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Show ance of risk and obligation for the municipality cayeat emptor, as it were advantageous offer, on buyer's terms, should the seller see it that -"way. The seller -didn't The city does. In all seriousness, owe Mr. Harris thanks. It also owes thanks and commendation to the city commission com-mission for reaching agreement to drop the parking meter controversy, which has both amused and annoyed the community all too long. There is one Important step yet to be taken by the commission. Removal forthwith of all the meters installed for the experiment should be ordered without delay. They now become a needless eyesore in the downtown section and I they must quickly disappear. Another Noble Experiment VI7HEN shown pictures taken from the strato-T strato-T V sphere with the earth's perimeter sweeping sweep-ing in a majestic arc, Wilbur Glenn Vollva's adamant conviction remained unshaken: "I still believe the world is flat" said he. When the city commission decided Wednesday Wednes-day that the parameter crisis should end, Msyor E. B. Erwin'a enthusiasm for the nickel grabbing grab-bing hitching posts still brightly burned in hi breast "I do believe in parking meters," he told hi colleague in the commission. It Just goes to chow the indestructibility of Steadfastness, the sweet exaltation attending the unquenchable spirit of victory even in it hour ef defeat It's like the reply to little Peterkin' query about tha outcome of the Battle of Blenheim, Blen-heim, "But twa a famous victory." But, withal, the msyor, with his back to the wall, his eye catching the grim visage of public opinion, advised "that the matter lay dormant until there is perhaps more general demand for meter and we have the benefit of experience experi-ence of other cities." Common sense, forth-. forth-. rightly spoken. The pity is that this wisdom did not prevail when decision was first made , to try the innovation of meting out parking privilege priv-ilege by the nickel's worth. But another noble experiment has gone to its grave and "let the dead past bury its dead." The commission need not have taken as fa- eetlous Commissioner Keyser's motion for a Vote of thank to City Attorney Fisher Harris - for drawing such a contract" It was the contract con-tract that knelled the death of further purchases pur-chases of meters by tha city, prudent avoid- i |