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National Advertising Representative \A^ekly ^Iewspaper Representatives, inc % Msw York • Chicago • Detroit • Philadelphia t A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Thursday. Dated Friday ■rok& office for local news only, 2420 Grant SL, Omaha 11, Nebr. Haniimt rVm mail privileges authorized at Omaha, Nebraska. C C. GALLOWAYPublisher and Managing Editol (MEMBER) CALVIN NEWS SERVICE * GLOBAL NEWS SERVICE l ATLAS NEWS SERVICE STANDARD NEWS SERVICE This paper reaerwe* the right to publish all matter credited 4b these news services. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Om Mestk___I M Tteea Months __ 1.06 Ms Months_2.06 tee Year _4.00 OUT OF TOWN SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oae Month _$ .50 Mkree Months _1J>0 4Kv Mouths_^_2.60 tee Year- 4.W ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON REQUEST "Money and Politics" An Intimate Message from Washington By Richard L. St rout Some $147 million were spent in local and national campaigns far nomination and election in 1952. The cost in 1956 it is estimat ed will be around $156 million. Campaign funds of ihis size come, in the nature of things, very largely from those able to give. “The net consequence,” says a dispassionate study just complet ed at the University of North Carolina by a group headed by Prof. .Alexander Heard (published in a New Public Affairs pamphlet) “is wwtlty larger representation of vested financial interests than contem plated by equalitarian damocratic theory.” Or in different language, money talks in an election—and keeps ® talking after the election is over. What big contributors get is *>t ns tangible as the public often supposes, says the study; mostly wrkal they “buy” is “access.” One lobbyist called it “entree" and •■other called it a “basis for talking.” The main result of "acccess" is to “speed things up.” The current study began with an alphabetical file of all known OBlributions of $500 or over, followed by an analysis of the donors by occupational groups. Most of the money in a presidential cam paign year eomes in amounts of $500 or over, it is found. Some results are interesting. Of 27 noncareer appointees as Griefs of United States Diplomatic Missions on July 1, 1952, at least 13 were filled by contributors of $500 or more—and all were Demo crats. But on October 1, 1953, out of 30 others at least 12 had con tributed a similar sum—but now all but one were Republicans. The value of “access" is increasingly recognized by lobbyists. Campaign contributions are now standard equipment. The analysts found no individual donations by trustees or directors of farm, vet eran, or labor lobby outfits, but listed many from the board mem bers of business associations. An example: In 1952 the roster of of ficials of the American Petroleum Institdte showed many individual iftributors, the report states, when "the disposition of offshore oil rights was a principal issue in the campaign.” Contribution of lobbyists know no party lines. Lobbyists are ■nrr interested in policies than in parties. Some contribute to both parties. Politically connected lawyers, especially, use contributions to beep in touch with the party in power. One individual was found who had alternated four times between the two national committees in a space of seven years. Another big factor, says the report, is "corporate political parti cipation through the contributions of officers and directors.” An in •Lance: “The four American firms most closely involved in the con troversy over an import levy on Swiss watches all had officials who made contributions.” One odd fact is that following each presidential election “the winning party receives an enormous spurt of large contributions, and the losing party gets virtually none.” These donors wait to see win wins. After the 1952 victory the Republican committees got 257 donations of $500 or more (compared to 1,152 before); the Demo erats only 35 (compared to 970 before). After the 1948 surprise Truman victory, the winning Democrats got 272 such gifts (as against 426 before); the GOP only 29 as against 1,115 before. The “access buyers” quickly signed up. Republicans generally get more money than the Democrats, the report says, though the difference is less than frquently supposed, expenditures by partisan committees in 1952, including labor, show ed the Republicans spending $5.50 for every $4.50 for the Democrats J The ratio varied widely. Tentative figures indicated a ratio of 61 to 39 in Connecticut, and 69 to 31 in Pennsylvania. The result of this financing system is the growth within either parly of what is described as “a crucially important group of people”— solicitors who can be depended to bring in large collections in time of need. This group, the investigators concluded, is often more important than the formal officials of the party. They command access “in tte grand fashion.” One man “with White House experience" is quoted as declaring: "The character of an administration is set by the network of people who raise the party's funds. Locate the chief fund-raisers and you locale political power.” What a curious contrast this discolses between certain philoso phical assumptions hold by most voters about their parties and the inherent financial realities of the American electoral system. Dollars for Democracy democracy isn’t just a matter of votes or or getting out the vote. It’s a matter of dollars too—and getting out the dollars neces oary to get out the vote. A rough estimate indicates that the “going rate” of this expense in the United States this year will be about $2 a vote. We are not talking about buying votes in the sense of bribery. We are talking about what it will cost to persuade 60 per cent of the eligible voters to use their franchise in local and national elections. But without direct bribery the buying of influence may be involved, Par If a political party must have money to get out its votes and wist depend for such funds chiefly on large givers, its ears are like % te be especially tuned to uie views of those givers. In another column on this page appears a summary of nonparti san studies which show how this system operates in both parties, fbr best answer of the citizen who decries this situation is not de wrnnt latiou of the big givers—although more publicity on such gifts wwiht help. The best answer is to arouse potential little givers to ■—i-.i- tie bulk of campaign funds and so end the dependence of j the parties on the big givers. ”This is a favorite project of reformers. The trouble is that it is nwtly in time and money to collect campaign funds in small bits, j BOk the Gallup Poll recently reported that 17,000,000 American fam gg_ would give $5 each to party campaign chests. This $85,000,000 wwbt be more readily collected than has been thought. Much might be offered voluntarily if it were better understood that every dolla • m provided cuts down the power of the influence buyers and ren 4ers government more responsive to the individual citizen’s vote— wore truly democratic. Bipartisan Collaboration Mirror of World Opion The second year of budget balance under the Eisenhower admin istration is shaping up into a prime campaign issue. The Republicans will point to it with the pride of accomplishment. The Democrats will attempt to belittle it and attribute it to a neglect of the public welfare and the national defense. But the fact remains that,- whatever the circumstances, the bud get is in balance and a modest surplus has been created. It repre sents the reversal of a trend toward deficit financing which had brought great disquietude to conservative observers and had raised the national debt to a staggering $275 billion. In part the Eisenhower achievement is due to a high state of business activity, which has kept employment and earnings high and the taxes rolling in. But it is also true, as Treasury Secretary Hum phrey has pointed out, that even with higher tax receipts from a prosperous economy the favorable budget position would not have been possible without the substantial reduction in governmental ex penditures which has been accomplished. The campaign issue boils down to one of whether the budget should have been balanced, whether tax cuts are more desirable! than reduction of the national debt, whether operation within in come is as important as the extension of public services. Democratic Candidate Stevenson already has joined the issue. From his Ulinois farmhouse the other day he implied that the bud get balance “was certainly an accurate reflection of what interests the Republican leaders most - not the education of young children, 1 not a fair break for farmers, not the growing menace of communism in the world, not America's waning influence, but a balanced bud get.” It is possible to wish that keeping to a sound fiscal program were not so much a matter of contention between the two parties, for it is a basic economic fact that no government can forever man age to spend more than it receives in revenue without ruining and bankrupting its people. When the budget should be brought into balance may be debatable, but whether it should be balanced is not. The temptation to operate at a deficit, by increasing the national debt and the interest charge on it, to provide services a lot of the population may want is unquestionably strong, but it is dangerous. Mr. Stevenson is not saying that he prefers deficit financing as a way of governmental life, but neither is he suggesting an increase in taxation, and the promises contained in the Democratic platform can not be fulfilled without costs. This time, we think that the j Democrats in their campaigning could safely adopt a policy of "me too" with respect to the budget. The implication of their belittling the Eisenhower program in that regard is hardly reassuring. Regard less of what the American people would like to have from their gov ernment, there are financial limits to the government’s ability to supply it even as there is a limit to the ability to tax and be taxed. It would malce for a more responsible campaign if this were recog nized. —Fort Worth Star-Telegram. News From Around Nebraska The Antelope Memorial Hospital at Neligh, Nebraska held a “Baby Alumni Party” last week to which all mothers who had given birth to babies in the hospital were invited. The babies were guests too which resulted in quite a collection of youngsters of all ages. Sixty-five mothers and their babies participated which meant that 65 yelling, running, screaming, crawling and crying babies must have made up the other half of the assemblage. The Neligh Leader, somehow, got everyone to sit still long enough to get a picture. • • • A new food store opening at Aurora last week gave away a used car filled with groceries. The car was a prize given away to the person who could write a fifty word letter telling why "I like to shop in Aurora’s new Red and White Store.” The News-Reliefer carried a full section of congratulatory ads for the new store. • • • Farmers in Dakota County are confronted with a new hazard, the Dakota County Star has revealed. Huge cavities are appear ing in the fields and farmers are damaging their machinery when they drive into them. One crew, cutting alfalfa for dehydrating, drove their machine into a hole which was four feet wide, damag ing their machine and requiring repairs. Similar boles have been found in many other fields. The huge cracks, which get wider as the hole gets deeper, are attributed to dry weather in the area. Voters at Hildreth, Nebraska, voted against a bond issue for $180,000 last week, the money to have been used for a school building expansion. It was the second time the matter had been on the ballot and had lost both times. The proposal was to pro vide new gymnasium space, kitchen, offices and other extra curricular areas. Seven hundred fifty pheasants, 14 weeks old, have been turned loose in Merrick County around Central City, the Republican-Non , pared reported last week. This was in addition to 1000 birds which were turned loose last spring. The Pheasants were furnish ed by the Nebraska State Game Commission and were released in five different spots around the county. 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The work is done partly by ground surveys and from aerial maps of the area1, the Public Mirror at Arapahoe stated. • • • The Lyons Chamber of Commerce and a number of the Lyons Business men have gone all out to congratulate and welcome a new bowling alley to town. The new business is housed in a build ing especially built for the purpose. There are ten alleys with automatic pin setters and underlane ball returns. The Lyons Mirror-Sun says that it is one of the most mechanized alleys in all Nebraska. Special prizes were given to the best bowlers last Friday and Saturday and Lyons merchants gave away 40 door prizes of merchandise to those who attended the first day open ings. * • • Six Hooper businesses announced in the Hooper Sentinel last week that they have decided to discontinue the use of trading stamps. They announced in an ad that the cost of the stamps was high and that they would prefer to pass the savings on to their customers. They also pointed oht that money spent for stamps was money which went out of their community and that the equivalent passed on in lower prices would remain with the Hooper folks. • • * Out in the western part of the state near Bridgeport, grass fires are plaguing rural fire districts. Four runs were made in four days last week, the Bridgeport Blade revealed. Lightning set fire to one patch which destroyed 35 acres. A smoldering cigarette is believed to have caused another and others were started by unknown manners. The extreme dryness of the grass is blamed for the fires. • • • Pawnee City turned out to honor a family doctor by the name of Boyer last Sunday. More than 2000 persons were expected and every civic organization in the community was taking a part in honoring the man who had served the community. • * * Wm. Perkins William Perkins, age 54 years, of Laramie, Wyoming, expired Monday September 17, 1950 at a local hospital. Me was an employee of the U.P. railroad Co. for the past 14 years Mr. Perkins is survived .by 2 daughters. Mrs. Mary Louise Stuart and Mrs. Mozetta Moore both of Omaha; 2 step-sons, Mel vin Essex and James Mansfield. Jr., both of Omaha, 2 brothers, Lawrence Lee Robinson and Cecil Perkins both of Omaha, and a very dear friend, Mrs. Janie Smith, of Laramie, Wyoming. Funeral services were held Fri day September 21. 1950 at 2:00 p.m. from the Myers Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. J. H. Rey nolds officiating. Interment was at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Pallbearers Messrs. Woodrow Nash. Reynold Jackson, Wilton Adams, Wendell Johnson, Fred die L. Brown and Charlie Reed. Helps Heal And Clear Itchy Skin Rash! Zemo, a doctor’s antiseptic, promptly relieves itching, stops scratching and so helps heal and clear surface rashes. Buy Extra Strength Zemo tor A stubborn cases 1 /ivlHVl Myers Brothers Funeral Ser vice. Oi trforiki HIGH broWN LIGHTENS AND BEAUTIFIES Face powdER OVERTOM-HYGIENIC MFG. CO. 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