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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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COMMENTS
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MEN AND THINGS
What is a Southerner? What
is the quality that entitles a man
to regard himself as a Southern
er? Once upon a time I had
more than a vague notion of the
distinctive attributes of a South
erner.
I recall the words of General
Robert E. Lee, with regard to
his resigning as an officer of the
United States Army. You will
recall that General Winfield
Scott urged that General Lee re
main in the United States Army
and to be made the Commanding
General of the Army. Said Gen
eral Lae, after long years of
service as Superintendent of
West Point, later as a cavalry
officer' and Chief of Staff in our
army in Mexico, “Save in de
fense of my native State, I hope
never again to draw my sword.”
General Lee was a Virginian
and true to Virginia. No one
could deny that Virginia was a
foremost State in the formation
of our republic and in the prep
aration and adoption of our Con
stitution.
We could not expect the same
attitude, on the part of Mr. Ken
nedy because his ancestors were
subjects of Great Britain, living
in Ireland when our people won
the independence of the thirteen
Colonies and formed a nation
with the rights of the States
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carefully declared, then and em
phatically re-affirmed and fort
ified by the Ninth and Tenth
Amendments to our Constitution.
At the time of the formation of
our Nation as a republic under
a Constitution a vast area of ter
ritory to the west of us was part
of Mexico. Most of the people
there were Mexicans, spoke
Spanish and knew nothing of our
republican government and the
Constitution.
Nearly seventy years later a
vast part of the Mexican area
known as Texas was admitted to
the Union.
Whereas most of us were in
doctrinated with British law our
Texas neighbors were speaking
and thinking in Spanish and with
no back-ground of liberty or con
stitutional government.
In course of time we had Pres
idents who had no background of
constitutional government; to
day we have a native of Texas as
President.
I do not thing he has a consti
tutional fellowship with General
Lee or George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madi-
son, John C. Calhoun, the
Adamses of Massachusetts or
other worthies, including Daniel
Webster, Robert Y. Hayne and
Alexander Hamilton and others;
his background just a hundred
years or so is Spanish-Mexican.
The Greenville News reminds
us of how great men change their
minds, for example:
The Greenville News points out
“that the fortunes of politics and
the wielding of power make a
man change his viewpoint.” The
News is oh-so-right.
Take the case of one Lyndon
B. Johnson. Speaking May 22,
1948 at a rally in Austin, Texas,
he said:
“This civil rights program,
about which you have heard so
much, is a farce and a sham —
an effort to set up a police state
in the guise of liberty. I am op
posed to that program. I fought
it in Congress.”
But speaking the other day at
a convention of the United Auto
Workers in Atlantic City, Presi
dent “Linen” remarked:
“We are going to pass a civil
rights bill if it takes all sum
mer.”
So now; what say you?
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No field of housekeeping offers are recognized —
more timesaving tricks than and small-scale,
cleaning. It is estimated that Both types ar£ still Tn*i»iy
the average family spends 17 family operations, though it is
hours a' week in vacuuming, the small-seale variety that the
keeping windows and mirrors politician^usually have in mind
spotless, dusting furniture, pol- when they talk about the “farm
ish-ing floors and other house- family.” Commercial farms
hold cleanups. Even those who represent only about 40% of the
have the latest wonder appli- total and yet sell almost 90% of
ances often squander minutes the products; the other 00% of
and footwork by using them in- the farms sell only a little more
efficiently. than 10% . . .” '
A typical American housewife
cooks more than 57,000 meals in Did you ever travel out West?
her lifetime. She also walks Some time drive out to Arizona
more than 300 miles in her own and New Mexico, dropping down
home. No wonder she doesn’t into Mexico now and then,
gladly agree with Mr. Stein. “Arizona, the Grand Canyon
The monotony of housework is State” is often referred to as the
such a common complaint that “land of desert cacti, copper and
the American Institute of Family canyons,” for it is a sun-drench-
Relations has a special course ed land of desert vegetation, its
for bored housewives called ’less mountains rish in copper ore,
work, more fun, for house work- an(1 gutted by bottomless can-
ers.”
All American housewives, if
they want to, can have more
time to spend with their families
or with their hobbies. The next
question is, are you, as one of
America’s housewives, making
the most of your spare time?
Are you expending your inter-
“Do housewives lead more ex
citing lives than their husbands?
Housewives, a brave American
claims, lead more exciting lives
than their husbands do.
Magazine editor Robert Stein
told the General Federation of
Women’s Clubs that the house
wife was “playing a direct and
indispensable part in shaping her
children’s lives,” while her hus
band was “involved in meaning
less work in order to feed and
clothe them.”
Despite this praise, American
housewives are seething indig
nantly. Household chores, they
claim, are boring. And, to make
matters worse, are likely to start
at 7:30 a.m. and not end until
the last dinner dish is washed —
seven days a week.
From clearing the table to the
final kitchen wipe-up, hand
washing takes an average of
about 30 minutes. Dish washing
machines can cut this time in
half, saving about a half an hour
a day, or seven full days a year.
What is the condition of our
agriculture? Ponder this:
“They tell in brief a good deal
about the famous farm problem
and how it is steadily worsening:
In fiscal 1965 the Department
of Agriculture spent $4.6 billion;
in 1963, $7.7 billion.
In fiscal 1966 direct Govern
ment payments to farmers came
to $229 million; in 1963 to $1.8
billion.
In calendar 1965 net farm in
come was $11.5 billion; in 1964 it
is estimated at $11.6 billion.
At the end of fiscal 1966 sur
pluses amounted to $6.7 bUlion;
at the end of 1963, $7.3 billion.
And while the farm popula
tion declined by nearly five mil
lion from 1966 to 1962, the num
ber of Agriculture Department
employes increased from over
85,000 to 1966 to an estimated
115,000 in 1964.
The figures, all from Govern
ment sources. The statistical
point hardly needs laboring;
something is radically wrong
when taxpayer costs, surpluses
and bureaucracy rise without in
creasing general farm well
being.
To begin with the more or less
obvious, there is no single prob
lem. Farming and farms are
highly varied; for convenience,
however, two broad categories
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1848 and with the Gadsden Pur
chase in 1864, the territory be
longed to the United States. The
struggle for admission to the
Union as a state began in 1877,
but it was 35 years later in 1912,
before Arizona made it as the
48th state.
Arizona’s climate is one of her
greatest resources. It is indeed
the “Sun Country” where Old
Sol gives a command perform
ance almost every day. Phoenix
claims about 85% sunny days.
Summers are cool in the high
mountain areas of northern and
eastern Arizona, and in the
southern parts of the state the
winters are healthfully dry and
mild. This fine climate has
made Arizona both a summer
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and winter tourist attraction.
It is claimed that “there is
something for everyone in the
“Grand Canyon State.” For the
artist and nature-lover, (here is
the unsurpassed natural color
and beauty, the Grand Canyon,
the Painted Desert, mountains,
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mesas and wide open
The outdoorsman is efftf
hunting, fishing, boating, riding,
hiking. Students 9i history and
archeology have a wealth of old
missions, prehistoric cliff dwell
ings and petrified forests to see
and study. . .”
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yons, the most famous of which
is The Grand Canyon of the Col
orado River.
Even though Arizona was
among the first of the West’s
lands to be settled, many ele
ments resisted the advancing
white mart. There were formid
able natural barriers such as
ests, developing your hobbies ^ esert an< * canyons,
and joining in the fun of the do- H ° stUe In( ? ians also Presented an
it-yourself trend? Good! But, detcrrent 10 111086 who
most important of all, are you , ^ settle thePe Durln * 016
using the time to get to know f arly years of 016 19th century,
your husband and your chUdren hunters : traders and trappers
better, and giving them the C 4 ame J nc feasing numbers,
chance to really get to know Aftep the M6xican War ended in
you? There’s no better way of
spending your spare time if you
are.”
Here’s where Robert Stein
rushes in where angels fear to
tread.
I’ve just read someone’s re
mark that women live longer
than men because women never
retire, but carry on as long as
they five, though “hubby” re
tires after so long a time and
wears himself out doing nothing.
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