The Omaha Guide
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Entered as Second Class Matter March 15,' 1927 at the Post Office
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Fire Is Alwayj Eminent
Summer and early fall present special seasonal fire hazards
which are of particular concern in small towns, forests* and agricul
tural areas.
Carelessness in the forests has destroyed millions of acres of
magnificent timber—and has robbed the country of beautiful vaca
tion spots. Under certan conditions, living trees become literally
explosive. A large portion of foiesl fires are the sole and direct
result of carelessness on the part of campers, hunters and fishermen.
The most extreme care must be takon in disposing of cigarette butts,
matcuhes and other inflammables. They must neier be thrown
from cars. And, when you are thvooigh with a campfire, take every
precautiontomakesureit is out. Soak it with water, then bury it in
dirt.
n towns, grass fires are a constant source of trouble—and some
of ihcr.i have led to conflagrations. Every community should have
and enforce a law requiring property-owners to keep grass cut and
every property- owner should cooperate wholeheartedly. His wel
fare—and perhaps his life—is at stake.
On the farm, constant vigilance is the price of fire safety. Wide
firebreaks should be ploughed around the grain fields and haystacks.
Barns and houses should be free of rubbish. Every care should be
taken with gasoline and other burnable liquids. Most farms are far
from fire departments and when a < erious fire breaks out, heavy loss
is inevitable.
The only way to lick fire is to work on the proposition that it
is always immine nt—and to act accordingly.
Another Lesson In Economics
The quaint theory that it is possible to continually raise wages |
witnessing still another demonstration of the fact that wages anil
without raising prices was disproved long ago. Now the public i?|
prices move together.
The current case is coal. As the Wall Street Journal said, “The |
American public will soon be ‘chipp-ng in’ to finance the latest pay i
hike which John L. Lewis wrapped up for his soft coal miners.”
The probable average increase, once the situation stabilizes, will be
about i>5 cents a ton. That, along w ith sole other factors, is expect
ed to raise the price of steel by &5.U0 a ton. And when steel prices
rise it is felt throughout al 1 basic industry. The price tags on
thousands of articles will be increases. )
The desire of workers to earn more money is perfectly natural.
But, in the long run the welfare of industry is what will determine
job security and workers’ annual income. If, as on example, high
er coal prices force consumers to substitute othor fuels, the ultimate
result will be a shrinking market foi coal and fewer jobs for the
miners. Again, if a wave of price increases brings on consumer re
sistance and a general decline in buying, the ill effects will be felt
throughout tre country—at the expense of all.
There is but one way wages can be permanently increased
without prices being increased—and that is by higher output per
worker to hold down cost of production. In the last two years,
workers productivity in many fields has actually declined while
wages have soared. The inevitable result has been price inflation
and a cheapened dollar. The present coal situation simply indic
ates that still more price inflation is on the way. |
Little “'Fat” In Retailing
Just how much “fat” is there in the retail merchandising business
■—that is, the difference between what merchants must pay for the
supplies on their shelves and the price they charge their customers?
Unless you’re an unusually well-informed consumer, you’ll be
astonished to learn how small the “fat” is. For example, one of the
country’sprincipal food chain systems recently reported that when
consumers spend $1.00 in its stores they actually got 86 cents worth
of food, figured on the wholesale cost. The remainder—fourteen |
cents—is all the system retains to pay wages, taxes, rent and all the
hundreds of other expenses incidental to running its business, includ
ing an extremely small profit on each sale.
It is obvious that all kinds' of stores connot operate on an equal
ly small margin. Volume of business, special services rendered, the
kind of goods sold, and many other factors regulate the amount of
“fat” a store must have. But it is a fact that ninety-nine stores out
of a hundred are operating on as small a margin as possible. The
hundredth store, whose manapement is out to boube the consumer
and charge all the traffic will bear, isn’t long for this world—con
sumer resistance and competition will see to fltat.
Bear this in mind next time you are tempted to bame the shcr
keeper for high prices. He dislikes them as much as you do—he is
well aware that the system of mass production and mass distribution
which distinguishes America from other nations is based upon keepink
prices within the reach of all. He has voluntarily absorbed many
higher costs and reduced his profits in an attempt to alleviate the
inflationary spiral. But he can’t do the impossible—which means
that he can’t operate at a loss.
“Distrimination, in any form, must be rooted out of our hiring
and promotional practices.”—Carroll E. French, director, NAM In
dustrial Relations Dept.
“If you don’t want your elephant's head smashed, come get him,
out of my tulip bed.”—Lansing, Mich., housewife, calling circus'
headquarters. I
Is the One He Walkied Fast Less Threatning? i
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\YOU are! A
WE’RE MORE ALIKE
THAN DIFFERENT
BY BLANCHE ALICE RICH
We human beings have some
hard lessons to learn. They will
not be easy to learn, but We can
BLANCHE ALICE RICH
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; learn them. We must learn above
all the first lesson that all the
earth needs to know; that Chris
tianity ana democracy center in
love and brotherhood, that is in
a sharing of a common humanity,
in making room on this earth
for all to live on it in human dig
nity and with self-esteem, >n
making room in our hearts for
understanding, love and simple de
| cency.
Here we are, severalhundred
million Americans of every race
and nationality—engaged in th»
great adventure of building a
Christian d«rnocracy of freedom
and fellowship for all. If it is *->
he for all, it must be done by oil.
There's no race problem in the
world so tuogh as the white pro
blem. The white problem is a
tough nut to crack. We white?
must somehow get over our de
lusions of grandeur and our per
sistent habit of thinking of any;
one or anything different from
ourselves and our ways as infer
l ior.
White people are the hardest
people in th^ world to get along
with. In a world of peoples we're
a small minority. The colored
peoples outnumber us enormously
And as for history, our civiliza
tion goes back a few centuries
and the Chinese a few thousand
years. But to hear us talk you’d
think we were the whole show
and we were going to tell the
rest of the world’s races how to
live and where to get off. It was
the white people who took awav
from the Americalndian his
country and from the Afro Amer
ican his freedom; and now we
make a virtue o fallowing them
to live in a subordinate position
in this "land of the free and home
of the brave”. We asked them
to fight for us all over the world
for freedom and democracy and
then sa*i. “but don't you fellows
expect to get it yourselves when
you get back.” "This is a white
man’s country.”
Yes, we’re an onery lot. What's
worse we can’t get along among
ourselves. Because we belong to
a particular race, we want pri
vileges for ourselves which we
stubbornly refuse to grant to !
members of other races. We say,
England is wicked because she
won’t give her freedom and be
cause of the way vshe treats th« :
nativs in Africa. But “we don’t i
talk about that” when it is point- |
ed ou that our own hands are 1
bloody because of the way some
Americans behave toward certain
racial, religious and cultural min
ority. We deny them jobs, refuse
them equal opportunities and re
fuse t0 admit them to hotels and
restaurants. There are the Jim
Crow laws and customs. In seven
teen states and the District of
Columbia the laws forbid Ameri
cans to attend the same schools,
use the same parks or swimming
pools. Some even go so far as to
forbid Christians to worship to
gether unless they bow to the io
cal god of race and sit in segre
gated sections. It was not in Hit
ler's Germany, but in a church
in a large city 'of the United
States of America and only a few
years ago that the police entered
a church building and made sup.
posedly free Americans get up
and separate themselves out by
colors and sit in Jim Crow sec
tions.
Anyone who reads the New
Testament must understand that
no man is right with God who is
not right with man. And yet how
strange it is that this aspect of
the life and teachings of Jesus
has become the most neglected
area in our da^y practicies.
We must know the facts about
people—why they behave as they
do and what they are like. But
knowing all about them is not
enough. We must be willing to
act in the light of that knowledge
even when it means we must sub
ordinate personal interest to the
common good.
Many of you should think of
the fact, if you were blind, you
would have to get some one to
tell the race of most individuals
you might meet—assuming that
there was nothing in their speech
to give a hint of any difference
in race. The fact is that a great
many of the ordinary prejudices
that divide human family would
disappear if the gift of sight were
to be suddenly taken away.
It is strange. It is unreasonable
and Christian for anyone to let
differences that are primarily
visible and superficial raise such
violent emotions within us. Do
you want to let the gift of sight
cheat you of the gift of brother
hood?
Even sight isn’t worth such a
price. ip**
In a world or radar, atomic
bombs, and superfortresses, man
kind faces an awful and urgent
choice. We of this earth must
learn to live together or perish.
There is no time to wait or argue.
Two hundred million people live
on a planet on which man has
conquered distance and has pried
from nature the secret of incred
ible power. The story is told in
Hiroshima” and in the statement
that no place on the globe is more
than sixty hours distance from
one’s own airport.
In the field of physical science
we have reached the Atomic Age.
In the field of human relations
we haven’t gone so far. Progress
in the science of human relations
waits on at least two things. They
are knowledge and motivation
We cannot build a cooperative
world on ignorance and error.
Science agrees further that all
mankind is related, that all hu
man beings are of one blood. In
all normal human beings we find
the same number of toes, fingers,
teeth, muscles and bones. Ther--*
To Be Continued Next Week
bANKRUPTICES FEE
ARE INCREASED
The fee for going into bank
ruptcy has been increased from
$30 o $45, but that doesn’t mean
it will cost more. Instead, it will
cost less, according to Joseph P.
Fradenburg, Federal Court P.<“
feree in Bankruptcy.
Previously—up to July 1—there
was the $30 fee, plus the referee's
expenses. The base charge for
this was $21.37, plus 20 cents for
notifying each creditor.
Now, with the ref*:'ee receiving
a salary, instead of fees, the Gov
f ernment pays the additional ex
j penses. The $45 fee paid for fili
! -ng in Federal Court is the only
| expense.
This fee applies to individuals
and corporations in general cases
with certain exceptions.
Since the war the number of
bankruptcy cases filed here has
been small. Only 19 were filed in
1947, none since July 1.
In certain places in the East
bankruptcies are increasing. In
one city, Mr. Fradenburg learn
ed, there were 69 in one week
in contrast to 14 for the corres
ponding week last year.
DUMMY-nitions
auioq samoo puuqsnq
aaq uaqA\M iremoM a mim dn s^ts
;aqi Suimamos monnuiiiemi
Conference: A meeting at which
people talk about the things they
should be doing.
Pedestrian: A person who
should be seen and not hurt.
"Are you broke?"
All a pickpocket could get
from me is practice.”
i Now that a pencil with a built
to the pen that writes under
waterwe ought to be able to bear
up a while longer, despite the
chaotic world sitution.
There Are No Boundaries In
The World Of Thought
Marriage is a game of give and
take: what you don’t give, she
takes.
One would think women as
pretty as those in the washing
machine ads could marry men
who are able to hire the washing
done.
It’s more important to know
'What's What’’ than to be listed
in “Who’s Who”.
Living a double life will get
you nowhere twice a-s fast.
COMMUNITY LAW MAY
TRIM ASSISTANCE
Nebraska’s new community
property act will have a “mater
ial effect'’ on many assistance
cases. Assistant Attorney General
Homer Kyle said Thursday in an
opinion to Neil Vandemoer, dir- |
ector of assistance.
Income of a husband and wife
will be divided evenly after Sept
ember 7. when the act becomes
law.
One of the conditions of old-age
assistance is that th recipient
have no child able to support him.
Mr. Kyle used as an example,
a wife w'ho has no income but
whose husband makes four thou
sand dollars a year. The ■wife's
legal income after September 7
would be two thousand dollars
annually. Should she have parents
on relief rolls they perhaps would
no longer be qualified to receive
assistance.
Mr. Vandemoer said he had no
i basis on which to make a defin
ite estimate, but said there would
be “quite a large number’’ of
cases affected by the act.
In another opinion, Mr. Kyle
advised State Banking Director
J. F. McLain that building and
loan associations are legally auth
orized to make mortgage loans I
insured by the Federal Housing 1
Administrator, ‘even though the j
[ note and mortgage is negotiable
in form’’.
BUSINESS COST
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—
You. too, sometimes can deduct 1
the cost of parties, liquor and
presents for girls from your in
come tax. But
, ; ■ ■ ' • ...
A Bureau of internal Revenue
official warned Thurday that the
Government must he conv’ need
that your entertainment deduct
ductions were “ordinary and nec-'
essary,” business expenses.
The law under which Howard
Hughes claimed deductions for
his entertaininment spendig is
that simple—"ordinary and nec
essary.”
However, the Government ap
plies a strict interpretation. The
| expense must be both ordinary
and necessary. The type of busi
ness, its customs and the size of
the expenditure make a lot of
difference.
Both individuals and corpora
tions can claim entertainment de
ductions which come under the
head of business expenses. Indivi
duals must make an itemized re
turn, however, whereas corpora
tions can list entertainment as a
lump sum—until it is challenged.
"In some businesses and pro
fessions, entertainment is an re
cognized part of the buiness,’' a
bureau expert Aid. “The travel
ing salesman, for example, must
take prospects out to dinner, and
there is no question that this is
a legitimate expense.
But how could a ribbon clerk
claim that lavish entertainment
was necessary to his job ?
There are no percedents on
whether money spent to entertain
companionship to a customer is
an “ordinary and necessary ex- ,
pense.” Nor has it been decided,
whether money spent to entrtain i
public officials and Congressmen
is deductible.
Egotism is an anesthetic Na-1
ture gives to a man to deaden
the pain of being a dam fool.
Reputation is a live and grow
ing plant, requiring day by day
| nourishment and care.
The five senses—touch, t^ste.
sight, smell and hearing—are
hardly enought. We need two
others— horse and common.
Knockabout Chairs
If you have knockabout chairs, in
the sunroom or on “sabbatical
leave”'from the summer porch and
iheit %npearance is not everything
you desire, consider making simple
slipcovers for them. Use strong fab
rics Like ticking or oilcloth in fast
colors, so they can be tossed regu
larly into the washing machine.
Bugs In theJBudget
By GEORGES BENSON "
T*r»*id«nt of Harding Collego
5«a icy. Arkansas
ga —
DID YOU KNOW that income of
the federal government for the
next fiscal year will be nine times,
maybe ten t...ies, what it was in
the boom period of 1929? It will
be at least seven times the re
ceipts the federal government had
in 1939. Weak nation it would be,
indeed, that could not balance a
peacetime budget with the receipt
side of the ledger at enormous
peacetime highs.
Just to balance the budget dur
ing boom times, however, Is not
enough. We must retire debt and
reduce taxes. Looking at another
angle, the federal government
wants to spend more than four
times as much as it did in any
year of the Thirties, when deficit
spending was in the habit-form
ing stage. Has it now become
fashionable for our government
to spend all it can get? Have we
forgotten that the more we spend
the more we shall have to tax ?
Begin IF WE CAN’T, under
At Home favorable conditions of
high employment and
prosperous trade, get hold of our
selves long enough to retire our
rational debt and cut our taxes,
at what future time do we expect
to do so? Is our budgeting so out
of hand that Congress cannot
gain contr,-.; over it? Or is the
public t.-ius unmindful of the
trouble we’re in for under a tax
load required by the spending of
$37,500,000,000 annually ?
Both the President and the
Congress have given evidence of
honest desire to keep the expen
diture side of the budget do*n.
But the pressures that are ap
plied from every direction call for
•pending more money. As a peo
ple, we shall have to exert great
taiorml fortitude at this time if we
«xpect>an about-face in a spend-'
INCORPORATIONS LAG
Forty.ofur domestic articles of
incorporation were filed last mon
th making the year's total 406,
compared to 416 the same time
last year.
Domestic dissolutions totaled
nine in July, making the year’s
aggregate 57 against 60 July SI,
1946.
Sity-two foreign corporation
have been approved this year and
33 have dropped their authoriza
tion for doing business in Nebr.
Total fees for corporation fil
ings were S35.455 to date for the
year. Corporation Clerk Harold
Woten reported.
Corporations filing Tuesday:
City Market, Inc.. Lincoln,
fruits, vegetables, capitalized at
30 thousand dollars. Incorpora
tors: Raymond E. Waller, Oliver
Marler. and Truman L. Loeseh.
Western Laboratories, Inc., Lin
coln. materials testing, capitalized
at 10 thousand dollars, incorpora
tors : Morgan Harper and Paul
Sonderegger.
FARM INCOME UP 22 PCT.
Total farm income was 22 per
cent higher during the first sev
en months of 1947 than it was
during the correspond'r.g period
last year, the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics reported Thurs
day.
Marketing receipts al i:<« wre
27 per cent higher but Govern
ment payments fell off. Total
farm income th.-'Uira July was :
Receipts from livestock and
livestock products were up 30
per cent, and prices were up 32
per cent over 1946. Meat animal ;
receipts were up 45 per cent,
dairy products 20 pr cent and
poultry and eggs 10 per cent.
Grain receipts were up 50 per
cent with grain prices 25 per
cent higher
If you're too far ahead of the
procession you’re just as much a
lone as if you were way Dehind it.
Handled Many Times
- Iron ore is handled five* times
from tjie time it is removed from
the earth until it emerges from the
furnace as liquid metal
Only Huguenot Church
Only Huguenot churrii in Amer
ica is at Charleston, s. C. It was
founded in 1687.
UJavK
ing philosophy grown almost tra
ditional. We need not complain
to the government for being
spendthrift, if at home we insist
upon being spendthirsty about
our pet projects. Economy begins
first at home.
Examine ALTHOUGH the war
Everything has been over nearly
two years, your gov
ernment wishes to spend more in
the next fiscal year alone than
was spent during «the whole of
World War I. Of course, this is
a dangerous era, and no one
wants to hamstring our national
.'defenses. The whole nation wants
the occupation program to suc
ceed. But more efficiency and the
least possible waste of manpower
and money should be the order of
the day. . <
As late as November the War
and Navy Departments were still
employing more than a million
civilians. Spending in every de
partment, military or non-mili
tary, should be studied carefully
Everyone knows it is easier to
keep on spending government
money than to retrench. This it
just as true of the national de
fense. Despite warnings of what
may happen, Congress yill do
well to examine these expendi
tures. .4
Trimming down expenses is not
an easy task for Congress. Snail's
progress will be made unless the
people make themselves heard. A
big and wasteful budget now, car
rying with it a tax penalty upon*
the enterprise of our people,
could do much to start us down
hill toward the kind of economy
Russia has. Most Americans,
1 believe, would rather b« allowed
to spend their own money than
have the go'trnment spend it for;
thfft.
THEFT ON THE INCREASE
Larceny is on the increase in
Omaha, police reports showed
Saturday.
The rise is not alarming. Some
business firms say it is due to
the high cost of living.
Perhaps the man who was nab
bed trying to get away with a
dozen diapers was trying to cover
an area his pay check would not
reach, police reasoned.
Maybe, they added, the men and
women who daily take the small
expensive items from store count
ers are seeking to fill wants their
budgets won't permit.
But police let no emotions run
away in talking about store bur
glaries. Whiskey, cigarets, radios,
wrist watches hardly come under
the cost-of-living classification.
Police records show there have
been 1.075 cases of larceny in the
first six months of this year. Ar
rests have cleared up 343 cases.
There were 908 larceny reports
last year, 735 in 1945. This year
is about equal to the same period
in pre-war 1940 and 1941. About
a third of the cases are cleared up
by arrests.
Larceny covers all reported
thefts where there is no breaking
and entering. Thus many minor
thefts are lumped into the total.
The number of burglaries also
is getting back to the pre-war
figure. There have been 384 so
far this year. This is a slight in
crease over the past two years.
Robberies fare up slightly over
1945 and 1946, but far below pre
war. There have been 40 so far
this year.
Cash, cigarets and whiskey, in
that order, are the favovrite loot
in store burglaries, said police.
Cigarets are easily marketable.
Police cast a jaunticed eye on
some reports of liquor thefts. Dry
Kansas is close and there are ru
mors around the police station
that burglary reports sometimes
blanket a liquor transfer.
Food store burglaries are not as
common as in OPA days whe
ration stamps were choice loo'
Significantly, there has been only
one filling station burglary thi i
year. Nobody needs gasolin -
stamps any more. Food store.-,
however. are noting an increase i:i
shoplifting.
Most food stores are cutting
down the height of their island
displays so all parts of the store
can be seen by a clerk at the
check stand.
The many-itemed variety stores
are not so fortunate. On® store
executive said his place is “taken’' ^
for $5.00 to $10.00 worth of mer
chandise daily.
Contenders for the 1947 crown
include the man who walked away
with a full set of golf clubs an
other who lifted the fan coding
a store from its spot in the front
window, or the men who stole
two suits of clothes from a char
itable organization.
-a* Primitive Origin
The universality of man’s love of
color was demonstrated early lr»
antiquity. Each region and sub-re
gion of the globe developed its own m
dye sources. It is estimated that
nearly 1*00 different plants, vines,
shrubs and trees were, at one time
or another, employed for extract
ing dyes. However ituy a few ^
the primitive ayes survived to an
cient and medieval times.