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EDITOB1AUI
The views expressed in these columns
are those of the writer and not
necessarily a reflection of the policy
of The Voice.- Puh.
Economic
Highlights
Happenings that affect the
future of every individual.
National and international prob
lems inseparable from local
welfare.
Few news stories of our time
have been given so lavish a treat
ment as the final illness and death
of Stalin. And few events have
offered so fruitful a field to com
mentators and columnists whose
business it is to move from the
hard ground of fact into the risky
air of theory and guess at future
events.
Generally speaking, the fore
casts of what Stalin’s death im
plies for Russia and the world fell
into several diverse channels. One
group offered the hope that the
''whole Bolshevik edifice might
come crashing down in ruin now
that the strong man was gone. An
other speculated concerning the
possibility of revolutionary upris
ings both within the U.S.S.R. and
the satellite countries. A third de
cided that the chance of World
War III had become more remote
because the new masters of the
regime would have their hands
full and then come with domestic
problems. A fourth, holding the
opposite view, said that World
War III might be more imminent
on the grounds that Stalin’s suc
cessors would have to take this
grim step in order to unify the
Russian people.
But the more general opinion—
and the opinion which seems to be
held in Administration circles—is
that Stalin’s passing will not
greatly affect, at least for a con
siderable period of time, the Soviet
attitude, or change the Soviet
policy of aggression-short-of
world-war.
This opinion has a solid base.
First of all, it is extremely un
likely that Russia’s rulers would
have been unprepared for Stalin’s
death—the most far-reaching plans
and preparations must have been
made. It is equally unlikely that
Stalin would have permitted men
who were in disagreement with
his ideas to be in the position of
successors—the dead dictator was
as ruthless and as efficient a hand
at eliminating opposition as the
world has ever known. And the
past record of the men now at the
top—Malenkov, Beria, Molotov—
shows them to be Stalinists of the
purest hue.
There is another and very im
portant side to this. The dictator
ship is now directed by several
minds, instead of one—and
whether or not a divided dicta
torship can hope to succeed is
certainly a $64 question. It is per
fectly reasonable to assume that
the top men, excellent as their
relations may seem on the surface,
are even now engaged in a quiet
war for power—and that each
hopes to eventually hold all power
and liquidate the others. That is
the way Stalin cafne to the Jpp—
the road he took was paved ^rith
the bodies of old friends and com
patriots. There is good ground for
believing that as a long-term
proposition a dictatorship has
room for only one absolute dic
tator. .
Even so, and despite what even
tually may happen behind the
thick Kremlin walls, Russia will
in all probability continue to pre
sent a unified face • to the word.
For the time being, Stalin’s suc
cessors will have to Work together
if only in the interest of self
preservation—the last thing they
can afford is an open division with
all the internal discord and unrest
and weakening that this might in
volve. It is significant that the
best reports we have had front
behind the Iron Curtain indicate
that as soon as Stalin’s illness was
announced — and announced in
such a way that no one could
believe he would recover—the po
lice and military and all the other
forces the Kremlin has at its
disposal to maintain order and to
liquidate opposition were put into
a high state of alertness and were
ready for anything.
Campus Corner
By Stella Woodlee
The Women’s Residence Halls
honored the coming Easter season
with a hat party. The only dif
ference between the hats seen at
the party Thursday and those
which will be in the Easter Pa
rade is that the girls purposely
designed theirs of fantastic ma
terials, shapes and sizes. Shirley
Thomas was one of the prize win
ners, placing third with her pearl
bedecked raccoon cap plus lamp
shade creation. The girls enjoyed
cokes after seeing a style show
of spring fashions.
Spring parole, usually recog
nized as Easter vacation, begins
tomorrow, April 3, and none too
soon according to most U. N. stu
dents. As far as I can find out,
the campus crowd will be scat
tering west to Alliance and Sid
ney, south to Dallas, Tulsa,' and
Kansas City and east to Omaha.
We’ll all be back April 8—sad but
true.
Paul Kidd appeared last Sun
day in the University Singers pre
sentation of Brahms “Requiem.”
The group, directed by Dr. A. E.
Capitol News
By Melvin Paul
Statehouse Correspondent
The Nebraska Press Association
LINCOLN—A first class feud is
in the making here between Gov.
Robert B. Crosby and the power
ful chairman of the Legislature’s
Budget Committee, trigger-tem
pered Arthur Carmody of Trenton.
Neither man will concede that
they are anything but the best of
friends and that’s probably true
on a personal basis, but insiders
| will tell you that Carmody is
miffed at what he considers a
phoney budget submitted by
Crosby.
Some of the veteran Trenton
legislator’s complaints have been
public. He has pointed to the fact,
that Crosby recommended to the
Legislature that something be done
about completing murals in the
Capitol yet didn’t propose a penny
for that purpose. Another “gap”
in the governor’s budget spot
lighted by Carmody is an appro
priation for the school lunch pro
gram in the Department of In
struction.
It’s an open secret that Carmody
feels the budget doesn’t truly rep
resent the state’s financial picture
because money which is “obli
gated” is counted as having been
spent. Reportedly there is about
$5 million in such funds in the
Highway Department.
Last week end, Carmody, appar
ently irked at having several de
partment heads appear before his
committee urging salary increases
for their staffs, and at the gover
nor’s disclaimer of responsibility,
for the requests, told newsmen |
that Crosby’s budget would allow,
nearly $2 million which could go
to Increase salaries.
Crosby’s answer was, yes, it
could go for that, but it won’t. He
believes, he said, in a safe finan
cial cushion for each department,
but he has stressed to his depart
ment heads that he will approve
no general increases and that be
fore any boosts at all are granted,
they’ll have to have his okay.
The next move was up to Car
mody.
* * *
Diversion
The betting here this week was
that Sen. Richard Marvel of Has
tings will have to raise his water
diversion bill on the floor because
it is doomed to die in the Public
Works Committee which last week
sat through four long hours of
testimony and on Sunday flew the
length of the Platte Valley for a
first-hand look-see at what the
fuss is all about.
Marvel started out one vote be
1 hind in the committee. Already
counted on his side is Sen. Tom
Coffey of Alma while three cer
tain opponents are Sens. Joseph D.
Martin of Grand Island, Walter J.
Williams of Kearney and Robert
G. Brower of Fullerton.
The four with so-called “open”
minds are Chairman Hugh Carson
of Ord and Sens. William Moulton
of Omaha, Glenn Cramer of Al
Westbrook, included several Bach
selections in their program at
Plymouth Congregational Church.
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Disposition of the water diver
sion bill is expected to break a
log jam on a lot of other meas
ures. No bill in this writer’s
memory has been used for trad
ing stock as has the diversion
bill this session. You can’t es
cape the comparison of young
sters trading autographs: One of,
Hopalong Cassidy is worth half
a dozen of some lesser light. So it
is with the diversion measure. A
vote for or against diversion is
worth votes on several other bills.
* * * \
Taxes
The last of the three bills on
which Gov. Crosby and Tax Com
missioner Norris J. Anderson
hoped to build a state tax policy
was due for final consideration
this week.
It’s LB 89 which is intended to
hold the tax intake of governmen
tal units to 105 per cent of the
amount they could have collected
in the preceding year.
Crosby has urged it as a brake
on tax collections after the pas
sage of the 50 per cent assessment
bill, LB 272. The third measure
was the annual valuation law.
On a test vote last week, Sen.
Terry Carpenter’s motion to kill
LB 89 failed, 32 to 9. It was then
advanced by voice vote.
* * *
Sales Tax
Due up this week also is Sen.
Dwight Burney’s attempt to raise
his two per cent sales tax meas
ure which was finally killed by
the Revenue Committee late last
week to the surprise of nobody.
Burney, who has been beating
his head against the wall in be
half of a sales tax for what seems
lost forever, refuses to be dis
couraged. Even if he fails this
time, he says, it won’t be a com
plete loss.
“People are coming to see that
it’s the only answer,” he said, “it
may take a while, but the day is
coming.”
Legislative observers have been
mildly surprised that Burney has
not taken fuller advantage of the
confusion which followed the Su
preme Court decision in the
Johnson County case to hold the
sales tax aloft as the way out
of what then seemed a near-hope
* * *
less muddle.
Salaries
Gov. Crosby and State Banking
Director J. F. McLain got bad
news from Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Clarence A. H. Meyer but for
State Engineer L. N. Ress Agri
culture Director Ed Hoyt and In
surance Commissioner Tom Pan
sing it was glad tidings.
Meyer held in an opinion sought
by the governor that Crosby and
McLain will have to wait until
1957 before salary increases voted
by the 1951 Legislature become
effective but the other three are
eligible now for their boosts.
The opinion followed a Su
preme Court Decision in the ac
TAKES URBAN LEAGUE JOB
IN OKLAHOMA
M. M. Taylor, Omaha Urban
League industrial' relations secre
tary for the past six years, is
leaving to take over a special
project for the National Urban
League in Oklahoma.
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Urban League, Tulsa Chamber of
Commerce and the Masonic Grand
Lodge of Oklahoma, the project
involves working with industry
and business leaders in an effort
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tion brought by a former insur
ance commissioner Loren Laugh
lin, who claimed he was'entitled
to the 1951 raise.
Crosby now receives $10,000 a
year and if hels still around in
four years, he will get $11,000.
McLain also will get a $l,000-a
year hike if he’s still in office.
The opinion was particularly
important in the case of Ress,
who left the $7,440-a-year post
of deputy state engineer to take
the department’s top job. His pre
decessor, Harold Aitken got
$7,500 and the opinion says Ress
is entitled to the $8,500 voted by
the ’51 Legislature. He had said
he wouldn’t take the post for less.
Both Pansing and Hoyt will get t
$6,500 under the opinion. *
* * *
The Women
It’s been a long time since the
Legislature has laughed so hard
as it did last week before killing
the bill which provided that
women doing the same work as
men should receive equal pay.
Sen. Terry Carpenter, the color
ful freshman from Scottsbluff
took the floor in his second de
fense of womanhood within sev
eral days. Although -he assured
his colleagues he wasn’t joking,
his impassioned oratory had many
of his listeners in tears—from
laughing.
Sen. Earl J. Lee of Fremont •
contributed to the merriment
when he rose in rebuttal to Car
penter’s jab, “Are we going to
allow a few poultry men in
Omaha who skin chickens to skin
the women of Nebraska?”
Lee stumbled over his own
words and blurted, “No employers
have put any pressure on me!”
This episode, coupled with a
similar low-comedy exhibition
during debate on the 40-hour
week for state employees meas
ure, has led to a suggestion that
this session be dubbed the Fol
lies of 1953.
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