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CdllonaL lureA DAILY BIBLE regard themselves as mere machines, but the body, the mind, the soul, have functions that pass human understanding. We are, we may be what we think we would like to be. Ye are all children of God by faith in Jesus 3:26. Sherman Acted Wisely HERMAN has a mayor and nine councilmen, and has had that form of city administration thirty-five years. Tuesday the voters of Sherman decided by a narrow margin to retain these men in office in what is known as a recall election.

The Sherman charter has a provision allowing a majority of the voters to remove their mayor and council, or any one of the body, by holding an election under a petition signed by the required number of voters. This election was so held, and the governing body remains in office. The recall petition was sponsored by a Property Owners Association, some property owners being displeased because their taxes had been increased in a revision of the rolls which showed they had not been paying their proper part because of too low a valuation. The readjustment by the council had allowed lowering the tax rate from $1.42 to $1.30. The recall people insisted that employment of valuation engineers, increase in the city budget over the past five years and "excessive spending" was cause for removal, but they failed to make it stick.

Paris had a similar experience many years ago, when Mayor Ed McCusition instructed the Board of Eaualization on the new full value.rendition law, and they followed that law in fixing values. There was no election called, however, and it proved to be an excellent measure. Many of the chief objectors really paid less tax than before, for the rate was reduced, as in Sherman, and some properties that had been on the roll for too little were adjusted fairly. Sherman people should know that city budgets must be increased if cities are to keep up with demands made today. It is fortunate that the disgruntled taxpayers failed to remove a set of officers who appear to realize that fact.

Book In New Edition HEN Houston Harte, Texas newspaper publisher, selected portions of the Old Testament for inclusion in the book titled "In Our he used what is known as the King James translation, the Bible generally used by churches and individuals. The book was an immediate best seller, and the Oxford University Press, its publishers, have made several additional printings to meet the demand for the unusual volume. Then the publishers found that there was a demand for the book by members of the Catholic Church, so another edition has been prepared by Mr. Harte, and published, using the translation known as the Douay Bible, taking the name from the city in France where it was published. That translation differs from the King James only in some of the wording, and not in the sense, and it is widely used all over the world.

The Bishop of Amarillo, Most Rev. Laurence J. FitzSimon, D.D., gives the new edition his endorsement, and it is praised by the Reverend Harold C. Gardiner, literary editor of the magazine, who especially praises the illustrations that are done in color by Guy Rowe. He says of the illustrations, showing the men told of in the text, that "They are distinctive individuals, but there is one note that is common to are all 'God-struck', Each one seems alive with an inner flame of realization of God's majesty and imminence." The book tells twenty-six stories from the Old Testament, using the exact words of the Bible without the extraneous matter that has sometimes confused readers of the Bible.

It has illustrations in full color, which add to the impressiveness of the text. It is a volume of which the author and the publishers may well be proud. DREW PEARSON'S WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Too Many Political Claims Give Voter Trouble in Sifting Facts LOS ANGELES These are days so many claims are made by candidates that it's hard for the average to sift true facts before election time. As a result, voting in a hurry and repeating at leisure saddles unfortunate congressmen on the nation. As guide to vote ft, therefore, this column will attempt to point out some of the phony statements issued by candidates.

Take for Instance, Jack Hardy, GOP candidate for Congress -in Helen Gahagen Douglas' old district in Los Angeles. His campaign literature features pictures of himself and wife with his three children. The picture even names the children 11 Margaret and Charlie" and quotes them as raying: "We live with Jack IHar- end know what kind of a person he is at home. We know he is a professional man, not a professional politician." The three Hardy children, whom the GOP candidate thus features In his literature look to be around the ages of 12 to 14 the interesting thing is that candidate Hardy married his wife only last May and Tertie, Margaret and Charlie are not his children. They are the children of his present wife, Georgia Slbley, by a former marriage.

Furthermore, the only child of his own whi eh candidate Hardy ever had was the daughter of actress Fay Helm, who divorced him five years ago. At that time, Hardy relinquished a 11 rights to custody of his a including even the right of visitation. It agreed however, th a he would contribute $35 a month to the baby's support. Yet the man who now aspires to sit in the halls of Congress plays himself up in his campaign literature as a great family man, and quotes his stepchildren who have been with him only since May as saying: "We live with Jack and know what kind of a person he is Time Flies 13 Years Ago Tuesday, October 26, 1937 Chamber of Commerce annual dinner attended by near two hundred men and women, was addressed by Frank Carothers of Houston, who was introduced by James M. Caviness.

Three hundred students of Paris Junior College, stating their religious preference on enrollment cards, showed 108 Methodists, the same number of a 11 the others divided among seven denominations. Football queens, June Rowland for the Wildcats and Dorothy Bankhead for the Dragons, were presented during the Pigskin Parade in high school auditorium. A family reunion was held In home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 417 West Kaufman, nil tir children and Mrs.

motber being premit. at home. We know he Is a professional man. not a professional politician." Query when you bring another man's childhen into politics, just how political can you get? NO PRODUCTION PLAN The inside story has never been told of the shocking inefficiency and neglect that forced Hubert Howard out as chairman of the munitions board. Meanwhile.

Pres- identTruman has let six weeks go by without appointing a new chairman to clean up the mess. The public doesn't realize it, but the munitions board is just as vital to production planning as the joint chiefs of staff are to military planning. The board is responsible for charting the nation's industrial needs and stockpiling rubber, tin, quinine, manganese and other materials regarding, which we were ca ht short at Pearl Harbor. Yet the tragic fact is that Korea found our stockpiles dangerously low and with no production blueprint at all for the future. Even to this day, the munitions board hasn't come up with a single plan or estimate to guide wartime production.

This nearly resulted in.disaster a week before the Inchon landing, when the air force almost ran out of aviation gasoine. The manufacturers were supposed to a 30 day supply on hand in the Far East, but had no production goal to guide them. As a result, the supply ran dry on September 6, and our planes were nearly grounded on the eve of the Inchon landing. A gasoline shipment arrived in the nick of time, but the supply dropped dangerously low again while our wore storming Seoul. Meanwhile, the producers hastily adjusted their production gears and stepped up the flow of aviation gas.

BIG PRODUCERS FAVORED The munitions board also permitted the nation's wool supply to dwindle so low that the army is short of wool to clothe its troops for the severe Korean winter. As a result, the government is now frantically bidding for wool on the Australian market. The irony is that the Agriculture Department i had plenty of 'wool last year but I couldn't get the munitions board to take it over for stockpiling. Anxious not to get caught short of cotton, for uniforms, the Agri- culure Department asked the munitions board in August what its needs would be. No answer was received for more than 30 days, then a note came back from the munitions board, advising that the man in charge of the cotton problem was out of town Desperately, the Agriculture Department made its own estimate by going over the board's head and getting figures direct from the armed services.

One trouble with the munitions board is that it listens to the big producers, which want to use raw maerials in normal civilian production, and not have them stockpiled for emergencies instead. For example, the munitions board has been lulled by the giant Aluminum Company of America and, as a result, has done virtually nothing about stockpiling precious aluminum. Yet in case of total war. 90 per cent of our aluminum output would be ussd up by the military, leaving civilians almost none. One reason for the board's inefficiency is that it has inherited too many castaways from the three military services.

When the board called upon the armed forces for personnel, it didn get any top But Chairman Hubert Howard, as coal company executive didn't set a model for efficiency. That's why President Truman Rave Stuart Symington over all mobilization nowers and. later, demanded Howard's resignation. At the time he ordered Howard's resignation, the President remarked to White House aides: "That, right after I appointed him. he went to Europe for four months." BUSY DAYS FOR THE LIFEGUARD ftoW, MATTER OF FACT Obscure Ohio Politician Given Chance to Defeat Robert Taft By STEWART ALSOP MIDDLETOWN, Ohio 'Don't write UtUe Joe off." The traveller in Ohio hears this refrain everywhere, from Republicans even more than from Democrats.

It is universally conceded to be at least possible that an obscure politician called Joseph T. Ferguson, Ohio's state auditor, will eliminate Robert A. Taft, one of this country's leading political figures, from the Senate. When you first see Ferguson in action, you find this difficult to believe. This reporter first saw Ferguson on display at a Democratic rally in this bustling manufacturing town.

For the first time in many weeks the popular Democratic governor, Frank Lausche, who has very conspicuously refused to endorse Ferguson, had consented to share a platform with his running mate. Both men spoke. The contrast was downright cruel. Lausche is the greatest living exponent of the William Jennings Bryan school of American oratory. Although his speech was confined to wrathful denunciation of the "racketeers" and "special interests," and to throbbing approval of the American flag and the American home, Tausche soon had the audience of Democratic jobholders literally gripping the edges their chairs.

Ferguson, on the other hand, rose nervously, tightly holding a sheaf of typewritten pages; no one present believed that he had had any hand in their preparation. His rimless glasses glinting with a kind of mock ferocity, his only gesture a tentative stab with a stubby forefinger, he repeated the words written for furious attack on Sen. mechanically as reluctant child reciting "The Wreck of the Hesperus" for bored guests. Here, it seemed, was a mere strawman for the august Taft to demolish. Yet the fact is that Ferguson has certain very real assets.

Ono of these Is a simple but effective political formula, which has seen Ferguson handsomely reelected to his state auditor's even in Republican years. Ferguson himself neatly summed up the nature of this formula, in two dis- I armingly frank remarks to this re; porter after the rally. Asked why he was so obviously confident of beating Taft, he replied. "Well, I sign all the checks the State of Ohio sends out, and that don't hurt me none." The state auditor's job has given him an opportunity, which he has used perfectly honestly but very shrewdly, to build a vast personal following in Ohio. Ferguson revealed the second part of his magic formula when he was asked his views of the Brannan plan.

He replied frankly that he really didn't know what it was all about, but, he continued after a moment's reflection, "If the farmers want it, I'm for it, if the farmers don't want it, I am against it." Ferguson has been vociferously in favor of everything any large voting group, whether farmers or workers or veterans or old people, wants. This is not exactly a brand new rule in poli- tics. But Ferguson has followed this rule with exceptionally single' minded devotion. Ferguson's second asset is simply the nature of the man himself. A likeable, bouncy man, at once affable ao-1 as combative as a gamecock, he has the instictive politician's friendly gregariousness.

This is precisely what Taft, who is not an instinctive politician at all, lacks. Moreover, Ferguson, a small man with sn imperfect acquaintance with his mother tongue, is the perfect sym- bol of that mythical American figure, "the little guy," battling fearlessly against "the interests." The Labor leaders who are masterminding Ferguson's campaign. mindful of how well it worked in 11948 for Harry Truman (of whom Ferguson is in many ways a rather Insulting caricature) are playing this David Goliath theme to a fare-thee-well. A. W.

NEVILLE Backward Glances Farmers Grew Wheat To Make the Family Bread Having crossed Round Prairie, and reached the branch near Biardstown, where the timber began seventy- odd years ago, L. A. Nance, who was making the trip from Minter to Paris in retro- i this week, said: On this prairie was the Burrett school house. Then the road came on to Biardstown, then by the Antolch Church, then on by a farm owned by a colored man named Jack Mitchell, a prosperous darkey. It was six miles from his home to Paris, and for about two miles the road was in black land thicket, then the last four miles into Paris.

The land was all meaning not fenced. until the Evergreen Cemetery was reached. The whole country was unfeneed, it seemed. Stock ran at large as there were no slock laws and no not know where we hauled oui cotton when we lived at Minter, but while we lived near Rocky Ford we hauled Jt to the Gunn gin, which was about four mile? south of Biardstown. The road we used passed through Rocky Ford, and I think the first house after we passed that community was the Lee Smith residence.

Then we went on to the Gunn gin, where we hauled all our cotton. This gin was operated by ox power and Mr, Gunn fed the Sin with his fingers. I guess he ginned two or maybe three bales a day. Most people in those days raised two or three acres of wheat, some perhaps a little more, to make flour for bread. We would take sack of wheat and sack of corn to Biardstown to have it ground.

We went by the Gunn gin, as he did nothing but gin cotton, and went on to Biardstown by Mr. Binnion's farm, where we had to go through some gates. There was an oxpowered gin at Biardstown, and a little later a steam Kin and mill was put up on the other side of the road. The four years we lived near wire fences. People who raised stock were mostly horse and mule Rocky Ford I went to school at raisers, for they were the only the Liberty school house.

The power for farming in those days. terms were very short. 1 can think After we lived at Minter two of only two persons now living who years my father bought a farm went to school at the Liberty school, near the Liberty school house. It house when I did. was two or three miles east of Rocky Ford.

We lived there four years, then moved to six miles west of Paris, in what is called the Cross Roads community. I do' story. Some more recollections ot southeastern Lamar County he was a boy will be told in nnxt installment of Mr. Nance's' My Day By Eleanor Roojevelt (World eopyrlgnt, 19W. by United Features Syndicate, Inc.

Reproduction In whole or In part prohibited.) Ferguson's labor support is, of course, his third and vital asset. All the real drive behind Ferguson comes from the United Labor League of Ohio, in which the C. I. the A. F.

the Mine Workers, and the Railroad Brotherhoods have joined hands to destroy their ancient enemy, Taft. The chief sparkplugs of the league are the co-chairmen, Jacob dayman of the C. I. O. Political Action Committee (who denounces Taft as fiercely as Taft denounces the C.

I. A. and the milder but eery able Philip Hanna, of the A. F. L.

(which Taft never mentions) dayman and Hanna have been doing something labor has never seriously attempted be- I fore. There have been the uaual pamphlets and propaganda. But a precinct level organization has also been created, complete with block captains, check lists, and transportation, to get the union men to the polls on Election Day. This is labor's real contribution to the Ferguson campaign. Yet his labor support is not an inmixed blessing to Ferguson.

Taft's charge that he is a "labor stooge" has been effective. Moreover, labor's intervention has in furiated innumerable organization Democrats, who like Tausche, have not lifted a finger to help Ferguson. Add the fact that the Taft organization Is strong and lushly financed; that every newspaper in the State supports Taft; and that this is an off-year election, traditionally favorable to Republicans. It then becomes difficult to understand how a faithful party wheelhorse which is all that Ferguson seriously pretends to seriously threaten a man of Taft's acknowledge stature. Yet the fact it is a fact which calls for further here in Ohio Ferguson's threat to Taft is considered very serious Indeed.

NEW YORK All over the country the United States Association for the United Nations has been carrying on a more active United Nations Week Campaign than in any previous year. This activity was to culminate in the observance of United Nations Day, Tuesday, October 24. I have been chairman of the National Citizens Committee for United Nations Day and I want to express my gratitude for the work done by members of that committee and the members of the staff. I They have not only raised more i money this year, but have man, aged to create a far greater I awareness of United Nations work among state and city officials and the people generally. I particularly want to speak of the amount of work done here in New York City by John Golden, who, is city chairman of United Nations Day.

An extremely busy man, he accepted this post only because of his belief that the U.N. must be strong in order to help us iAChieve a peaceful world. Mr. Golden, has written an excellent leaflet called, "Why I Am for the United Nations," which 1 would like to see distributed all over the United States. He has stimulated among the New York City children an essay contest on the subject of N.

U. He has thought up innumerable I ways of making us conscious of our -responsibility. He has written a play about our earliest hero in They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hado BOYLE'S COLUMN Leap From Speeding Train Saves 4 From Massacre LUCKY TO GET A BARKING SPACE A MALR MILE FROM you COME OUT-BUT VOUR WEAP is THE ONLY ONE IN LINE By DON WHITEHEAD For Hal Boyle FUKUOKA, Japan Ml A predawn jump from a speeding North Korean Red train saved the lives of Cpl. Arlton B. Craig of Bedford, and four ot his buddies.

Craig told Wednesday how they escaped the Sunchon massacre by jumping from the prison train as it headed northward In the darkness. Craig was captured July 26 during the bitter, desperate battle for Taejon. He was with the 19th regiment of the U. S. 24th Division and was one of the men cut off when the Communists surged across the Kum River.

LOST 50 POUNDS He lost 50 pounds during his Imprisonment. But doctors said his condition 5s excellent. The 20 year-old corporal said the North Koreans treated him fairly well during the early days of captivity. He was marched to Seoul with other prisoners. He was held in the Infamous schoolhouse In the capital.

Craig also survived the death march from Scou! to the Red capital of Pyongyang when more than 300 prisoners were herded along the road and the weakest were shot. He said the treatment grew worse. Then the prisoners were jammed into a train and sent northward. Just befora train, reached a I main tunnel, about 10 miles north of Sunchon, Craig and four others hopped off. They escaped detec- tion.

Those left aboard were taken from it shortly thereafter and ms- 1 chinegunner. A total of 68 died. Craig, and his friends hid out until they sighted the men in a First Cavalry Division task force. After the first joyful greetings the rescued men got cigarettes, food and treatment alongside the road south of Sunchon. Craig then was flown to a modern army hospital here.

1 "I am beginning to feel fine," I he said. Today's Birthday By AP Newsfeatures CARL M. SAUNDERS, born Oct. 26, 1890, In Grand Rapids, wrote the editorial February 29, 1949, which i i red Congress to dedi- a Memorial Day as a day of prayer for peace. The same editorial brought a Pulitzer prize to Saunders, who is editor of the Jackson, (Mich.) Citizen Pilot the fight for freedom of religion, John Brown of Flushing, Long Island.

He has written a prayer which I hope will be said not only here but in the hearts of many people for days to come. Tomorrow I shall put It in my column in full. I want to pay a brief tribute to. former Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson, who died last week.

It must be a terrible thing for his wife, who had so many years of happy companionship to be left alone. Yet, she must also IooJc back on so much that will give her- happy memories as companions to the end of her days. As you read the eulogies in you realize what a lonjf and active and fruitful life Mr. Stimson lived, and above everything else, how willing he was to' accept responsibility in the interV est of the public. When my band called upon him to serve In? his cabinet it must have been IT great temptation for Mr.

Stimsorl to say: "I have earned my I will not flfce up the burdens of public life In a great again." Yet Mr. Stlmson ically accepted, and I know much my husband valued service which he rendered during' the years of the war. Every Amer" lean must take pride in a life well lived and feel that it is an. undying contribution to the history of our land. YOUR BABY AND MINE Different Eating Habits Bring Child Distinction By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Every individual, young or old, takes pride in having a personality that is noteworthy and distinguished.

He wants to be noticed and liked for the person that he is. Children have more difficulty than adults in finding opportunities for expressing their personalities. So much is done for them, so many choices taken out of their hands. But in the matter of eating a child has a chance to express himself as a person and he loses no opportunity to exert that privilege. If he is a good eater then the parents advertise that and establish that as his personality.

"He likes everything we give him," they say and beam at the child. He keeps on liking what they give him. BECOMES NOTICEABLE But, if perchance, he becomes ill, or has some digestive upset which robs him of appetite, he has a terrific opportunity to become a noticeable personality by his non-interest in food. "He just eats like a bird," Is the sort of tion which keeps a child eating, like a bird. Especially, and this Is important, if this is his ONLY chance to be noticed.

If he has other and more legitimate outlets for advertising his personality he won't have to cling to his lack ot appetite as a means to that end. Children are quick to adopt the eating tactics of other children. If Jerry will not eat the white of an I egg, then some other child, who wants to be a person like Jerry, 1 cannot eat it either. Daddy may not like ostmeal and his hero-worshipping son will not accept a spoonful, either. He wants to be just like Daddy.

TALK TOO MUCH Parents make the mistake of adding fuel to the flames by talking too much about a child's food dislikes. So he hangs onto them as a means of easy distinction. He's the little boy who can't eat spinach! That way lies personality prestige, lost to him if he ever' submits. We may take it for granted that all children will have some food fads and some food phobias. Just allow them that privilege.

In fact, it is as well to say, "Oh, thera are times when none of us wane some foods. But, we get over it. If we try eating a spoonful, occasionally, we soon discover we like them." Then provide the child with ways of being noticed, through the avenues of skills and talents; through praise of the nice things he docs and says, so that he does not have satisfy his desire to be a person by denying himself the food her should have for nourishment. Our leaflet No. 35, "Poor Appetites." may be had by sendnlg 3- stamped.

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