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An Undivided Lubbock Believe It Or Not By Robert Ripley "Town-Gown" Dinner Helpful NE of the most genuinely refreshing occurences of recent years in Lubbock was the "town-gown" dinner and program held at Hotel Hilton Monday night, under sponsorship of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce. Open to all who cared to attend, the event brought together approximately 200 representatives of the business, professional and Tech college groups of the city and resulted in a re-awakening of civic responsibility on the part of both city and college interests, one to the other. Especially noticeable was the fact that there were brought together newcomers and highly desirable in a growing city. To citizens who have resided in Lubbock for 20 years or more, the event was especially outstanding, because active in the program were men who, down through the years, have served city and college with their time, their thought and their money, as well as with untiring physical effort. It is a good thing, we think, for such meetings to be held, periodically.

A number of people for many years have suggested, from time to time, that Lubbock go back to the once followed routine of an annual chamber of commerce dinner and program, at which time all citizens who desire may gather together to review past efforts and lay plans for future activities to aid the growth and improvement of the city and the college, Monday night'J affair, we say without fear of contradiction, supports the belief that no matter how rapidly a city may grow, or how large it may become, it nftver nets to the point where it cannot ba bc-nefittod by occasional tjot-to-gcthers on the part of its cilixons. Last Monday affair was oC the typo, of course, which cannot be repealed without the pas.Miu: of many years, Tho rc-cnuclmcnt of the chamber of commerce meeting when it was decided that Lubbock would make a bid for Texas Tech; the presentation of a watch to Dr. Clifford B. Jones, and the entire tone of the program were such as to preclude reproducing, year after year. But there are other types of programs available which could be made of prime in- crest to those who have- great and abiding interest in the betterment of both Texas Teen and the City of Lubbock.

It is a matter oC record that the civic-minded citizenship of Lubbock, spearheaded by the chamber of commerce, has clone a remarkable job of city-building here over the past quarter century, Especially since the advent of A. Davis as the chamber's executive head in 3924 has this record been outstanding, albeit leading citizens prior to that time laid a firm foundation for the work that followed. It is good for us all to review that record from time to time, as proven by clay night's gathering. The latter event was all very fine, very we think, will be productive of continued co-operation and improvement on a community-wide basis. 11 Mr.

G. Of The News EATH, yesterday, closed the earthly career of George Bannerman Dealey, of Dallas and all Texas, but, fortunately, the great strength of character which was his will continue to be felt upon the Texas scene through the Dallas Morning News, which he served so long and so well. Tho story of "Mr. G. as he referred to by his co-workers on the News, is more than the usual American success story of "from office boy to chairman of the board." True, the Dealey career started and ended in just that way and with his climb up the journalistic ladder came the customary financial rewards.

But the whole story of Mr. Dealey goes far above and beyond the strictly personal side which mirrors the rise of a 15-year old lad from office boy on the Galveston News to head the Dallas News and connected enterprises. Although he made his name synonymous with good, honest newspapering in Texas and throughout the nation, Mr. Dealey so lived that his name directly was linked with the highest reaches of civic responsibility, community enterprise, I'air dealing, cultural, educational and religious progress, and with human altruism in its every form. Thus, we think, the Dealey force of character, and his record of service to his fellow man, surpass even his outstanding personal success and the high place he carved for hirnsolf in the newspaper field of his adopted country.

There arc some newspaper proprietors in the United States today whose business and professional success surpasses, from a dollar-and-cents standpoint, that attained during his 86 years by George Bannerman Dealey, who came to us from England as a small boy. But nowhere in the United the newspaper field, or there a man, or has there lived a man, whose complete devotion to high principles exceeds that of the man who died in Dallas yesterday. Yes, "Mr. G. was a great newspaperman, a great Texan, a great American.

But even more important in the eyes of God and man is the fact that he was aJso a great Christian gentleman. And may the Great Architect of the Universe, whom he served for so many years, rest well the soul of George Ban- nerrnan Dealey, late oL' the Dallas News. Lubbock Mornmg Avalanche Starts the; Dny on the Slouih Plains" An Ir.d'-iH'iitlcdt prmocrnllc newspaper published ouch cxc-cj'l ttumlny uncl Mciiutuy; consoihittlui! on inoiniiu: Lubbock KvcnluK Journal ns t.nlibuci: by Avnlnncho-Journal Pub- Ir.i-.. iiill-13 Texas avenue, liiihbocic, TexriJ. I-'ijI! Lctiscd Wire Member ol Associated Press National ndvurtlstm: representative: Texas Dully Prest Dallas.

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RATL1FK, Mnnnglns Editor Kr.t?!»r; H- F.cconrl Class Mall Matter (U the Pojtofitce uteboclt. Texas, rincorcllns; to OonKrcsslonnl provisions. CftLLBO TOE PIV15IOM ARMORED PiVfSIOH WfcSTHC FIRST TOEKTW WRLIH AWARDED THE BELGIAN -FIRST EVER CONFERREDOM AFQREIftN DIVISION THE YOUNGEST GENERAL IN THE HISTORY OF1HEU.S.AIW WAS GEORGE APPOINTWTP ACTIV8 COMMAND AS dfMfiADIEft fiEHERftL ONLY MRS. LI LUC KIN6 of SERVED 45VEARS A5 SECRETARY OFW EASTERN STAR INSCRIPTION OH TOMBSTONE MORAVIAN CEMETERY New Dorp, IHf fttluiti WmM i DOROTHY STALEY Copyright, 1946. NEA Servict, Lutebocit.

Texas, rincornlns; to OonKrcsslo P. 10, Lubbock, Feb. 27, 1046 THE STORY; comes tn (o nee Nana before colnr to it party with Downes, She la wcnrinf a nhecr white A blur chiffon handkerchief in tucked into the belt. Neither nor Fletcii come home for dinner (hut nlrht. Andrew nnd Dru to off to the movlea nfter dinner.

Mlftii Jenny to Nana nhe in worried about Fhlillpn, Nairn remains alone on the terrace. XI I was almost an hour later when Stephen Willson came out to smoke his before-bed cigar. "Mind if I keep you company, Nana?" he asked. lie sat down rather heavily. Everything was very dark now, the night wa's very deep nad the only touches of light were the end of Mr.

Willson's cigar and the Hashes o'f heat lightning still darting up from the horizon. Do you think it will rain, Nana?" he asked. Before I answered, I wondered to myself why we were oil so anxious about rain. The heat had made everyone uneasy and a storm might cool the air, but it seemed to me that there was more to it than that. It was the uneasiness that pervaded the house, that made it tense, that needed releasing, A violent clash in the elements might tend to ease the strain, as though being reduced to the fundamentals which the natural elements represent would strip each of us oC the protective covering we had thrown around our various emotions.

He didn't realize I hadn't answered him; he just went on. "It would be a pity to have the pa- nde spoiled, and we would have to move the picnic into the clubhouse," I Kaid yes, nnd then nothing more was said. We just sat there, each thinking our own thoughts. Suddenly ho said, "Nana, something has to be done about Phillipa. I have to find a way out of this situation for everybody," I didn't answer him, His words were the same as Betsy's.

"Something has to be clone about Phillipa." He rose abruptly. "Good night, Nana. Don't breakfast tomorrow." We always had breakfast at 7 on the Fourth of July, on account of. the parade, A NDREW STITES and Dru came in shortly after that, and carne out to the terrace. Dru stayed only long enough to tell me that they had seen William Powell and he was smooth and amusing, and that she and Uncle Andrew had pretended they were 16 and had gone to the drug store for sodas al'terwards, then she went up to her room.

Andrew Stitcs and I sat there for a time in silence, then he said, "Do you know, Jemima Harrold, I feel quite old tonight," "Well," I said, "considering your Stites was four years older than which made him not at all surprised. I'm just wondering what detained you." He chuckled, "Maybe I'm like one of those delayed action bombs you read about." Nothing more was said 'for a few minutes, and then he spoke again, "You know, don't you, there is nothing that 1 wouldn't, do for Jenny." "I know that," I answered. "I have known that for 4(5 years." I could see again the tall, young man, very grave, almost the direct opposite oil his brother, Joel Stiles, who had led Jenny into the library of the old Stites house on the day when I had corne to cake charge of her. Fletch was built very much like his Uncle Andrew, and was a little like him in his actions. I was really thinking aloud when I said, "Fletch is like you were then." He said "Yes," and it wasn't until that moment (hat I remembered that both Stiles brothers had been unfortunate in their marriages.

JOEL STITES had lost his wife in the birth of their second Andrew Stites' wife had been a grasping, selfish woman, whose every whim had to be satisfied if Andrew Stites was to have any peace. He had broken under the strain of trying to give her all she wanted. She divorced him eventually, and married a succession p'f men after that, each one wealthier than the one before. Andred Stites did not have the fortune which his brother Joel had. Their father had' oned the cotton mills which Joel ran, but Andred studied law and looked after the legal matters of the mill and the family.

When Joel had married my Miss Jenny's mother, he had taken over the management of the carpet mills which her family owned, and that is where he had really made his money. Andrew was counsel for the carpet mills, and he could have been president of them after Joel's death, but he preferred the quiet life of'his office to the strenuous life of mills. Money meant little to Andrew Stites, even in his young days. After the months he had spent in a sanitarium from trying to appease money-mad woman, he had cared even less for it, He said, "I want you tcu.remem- ber, Nana, that whatever I have done, I have done for Jenny. It was the wrong way, though, I wanted to save Jenny any more heartache, only I took the wrong way, But remember, will you, Nana, that what I have done, I have done for Jenny." I didn't know what he was talk- FUND GOING UP McALLEN, Feb.

20 A fund to construct a new library here reached $22,300 today after a dinner attended by 250 persons last night, Dr. Homer P. Rainey of Austin spoke at the dinner. ing about, so I simply said, "Yes, I'll remember. I couldn't fail to remember something I have always known." (To Be Continued) Texas Traffic Shows Increase AUSTIN, Feb, 26 highways are carrying more traffic than in 1941, a survey released today by State Highway Engineer C.

Greer showed. The comparison is with a time before tire and gasoline restriction and scarcity of new cars. At 28 representative stations over the state, automatic traffic counters clocked an average of 39.3 per cent more vehicles during January than during Jan. 1945 and 3.9 per cent more than in Jan, 1941. Steady Gain Passenger automobile traffic has shown a steady gain since gas rationing was lifted last July and now accounts for 80 per cent of the total traffic.

A pre-seasonal surge of tourists is indicated by the number of. out- o'f-state cars which accounted for nearly 19 per cent of the total counted at 24 representative stations on major highways, Mexico-bound travelers boosted the out-of-state traffic on U. S. 81 north of Laredo to 65,8 of the total, A heavier-traveled point on the same highway north of San Antonio showed 34.4 per cent of traffic by cars with other state licenses, TJ. S.

between Fort Worth and Dallas showed the highest number of non Texas vehicles. California occupies more than one-half of the Pacific coastline of the United States. Looking At Life By Erich Brandeis A FEW days ago I attended the Westminister Kennel club show at which hundreds of the finest dogs in the country were on exhibition. The show reminded me of one of those boring society events where your great-grandfather had to be either an earl or a hijacker where only blue blood and background or money counted. I came away depressed, but I wasn't any sadder than the poor animals who were judged not by their lova- bility but by their points, who were entitled to their blue ribbons only by their blue blood love in their hearts and in masters, Then I went to a pet show held by the Madison Square Boys' club, composed mostly of poor kids, and I had a wonderful time, There was a prize for the "Dog with the most loving eyes," won by Skippy, a shaggy bundle of mixed breeds, with the softest brown eyes you ever saw in your liJ'e.

There was a prize for the "Dog with the bast bathroom behavior," another for the "Dog with the shortest tail," and still another for the best dog by a veteran, which went to little Eva, a 6-months-old dashhund puppy found half-starved by a American GI in the ruins of Berlin, In addition to the dogs, there cats, goldfish, turtles, a bilingual parrot that could cuss in English and BHANDEIS those of their French, a boa constrictor and a broken clam held together with Scotch tape. At the Westminster Kennel show everything was very dignified and there; were many people in evening clothes, The prizes were blue and red ribbons and silver cups, At the Boys' club show there were overalls and sweaters and dirty hands and hair, The prizes were dog sweaters and collars, bones and dollar and candy, At the Westminster Kennel club show' there was polite applause and dignified behavior. At the Boys' club show there was yelling and shouting and whistling and a goodly number Bronx cheers. Two of the kids had a spirited fistfight, and parted good friends after a cop had separated them. NE of those two shows left me completely cold, But when came away from the other rowdy was warmth in my heart and I was very homesick for my little Deuce, who would 'have been completely overlooked at the society affair but who, I think, would have had a darn good chance for that prize awarded to Ihe clog with the most loving eyes.

And next Sunday I am going out to the veterinary's where we have to keep him until (and if) he gets well, and I am going to tell him all about litt.lc Skippy and Little Eva, the dasqhhund, and about all the other funny things I saw. Don't you ever think he won't enjoy my-story. TUCKED cratic National Sentiment Shifts Senate May Stick By Truman WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker AHOLD L. ICKES will help to confirm "Ed" Pauley as Under Secretary of tht Navy unless he quits taking so many curtain calls in his avowed anti-Truman act. There has been a perceptible switch of Senate sentiment since the former Cabinet member made the President his principal target, although it may not be sufficient for approval of the California oil man, On the day after the Secretary of the Interior sent his resignation to the White House, and backed it up with his press conference explanation of his action, the former Treasurer of the Demo- committee was hopelessly gunk.

There was not a Senatorial voice raised in his favor, and his friends begged him to save the Chief Executive further embarrassment by withdrawing his name voluntarily. BEFLECTIONs Capitol Hill Democrats now point out, as they argue among themselves in the cloakrooms, that they may have to run with and behind Mr, Truman not only next fall but in the national contest in 1948. is at the moment their only hope, and there seems to be no chance that another of his public stature can be advanced and exploited quickly enough, It will not make him or them any more popular at the polls if they reach the decision Attorney General Tom Clark refuses to hand down viamely, that either Mr. Truman or Mr, Pauley committed perjury in hit testimony before the Naval Affairs committee. Although only a few of the principals in -the controversy make such a broad and realistic analysis of the Truman Ickes-Pauley dispute, that is the aspect which impresses the Democrats most forcibly.

Some go, so far ns to say that it also involves the question whether the Chief Executive urged Mr. Ickes to suborn perjury when he requested thai: the tatter "be ns gentle as you can on Ed Pauloy." The partisans simply cannot afford to cast such grave reflection on the leader of their national organization and their possible standard-bearer in 1948. Mr, Ickes drawn the fine so fine and so cruelly that he has given them no choice in the matter, DISAPPOINTED: The "Old Curmudgeon" has also thrown away the reinforcements he might have received frorh his playboys among leftists, liberals and labor, His chief Cabinet colleague and the man he supported against Mr, Truman at A. in this process of making enemies out of friends. At his famous press conference Mr.

Ickes scoffed at the suggestion that he might join other Progressives to organize a "third party." Referring to his experience in the Bull Moose campaign of 1912, he said there was no chance for an independent organization to get anywhere in American politics, The laws, machinery and general structure of pur elective system, he meant, are rigged against them. Thus the numerous groups who are only too glad to start a troublesome rebellion against the Democrats, especially if Mr. Truman cannot wangle more reforms from Congress, are disappointed in their old champion. They figure that he failed them and they have been among his chief critics. TAG; Mr.

Wallace also let the left-wingers down when he added that he planned to remain in the Cabinet and that he would not be a Presidential candidate in 1948, "if Mr. Truman wns." The various mugwumps President Roosevelt gathered and kept under his wing for four elections had hoped that Messrs. Ickes Wallace, La Guardia and a few other malcontents would lead them in a bolt, At the least, they wanted to make the gesture of a threat to force the White House and Congress to enact a radical legislative program, Now they are still only an unorganized, discontented minority looking for a leader. Indeed, it is doubtful whether Mr. Ickes can now sign up with the Murray-Hjllman Political Action committee, Seeing no hope in the GOP as a vehicle for their social and economic aims, they figure that they have to tag along with the Democrats, And they would not improve their already shaky stand at the White House by adopting the man who has placed Mr, Truman and his party on a bad spot.

TEST: State Department veterans look forward with considerable concern to the first actual test of America's participation in an attempt to organize brnvc, new, free and democratic world along the lines of the so- called Atlantic Charter, There wns no celebration when the contingent of diplomats who will supervise the forthcoming Greek elections left the Capital a week ago, About thousand Yanks, including soldiers and civilians, will handle the job of insuring that the voting in this British-Russian- torn land is honest. But even before they went aboard ship, they had received reports of vast fraud in the registration of new voters, Principal factions are the pro-London group and the EAM, a Soviet organization. Despite their foreign service experience, the delegation faces tremendous difficulties in operating an election in a country oC strange languages, customs, election procedure and conflicting aims, It will be a. far more difficult task than managing a Tammany contest in New York, and few of the supervisors have had practical experience in that bailiwick or elsewhere. Either the British or Russian cliques are sure to cry "fraud" at the outcome, They have already done so with reference to registration, Uncle Sam has no real power to enforce his decisions over the election choices unless he relies on British soldiery.

So, to old-timers in the Byrnes establishment, it appears that Washington was sticking its chin TEXAS By Gordon Shearer A USTIN, Clerks of seven of the 11 Courts of Civil Appeals in Texas may feel some chagrin this week, Clerks of-three of the courts joined Clerk E. Moore of the court at Austin in contending for the right to keep the money paid them for furnishing unofficial copies of court opinions and other documents. Clerks of seven of the courts have pain" the amounts into the state treasury as "fees of office," and now they cannot get: the money back though the Slate Supreme Court last Wednesday ruled that Moore and hfs three associates were right in refusing to turn over the amounts. But Moore ct al did not establish right to the payments without some discomfort. While the matter was disputed they could not get their pay checks from the state comptroller, Moore had not been paid since October, 1945, Side Galbraith jferf IftlS URVICC.

t.JtXT, Off, you noticed an epidemic of tpitballi the end of the collection campaigns?" Means Provided For Repayment Loan Is Test Of Our Intentions By THOMAS L. STOICES Special Corrospondont ASHINGTON, what Conjjrras (iocs about I ho proposed $3,750,000,000 loan Britain may well depend SIKTOSS or failure of the great adventure in international co-operation that we have done so much to sponsor. It in test our intentions, lor its rejection could start us on the path followed after World War A a 1 of Britain's i tua- lion show that! nation would have to continue currency and trade restrictions STOKES to defend r- self within her own empire If she does not get a line of credit from us to tide her over her present difficulties nnd we are the only nation that can provide it. That, would shut us out from much of her market. ProrMw For Repayment The resulting cycle of events logically would lead to a trade war.

Effects would roach to other nations because of the dominant positions of tho United States and Britain in world trade. The world can hardly stand all that again, The special value of the proposed British loan agreement is that it provides the means, within itself, for repayment. By removing present restrictions that affect our trade with Britain nnd her colonies, and by assuring that she will join in an international conference to remove trade barriers all around, it will provide a favorable atmosphere for her trade so (hat she can get the means to repay the debt to us. Warning From Wilson A survey of what happened after the last war is illuminating. Britain came in first and signed an agreement for her World War I debts, followed by France, Italy and others who got bolter terms.

Even before the- British debt settlement wits negotiated, we began to raise our tariffs. We boosted them successively in 1021, 1922 and 1930, President Wilson warned against tariff in his last message to Congress vetoing the 1921 Fordncvy net, which Congress promptly passed over his veto, Mr. Wilson told Congress plainly Ihnt if we raised our tariffs so that other nations couldn't sell here they would have no means of repaying their war debts. In Many Wayg England nnd the other debtors depended largely upon cash reparation payments Germany for funds to meet war debts to the United States. Germany defaulted in 1931, and President Hoover dorlarod one-year mornlor- ium thai extended into dc- fjiult by nil debtors except Finland.

Britain had paid over $2 billion for her total obligation, with interest, of $11 billion. This projected loan is different in many ways from those other debt, 1 They were war debts largely for thinga already destroyed. Lend- lease took care of such in this war, and already have been which wiped the slate clean except for $650 million included in the proposed loan agreement still due from England. This proposed loan is for productive purposes for creating wealth, not for destroyed wealth. Would Be Tngifl IKEWISE, there were ill of exchange restrictions handicapped debt payments aftet World war Flexibility of ex.

change now is provided through the international monetary fund, Also, those World wnr I debt settlements provided for no ments in case of difficulties such as the waiver of interest in current loan agreement with Britain to take care of emergencies defined in the agreement. All these circumstances should eliminate the frictions of that other postwar period due to ship in meeting payments. wore repeated campaigns for cancellation to help general world economic conditions. The hnrd- boiled and cynical attitude valcnl hero wns expressed bf President Coolidgc: "They hired the money, didn't they?" We have learned nomethlpg since then, or should have. It would be tragic to gp down that other road again.

School For Mentally Handicapped Planned AUSTIN, Feb. 25 school for mentally handicapped children, who may be educated in vocations and trades has been made possible through the acquisition by the Board of Control of the prisoner of; war camp ox in. Weaver Baker, chairman of Stale Hoard of Control, said Sflf! acres of land and hundreds of items of merdinndlso included in the transfer is nl and a quarter million dollars. Baker said 100 applicants now admilfaiu'o to the overcrowded Austin state school will bo rapidly admitted with the early activation of the new nary service. While original admission wiJl continue to be processed through the Austin state school, said Baker, students will be moved to the Mexia institution as 1hcy capable of being trained in tht vocations nnd trades.

The cheetah foulest mal in the world over short distances. Funny Business "I don't see what holds up a woman's strapless evening gown," asserts a paragrnph- er. Shame.on you, not supposed to. "Sht couldn't find htr diciiing gowal".