15, 1927, at the Post
Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of Congress of
March 3. 1879.
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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Even the interminable debate over U.S.—U.S.S.R. re
lations hasn’t been able to obscure the Palestine problem.
,The once-quiet Holy Land, which used to seem almost as
remote as another planet to most Americans, is now at the
core of the world’s difficulties. The warfare which is going on
there is not a localized contest between the Jews and the
Arabs. It has an ominously direct bearing on the prospects
for world peace, and for world economic rehabilitation.
The most startling development in the Palestine crisis
was President’s Truman’s recognition of the new Jewish state,
Israel. Israel is a tiny and poor country, and its population
is under a million. It cannot sustain itself. Mr. Truman’s
recognition was given with almost unprecedented suddenness
—Israel’s government was not even completely organized.
There are grounds for believing that he acted against the
advice of some top State Department officials. And one
result of that action was to create the first serious cleavage
between us and England.
Britian, once more or less neutral when it came to Jew
Arab differences, has been supporting the Arabs for a con
siderable time. She htas supplied the Arabian states with
arms and other supplies, and her position is unequivocal. It
is now common knowledge that our recognition of Israel,
which, in effeect, aligned us against England, caused shock
followed by rage in Britain’s Foreign Office. On the other
hand, it seemed to please the Soviet Union, which is now
standing on the sidelines with a watchful eye on Middle
East oil.
Oil, of .course, is what gives the Jew-Arab war its world
wide significance. Of the world’s known oil reeserves, ac
cording to a United States News and World Report summing
up, the Middle East has more than 27 billion barrels out of a
total of 67 billion. All the plans for world recovery, including
our ERP, are based on putting this oil to use. BBrBitish
and U.S. oil companies, and, to a lesser extent, the French,
have been carrying on intensive development of the fields,
.building pielines, etc. The war has imperiled this work. In
some sections construction has been halted entirely, and the
danger of destruction of facilities which have been built is
intense!
It is thus to the interest of all the Western powers to bring
hostilities to a halt as soon as possible. But, in spite of occas
ional truces, no workable program, acceptable to both Arabs
and Jews, has benn offered. The two races feel a burning hat
red for each other.
Both sides regard the Conflict as a holy war, with all the
fanaticism and assoniate purpose that engenders.
The Arabs have an enomous advantage in number and
land area. However, according, to military observers, they
are temperamentally unsuited to modern, organized warfare.
The Jews, on the other hand, have shown a definite talent
for organization. Their army and their underground are led
by men .with wide combat experience. They seem to be well
supplied with weapons, and they are schooled in guerilla tac
tics. So they have held their own. 1
Just how conflicting U. S. and British policy in Pales
tine can be reconciled, and how a peace may be secured, is the
great question. The crystal ball is clouded now. But everyone
is agreed that it must be done if the wold is to have the vital j
Middle Eastern oil, and the Westernpowers’ plans for world
rehabiliation are to go through.
NOT SO SIMPLE
The Legislature Reference Service of the Library of Con
gress has prepared a report on some of the economic factors
involved in minimum wage legislation. The report is of special
interest at this time, as measures for increasing the minimum j
wage will be considered by Congress in the relatively near!
future.
The sttudy opposes the use of data such as the Bureau
of Labor Statistics’ City Worker’s Family Budget as an argu-;
ment for higher minimums. Under the BLS budget, if a worker
were supporting a family of four in one of the largest cities
his minimum wage would be about $2 an hour. For a family
of two it would be $1.35. It is obvious that minimum wages
of this kind for unskilled workers would be impossible of
realization.
An increase in the minimum wage, the report continues,
often institutes an upward adjustment of wages in general,
sometimes throughout the entire wage structure of an in
dustry. It thus contributes to higher pjrices and more inflation.
Finally, the report says, “A statutory minimum wage cannot
solve the problem of inadequate income for woorkers in the
lowest-wage categories and for those among the unskilled
who have large families to support.”
The issue, therefore, is nowhere near as simple as it may
appear on first glace. An unreasonably high minimum wage
would unquestionably be a powerful spur to inflation. The
only solution to the problem of the low-paid worker is for
him to acquire the skills and to accept the responsibilities
that will justify a better-paid job. The best-meant social leg
islation cannot change the fact that, in the long run, ability
p.nd productivity are the measure of anyone’s earning power. ,
PERSHING LAST HONOR
ARY COMMANDER
Washington, D. C.—In the
death of John J. Pershing, who
passed away here at the age of
87, The American Legion lost
its last honorary national com
mander.
General Pershing was voted
this honorary title by the 8th
national convention in Phila
delphia, Pa., October 15, 1926.
He was one of only two men
ever honored to be so by the
American Legion. The other
was Marshal Ferdinand Foch
of France.
The former commander-in
chief of the first AEF joined
The American Legion immed
iately upon his return from
Europe in September of 1919.
He became a member of the
George Washington Post 1
here. He maintained his affil
iation there until his death. He
was initiated into the Forty and
Eight, the fun and honor or
ganization of the American
Legion here, in August 1927,
as a member of Voiture 174.
General Pershing attended
the national American Legion
conventions in 1921,1922, 1926
LET.AT, NOTICE OF MEASURE TO BE VOTED UPON
NOVEMBER 2, 1948
(BALLOT TITLE)
PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION
AN ACT relating to veterans of World War II;
800 F~1 YES providing for compensation and terms of eligibility
■—' of Nebraska residents who served in the Armed
301 [—1 NO Forces of the United States within certain periods
*—I of World War II; providing for the administration
of this act, defining terms, and creating the veter
an’s compensation fund; authorizing the Department of Veteran’B (
Affairs to establish rules and regulations; providing for a three and |
one-half mill levy upon all taxable property of the State, except (
intangible property, for the years 1949 to 1953, inclusive; and to
provide penalties.
TITLE AND TEXT OF PROPOSED LAW
A law relating to veterans of World War II; to provide for
the payment of compensation in recognition of patriotic services of
residents of the State of Nebraska who served in the armed forces
of the United States, within certain periods of World War II; to
define terms; to provide for the terms of eligibility of such persons
for compensation payments and the amounts thereof; to provide
for the administration of this act; to establish the Veterans’ Com
pensation Fund; to authorize the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to
establish rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of
this a*ct; to provide for a three and one half mill levy upon all the
taxable property of the state, except intangible property, for the
years 1949 to 1953 to be used to establish said fund; and to pro- 1
vide penalties.
Be It enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,
Section 1. In recognition of the patriotic service of residents
©f the State of Nebraska who served in the armed forces of the
United States during World War II, provision is hereby made for the
payment of a Veterans’ compensation and for administration of said
payment and of this act by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs with
full and final authority of said department to determine which resi
dents of the state are entitled to payments under the provisions of
this act and the amount of such payments.
Sec. 2. (1) The term “armed forces”, as used in this act
shall mean and include the following; United States Army, Army
of the United States, United States Navy, United States Navai Re
serve, United States Marine Corps, United States Marine Corps Re
serve, United States Coast Guard, United- States Coast Guard Re
serve (which shall not be construed to include the United States
Coast Guard Temporary Reserve), Women’s Army Corps, United
States Navy Women’s Reserve, United States Marine Corps Wom
en’s Reserve, United States Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, Army
Nurse Corps. Navy Nurse Corps, and officers of the United States
Public Health Service detailed by the proper authority to duty with
any of the foregoing. Merchant marine service shall not be con
sidered under this act.
(2) Wherever in this act a word indicating the masculine
gender is used, it shall be construed to apply to the feminine gender
"hs well.
Sec. a. Upon application, on or after July 1, 1954, but not
after July 1, 1955, each person who shall have served or entered
service In the armed forces of the United States at any time between
the period beginning September 16, 1940, and ending September 2,
1945, and who served for at least ninety days, provided no com
pensation shall be paid for service In the armed forces after March
2, 1946, or was discharged with less than ninety days service by
reason of a service-connected disability, and who was a resident of
the State of Nebraska for a period of not less than six months Im
mediately prior to the time of his entry into service of the armed
forces of the United States and whose service meets the require
ments of this act, shall be paid from the Veterans’ Compensation
Fund, as provided by this act, compensation payment, computed aft
follows: Ten dollars for each and every month served in the armed
forces while in the continental limits of the United States (excluding
Alaska) and fifteen dollars per month for each and every month
served outside the continental limits of the United States (including
I Alaska); Provided, maximum payment to any individual under this
; act with domestic service in the armed forces only, shall be two
hundred and fifty dollars and maximum payment to any individual!
under this act with domestic and foreign service or foreign service
shall be three hundred and fifty dollars. Any individual receiving a
compensation payment as provided by this act shall have been dis
charged or separated from service with the armed forces under
VETERANS
ADMINISTRATE
New property appraisal pro
cedure which will virtually el
iminate delay in negotations
between real estate owners and
potential veteran-buyers was
announced today by thhe Vet
erans Administration.
Ashley Westmoreland, Lin
coln reginal office manager,
said VA new will appraise pro
perty at the request of owners,
'builders or lenders whoh wish
to obtain a VA certificate of
reasonable value, on which ap
proval of all'CI loans is based,
before beginning negotiations
for sale to a veteran.
He said this will eliminate
re-negotations between veteran
and owmer over VA’s reason
able value determination which
were frequently necessary und
er the old procedure of auth
orizing appraisals only after a
veteran had negotiated with the
owner and had applied for a
loan to purchase the property.
Requests for appraisals
should be made by contacting
the loan guaranty division of
the VA office, Omaha, Nebras
ka, or the contact division of
the Lincoln regional office, the
V A official said. The new pro
cedure applies to all home and
farm loans and to business
loans whhere real property is
involved, he added.
Lost But Won Election
A man who made no election cam
paign and who did not have the high
est number df elector1 al votes was
elected President of the United
States in 1824. World Book encyclo- I
pedia says that John Quincy Adams
made little effort to get votes, but I
received 15 less electoral votes than
the leading candidate, Andrew Jack
son. Adams was selected by the
house of representatives because
none of the candidates had a ma
jority.
1927, 1927 and 1930. He was
awarded The American Leg
ion Distuinguished Service
Medal in 1922.
He was guest of the Amer
ican Legion at a mass meeting
in the old Madison Squdre
Garden in New York City late
in 1919 and at a large testimon
ial dinner in 1925.
Pershing Hall, the memor
ial home of Paris, France, Post
1 of the American Legion, is
named after the general.
THE COMMON DEFENSE
By Reverand William Keman
Equal Educational Opportun
ity
It is to be hoped that all Am
ericans will see the significan
ce for our society of the recent
Supreme Court decision com
manding Oklahoma to provide
virtually immediate legal ed
ucation for a Negro woman, a ]
Miss Ada Lois Sipuel.
s stated, the facts of the case
are these: “On January 14, 19
46, the petitioner, a Negro, con
cededly qualified to receive the
professional legal education of
fered by the state, applied for
admission to the School of Law
of the University of Oklahoma,
the only institution for legal
education supported and main
tained by the taxpayers of the
State of Oklahoma. Petitioner’
aplication for admission was
denied, solely because of her
color.” The District Court of
Cleveland County and the Sta
te Supreme Court of Oklaho
ma also ruled against Miss
Sipuel.
Then, on January 12th, the
United States Supreme Court
in a swift unanimous, one page
order—decreed, “The petition
er is entitled to secure legal ed
ucation afforded by a state in
stitution. . . The state must
provide it for her in conform
ity with the equal protection
clause of the Forteenth Amen
dment and provide it as soon
as it does for application of
any other group.”
i nis is a good example oi
how America makes progress,
securing to more and more of
our people the rights which
they have as the gift of God.
It is progress made witout re
volution, without bloodshed. It
is progress made in accordance
with the orderly processes of
law. It is progress made in ob
edience to our great and unch
anging principles of equality
and equal rights as set forth in
the Declaration of Independ
ence, the Constitution, the Get
tysburg Address —and reaff
irmed in the report of the Pres
idents Committee on Civil Rie
hts.
Moreover, this Supreme Co
urt dicision is a reminder to us
all that—regardless of how 1
basely the Communists and the
Fascists misrepresent us—the
American system of free soc-*
honorable conditions and the Department of Veterans' Affairs shall
make the final decision whether or not the type of discharge re
ceived by any applicant shall entitle him to compensation payment
as provided by this act. The following periods of time shall not be
included In computing months of service for compensation purposes:
(1) Periods of time applicant was assigned for a course of
education or training under the Aymy specialized training program
or the Navy college training program, or as a cadet or midshipman
at one of the service academies.
(2) Periods of time applicant was absent without leave, which
materially interfered with performance of military duty, periods of
agricultural, industrial or indefinite furlough, time during which
the person was under arrest (in the absence of acquittal) time for
which the applicant was determined to have forfeited pay by reason
of absence without leave and time spent in desertion or under
sentence of courts-martial.
Dec. * inu person Biiaii receive cumyeusauuu uuu.cn cue icimo
of this act who has received a bonus or compensation payment from
any other state because of service with armed forces of the United
States in World War II.
Sec. 5. In the event of the decease of any person who, If alive,
would be entitled to the benefits under this act, the compensation
payment provided by this act shall be paid to his dependents, if any;
Provided, that if there be more than one dependent, payments shall
be made in the order of precedence so far as practicable, as follows:
"Wife or husband, children, mother or father, brother or sister. No
right or payment under this act shall be subject to the claims of any
creditors, capable of assignment, regarded as assets legal or equit
able of the estate of the deceased, or made the basis for adminis
tration thereof.
Sec. 6. There is hereby established as a special fund, separate
and apart from all public money or funds of this state, a Veterans'
Compensation Fund, which shall be administered by the State
Treasurer, exclusively for the purposes of this act. This fund shall
consist of (1) all taxes levied under the provisions of this act, to
gether with any interest thereon, (2) Interest earned upon any
money in the fund, (3) any property or securities acquired through
the use of money belonging to the fund, and (4) all earnings of
such property or securities.
Sec. 7. The administration and certification or eligibility and
amounts payable to applicants shall be under the direction of the
Department of Veterans’ Affairs. The director of said department
may hire such additional clerical help and personnel as is necessary
to carry out the provisions of said act whose salaries shall be paid
out of the Veterans’ Compensation Fund, created by this act.
Sec. 8. The Department of Veterans’ Affairs shall be au
thorized to prescribe rules and regulations for carrying out the pro
visions of this act and decisions of the department under the pro
visions of this act shall'be final.
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the director of said Department
of Veterans’ Affairs and the State Advisory Commission of said
department to determine who is eligible for a compensation pay
ment and the amount thereof, as provided by this act. On and after
July 1, 1954, the Director of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs
shall certify to the State Auditor of Public Accounts, the name of
each applicant eligible for compensation payment and the amount
of such payment. The State Auditor of Public Accounts shall then
draw on the State Treasurer a warrant, payable out of the Veterans’
Compensation Fund, payable to each individual, or his dependent or
guardian, if dead or insane, in the amount due the individual as
provided by this act and certified by the director.
I Sec. 10. The State Board of Equalization and Assessment
shall make an annual levy to be known as the Veterans’ Compensa
tion Fund Levy, In the amount of three and one half mills on the
assessed valuation of all taxable property of the state, except in
tangible property, in the State of Nebraska for the years 1949, 1960,
1951, 1952, 1953, for the purpose of raising funds sufficient to carry
out the provisions of this act.
Sec. 11. Whoever knowingly makes a false statement, oral or
written, relating to a material fact in supporting a claim under the
provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished
by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment
for not more than one year, or both.
Sec. 12. The Attorney General of the State of Nebraska, or the
county attorney of any of the respective counties, shall be em
powered to file a civil action for the recovery on behalf of the Veter
ans’ Compensation Fund of any money wrongfully paid from said
compensation fund.
FRANK MARSH
Secretary of State
NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D. C, __
By Anne Goode
Staying home July 4th? Then why
not invite a few friends over? Serve a
festive luncheon or supper to honor the
spirit of 76. Arrange a tray with cottage
fjnrese in the center decorated with
1/76 cut out of pimiento. Flank with
alternate slices of tomato and onion,
then a row of sliced hard cooked eggs.
Tuck a bowl of real mayonnaise in trie
comer. Fried chicken, dessert and bever
ages complete the holiday menu.
★ ★ ★
If you wear thong sandals you’ll no
doubt be interested in the new nylons 1
made mitten-style to give toe comfort. 1
★ * +
Can those cherries if your backyard -
boasts that famous tree. Cold weather
in. the Pacific Northwest has seriously
injured this vear’s crop and one agri
culture official says there won't be very
many around.
★ * *
Summertime and frequent trips to the
beach require lots of changes. That in
turn runs, into e?cpense. Keep your
bathing suits fresh by giving them new
color with all-purpose dye that is guar
anteed to work on all fabrics whether
natural or synthetic.
★ ★ *
Keep prunes, raisins and dried, apri
cots soft by storing them in a tightly
covered glass jar as soon as you get
them home from the store.
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Short of kitchen cabinet space? Then
consider rubber plate racks which not
only save space but also protect your
dishes from being nicked from stacking.
iety works.
It will continue to work. It
will continue to resist the bla-1
ndishments and false leads of
the totalitarian left and right.
It will continue to affirm its
own formadable principles and
by deeds made to conform with
them, move forward —advan
cing through storm, if need be
toward the goal of a nation,
coin’s words, “to the proposit
ion that all men are created
equal.” ”
Gypsies Named by English
Gypsies received their name from
the English, in whose country they
appeared at the beginning of the
16th century. It was believed that
they came from Egypt.
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This com pact oH "miser" s queens
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RADIO WHO’S WHO j
Olsen
Shepard
King
McCaffery
« mc uuamcsa or guiamg tne ae&*
tinies of audience participation pro
grams requires considerable per
spicacity and stamina, attributes
which you may see revealed in the
above countenances of four of the
men who preside over MBS pro
grams of this kind. Top left and
right they are Johnny Olsen, “Movie
Matinee” (Saturday mornings), and
Bob Shepard, "Take a Number"
(Saturday evenings). Below are
shown .lohn Reed King, "Talent
Jackpot” (Thursday evenings), and
John K. M. McCaffery, "What Makes
You _Tlck?"_(Sunday afternoons).
Half Have Lights
Fifty-three per cent of the nation’s
farms now have electric service.
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HSfflNG LINES
Maybe there are better fish In the
sea than have ever been caught,'
but if anyone has a good chance to
catch ’em It’s VI Prossner, lovely
Thornton model and actress on the'
JTrue Detective Mysteries" broad^
casts heard over MBS Sundays.
Hook, line and sinker, too, perhaps.
Counting the Stars
It is possible to see 9,000 stars in
tha sky with the naked eye.
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