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Page 4, THE PARIS NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1947! Life's Darkest Moment EDITORIAL FEATURES Service. Cincinnati. Ohi' 1 There are some who fear that the eternal grounds of our faith will fall because of-some new A more mature experience proves that the same omnipotent one holds (he utmost star in his power and the least atom as 44:6: I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. Literary Sewage As bad as some of the books that are being published are the blurbs of the publishers and the "reviews" of some critics who may not be paid by the author or publisher but whose reviews may easily be suspected of being subsidized. Because an author has a name that is pretty well known' is no guarantee that all the books of that author will be worth the reading by sober- minded people who want information or entertainment, dependent on what the book is supposed to be.

The flood of do not use words that smell of the sewer. Should Be Submitted Two proposed amendments to Texas Constitution are before the Legislature, which yet has time to approve them so far as laying them before the people. That should be done, for the people, after all, are the lawmakers, and should be allowed to do what they please with their ballot. If the amendments are approved by ballot, well and good. If they are disapproved, also well and good.j One of these proposals is for removal of the $35 million top on assistance to the aged, blind and dependent.

That amount, so long as the laws under which this assistance is par-j celed out are in effect, is not' enough. Those really in need and entitled to the largest pos- TIME FLIES: 13 YEARS AGO Sunday, June 3, 1934 There was some relief from the heat of the past week, when" temperature neared a hundred. Today's register was 69 to 91, and gathering clouds promised rain. Giles l3ishop of Greenville and Miss Lucile Clay of Paris were married in Central Presbyterian Church study by the Reverend Frank Wear. A.

W. Glances Fatal Mishaps Around Minter Years Ago Told I Lamar County in the 70s and even later was not what it is today, and some recollections of people S. L. Wright of Dallas and Miss Grace Cunningham of Paris were married in the home of of the bridels mother, by the Hev. E.

V. Cole, pastor First Methodist Church. Jack Stephens, Kenneth Buchanan and David Rainey, delegates from. Paris Lions Club to the State meeting in Mineral Wells, accompanied by Mrs, Rainey, left Paris for the meeting. The Reverend W.

M. Wright, also a delegate, was to leave Monday. DREW PEARSON: Washington Merry-Go-Round Terms Nicaragua's Somoza 'American-Made 7 Dictator WASHINGTON. It isn't ad- trade-mark "Made in America" jvertised outside the inner circle but there's a wide political rift be- I tween most members of the Tru- stamped on his expansive bosom, but who, nevertheless, is just' as much a dictator as Hitler or Mus- PAUL BOLTON: Mirrors of Austin the last few years, with their ible donation do not get it be- pages literary cesspools of ob-j cause so many who are not en- scene conversations and inci- are on the rolls. As there I Sheppard says that the dents, seems to be subsiding to I seems little likelihood that a State Comptroller Wields Power Over Appropriations By PAUL BOLTON Paris News Austin Bureau AUSTIN Comptroller George revised which an extent, and it may be that Legislature will revise these S32 millions to appropriate people have tired of such filth i laws it would be simple justice: "the most conservative I've ever and are refusing to buy it.

to the genuine needy to have He also agrees, however, asking a We have gone a long way the limit taken off so. they from the day when the Police cou id get enough on which to; Gazette was banned from the 'live, even though others were newsstands in many places be- 1 getting too much and unfairly, prev ent "deficit the 0n designed to horror at the man cabinet and those who guide solini. erty, one Sunday at each. I recall some accidents that happened not far apart while we were going to and occurrences of those times is school at Minter. Mr.

Watson got given by me by A. L. Nance, who shot in one leg: it was so bad the has spent more than eighty years as a citizen of the county. He begins by telling of his school attendance, and says: More than seventy years ago I started to school at Minter. I had doctor had to take the leg off and he died.

Mr. Durham's boy got on a horse and went out to find and drive up the calves. There had been much rain, the creeks and branches were flooded, and in Democratic national headquarters. Democratic politicos led by Bob Hannegan, Gael Sullivan, Ed Flynn, and various other big-city bosses believe Truman should stick diligently to the old Roosevelt left- of-center policy. But a majority of the their hands in m.

thought of Texas' oil production ed Secretary of the Treasury on its present level of around Snyder-disagree. They are rn.d- 2,200,000 barrels a day. Prior to dle-of-the-roaders. the war, 1,500,000 barrels a day Illustrating the nft was a pn- was considered tops from a con- vate conversation in Miami re- cause it was considered not fitj The other amendment pro- 1 legislature in substance delegated for decent people to read. Com- i vides for a board to redistric to an executive officer of the! pared with some of today's the state for Senators and Rep- publications, the Police Gazette was high-class literature.

At least, while it had some pictures of women on the stage wearing "tights" it did not tell its stories in the language of saloons and brothels which is a part of some of the "best sellers' 1 which we are urged to buy and to read. government a great deal of legislative powers. The comptroller has resentatives after each Federal i ufe-and-death powers over appro- census, if the first Legislature i priations, and appropriations con- in session following announce- st tute uthke "umber one subject Ieglsla l.up.3 win wwii servation standpoint, Now, Jack I cently between Bob Hannegan and Baumel, the chief engineer for the Assistant Secretary of War Stuart commission, says that the state can Democrats, both go on producing at the present! from St. Louis, rate indefinitely: in fact, he says Symington suggested that Demo- that a new compilation he's now cratic Director Sullivan was being making of the maximum efficient a little rough on big business by rate of production will show an demanding heavy price cuts. To even higher figure.

this, Hannegan replied: Back during the Lense war years. Somoza's background and the learned my A Cs at another lit- fording one the boy slipped off the tie school and it horse and was drowned, was hard to Mr. Blake's family went to as there were'church about half a mile from their four lines and I home one Sunday and left some the letters in small children in the house. Some each line were a other children came to play with different shape, them. They found a pistol and be- AI1 who attended I gan snapping it at one another, and school used- the' wnen one loaded chamber came blue back spellingl under thc hammer it fired and book.

I think the.Billed one of the small girls. The srhnni hariiP le in the church heard the iutt Started Thc Mr. Blake left the church, itmi' wasiJ um ed his horse and started from 8 to 16 vcars and all under in a run. The horse shied 16 11 and then was cLs- Mj vickerSj aj manj and on for a continued. The school terms were revolution he kicked up last week short, about two months in the are important.

They illustrate one of the great dangers in the Truman "Arms-for-Latin-America" program. Back in 1927 when the Coolidge administration got into hot water in Nicaragua, Henry L. Stimson was sent down to patch up the trouble and worked out a deal whereby the U. S. Marines trained the Nicaraguan National Guard.

The Marines did an excellent job. They not only trained the national guard, but they picked Somoza to head the guard, and they trained him so well that Somoza has been ruling Nicaragua ever since. Somoza was picked because he was suposed to be friendly to the "Stew, are you one of those so- USA Hfi once sold automo biles (year, and it seems to me that they taught longer hours than they do now. The school house and church house was the same building, and our neighborhood they were five six miles apart. Pupils who I lived about half way between would ride horseback and take a i my father used to make coffins for people who could not buy them.

made his coffin. Then Mr. Nance adds: I believe every man and woman over 65 should have the full S40 a month, unless it is a person who has $100 month without tomorrow. circuit rider preached at I In th symbolism of heraldry, four- Halesboro, Wood- 1 is the color of cour- ard School House, Minter and Lib- age and zeal. However, Somoza turned out to ment of the figures of that cen-1 ture sus refuses or neglects to do the redistricting as the Constitution now requires.

If submitted and adopted it would have no effect until a legislative session following the census to be We need not go back to thek 195 That bei the i. i Midi- Carter and other dime thrill ers in secret, when the redskins bit the dust and the outlaws met their proper fate, but without the na'stiness which is a part of too many stories today. If a newspaper should print such stuff as is found in many of the recent books it would be denied entrance to the homes of self-respecting people, and should be denied. days when boys read the Nick I it would seem that no So far, whatever error the comptroller has made has been on the conservative side. For the 49th first for which estimates were error amounted to around $52 millions: the proof of that is that the latest estimate says there'll be a $52 million surplus in the general revenue fund at the end of this fiscal year, on August 31.

His original estimate this year, member of the Fiftieth Legislature, which is now in session, could Object to allowing the January, was in error for'sure people to say whether they i by $7,159,000, because that much want this amendment, or been added probable ther they are content to let things rock along and get redistricting when and if a legislature chooses to do the work. Submission of the two amendments would add to the legislative claim of service. balance as of August 31; and he's betting that by August 31, 1949, there'll be $32 millions more in the bank account than he thought there would be on January 1, 1947. But these errors have had in thern a wide element of luck. Tirne was, a very few years ago, when conservationists would have thrown On the months the Comptroller back on January 1 of tliis year estimated the con- is that 75 per cent of the press is for Truman.

Unless 5 per cent of sumption would be the papers think we're too liberal, packs for this year, and people will think we're too mately 617 million packs for the conservative. The Republicans al- ncxt two fiscal seem-! ways win in that kind of a setup." ingly liberal estimates. Actually, Symington started to protest experience now shows that by the i that he wasn't a reactionary, but end of the current 12 months i Hannegan continued: Texans will have smoked up 6631 "The reason we Democrats win million-plus bring in nearly $20,000,000. And back at the first of the year, the labor situation too unset- tied to predict that cars would be feels that about Truman, we're IT- er ii 1 rolling off the assembly lines in great numbers: now it's been necessary to revise the income from the automobile sales tax by nearly $2.000,000 more f6r the current year, and 51,000,000 each of the next two years. These instances are enough to ing what happens when Pan Amer- be a pro-Somoza and nothing else.

He was not even pro-Nicaraguan. After the first free elections were held in Nicaragua, Somoza, with the Marine-trained National Guard behind him. kicked out his uncle as President and became President himself. He has been running the country ever since. Nicaraguan Nepotism Last month, however, he installed another president, Dr.

Leonardo Arguella, generally considered a Somoza puppet. President Arguello, however, sur- U. Dictators prised not for long. On almost the same day Presi- He had the nerve to demote Somoza's son-in-law, Louis De Eayle. a colonel in the National Guard and head of public health.

He also relieved Somoza's elder son as inspector general of the national to is that the people know we're the friend of the little we protect his job and his home, his health and his future. Unless he dent Truman sent his message to congress proposing U. S. arms for for I Pan-American countries, a Latin American dictator was demonstrat show the variables which the Comptroller and his statisticians arc asked to figure on (Continued to make On Page leans get U. S.

arms. The dictator in question was General Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, who deserves to have the guard and transferred him to the Leon from the capital. Another of Somoza's sons was I (Continued On Page 9) OFF THE RECORD "We figured the customers would get a bigger thrill out of it that wav!" BARNEY GOOGLE HOWDX G006L6 I DONE FIGGERED OUT WHflT SNUFFY F6R HIS weDDIN'PRESENT VCAH-. WHAT'S THAT? SCORCHY SMITH DOUBTLESS YOUVS WONPEBING WHAT THE JOB IS ALL WA5NT WISE TO 8BOAPCA5T WUYS AMP WHEREFORES ALL THE WAY TO TOO MANY FOBEIGN AGENTS WAVE UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU TO CLEAN UP WCWT IT ON AN BUT THIS TOWN THE SECURITY ANP WATTE SCCXfCVY SMITH? WELCOME TO I'M CONSULAR SERVICE IS MP. HEATH, STATE DONALD DUCK BLONDIE POPEYE VOUNG MAN, FOR THAT YOU GO TO BED WITHOUT VOUf? SUPPER.

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