Show l Henry McLemore 1 I i DALLAS Texas Texas Texas-I I have been Texas T six hours exactly Ip In The first thing I did after registering centering In a hotel and sendIng sending sends send send- I ing s Ing out my dirty shirts was waso wasI I peer to o probe and andI and r I Y Around around as to j I what sort of oft t ta t a column I j hould write hAss As a lot of editors had I bought my eo column 1 u m n on I I Ebel the b belief e 11 e f fI I that I was a humorist a aI hump lort of W juve- juve I rile ille Will Rogers I looked for a funny tunny angle Me McLemore I figured I could do something on cn Pass the biscuits Pappy ODaniel the states state's junior senator As a lot of ot editors who buy my stuff dont don't think Im I'm funny I took a look at the serious side I found both sides But one hit tit me sort of hard I reckon It hit me sort of hard because I the boys Ive I've always played with withIn In is Texas Texas and and I mean played played- were downright grim Oversight Over Over- well weIl since December I sight or eight or 7 they 7 they had quit thinking in terms of being petroleum playboys playa play- play boys boy a They hey didn't have a dance band to meet me They didn't shower me with silver sUver belts ten gallon hats or cowhide chaps They 1 didn't say as I stepped off oft the plane The world Is yours and what'll you have No they talked war They talked America They talked about Washington They talked about what was being done and what wasn't being done They showed me a letter letter- they used to show me a good time first that first that Is going to every Texas congressman and Tom Connolly and W. W Lee ODaniel the senators It willbe willbe will willbe be signed by bv almost every standout standout standout stand stand- out citizen in Texas and bv by tens of thousands of Texas citizens who carry their weight at the polls Heres Here's the letter In streamline mlle fashion Gentlemen In this grave hour of the nations nation's history we folks back home who have se selected selected selected se- se you vou as our trustees are alarmed and disgusted with the chaotic condition of affairs In general in Washington We have no patience with fighting and squabbling between bureaus and agencies over Jurisdictional power and maintenance We are arean an angry ry and apprehensive over military and administrative blunders bungling and delays We Ve stand ready to sacrifice everything everything time time money money work our sons and daughters our lives lI to to save SIlVe our country and preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve the American way of life The history of your st state te testifies testifies fies that the citizens of ot it have never failed in the hour of crisis We not only expect but demand demand demand de de- mand that you our elected representatives representatives representatives rep rep- live li-e up to the tra tra- of ot Texas Let politicians of other states worry about poli poU- tics Let politicians of other states fret about who is a Democrat Democrat Democrat Dem Dem- and who Is ls a Republican Let politicians of other states I look with greedy eyes toward election day Let politicians of other states place themselves above the country Let the politicians of other states stoop to the mean and little thin things s Patronage e. e pork barrels and all aU the other things that keep little men in big of of- Texas has hu Its eyes eves on vou you Its It's more tb 1 then n P a son or a catchword Itch catch word now You live no UP to T Texas Texas T x ts von VOl to give un- un h rr sr 1 Ki o of time and effort to y the thee e evil by bv past mistakes and nd nd with no thought of T personal ambition or political cal gain to promote the most efficient streamlined administration of this war that the world has ever seen We have placed our trust In you vou and it must b be vindicated d in jn your record That is the messa message e of Texas to the men who reD represent resent It ft in W Washington This letter was not written by bv a crackpot on the th of the Rio Grande or 0 th the or th the Pecos It U is not the of a bum under a cottonwood cottonwood cotton- cotton woodIt wood It came from Texans who matte matte matte mat mat- te te- Distributed by bv Syndicate Inc I |