Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 18

EDITORIALS CORPUS CIIRISTI CALLER THURSDAY JANUARY 25 1939 Today and Tomorrow 1 Rcdislricliug By WALTER Iimi INN t( until be a food thins If Congress rould deal with rivtl right legislation early In Dip session For later on especially In the spring and during the summer there are likely to he many distraction There will he the usual tiaffio jam o( hills and in all probability there will he spectacular events In foreign affairs ow and in the next few months there is an opportunity to pay attention to the great issue involved in the on the commissioners court The principle is fundamental to democratic government Allocation of road and bridge money on the basis of road mileage is a mere bookkeeping matter and continued improvement of the farm to market road program is well established in slate law Rural This distinction betvron votes and school I in praetica today the distinction between what Congress may he able to deal with effoctiely and what It cannot now hope to legislate about or to rnforre If could legislate This distinction I at the core of the Johnson compromise on the rules about cloture to atop a filibuster In Ihi compromise the Southerner In effect agreed not to filibuster against legislation to pro tort political rights If they retained the power to filibuster against legislation about social rights Pule XXII as amended saya lhat legislation may he killed hy filibuster if the wlwle South Is united against the legislation County Judge Nosh Kennedy appears to be launching a campaign that may result in redislrirting commissioners' precincts in Nueces County His initial proposal is to appoint a citizens' committee to make an exhaustive study of the subject and make recommendations to the commissioners court Precinct rcdistricting in Nueces County is long overdue of course The present alignment permits one commissioner (Precinct 2) to he elected by 17 per cent of the voters in the county whereas the commissioner of Precinct 4 (Corpus Christ! and Port Aransas) was elected by 70 per cent of the voters in the county Any redistriciing plan must based a3 nearly as possible on rqual population representation of precincts residents therefore are protected against urban of road funds and the principle of equal tax- wl1 1 atinr It WH useful to take Stock iPqyalrPprPSCntati0nCanbe the present position as aeon reestablished fmm lhp of vfpw of Jhnp One aspect of any rcdistricting pro- who wish to realize not to resist posit 1 must not be overlooked It is and to nullify the enjoyment by this The regular August meeting of Negme of the constitutional the commissioners court this year is rteht hi-h am now denied to tlf? only one that can act on red is- hnn Mnr pwiwly we nviy trifling during Ihe next two-year pe- "sk what 1" i nj- tmn In the firM of affirmative riorl Rrdisiricting can plished only on odd-numbered years under state law and court decisions Negative Lcaricrshii Anastas I Mikoyan's superb performance as a missionary of good will to the United States must have reinforced the fears of our foreign policy makers that the American artjnn hy Cnngreas? Tbe answer broadly speakins la that Irsislation to prtert the right to vol has a far better prospert than legislation riirrrlrd against segregation in the public irhnnls It ha a belter prosper! nf being passed hy Congress without a serknia filibuster and it has a better pmspert of bring accepted and observed In all but the deepest and darkest South Tlirre Is of course a close connection between the degree of resistance to a hill In the Senate and the degree of resistance (o a law in the states afferted For all practical purpose one may nay that civil right legists-tion which I opposed hy virtually all Ihe -Southern slates will tn prartlee he nullified in the Southern state The etlslcnr of this distinction lias now been confirmed a the working rule both hy President Eisenhower and Sen lyndon Johnson Th President did this at the National Pres Club conference on Wednesday January 11th lfe was asked this question: "In 1037 Congress passed at your suggestion a civil righta hill deal Ing largely with voting Do yon think the Congress should pass civil righta legislation dealing ape-cifirally with problems arising fmm school The President replied "I think when we get Into the field of laV here must he very careful I do believe In the law concerning voting A few days later Sen Johnson introduced hi program to protect civil right It I a hill to extend the life of the Civil Righta Commission to do something about the bombings In the Southern state to et up a mediation and conciliation aervice In racial conflicts and tn give the attor-ney general subpoena powers under the voting right law On the rcntral distinction between voting rights and school desegregation the President and Senator Johnson are agreed In principle public is much too gullible For Mi-icoyan succeeded in charming and MrfHtM J-wtfcwW amount to an unconditional surrender on the part of Soviet Russia and therefore unacceptable to the Communists This is at the most purely negative leadership It offers no room for diplomatic maneuver It freezes the great power struggle almost in perpetuity Yet who can say lhat Dulles is misreading history or that he is on Ihe wrong side of history in the Twentieth Century? If conviction is enough Dulles has more than enough of it But Dulles should not then call like Cromwell upon God as his witness that the preservation of Ihe status quo is a noly mission To walk humbly is also an attribute of greatness Could John Cogley writing in The Commonweal have been thinking of Dulles in this Some HERE IS TIIE MISSILE STOH I TT'TnTTT'RCl TIisfsllicBirililay JLiJIi JL 1 JLjJLLO Of Thomas Paine Beginning In the late summer of 1937 It has become clear that In respect to Cop ires the mad forward is that of legislation to prntert the right to wile This was shown In the Civil flight Act of 1937 Die first civil rights Icgis-lation of any kind to nass Congress since the end of the Reconstruction period This act authorized Federal intervention in the stales to protect the right to vote It wss passed without a filibuster when but only when the administration even half-way persuading lard-headed capitalists that Soviet Russia is an attractive market for their wares The British wpckly The Fcnnomist Iln a penetrating study of American foreign policy in a recent issue summed up the American problem I in these words: "The most rndur- ing influence affecting American foreign policy is a profound lack of con- fidence in the staying power of western public opinion when exposed to 'a sophisticated challenge from its potential It is this belief that persuades Secretary of State Dulles (loudly seconded by his predecessor Dean Acheson) to make of American foreign policy a holding operation addressed in a sense to the successors of Nikita Khrushchev Company The Economist concludes Thus Dulles may be remembered as the Twentieth Century Metternich holding fast to what we haw and trusting to the future no matter how distant to produce a climate favorable to our interpretation of history Therefore we cannot recognize Red China for fear that it will w-eaken the resolution of our allies or the neu- good players on the Miller team but in their experienced eyes they saw a player on the Ray team who was just a little bit better and This then is for the time being the way forward to use tlie fede--fal power to enable qualified Negroes to vote If this can be accomplished it will make a great difference For insofar as the Negro people are able to vote in the deep South there will he a Sen Johnson said "plenty where there must be a recognition that there are times in history as well as in one's personal life when tragic choices can not voided A tragic choice is never humanly satis- rart Iir whlrh wmiM hav( factory One can never be absolutely confident that one has made the correct choice In such cases no matter which way one acts evil inevitably sonal and a trifla ol time shared by a number of people from ail factions We claim wt are a Christian nation Action do speak louder than mere word Let ua at least make an effort to help those who have lost all hope We can't do any harm if we don't entirely sneered This writer doe not have the time nor ability to sponsor rich an organization hut would coop prate in a small way tn do a part if a number of Christians would he interested in establishing such an organization CONCERNED Editor Die Caller: January 29th is the 222nd anniversary of the birth of Thomas Paine one of the founders of our nation Introduced and sponsored into the colonies by Benjamin Franklin Paine wrote his series of "Common pamphlets that in less than a year led to the Declaration of Independence Historical research proves that Paine was co-author of that document with Throughout the revolution "times that tried mm's and sustained the hnpex of the hard-pressed Continentals actually "without the pen of Paine thrv ran do to help ISM HrrsM TrlNinl 1 will first say I am a true Bur fan as I played for the Burs three years and I think the B-ies had a great hall club this ye-r Because the-Burs advanred to the state finals doe not mean thy should place anyone on the all-stale first team I think 'they should he proud of Mike Carrw and Sammy Garza being placed the second team which is actual results Still oftentimes the only ir'ii 171 I ST fvY)lTf choices open to us are tragic choices nlj iMlloi ft To avoid making them is to abdicate Tl I Ovcrstrccls Book from responsibility To ait in facile moral judgment on them once they the word of Washington would murh different from th Probes Red Dcplhs tralists In Asia Therefore we cannot have been made wrapping oneself in offer an alternative to the reunion of the principles that had to be slighted Germany "through free when they were made is cruelly selfeven though we know that this would first team As for Butch Couch he must hav been a fine football player or he would not have been placed on the all-stale team DICK DeSALME OFFICE SEEKS TIIE MAN The hook is "What We Must Know Communism pub lished a few months ago by Norton and Company NY ft deal with more than corn-munism tlvuigh it plumbs communism's roots it appeal and 1 if delusions as nothing you have ever likely road It shed such new shafts nf light on Communist teaching and tartir that everyone who reads it will he better equip ped tn do his part in arresting its encroachment Moves Johnson Toward White House Mike Carew Is just as good a back as any of those all-state first string hacks I saw Ihe Buccaneers heat Thomas Jefferson' and Mike Carew was tremendous and as the newspaper said tv was in on every play except one And he really waa I also saw Aix Green allstale first string hack and he was good hut so was Mike DOLORES NEELEY haw been wielded in vain" After the war Faine wrote "The Right of Man" and took an active part in organizing the constitution of the newly formed French republic Soon after he wrote "The Age of Reason" in which he went far to liberate the mind of man from the tyranny of organized superstition This work ha never hern riispmvdn and the -passing of year only add more know-ledge to its basic truths Thomas Paine was freedom-loving and the first freedom Is freedom from fear Therefore god-fearing is an imnoihe analogy the impossible fear nf an improbable god A world where starvation and rrurlty abounds where rhildren have never known nought hut hunger la not the creation of a beneficent supreme being A world where men women and rhildren are denied a plare In humanity because of Like Hrooklyn Editor tha Caller: A number of names hava been suggested for the new bridge In selecting a name we should have in mind a name that would Met tify the one which is known not only in our city or slate but throughout the United States in the same manner aa the name nf the Brooklyn Bridge iden tifies it locality (jorpua Christ! is now a city and 'promises to be a murh larger city in the future Corpus Christl la the only city In the world 0 named Would not the name pua Chlrsti Bridge" be significant and meaningful to people everywhere? From a commercial standpoint it Is importsnt that when tha Chamber of Commerce send out literature the bridge have a name whirh definitely link the bridge with the city Corpus Chris-ti will be here as long a tha bridge exists and the bridge should therefore bear a name which will mean something to It deal with more than what we know shout communism It deals with what we must do shout communism in our minds In our nation and in our nmrid It an-swers such questions as these: Since Lenin and Khrushchev look upon peace as "respite for Enough is Stop the letters about Rue from Miller" The Burs had a great learn (he past year hut I agree with from San Renl-to Some Buc fan are an irate and prejudiced bunch What fan doea not loyally support pride hi own win or lose? Three (at least) letters from Buc fan have been written hy women who know little or nothing about what they write maneuvered but humiliated die very liberal forces that are likely tn command the decisive voice in pirldng a democratic presidential candidate In I960 Johnson is genuinely extraordinary man" say the Saturday Evening rost "But a Northern liberal-labor veto of a Johnson candidacy (is) almost automatic" In all we have here the proposition that the best man In the country is being denied to the country by the Lahorite Left Yes but what If we regard this leftist dislike of Johnson as a guidance factor which has been built Into his candidacy? My own theory Is that the American people find something ir-resistably attractive In fearlessness of the lahorite opposition Johnson is not opposed by labor because he is reactionary or rightwing but because he is independent Ife is not opposed hy the North for being a Southerner since in fact he la a Westerner In residence In mind in action And finally Johnson is not opposed because he slands in anybody's way In another war" what do the So- religion or rare is hardly viets mean when they preach world of good will By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON Lyndon Johnson and the American Presidency are riding a collision course They are being vectored along I their crossing paths by the oldest guidance aystem In human the law of In-evitabillty i Thla verging pattern is the top story ol the month-old Sfith Congress Nothing that has happened sine New not the Cuban "rebellion" the Mikoyan' visit the Fresl- dent's outranks Johnson's doings In newsworthiness If a reporter could know i what the droll slouching now-talkative now-I taciturn Texan was thinking he could file a story and go happily to knowing that come the dawn Johnson's thoughts would be Johnson's actions and before long would be Acts of Congress It Is a fair question to whirti Is the 'guided missile the senator or the presl- dency? Is the seeking system buried in the I rose cone of the majority leader or Is It Incorporated In the chief magistracy of this It I had the opportunity to invite every adult American from IS to 89 including every senator and representative and the highest policy-making officials of the administration to read one book in the next 30 days I know the book I would name The effects of such a nationwide reading of this book would be: To increase the menial pre parednes of the whole nation for whatever lie ahead in the cold war To hplp bring into being the private and public stamina and grasp nf what we face an that we can see and support what needs to be done To enable us as a people and a a government to deal with the Soviet dictatorship more wisely and more and to negotiate more without losing the peace or loosing tha bombs This is a book lor layman and expert alike from which each in-dividually will I think benefit profoundly Th author of (hi bonk have credential They have rroden-Dels of and accomplishment Each is a teacher and a distinguished psychologist Both sro good writer The author are Harry Over-street who wrote the pioneering work "The Mature Mind" and hi wife Bonaro Overstreet who wrote Now after years of research they have for the first time turned to the new field of public policy The result i incomparable Insight and persuasiveness future generations and not ona FOOTBALL FAN' which will have no significance to the people who come along years from now "Corpus Christl Bridge" would always mean the ona and only Corpus Christ! in the world ESTES have every right writ what ynu me exactly what as you said you Miller I see you Storms floods snd droughts all add to Ihe misery of all living beings or things nature ha no consideration for life only that life depend on death The answer is that there wa no god to create such a world of cruelty space and food supply Man ha now reached lhat point in evolution lhat he must take over the conscious direction of hi own destiny Honest application of intelligent study must take the place of superstitious fallacy supernatlnnalism racism or any 1st or Ism that Impede the humanistic advance of mankind FRITZ WOKLFFKR "peaceful coexistence?" What Is the proof that the Communist -world la engaged In a "permanent revolution" against every free society In the world? What teaching of communism was Khrushchev carrying out when Kremlin arms shot down ihe workers of Hungary In 1936 as Kremlin arms had shot down the workers of Petwgrad hi 1921? Since peace is only a temporary W'syjwlnt In the "permanent revolution" how ran we negotiate even small dependable agreement land the Overstreet believe we can) without being trapped Into pseudo-agreement which only magnify the danger? Why ha communism won no many adherents hy its appeal and lost so many adherents hy their disillusionment? (Cnpyrlsht ISM HmM THhuiM) republic? My own opinion baaed on affec- tti be pnab1y Ihe most helpful man Im wilttlM untluuit H-hnM half a aovan In politics without whom half dozen you in tlie world to wish to call you wish: but had not gone to do not know what you are writing hoiil The sports writers may or may not haw viruna posts but politics rertajniy plays a hi? part in everything If you write again how shout signing your name or having someone write it fnr you? MRS ELIZABETH BENNETT Ray-Miller Row (Spare and fairness to other Issues preclude printing in full all letters on the all-state football selections but in ihe Interest of as many as possible having a eay the following excerpts are offered Editor) tlon and admiration for the man and on oth- er reliable sources is that Johnson has a life-time Job as Domocratie leader and that he would rather keep It than trade It I tlm all newsmen I hnve chortled with cynicism over the "reluctance'1 of White House candidaies and Johnson is after all only a man and a politician But I have a feeling here that Johnson' own Inclinations whatever they may be and however they change are outranked and overruled by this law of Inevitability Something In the man 1 In the time In the political conditions In the yearning of the presidential office for strength perhaps most of In the opposition is moving Lyndon Johnson down the avenue What the opposition? Well Johnson 1 "the most deserving Democrat" say Time I Magazine But the Democrats are "lrs like- ly that! ever to nominate anybody from be low the Mason Dixon Line" Johnson is a man of "mastery" according to the New -I York Times but can he be nominated when he has "not only defeated and out- TIIE NEIGHBORS By Clark Terror in Culm Editor the Caller: History again repeats Wa railed them Bolsheviks when tha hewhiskered rabble drunk with power murdered the Carar his family and thousand! of other Russian Later we knew them a Communists th scourge of modern nociety Sixty years ago wa intervened to "free" Cuba from Its mother country Spain Today the be-whiskered ones are back and terror again strikes hut this time it Is not in fkr away France where It appeared in the early days of the 19th Century nor In Russia where it again showed up in the early day of the 20th but this time at our very doorstep Cuba the beautiful Island "liheret-ed" in 1898 No we don't like dictatorship hut where will tha "dictatorship of tbe proletariat" with its false banner of "democracy" strike next? Civilization aa we known it stands hy the open trench look at the pointed gun and asks sam 0 ponoRt Editor the Caller: Ail of ua Miller fans and clods from Ihe side of town" were elated to see our side of the situation an well written Three cheers for Mrs Bennett for having the murage to stele her opinions MRS BYRON BUTLER a young democratic senators would not be the glamour hoys that they are These are magnetic qualities which go to make up a political guidance system But there another possibly stronger although virtually unknown At each congressional re cess Johnson is snowed with invitations to go abroad and fraternize with the great and neargreat of other nations Last autumn at the urgent personal request of Ambassador Robert Ilill Johnson went to Mexico City to do some smoothing of Latin American affairs A couple of years ago for another special reason he flew to a NATO meeting in Taris But I have cherked his itinerary of TA some speeches last summer and it reads like a Texas timetable Beaumont Big Spring Victoria Odeaaa In Fresno Tort Mansfield Georgetown Port Lavaca Fred-erirkshurg Marshall San Benito San An gelo Dallas Houston El Faso Austin and so on What does he do there? He talks also he to ranchers auto salesmen union organizers reporters bankers rlerks merchants and clergymen "And couple of years later" says a Johnson associate "something that some old geezer has told Lyndon will coma up in a Johnson speech or a Johnson piece of Here I think Is the major aspect of tha inevitability law which is bringing Johnson with the nation's highest office Although totally devoid of demagoguery he has a contact and a kinship with tha papular mind Since genius Is seldom related to logic Johnson does the most unexpected things which the popularity-seekers have somehow overlooked Who else would have thought of a right-to-vote hill? Or of establishing a fed-era I agency on space Or of a civil rights bill with a conciliation service in It? So ssk again: Is Johnson seeking the presidency or Is tha highest office of th land seeking just tha man that Johnson la? My answer la that Inevitability la a mutual two-way tug which neither the man the office nor tha opposition can mist or deny Siiiriilpie Anonymous) Editor the Caller: In the Times of Jan 24 was an article captioned "Doctor Score Public Apathy About Suicide" It stated that in the A a suicide occurred every minute and that we were guilty of putting a taboo upon the subject We are indeed guilty of an "appalling detached altitude" These people need spiritual help and encouragement The large majority of potential suicides have become an overwhelmed with problems nr illness that they momentarily forget that aelf-de atnietion settle nothing Instead It woraena their condition at transition This city has had an alarming number of suicides and suiclda attempts It is uncivilized to prate: "Oh well It is Iheir life Let them take It if they wish" For that 4s not Iheir actual desire moat of the time They are simply so disturbed they act without weighing the consequences Surely in this city (and other cities) there must exist enough people of all rreeds to form a "Suicides Anonymous" organization It rould consist nf ministers and laymen of all religious group Soviet Leaders Slill Ucseii Old Slights Any three-old year-old ran tell you when Ray won a game Tlwre waa more said about them by the sport writer than when Miller won I was surprised when one day I picked up a San Antonin paper Right on the front page waa our Miller Buc I never saw that here MRS GARZA Corpus Oirisll Caller Puhilrtw fvirr e-k Sa mornln 1 kww Headway and Twlsi SlrnfU Cnrpui Chrlttt Trxaa hy lh rallw-Ttmei Piridiihin Col Sunday adiUMi Tha Cornu cimmi Caiu-r-ximta Conway Crais JuffllafiTip BONN Germany Soviet leaders ap-' parently still nurse a bitter resentment of what they feel are the slights they suffered In earlier years I This at least is the Implication of a report I from Warsaw It tells of a conversation there between Yekaterina Furtseva the only worn- an to attain polltburo status in Moscow and a visitor from West Germany Madame Furtseva who Is known tn her co-workers a Katya gild Just In passing: 1 "Of course people in the West for decades didn't accept us intellectually politically or Your round-ebout accusation Mr Bennett waa quite Juvenile We're quite sure the Associated Press sporie writer were not so-called "influenced" hy the "wealth" of some of the student' parents of Ray In naming Butch Rnhan Jarfcwa' MeeiaaeeaaeMeKdltO? (siHttrt Biwlntw Mniityr a ilia Aaor1iti-i1 Ciyui Tfi" AianriatMt Pry la antitied aarlualvly in lha ilia (ur nuhlli-allnn of all InnO nnwa prtnlM in thia nawapaptr aa wait a all AP newa dianairhpa fi'wif ription Mira MAM RATES Mnmln cvynlna aril Sunday 13 nmnUii VV: I months lift 3 month VIS: I nrnnih Pafly Dutch fnr "all slate" We can as- who have compassion on those 'Csiter nr ttmaa and Sunday sure you Mr BeniWt In all who have w-earled or stumbled 'JU fcTiE'VTftari honesty no one had to bribe In life's race tgwtJui Ffti jnsfihf wt diplomatically" Tht West German visitor had the Impression that even the spectacular successes of tits Sputnik era haven't yet erased this deep Mated bitterness I If 'Okay Dottle a date Meet me In the park when the little hand points at three and the big hana points at six' mnnUi It Sunday We a waek: Tima dally and a wrek: mnmln avail Ms a wrtahi tbe writers Their opinions were their very own They did the Judging and voting They probably saw Neither would ooet anything but an ad In the paper like the one tha AA'i put In the per- MomUMi USA CSflue MBs Kiwt) I I AAAAAxaAAAAAAAAA SaAaaAAaa AAtAA.