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THE PAMPA NEWS erentnf, except SnncUr mornlnt Punpm Mem, Wett Foster Avenue. Tew. Phont depurtmeoti Editor OF THE ASSOCIATED PHES9 (Foil is exclusively entitled to the nie for pob- aildn of Ml news dispatches credited to It or otherwise ertd- ttid to this paper and also the regular newi published herein. Etitered second class matter March 16, 1927, at the It Pampa, Texas, under the act of March 8, 1879. National Advertising Texiu Dallj Freai IJMgoe, New York, St.

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Outside of the Pan- tian'dle, $7.60 per year. Price per single copy 6 cents. No mail accepted In localities served by currier delivery. -An Independent Democratic newspaper, publishing the newi 'fairly and Impartially at all times and supporting in Its edi- 'torial columns the principles which it believes to be right and opposing those questions which it believei to be wrong, regardless of party politics. 'A Sacred Trust Of Civilization' The little ring of politicians at Vichy who now control such "freedom of action" as is left to France have issued some pretty resounding statements about defending the French Empire.

Frenchmen in Syria are dying for that. 1 memory so short? Syria is no part of the French Etnpire, and never was, and never was Intended to be. 'Syria is supposed to be an Independent country over which France was given a mandate by the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. The theory of a mandate is that a country or a territory unaccustomed to political freedom, or unable to defend i by force, Is given a sort of "big brother" nation to be its adviser and physical defender until it is able to shift for itself. This is the position of France in Syria, that anc nothing else.

France accepted the mandate under the terms of Article 22 of the Treaty of Versailles, pledg- ing' herself to consider the "well-being and development" of Syria "a sacred trust of 'The people of Syria, long under Turkish domination and freed from that by the World War, wanted the United States to accept the mandate over them if they had have a mandatory power. Wilson had insisted that the Peace Conference that the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine ctjui be consulted as to their future fate. He sent a mission, under Charles P. Crane, to find out what they he was the only one went even that far What they wanted was independence. Least objectionable mandatory was the United States.

as in many other of his proposals, Wilson Was. overruled. The French got the mandate. that they had a difficult task, they didn't very well with it, either. Syria seethed with revolt pr'actically from the first.

Loaded down with French civ'ifand military brasshats, it never knew a moment's attempts at military revolt were by the French, who never gave the slight- est'sign, of ever getting out. is a brief sketch of the French "colony" which Vlbhy, is so determined to defend with French blood For'this Frenchmen die. Not for freedom, theirs or anybody else's, but to enable a lot of pot-bellied generals and functionaries to hold on to their comfort- ab'le jobs at the expense of unwilling Syria. Behind The News By PETER EDSON The Pampa News Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, June call Tom Connally of Marlln, the last of the long-haired senators. All the others let the barbers cut around their ears and.

run the clippers up their necks, or are so baldish they don't even make it interesting for a tonsorial artist who really loves his work. Tom doesn't reveal his age in the Congressional Eiirectory, but he was a soldier in the Spanish- American War and from other sources comes the word that he will soon be 65. And if you, gentle male reader of 50 or over, could grow hair like the senior senator from Texas, you'd make the barbers be discreet too. Get even a distant look at big Tom on the capitol grounds under hfs broad-brimmed, black three- gallon hat and you know that there, by golly, goes a statesman, even If he doesn't wear a frock coat. Maybe, like Samson, his strength is in that hair.

At rate, he has the strength of a longhorn steer arid, its courage, too, and when he starts pawln' the ground, a stampede can start anytime and it's just as well to get for the top rails of the corral NO YAWNS FOB TOM senate of the United States can be the dullest of deliberate assemblies when some of the demagogs start droning, but when the senator from Texas takes the floor it can be livelier than a barn dance. Likewise, a senate committee can bore you to insensi- 'biiity, but when the gentleman from Texas starts asking questions of a witness who doesn't want to be too specific or doesn't know exactly what he's talking Hbout, you wake up quick, i Talkin' Texas, droppin' g's all over the carpet and flattenin' his a's all over the table, he Is again the prosecutin' attorney from Falls county with a barbed- wire flail at the tip of his tongue. He can make a bureaucrat squirm through his testimony like a coyote in the sagebrush, its tail between its legs, headln 1 for the hills. 'Old call him "old" affectionately, for he Is a lovable cuss with a magnificent sense of sarcastic been in unusually fine form this last week or so backing his amendment to the selective servic'e law to permit the president to take over strikebound plants, and ripping into the Aluminum Company, of America as its officials came before the Truman committee investigating national defense, lashing at everything which savored of bunk or didn't make sense to his Texas mind. "The senator from Ohio is a statesman," Connally cracked at Taft in debate.

"He does not think this bill good but he is for it." moment later, Taft tried to make the point that Corinally's amendment would not prevent men from striking against the United States government, that a strike simply meant the men ceased to work. "Oh, they canu quit if they want to," agreed Connally, "and they can go plumb to Ohio." Senator Maloney offered an amendment, Connally accepted it but when Maloney came back another, Connaly ducked it with a gagllne: "I have accepted one amendment from the senator from Connecticut," he said, "and the quota today is only one amendment per senator." PIKED BY DELAYS The debate was on for three days, and Connally, fighting every minute, kept peppering his argument wjth a salty humor that kept his colleagues and the gallery grinning. am not In favor of putting into the bill a great Dumber of and 'wait-a-minute' Clauses," he stormed. "I want the government to step Common PAMPA NEWS- Thfi column no ntMaeterr nntfl nnaart.the ihirM of br the itlck of right to'erutc rtrtt-W ctntt tad AND HIQK J5ALL3" I have Just been reading a new "Unclt Sam Needs a Doctor," by William H. Murray, former governor of Oklahoma.

He has considerable to say about the causes of Uncle Sam need- Ing a doctor. He says "without defective churches, homes and schools, we would not have our germ-infested political swamps, our flank attacks of the Constitution, nor subtle attempts to undermine the moral and economic fabric." He remarks, "I speak particularly of the schools. Give me a 'Mark Hopkins' for a school teacher, and I'll give you an Abraham Lincoln or Robert E. Lee to shape the national destiny. "But with the present twelve-year cycle of supervised thinking and restricted initiative in the grades, climaxed with four years of football, dress balls, and high balls; four years of fraternities, sororities, and senseless snobbery, almost anything is possible.

The New Deal is no surprise to persons who have observed educational trends. From the kindergarten to the cap-and-gown we are manufacturing cases and clients. The six-year-old begins with the rule against taking his books home, and finishes with a diploma that certifies to little but twelve hilarious years of coddling and supervision. "Every educator from Gamaliel to Glen Frank holds that the basis of all education is nature and initiative; that the boy who isn't required to do his own thinking will come to manhood with the idea that he can't do anything for himself; that a refined bum is a greater liability than the oldfashioned tramp; and that the function of the school is to teach the pupil how to think Instead of what to think. The alternative is an educational factory product to be invoiced, labeled, and quoted in terms of hours and credits.

"You know Republican leaders, like Democratic leaders, are inclined to major on majorities instead of morals, on policies instead of principles. "It is our common weakness to crown showmanship and dethrone character. We revel In fiction and despise truth. The professional agitators and unconscionable hate-makers in places of power are as mindful of this as was the great Barnum in the heyday of his whoopla, or Britain's Churchill when he said it in satire. Revival of Fundamentals "I contend that there can be no substantial recovery without a revival of fundamentals, and ft restoration of the code of common honesty." In speaking of what our national leaders art doing, he points out.

"Moreover, what they are doing to our farms, our chattels, and bur earning capacity is little compared, to. what they are doing to our public morals. They repealed the 18th Amendment on the sacred plea of State's Rights, but the purpose and effect of. 'repeal 1 was to debauch the people and, destroy State's Rights. Thomas Jefferson once said he would prefer a nation withput houses to a nation without newspapers.

Personally, I would prefer a nation without farms and factories, without mills and mines, to a nation without a general standard of ethics, without an ideal, without a soul. What they are doing to the economic structure is alarming, but what they are doing to the things that make America made it worth fighting for and, if needs be, dying for in tragic. For be it remembered that -greatness is not an attribute of serfdom, and initiative is not born of bawds and bums. "Wasteful as is their economic quackery, un- American as we regard their terroristic tendencies and frightful as seems their Communistic real danger to the republic Is not in its economic but moral bankruptcy. When the law of the Commandments is lost and forgotten in the rubbish of the temple; when the valleys and mountains smoke with incense to strange gods; when the shrines of Democracy have given place to the Molochs of need the WPA to build us some wailing walls," SOLDIERS SEE WICKEDNESS IN PICKETING An AP dispatch' from San Jose reports ttiat Privates Ralph Sanchez and Ivan Listen of Moffett Field, were strolling the streets of San Jose when they caught sight of a union picket in front of a bakery.

The report says, "a few minutes later the soldiers were in jail for disturbing the peace." The picket, A. Brown, rubbed his head and explained the men had attacked him without warning, stripped his picket ribbon insignia from him and belabored him for "tying up industry while we are defending our country for $21 a month." The soldiers have a good understanding of political ecoriomy and justice and the pickets are not only hurting the soldiers, but they are stabbing in the back honest worker who is producing wealth that makes it possible for pickets to live without producing any wealth. whenever necessary, without having to wait arounc until three of four walking delegates decide when and i the government may act." Connally is, as mentioned, fearelss. And in threatening to take over the Aluminum Company of Amerca, "if it did not behave," he was merely breathing more of the fire that has marked his 24 years in Washington. That long service, however, has never made him less a Texan than he ever was.

He is king of the big Texas delegation in congress, of course Sam Rayburn may be speaker of the house, but Tom is the senator. Even if Governor "Biscuits" O'Daniel should be elected to the senate, he will have a tough time getting ahead of Tom. America is thinking a lot these days about the problem of war and peace. But the Texas Safety association asks you to think for just a moment about another grave the rising traffic toll in the nation. The traffic death toll for the last two years ireatly exceeds the American dead in the World War and the traffic deaths in the last seven years have seen greater than the total number of Americans killed in all the wars of the nation's history! It won't be long now until we'll be celebrating the Fourth of July the birth of our independence But when that holiday is ended, hundreds will be dead, thousands injured as the result of accidents a sacrifice even'-more tragic than war because there is no reason for it.

Won't keep that: In mind whn you celebrate the Fourth this year? TURKEY British Cheer Churchill's -WON DAT, JUNE 23, 194T Around Hollywood By PAUL HARBISON NBA Service Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, June weeks, recently, Mary Astor was put of a job. That was not a wholly new experience for the au- jurn-haired actress but the Incident Illustrates a quality she has for defying the alliance of time and gravity which keeps pulling players down. When a studio drops Mary Astor, she usually bounces a little higher. She has been doing it-21 years. When she was signed for a role with Bette Davis in "The Great jie," Warner Brothers took an for two additional pictures at £1,750 a week.

So "The Great Lie" was-filmed and'previewed. Miss shared the critical cheers, but somehow the option wasn't exercised. Three weeks later the studio decided it needed Mary Astor and would she please come around and sign a contract at the figure orig- rially mentioned. "Haven't you leard?" murmured the actress. "My jrice now is $2,500." "You win," said the boss.

"We still want you." So now she has the top feminine role in "The Maltese Pal- con," and is preparing to commit a couple of dandy murders. SURE, SHE'LL SIGN In her glasses and blue slack suits, Mary Astor somehow looks to me ike a hairdresser a script girl and I often fail to recognize her on a lot. Autograph hounds always spot her, though, and she's a great favorite with them because she's so gracious about stopping to sign. It was a fan contest in a magazine that won her a screen which was terrible. D.

W. Griffith tested that was bad, too. Then Paramount gave her a contract but cut her out of her first picture. She was 15 at the time. Her first appearance on the screen was in "The Beggar Maid," a two- reeler, with Reginald Denny.

Her first feature was "The Bright Shawl," starring Richard Barthelmess and JeddaGoudal. These films were made in the east. When she came to Hollywood and showed promise of becoming important, her name was changed because her real one was too long for any sort of billing; it was Lucille de Vasconcellos Langhanke. For seven years she was a sweet, innocent and usually rather sappy heroine. One day on a local fairway Producer Sol Wurtzel hear her cussing a golf ball with such fluency and venom that he immediately engaged her as a gun moll in "Dressed to Kill." STOPPED BY SOUND Then sound came in and Miss Astor went out for a while.

In order to prove that she could talk she became a villalness in a local play with Edward Everett Horton It brought her back, all right, to a varied career of smooth menaces; and sophisticated ladles. In 1936 came her court battle with Dr. Franklyn Thorpe for the custody of their child, and the introduction into the proceedings of her amazingly candid two-volume diary of "stray thoughts." Everybody expected, it to ruin her in pictures but Samuel Goldwyn put her in "Dodsworth" and she bounced back higher than before, Mary Astor never has been technically, a star, To that fact, and to the variety, of roles, she atttrlbutes her celluloid longevity. She never has been handicapped by unwise advice, either, because she's a quiet person who makes up her own mind. An excellent pianist, she's also a gopd cook, Her children and hus? band are her favorite though Manuel Del Campo, No.

3, now is in Canada trying to Join the People You Know By Archer Fullingim For two this one had been trying to read Delilah by Marcus Goodrich, a breath-taking biograpry of a U. S. destroyer and her crew, but due to the Fiesta and the floats and the special edition of The News, I never got beyond page 62, and I couldn't remember what I'd read because I read those 62 pages after I went to bed and was half asleep. Well, last Saturday night came along and that was my night off, and I went home looking forward to reading that book, but parked out In the front was a car and in the front room was companyv and I rushed madly in, as if'it were a matter of life and death, and grabbed that book and got in the car and drove clean to Memphis before I stopped, and I only stopped there because I figured I wouldn't run into anybody I knew. I sat down in the hotel lobby and began reading that book, and about 10:30 who should walk in by Walt Fade, and he said what are you doing here, and I said I came down here to read a book, and I didn't smile and he bestowed a nutty look upon, me and started talking about the pipe-line that washed out close to Memphis and which he was repairing.

Anyway, I read that book until midnight and finished it the next day and it sure was a good book, and if you want to read it you can get it out of the library. But speaking of good stories, there's another masterpiece opposite this column in The Looking Glass. You may call it sheep sorrel, but we used to call it "sheep showers," as does Mme. Stella. Maybe you can't place "sheep showers." It's a small reddish plant that comes up in wet shady places in Oklahoma and Texas, and you eat it and it has a sweet, sourish flavor and is very good.

The funny thing about this story is that my sister, Lena, once made a cobbler out of sheep shower, and the same thing happened that happened in this little story. So They Say The Chinese think that freedom is more important than life. SCOTT, movie cameraman just back from China. By the time the war is over we may all end up digging ditches but, thank God, they will be our own ditches. JOHN BASSETT of the Canadian Black Watch.

The man who takes care of equipment in our army is the man who rides in.lt. In this respect the superiority of the American soldier is manifest. Gen. CHARLES L. SCOTT, commander, first armored corps.

All evasions of hard thinking are self-defeating. FELIX FRANKFURTER of the U. S. Supreme Court. I know that honor in these days has become a platitude, but if there is to be no faith in sacred promises I do not see how a civilized world can be possible.

DE GAULLE of the Free French forces. RAF. Of Spanish descent, and wealthy, he was educated in England before coming to Hollywood and marrying "Rusty" Astor in 1937. THE LOOKING GLASS HOME SWEET HOME By Stella Halit Viola said she had a wonderful dea. She had thought a new dish that everybody was going to be crazy about.

Ma always suspected Viola's new They were generally very hard on the larder. "No, this is not going to be any- bhlnk like that angel food cake The beauty of this dish-I'm-going 0 make is that it costs nothing. I'm surprised nobody thought of before. Don't ask me any ques- Viola took a clean flour sack and went down in the pasture. She wanted her dish to be a surpirse to iverybody but 'when Bud came up irom fixing fence and saw her, she him.

"I'm going to make a sheep shower pie. I guess it- will take quite a lot. You know how things cook down. Don't you think it's a good Idea." Bud didn't know. It sounded a ittle crazy.

Sheep showers were all right just to pick and eat but his imagination was not sufficient to see them in a pie. He liked re.d things in pies like berries or cherries. He liked apples all right but he didn't know about sheep showers. Although he had promised keep it a secret he told ma as soon as he got to the house. "Sis says she's going to make a sheep shower pie." Ma was a little startled.

She never liked things that grew wild. Lots of people liked wild onions and poke She liked the onions and turnip greens that grew in her own garden. She'd seen the kids eat sheep shower often enough. She knew it wouldn't hurt them but she didn't want to eat it herself. Viola knew the sheep shower would flatten when it cooked so she crammed her pie crusts full The pie looked like a small tent But not for long.

Before the crust was done the top had caved in and when it came out of the oven i looked like a mess. Viola cut into it. The sheep shower looked like slimy weeds and it didn't taste like anything. "Ma, can I open a jar of peaches, 1 she asked when her mother cam in the kitchen. "I tried to make sheep shower pie but it didn't turn out so well." So they had peaches for supper And the whole incident might have been forgotten, except that Bud and Sid never let anything like that be forgotten.

They had rescued the pi and Sid brought it to the table ant, asked everybody to have a piece He and Bud dared.each other to eat some of it. Viola wanted to ee up from the table and go off anc cry somewhere, or run away from home and never, come back Bu she knew the worst thing was pretend she minded. And she hao to pretend she didnt hear when Bud started chanting: Strawberry shortcake Sheep Shower pje Whoever eats it sure will die Will we eat it No sireeeee Sheep Shower pie, Te he he (By The Asw.iatcd Prrn) LONDON, June 23 Britain iteadfastly cheered today her prime linister's determination to help Soviet Russia fight Germany, but hied at placing too much reliance on the Soviet as a potent brother arms. Reports of Russia's resistance along the lengthy eastern front were watched closely for a hint of he Red army's strength or weakness by the press and public, grown wary because of one continental debacle after another. Prime' Minister Churchill's ring- ng declaration yesterday that "we shall give whatever help we can Russia and the Russian people" and "any man or state who fights Nazllsm will have our aid" were seconded warmly by London newspapers.

They advocated a burial of ideo- ogical differences between Britain and Communist Russia for the common purpose of crushing Adolf Hlt- er. "Russia need have no fear that we hall weaken in our resolve here in Britain because Hitler is now spit- Mng his venom at the east," the News 3ronical declared. "Fate has given ourselves and the Russians a common smash the Nazis." In his 20-minute radio message the world Churchill urged that 'all our friends and allies" take the same course as Britain in helping he Soviet Union urging taken" without question by British as directed, among others, at the United States. "Russia's danger Is our danger," he declared, "and the danger of the United States." He offered "any technical and economic assistance" within Britain's power and added: "We shall bomb Germany by day as well as by night in ever-increasing measure, casting upon them month by month a heavier discharge of bombs and making the German people taste and gulp each month a sharper dose of the miseries they have showered upon mankind." The prime minister said the Nazi attack to the east was "only a stepping stone to the attempt to plunge the 400 to 500 millions who live in China and the 350 millions who live in India into that bottomless pit of human degradation over which the diabolical emblem of the swastika flaunts itself." Cranium Crackers HISTORIC LOVES Love makes the world go round and has also filled many Interest ing pages of history. Death cu short the loves of the following women, but others "lived happily ever after." Name, the man with whom each was in love.

1. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy. 2. Ann Rutledge and Martha Cus tis. 3.

Elizabeth Barrett and Lad; Hamilton. 4. Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth. 5. Juliet and Ophelia, Answers on Classified page Legislature Begins 161st Day Today AUSTIN, June 23 over- ige general session of the legislature entered its 161st day today, its sights apparently bent, wilfully or otherwise, on bettering the 163-day all-time record of the last or 46th eglslature.

Although the still of- icially in session the senate did not plan to reconvene until tomorrow and the house secheduled a meeting at 4:30 p. presumably or the purpose of adjourning until tomorrow for a renewal of a long standing house-senate battle on i plan. Unless the two branches see eye to-eye on winding up business be fore Thursday a new general session longevity standard of 164 days would be set. The two chambers have long been deadlocked on a method of ending session. The house held out for a recess and then a reconvention followed by sine die adjournment after the lawmakers had had an opportunity to review possible vetoes in appropriation bills now on the governor's desk.

The senate favored outright adjournment. Relatively little work remained in the "must" category. Still in conference committee was a bill reenacting the road bond assumption law. The senate calendar listed house approved bills designed to bring Texas Public welfare statutes.into conformity with federal social security regulations and loans There were many other bills eligible for consideration but few if any, considered vital to state government. The War (This dally conducted by Dewitt Mackenzie, is bettjg written in his tlon by Fred Vanderschmidt,) Winston Churchill's swift acceptance of the issues Involved In Hitler's self-tagged holy war against Russia and his declaration that, it will be Britain's policy to help the Soviet Union is a counter-stroke, of strategy as bold as apything iri.his career.

He evaluates this attack; militarily, as a giant prelude to the tempted' invasion of England; probably in 1942; as Hitler's attempt to destroy the watchful Red armies-at his back before United States aide's wholly effective in bracing the British Isles. Strategically, Churchill sees eiearjy Hitler's belief- that a on Russia will weaken)British and American will to fight back-at Germany while Germany trying to destroy the fortress of world Communism. Witness the British prime ister's solemn warning to "all representatives of that vile race of Quislings who make themselves the tools and agents of the Nazi regime aaginst their fellow countrymen ahd against the lands of their: 1 1'nis is the sternest kind -of notice to anyone within the councils or pofc- ders of England and her allies wlio may feel that Hitler has redeemed himself by attacking arid who thereby, be apt to furtbir German propaganda for a Httlerltta peace. It would save, trouble, says Churchill, if such people were disposed of by their fellow countrjf- men; at any rate, they "will be delivered' by us' on the morrow of victory to the justice of the Allied tribunals." Shrewdly, Churchill avoids any suggestion that Britain actually is allied, in a formal sense, with Russia, and he refuses to take back any of the bitter words he has di- reeled at Communism. Moreover, he does not attempt to speak for the United States, which is the nation geographically and economically, able to give Russia the most effective aid.

Without mentioning Japan, 'he tells the tripartite partner of the Par East that Germany's mijltary hordes are moving inexorably toward Japan's sphere. He says, moreover, that "any man or state who fights against Nazitsm will have our aid;" he discloses that Britain has proffered technical and economical assistance to Moscow arid he pledges his nation to appeal to her allies and friends (primarily of course, the United States) to give Russia and especially the Russian people.all the help they can. Then, Churchill promises, Germany will be bombed both day and night and he on, significantly and probably prophetically, to point out that on Saturday the BAP established at least temporary aerial supremacy over a part of France which the Nazis "have invaded, defiled and profess to holB f- Yesteryear In The News Ten Years Ago Today Stark and McMullen company -received its first wheat of the season at the company elevator. Ib was grown on the farm of Billy Taylor, Immediate construction of additional holes at the Pampa Country club was announced. Five Years Agro Today While city'commissioners discussed ways -and 'means of combattirig Pampa's water shortage, Pampa.

citizens were consuming more thkh 2,500 gallons a minute. The Junior baseball league sohe- dule for the week w.os to send, to Hoover, the Magnolia Peewees to Road Runner park, and Phillips 66 to Borger. There are 8,060 monuments and markers marking: the Canadian- United States: boundary. Rubber trees are more limb'er or rubbery than the aveage SIDE GLANCES By GalbroUfc "After three years In the movies, Basil, surely you fcaow tp sock a woipan by nowl".