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"Wholesome American Greeting”
Never before in our history have
there been so many British flags
flying in our nation’s capitol. Hun
dreds of thousands of people came
to get a glimpse of the Royal
couple. More than 150,000 Federal
employees were on hand to greet
them. It was a real American wel
come. Outside of a few disgrunt
led society-crazed people who were
m»d because they didn’t get an in
vitation to the Garden party for
the King and Queen, the rank and
file of people here thought it was
alright to give the visitors a whole
some American greeting.
Combine Busineaa and Pleasure
Everybody here knows that the
visit of the King and Queen was a
combined social and business pro
poition, with emphasis on the latter
reason. The British want to be
sure we are going to be good neigh
bors. They need us more than we
need them. From the business
angle there is the little matter of
war talk in Europe. Britain, of
course, wants to be sure we will be
on her side. Then too, there is the
matter of trade treaties. England
is a great trader and the United
States is the world’s biggest cus
tomer. And also, there is the matter
of trade in Latin-America. Ger
many, Italy and Japan are not our
biggest competitors there. English
traders have done and are doing
quite a big business with the Latin
America’s. Uncle Sam’s traders
must be on their toes these days if
they want to keep pace with the
world traders.
To Increase Aid to Aged
The Administration’s reply to the
unworkable Townsend Plan to pay
all people 60 or more years of age,
up to $200 a month, is some amend
ment of the Social Security Act to
make larger Federal contributions
to the needy old people. One move
ment has started to make the Fed
eral contribution somewhat larger
than the states’ share. There is
another movement to clear the way
for old age pensions by constitu
tional amendment. A fight against
the manner in which the Social Se
curity program is working has
started. The effect of letters from
leaders of Labor and Agriculture
opposed to the Townsend Plan, was
evident in the House where the bill
embracing the plan was defeated;
the vote being 97 for and 302
against. The principal old age
pension proposals were submitted
to the Committee on Ways and
Means. One was the Townsend
plan. The other was the plan of
the General Welfare group. E. A.
Johnson, formerly associated with
Dr. Townsend is Legislative Sec
retary of the General Welfare Or
ganization. Many members had
worked for a hearing and full de
bate on the floor for one or the
other of the two plans. The Town
send Plan followers demanded that
their bill come out under a “gag”
rule which permitted no amend
ment. The General Welfare people
claimed that the Townsend Bill as
drawn, could not be administered.
The result was that the General
Welfare leaders fought the Town
send bill, claiming it would increase
unemployment and fail to bring
help to the aged. Many members
friendly to the principle of old age
pension opposed the “sales tax”
features of the Townsend Bill be
cause of the increased burden that
would fall upon the poor people.
“Gag” rule and refusal to permit
amendments cost the Townsend Bill
some votes. Anyway both plans are
still live issues and both the Town
send leaders and the General Wel
fare leaders tell members they will
continue their organizations and
wage fights in the next political
campaigns.
Scrap Between Pension Groups
Hearings on both the Townsend
and General Welfare plans have
been held. The committees heard
many witnesses since hearings be
gan five months ago. The General
Welfare bill remains in the commit
tee and no further hearings are in
prospect. The fight between the
leaders of the two plans seem to be
over the $200 per month item. Mr.
Johnson of the General Welfare
Group tells members that people do
not favor the $200 per month per
person. The Townsend leaders say
the $200 per month figure is merely
the “maximum” and while they
don’t ever hope to reach it, they
feel many people favor the reten
tion of that figure. Up to this
time there has been no compromise
between the Townsend and General
Welfare Camps.
King Not Here to Pay War Debt
A letter comes from Genoa, Ne
braska, asking if the King of Eng
land is here to pay us at least part
of the money we loaned England
to help win the world war. The
answer to that is that nothing has
been said about the war debts lately
except there is some gossip that
perhaps our foreign debtors are
about to ask us to cancel the inter
est rate and some more of the prin
cipal on loans which they have not
yet paid us anything. In the mean
time many farmers are urging pas
sage of a bill which would lower
the rate of interest on their loans
from Uncle Sam.
Another 4 Billion Deficit
Army and Navy expenditures are
mounting by leaps and bounds. Or
ders have been given to lay the
keels of two 45,000 ton super bat
tleships each to cost $100,000,000.
Their keels cannot possibly be laid
during the next twelve months and
after they are laid it will take four
years to complete them. The gov
ernment’s income for the next year
will be about 5Ms billions of dollars
and congress will make appropria
tions for next year that will total
at least 9% billions of dollars. This
will create a deficit of 4 billions of
dollars for the year ending June 30,
1940.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
By the Lowell Service
Lincoln—High pressure groups,
battling to secure special conces
sions from the unicameral legis
lature, admitted defeat after the
sine die adjournment last week.
It is true the lobby prolonged the
session to 111 days, one day more
than in 1935, but no advantage
was gained. All legislation that
would inure to the benefit of the
spepial interests was either de
feated or vetoed.
Railroads left the lobby disgrunt
led. Private power companies
were embittered. The taxpayer
was relieved of five millions in
property tax and cash funds. Fewer
bills were passed than ever before.
The session made a new low mark
in regard to economy.
From Omaha came an effort to
increase the size of the unicameral
and elect on partisan tickets. This
was countered by the advocates of
the present system with a sugges
tion that the legislature function
more as a board of directors and
cut out the tactics of the debating
society.
In the final hours many political
boomlets flourished. Honeyed sug
gestions poured into the ears of the
members. <V> the republican side
of the house, there was much ac
tivity.
A. L. Miller is an avowed candi
date for governor. Chairman Brady
of the appropriations committee
will seek the state treasureship, if
his health improves. Ernest Adams
will try for secretary of state;
Senator Schultz, for the railway
commission; Lester Dunn, Hugh
Ashmore and Dan Garber are sus
pected of aspirations.
Concerning democratic hopes,
much was said. Senator Van Diest
is regarded as a potential candi
date for governor. Speaker Diers
may seek the lieutenant governor
ship. Leland Hall is in the race
for the state treasurer. Gantz
seems a likely prospect for at
torney general. Neubauer may
seek the congressional nomination.
Charley Warner, of Waverly, let
it be known that he wrould again
file for the republican nomination
for governor. This announcement
was evidently made to forestall Dr.
Miller, of Kimball and Hugh Brown
of Kearney.
H. G. Keeney and Hugh Butler,
both of Omaha, seem to be lagging
in the republican senatorial con
test, Bob Smith, recently called
back to his old position as clerk of
the District Court in Douglas coun
Hugh Butler to be Candidate for
United States Senator in 1940
Soys Will Fight to Protect Livestock Market for U. S.
Farmer. Is Farmer and Successful Business Man.
Hugh Butler of Omaha, prom
inent business man, civic leader
and farmer, has announced that
he will file as a candidate for
United States Senator on the
Republican ticket in the 1940
election.
Mr. Butler wired from Wash
ington where he met last week
with other members of the Re
publican National committee and
party leaders.
Mr. Butler, who operates two
farms in Furnas county near
Cambridge, feels that the policy
of the present administration is
destroying American agriculture
and live stock farming. He said:
“The recent statement of the
President concerning the pur
chase of Argentine meat is an
other sad blow to the American
farmer and live stock grower.
The meat industry of America is
one of our most important.
Through the sale of our meat
animals, the small farmer gets
his income, on his grain and
roughage. The live stock indus
try is about the only part of our
agricultural program that has
not already been destroyed by
the new deal administration. It
appears that the stockman is
now to be offered as a sacrifice
in a mistaken foreign policy
which would force him to com
pete in our own home market
against the products shipped in
from South America.
America First
“The American market be
longs to the American farmer
and as United States Senator I
would fight to the last ditch to
see that he gets the protection
he deserves. We hold a friendy
feeling toward all nations, but
parity begins at home, and we
must look after our own people
before granting concessions
which would ruin the most im
portant industry in our nation.
“Like every other farm oper
ator and live stock grower, I
have been battling 24 horn's a
day to make ends meet and I
HUGH BUTLER
am going to fight every move
which would further cripple the
stockman and small farmer.”
Mr. Butler was born on a
farm near Missouri Valley,
Iowa. He was five years old
when his parents set out in a
covered wagon for Furnas
county, Nebraska, to acquire a
homestead.
Growing up on the farm, young
Butler won a scholarship in a
subscription contest and entered
Doane College at Crete. Here
he ran errands, mowed lawns,
collected laundry, clerked in a
grocery store, and came out in
1900 with a diploma in his hand.
Since attaining his majority,
he has always been interested in
agriculture. Although successful
as a business man, he realizes
that the progress and prosperity
of Nebraska must come from the -
farm. He is a regent of Doane
College and has always taken an
active part in community build
ing and civic affairs.
ty, and Ted Metcalfe, formerly
lieutenant governor, are talked of
as possible candidates.
Ex-Governor A. J. Weaver, of
Falls City, Kenneth Wherry, of
Fawnee City, and Dwight Griswold
of Gordon, are considered probable
candidates. H. G. Wellensiek, of
Grand Island, will be in the race.
Congressman Stefan will seek re
election to Congress.
Ex-Senator Knickrehm, of Grand
Island, will be a candidate for rail
way commissioner in the republi
can primary. Richard H. Larsen,
who opposed Dr. Bass in the last
primary, will be a candidate for
railway commissioner next April.
Inter-territorial freight rates
have a marked effect on industry
and unemployment, declares J. A.
Little, rate expert for the state rail
way commission. He has given
considerable attention to freight
rate complaints which involve com
modities from the South to points
North and West. The controversy
over the freight rate on peanuts is
typical.
Raw peanuts are an important
item among raw materials used by
candy manufactures. The Kearney
Candy company of Kearney, is a
large user of peanuts mostly from
Albany, Georgia, and other points
in the southeast. The freight
rates on peanuts in carloads are
so high that the Kearney company
shiped by rail to Omaha and then
trucked to Kearney to cut down
the excessive expense.
The present rates on peanuts
from important Georgia points to
Kearney are $1.43 per cwt. Western
railroads proposed reductions, but
there was a long delay and difficul
ty in getting an agreement among
the southern lines south of the
Ohio river and the western lines.
Rate Expert Little took the mat
ter up with the railroads involved
and was instrumental in getting
them to agree on a reduction from
$1.43 to $1.05 per cwt. to Kearney,
with substantial reductions to Nor
folk and North Platte as well, ^e
succeeded in getting an agreement
after the initial proposal had been
definitely rejected. As a result,
both the producers of the South
and the candy manufacturers of
Nebraska have been benefited.
Amos Thomas, of Omaha, was
reelected chairman of the legisla
tive council, and invitation was ex
IT is humiliating for a
man to confess that in
all the years he has
earned money, he has
accumulated nothing
in bank worth while.
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tended to Dr. R. V. Shumate of the
state university to serve again as
disector. Senator Doyle attempted
by resolution, to remove from the
council any senators not renomi
nated at the primary in April, 1940.
He lost out 24 to 7. Following are
the members of the courr.!, by con
gressional districts:
First -John Callan, Odell; Jo
seph Reavis, Falls City; M. E.
Westley, Brainard.
Second — Ernest Adams, Amo?
Thomas, Charles Tvrdik, Omaha.
Third—Frank Brady, Atkinson;
Carl Peterson, Norfolk; J. B. Ros
siter, Walthill.
Fourth—W. H. Diers, Gresham;
Leland Hall, Roseland; J. L. Thorn
ton, Fairbury.
Fifth—Harry Gantz, Alliancte;
R. M. Howard, Flats; Fred Mueller,
Kearney.
Eight members are republicans
and seven are democrats. E. Adams,
Thomae, Tvrdik, Brady and Gantz
all served on the former council.
In case a school district carries
limited insurance on its athletes, it
is not liable for any injury not cov.
ered by the insurance. This is the
opinion given out by Attorney Gen
eral Walter R. Johnson in answer
to a query from County Attorney
R. S. Morrissey, of Tecumseh.
In explaining his veto of the
unfair trade practice bill, LB 86,
Governor Cochran stated: “While
this bill purports to be in the in
terest of the public welfare and for
the protection of the public, its ef
fect is directly to the contrary. The
act is designed not to protect com
petition, but to protect those who
compete.”
For the lack of a single vote, LB
1, the agrol bill which Senator Sor
rell, its author, steadfastly main
tained, throughout the legislative
session, would pull Nebraska farm
ers out of the depression, was de
feated on the day before the legis
lature closed. It received a tie
vote, 21 to 21. The bill would have
required all Nebraska oil stations
to carry, in addition to regular mo
tor fuel, gasoline blended with at
least 5 per cent alcohol processed
in the state from United States
agricultural products.
Many predictions are heard that
nothwithstanding the defeat of the
agrol bill, a number of agrol pro
cessing plants will be in operation
in Nebraska within a year.- That
there will be considerable use for
the blend gasoline is made certain
by the action of the legislature in
passing LB 12, the gasoline tax
exemption bill. It provides for ex
empting non-highway users, except
aircraft, from paying four cents of
the five-eent state tax on gasoline
when it is blended with 10 per cent
alcohol processed in Nebraska from
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United States agricultural prod
ucts. The vote on this bill was 27
to 10.
Nebraska hunters are expressing
pleasure over the passage by the
legislature of LB 409, which fixes
an annual hunting license at $1;
fishing permit at $1; combination
license at $1.50 (present license
combined at $1), except raccoon
hunting with dogs, $2.50. These
fees will go in effect Jan. 1, 1940.
The coon hunting licenses are new
in Nebraska. The measure had
the backing of the Izaak Walton
league.
The University of Nebraska may
lose its standing both in the Associ
ation of American Universities and
in the North Central association,
according to information given at
the alumni luncheon last week by
Chancellor C. A. Boucher. He said
that he had received notice from the
North Central association that ex
penditure per student at Nebraska
has fallen below the safety point.
This is in accordance with the in
formation given by the chancellor
and the board of regents to the
legislature when university appro
priations were being considered.
Original jurisdiction in account
ing suits involving an insurance
company and its policyholders rests
with the state insurance depart
ment, according to a ruling made by
District Judge J. H. Broady in sus
taining a demurrer by the Lincoln
Liberty Life Insurance company in
a suit which involves |2,150,000.
The four policyholders who brought
suit claim that about that sum has
been transferred by the company
from the participating policy sur
plus to the benefit of the non-par
ticipating business, during a period
of years, and they ask that this
money by transferred back for dis
tribution to participating policy
holders. The four plaintiffs are
Ira N. Clark, June Cora Hill, James
W. Rolls and Freda C. Selancer.
The company, in its demurrer of
May 10, declared that the district
court had only appellate jurisdic
tion, and that the matter should be
heard by the insurance department,
a theory with which Judge Broady
agreed.
By a vote of 22 to 17, LB 350,
vigorously fought by the railroads
throughout the legislative session,
w*s passed late Tuesday after
noon. It increases the length of
combined truck-tractor and semi
trailer from 35 to 42 feet, and in
creases the gross maximum weight
from 32,000 to 40,000 pounds.
Truckers had worked hard for the
measure. It passed without the
emergency clause.
Another bill which was passed by
the legislature on its next to con
eluding day was LB 224, which re
peals the law requiring trucks? to
stop at railroad crossings, but leav
es the requirement standing for oil
transports and vehicles carrying
explosives. It also changes the
capacity designations on truck li
cense plates. The bill was passed
by a vote of 34 to 2, and it will
go into effect at once.
Mrs. R. L. Cochran, wife of the
governor, was an interested on
looker when the first of a series of
leadership training courses to be
conducted in Nebraska colleges this
summer opened at Midland college
at Fremont last week, with 60 stu
dents enrolled. Mrs. Cochran is
one of the executive committee hav
ing charge of the $30,000 grant re
cently made to Nebraska by the
Frank Phillips foundation, and
these courses are financed from
that fund.
O’Neill Girl Married
In Milwaukee June 2
Summerfield Methodist Church,
Milwaukee, Wis., was the scene of
the wedding of Miss Gertrude E.
Conrad and Lawrence C. Brown,
Friday evening, June 2. Spraya
of bridal wreath and candelbra
holding white candles decorated the
altar where the Rev. 0. D. Cam
ron read the marriage vows for
Mr. Brown, formerly of Cassopolis,
Mich., and Miss Conrad, the daugh
ter of Rev. and Mrs. D. S. Conrad,
of O’Neill, Nebr., using double
wedding ring service.
The gown worn by the bride waa
fashioned with a white lace bodice,
short puff sleeves and featured a
long sweeping skirt of net. A 1
Juliet cap of seed pearls held her
full length veil of tulle edged with
lace. The colonial boquet carried
by Miss Conrad was of spring
flowers and white roses.
The bride’s attendant, Miss Viv
ian I. Moss, of Milwaukee, wore a
gown of peach net with square
neck line and short puff sleeves.
In her hair Miss Moss wore a gar
land of flowers matching those in
her boquet.
Mrs. Wilbur Moore, the organist,
played a ten minute prelude before
the ceremony and Henry Swan
sang a vocal solo preceding the
wedding march.
The best man was Wilbur M.
Mopre and the ushers were Robert
E. Moss and Lyman Chase, all off
Milwaukee.
The groom, a graduate of the
Milwaukee School of Engineering,
is a member of Delt^ Phi Zeta
fraternity. He is now employed
by the city of Milwaukee in the
electrice maintenance department.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown will make their
home at 835 N. Cass Street.