The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-03-22
Does Mississippi Want Communism In The Oil Fields!

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the Commune to take over
their private property and OPP
crate it for the good of all?
While it is unthinkable that
Mississippi citizens will swal-
low this communistic propo-
sal, let us consider briefly
who would get the most
good = measured in dollars
Gas the standard of value) out
of the commune of each
particular Untitled (Which
means communized) oil field.
Is it the big oil companies?
Make your own inquiry as
to this. Then ask yourself
why the big oil companies, of
all parties, desire communism
in the oil fields. Among the
mary reasons is it not obvious
that: % they will save mon
ey to themselves not to be
shared by the land or min
eral owners, in drilling few
er wells. Do they not want a
communistic law, pure and
simple, just fer dollars in
their pocket? (2) They will
keep the oil in the ground
for a longer time, where they
are happy to leave it as long
as possible to suit their fu-
ture convenience, while the CT
tizens who now own a share
of it are delayed, grow old
and die, on limited production
controlled by the Central
Committee of the commune,
whereby the present citizens
do not enjoy the full benefit
of their private rights If
their lifetime. But the, big oil
companies never die. They
live merrily on forever and
are content to slow down
production and hold the oil
over a long period of years.
60 Will rot the big oil COM
panies have control of the
whole operation because they
will constitute the Central
Committee for all practical
purposes? Even if the pro
posed communistic law pro-
poses to provide for the de-
mocratic process of a vote
(you have heard of elections
in Russia) for the Central
Committee what could the
small mineral owner accom-
plish by the "vote" of his
one-eighth (usually) interest
in the oil as against the sew
er.-eights vote by the big oil
companies? Just what influ-
ence roes a shareholder OF
stakeholder of a big corpor-
alton have when it comes to
his "vote" at a stockholders
meeting? If you who read
here have a few shares of
stock in a large corporation
what influence have you
welded ir: corporate control
by the Board of Directors or
Central Committee? And
would not that be even more
than the mineral owner might
have in the selection of the
Central Committee of the
commune under big oil COM
parry control?
Is Mississippi going to en-
brace communism in this
pure and simple form,
STRAIGHT from the principles
of Marx and Lenin? Where
are or.r good citizens who
cheered the anti-communist
address of General Walker?
Will they now raise their
voice against this communis-
tic proposal? If this commuO-
istic proposal is going to be
seriously considered for the
conservation of the natural
resources of the state and the
welfare of the state, - if our
elected legislators are going
to commurize the oil fields
bv compulsory. forced and
required communication (un-
der the name of Unitization)
If will be the dawn of a new
dev in Mississippi. The
chance from constitutional
law TO rlle of private proper
tv hv the c0mmuniStic Cen
trail Committee of the Com
mune in the oil field will
come sooner than even Com
~~de KruShchev expected.
will the welfare state. under
the rule of the Central Com
mittee do us good? From the
Russian exrerierce there is
no doubt that the Central
Committee can do you = for
sure. The people are finallv
done for when the Central
Committee takes over.
Finally it is noted that the
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