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1 tOITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE THE PARIS. TEXAS, NEWS Texas Republicans Doing Wishful Thinking Under Guise of Hope Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Alexander Pope declared more than two hundred yean ago, and it is true today as evidenced by the Texas Republican State Executive Committee in its Austin meeting a few days ago. Under- recommendation of Chairman Jack Porter the committee called for a statewide organization to campaign and try to hold the State in the GOP camp in 1958. They decided to begin now towards that end by organization down to the precincts. The committee decided to hold a primary election in 1956, even though under the law they are not required to do so, because the vote their candidates received in the recent election was not large enough to come under the law.

But the committee has hopes and announced it would hold the primary and select a candidate for governor far in advance. As the Republican Party has not elected a Texas governor since reconstruction days, nor within even hearing distance of doing it, seems to be wishful thinking rather than genuine, hope. Chairman Porter told the committee he believed President Eisenhower will seek reelection, and predicted that the liberal wing of the Democratic Party will probably make Adlai Stevenson its candidate. He expressed belief, which was more hope, that the Democrats would.continue to give Southern conservatives the cold shoulder and in that case the Republicans would have a good chance of getting'the "Democrats for Eisenhower" into the Republican Party. Of course anything is possible in politics, but it is a dim hope that a majority of Texas or even'a considerable number of become Republicans.

As to how they will vote in. 19M on Democratic rather than Republican action. Hgrcl-of-Hearing Drivers Careful Statistics compiled by the National Safety Council indicate that people whose hearing is impaired are more careful automobile drivers than those whose hearing is perfect. The Council found only one fatal accident in a thousand was due to faulty hearing. That's one tenth of one per cent.

In some.places a driver who wears a hearing aid has been under considerable restrictions. That this is not based oh good practice is illustrated by the statement of George Keneipp, director of vehicles and traffic in Washington, where driving conditions are peculiarly difficult because of the street of circles and diagonal avenues and the large number of visitors. The Director says: "It has been our experience that hardjof-hearing drivers, because of their impairment, "have proven themselves the safest driven on the highway." That would indicate that the driver who uses a hearing aid takes especial care in driving carefully, safely and courteously. He is probably well, aware that to be involved in an accident would be to reflect unfavorably on every driver in the country who has impaired hearing. It has been said that people who lack perfect hearing seem to be more acutely sensitive to vibrations and visual stimulus, but this is apparently an adaptation or rerouting of nervous energy that is forced upon them by their handicap, i The majority of insurance companies make no difference in issuing policies to drivers who use hearing aids and those who do not have need of such aid.

When the rest of the drivers have the record of the driver with the hearing aid there will be fewer accidents on the highways. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1954 BACKWARD A. W. Nevillt GLANCES Editor The Paris Ntws Taking Away Meter Bonus Time 1 Dllly is always somebody coming along to take the joy out of life and now we find one of motorists' minor pleasures being threatened. Most people have come to accept parking meters without berating city officials, the police department and the meters themselves as many people were wont to do in years past But wen so, there is an especial delight for the motorist when he drives into a park- ing space to find there is enough time left on the meter to do one's'shopping or errand and get back before the red flag goes up.

Now comes a man by the name of Francis J. Janchan of West Allis, Wisconsin, who has invented a device that will, erase any time left on a meter when a motorist drives away. We think the city should be satisfied with the amount of money a meter may take in during the usual 10-hour period and not rob the motorist of the only pleasure he gets out of parking in metered territory. T004V AND TOMORROW Moloiov Speaks Concerning Position on 25-Power Parley It. WAI I lAKUaUu WALTER LI PPM ANN on rrWay, Just as Mr.

Mmdes-rraDcc was declaring Us jwttttott, Mr. Molotov made aiwUMr tor Ute big 25-power Thto time he said OiHy what previously he a mertijr implied. He wants to post' pone raUttetiMm of the London agreements and to have a general dJttuMion about Germany, Eu' rope, collective security, and the like. His request for negotiation about whether the London agree. menu shall be ratified la the Ttry thing which the Western gov- ernments are agreed they will not accept Assuming that nothing wrong In Germany, there Is ao way now that Mr.

Molotov can have the kind of conference he wants, he will be interested in the kind of conference he can have. There la in theory at least no chance of, no point In, having an East-West conference if what he said on Friday is his last word. But what he said on Friday can, not be his last Word. He laid on Friday that once the London accords were ratified, "the remilitarization of Western r- inany" will "aggravate the threat of a new war." But this is an un- picture of the situation. Hatl- fication will be completed, let us hope and assume, early in When this is done, the legal frame- work will exist for the organiza- tion of German forces within the limitations of the Brussels treaty and under the control of NATO.

But these forces cannot be brought r. Into being in less than two years. Yet the Western governments are unanimous that they are prepared to meet the Russians after ratification in 1955. This means in fact that negotia- tfons can take place after the German force has been authorized and Its Becruitment has feeguii, but long before it is a force in being. What, then, does this imply for the negotiation with the Soviet Union? It implies that the authorized German forces must be counted as authorized and rightful in any proposal for the general limitation of world' or of European armaments.

The Western negotiating position reats on this agreement which fixes the nlze of Western continental forces, includ i among them the authorized Wesi German force. It Is from this datum-line that East-West negotiation will now have to begin. What the West has rejected Is not negotiation. It is negotiation in which the datum-line of the forces to be limited and regulated consist only of the existing NATO contingents minus any Germ an contingent. The West is insisting that the discussion shall start from the assumption that the NATO forces include an authorized German contingent of 500,000 men.

For the West the question will then be since the site of the BIRTHDAYS ROY A. ROBERTS, born Nov. 1M7, in Muscotah, son of minister. Went a Congregational to University of Kansas where he became cam pus corres for the Kan a City Star. Later, he was city editor of the Lawrence, World.

Returning to the Star in 1909, he was political expert and Washington correspondent for the paper, later managing editor, then editor, now general manager president. Western ferccc la fixed within clear limits what are the authorized and active forces In Eastern Europe and Eastern Russia. The subject for negotiation can- the German contin- The subject not now be gent; the subject must be the overall site of the forcea, and it might be their deployment, on the two sides of the Iron Curtain. My Impression Is that this is the conceptual scheme which may prevail. It would appear to be dictated by the decisions that are already taken, namely to negotiate With the Soviet Union after but not before the ratification of German rearmament.

It open a bject whether Western Germany as such and uniquely, shall be under international control In respect to her armaments. The question is now whether the whole of Europe shall be under the kind of international control which Western Europe hat set up for itself. Thank Your Lucky Stars THE WORLD TODAY West, Russia Military Stalemate Dpesn'f Mean They Stand Still By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON The United States and Russia may be reaching that point in developing their will want to get into a war which might mean the annihilation both. But a military stalemate be- you in the end more wretched economically than before perhaps would not mean much to you if you never had a fair chance to tween the West and Russia doesn't mean either will stand still. Neither can afford to.

The undeveloped areas of earth are huge. The people living; in them cm be numbered in the hundreds of mil- 0 understand and enjoy freedom and 'practice democracy. What might seem the only im- lions. Neither the West nor Russia can tit idle while the other tries to win over those millions of people with their vast land and re- Two Weeks Needed To Finish Crash Probe RICHMOND, Va. will take two weeks to finish a probe of a plane crash that killed five Texans, a Civil Aeronautics Board official in Washington said week.

The crackup near Waynesboro, Saturday killed five employes of the Plymouth Oil Slnton, P. Loskamp, William H. Griffith, Joseph Rogers Kelodzie, and D. W. Graham, and Arthur N.

Soper. sources. No doubt the as they showed in Korea will try to over by invasion where they think the West will let them get away with It. Where the Communists can't use direct military means, other weapons are handy. They can use internal subversion and propaganda based on promises, appeals to nationalism, and the wretched lives and living conditions of the people In the backward areas to win with intrigue and words what they can't take by arms.

As an example: Suppose you is no longer an were a Southeast Asian living in for negotiation poverty, just as your fathers before you, and poverty was all you could see in store for your children. Medical care for you was practically nonexistent! Your life expectancy, and the life expectancy of your children, was far less than that of an American or West European. You had no There was small chance of it for your children. Freedom? Western men prized it but they had held you a a colonial until recently. Democra cy? You had heard of It.

But i had never been part of your her tage. Then suppose the men of your own country prom ised you and your children a bel ter life, medical care, education jobs with good pay, old age se curity. And the cost to you? Jus supporting the Communists. That you were surrendering a dictatorship which might leave portant thing to you was the promise of a better life. To a wretched wretched- man ness a promise of less would be better than no promise.

The Communists have a fertile field to plow in the poverty, ignorance and insecurity of the backward peoples. The Communiits, dedicated to taking over the world, cant stand still. And the West can't stand still while they try to take over, country by country; until half the world ii gone. How then can the West offset the promises of the Communists and win over the people of the backward areas, giving them a sense of direction, a new hope, a than that, make the promise a reality? The Eisenhower administration is apparently working to keep the backward areas from the Communists with a program to make the people there stay with the West. Administration officials yesterday were reported considering a big new foreign economic program which may lead to the investment of billions of dollars in underdeveloped countries, notably in non- Communist Asia.

Two days ago Foreign Aid Director Harold E. Stassen' told a news conference the United States has started talks with European countries about their patiripttion In an enlarged Asia development program. The administration project seems to be in its Infancy. Before it becomes a reality there will be Cop Ingram Had Rubber Heels When "Tinee" Ingram had rubber on his boots forty- odd yean ago I think he was the first police officer who took that of easing his feet which auffered from continued tramping of a beat Presently some crap shooters and other small-time offenders of the law complained that Ingram was taking advantage of them because he could slip up on them before they could hear his boot heels hitting the walks. POLICEMEN mostly wore boots In those days because there were few sidewalks and paved streets and the mud got sometimes so deep that wearing shoes'would find it? above his siioe tops.

When I came- to Paris seventy-five years ago. City Marshal Catron and Pc- liceman Larkin Hunt wore boots with high heels and the noise they made: when running down the plank sidewalks was notice that somebody had violated the law they; were after him. That was before we had concrete walks and the sidewalks made of 2x4 timber spiked together edgewise a sound like nothing else. THE POLICEMAN'S life was not an easy one, and never will be, though I am sure.it is easier now than those days. There were no, ears nor to 'take them places" where they were called and.they had to foot it.

Sometimes, a city-marshal had a horse that he used at night in answering calls or making the rounds that included the red light district in northeast Parts, but the policemen made it on foot. They took the weather as it came and seemed to give it little attention. They had a lot of rough, work to do at times they did tile best they could. Paris was not the quiet town that it is today and they met whatever emergency arose, generally doing a good job. I knew them all and with few exceptions they "were real men, doing a good 13 YEARS AGO Tuesday, November 25, 1541 Members hip solicitation for Chamber of Commerce began and at noon the chairman of the committee said the workers were reporting excellent response.

In Greenville Coach Raymond Berry of Paris Wildcats flipped a coin and High Park coach, called the turn, deciding to play the bi- district game Dec. 5, on the latter's field. Cotton ginned in Lamar County prior to Nov. 15 totaled 15,727 bales, compared with the 1940 total of 34,036 bales at the same date. Bible Thought Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother con.

ceive 51:5. Yes, we share the nature and impulses of lower animals; but we are also sons of God, and by faith we can resemble him. We have the choice; we need not resemble the spirit of the beast that goeth downward. BOYLE'S COLUMN long debate. In the end the nomic social struggle for world's backward places prove more final and tstsl eeo- the jnay than Writer Falls to Get Boar Ears TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hado Cook's Undertaker Regains License OKLAHOMA CITY un- who handled bad man Billy Cook 1 funeral then lost his license over the publicity won a fight tor iU reinstatement The state Supreme Court re- a dedskm of the board of and funeral directors, itephtM Comity district wtitek iMfWAdtd Glenn E.

Heeitte for three years. ComaiiclM, Had been WHEN BOSSO Does A JOB, HIMSELF, LETS EVERVOHE KNOW HOW TOU6W WAS THE TASK OUST KNOCK rr our-I'M ALL IN-STAYED UPPRACTlCAUyiUREE NK5M75 NORKJN6 ON THIS CO. REPORT DETAILS rLLKCEDAFfW CAYSOPFAFTUft THIS SHOULD BE promise of a better life and, more a shooting ROBERT MARK This House Was Built To Withstand Weather My grandpa builded a house upon the sands some 75 years ago, and he builded it in a little town called Southport, In North Carolina, which took the full force of the last hurricane. I have received some pictures of what the fale did to some other houses in he town, which was plenty. But Grandpa's house is still there, sold on its stilts.

The old place shed a shingle or (0, I believe, but otherwise went icatheless. Hazel messed up the vaterfront considerable, but in the Jictures of the wreckage, I notice nets, lawn mowers, old sidesaddles, and delightful junk for young males to peruse on rainy days. I reckon I spent more time under Grandp's house than in it. These houses were largely constructed of Carolina fat pine, which will Hare like tinder at first, but If It survives half century It turns into "a kind of Iron. I bought the old man's house back.

some years ago, and the electricity was a sight to behold. Why it didn't burn up nobody'll know, because the wiring hung in festoons against the naked wood, with no that all the old widows'-walk sign of Insulation. HAL BOYLE ST. HUBERT, Belgium UrV-Well, If you are one of the people to whom 1 promised to bring back a wild boar's ear as a souvenir of Belgium, you might as well forget It. I can't deliver.

I'm coming home without the bacon. It was 'a desperate Idea anyway. It came to me only after a friend said pityingly: writer I know worth his salt Is on safari In Africa, bagging his rhino, buffalo and prove his manhood. What are you proving by going to "I'm after wild boar, that is an even more important test of man hood," I replied, on the spur the "Are' they dangerous?" he In quired, doubtfully. "Why, it's the oldest and mos dangerous game In the world," told him.

"don't you know that eight- It King Arthur's Knights of the Rouni Table were tusked to death by maddened wild boars? No sissy using guns. You spear 'em from He didn't believe me until I assured him wild boars' ears were great trophies in Europe, and were used as bookmarks, of, when dried and cured, as poker chips. Soon I had promised to bring back more than to wild boar ears. "Well, Rover, you've really lied your way Into trouble this time," my wife told hie as I left. "Unless you find a dead pig in the woods with as many as a centipede has legs, I can't see how you can get out of this I felt my honor was at stake.

I looked up a wild boar expert here and asked if he would take me on I a hunt. He agreed. So I tied my houses of the same vintage as my But that wood itself was so hard, passport around my house, which I remember from my childhood, still sit square and firm amidst a sea of jetsam. They look like stern old ladles surrounded by riffraff. Southport, being on the hurricane course as the high winds sweep along the Carolina coast, lias seen-its share of big gales.

I can remember a few as a boy when the river walked a block Into and where some roofs skit- gaily along like scrap paper. But the biggest blows never succeeded in knocking loose the old tough, houses. I notice in this one that one huge beach development lost all ts houses new houses, contracted since the war, save a few, and houses which figured to hold. 3ut in the pictures I've got the old "tewart House and the old hotel nd the old was it Bussells or Dosher house ain't turned a air. so nearly petrified, that the re- modlers had a time getting a modern nail into it Nor was there a sprung beam or sagged joist.

The back steps, being of inferior wood, had rotted off, but 'the porch where the washbzsin used to sit was firm and stout. The same rugged beam bore the same augur holes from which depended a swing on which my mother and her slater swung as kids. The kitchen, where old Galena used to miracles out of a glowing wood stove, as n't These old houses were all built legs. Maybe there is such a as cellar and a solid con- rete foundation in Southport now, ut before the war I doubt if there as any such newfangled foolish- ess. Houses were stuck on pilings, brick or tarred wood, and budged or sprung, and what we used to 'Call the pantry Is now the breakfast room.

The house filthy and racked by abuse when I fetched it back into the family, but all the vandals had not been able to harm its prim, stern lines or solid walls. They must have built them differently In those days, with a measure of honest labor, only the best of seasoned materials, and some pride of craftsmanship which identification in case of and wrote out a one paragraph will leaving all my to my wife. "Now where do I borrow a spear and a horse?" I asked, recalling that the last time I had been on a horse was in 1935. "Oh, that style of hunting went out long ago," my host, who has bagged nearly 100 wild boars, explained. "We use rifles now." Then he described how it is done.

It all rather hereditary. Yoii either have to inherit the land or have considerable money. The wild boars arc naturally hereditary. So are the dogs and the beaters who rout them out of the deep forest recesses, so are many of the hunters who take up fixed positions and wait for the hereditary dogs and hereditary beaters to chase the hereditarry wild boars past them. The direction you fire is also hereditary.

You must shoot only down certain fixed lines, lines fix perhaps by a great grandfather of a present hunter to Insure safety. Well, call me a sissy, but I Just couldn't go through with It. would be like trying to blast open a hairy piggy bank with a shotgun. So I'm coming home without my wild baar's ears. Anybody like a nice lace handkerchief from Bruges? Trustees of Baptist Seminary Name Head FORT WORTH W) The new president of Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary trustees is Dr.

Robert Naylor, pastor of is Avenue Baptist Church here. He was named at an annual meeting this week to succeed Dr. A. J. Holt of Waco, who served eight years.

Naylor had been vice president. OF FAMOUS PEOPLE eludes the modern expect the floor to builder. You sag and the plaster to crack in the new ones before you get the fireplace to working, if It draws at all. The shoddinem of modem ship, as I've observed workman- it, is ap- TH. NORTB IAND THt DINNER HORN) PAMS A a W.

PubUsher Mannitr Wftor Stssel Elclon EUit Xobt. C. Cox RAtES A- tln dltor Advertising Director Circulation Muufcr wood, like the same stern oldjpalllng, when consider that a'n raismg their skirts against old fat-pine house on stilts can monae. This raised-skirt construction mved several purposes. It kept the house bow dry, for one thing, and It discouraged the bugs, for another.

And it made a fine haven lor the storage of toeU, flsfc mk. sneer at a hurricane white contemporary cartwheel off Into Grandpa may have builded hit house upon the sands, but Grandpa's sands seem to be a sight better thai mdtn naa'a KiM tii.u Newi EJpts anon or other thin comet rasWKysKap" Bftij nCWS not TNI NIWS, TMUMOAY, NOV..