The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 4

Srlta SODDING OARTKlt Editor PdbKihrr JOHN T. -3UWON Greenville, Friday, April 21, 1950 Reasonable Economy HE Post Office Department of the United States decided to reduce the number of mail deliveries per day in a move to save money. The decision came at a wonderful time for the gentlemen in Washington who have been shouting about economy. A of protest a could be heard clear out here in Greenville was sent up by those same gentlemen who arc st.imlinj; for rc-clcclion. Many of those who yelled loudest were also those who yelled loudest for economy in government.

But of cour.su, a they really meant when they called fur economy was economy for the olhcr fellow. They had no idea that anyone in charge of employes for their districts would lake the economy pica seriously enough to lay off voters. Slill, it happened. Voters who car- ry the mail have been put out of work in many of the larger Eastern cities because there is no longer the need for them. With deliveries reduced, fewer persons will be required to handle mail.

We are inclined to believe that two mail deliveries daily isn't really necessary. This cut, as it is presently outlined pertains to residential areas. Business deliveries i still be made twice daily. Few of us have such pressing personal correspondence that we can't wait a few extra hours for the letter we've been looking for. Or, if indeed the mail we expect is vital, we can always go to the post office.

The move certainly suems justifiable and appears to us to be economy that all of us can bear. Moreover, it's ramifications are equal in that they touch all areas alike. Even though it will ho touyh on some of the men in Congress, it seems a wise move. Streets And Water Lines HE City Council Wednesday night agreed to begin program of ex- lendinj; the water lines into tsvo new subdivisions and tit the same mooting it authorized the City Engineer to he- gin on a program of liard-surfacing many of the city streets. Both these projects are needed.

Nothing looks i so run-down ns gravelled road i a i It suggests that the city hasn't met its obligations to. its citizens. Moreover, gravelled streets present, a a i a i and cert a i they arc untidy on hot, dry days. Far too many of Greenville's slreets have been loft unattended. We i have a large percentage gravelled wads running through sections of the city not far from its very heart.

As far as the water lines are concerned, that is a never ending task that i go on as long as Greenville con- i to attract people. New subdivisions keep springing up and it would be unwise of (he city not lo enter into water service agreements with the builders as soon ns the new units start. This insures the cily of obtaining maximum a i even though the subdivisions arc outside the cily limits at tie time they are built. Both these laudable programs will better facilities for more people ittid that, a all, is what every cily government is striving to obtain. It Will Help The City HE new whilcu'ay lluil is lo be iiislnllcd i a 011 toward improvinjj thi; iippctiriiiicc of Greenville.

Althuu.iili I is nothing wroiiH i tlie oltl i i fixtures, they nrc nul-of-cinlc iiiul shed fur loo little light. The new system, as we understand it will have Creator intensity of and the i themselves will be handsomer. Both of llie.se improvements are needed. Kew impressions of a cily at i nre ns strong as those of the i i system. Up-to-date units make any city better looking.

1'he whiteway is more a welcome here. He Showed The Way EWLY-ELECTKD K.iir 1'ic-sick'iil Frank Norns and his of i rectors voted i i i lo fioinu-presiclenl O. I I Beck Uu'i i i i a notion. Asidf. 1 (linarily expoctc'Ll ronrtrsirs, i i ticulaf gc.stvtrc iis Dr.

Beck nnil IKIS nssncifitos last started from scratch iml Unfair to a i Planned will) luiri hick and rain, lesser IIUTI i i i Dr. licck would liave sn lln 1 tou'cl. N'nl wilh this mini. He du.M^cdly kept nt Hie job i i i in (if foul weather, the a i VHS singed. Tlic tribute a paid us was indicated by the people flocked lo llic fair, Ihc weather Dr.

Beck has earned ihe a i nil of ns and he won't be i for- jotten for his work wilh the Delta i-'alr iinci Livestock Show. We heartily add our a lo Dr. Beck to those of the Pair's new officers. He did a a i i cent job. Ercklne In PAI.M A i i i soultely i to do wjlh u.njii t-xt-cp! maybe a I a i i Surm-uiit i a nard should huvt- cd S.mi:(i:i i i vt Viu Mature.

i is ti cumbi inn S.nuMia. Paul liiuiyan, nco mnvio inan nil thoso heroes K. i i ttic i daresay, would :i.ivie hern only on llic end cif i i i as a Jim lowt-ij i live Iko clear desert i I 01 i-iy lirne he Meps on a M-jIc his i Next to i S.imsoii like a juvelinc i i Singer's Even Samsor) hunsclf i at bloriea of i a i ity and which lnvv bi-i-finc Jegendary. They i i 38-txnmd ui'dt. 1 by i A o' its a i i his hn.i-.ii.

A hour i a chase i i i a fleeing autcmobilc 1 u-itb ot bti police i i i i i i blrod- ing lo death by hjs i into the and i i severed vein. a i i i i on his back into ihe wilds of Ml. JacinSi lo .1 landsli'Ie i i i foievt-r i of four-niulort-d i i a i a ed "no i i i Little Polici- i A Kt-t- tleir.Jin I i i i i 11 i lie's i i i i i i i i FL'R I A A hiir.sUf nttchcd lo end ot i the cat had i i a 14-year-old I I. het-n trapped Palm Spring-: gardener. Jim and two tkn-idcci to a i a without a i i i a i i iis brain so it cmiid be loslcd for rallies.

Jim snared ihe i nround neck rope at the end of a mkc a stuck a small in llic shed. While iho other i held FOJK; i i Jim the i 1 0 the cat by Its slub slipped another rope around its i i.unrlen, a i Ihcm to extrtirl the and choke it to a Jim, like i heroes, is modest. In voice which Chief a says never poos above a whisper, i lolcl me: "I don't know why iniopk' Rnl so excited bout it. To inn was an ordimny A i i i a hase: i wa.i iiUuic 1:1 his police when lie ii-n'ivrd i cjll ilist i i i i LI I border E'niroJ maii block the i i i i us it rntt-red the I'alin i i limit. 1 He llir ti i bis i ajiri icd bul i car i slop.

"Ik- i tin- i i i i 72 miles i i i I w.i-; i behind him. I't-iiestrinns i i I i i i i i i i i i i I i i i w.iv a mil between parked i MUC ot llic and oncoming TAfi O'l 1 00 M. I'. H. "I NOTICKD Ui i was ii boy a I didu'l lo sliool him.

Outidc dt he started 90. I i a ing shot over i hrna but fit 1 i stup. I he killed if 1 shot Lit a tire. SD I enr couple ot limes i my bumjHT. I him xoinl i i he look curve.

I scared htm. He pu'l- cd over iind tfol out nnd "Wiat nre you i to do, copper, i Tin- buy was a esr i i i by the i block set by tbo Pn- i i was for "Hut you scared, too?" Jim was risked when chase ended. "No. 1 i i i bo never i i of i i-elf. "I wvrriod ilia: kid i i i killoil mid all pedestrians.

I'm i I hnii to risk so many lives." i i his own life Another ctr al 9l) miles hour? Says i "Ycni a lo Use MI in poUre It wti job to slop )iim." There nre othc; 1 slones alont i His a i i as "rxnvdcr i i he's a lioliccman by i and a i contractor by day His rescue of countless hikers in treacherous canyons of Ml. San Jacinto -he's roamed them since he a boy ot five. i i wheels of automobiles sluck in sand i his own sheer nuci hts reluctance to a anyone or a i including rattlesnakes. "People and nulmnls." SRy.s Jim "were not put on earth lo be killed. I have a hoallhy respect for a a but Ihcre are so many we don't sec 1 don't i we i i i i i i i by i i tlic ones we do see." YCN.

1 i Jim M.iyn^ni should havi played Sninsun. Here And Hot; For The 4th Time. Too By Earl Wilson Al olson was trotting around In Lindy's, exclaiming about how young he Iccls, and Qroucho Marx said to him: "Anybody who kids you about your ngo is crazy-" Nathan Kramer, the hotelier was i i Jolson, said to "You cnn say a again!" "1 will not say it again." snapped Groucho. "I was bored a i it the i lime." Grout 1 ho's the new hot guy in radio, few performers arc ever i ni the pom 1 where Die newspapers and have to interview thorn and producers luive lo them big money lo do happened to Groucho lour tunes: Cii-sl EI.S a Palace- vaude- i hnnriliner, In Broadway in Hollywuod and now us screwball radio The price of this newest, fame is a he can't i i in peace. A nf daimrci.s (one a Kirl 18 years a hii a a A fellow i i a i whom Groucho had never seen sat right down at his table and Insisted lo Groucho a roue ho.

a a brother in i i a i mi a i dealer. know bcveial antiques in i i a i bul they're not my 1 Grouchu said. "I cim'l remember i fellow's name," the guy i i a i said, "Probably a CM uucho "Yetill, that's it!" the a i prise. Gioucho was i 1,1 i i 1:1 spite of the i i i i As ho studied 'Jit- desert secturn of the jr.t-n:i. I ralli-d to Leu "Hey, I it ays he IT 'Gum; Napoleon." 1 thmixlil Napoleon a a i The fellow from i i a i didn't leave but ovi-r lad i and her and smd.

i one is the fasirv. "We're a the fellmv i i Cinc i a i said i i raist-d i i uws y.i^eslU el.y Grin id said lie happy i all the recent i i tbt-y i i i i of me." 1 he Rdtk-d "Thi-y a me u'j' a :n.i:u.-,il je: who set i peop'c nnd i a w.nne.i me a I not to ilom.n. i i i it-Hard myself as a a i business a Ycv.i MV. i an- tvvn I Mai-xes i 11:0. i bioilier and i i i up: "Then how come i i sion freim one'.

1 ho has I not her million dollars' worth of insurance, was by i telling Groucho bow irmcn money he had saved lately by buy some illc. The fellow i i a i was i table, and bo.iMini: about the Hed. "Where do you i i i i he asked Groucho. "I think i i a i will finish in the Na- tional League, Groucho said, Whereupon he got up and a back to his hotel. THE MIDNIGHT EARL WHAT'S HOT: Groncho a told Sam Coldwyn, "That was a wonderful article somebody wrote for you in the Saturday Review of Literature." (Twas reportedly ghosted by pub- relnlionist Jock Lawrence) Glamorous group doing the cafes Fontaine, a Zeldman, Marlcne Dietrich and Michael Wilding.

The I a Sterns (she's Nora Kaye) ere divorcing A Broadway cafe character now travels two detectives because he welshed 0:1 sovcrnl bets Tiie Latin Lillian Mo) Moore inherited two silk factories John Pci'ona extended a warm welcome lo 4 star General i i visiting El Morocco Ole Oleseu is recovering from an a Occident in Siui Diogo. His busted leg will confine him for 2 TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Att'y Joseph i i le'ls iibxuit a cannibal who crooned to a "If I knew you were coming, I'd have 1 KARL'S I'EARLS a Ik'ish'icld that Stalin was reviewing the troops and said lo one soldier, "How's everything?" The soldier said, comphiin." i retorted, "You bet life vou I 1'L) A I THAT: Father J. anrnigh of Not re Dame said, "Some men have -3 years' experience tn job. Others have i yiMiV experience "25 times." GOOD MAX: Senator Magnuson LI ml ex -model Toni Seven were making the i together fiREiiu RonrtSd a i i i Eietiy Underwood (an Ohio a wcve i eacli other at the Lillle Club. Et looks likii roiruincr.

a i Day's becoming .1 TV on UTHX i Fred Robbins the Ginius' i Mnley plans to tjike i i i lessons from Stella Atiler, Wilson's buyin; her brolher, a pl.ir.e i i i to to he.ir her sing at the Astoc Ar C'nlnny Chib.s, as a present on his ftrad- i i school in Oir.oha Lonk for i to br i new 0:1 TV next i At nn's nr.d Mob Lt-viit's on 1 Abe Hunvws i i i Satire: "Joke.i don 1 net hmahs'' nnri lien Lahr added, "Low i i jikes a do ijet laughs" Miss Mcr- m.Ki'5 nii-kiuimo Tor Hay i i u'ho's i i i ovt-i- i ro'e 311 "So. P.icifif" June is i i i Solly i tha'. middle; i Lied wnsiu'ii IinvL 1 cljeck -appeal i a i llir rnnit'dians with tills. Ytni your teeth i gunpowder way i off." Belln Smnro, the Greek rinncor. and Kddie Davis the a i at Leon Eddle 1 s.

English comic Tommy Trinder told Johnny nst OK. "You A i a nre you gave the Marshall Plan, lonned us bill ions, then sent bunny a over to bring it all back" Thai'. 1 earl, brother. (Copyright, Po.sl-Hall Syndicate, Crump's Mostly Old Stuff I phi Our dill tete- sits In the corner, even ts did little Jack Homer, we still feel some- i of Jack's lime pride of accomplishment, every time we successfully con- a dialing. From what teacher (Ann Akeu told us, we infer thai numbers cannot be transposed, as they were in the old cia-s.

when Central plugged the wrong connection. In which case, the wrong number will rest scjuarely on the guy who places Ihe call. In those old days, (now gone forever,) if you called the Police Station, 60, you not i were unswered by someone at the John Cannon residence, 61. And our number, 313, was so close to Held-Bell's a Reid Bros.) 315, that wo were often connected with a housewife making i morning order. The Paxton phone was 170, and there must have been a food store with a closely allied number.

For Dolly used to lell how kid-sister Phoebe (Dent) answered Ihe telephone one day. and the party at the other end of the line started reeling off grocery-list. Phoebe stopped her as soon as she could, and explained lhat she had the wrong number. Presently Ihe phone rang agnin. to be answered, once again, by Phoebe, and there was lhat same party again spouting an i i a rice, a and laundry soap.

Phoebe i rupted once more, wilh the information a i lady slill had the wrong number. The third time the phone rang, the Mrs. Dent took pencil and scratch-pad, and wrote down Ihe lady's order, and assured her that ihe items would be right out, on Ihe next delivery. And that look care of a George Griffin's phone number was 240, and Eben Worlham's was twice as much, 480. Dr.

J. I). Smythe's residence phone was 40, Edwin Klingman's was 47, and the Nance home was 407, which made confusion easy for the operator and caller loo. And little Hebe Smylhe. who spent a lot of time i Mother, would practice telephoning her own Mother, just across i street on South Broadway, and wouhi i a i a ask a for "Forty" instead of the convential "Four Oti.

11 Tin? openi- lor spent a lot of lime trying to Peter Edcon'c tell the future Mn. George Crlt- tenden how to Jor that number, but Hebe ituck to "Forty." Our i of the dill phont took place last Sunday morning from the Underbill residence, out on the road to Metcalft. We were proud of our success, ind laid as much to Aubrey Underbill. "Shucks," tald he, "we used that system, all the time, when we lived in Benoit." Which leivei us wondering why the ballyhoo. Any of our readers who are ancient enough to have taken in Gentry Brothers Dog and Phony Show will remember the monkey who rode the Shetland around the ring.

A few years ago, Mllzi went into Lewis and Georgie Davis' frozen locker store wilh us and, In Ihe course of nosing around, ran afoul of the Davis cat. The cat leaped upon the cocker's back and really rode her around the ring, and we, to all intents purposes were back in the littli circus tent. Except for one important differential, namely, thit the monkey wore no spurs. from a day a Mltz! has given the Davis business a wide berth, and when we start In the general direction of the place, our little brown dog takes the middle of Main Street, dr rellres discreetly to a spot beneath Evelyn Crowley's desk. Lewis Davis was very proud of his cal's lion-taming proclivities, so we naturally assured that when he sold his store to the Erwins he retained title to his cat.

And we tried lo pass this line of reasoning along lo Mitzi. who still wanted nothing of frozen storage nor its environs. She had sfime- I i loo, because Fern Erwin is not only Ihe proud possessor of the cat, bul of five of her kittens as well. And the whole family Is resiing in a box, in the very same room wh3re Milzi was once row- oiled and ridden. Mrs.

i asked our help in i i homes for the kittens, but admitted that she would like lo keep three for herself. Next day, when we spoke of prospects for Ihe remaining two, Mrs. Brewer lold us that she thought ihe children were too young to leive their mother. (Yet they looked i enough to straddle Mitzl without i or a sty-block. other words, ihose ladies like cats, and the lale Billy a 1 Phelps would join us in a i i such a weakeness, and in heaving orchids.

BC Washington Column WASHINGTON, A Opposition lo President Truman's Point IV program for aid lo underdeveloped countries Is based i a i on a fear lhat it will cost too much. There is a feeling that while this government Is involved in European recovery program, a North A a i Pact Military Assistance program, a $13,000,000,000 a i a defense program and an a a budget home, it would be foolish to a another foreign aid job. A the Point IV i i a will cost far less a any of these others. Rccjuest the i year's appropriation is as rout raster" lo nearly one hundred limes as much for the i a of the Marshall Plan. A a there is a i i on how the Point IV a can grow.

It is limited by the of technicians a a i a for the jobs thai have to be Point IV a do not a i i i pale a i their programs will be more lhan 5250,000,000 at the end of i years. A criticism of J'oinl I is is a disguised scheme to i TVA's on the Jordan and give Hottentots a a of milk every day. It is a a intended to do i i Point IV not a pros rum nor is it a program. is merely a to i a i to underdeveloped tries a ask for lec-hnicfii ins i in any field a i i labor a i i Teaching people a a co-its less a i them on relief. The idea a part of the Point Ir'our program will be a i i ed through, the United a i has not helped it.

World Health and Food and A i a i a tions a done many Rood things. Bu'. (rom A on, the record of accomplishment has not been loo sood. The UN itself has made many plans. Last year the UN secretariat approved a $85,000,000 two- year technical assistance program.

At a meeting this May, some 19 countries are expected to pledge about 520,000,000 for thii work. The UN budget for It this is only $4,300.000. It i take a healthy U.S. congrexitonil appropriation before anything much happens. Point IV publicity a has not been too good.

The Stala Depanmonl has a a a on H. There have been a of one-shot a a i articles. But the Point IV idea has not been sold to ihe lhat it is a popular issue i Ihe public support a a a Plan has had. Private i Boost Point IV A few i a groups have re- cenily begun mobilising support behind Poinl IV a exerting pressure on Congress to a A i i i i Association for Ihe United Nations has named a Technical A a Committee Dr. Rnyrnonri B.

Fosrtirk. i A a i I i a i i Dowry Anderson and Step- lien a i this month i i a scries of eight pamphlets whk-h dent a i i evi'sy phase of Point IV poss i i i i Tliis ii being i a a i i i i from Foundation Tor World i supporting general i i i i of Poinl I the Public A a i I i mn in la ins that the Truir.nn a i i a i plan is too tcio short. a Anderson Raushcnbush propose is- a plan. They mnie its totfil cost ax an invest- of S260.noO.Ono.000. This ii more a five limes bigger a Sen.

Bricn McMahoii's 550,000,000 five-year plan. Pearson's Merry-Go-Round U.S. Public Opinion Has Reversed Itself years today, this column one of most sens.nimu»l nnd a i slories nf iTip wiir. A lind reuehcrt Die suburbs of I i 1 reported, i ordered back to the Hiver Kibe becnuse of a by the Hussiap.s. Pubiication broushl immediate i i i from a great many who fell a I was i i U.

i They especially objected to i "Al the height of the rapid L'. S. (toward Per I i just (our day-: before KooseveK's sent him a brusque, tin- i Stales of m.iki:i^ a tlefll with the a i 1:1 order to iiilvnnce more a i thvoKxh Germany. The r.Ke wa? couchoJ in 111051 a i and crilicnl a The itiferrm-e was ili.it a IT. deal had the Nazis to more troops lo the Kctslern Front thus i more 1 I mention i now.

bcc.iu.-e Hint critical a i came from about the same general type of per pit, who me now i i me letters i Senator McCarthy nnri dc- r.oiinchii! everything even renunely In other words, the- of public opinion, a i swung violently one way now swnnp jnst violently Ihe other way. a to sonic people loved i a lew now some people Russia beyond Ihc point of i i Sometimes we gel belter i i by iliumbintf Ihrangh the pages of the past. And herr are some situa- i taken from the old files ot the Washington Merry- Go-Routr 1 which i a Sio Kxpnsr Situation No. 1 Feb. 18.

lEMfi. I puhlishcri imii-RuiMcin slorv i 'ow imri which msrff ri lot of i It rf.d 1 "Scc-rr" are i i in Canada. They i make hold i i a and run for ihe diplomatic slorm-cellars. The basest story of C5pionage and i i since the war is a to brer.k The a a i a have taken over a Russian agent, who has given the names of about 1,700 i i agents; also hns put ihe finger on a i i i a in side the America and a a i a govern- mcnls cooperating wilh the Soviet a show- Ing a to L'. S.

and Canadian i i a have even come to i "The State Department is anxious not to disrupt wilh Russia. One Russian agent named Shim- islienko was negotiating for the a of the blue- i ot an A i a plane. The Justice Department said no. Shimishenko sailed with his i child Jan. 6.

He did not get the blueprints." This, I a was published Feb. 18, 1846--lour ago. Once again there was a deluge of critical letters "Russia could not have done such a thing." "You are i i our relations i a great ally." So ran the i i i Spy Kins; Situation No. 2--Or: Sept. I published another cxpoFo i how a i group of government employees had operated spy ring in i a a suburb basement, stealing i of Die B-2 photostating them, sending them by courier to New and thence to Moscow.

The story was considered so sensnikmal that many did not publish U. Ono year and a a Inter, ft made headlines when, officially revealed by a congressional committee. Situation ns of now--Today ihe A i a people rornsscd. worried nnd sometimes seething mrid. Tho lon't know whom to believe a i or -Vrd I don 1 i a them.

i a i clear. While A i a people have every reason to be sore, the i for Ihem to a been sore was three and tour years age. Today ihe secrels are stolen. But likewise the pres- enl a i i a i of ihe State Deparlment has done tht greatest personnel house-cleaning of all lime. wai the Acheson regime which fired the 90 homosexuals.

was also the Aches on regime which ousted a long list of bad security risks. And though Acheson personally pulled a boner in i i a i his continued personal loyally for A Hiss, the real fact is a the men him have orders to do a thorough, vigorous job on loyalty checks. Acheson's loyally review board, incidentally. Is under a New a i i a Gen. Conrad E.

Snow, recommended to Acheson by Russian-Baiter GOP Senator Styles Brsdgcs. MftCirthy I.ale 1C Senator McCarthy had making his charges in 1946 when first elected to the Senate, nol only would he have been entirely i i but he might have stopped the leaking of some secrets. AH he had lo do between 1945 and 1947, was lo have read this column. It gave him plenty of a i i But now, a the horrc is stolen and the stable door is locked, the senator from Wisconsin i claimed a there arc still 207 "card-carrying communists In ihe State Department." Then, en called upon lo prove- il, he reduced his i to rl. Later he brought this down to one man.

Owen Lattimore, who, aside from two has not worked for any branch o( the government for five years. Note--Ono of the a charges hns been such terror i i tho Slnlc Department that if a newi- up to a U. S. i a loday askl i a i il is. riiplmr.tK over both shouM- eis an.i "Sorry, no.