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THE PARIS, TEXAS, NEWS SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1960 75 Years of U. Foreign Policy, And Disastrous Results It Brought A nation's policy must he judged by the results it achieves briefest study of our foreign policy for the past 15 years reveals that it not only has been a failure has been disastrous. The policy purportedly was designed to block Communist expansion and aggression. When it was inaugurated we were far and away the most powerful nation in the world ami could have not merely "contained" communism but could have rolled it back to Russia's 1939 borders with a stern word. But we chose to "contain," meanwhile passing out money in prodigious amounts to friend and enemy alike and turning the other cheek when enemies rebuffed or insulted us.

When that policy was inaugurated communism ruled 160.000,000 people in Russia. Today some 900,000,000 people are under the Red Yoke and the Communists have strong forces in the remainder of the world ready to cause trouble or try to take over at a moment's notice. During the past year, since the death of John Foster Dulles, things have gone from bad to worse and our only answer is to spend money. Consider some of the defeats and reverses we have suffered. The Communists, by using their brains and perhaps 31,000,000 to subsidize their agitators, destroyed the benefits that might have been derived from President Eisenhower's trip to the Far East.

The government of Korea was upset by students acting under Communist direction and our faithful friend, Syngman Rhee, was forced to resign. Turkey's army overthrew its government and withdrew nearly all the Turkish troops from South Korea. Cuba, in our own back yard, now has a Communist government that brings the enemy withing 90 miles of our shores. Eisenhower was insulted in Paris by Khrushchev in a way no other American President ever has been. The withdrawal of the President's invitations to visit Russia and Japan have humiliated America.

We have promised to discontinue U-2 flights so that now Russia can prepare missile bases unobserved. Our position of leadership is tottering. We already have lost our Moroccan air bases that cost us hundreds of millions and we may be ejected from most of our remainii.g overseas bases. Latin American countries hold us in contempt as they observe Cuba slapping us around. But as we drive, or drift, on closer and closer to the brink of disaster, our representatives in Washington have nothing to offer except more of the discredited policies of the past.

They want us to give away more. They insist upon keeping taxes at wartime rates and incurring deficits even so, under the pretext that the money is needed for defense, when much that is being spent is being wasted. Now the vice-president recommends (hat we donate our surplus crops to the United Nations for distribution abroad, an arrangement under which Russia would share equally with us in any gratitude that might result. Our gold reserve is flowing abroad. The balance of international payments has turned heavily against us.

Industry, to prosper, must build plants abroad, causing unemployment here. The results of our foreign policy are disastrous. What are we going to do about it? 5 Straining Our Laws With Whimsey In San Antonio last week. Judge John Onion ordered Frank Davis, 51-year-old rancher, freed on a three-count indictment which included a charge of murder with malice. Davis was arrested after the death of James L.

Drought, 41-year-old attorney, last Feb. 17. Two days earlier he had been beaten by Davis in a dispute after the automobiles of the two had collided in an accident. Drought had attempted to flee Davis, pursued, beaten and stomped to unconsciousness, the indictment alleged. But hear Judge Onion: The indictment is invalid because it failed to specify whether the defendant.

Davis, wore shoes he is said to have stomped Drought. This is a form of legal quibbling which makes mockery of the law. No matter whether Davis be innocent or guilty as charged, society has the right to" try'him before a jury of his peers for the violent death of another. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed, a conviction in this type of charge for equally capricious reason some yea-'s ago. In that case it found the indictment faulty to specify the victim was stomped "with the feet." Perhaps Judge Onion is attempting to qualify himself for a seat on the Court of Criminal he may be looking higher to the United States Supreme Court where laws appear to be interpreted with strange whimsey at times.

Certainly his finding does little to justify the statement of the late, great Joseph H. Choate a century ago: "Law is the expression and the perfection of common sense." The net result of Judge Onion's decision will be only delay since the district attorney has obtained a new indictment from the grand jury. POTOMAC FEVER WASHINGTON, D.C.—Leaders Johnson Rayburn order Congress back in August. Xixon nominating speech at Chicago: "So let's send Dick back to Washington where he slaving for Lyndon Johnson." Senator Frank Church finds that preparing the Democratic Key-note speech is a messy up all those excerpts from Nelson Rockefeller's statement. One Democratic delegate says he'll fee! out of place at Los Angeles.

He thinks he's the oniy one of 3.000 delegates who hasn't been promised the vice-presidency by one of the Kennedy The King of Thailand visits Washington. With all the trouble in Asia, it's nice to know there's the Thai that binds. Adlai Stevenson's backers claim he'll have a ''beachhead" on the firsi ballot. Adlai will storm ashore under the battle flag: "I sha'1 and again and again." In Los Angeles you can cross the city by car in rush hours at 6 miles an hour. A horse and buggy could make S.

Motto: In a hurry, surrey. Sam Rayburn hotly denies ihat Lyndon Johnson is quilting the presidential race. In fact, it's said Johnson himself is so stirred up he may announce rhat he's starting. KNEBEL. Oregon Coastal Town Gets Scares Aplenty The Careful Father X- X- (From the Scrapbooks of the late A.

W. Neville, Editor of The Paris News, 1936-1956) June 19, Discovery of a wooden pistol. made from a broom handle and a grocery box and blacked with shoe polish, has led the sheriff of Angelina county to ask for the transfer of two men from the jail in Lufkin to the state penitentiary for safe keeping. The pair are under sentence of death for murder and the Angelina sheriff fears that his jail is not strong enough to keep them. The pistol was said to be similar to that used by John Dillinger in his escape from prison in Indiana some time ago.

confined in the jail offered to disarm Bill and was released from his coll for that purpose. Walking down the corridor where Bill was confined, Starr was greeted with a threat of being shot. "I know you are a friend of mine," Bill said to him, "but I'll kill you just like I did that jailer." arr walked on steadily and finally got in front of Dill's cell and began talking fo him. Nobody knew what was said but presently Bell hand- was discovered that the pistol was smuggled into the jail by a sister of Bill, in spite of the fact PAUL HARVEY Democracy, Not Capitalism, Is American Way of Lif Whenever I have heard of material well-being for the So-' But first they described as 1 I have I viet people. why.

urged the critic to "Get in there and straighten "em!" Now I'm not so sure it was a good idea. Too many businessmen urged While Soviet workers, who arc communi to go into politics "backed in," no! free to strike or quit or goof enough. should ow If free Americans, demanding American soldiers in Red pris- a shorter work week, longer cof-1 ons in Korea did not know what ed Henry his pistol and the extra Jail guards faced with a pistol in excitement was the hands of a prisoner should not be criticized for failure to try to at an cnd for tnc tlmo Great take it away from llic man for i crowds stood outside the jail at- sometimes the pistol is real and traded by the shooting and it was is used with deadly effect. ch one of the most notable of the cases ha-. 1 often occurred, the pis- many exciting instances in Fort tol having been smuggled into the I Smith history.

jail despite the care taken to prevent such operations. And it is not a modern-day trick, either. A story I read some time ago. 1 that hc kJHed he lusban(i by Frank Dalton, gives the parti- some limc bofore was COI1cea e( culars of the use of a pistol in the (1 a jar of buttermilk she was al- Fort Smith federal jail in 1(395. ioweci carry to anfj there Crawford Goldsby, otherwise were extra cartridges in Ihe jar known as Cherokee Bill, was in also.

She lived in Fort Smith after the jail under sentence of ath Bill killed her husband and when for one of the many murders he officers went to arrest her had committed. One day he hailed i fought like a tiger. Bill was tried the guard in his corridor, Larry for the Keating murder and ex- Keating, as he passed (he cell called a few months later, where Bill was confined, and as Keating came up to the bars Bill "You're going to hang me, and I'll give you fellows some- tiling to hang me for." and hot Keating dead. He continued shooting at intervals to prevent the guards coming to his cell and the guards in turn Iried to shoot him but could not get in range for fear of the desperate man and i gun. Finally Henry Starr who was 73 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 3, 1947 The Women Church Federation installed T.

D. Wells as president to succeed Mrs. J. B. Johnson.

fee breaks, earlier should backslide. they were "for." They were vaguely That greater than merely orange juicers." Mrs. Clara Tliornhill Hammond, 324 W. Houston Paris, was leaving New York to resume her guided tours of Europe, conducted The freedom an American rn- for 16 years before World War II. "against 1 joys to work where he will.

I and they're about to get kicked off. begin to outproduce us. what i Before we send any nvjre of out. then? Do we concede defeat and; our sons into war to make tne not profit from his work and worship I where he pleases It a good thing if business- i "turn Communist? men get into politics, unless they get in for the wrong reason, and "making the world safe for capitalism" is the wrong reason. ''Capitalism" is not what Amer- God forbid! Capitalism is not the best economic system in the world because it produces more and hotter material things.

Capitali world safe for capitalism, let's let them know that the prize is Having a father in the contract- irg business here had helped Man- It is these things the Super i rice Eaton realize his dream State would deny. house, just completed in Paris, but It is for these things we i planned while ho wa.s in the Pa- and would die. 1 cific on Marine Corps duty. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo DEPOE BAY, Ore. In: jone day, residents of this I town were jarred by these reports: i A tidal wave was coming, terious red objects were at sea, and there was a submarine lying off the coast.

Tne red objects turned out to be fishing boaU. the submarine I turned out to a tug and the tidal wave didn't turn out at all. Bible Thought In all your ways acknowledge him. and he will make straight your 3:6. We may call this word the spiritual basis for our everyday life, i It is the first principle upon which all ojr work and hope must depend.

icans have willingly died is the best economic system be- would again. cause it alone, of all economic The signers of our Declaration systems, allows people to be truly of Independence were mostly well-: free to work out their own des- to-do men who sacrificed their tinies under law. something more pre- i An American has a right to cious. work hard. "Capitalism" is a word popu- Or not so hard.

larized by Karl Marx: Or he has a right to be a bum'. "Capitalism" is an econom i i Koil Rowland of the Missouri term. That word was converted State Chamber of Commerce has to a weapon by a man whose watched an increasing army whole concept of politics was eco- businessmen infiltrating the ranks nomic. of politicians "defending capital- And when businessmen in noli-; ism as a supplier of groceries, tics try to counter this collectivist; and failing to defend that feature appeal on economic ground, what of capitalism which makes it tni- do they say? unique. fact that only "Capitalism is the best of all under a capitalistic economy c.in economic systems ecau.se it has I people be truly free." given our people more houses, Communism is a godles? reli- more cars, more TV sets, more i religion of economics orange juicers, more etcetera than a gospel of materialism, any other people in history," Businessmen in politics are toot- In other words, we applaud our ing on communism's flute when own material standard of living, i they should be sounding the first tin moon I ism's trumpet! in space wa? labeled "Made in I I am not yet iorry I hive en- the USSR." i couraged businessmen to enter Russia is making giant ocoiiorn- politics, I am glad they have and ic strides, improving ihe standard i I hope more will.

THE ROAD WHEN THE ONLV EATIN6 PLACE HANDV IS A DOG WAGON, SOU PEN A ORDERS THUS BUT AT A PLUSH, HI6H-TONED BOITE WITH A TWO-FOOT MENU, WHAT DOES SHE GO FOR--? Dp YOU HAVE PATE DEFOIEGRAS? HOW ABOUT PRESSED DUCk THERE ANY LOBSTERP fa MMM-- OH- BR1N6 AN' COFFEE THE RED RIVER VALLEY-IV FULTO ARTHUR CITY From the first i.rne white rr.cn laid eyes on her, Red Rr, er r.a? beon a wanderer ihe fickle v. of -A When 'he rain.i paid no to fcsnxs and thousands of rich acres beyond them The lenrr.cd early. Thoie arriving in the soon relreaic-d to the high which overlooked ihe ICTA. flat bottorniarjd. And (hey soon learned the 'ew landings and crossing on Big Rr-d.

Sam M. a ith an eye for a talent for trading and a acre Spanish land in hi- hand, was among He caine 1 Ihr and d-c-c: to stake hi.s future on a ing a half-mile of whore now is Arthur City. A bluff 0'. erl'jfikr-fi landing. Fulton cho that vanizige point ihe trading post.

During ihe on.Miing a landmark along Red Rr.r-r. flouri.shcd there, fend ihe town of Franklin resuUc-d. The eventual location of ferry, then a bridge and a railroad juM to the spelled slow dcnth for the corn- munily of Franklin of Ihrr prf Al thin Cily Franklin is now onlv a LANDING CENTER FOR EARLY TRADING, TRAVEL Larnar iifig Post. rr. 3 1 K.

i 5 ov the Texas We sought the marker out this week. Locating it wasn't easy. But it's there, surrounded by trees and heavy foliage on the Prunson farm. There is no road, only a trail, leading to it. The inscription, below the State Seal of Texas, reads: "Site of Fulton's Trading Post.

"Samuel M. Fulton. 1BIO- FULTON'S LANDING MARKER OBSCURED John Brunson III Views Historical Spot 1351. "At this point, which he- came known as Fulton's Crossing after about 1333. Earlier known as the site of the United States Factory." Fulton first pushed into the valley in 1833.

and promptly showed himself as a man with a great capacity for business. He operated his own boats, and sent steamships back and forth from Fulton's Landing lo New Orleans. The profits far outweighed the dangers of such water travel. He had located his "It-ague and labor" of land fronting on Red River, adjoining on the east a similar tract awarded to his cousin, Robert Cravens. Fulton managed hi.s business from hi.s home and trading house at Franklin and not until after the Civil Wnr did hi.s heirs sell off some of his real estate holdings, lie look great pride in the achievemonLs of the founders of Texas.

He was dflegalr to the convention which passed on the Ircaly or bill providing fnr annexation of Texas to the Stales, and was one of six men voting against the proposal. Fulton was a member of Hie party headed by Travis Wright which explored the country up Red River lo the Wichita Mountains. They worn the first while men io sre lhat part of the Inriian A member of the "Did School" Presbyterian Church, he supported al! denominations and contributed toward the building of the first Methodist, Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist churches in Paris. Soon after the Texas Republic was formed, Fulton became an officer in a company known as the Ohio. Red River and Mississippi Packet Company.

In New Orleans in that connection in 1853, he was detained there by a yellow fever quarantine and became a victim of the disease. His body was brought back to Lamar County for burial. Fulton's estate upon his death included 33,000 acres of land. 180 Negro slaves and countless other holdings. A sione erected at the grave by his widow, Clara Roberts, pave his birthdate as February 2fi, iniO, and his death on February 27, IB.il.

Three of Fulton's great- granddaughters still I've in Paris. They Mrs. Harry Cox, Mrs. Blanche Htihbell and Mrs. Frank H.

Fuller. A great- grandson is George Fulton gan of Ml. Pleasant. They are children of Mrs. W.

H. Logan, who was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P.

Ryan, Jr. Mrs. Ryan was the former Nancy Fulton, daughter of Sam M. Fnilon. There were oihr-r landings up riown Krd Rivrr, many as important to the early day as Fulton's Landing.

Among them were the Towson Landing below Fort Towson, Pecan Point and Kiamichi. The river rose and fell the rains and the seasons. It changed courses and moods, but provided travel for the settlers and traders. Denison Dam has ended her in ihe Red River Valley, once and for all. and the low bottom kind yields bountiful crops without the ever- present danger of flooding.

Not so wilh some nf her tributaries, hul the big river has been THOMPSON. 'Next: The Wrights and Kiamichi (AND THE DINNER HORN) THE NORTH TEXAS PUBLISHING COMPANY PARIS TEXAS Publlsfled Daily Exccpl Saturday tJMerca Second Class Man Matter al the Postofflce it Pans Texas, under Acl ol Congresj Marcn 1B79. W. Bassano Publisher Bill Thompson Managing Editor Eldon Ellis Robl Coi Director of Adv. Circulation SUBSCRIPTION A.NU OK.LAIiU.MA By Month By By Bj tear i 10 Detivired by Carrier in City Zone J5c Week By Carrier Outside 6.50 CI1 Zone 30o Week .1, Week JU.5Q By MOIOI Month II 30 IftlTSIHE TEXAS OKLAHOMA By Month Jl.JO Bv Mnil-Six Monthi 1100 By Hail-Thre.

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