is time we do had no time left for superiority in truth, be the most important item If the Democratic Party as a whole toward his Northern compatriots. more than that. It is time we advance human liberty and human dignity our- on their political agenda. To that end, compromises on this issue—for what- And if he has sometimes found his selves by reminding northern Demo- they may temporarily and clandes- ever trumped-up political reason—it idealistic ground cut out from under crats that is is more important to be - him by his more pragmatic Northern finely clasp Eastland and Talmadge to tarnishes its 60 years of justice-seek- right than to have party harmony. friends, he has kept his eyes focused _their bosom every four years without ing and publicly concludes that mili- on the local conservative brigands Meany is trying to breathe a dead too many pangs of conscience. Future tance for justice is, after all, too even while sinking out of sight. horse to life when he tries to fan historians may hold them accountable; bloody inexpedient. L.G. On the altar of "party harmony" and "winning the election," Northern Democrats have mortgaged their ideals and compromised Southern lib- erals almost since inauguration day, A CLEAR AND CERTIFIED BREW 1932. For the cooperation of highly AUSTIN Star ad that morning, we concluded However, H. M. Block, vice-presi- placed Southern conservatives in Con- One must proceed with righteous- gress, for a given bill in Congress or a that this line of inquiry would not be dent of the U. S. Testing Co., Inc., ness as with a bowl of liquid fire, for decisive. We knew no course but to provided us the most relevant data in given election, they have traded out, there comes a time in the life of every not only their philosophical allies in find for ourselves what was certified his letter. The staff includes 71 engin- newspaper when it must sell out to its by dint of unrelenting application. Mr. eers, 35 chemists, nine chemical the South, but the very principles of advertisers, and yea, the time has come freedom. Goodwyn is convinced that we discov- engineer s, four bacteriologists, for the Observer. Lone Star Beer is, ered the secret later that night, but 160 technician s, 21 inspectors, too, Certified, and, after an exhaus- none of us can clearly remember. two physicists, and three psycholo- N ORTHERN LIBERALS tive investigation, we are prepared to gists ; the company has ten branch lab- have functioned thus, even when they give it a complete throatwash. True, oratories; it is affiliated with at least knew the Dixiecrats with whom they we have not yet been able to establish D ECEMBER FOURTH ten scientific societies, including the were dealing were suavely preparing what i s 'certified about it—perhaps arrived a letter, descriptive literature, American Chemical Society; to be the double-cross. Who can forget the that it is beer, guaranteed to bubble, and a. clipping from The New York sure Lone Star pays for the testing impassioned figure of Maury Maver- foam, and taste like beer ; but that it Times, which reported that the United services, but that is standard practice ick, Sr., pleading in 1952 before the is certified, and by the United States States Testing Co., Inc., of Hoboken, for independent laboratories. credentials committee in Chicago for Testing Company, which has a five N.J., is "one of the oldest and larg- help in removing "the chains that are story building at Hoboken, New Jer- est" testing companies in the field, al- "Ours is not a one-time certifica- slowly constricting the throats of sey, offices in New York, Boston, though, the Times remarked, "It tion, as we require a continuing audit Southern liberals"? Maverick, leading Philadelphia, Memphis, Providence, should not be confused with the Na- of the products certified in order to a Texas liberal delegation contesting Dallas, Los Angeles, Denver, Canada, tional Bureau of Standards, the Fed- verify that original standards continue the seating of the Shivers delegation. Brownsville, and San Angelo, an en- eral agency." Passing over the com- to be met," Block wrote. "Extensive asked only for a loyalty oath guaran- dorsement from The New York pany's 30,000 clients and 200,000 tests qualification tests were conducted teeing that Democratic Party officials Times, and an electric typewriter, we a year, we picked up, from this story, prior to acceptance of Lone Star Beer would not go into the lists for the Re- can now vow without quail or hiccup. some clues about what might. be certi- .... The plant methods for quality publicans, a reasonable enough re- fied about Lone Star. control were verified and the ingredi- quest in a party system, but one that Bird-dogging the ads, "Lone Star ents were all analyzed .... Compara- Beer Is Certified To Be One Hun- "Products," said the Times of the was denied in the interests of "party U.S. Testing Co., "are literally put on tive tests on leading national and local harmony," i.e., winning the election. dred Percent Beer," or however they beers were run." go, bird-dogging them, I say, in the the rack, stretched, pounded, and. Who can forget the same Maverick nostrils-up tradition of The Texas mauled until they end up so much telling a national television audience Observer, I directed a letter to Lone junk. In the process the manufacturer H ERE IT WAS in black on that Shivers would heist himself and Star in San Antonio asking about this learns just how much punishment his white : a certification that Lone Star the whole state Democratic party ma- U. S. Testing Company and just when goods can take. Weak and strong fea- had been certified, and is still being it started taking a stethoscope to the tures are determined and the way indi- certified. Chemists, - bacteriologists, beer kegs. Lo ! good old Bob Holleron, cated for improvement, if necessary." physicists, even psychologists — van- a compadre from the old days on From this we concluded that we had, quished we were, and we knew it. KTSA in San Antonio, replied in his indeed, given Lone Star the correct Who can fail to drink so scientific a Public Defender capacity as advertising manager for test, except that we felt somewhat ag- beer? All that remains is for the Lone Star (the beer, not the state). grieved the morning after that it had United. States Testing Company to (Continued from Page 4) This put me off stride, but true to the tested us more than we had tested it. station a man at Scholz's beer garten the public prosecutor. He has equal Observer tradition, I nevertheless U.S. Testing Co., the Times con- charged to keep out a sharp eye and rank and investigative facilities. He is with stern mien awaited the letter stamp "Certified" on the midsection a man of ability comparable to that of tinues, (still feeding us clues,) has from Hoboken which my friend told also bten conducting another import- of each sampler of this supervised the prosecutor. His clients are those me was coming. who cannot afford to hire competent ant inquiry, "the mattress endurance and authorized brew, plus the addition counsel of their own. He fights for In the meantime we had several test. In this one, a 285-pound, octa- of a censorship division at the Hobo- the rights of the accused as fiercely staff conferences 'on the problem at gonal roller moves back and forth ken labs that we may have clipped and as the prosecution fights for a convic- Scholz's beer garten. Howird Scog- across the width of a mattress burned as uncertified Robert Burns's gins, a printer by trade who seems to tion. From such struggles comes the mounted on a spring base. The action epitaph to John Dove, the innkeeper have read everything set in type as at Mauchline: best human approximation of true part of his apprenticeship, suggested results in a continuous compression justice. that soon we may be seeing TV huck- and expansion of the inner spring sters pouring Lone Star through Strong ale was ablution— The states which have the public construction and, at the same time, Small beer—persecution, Kent's ten thousand filter tips, thus subjects the padding materials to pres- A dram was 'memento defender system are California, Con- certifying that Lone Star is the one sure. The test, now in progress, will necticut, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, beer certified to have all the alcohol continue until some type of failure oc- But a free-flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, filtered out of it. Testing the product, curs in one or more of the mattress Tennessee and Virginia. however, we concluded that this mil- components." From this we deduced And port was celestial glory. In recent years there have been too. lenium had not yet arrived. Taking that the firm likely conducted similar R. D. many miscarriages of justice in this Ourselves to the-Unabridged, we found tests on a stomach after a reasonable intake of Lone Star, tests which we state to say the preient system is satis. that one may certify another's irre- THE TEXAS OBSERVER f actory. sponsibility, pregnancy, or insanity, cannot but presume are continuing to but recalling the arrival of a Lone this moment. Page 5 Dec. 26, 1958 Four-Day Letter From a Captive in Huntsville HUNTSVILLE Santa alternately bowing his head Whose hearts the tide of kindness ton. What -a man Sir Hugh's de- find, after centuries have passed Dearest Readers: and raising his arms. The Christ- Warms, scendant was! ' Congressman from away, another dwelling place, it Enforced isolation is a mixed mas spirit, however, did not ex- Who hold your being on the terms, Tennessee, governor of Tennes- is not unmanly to pause and at sentence in an automobile, office tend to cashing checks for strang- 'Each aid the others,' see, abider with the Cherokees, least endeavor to avert the calam- building, television society de- ers; until managed to remember Come to my bowl, come to my signer of the Texas Declaration ity." signed by the devil far flight from that the boys at the Huntsville arms, of Independence, Commander of I walked across the grounds to _quiet. Thus when my motor ex- Item might know me, even if they My friends, my brothers! the Texas Revolutionary Army, his reconstructed home, with the ploded and smoke billowed, up would not relish admitting it. victor at San Jacinto, twice presi- gracious breezeway and pecan THREE DAYS had passed, and I from the road in my rear view I spent that night in a flop- dent of • the Republic of Texas, trees they say he planted, around mirror five miles outside Hunts- I had not shaved and was no congressman of the Republic, U. the log cabin kitchen, to the house, the only haven available doubt under surveillance, not only ville, while disappointed surely for the night. Through the chill- S. Senator from the state of steamboat house nearby and the by the cafe population who eyed Texas, governor of Texas! He was then to miss a hunt I was going ing day I sat by a gas stove in a room under the stairs where he me aslant, but also by the look- a leader every breath he drew to near Livingston, I was not rocker in the shabby room and died. The gardens thereabouts, outs for escapees. I came to know and every place he ever was. acutely aggrieved, just as a com- had more concentration on what dense with Spanish dagger, red- the cafes and the waitresses well: There in a glassed case in the me- muter might not count as a mis- I was doing than I can remember berry 'bush, cedar, elm, pecan, fortune his way's derailing near I can recommend the Texan, for morial is what he told the legisla- fluttering with redbirds and since I was too young to die. It the fried chicken least recogniza- a country village. was cold that evening and through woodpeckers and sparrows, the bly a cafe's fried chicken, and grass patterned into sere trails by Now I can tell you what it's the next few nights, 26, or 27, or the Babbitt as the best lighted for 28; the townspeople at the cafes the purposed walks of lovers from like to be a captive here. A Negro the benefit of the staring provin- the college across the street, are garageman came and towed me avidly disputed which, and talked cials. I walked abroad on the about going hunting, and building as gentle, quiet, and natural as the in, but four days passed as he square around the squat red brick walks along the Isis in celebrated tried to replace the motor. He a blind by that bridge over the courthouse, ugliness itself, but creek. Oxford. As yet "Nae Poet thought drove late one night to Houston "Joy Noel" whitely painted on the her worth his while,/ To set her and turned over his wrecker when THERE ARE TWO -MOVIES, door windows and a cheery card- name in measur'd style." a barricade (or, as he said, "a board Christmas house in front of I Town and Life, but their aged That evening I discovered, up a bearcage") seemed to leap up at the main entrance. There is a long fare ("China Doll," with Victor side street from the square, the hint from the night road. A junk bench with a curved arm for sit- Mature, and "Me and the Colonel" Businessmen's Club, a worthy es- dealer promised to deliver a mo- ting and reading, but my fingers. with actors better left anony- tablishment where I was able to tor from a truck, but he never would get too cold to flip the mous), did not last long. I had re-sharpen my pool game on the did. A used parts dealed bought a pages, and I would circle around Burns's poetry, in an edition local yuck-yucks. motor near Navasota, and the ga- given my grandfather by the the courthouse, clutching my fin- rageman droVe over to get it, Glasgow and West of Scotland gers in my pocket to the wooden The lobby of the hotel I had worked all night to put it in, and Technical College, he then gave nickle from Nathan Brock's San moved to was the scene of shock- then discovered it was a dud. So me, and some plays by Europeans; Antonio bookstore, which warmed ing violence during my visit. A four days passed during which I they were good company, but not them. father and son killed each other had nothing to do but be alone in• as good as the hunt would have there, a man pushed a woman this country town of the teachers' THE FOURTH DAY I became a been, and the camp at the Ottine through the skylight to her death, college, the Houston memorial, I tourist. HOUSTON AS SENATOR Swamp. It was too deft an irony, From Guidebook at the Memorial a lunatic-thief shot an officer in the state prison, and the square. Outside the Houston memorial, stranded so near, to read: the chest, and a character in West- now ripped up by carpenters. ture on January 21, 1861, when he ern dress shot down a villain in A HUMBLE CREDIT CARD, I working there, is J. H. Bayton's was opposing the secession of the Awa ye selfish, warly race, the coldest blood. I also learned in rl tribute to Houston in the legisla- state from the Union: learned, is no good at a Hum- Wha think that havins, sense, an' this same lobby that aspirin ture on Nov. 3, 1863: "None can "Were governments formed in ble station in such an emergency, grace works better than bufferin, but even if you seem fated to starve qvestion. Hovston's vndying devo- an hour, and human liberty the Ev'n love an' friendship should bufferin hurts less than aspirin; tion to Texas. She was his handi- natural result of revolution, less such a short time before Christ- give place apparently one is a waste of work. He loved her as a father responsibility would attach us as mas. Passing through the .buffet- To catch-the-plack! money, and the other is a menace. loveth his own child. He never we consider the momentous ques- ings of the Christmas carols to the I dinna like to see your face, suffered her rights to be infringed tion before us. A long struggle square, I dropped in on the local Nor hear your crack. Q0 FINALLY `there is nothing bank and was greeted there, too, or her honor to be tarnished. As amid bloodshed and privation se- left to do, and much gnashing in the lobby, by a sparkling But ye whom social pleasure long as there are those who love cured the liberty which has been of linotype machines is audible Christmas tree and an automated charms, Texas, as long as her gloriovs his- our boast for three quarters of a across the prairies from Austin. I tory is read, the name of Hovston century. Wisdom, patriotism, and shall board a bus and go home, will be honored and his noble the noble concessions of great leaving my car with hood agape, deeds emvlated." Inside, a model minds framed our Constitution. motor suspended above it on of a castle—did you know that Long centuries of heroic 'strife at- winches, like a patient having her A Holiday Indulgence Houston's forebears came from test the progress of freedom to stomach replaced. I am looking Sir Hugh's Town, the town around their culminating point Ere the CLOUD 4 be our endorsement of Bruce Al- forward to resuming a normal life, the castle of Sir Hugh of Paclivon work of centuries is undone and Self-pity, flushing under the ger against him. The world, in in which I shall not have to waste near the present Johnstone, Scot- freedom, shorn of her victorious contempt of the psychoanalysts fact, is so full of enveloping con- time reading Bobby Burns or any land? The "Sir" was dropped, garments, is started once again on who consider it neurotic and the tempt, I am going to incorporate other such wastrels and sots. and "Hugh's Town" became Hous- her weary pilgrimage, hoping to patriots who consider it un-Amer- and market it; I can't think of any Sincerely, R.D. ican, is considered among us now other way to turn its tide. one of the lowest orders of feel- You have no idea, ungentle ing. It ranks well below conceit, readers, how all this such bears which can be carried off, espe- down on a man of wilting soul. I Prizes from Banks to Texas Artists cially by tycoons, as self-confi- have lately been clearing the IT With first prize going to Wil- IT Sealing off all approaches to cized the "shameful neglect of the dence, and only a shade above rocks, leaves, brush, and saplings liam Lester of Austin for San Luis Pass near Freeport liberal arts" and the "blind, un- pride, w h i c h has plummeted off a plot of land the side of our "Found on the Beach," the Texas with a fence along the beach, questioning faith in research" sharply since the nation's news- house. This afternoon I took A Fine Arts Assn.'s 28th annual Doug Prince, the "fabulous ham- which often times produces merely papers have agreed it is the Rus- walk through the fragrant mist of membership exhibition was burger king" of Houston, served "a collection of data." sians' n a ti o n a I characteristic. a nearby park and sat for a time shown at Laguna Gloria and Elis- notice he would file trespassing Nevertheless, I am feeling sorry on a swing there, contemplating abet Ney Museum in Austin. charges against anyone passing IT Ralph Gilbert, 21, on trial for for myself, and it's a frightened placidly the at least neutral card- Prizes were donated by American through his gates, explained that murder with malice in Big pleasure, like a secret compulsion. board scraps, orange peels, and National, Austin National, Capitol erosion by tides had driven the Spring, told the court he shot So many of our readers are ant trails thereunder. The truth National, and City National Banks beach line back to the steel piling prominent Howard County' ranch- down on me, and with such good is I am in hiding, alternating be- of Austin; Republic National Bank surrounding his house, that he er Clayton Stewart, 87, in order to reason! Maury Maverick, Jr., is tween the garden, my apartment, of Dallas; First Federal Savings was t i r e d of people driving steal some of his cattle. the park. Now and then, I lurk convinced that I will never over- and Loan, Austin Savings and through his back yard. He put up IT Calling urban renewal "crazy, come my plebeian origins long about in the house downstairs to Loan and Mutual Savings Insti- large posted signs reading, "When watch little Celia rabbit-hunch the same kind of craziness enough to appreciate the filibus- tution, Austin. Scarbrough Dept. the county commissioners decide that is central in Karl Marx's ter, which protects liberal aristo- across the living room floor and Store, Austin; Pearl Brewing Co., to build a road through this prop- pull over the Christmas tree, or dialectical materialism," Ed crats of his style from the Rule of San Antonio; the Children's Medi- Schwille, chairman of the White the Rabble (a synonym, peasants, poke her little baby fingers into cal Center, Austin; and several in- the fireplace; to tell young Gary Rock (Dallas) committee for con- for the majority). Jim Smith and dividuals ... Van Cliburn gave servative legislation, identified the Loren Brantley of the Steelwork- to take the axe out of his play- the Texas for Christ Evangelistic room and put it back in the sand- The Way of Life federal aid program as "pure com- ers are quite sure that if I were Assn. "a generous check." The as- munism." (Fort Worth voters re- handed a steel ingot, I would drop pile; to snarl at my wife, who is sociation had given him a Bible resisting my New Year's resolu- jected slum clearance 4-to-1 re- it on my foot, and then fall on my .... Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, erty, the property for the road cently.) / face; while friends in the Austin tion to take up opium smoking. the University of Texas historian will be donated free. Complain to labor movement . have concluded But let the phone ring, or a knock and president of the American your county commissioner." Apprekimately 3,000 formally with fists smacking on palms that come at the door, like a gazelle I Historical Society, received an attired San Antonians at- An entire family of forgers, the decadence of unrestrained in- bound off into the creekbed. honorary doctor of laws degree ¶ tended the 25th annual Interna- who are charged with sup- dividualism is pr o v e d beyond All, however, is not lost. I am from the University of Chicago. tional Black and White Ball, de- porting themselves with "four- cavil by my horrible example. I yet a sigh away from despair; signed to bring "Latins and An- day work months" stealing gov- have in hand the back of the hand not totally forsook; still loved. IT After dismissing 30 wife-beat- glos together," at the Municipal ernment checks from mailboxes of a faithful Lyndon Johnson man My Mother will be here Christmas ing cases because he said he Auditorium. and passing them in retail stores who has concluded that I am so day. To her who read me Dickens was tired of wives filing charges from Virginia to Texas landed in fr The University of Texas has stupid, jaundiced, and beyond re- before I could well lift the book and then not prosecuting and be- jail in Corpus Christi. Fifty-seven 495 students from 60 political claim that the most I can do now I shall read a stanza from Sir cause in 99 cases out of a hundred year-old Minnie Lee Carr, two subdivisions of the world outside for the social good is clamber into John Davies: a "mean tempered woman was re- sons, and a daughter-in-law await the continental U. S. The countries the Green Hornet, my 1948 Shiva- I know my life's a pain and but sponsible for all the trouble," trial; the father of the clan is most numerously represented: lay, and drive at maximum speed a span; Fort Worth county court judge serving a 10-year-prison term China, 44; Mexico and India, 33 (35, or 40 on cold days) into Lake I know my sense is mock'd in J. C. Duvall endeavored to try the and the third son is free on pa- each; Syria, 32, and Thailand, 27. Austin, ridding the world, in one everything; thirty-first case, heard the de- role. Only 132 are from the Western dive, of two eyesores. Barefoot And, to conclude, I know myself fendant's plea "It wasn't my wife Hemisphere. Sanders has decided, I am ap- a Man— IT Taking office as the fifth prised, that the best thing that Which is a proud and yet a I struck, it was my mother-in- dent of Texas Western Uni- THE TEXAS OBSERVER could happen to him in 1900 would wretched thing. R.D. law," and dismissed it, too. versity, Dr. Joseph Smiley criti• Page 6 Dec. 26, 1958 Texas. Ora McGinley, Guardian, day after the expiration of 42 days in the above numbered and en- from the.date of issuance hereof; titled estate, filed on the 10th day that is to say,'St or before, 10 o'- of November, 1958 her verified clock A. M. of Monday, the 5th A Piano Player's Friends day of January, 1959, and answer account for final settlement of said estate and requests that said the petition of plaintiff in Cause (Born at Frankston, 25 miles "they are good Democrats and the United States may do. But estate be settled and closed, and Number 112,044, in which W. E. Linder is Plaintiff and the above north of Palestine, Grady Price good El :era's." There was the we're worse afraid of Russia." said applicant be discharged from her trust. named defendants are defendants, attended the Texas School for the union official who was rather hes- Endre shipped out that night. filed in said Court on the 29th day That is the way of life in a sea- Said application will be heard of October, 1958, and the nature of Blind in Austin three years, tak- itant in saying whom he supported and acted on by said Court at 10 port city. You make friends with which said suit is as follows: ing up piano there his second for governor. "Well, I did vote for o'clock A. M. on the first Monday Being an action and prayer for year; transferring to Frankston Gonzalez, but I think he hurt him- people you probably will never next after the expiration of ten judgment in favor of Plaintiff and self a lot by getting mad when see again. days from date of publication of against Defendants for title to public schools, he continued pri- this citation, the same being the and possession of the following vate piano lessons until he gradu- people called him a greaser," he 12th day of January, 1959, at the described property situated in ated. He received his bachelor of said. 4 County Courthouse is Austin, Travis County, •Texas, to-wit: CONSIDERDER A POLISH sailor I Texas. journalists degree from the Uni- It seems most people in this Lots One (1) and Two (2), Block CONSI was not really Polish. - All persons interested in said Six (6), Eastfield Addition to the versity of Texas, moved to Hous- area came from East Texas or the estate are hereby cited to appear City of Austin, Texas, according There was no longer any tangible ton in January, 1957, and now Southern states. Their racial point before said Honorable Court at to the map or plat of record in Poland for him, only a memory said above mentioned time and Vol. 4, P. 80, Travis County Plat freelances at writing and piano of view has not often been that could never take reality place by filing a written answer records. playing. He plays solo or combo, changed by their joining labor contesting such application should Plaintiff alleged that on Octo- again. He is British now. pop standards and jazz.—Ed.) unions with liberal racial plat- they desire to do so. ber 25, 1958, plaintiff was and still When the Germans had invaded The officer executing this writ is the owner in fee simple of said forms. shall promply serve the same above described property and on 1 Some labor leaders say this is Poland, he had been the youngest according to requirements of law, such day he was in possession of probably the most critical point child in a large family. His parents and the mandates hereof, and such premises, when defendants GREENS BAYOU and brothers and sisters were make due return as the law directs. unlawfully entered upon and dis- ABOR NEGOTIATIONS sure in Texas unionism today but that Given under my hand and the possessed him of the same and progress is being made. killed or deported: he has never "LI- ain't what they used to be," seal of said court at office in withhold from him the possession In this strong labor area, where heard from any of them again. Austin, Texas, this the 17th day thereof; the man said. 4 of December, A. D. 1958. alternative for a partition of said Yarborough has always stacked That was as much as he would say He was middle aged; a member EMILIE LIMBERG property; Plaintiff alleges that he up giant leads, Gonzalez lost. "I about the Nazi occupation. and defendant Glency Moore, also of the United Steel Workers. I Clerk of the County Court didn't vote for anyone for gover- Then the Russians had come. He Travis County, Texas, known as Glency Brooks, or the had just met him at a bar here By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy legal representatives of the un- nor or "I just couldn't vote for was 14 or 15 by then. He decided in Greens Bayou, a section of known heirs of Glency Moore, Gonzalez because of his racial to leave his wrecked Poland. I also known as Glency Brooks, if Houston. We were having a cock- CITATION BY PUBLICATION stand and certainly not for invited•him to my house after the she is dead, are owners of undi- tail hour beer, and he was remi- THE STATE OF TEXAS vided interests in said property, O'Daniel; Daniel was the only one 12 o'clock Texas closing time for TO Edward George Sullivan niscing about "the good old, rough- the reasonable value thereof be- left," are the things I've been bars, and we listened to Chopin Defendant, in the hereinafter ing estimated by plaintiff to be and-ttimble days" in labor affairs. styled and numbered cause: told over and over by union mem- records, which he asked . for. Eleven Hundred Dollars ($1100.- "Most of the days when you You are hereby commanded to 00). Plaintiff alleges that he owns bers. As we listened to the second appear before the 126th District an undivided one-half (1/2) in- had to use rough stuff was before piano sonata, he told me how he Court of Travis County, Texas, to terest in said property and de- my time, but I've heard the old- had hidden for months waiting to be held at the courthouse of said fendant G 1 enc y Moore, also timers talking about it. Those county in the City of Austin, known as Glency Brooks, or her Grady Price escape the country. Finally he got Travis County, Texas, at or before unknown heirs or legal repre- were really men," he said. "They to Germany and from there to 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Mon- sentatives, own the other undi- never knew when they might be There is also the man I met England. He married, became a day after the expiration of 42 days vided one-half (1/2) interest in shot or have their heads bashed from the date of issuance hereof; said property; Plaintiff further al- who was born and grew up in seaman, and eventually Her Ma- that is to say, at or before, 10 leges that said property is not in. They knew what they wanted Michigan, moved with his parents jesty's subject. o'clock A. M. of Monday the 26th subject to partition in kind and and went after it. I really admire to Miami when he was 15, and After talking of Joseph Con- day of January, 1959, and answer that same should be ordered sold them." the petition of plaintiff in Cause and the proceeds thereof divided later came to Houston to work. rad for a while, he returned to Number 111,669, in which Edna one-half to plaintiff and one-half He spoke as of a golden era. "I think integregation will take the topic which seemed to fill his Sullivan is Plaintiff and Edward to defendant Glency Moore, also known as Glency Brooks, or if "We take it all for granted nowa- a long time," he said. "In theory mind obsessively. "Poland!" he George Sullivan is defendant, filed days, I guess. I guess we've lost in said Court on the 16th day of she is dead to her unknown heirs I'm for it. I think it will come, but whispered. "Poor Poland! I shall September, 1908, and the nature or legal representatives; that to something." it shouldn't be rushed." never go back there. It's the loss- of which said suit is as follows: effect such sale a Receiver be ap- "There still are a lot of men tieing an action and prayer for pointed; Plaintiff further prays His father, he said, had never . such a wonderful country—you for costs of suit and relief, general with imagination in labor," I said. judgment in favor of Plaintiff and seen a Negro before he went to cannot understand." And he began against Defendant for decree of and special; "There may be a few," he ad- Florida, "as far as I know. As to cry. He wept as Chopin filled divorce dissolving the bonds of All of which more fully appears mitted, "but we don't have to fight matrimony heretofore and now from Plaintiffs Original Petition soon as he got to Florida, he be- the air. on file in this office and to which like we used to, and that takes existing between said parties; came the biggest niggerhater you He left at two. He shipped out Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on reference is here made for all in- something out of it." ever saw. He was worse than the the part of Defendant towards her tents and purposes; at three. That was that. If this citation is not served "Take Walter Reuther," I said. Southerners. I never understood of such a nature as to render their But Endre I saw again. It futher living together as husband within 90 days after date of its "Now there's a man with plenty it." was in October. Lebanon was a and wife altogether insupportable; issuance, it shall be returned un- served. memory, but now there were Plaintiff further alleges that one WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., "Walter Reuther!" he growled. 3 Quemoy and Matsu, and still child was born of said union and Clerk of the District Courts of Y FAVORITE Greens Bayou that plaintiff is the proper per- "I guess Reuther's done some John. Foster Dulles. Travis County, Texas. M bar has its international days, son to be awarded its care and Issued and given under my hand good for the United Automobile I walked into the neighborhood custody and for which she prays as well as its local talk about poli- and the seal of said Court at of- Workers, but he wants the niggers bar. "Hey, piano player," a thick judgment; Plaintiff further alleges fice in the City of Austin, this the tics, race, hill-billy versus any of that Defendant is able to and to rule this country. I guess it's Norwegian accent greeted me. 20th day of November, 1958. the outlandish, unlistenable forms should be required to contribute 0. T. MARTIN, JR. natural with his union 60 percent "Join us." I sat with him and an- the sum of $50.00 pet month for Clerk of the District Courts, of music—jazz, Guy Lombardo, the support of such minor child niggers, but we're not going to other Norwegian seaman. "Have Travis County, Texas Johnny Mathis, to say nothing of and for which she prays judgment; By. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. take it." some gin," Endre said. "No Plaintiff further prays for an opera and other strange impor- "Well," I said, unprepared for thanks," I said. "Just a Bud." order dividing the property of THE STATE OF TEXAS this turn in the conversation, tations—and the various merits of the parties and for relief, general TO Harry P. Boyd, Defendant, "don't you think Negroes should Pearl, Lone Star, Jax, and Grand We exchanged notes for the and special; in the hereinafter styled and num- past two or three months. There All of which more fully appears bered cause: have equal rights with other Prize. from Plaintiff's Original Petition was a sudden lapse in the con- You are hereby commanded to American citizens?" International day comes when on file in this office and to which appear before the 126th District certain ships hit port. There ap- versation. I must have looked as reference is here made; "Now looky here, hold on just If this citation is not served with- Court of Travis County, Texas, to a second," he said. "It goes this- pears to be agreement between a if I were about to say something be held at the courthouse of said when Endre said, "Now let's don't in 90 days after date of its issu- county in the City of Austin., Tra- away. They're trying to get too certain bar and a particular cab ance, it shall be returned un- vis County, Texas, at or before company as to seaman. If your talk about politics." "All right," I served. much. They oughta be satisfied WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Mon- company will bring the sailors to said, surprised. day after the expiration of 42 days with what we've givin"em. In a Clerk of the District Courts of from the date of issuance hereof; democracy a minority don't have my bar, I will call your cabs to I remembered another seaman Travis County, Texas. that is to say, at or before, 10 o'- take them when they want to go a year or so ago who had told me, Issued and given under my hand clock A. M. of Monday the 29th any rights that the majority don't and seal of said Court at office. back to the ship. Under this "Now let's don't talk about poli- day of December, 1958, and an- give em. Don't you see, it works in the City of Austin, this the 12th swer the petition of plaintiff in like this ...." arrangement the seamen appear to tics," or words to that effect. He day of December, 1958. Cause Number 112,171, in which be satisfied if bilked. It can be was Welsh, and he had said, "I 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Dealva L. Boyd is Plaintiff and Clerk of the District Courts, can't afford to discuss political Harry P. Boyd is defendant, filed 2 rationalized that they want to Travis County, Texas. in said Court on the 13th day of HE GREENS BAYOU section of spend a little money for a little matters, where anyone can hear By G. BICKLER, Dephty. November, 1958, and the nature of T Houston, where I live, and fun, which actually they do. They me. I was deported once for being which said suit is as follows: CITATION BY PUBLICATION Being an action and prayer for nearby Pasadena have probably don't mind tipping the piano a socialist. I don't want that to THE STATE OF TEXAS judgment in favor of Plaintiff and the major concentration of indus- player either! happen again." So I listened to TO Tom Moore, if living, and, if against Defendant for decree of try in heavily industrial Harris Out on the town to consume as Endre's opinion of "Gregg" with- dead, the legal representatives of divorce dissolving the bonds of the said Tom Moore and the un- matrimony heretofore and now County. There are steel mills, tool much I. W. Harper, Srnirnov, out protest. Griegg and Chopiri known heirs of the said Tom existing between said parties; mandacturers, oil refiner i e s, Gilberts and Budweiser as a thirs- and all the other great national Moore; the legal representatives Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment of the unknown heirs of the said chemical pants, paper mills, rub- ty mariner can, they do some composers, who are lesser lights on the part of Defendant towards Tom Moore if the unknown heirs her of such a nature as to render ber plants. Railroads criss-cross things rather strange to the land- for me in the musical firmament, of the said Tom Moore are dead; their further living together as the area. The ship channel, accom- lubber. There was, for example, I realized were a part of some the unknown heirs of the un- husband and wife altogether in- known heirs of Tom Moore, if the supportable; Plaintiff further al- modating one of the world's lar- the Swedish sailor who enjoyed people's very existence. unknown heirs of the said Tom leges that no children were born gest ports, is close at hand. eating the bar's glasses until the Moore are dead; and Glency of said union and no community There are also schools, plenty of management put a stop to it in the Moore, also known as Glency property accumulated; Plaintiff LEGALS Brooks, if living, and, if dead, the further prays that her maiden rent houses, small commonplace interests of efficient service. legal representatives of the said name, Dealva L. Edwards, be re- cafes and drive-ins, banks, hos- One seaman I had the pleasure To any Sheriff or any Constable Glency Moore, also known as stored to het: - Plaintiff further Glency Brooks, and the unknown pitals, union halls, bowling alleys, of talking to, Endre from Norway, within the State of Texas— prays for cost of suit and relief, Greeting: heirs of the said Glency Moore, general and special; and bars and bars and bars. told me he liked Americans better You are hereby commanded to also known (as Glency Brooks; the All of which more fully appears The bars, like the industry and legal representatives of the un- from Plaintiff's Original Petition than Englishmen. "Americans take cause to be published, once, not known heirs of the said Glency shipping, bring people from all baths, and English don't." less than ten' days before the re- on file in this office and to which turn day thereof, exclusive of the Moore, also known as Glency reference is here made; parts of the country and the After playing a few bars of Brooks, if the unknown heirs of If this citation is not served date of publication, in a newspa- the said Glency Moore, also world. Sit in a Greens Bayou bar Griegg for him on the bar's grand per printed in Travis County, within 90 days after date of its known as Glency Brooks are issuance, it shall be returned un- long enough and you'll meet piano (which needs tuning), I Texas, the -accompanying citation, dead; the unknown heirs of the of which the herein below follow- served. people from nearly any state or was his lifelong friend. "Griegg unknown heirs of Glency Moore, WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., ing is a true copy—(but if there also known as Glency Brooks, if country. (he pronounced it Gregg)—Griegg Clerk of the District Courts of be no newspaper so printed in the unknown heirs of the said Travis County; Texas. Issued and As a piano player I spend a lot is the greatest composer who said county, then that you cause Glency Moore, also known as the said citation to be posted for given under my hand and the seal of time in some of these beer ever lived." Glency Brooks, are dead; Defend- of said Court at office in the City at least TEN days before the re- ants, in the hereinafter styled and of • Austin, this the 13th day of palaces (out-of-staters usually I met him during the time of turn term thereof as required by numbered cause: November, 1958. complain about Texas liquor the American invasion of Leba- law). You (and each of you) are O. T. MARTIN, JR, non. Between his "shore duty" hereby commanded to appear be- Clerk of the District Courts, laws). CITATION BY PUBLICATION fore the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas. Piano players meet a lot of and his Norwegian accent, I had The State of Texas Travis County, Texas, to be held By A. E. JONES, Deputy people. There was the steel com- trouble understanding him. "We To all persons interested in the at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis OBSERVER pany executive who voted for don't like it," he said, changing estate of G. T. McGinley, A Per- THE TEXAS son of Unsound Mind, No. 17,380, County, Texas, at or before Page 7 Dec._26, 1958 Yarborough and Gonzalez because W's to V's. "We are afraid of what County Court, Travis County, 10 o'clock A.M. of the first Mon-

Gandhi in the South A Confused Intention the flambuoyant funeral of Victor character created by Alfred Jarry's STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM, bs action between individuals to a (Roger Shattuck, native East- Hugo: He leaves all of his money pen and by his life, remains in- Martin Luther King, Jr., Har- powerful and effective social force erner, bomber pilot in World War to the poor. He lAlieves in God. comprehensible to one who does per's, 1958, $2.95. on a large scale. Love for Gandhi II, teacher at Harvard, is now as- Brass bands and all night pro- not read the play. Therefore it was a potent instrument for social sistant professor of Romance cessions. Women give themselves is hard to know whether Shat- BOULDER, COLO. and collective transformation. It languages at the University of to lovers to become mothers of tuck aims his book at a profession- was in this Gandhian emphasis on A social revolution began, ap- Texas, but is on leave for study in immortals. Paris loves its relic. al or lay audience. It can only be love and non-violence that I dis- propriately enough, for it was to France on Fulbright and Guggen- The social structure is changing, assumed that he means to address covered the method for social re- be a Gandhian movement, in a heim grants in. 1958.—Ed.) we see. Salons move into cafes. both. This is unfortunate, for the form that I had been seeking ...." quiet way December 1, 1955, in In them, the mesdemoiselles co- biographies will not satisfy a Montgomery, Alabama. A city bus THE BANQUET YEARS, by The boycott continued after Mrs. Roger cottes become queens, set the hungry romantic, and the technical loaded with 36 passengers stopped Shattuck, Harcourt Brace and Parks was fined; the Negro pro- fashion. We recall the thin, ner- dissertations could hardly help in front of the Empire Theatre Company, 1958, $8.50. vous woman, rice powered, in the zealous scholars. where six white passengers board- posals for ending the boycott in- white dress and long black gloves. However, it is obvious that Shat- ed. Since all the seats were occu- cluded requests for more courte- HOUSTON Sarah Bernhardt whispers HAM- tuck knows what he is talking pied, the driver asked the Negroes ous treatment of Negro passen- The twentieth century, says our LET. The theatre thrives. about. (Indeed, the extensive bibli- nearest the front to give their gers, seating on a first come, first professor, could not wait for a The arts thrive. Artists are play- ography barely exceeds the string seats to the white passengers. Mrs. serve basis with Negroes contin- round number, but was born, yell- ful, destructive publicity seekers. of credits after the author's own Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, uing to sit from the rear of the ing, in 1885. The cult of childhood, naivete, is name.) refused. "I don't really know why bus and whites from ithei front, Setting the scene, he starts with their cry for re-evaluation. As I wouldn't move," she has said. and Negro drivers to be employed THESE CHAPTERS OVER, his Nihilists, they work tirelessly to "There was no plot or plan at all. on routes predominately Negro. I material dispensed with, Shat- I was just tired from shopping. Although the demands were mod- tuck. plunges into his final trea- My feet hurt." Mrs. Parks was erate, city and transit officials Louisiana tise, linking together the work of taken from the bus and arrested. were not willing to grant them. Nancy Fagg these four men and their sort King then realized "that the un- with what has come since. He derlying purpose of segregation Promise prove that out of nothing can painstakingly traces the prece- was to oppress and exploit the come something. The banquet is dents they set through to the pre- George Hendrick segregated, not simply to keep their testimonial. sent day. Although this is what them apart. Even when we asked Weakens According to Shattuck (Obs. the cover tells us that the book is for justice within the segregation Nov. 21), four men in particular all about, it seems oddly. beside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in THE HARD BLUE SKY, by Shir- laws, the 'powers that be' were illustrate how these, the banquet the point and can only be in- Stride Toward Freedom, describes ley Ann Grau, Alfred A. Knopf, not willing to grant it. Justice years, gave rise to the avant-garde tended to sooth, for what he is the consequences of Mrs. Park's New York, 466pp. $5. refusal. Two days latter, circulars and equality, I saw, would never in France. They are Henri Rous- actually doing is pressing our AUSTIN requesting a one-day boycott of come while segregation remained, seau, painter; Eric Satie, com- noses against a spirited era in Louisiana's young new girl the bus system appeared through- because the basic purpose of seg- poser; Alfred Jarry, playwright; artistic evolution and reminding writer made a better impression out the Negro section of the city. regation was to perpetuate in- and Guillaume Apollinaire, paint- us that this, its grandchild, is not. with The Black Prince stories King has described his philosophic justice and inequality." er-poet. Thus, very much in the "Forty years after the Banquet than persists in this, her first position: " ...I came to see that nature of a lecture with slides, Years, in an era of social adjust- novel. It is set among the people what we were really doing was King describes methods of the begins Shattuck's treatise on a ment, mass communication, and of one island of three across the withdrawing our cooperation from opposition to destroy the boycott: subject about which we have all normal response, the resolve to be mouth of a marsh, and in the an evil system ... The bus corn- indictments for violation of a 1921 become unashamedly nostalgic, oneself and live one's life in the marsh itself, where two lovers pany, being an external expres- Alabama anti-boycott law, harass- France in its bohemian heyday, face of misunderstanding and dis- get lost. One is reminded of some- sion of the system, would natural- ment by the police, bombings at the end of the 19th century until approval has come increasingly to one's idea that a poet can never ly suffer, but the basic aim was to the homes of Negro leaders. State the First World War. He proceeds be branded as nonconformity— be judged on his short poems, refuse to cooperate with evil. At officials sought an injunction in orderly fashion, to devote two even schizophrenia. But confor- that the longer, sustained work this point I began to think about c h a r g i n g the association with chapters to each of the four, one mity, in life and art, in love and must be weighed in. The sugges- Thoreau's Essay on Civil Dis- operating an illegal transit system on his life, the other his work. in work, must be to one's inner tion, the promise which were obedience. to transport Negroes' to work, but Everything is orderly except the being and not to the world. The I remembered how, as enough for the stories are not a college student, I had been before the state could obtain an intent of the author, everything is most notable figures of the Ban- enough for "the hard blue sky." moved when I first read this work. injunction, the United States Su- clear except for whom his book quet Years practiced external A severe detachment, or lack of I became convinced what we were preme Court ruled that bus segre7 is intended. non-conformity in order to attain gation in Montgomery was illegal. deep emotion, or both, debilitate conformity within the individual." preparing to do in Montgomery her people and permit her an. epi- HE BIOGRAPHIES are witty, Thus emerges the author in yet was related to what Thoreau had isodic execution of 'a conception TENSION STILL exists in Mont- T anecdotal, inadequate as bi- another role, that of social com- expressed." which might have been epic. Her gomery, but King in his re- ographies. Just as we are getting mentator. evocative skill with descriptive strained account has shown con- to know quiet, determined Henri It is not against the book to say LTHOUGH KING expected prose rewards the reader here A 60 per cent of the Negro bus clusively that the critics of Thor- Rousseau, who waited until he'd that it follows the inclination now- and there, but her dialogue is pe- adays to look back, alas, not in riders to participate in the boy- eau and Gandhi who have argued finished his career as ' a civli ser- destrian and frequently aimless. anger, but with regret, to an era cott on December 5, the day of that American civilization is too vant to do more than Sunday R. D. more human than our own. What Mrs. Parks's trial, only a 'few materialistic for successful civil paint, the chapter is brought, to is regrettable, however, is that in Negroes rode the buses that day. disobedience struggles are wrong. an abrupt close. The next one, a LEGALS trying to cover too much material That night, after Mrs. Parks was The eighteenth century Quaker, close examination of his style and in too little space, and hitting at fined $10, Dr. King, who had only John Woolman, after a trip into TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: methods of working and his pro- recently returned to the South the South, observed that the vices Notice is hereby given that J. E. fessional life in detail, is often too wide a market, Shattuck has Miller and Bruce Inman, a part- fallen short of his capabilities. after studying theology for several and corruptions surrounding slav- nership, composing the firm of J.. repetitious and, considering the Perhaps, instead of writing one years in the North, was elected ery made a "dark gloominess" E. Miller Drilling Company, of book's subject, could be omitted Abilene, Texas, intends to incor- book for $8.50, he should have president of the Montgomery "Im- hang over the land, and he saw without serious loss. porate such firm without a change written five books for $2. provement Assn., the central or- that "the consequences will be of firm name after the expiration Several times during Apollin- g an i zati on in the non-violent grievous to posterity." Dr. King's of thirty days from this date, save aire's life the lecture takes flight HE HALF TONES, picturing and except, said name shall be J. and we desert our seats to follow T our heroes with their numer- movement. detailed comments on a non-vio- E. Miller Drilling Co., Inc. lent solution to the grievous pro- Dated this the 8th day of No- him through his war adventures. ous loves, and bits from their While studying at Crozer Theo- blems of racial disharmony in vember, 1958. The technical discussion of Eric notebooks, are lively but hardly J. E. MILLER DRILLING logical Seminary, he first read and the South will undoubtedly in- COMPANY Satie's music comes through to a worth the price. The jacket, how- evaluated the Gandhian ideas: fluence other Negro groups to (by) BRYAN BRADBURY non-musician like myself crystal ever, admirably designed by Janet "Gandhi was probably the first apply similar methods in their Attorney of Record clear, but then Pere Ubu, the Halverson, is. person in , history to lift the love struggle for first class citizen- THE TEXAS OBSERVER ethic of Jesus above mere inter- ship. Page 8 Dec. 26, 1958 The Lion and the Oxen

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