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PAGE TWO PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL MONDAY, JULY 2, 1931. i - - i i... -.-.. " - f ' the EPIaftsmouth Journa PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postollice, Plattsmoutb, Neb., as second-class mall matter MRS. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone. 52.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 13.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable Btrictly in advance. If there was nothing m a name, there wouldn't be any autcgraph col lectors. :o: Observers in almost every part of Europe are predicting the early over throw of Hitler. So. little man, what now? :o: Trofessor Tugwell is planning a western speaking tour. This, per haps, is, in order that Senator Borah won't feel lonesome touring the West all by himself. :o: That person you see walking down the street with a strut, is the amateur gardener who has just picked the first ripe tomato out of his patch. , :o: The news that in one of the west ern Democratic states that are 25,000 candidates for public office this year is somewhat surprising to those who never supposed there were so many not already on the federal pay roll. The return to fashion of the cart wheel hat is reminding many an old timer of the story about the irate lady on the trolly who turned in dignatcly to a male passenger and said: "Sir, your glass eye has broken my hat pin." :o: Net that the bridegroom is deserv ing any publicity for his negligible i part in the wedding, but lots of peo ple ho knew the hride in her girl hood have a pardonable curiosity to now what her name is going to be in the future. :o: Pre -wedding gifts from John Jacob Astor III to his fiancee are valued at more than a million dollars. Older married men for whom birthdays and anniversaries now come all too fast wil regard young Mr. Astor as a vie- tiui- &f some ysiji bad..advicej "vt -ti :o: An oil company has launched a campaign to persuade motorists on extended trips to adopt the army marching custom cf halting for a "breather" for five minutes of each hour cf travel. That is to combat the effects of carbon monoxide gas. That ought also to serve the useful purpose of permitting the motorist to see the country through which he passes. This is one of those dry years when you den't have to go out into the crrasv areas to feet chiggers. Com petition is pretty keen in the chigger world this year, and they go quite a distance for business. In fact, about all you have to do to get chiggers is honk for curb service. :o: RUSSIAN GOLD PRODUCTION UP A jury in Massachusetts sent a note in to the court inquiring whether they could convict a person not cn trial. Apparently some ot them had an overpowering desire to convict one of the lawyers in the case. ' :o: Oklahoma has 25,000 candidates for public offic2 this summer. In the odd years, the principal occupations in Oklahoma are agriculture, manu facturing, oil production and im peaching officers who were lucky in the even years. SILLY OBJECTION TO ROOSEVELT VACATION -:o:- Two New York women wire most unkind to a man acquaintance in an endeavor to collect his insurance money. One hit him with a mallet and the other ran over him with her motor car. Perhaps he was in sured against breakage. :o: COL. CLARK ON EFFECT OF WAR PREPAREDNESS "TIv- assertion which we constant ly' hear, that the best way to pre serve peace is constantly to be pre pared for war, ij in open defiance to the universal experience of mankind. For the nations of the world to per mit a situation to continue in which possibly this gerenationfi or almost certainly the next, will witness an other conflict, possibly involving the obliteration of our civilization, is stupendous and incredible folly." Senator Dennett C. Clark of Missouri before the graduating class of Wash ington and Lee university. The Register does not know how Senator Clark ranks in the American Legion, which he helped to organize, but at any rate he was a colonel in the world war, so he can hardly be accused of being enc- of these molly coddle pacifists that the legion lead ership so detests. And yet the senator- has figured out that if the nations of the world would tak? what they are paying annually for maintenance and ex tension of armaments, and invest.it at a 1 '2 per cent return, it would pay eff within 40 years the whole staggering national, provincial, state and municipal debt of the entire world. Dut even more important than the economic a?pect, it is as Senator Clark says "in open defiance to the universal experience of mankind" to expect peace to be preserved by pil- Russia has now passed both the United States and Canada as a gold producer, and so stands second only to the Transvaal in this respect. At cue time the world might have been excited by this announcement, hop ing that it would relieve the alleged shortage of monetary gold about which so much was being said not long ago. Today few people are wor ried about the imaginary deficiencies of the world's gold supplies. We ex cept advocates of bimetallism, who would find their occupation gone if they conceded the sufficiency of exist ing gold supplies. Last year it is estimated that the world output of newly mined gold attained a record high figure of 2. 64S million Swiss francs, as com pared with 2,593 million Swiss francs in 1932. Gold stocks have not only been augmented by these heavy cur rent additions, but shipments from India and China have swollen the total amounts cf geld available for monetary employment. Of late, the gold reserves of central banks and governments have ot shown the ef fects cf theee current increases, which appear to have been offset by private hoarding. However, central monetary reserves are already ab normally large, and they increased slightly during the year. Although monetary reserves are badly distri buted, they are capable of support- in - - fic-iiit cfriiptnr? vndir trpatsr i;S mountains of armaments on each thin thit now fxitin i s'lile cf a boundary line, susceptible death as a rule. No man can stand ' t ..s . to explosion -at the slightest, touch the White house grind month a in the use of gold' under modern j of personal greed or meanness. The monetary and credit systems, and world has always been armed, and considering, too, the large amounts!'1 bas always fought at the drop of President Roosevelt scon will leave Washington fcr a vacation trip of several weeks. He feels that he may do this, now that congress has been adjourned. No doubt he Is eager for this respite from his labors as chief executive of the nation in a period unsurpassed in its stresses and strains and annoyances and burdens. He has worked hard. Ho needs the rest his vacation v. ill ive him. And the country needs the strength this vacation is expected to conserve in tho president. Senator Schall of Minnesota has seen fit to issue a statement in criti cism cf Mr. Roosevelt's contemplated vacation. He objects to the chief executive traveling at the expense of the taxpayers on a warship. He com plains because no newspapermen cue permitted to accompany him. He in sists this is a "press censorship" and he wails in fear that the freedom of the press is thus being abridged. He raises the question of the legalty of Mr. Roosevelt continuing to hold office because he is leaving the coun try "while 12 million of his subjects starve." The Schall statement really should not make much difference one way or another in the afairs of government or of the people. Asurcdly, it will not affect the chief executive. Mr. Roosevelt will pay no attention to it, but will carry out his vacation plans just as though the Minnesota sena tor were in complete accord with them. As far as that is concerned, it would make no difference if Sen ator Schall were more enthusiastic over the Roosevelt vacation than anyone else. One cannot help wondering, how ever, how the people of Minnesota can send to the United States senate a man of the Schall type. His criti cism of the president is silly; how can he impress sensible persons with the idea that everything else he says and does is sound? Sometimes United States senators seem to take leave of their senses just to undertake a little politica Ishenanigan on the side. That is what Senator Schall has done. No big man, no one worthy of a seat in the United States senate would do it. Eastern Part of State Gets Most of Funds $22,0C0,C00 for Wheat; Hog Raisers Also to Profit; Corn Checks to $16,000,000. Approximately 42 million dollars in the form of government crop re duction checks will pour into Nebras ka during ths next six or seven months, a survey of agricultural conditions revealed Friday. Most of this money, which represents new and liquid buying power, will be dis tributed in the eastern half of the state. In addition to tho fund3 received under the various federal crop pro grams, farmers wil! also receive sub stantially larger prices fcr their pro ducts. In some instances notably wheat crop reduction checks, when added to current market prices, will give the farmer a much larger re turn on his crop than he received last year. ?22,C0D,C0D For Wlicat. Eased on latest available figures, v. heat growers wiil receive approxi mately $22,570,10 0 for tins year's crop, including abnit $11,7-15,000 in benefit paymentc. About 4'J per cent of the benefit payments have already readied thosj who signed wheat eon tracts, and another 20 per cent will Let this be said: The country and the people need the Roosevelt vaca tion as much as does the chief ex ecutive. We work our presidents to The ' month, year. after yes Of hoarded gold which will eventual ly come out of hiding, fears of a gold shortage are baseless. Nevertheless, the world's hunger for gold appears to be insatiable and Russia will find iu the development of h?r gold minus a support for her domestic currency sj-stem as well as a means of paying for much-needed imports. a nr.t. l he preparedness crowc (which, consciously cr not, is the munitions crowd) simply wants to continue the same eld savage system. Des Moines Register. :o: The farmer's problem is your problem, too, for after all, it's the trace territory surrounding us; that keeps PJattsmouth up. be paid within a month. The final 40 per cent wiil b; paid this fall as the first installment o:i next year's contracts. More than 5 S, CO 0,00 0 will be distributed to Nebraska farmers under this pregr.-.:n before the Christmas holidays. Most of the buyir.g power repre sented by wheat income is concen trated in the suoth: astern taction cf the state. With th? exception cf four counties Cheyenne, Kimball, Per kins and Eox Lutt: the major shaie cf Nebraska'.; wheat ir.cem? will go to farmers living couth cf the Platte river and caet cf Go.-: per and Furnas counties. Derpite a reduction of about 25 per cent in total r.uiput this year, hog producers will receive- approx imately ?C3.ooO.OtiO for their pork ers, compared with C 1 9, 2 LIOOQ last year. Under the p!ai;t ret up by the government to bring output and eon Eumption into balance, hog raisers who agreed to curtail production ftorjwill receive ?-5 a Lead, on 73 per cent r without pay-j of their normal production, in addi tion to the amcuut received at th. marks t place. Hog Check:; $C,G03.C03. Tli first government chocks to be the hog reduction pro total abjut six million informally and simply proclaimed: '.After all, we are, whether we like it or not, living in a democracy. I like it. We are going to continue to live in a democracy." Those 27 words are worth mor.2 than the rest of the speech. And Mr. Roosevelt was as sincere as Mr. Lin coln was at Gettysburg. Springfield Republican. :o: LOUP CUT'S TRIAL A study of Loup City, Neb., is of fered to those who fear that com munism may get a foothold in the United States. Loup City is a county seat town on the Loup river, near tho geogia phical center of Nebraska. It is pri marily a trading town for the nearby farmers, who have been none too prosperous in recent years. It has its churches, its press, its banking, ele vator and retail trading facilities. And it has some local industry, limit ed in scope, but affording employ ment to its townsfolk. Loup City has a few more than two thousand per sons. It is, one may say, the typical Nebraska small town, with decent homes, a lively community pride, a neighborly spirit. In the countryside round-about the Farm Holiday asso ciation was more successful in re cruiting members than in some other Nebraska sections. Why Loup City should have been nicked by the rebel minority for a demonstration is somewhat of a mys tery, but it seems to have been so selected. The local creamery branch employed Girls and women to pick chickens and in ether similar jobs. The p:.y is not very good. Perhaps the pay is too small for th? work that is done; perhaps it. is fair enough. At any rate a group of agi tators, some of them cf the Farm Holiday c rowd, one cf them the wcli kr.cwn labor rpeaker "Mother" Pdoor, are accused cf striving to foment trouble in the plant and to induce the women workers to strike. The Loup City press described the evt-uts leading up to the fracas cf June 14 as a deliberately incited row One distinct case cf sabotage is re ported t.ie draining of the boiler at the plant. Had thi3 not been hap pily discovered, it is a i el , an explos ion might have resulted wiih injury ai!-J los.-i of life, and certainly with property. A committee RECOVERY OBJECTIONS OF THE HOUSING BILL damage to of cf the demonstrators was ing a heavy toll.. Mr. RooseveltGs work is not even half done. He will r.eed all the strength he possesses to carry on to th eend of his adminis tration. American citizens worthy of j issued un:Ie citizenship and regardless of their, gram will per mitted to enter the piant for a par ley with its manager. Meanwhile grsatiy augmented forces of deputies.! Loau . Owners . Loan corporation, to gathered, and th? inevitable hap-' provide for the further refinancing of Revival of building construction, stimulation of heavy industries. In creasing employment and a reduc tion In the burden cf public relief these are the objectives of the ad ministration housing bill, passed in the closing hours cf the congression al session. Construction is still our most depressed industry. In a good year, we spend more than 11 billion dollars on new building; now wc are spending only three billion dollars. Residential construction has fall n off nine-tenths, from three billion dollars a year to around COO million dollars. In normal times, the indus try employes directly 3,500,000 men, indirectly, 1,500,000 mere. The pres ent idleness of a considerable portion of these workers seriously enhances the burden of relief. The new law makes no serious de mands upon the federal treasury. It undertakes, rather, to stimulate building by attracting private fundi into the mortgage racket and by re ducting the cost of financing renov ation and new home construction. It rules out the speculative operator, affording support exclusively to the renovators and builders of small fam ily dwellings. Home modernization is to be- stim ulated by the creation of a Home Credit Insurance corporation, which will employ up to 200 million dollars to guarantee 20 per cent of any sound loan cf less than two thousand dol lars which is made by a private agen cy fcr that purpose. New construc tion is to be encouraged by authoriz ing the corporation to insure first mortgages running to 20 years, cov ering 80 per cent of the value c f new houses costing $1G thousand cellars or less. It may also irsuro present first mortgages up to 70 per cent of their value. L'ae h of these classes cf inruranco may be c;;ter,dcd to a total cf cue billion dollars. The act aims to increase the avail ability of mortgage money i.i still other ways. It creates a Federal Sav ings an-! Loan insurance corporation to guarantee deposits ii; building and loan associations a.T bank ! posits are already guaranteed. It provides for the establishment, under the supervision of tho- Federal Home Loan bank board, of private national mortgage associations to rediscount insured mortgage paper for other lenders. It adds another billion to the borrowing power of the Home- pay the bill, trusting that when he ths program. "Wake up, Bill, they've convicted a banker!" JW. political affiliations will wish the j dollars and should be in th.; hands of chief executive bon voyage as lie Nebraska farmers v. ithln a few weeks, sails on a warship and will gladly j according to officials in ( barge of These checks have been age nts ion in re rising the are made. be given to reas, officials returns happier Journal. to Washington and stronger. :o: he will be! held up while government -tjioux city eneckeel claims or prciluc ;e data ccm pc.ynicr.ts CHANCE FOR TRADE WITH CANADA checked claims cent years, ti:ci basis on which Special attention will contracts from drouth : said, and these areas will be the first em- to receive checks. A second payment of six million The new tariff deal which powers the President to make mutual ly beneficial import and export agree- j dollars will be mailed ircm Washing men ts with other countries, adjust- j ton early in the fall and the final pay ing tariffs accordingly, opens thejment cf three million dollars, less a way to new consideration of closer small charge for administrative costs, relations with Canada. will reach hog farmers rem after the It was in 1911 that President Tal't turn of the year. tried to engineer a reciprocity treaty with Canada. It was passed by con gress, but later rejected by the do minion government. Now it ia reported that Canada again is exploring the possibilities cf such arrangement. With the com pletely new view of foreign trade which now prevails throughout the world, there aiv possibilities here. Five years ago the United States and Canada carried on the greatest 2-notion coraraeres in the world. To day there must still be vast possibil ities for trade betwen us, which will l:o equally advantageous to both. Certainly no two nations are more closely linked by geography and every consideration of true neighbor lir.ess that should enable them to help each other in trade. There is reason to believe that among tho many trade Regardless of the ccr.dition cf the corn crop farmers in this section of the corn belt will receive a substan tial sum under the terms of the fed eral crop reduction plan. NUB OF ROOSEVELT'S INFORMAL YALE TALK! President Roosevelt's informal, ex temporaneous speech to the alumni was as far as possibio from the style of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech. In its completeness it has no marks cf the "speeches that live." Yet there is an arresting passage that makes one think of Lincoln at Gettysburg. Lincoln in dedicating the Gettys burg national cemetery after several years of war reiledieated America to democracy. His s.icrt address, rismj to the climax sanctifying "govern proposals ment of the people, by the people and pencd. There was pushing, shoving, and finally fighting; men were in jured, several were arrested, several Med. Today there are cn trial in Loup City, charged with rioting, seven per rons including "Mother" Bloor. Loup City citizens supported the constabulary in the first afray and clearly resented the visit of the out siders. As the trial opened with rumors of new demonstrations, the townsfolk girded themselves to en force peace. This defense of Loup City seems to have been largely spon taneous. The good people there are evidently of the opinion that no local industrial trouble needs blows struck in ies scmemem. ine wnoie tiling has developed into a debate between the community and the demonstrat ors, and the workers themselves have ln-come a singularly tilent and un- It is this silence, this lack cf com plaint from tho workers, that indi cates that whatever their point of view may bo, they, too, are opposed to violence in their cause. They are the supposed beneficiaries of the agi tation, yet they have studiously re frained from taking part in it. This commends their caus? to the state at large and should commend it tc their employers. If their condition could be improved and their ray in creased, their own ..ttitude justifi which will be put before President Roosevelt under his new tariff pow ers, one of the first will be plans for wider and mutually beneficial trade with Canada. Rocky Mountain News. :o: The list of motorists who Haven't responded to traffic tag arrest In Kansas City is growing rapidly. With all the other literature that is thrown Into parked cars these days, it is not remarkable that a fow traffic tags get lest now and then. I-:o: riattsmouth stores offer shop pirn advantages the equal of any to Ire found. Whv net oive your horre town merchant first oppor tunity of serving yau? I for the people," bas taken its placa with the preamble cf ths Declaration of Independence as a claeical state ment of the American ideal. The speech was needed at the time it was delivered, for ths war between the state3 had been accompanied by war measures that strained tho constitu tion, invaded the domain of civil liberty and placed democracy in peril. The depression, Jiko the civil war, has had consequences upon govern ment that have raised doubt3 as to the future of democracy under the constitution. In these circumstance.! President Roosevelt in a pasG-ga that seems almcst an aside, yet was cer tainly meant for the public car, very- a generous response from their em ployer. Loup City, as such, makes it clear that there is no place for violence in the community. The citizens obvious ly believe that an un-American at tempt has been made to upset the peace, and they have resisted that attempt. One believes that they will do mere, and insist upen ji fair trial for those at tho bar. Loup City must be a3 quick to aseuiro impartial jus tice for tho accused as the town was quick to resent their coming. In that way Loup City will complete its pic ture of a Nebraska town solving it3 dif fieuities by American principles, and aceordirg to American tradi tions. World-Herald. : o: France is suffering frcm a hast wave which' threatens tho national wine crcp aim uureicre is causing much anxiety in that country. Since France has not used up much -anx iety concerning the failure to pay the debt it owes to the United States, it should have plenty to apply to th'a wi::a crop failure. . : o : Phono the nows to No. 6. existing homo mortgage debt. Thes---devices, taken together, are expected to increase the willingness cf savors to deposit their money in building and loan associations, the willingness of such associations, of saving;; banks and cf others to lend to home build ers and the rcadincs cf private indi viduals to build themselves new-homes. It must be recognized, of course, that the act is not a housing measure in the sense in which that term lias ccme to be used. It presents no com prehensive plan for the rehousing of cur urban industrial population. It involves no public construction ct homes for the lower income groups. Itconfincs itself to promoting the con stretion industry by making it some what easier for those who can al ready afford to build houses to do so. It is impossible to say whether the new law will immediately revive heme building. It lowers onlv one element cf building costs th;:- ce-st cf credit. Material and labor costs, on the other hand, have been boosted by the NRA to levels far above those which prevailed in 103 2. It now costs within 6 per cent as much to build a five-room brick hou:-e as it did at the height cf the boom in 1923. Unless the supply trades and the unions co-operate by reducing their charges, the new credit which the law has made available may go begging. It may be doubted, too, whether middle-class families, in t he face of existing uncortaintitics, will hasten to encumber themselves with new debts, even though interest rates may be lower than they have been in the past. The long-run effect of the law, however, cannot fail to be good. It eliminates high-cost second mort gages by enabling lenders to extend as much as 80 per cent of ibo vninr. of a property. It outlaws short-term mortgages with high renewal fees, by making it possible for them tt lend for periods as long as 20 yeais. Eventually, 1f not immediately, it will afford the home builder material aid. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. :o;'- " "ll7covefy"i3'in reach, r.ayi Gen eral Johnson. The general is ap pointed a committee of one to grab him with a flying tackle." :o: We can believe all of the New England fisherman's story about see ing cuo school of 200 fciunnay, except his he was badly scared wales statement last that w f