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J PAGE SIX PLATTSMCUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOUBNAL MONDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1935. 'Ml fhe Wonderftsl lay tag WE ARE SHOWING THZ NEW MODELS BOTH GAS AND ELECTRICALLY OPERATED Up to January 1st, they will be put out with no down payment required and monthly payments as iow as $2.50 to $3 a month. A wonderful oppor tunity to secure the machine you've always wanted. Sec Them in Our Showroom First Door West of the Postoffice O. O. Kinder Telephone No. 35 Weeping Water, Neb. TTT; v .t ' ' Laval Decides Not to Resign Hi French Office is V7ill Put the CaMnet'3 Fate to Deputies; Edouard. Her riGt Remains Also.. Up sreat concessions to Italy, adjudged aggressor in the Ethiopian conflict, represented the "minimum" that Laval is willing to discuss. ANOTHER LAW CHALLENGED Paris, Dec. 20. Premier Laval de cided today he will not resign. It was officially announced he reached this decision after confer ences v.iih President Lebrun and lightiat members of hi3 cabinet. Laval and the president talked to gether half an hour. Laval wa3 quoted as having said: "There may be an epidemic of resignations but I do not feel affected by the contagion." 'the Union Pacific tracks here Xorth Platte. The 1935 state law authorizing cities to acquire and pay damages for rights-of-way for via ducts, was challenged in a court ac tion here. It was the sixteenth law enacted by the 1935 legislature to be challenged in the courts. Mayor F. L. Temple and members of the city council were restrained from passing an ordinance for the appointment of appraisers to fix the property damage, and for calling a special bond election to obtain funds to pay damage in connection with a proposal to construct a viaduct across The French press pictured France a3 the last big power of the League of Nations to hold out against the peril of a general European war. Friends of Edouard Herriot, influ ential minister of state, who resigned as president of the dominant radical socialist party because of criticism against Laval, said he likewise is remaining with the cabinet to the last. French sources said the speech of defense to the house of commons yes terday by Sir Samuel Iloare, co-author of the discredited peace plan, v. ho resigned as British foreign sec retary, made Laval even more vul nerable to renewed leftist attacks. These sources accepted Hoare's address as an indication the pro posals, denounced as suggesting too J The order was issued by District Judge I. J. Nisley. Sheriff A. J. Salis bury served the papers on the mayor and councilmen when they met to take action on the proposed ordin ance. Plaintiffs say the viaduct would be a hazard to traffic and that the law is unconstitutional in that it al lows cities to deprive citizens of property and that judicial power is granted the mayor and council. You wouldn't start out on a long trip intending to drlvo a few miles the first day and then rest up fcr a week or a month before continuing. Yet that's the way a great many merchants conduct their advertising campaign. Lit tle wender it dcosn't get results. Persistent, steady effort is what counts. Society Women Wear Gowns Designed By Fashion Students Legislation for Agriculture Need of Nation Today Head of Economics department of State University Tells of Press ing Need of Time. Some sort of legislation In the interest of agriculture is necessary if the economic order of this coun try is to be kept in the balance, says Prof. T. T. Bullock of the economics department of the University of Ne braska at Lincoln. In a recent article on economics and Its relation to the farming industry, he points out that the task oday is to make leaders of bot hparties realize that agricultural stabilization is one of the most im portant problems they will consider. "There are three reasons why the agricultural industry requires new and special aid," he states. "First, agriculture cannot, unaided, adjust itself as can most other industries to new conditions. In manufactur ing, curtailed production goes hand in hand with lessened labor costs. In farming, the farmer and hi3 own family are the laborers. "In the second place, agricultural industries are few in number and new farming industries are not de veloping from time to time as in manufacturing. Consequently when adversity faces agricultural industry, labor and capital have no place of refuge close at hand. The farmer can't 6hift to something else without picking up home stakes and moving to a different environment ana adopting a different mode of life. "Finally, we should furnish some sort of prop to farming in order to balance the two great props given other industries. (1) the tariff and (2) lax enforcement o fthe anti trust laws." Prfoessor Bullock says agriculture, in pushing its selfish interests, is acting in a most patriotic, If not wholly unselfish manner. The east has as much at stake as the farm belt, for it is by trading with the agricultural regions that she makes her greatest gains, provided farm in come is a fairly stable one. "Whether farm legislation should be temporary or permanent cannot be determined yet," he states. "It Is quite probable that efficient farmers will be producing much more per acre and per man In 1945 than to day. Wilcox, In his 'Re-Shaping Agriculture,' published recently, pre dicts a ten fold increase; of course, if his prediction is realized, even in a small part, extreme measures will be needed to prevent the demoral lzatoin of all midweatern industries, urban as well as rural. Fortunately that bridge need not be crossed until we have had more experience in crop control. "By the time we are ready to con sider a permanent policy for agri culture, it is quite probable that the east will be aware of its need. Until then, the weBt must carry on, shut ting its ears to the cry of sectional- Ism. In pushing ltB selfish inter ests it is acting In a most patriotic, if not wholly unselfish manner." COUGHUN CASE DEBATED Springfield, 111. The Illinois su preme court heard arguments on the right of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin to use Soldier Field in Chicago for a mass meeting. The Chicago park board's appeal from a ruling of Su perior Court Judge Kelly in lavor of the Detroit priest was taken under advisement after a one hour hearing. Samuel A. Eettleson of Chicago, attorney for Father Coughlin, asseit ed the issue before the court was whether the park board had the "arbitrary power" to determine what type of gathering may be held at the field. Farmers are Ruled Eligible for Work Relief i The Resettlement Administration Ad vances Funds Under Work Agree ment or Loan Plans. TOWNSEND SEES VICTORY High Court Has Four New Deal Laws to Decide Tennessee Valley Arguments Con eluded Guffey Coal Act Is Taken Before Justices. NO longer is the young fashion student simply a novice with a career many years ahead. This year, three hundred young women, students In the Traphagen School of Fashion, In New York City, com peted for prizes and for represen tation at the Beaux Arts Ball one of the bis social events ot the win ter season. .When the Beaux Arts Society Costume Committee met to pass on the girls' colored drawings. It was found that many parts of the Uni ted States had been represented by the prize and honorable xnenuon winners. On Dec 6th. when all society met for this annual gala event, nearly 200 of the Traphagen stu dents were found to be represented on the colorful ball room floor by the incredibly and fantastically beautiful costumes worn by New York fashion leaders. The ball was planned tn the spirit ot a party given by an Eastern Maharajah. Costumes were of Indian, Persian snd Balinese inspiration; and the girl students were credited with exceptional originality and color ful and artistic sophistication. Many of their costumes, fashion xnrts think, will have a subtle Influence on the everyday clothes women will be wearing soon. Miss Betty Felton. or Goldsboro. N. C. pictured above, was among the first prize winners. Among the other young women who reaped thin public acclaim while tbey are students were: IajIs Brer nn.rth Douslaston. L I.: Dortf' Ick bvil. I alulae Park, N. J.; Anna Oehret. ShllllnKton, Pa.; Marie Huhn, Minneapolis. Minn.; June Lang. Oreenwich. Conn.; Doris Lauterateln Montclalr, N. J.; Hel en Messina. Halleyvllle. Okla.; Amy Nakasbima. of Japan and Salt Lake City. Utah; Page Aleshlre. Charleston. W. Va.; Nadja Uajdow ski. Norwalk. Conn.; Josephine H1I debrant. Allenburst. N. J.; Mollie LaMonte. Essex Falls. N. J.; Leila Ogston, New York City; Deborah S. Pearson, Wyncote, Pa.; lsabelle O wynne Pugh. Durham. N. C: Ba bette Rubel. Memphis. Tenn.; Rut. Rosazza. Holyoke, Mass.; Barbara. Sanborn. Portland, Me.; Ruth AV leen Simpson. M ah wan. N. J.; Dlx-t abeth Vroman. Maplewood, N. JJ and Frances Yerraal. Plttsfleld M-iss. i Sot only did the young student f have patronesses prominent In s: clety. but many of them attended the ball themselves wearing repro ductions of their own designs. ACCUSED OF SLAYING PLOT Kansas City. The estranged wife of a city fireman wra held on a charge of plotting to kill her hus band so she could collect his insur ance. Detective Sergent Howland said the woman, Mrs. Helen Woods, 42, approached a man with a proposi tion to slay her husband, the man informed police. MrB. Woods denied the charges. It was the third time In the past three months that Kansas City de tectives have arrested persons they accused of planning murders to col lect Insurance or obtain money. The legal life of the administra tion's TVA experiment was rested in the hands of the supreme court at Washington as still another new deal case involving the Guffey coal act headed ior test before that high tri bunal. Four cases affecting new deal leg islation cow are awaiting decision, possibly as early as Jan. G. Besides TVA, the others involve the original and amended AAA acts and the Bankhead cotton production control law. Five hours of argument on con stitutionality of the Tennessee valley project, intended to establisha "yard stick" for measuring the reasonable cost of electric power, were conclud ed by James M. Beck, a former so licitor general, with the assertion that the program-was "revolution ary" and "ocialistic." Speaking for the government, "So licitor General Reed had insisted TVA was a proper exercise of federal power. He said nothing was involved in the case except the validity of a contract for sale of transmission lines by the Alabama Power company to TVA and for an exchange of power. "Little NP.A" Test Arranged. The Guffey coal act, designed to establish a "little Ts'RA" in the soft coal Industry," was brought before the court in petitions by both the governmont and the Carter Coal com pany ot West Virginia. They asked the justices to pass on a ruling by the District of Columbia supreme court which held price fixing constitutional but voided sections regulating wages and hours. The lower court also granted the Carter company an injunction against paying a tax of more than 1 1-2 per cent of the salo price at the mines. The act imposes a 15 percent tax of which SO percent will be refunded to those who abided by its provisions. The government appealed from the Injunction and said it had no objec tion to tho court granting the peti tion of the Carter .company for a re view. In his argument, forceTul speaking Beck asserted that TVA enterprise constitutes a humiliating chapter in our history" and "presonts a case of administrative malevolence beyond anything ever anticipated by any one. R6ed sadi that if tho primary pur pose of the act was to aid navigation the law was valid, but If It was to develo pand sell power it was in valid. He contended the government could sell power produced as an in cident to its efforts to aid navigation. Those farmers who have struggled for years to keep off relief rolls have won their fight. They will never have to accept a federal dole. Such rural families can meet their needs through one of two ways, it was announced by the Resettlement Administration offices. (1) Honey covering their needs will be advanced by the government, to be repaid by the farmer's own labor. (2) Loans will be advanced for the purchase of necessary seed, feed, livestock, equip ment and subsistence to enable the farmer to re-establish himself. By means of the first plan grants will be given up to the limit of avail able funds as needed under work agreements. Farmers under this plan are eligible to work on any project within five miles of their homes. The applicant for such work signs a note and agreement to work within six months after date of signing on a basis of the prevailing security wage rate. The lean plan is the long time work of the Resettlement Adminis tration. Farm management plan3 take into consideration all of the as sets and liabilities of the farmer, the family need3 and the best means of putting the farmer upon a profitable basis. The money is advanced from time to time as needed, repayable within from two to five years. Those eligible under either plan are "families living in towns and vil lages as well a3 farm families, if their last income was derived primarily from farming, whether a3 operator, tenant, chare-cropper or laborer." "Where there is no projects with in five miles, grants will be given un til such projects are available to ful fill work agreements," said Sherman E. Johnson, regional director. "I feel Isure this announcement will be good news to farmers in this state. Prac tically all farmers would prefer to work out of their difficulties through either the loan or work agreement system rather than accept a federal dole." Resettlement officials urged those wishing to benefit under this phase of the Resettlement program to get in touch with the local supervisor, local welfare agency or the county agent at once. Omaha. The congressional victory in Michigan of the candidate who espoused his plan, is characteristic of what is going to happen in the general elections next fall. Dr. Fred erick E. Townsend said here. The author of the ?200 per month pen sion for aged persons passed thru here en route to the coast from Rochester, Minn. He predicted that the next congress will be strongly pro-Tov.nsend. DERN WILL NOT COMMENT Omaha. Secretary of War Dern; former Xebra9kan, en route to Wash ington after a trip to the Philippines where he represented President Rooaevelt at the inauguration of the island's first president, paused in Om aha briefly. He declined to discuss the political situation. Uced cars, livestock, household goods all can be sold through inexpensive Journal Want Ads. NEEDS BACKSEAT DRIVER Burlington, la. To Congressman Luckey of Lincoln, Neb., a backseat driver is a necessity, not a nuisance. The Nebraska representative was arrested by a highway patrolman here for passing another car on a hill. Arraigned in Justice court at Mount Pleasant, the congressman ex- piainea "my wife usually watches the signs and tells me about them; while I do the steering. In this case she failed to see the warning sign." He was fined $5 and costs. TWO MORE SEEK POST AS LINCOLN POSTMASTER Washington, Dec. 18. Two add! tional applications for the Lincoln, Neb., postmastership were filed Wed ncnuttjr wim mo civu service com- mion. bringing the total to 13. The latest applicants were Jarrett W. Ragan and John Lemly. Tuesday night was the deadline for filing, but commission will add to the list of applications In the mail Tuesday. SEEK FCND FOR N. U. STUDENTS' BUILDING Lincoln, Dec. 18. University of Nebraska students Wednesday were in the midst of a campaign for con tributions to a fund for the construc tion of a student union building. In nocents, senior men's honorary so ciety, pledged $100 as the first organ ization to answer the plea for funds. FREMONT MAN BRUISED Omaha. Charles Rump of Fre mont suffered bruises late Tuesday when his automobile was sideswiped by a hit and run machine on Dodge highway, twelve miles west of here. Rump's car swerved into the dirt grade at the edge of the paving, then plunged and rolled sixty feet to the bottom of the high embankment. He was taken to a hospital here. ADMIRAL TO RETIRE Washington. Tho navy depart ment announced Rear Admiral Clark, chairman of the navy general board, would retire Jan. 1, and be succeed ed in that post by Rear Admiral Up Phone news Items to No. 6. RETAIL SALES SHOW A GAIN New York. A nationwide survey by the National Retail Drygoods as sociation indicated that retail Christ mas sales have expanded almost 10 percent over last year for the first half of December. Based on tele graphed reports from merchants in representative cities, the increase is virtually equivalent to a 20 percent improvement over the 1333 Christ mas period. If it is maintained, said Cbanning E. Sweitzer, managing di rector of the association, the pre diction of a $4,000,000 retail busi ness for the month will have been fulfilled. Department store sales, he said, then will have surpassed any since 1930. The gain already record ed compares with a 10 percent in crease for the entire month of Decem ber, 1934, over the preceding Christ mas season. Every region shared the increase, the report showed. Thie gain in New England was placed at 7 percent; in the middle Atlantic states, 8 percent; tho middle weEt, 10 percent; the south, 9 percent, and the far western states, 7 percent. SUCCESSOR TO COOKE Washington. Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction corpor ation, announced that Emil Schram, chief of the corporation's drainage, leveo and irrigation division, has been elected to succeed Norris L. Cooke as president of the electric home and farm authority. LARD REACHES NEW LOW Chicago. Cash lard sold Wednes day at $11.90 per hundred pounds, a new low for the year. 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