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El Paso Times from El Paso, Texas • 35

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1 iaaday. Aagnt 21, I960 Dial KE 21661 THE EL PASO TIMES El Paso's HOME Newspaper Waat Ad Dept. KE 2-1971 Page 7-C 'CRUISES TO: City Of Paris: Beautiful, Sinful, HAWAII East German Soldiers Air Their Gripes Berlin. (AP) The soldiers of SPECIAL! Jobs Scarcer In Buggy Days Washington Want the horse and buggy back? Here's some-th'ng to thing about: Employment in the manufacture of wagons and harnesses and in blacksmi thing and wheel-wrighting around 1905, the peak Shocking, Intellectual, Old, New Kaducad Round Trip i (Paris is beautiful, shock Fa rat Communist East' Germany's People's Army" have a com Starting Oct. 24 plaint: They lack shoe polish and razor blades.

for the industry, was about Now, says the Labor Depart, ment about 2 million people MUMM And their barracks stores sel 507 N. Mesa KE 2-459SJ "V-r ing, awful, intellectual, old end ever new. It's full of contrasts, crowded with ideas, Jammed with activity. It's a place, says Associated Press Writer George McArthur iif this fourth story in a series on great cities of the world, where living mean far more than simply breathing in and out.) By GEORGE McARTHUR Parte. (AP) Lflce love.

Pari dom have buttons, thread and needles. niske sell, and service motor vehicles and motor-vehicle equtp-j The situation was revealed In ment and supplies. letters from unnamed soldiers to the army newspaper "Die "7 jS vBac I As the armed services get high Is a disease that defies any treat priority on allocation of consumer goods in the state planned economy, the soldiers' complaints ment out more of the same. It normally enters through the eyes and ultimately has all the demonstrated how badly the retail distribution system has broken down. senses in such a feverish state they never return to normal-whatever normal is in other less If the elite soldiers are that badly off, the position of civilians must be much worse.

lavored cities A year ago the Communist Paris has been called the city of light, the city of lovers, the city of poets, the city of artists and much more. It is all of these planners instituted a campaign to get to the people "the 1,000 small things" needed in daily life. and more to boot Judging from the gripes of sol diers, it hasn't been much of It's a feeling, the electric sensa a success. They said that in the shops at the barracks operated by the state retail organization they couldn't get pencils, gym nastic 6hirts, shorts and shoes, PARIS IN THE SPRING you stood in the tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, this is the panorama Paris would spread before you. Looking up the River Seine, the Left Bank, famed center of artistic and student life, is on the right.

In left background is the spidery framework of the Eiffel Tower. thumbtacks, ball-point pen re fills, raincoats, camping stoves MENTALLY UNCONSCIOUS Mrs. llartha Taft, 30, looks tense in court in Pasadena, where a judge acquitted her on a charge of killing her husband with a hammer April 21. Her plea was innocent and innocent by reason of insanity. The judge acquitted her 6n hearing psychiatric report that she was entally ncon-scious" at time cf the killing.

Her husband, William H. Taft, was a distant relative of President William Howard Taft. or fuel. Such military necessities as centuries-old walls of the He St. some 1.500 less regal heads fol the tread of human feet The Great War Path of the Cherokees lowed his.

The Concorde acquired such a folding knives and forks, badges of rank and medals were also rarities in the Red equivalent of Louis in the middle of town. The meanest garrets can be found on the top floors of new buildings overlooking the Bois De Bou reputation for rioting that French snaked across the mountain. The Indians hunted game in its hardwood forests and found shelter in its caves. the post exchange. governments are fearful of it.

On the other hand, there were even today. Students from the logne. The mixture makes life diffi plenty of smart white handker world over have charged across With its high vantage points, chiefs for off-duty but the big colored ones good for a hearty tion of 3 million people determined to take off in different directions and damn the torpedoes. Historians note that the population began to get out of hand in almost every conceivable way oine 500 years ago. Every true Parisian is hotly engaged in perpetuating this condition.

Life in Paris is an unending akirmish with your fellow man (or woman, if luck is with you). If you can't stand the gaff, don't come. If you can't take it, leave. But if you stick around, you'll know you've been living, not just breathing in and out. In Paris, you don't order a meal, hire a taxi, pay a bill, buy a ham, phono the police.

You negotiate. You discuss it You talk it over. You don't drive in Paris. You hoist your battle flags and charge. You don't go out to dinner in Paris.

You eat There are 5,000 restaurants in the city give or take and healthy men break down when they nave to pick one and pass up the other 4,999, until tomorrow. Lookout was destined to star in its cobblestones even the late cult for the politician. A district mat should vote left turns up John Foster Dulles admitted trumpeting were missing. the Civil War struggle for Chattanooga: The city was not only with a rightist majority, and had done so himself as a youth, though he couldn't remember for Perhaps the soldiers can hope to get the needed items in the Woodrow Wilson was elected situated at a gap in mountains vice versa. That's the way Pari sians like it They don't even through which flows the navigable President ia 1912 with 82 per what cause.

future. Tennessee River; railroad lines have a mayor. They have 20 Defense Minister Willi Staph cent of the electoral vote but only 42 per cent of the popular CLIP JOINTS radiated to Nashville, Memphis, district mayors who elect a has been taken away from stra Atlanta, and Richmond. cote. This is the intoxicating back chairman." An official guide book spells it In the summer and early fall as simple a task as it sounds.

of 1863, the Southern Army of out simply: ground that makes Paris what she is a courtesan who has never grown old because she awakens to new possibilities "Parisians laugh at rules." That's why a big-shot party man with the rank of deputy pre Tennessee was maneuvered out of Chattanooga and Central Ten mier has been chosen to do it nessee by the Union Array of the every day. Cumberland. On Sept 19 and 20, This isn't the Paris of the tegic military problems and given the job of co-ordinating the carrying out of Communist Party decisions, especially in the economic field. That means that if the Central Committee decides the people shall have needles and thread, and buttons as well, Stoph has to follow through to see that they are not only made but delivered to where the customers need them. In East Germany that is not tourist No two-week visitor ever caught more than a whiff of the the Confederates recouped in a bloody victory at near-by Chick-amauga Creek, Ga.

The Blues limped back into Chattanooga. Civil War Battle Recalled city. Two weeks can be mon BEAUTIFUL GIFTS for all Occasions 29 up Sif Wrapped FLORELLA'S Gift Shop 4005 Montana LO 4-6279 The Grays occupied Lookout and strous fun or even a complete bust as often happens. But it's not Paris. The clip joints on Rue Pigalle and the garish hang an opposing eminence.

Missionary Ridge. Washington. Approach of the Civil War Centennial is bringing Cut off from supplies, the outs along the Champs Elysees legions of visitors to Lookout are hardly different from clip Mountain, where the North Northerners grew gaunt from hunger. Then reinforcements came through, and Gen. Ulysses joints on New Orlean's Bourbon and South fought the "Battle Street or in London's Soho or Above the Clouds." Grant arrived to take charge.

Off the Tokyo Ginza. Cannons stand in position on Blues Scaled Lookout The But if that's what you want the sheer escarpment The long- Battle of Chattanooga raged for1 silent guns point over a pastoral Paris offers a dazzling display. It may be true that most of the three days, Nov. 23-25. On the valley of the Tennessee River, murky morning of the 24th, 2,300 the sprawling, vigorous city of leggy girls come from Union soldiers, each equipped with a day's rations and 100, via and the bosomy ones and other battle-Germany, but that too, is part that witnessed some of the HOUSES LACK COMFORTS You don't ask a girl for a date in Paris.

You make a rendezvous. Voila roll that word around and think of the limitless possibilities it brings to mind. So more than half the houses vera built more than a century ago and lack the modern comforts, so the walls are grey and the weather isn't what it should be. So the prices are high. Who cares? Youngsters and oldsters with Ideas still flock to the town where an art show can cause a riot but a man with two heads could hardly draw a crowd.

London, Rome, New York, Berlin all think they are sophisticated. It may be, but why do their inhabitants flock to Paris every summer and gawk when they see a simple little sight? A sight like Napoleon's majestic Are De Triomphe glittering in golden spotlights or the vast Place De La Concorde with its fountains dancing by gaslight or the gigantic bedlam of the "Les Halles" marketplace, the "Belly of Paris." rounds of ammunition, climbed Paris. tusuiesi engagements or ine war. To the east are rolling green up Lookout's sides over boulders. FINAL CLEARANCE SALE SPECIAL Thrift Rack DRESSES GROUP Sports Sets Vi Price AD Other Summer Merchandise Available At Enormous Savings New Fall and Winter Dresses Skirts and Sweaters Dyed to Match Bulkia Sweaters Knit Suits Cashmere and Wool Coats She's a heady mixture of peo hills that rise gradually into the Great Smokies, the National this classic poetic line embraces to tta fullest exactly what American's Interior Design Staff can do for your home.

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The nice, and the not so nice. If you want to be shocked, she can shock Geographic Society says, fallen trees, and ravines to dis-lodge the Confederates, this preparatory engagement led to a Union triumph on Missionary Ridge another costly struggle that severely undermined South The top of Lookout Mountain is so heavily settled now that you. Try the Rue the last stop before oblivion for the few home sites are available. ern morale and gave the North Students and working folk com ladies of the night or the far reaches of Montmartre where mute to Chattanooga on a breath a gateway through mountains to the dying heart of the twisted men and women flaunt taking conveyance the famed Incline Railway whose cable crs Itheir afflictions. Of the day on Lookout, Gen.

glide up and down the It's all Paris, even the drunk en ctochards, the bums, stum J. A. Williamson of Iowa later mountain at grades seemingly said: "My command finally perpendicular. reached the top of the mountain in its front At that point Straddles Three States Only Paris has the sweep of modern the prow of Lookout Mountain what has been said in history juts northward into Tennessee and in song about fighting above 1 The long mountain extends 75 the clouds became a literal and ELttory in the meanest narrow street. No great event of modern times has escaped her influence.

Lenin studied here. So did Ho Chi Minh, who washed miles from Gadsden, across bling for a night's rest beneath the bridges over the Seine. Despite the sin, there are few cities in the world where philosophy and religion are so fiercely discussed. Ideas roam the streets as people do elsewhere. If Sartre is the rage today and he is no more), another wiM take his place tomorrow.

RUBBING ELBOWS the northwest corner of Georgia to the Moccasin Bend of the Ten Shop of El Paso dishes to pay his way. The Suez nessee River. real fact" Lookout has long been a magnet for sight-seers. Andrew Jackson carved his name in a cave in 1833. After the Northern victory.

Gen. Grant climbed the heights to have his photograph taken on Observation Point Centuries before Union soldiers 801 N. Piedras Open Your Charge Account Today and Confederates fought in foe and Panama Canals were conceived here. The atomic age was nurtured, if not born, in the brain of Eve Curie. The infant United States benefitted from the and rain on its wooded, craggy flanks.

Lookout Mountain knew The new philosopher may be your neighbor, sipping coffee at advice of its then ambassador to a cafe. Paris, Benjamin Franklin, still! Where else could you eat in revered by Parisians for his wit small restaurant and find your- AWI I and, it is said, attraction for the self with a Communist intellectu- THE rricT ladies. Napoleon dreamed of making al on the one hand and an overdressed capitalist movie star on 1.1UUI the city the capital of Europe FAMOUS and almost did so at a cost in blood that finally shocked Paris, for a time, although his monuments now dominate the city. AND the other with the red-nosed patron probably a happy soul with no greater ambitions than to serve good food and rub shoulders with his clients at the racetrack on Sunday afternoon. The great the near-great and the not great are aH rubbing shoulders every day, aU over town.

You don't really have swank districts. The plushest apartments are buried behind the Paris gave the modern meaning to the word revolution (not without aome later regrets) and ended the era of monarchy when HOSIERY the head of Louis XVI dropped into a basket at the Place de La Concorde. In short succession It I I IN THE COUNTRY sy GOTHA genuine Wurlitzei piano FREE RENT Jeep on Display at Sunrise store Aug. 22 to 27 Loretto Aug. 29 to Sept 3, Lakeside Sept 5 to 10 win a pink "JEEP SURREY" with the fringe on top in the "MISS GOTHAM" name the pink Jeep Contest The entry submitting the best name wins I Entry blanks at all Given Bros stores.

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