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6, THE PARIS Niws, WEDNISDAY, JULY 3, Before Your Meeting Get Tog Far EDITORIAL FEATURES Daily Bible Thought Selected DV flibl cu, Cincinnati. Ohio, There arc certain spots rich In hallowed memories. There sanctuaries of the soul for which men in great troubles long. Some have no such longing: Bring me unto thy holy Psalms 43:3, Holiday Tragedies Death and injury by auto- bile collisions and crashes are taking the lives or limbs of far too many people, Perhaps the most depiorablc fact is that so many of the victims are men who have returned from the service of their country, many of them going through battle without wounds, only to come home and die on the road or street. Possibly some of these victims have become careless of danger because of having spent months in daily and hourly risk of their lives from shells or bullets, and being out of sound of the artillery and the rifles they forget that there is danger on the road just as there is on the battle field or in the foxhole, -Not all of them are careless, but some have been, if we may judge by the nature of the tragedy that took their lives or injured them.

Because there is more travel on holidays such as the one we are to have tomorrow, we are given warnings by safety organizations 'and highway authorities that unless care is used we must expect tragedy, The Paris News is but one newspaper that has been voicing these warnings, and the record of deaths and injuries following each holiday makes it appear that little heed is given what the newspapers say in behalf of safer driving and walking on the streets and highways, Lot us hope this holiday will not yield so great a harvest of death and injury as those that have gone before. Care in driving and in walking ought bo usjod every day, Not on holidays only, but every day, for the danger is eternally existent and death takes no holiday. Drinking, if one must drink, should bo done after the drive is ended or after the pedestrian has reached a destination, The Fourth of July is worthy of celebration, It should not be made an occasion for.regret— a regret that does not restore life or limb. If Governor. Coke Stevenson should decide to call a special session of the Legislature, after the July primary elimination has been held, he should confine the call to one subject redistricting the State for membership in the House and Senate, to confirm to the provision of the Constitution, and to do justice to those sections now badly under-represented.

The great demand, especially from candidates for office, is for a session remove the ceiling from old age assistance, and perhaps this should be done, but if it be included in a call the Governor might issue, redistricting would not be done. There would be much greater probability of redistricting being done if it is the solo subject submitted, wjth the statement that until a redistricting bill is enacted nothing else will be submitted. There will be more probability of a redistricting bill being enacted by the present membership than by the Legisla-. turo which will assemble in regular session next January, because many of the present members, especially of the House, are not candidates for re-election, and would not be affected politically by enactment of a bill-giving proper representation to the people of the State. A bill offered in the regular session of this Legislature made few changes.

Most of them were the abolition of some "flontorial" districts, and some were to take away one of two representatives in counties that now have two" and are fairly entitled to only one, Many of the districts wore left unchanged, but the members refused to enact the any other bearing on the subject. A bill enacted by a called session would not affect candidates nominated in July this year, They would be elected in November and would serve their terms and the new bill would take effect in 1948, MICHT FORyou oven WALTER LI PPMANN: Today and Tomorrow Byrnes'Task Is To Work Out Provisional Plan The'ronl question at Trieste is how--'bout to postpone the final sot- tlomon.t of the' frontier between Italy and Yugoslavia; For no final settlement can bo mndo at this time, and Mr, Byrnes's task is to work out the best-provisional arrangement for a period of years, Triestc let us recall, is now occupied by British-American forces; They arc 'standing guard on the so-called Morgan line holding Tito's army in check. The Italian Republic, with full support, has 'position that it will not code Trieste to Yugoslavia, Tito's government Insists it will not renounce its Trieste. To make'a final settlement which loaves Trieste within Italy, Mr, Molotov would have to give a binding pledge not only that ho would compel Tito to that tho Soviet Union will see to it, policeman of the United Nations, that troops will tho city, Falling that, there is no way by which Italy, which is to be disarmed and domilitw'hcd, can hold Trieste. It cannot be hold by a clis- disarmed Ilaly, British-American forces will have to continue for an indefinite period of time to hold it for Italy, The proof that the settlement cannot now bo final settlement is that the British-American forces cannot bo evacuated from Hnly until and unless the Soviet govern- ment agrees to change Tito's mihd and to keep it 'changed, of this sort can now bo had at Paris, Therefore, in the present relations of the great powers, Byrnes cannot at one and the same time' (n) disarm Italy, (b) withdraw the American troops, and give Italy effective possession of His alternatives, barring a surrender to 1 he cannot oven consider, are: (1) to invite and to help Italy to rearm before evacuating the American forces, or (2) to maintain American forces i the disputed area for a good'many years to come.

The nub of the problem is whether they should stay there under the presentarmistice arrangements, or Whether'they are to stay there under a which been ratified by' all the United Nations, 1C they stay there as, at present, the 'whole burden of guarding Trieste-falls Britain and -America, Italy: and Yugoslavia will still be legally at war, We shall still bo legally at war with Italy although we are guarding her frontiers, The other United Nations, which are not parties' to tho will have; no and no responsibilities in the main- tonnnco of law and order, will bo most unsfttlsfnctory (Continued On Pajre TIME FLIES: 13 Years Ago Monday, July 3, 1933 Tempornturo rose fronvn low of ttO to n.liigh of 104, just ono degree lower than the record to date for this Summer. People said it wns Reports to Farm Agent Kdmioston said that more than 300 Lamar County farms had been inspected by local committees for cotton ocreaKO reduction, and he believed 75 per cent of the farms in the county would participate, Effect of tho, hot dry month of June was shown by report of City Engineer Walter Hicks that 38 million gallons of walci were pumped into the City during the month, compared to a lit- tie over 29 million gallons in June, 1932. Sophomores of the Summer session of Paris Junior College elected Margaret Vanderburg of Sumner for President and Mary MaTgarct Medford of Avery for Sccrotary-TreaHurcr. PEARSON: Washinfffron Merry-Go-Round President Really Worried Over Decision On OPA Truman did not exaggerate when i he told his radio 1 listeners that he had given 1 the price-control veto most serious consideration, According to his close advisers, he worried more and longer over this than over any other step he has ever taken, 'The President's decision to veto was virtually made at a Thursday night conference in the White House, attended by his and economic'advisers, Part of. them were opposed to the veto.

Sccrc- retarv of the Tronsury John Snyder, Production Administration John Small, and Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug felt that President Trumun should accept the compromise price-control bill despite its unworkable features, and try to it work, Attorney General Tom'Clark at first agreed with them. Ho viow- ed the voto Hiessage from political angle and told the President he hated to see him break with his good friends on Capitol Hill, particularly Speaker Sam llayburn and Senate, Majority Leader Barkley, Later, when tho decision was made in favor of tho veto, however, the Attorney General, went to bat vigorously and helped White House advisors write tho message, Advisers who carried the ball in the inner White House debate Thursday night wore OPA Administrator Paul Porter, who practically camped at the White House during the week! ChOHtcr Bowles, who is retiring as Economic Steolman, the new War Re- converter, who has bocomo one of the closest advisors to the President; and Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, Backing them up wore tho Department of it was not Housing Administrator Wilson Wyntt, who, though not present at the meeting, sent his representative, and who Later, when President Truman Snt down with his four congrossion. nl leaders on Friday, he almost changed his mind, He told friends afterward that he knew how hard and loyally they had worked pass a price-control bill, and he simply hated to go against their advice. However, his main argument to them was that the half-breed price-control bill would not work. Taft amendment, he especially argued; WHS absolutely impossible, and he cited accountancy experts of various big manufacturing firms, all oC them against OPA, who branded the Taft cost-plus formula as likely to bring chaos to industry, "I just have to put what-I consider the country's welfare first," tho President told his congressional loaders, "Lot's not fool tho country and give them something that won't work." When they told him that they would not be able to persuade their reluctant colleagues to pass any sort of price-control bill, the President replied: "If it's this or nothing, then we'll just have to take' nothing." Among other things, the President figured that during the chaotic period sure to follow if the polyglot price-control bill were passed, Congress would-claim it was his for not making the bill work, when, in actual fact, the bill was unworkable, He felt also that if Congress did dare to go home without a price-control bill, things would be hotter for them in their districts than in Washington, He also warned that in this case bo would call a special session of Congress, many respects, Truman hated to accept Chester 1 resignation, However, -Bowles urged it upon him, partly because ho wanted to leave the government, partly because ho felt that tho political repercussions from his exit would help price control Bowles has boon none too popular with congressmen, and he advised the President that many Senators would vote for price control if ho stepped out, This was tho same stand taken by Leon Henderson, the first OPA boss, Actual fact is that any administrator of (Continued on 3) A.

W. NEVILLE- Backward Glances Uncle Dick Timberlake Persuaded Man To Work When Denison wns 'liltlc more than a year old, in May, 1874, it was rough and tough. The Denison Daily News told of some gamblers who disturbed the neighbors in the late night, so the marshal took a posse and descended on them, taking four and bringing them to police court next morning, They were fined the usual amount and not having money to pay fines were sentenced to 1.5 days labor on the street gang. One swore that he would not work and the others decided to stay with him, Then the policeman in charge of the gang clamped chains and balls on their legs, tied them to the rear of the trash-collecting wagon, and they had to walk in the dust, carrying the 25-pound balls. The News reporter believed they would be ready to work next day.

Nigh forty years ago Uncle Dick Timberlake was in charge of a Lamar County chain gang, working on the county There was no lack of manpower for the gangs in those days, for money was scarce and not many small fry lawbreakers, could pay lines. Uncle Dicks gang was working near Chicota, und camped on the Spring Branch where there was shm 1 and water. There had been heavy rains and some, real mudholos obstructed the roads, Among other "hands" sent out to reinforce the gang was a well dressed fellow, a tin-horn gambler, who had failed to make, a cleanup of the -boys Ports when he arrived hero, and who had no money to pay his fine when he was convict- ed, Uncle Dick welcomed him, he did all other recruits, and assigned his work, but the sport declined common labor. The usual "persuasion" of a leather strip, applied while the subject was stretched across barrel, which was also fait in chain gang circles, failed to change the fellow's refusal, so something had to Uncle Dick did it, A pair of old gentle gray mules was pulling a slip scraper, used in filling mudholcs, The operator would take a load of dry earth from the bank at the roadside, drive the mules through the mudbolc and dump the earth which presently filled the hole and squeezed out the water. Uncle Dick handcuffed stubborn prisoner and with a short chain fastened the cuffs to one of the hnmcs on the, near mule of this team, and he walked wherever the team went, as he could do nothing else.

The trip to get the earth was not bad, but when it was dumped in the mudhole the fellow was right there, sometimes up to his knees in the slush, lie stuck to it all morning, and when noon came and the gang knocked off for dinner the mules.were led to a feed trough, and the stubborn man was told to get: his dinner with the mules, while the other prisoners ate beans and side meat and sat in the shade. After dinner the fellow announced he believed he would work, and Uncle Dick had no trouble with him thereafter, said Charley Delphenis, who told me this story. Try I'arU News Classifieds. OFF THE RECORD Retd Til bet you knew this would happen when you sent that card saying 'wish you were hcre'l" 'LL SNOW THE MAT I MADE TO GO WITH IT IT'S LOVELY TOOTSIE, CAN I BORROW rt THE PATTERN? THUTTV-TWO MEXICO JUCOPIN REANS TO Race BARNIY GOOGU WHEN I THINK OF ALL. POOR LITTLE GETTING MARRI6O THIS MOLD THIS UP i RUSH MRS.

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