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PAGE TWO- 'c :"-it.V- THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA'! ; THURSDAY,' JANUARY 24, 1948 The Plattsmouth Journal ,'; ESTABLISHED 1831 , . t ; -ublished'semf-weekfy. Mondays zr.d Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher B. J. ALCOTT.:...: : General Manager ROBERT B. STAUFFER.:......Managing Editor Entered it the PostoHice at Plattsmouth Nebraska, as second das mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S77. ' ; . ' SUBSCRIPTION , RATE: S3 per year, cash in ' advanct, by, mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. . - DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION ' RATES: Delivered by car rier in the City of Plattsmouth, 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per year cash in advance: mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: $3 per year, S1.75 for six months. $1.00 for three months, cash i in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advarici. Horrid Words The long and distinguished' history of the United States congress is smirch ed here and there by doings unworthy of that eminent body. There have been one or two canings, a few fist fights", and "some rather nasty name-callings. But-we venture to guess that none of . these shocked the members themselves so iriiieh as an incident which took plaju? just the other day. Tjie culprit. in the matter was Kep. William Thorn, an Ohio democrat. In thecourse of some otherwise innocuous remarks he referred to Senator Taft as arid we shudder to repeat it "Sen- ' atorTafCv Naturally, this threw the house into... a dither. A republican member jump-'!, ed tp hfs feet to inquire whether it was in accordance with the rules to "men- , tionthe name of a member of another' bodl'." Acting speaker, McCormack, res ponded with this opinion which, if ac curately reported, must set a new hou.se recoyd for qualifying phrases in one sentence: "Speaking only for myself, in general, the names of the other body are, Jan my opinion, in most instances not Used on the house floor." NeitherMr. McCormack nor any of his colleagues could open a book to the official ruling which .makes S-n-t-r a horrid word. Eut' that didn't matter. It was like asking someone to find the -official rule prohibiting a man from'' tuckjng his napkin into his collar at a foripil dinner. Everyone present knew thafijit just isn't done. Yhy? Tradition, 'probably inherit ed from the English, like our sailor's -uni$rm. Anyway, there is probably no woie insult possible to a congressman thasCto have one of his colleagues re fer io him by his proper name while the -body of which he is a member is in sessicn. Anember of congress may campaign wit! a hill-billy jug band, or be the word's worst publicity hound. But on . the poor he is so courtly and punctilious thait's painful. In the house it is pos sibly to get away with calling a' man a' genpeman. But in the senate if one metSjber refers to another, any more bri(jTly than as "the able and disting uislp'd junior senator from East Da- ' kot' it's' practically a snub. Ipis staggering to think how much timg has been wasted by these knightly circumlocutions of direct address, and hovJmuch more rewarding work might ha5j been accomplished by their elim ination. Yet none of the pending con gressional reorganization bills has sug gested streamlining the members' ora tory! Perhaps it's just as well. It might be U little disillusioning if all the able . an(tlistinguished gentlemen were per mit! d to address one another frankly,, witp no oral holds barred. i (- What was the origin of the cus lonSjof having attendants for the groom at eddings? . - It began in ancient tiinewhjyj wis were won by capture, and a man tooj along a few friends to help him wrlft the girl fro ni her family. Cf What was the national income J A $160,000,000,000 $1,142.85 apiece for 140,000,000 people. (- -How" fast does on ocean wave. : tra&l? . ' ... ; ' : X j They've been clocked at 27 mpfi -Of 1 h e Ca pe of Good Ilop'c waves' reach height of GO feet. . ; , ., . id VttaasJii iwv MERRY- 00- ftUNj By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON It was just a little over a year ago that tlie late Franklin Roosevelt wag ed a campaigjiiito.rdefeat ;Representatiyer , Ham Fish, rip-snorting, isolationist congressman from FDR'a district ulbng toe Hudson. ' .,'.. ! Roosevelt had- tried to defeat Fist time after time. So had Governor Tom Dewey, plus var ious other important figures-in New, York States both republicans and democrats. They, felt that Fish's tie-ups with certain German-Americans, artd-the lentiri of. his tiome in New'Y$rkU&. theJ,j Nazi consulate, . wast'lbomuchV" S-resptyij?ibfe ' leaders of both parties went' after hint.- . finally,, in the November 1944 ejections, .. FDR'sf . long 'campaign j achieved its goal. Ham . Fish was defeated for 're-election. i i 5;; 1. r .'.But, believe it or not the other day,;' -Irs. , Truman, whose, husband ran on' the saTne"'tickt ; with FDR, inviied ex-eongressman Ham Fish to the Vhite House for tea. ; . Nobody knows why she did this, and the White House won't explain. Mrs. Helm, social' secretary to Mrs. Truman, admits--that Fish was present, but flatly refuses to give the reason why.- British Buffer State ... It. isn't. JbeinK, advertised; Orat: Marshal Zhu kov, soviet commander in Germany, has sent a blistering letter to Field Marshal Montgomery commander 'of the British zone in Germany. He charges thai'several hundred thousand Ger man soldiers, are; being kept in the British zone, organized - in companies and regiments, all ready to fight a war all over again. Zhukov informed Field Marshal Montgomery that, according; to his information, part of these Nazi troops were being drilled regularly by their own officers. He also claimed about 100, 000 Germans had been allowed to retain their small arms, that heavy ordnance, including tanks and artillery, was being kept close at hand? available, for use. Zhukov notified Field Marshal Montgomery ' that he considered this hostile to Russia and in violation of the Potsdam agreement. Marshal Montgomery's reply to Zhukov "was equally blistering. He admitted; thousands " of Germans were still armed,; but claimed the number was less than Zhukov-alleged. In gen eral however, the tone of "Montgomery's let ter was "so what?". Behind this exchange of letters is a dang erous situation which began with the armistice and has been- geUing worse ever since. It is the British halance-of-power policy of playing off Germany against Russia. The same thing hap pened after the last war, when the- British played off Germany against France. British money -poured into German industry, German - banks end even German munitions plants. When- the French proposed stopping Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland' on March-; 7, 1936, it was the British' who discouraged the French. Today Britain' is. still' following the balance of power policy -with a different twist. In stead 'of playing France off against Germany, she is trying to patch : up. relations between these two, and play off . against Russia." Today Britain is trying to consolidate a strongi western bloc Belgium, France, Hol- land and Germany. That is the real f a'etor 'be hind the policy of saving certain German: fac tories; also behind the keeping of German troops, in their original regiment formations. Aside fxom colonial troops, Britain always has, kept, one, of .the smallest armies in' 'the world. So German troops are now serving as a virtual backstop in the balance-of-power I'gaoie against Russia. - Taxes Help. Steel Companies If y.ou want to" see why the steel companies aren't too worried about thp' strike, take a look' at the tax' law congress so generously gnve ' Jihem. Though it's hard to understand all the taxation jiujitsu, it will giveyou a revealing picture. Take for instance the. case of . Bethle hem Steel. " . ' ' Actually, Bethlehem's books show. that, it went into the-red as soon as the war ended. But the real fact is-that 19 45,. despite the tax legerdemain, was the most- prosperous year Bt-thlehem has seen in years. Here is what happened : During the third 1 -iuarter of -1945, Bethlehem earned a profit, befoi-c taxes of. ?22,676,0OO. However,. Bethie- ; hem willpay no taxes on this sum because it. will show a paper loss for the period which-is . legal and will -build the three months actual profits to acool tax-free $57,656,000. Ordinarily business is permitted to depreci- ate property over-the life of the property. But back in: 1940 when some businessmen were stalling on starting war' production, congress handed, business a lush incentive which per. mitted it tp amortize its defense plants-over a 5-year period or less if the war ended sooner. However; lush a.- it was, this wasn't juicy enough so .'big business .tax lobbyists managed' to wangle even more generous treatment' m the tax adjustment act of 1945. This law, pass- . .ed last July, made it possi bid for 'businesses to be paid tentative, refunds arising from re- ' computation of aniortizatioir of ?. national de fense facilities within 90 days. Then on Sept. 29; 1945, Piesident Truman issued an order ending the 'war xmergency per iod for amortization of defense facilitieg witlw out proclaiming 'the emergency over for other things. IJedid not terminate the war-for the- G. I.'s serving under the draft' or for busi nessmen -h working under government- restric- - tionsi He -terminated the war'jwly for' the pur- ' pose of, jecomputjngjthe amortization period - whjch,uf bJfiev wa a big tax help to war : contractors.' V .;;. ' ,' r " Tlrus Bethlehem' Sfleel was able 1 to- charge the balance of itsy unamortized holdings total-' ' ling $441 00,000 f aian expense ' during the- thirdvpei'ie'd.Qf lji45i This meant a paper loss- of $27,2 8.O00, i Hnd.; brougjit Bethlehem into ; the theoretical "fdrJ Therefore,' it' has to payv i6 ta'x'eivf6Kl945,'eyn for the'peHod ifi which- it earned $22,676,000. ' ;ll6wever,i this - isn't all. Good corporation ; lawyers make Jevery -.penny, thJejr. ;can for their ' ' clients.- BethleheEt ' lawyers ' figured ; out ' that -their '.client hacr! operated during the., third-, period of 1945 at a paper Joss 'of $27,218,000: 'This, iet the? -stage, for another lush' nick' at i Uncle Sani's lamkrolt Bethlehem's lawyers- and v tax-experts, jnf 6 rmed the , treasury that,' since' ' thecofporafio'nh during 1945, it was entitled to a rebate on previously paid taxes under the cerry-back provisions. What: Became of That Flood of Merchandise? Fdson is to go free. HoUywood Film Shop By Patricia Clary United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Kissin, a pleasantr occupation all ' over the country, is a-mighty profitable one in Hollywood While most moviegoers arc sat isfied with the old fashioned typ off kiss for themselves, they de mand variety in 'their movies, and it's no - small trick to turn ; out a different kind of kiss in every pic ture. - - Some of' the results of high- ma Osborne Carlton, Ethel Del- mar, and dancer Ruby Keeler. But he believed his fourth to Erie Gal braith.will last. The music drama of Jolson's life, "The Jolson Story," now be fore the technicolor cameras at Columbia, accounts for his pres ence in the film city for the first time in years. He is on hand to watch himself portrayed by Lany Parks, while the lady playing opposite is Eve lyn Keyes, embodiment of the al- Ft W-A'i! f VVah!ngton Report HOWARD BUFFETT Congressman, 2nd Nebraska District EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY TETER ED SON J... . ' NEA Washington Correspondent ! - WASHINGTON, I. C. (NEA) To Cotton Belt congressmen, OPA Administrator Chester Bowles probably will be known as "Mr. Bowles Weevil." For. to southern cotton farmers, OPA's notice of intent to put a 24.42 cents a pound base ceiling price on 1516-inch middling cotton is about as insulting as attacking the flower of southern womanhood or proposing to change 1 name of Arkansas. Why did . .wles do this thing? He couldn't do anything e , ha says, and for these reasons: 1. Cotto s today the only major crop ridt under . price conticl..; It hasn't been necessary to put cot- . ton under a ceiling before because. aU;. through the war the market price' has been under , parity, i But now, the price is over parity, more tnan four cents higher than; a year1 ago. ' ( ' :' ;. i .- .:'., The equity of the. situation, says 6PA, demands that everybddy: bei treated alike, r! Price ceUiaEs can be kept on wheat, torn or livestock if 'cotton If you want to argue that the remedy for that is to take off all price controlsthen you .have to be prepared to see the whole stabilization break down and air prices go up.' ' ; 2. But OPA maintains that higher-prices on raw cotton necessarily mean higher prices on all "cotton textiles and clothing. If you try to answer that by saying there are only a few cents worth of cotton in a shirt you may miss the point: Cotton mill operators last week called on OPA to protest that they could not pay higher prices for raw cotton unless the prices on their products are allowed to rise. 3. If the price of cotton goods is permitted to advance, cotton farmers have to pay more for the finished cotton goods they buy. 4. The higher the price of raw cotton is allowed to go the more rayon gets into competition with cotton. If the price of cotton goes higher than rayon then cotton will be knocked out completely and the cotton farmer through short-lived prosperity will have hung him self on a rayon noose. 5. The United States raises more cotton than it consumes. The surplus has t& be sold below U. S. prices to be got rid of. That is done by an export subsidy which in November, 1944, was set at 4 cents a pound. If cotton is selling at 24 cents a pound it can go on the world market at 20 cents a pound, thanks to the 4-cent subsidy from the taxpayers. But with South American and Indian cotton selling at from 16 to 19 cents, U. S. cotton can't compete unless the subsidy is raised. When U. S. cotton was selling at 20 cents it could be exported at 16 and compete. This is just what happened after. theMast war. In July, 1919, the price of New York cotton was 43.75 cents a pound. Land - prices soared, production increased, everybody got rich. Then in the 1920 21 season the bottom dropped out and cotton sold for 10 cents. Every body went bust. It is in an effort to prevent a repetition of this catas trophe that OPA says it must step in now. MRS. GRACE PLYBON; Correspondent Serving i n congress during these hectic davs connot be class- lure which love and marriaje have held for Jolson against his attach-)C(j as a quiet and restful vacation ment to the stage. jFrom many quarters complaints ''Hollywood is the place for theanj demands pour in for the solu actor to reconcile his work with tjon of various arid sundry prob th domestic life," Jolson said. iems. Nevertheless, the headaches priced script writing have been ''And it's a funny thing about ac-of a congressman are mild corn more than a little unusual. Claud- tors most-of them have a strong !.ial.e(1 with thc burdens of the uunicoLiu cktcan. preside He said that in his long stage I)er;0fi 1 -,Jf A. Al . " U' career ne semom socni more man 1 presidency during this difficult ette Colbert was kissed under a waterfall once. Tf . ..... c jirfinf she admitted, "but it didn't add E,x i nt.hs i" ,?ne plfce much.'' " 1 But in Hollywood a man can o i act a whole lifetime and seldom Dnrnthv Tamoiir liavo Wn k-iort ,mss a dinner at home or a bride, 1" ev" tase Tne ina" uoromy mainour, nave oeen Kissra ... ,. r. !,;,i,,.Ji v,i.i;o- th,. rrvct rmo-hr j spending some time in the homes" 1 of his nieces and nephews. Mrs. Fannie Frisbee accompanied him to Eagle on Friday evening where they visited Mrs. Luella Frisbee Fisher for a couple of days. " Mrs. Jake Sterner is in Kansas Mrs. Verna Olson Simpkins of j helping to care for her daughter, Reading, Massachusetts spent sev- Mrs. Mabel Stewart, and for her eral weeks in this community visit-, new grandchild there. i ing her daughters and their fam- Fred Hoffman, of Plainview, ; ilies. Her husband Joe Simpkins visited his brother and sister, j was here the last two weeks of her Frank and Amy Hoffman for. a jstay, and after visiting some of few days recently. ! his friends and relatives at Louis- Murray Gibbs came in from ivine ana Beatrice tney startea on i Pennsylvania on Sunday evening. tneir nomewara inp on rnaay .... un Tuesday he and Mrs. Gibbs Bluebird club met on Wednes day with Mrs. Ruth Monning. Mrs. Hollenbeck wras study leader with a. discussion about re-finishing and beautifying old furniture. Roll Millers are moving to their Elmwood residence this week. Neither the piesident nor con gress, however, reserve sympathy "I've heard it said in New Yurk.the places they now occupy. High in underwater swimming, scenes. "uiuc a must iiairuwiUK expel ...... , - , . . rf:.i ..i 1 '-ne , . .. . , . .... ... j- i . r.. goou stage actors go 10- wnen iney j mbhuiji auu ietici.i. jjul men die It certainly should be true, j actions should be judged by the Jolson-said .his -own travels soon) most rigid standards. For the fate ience along these lines was time Bob Hope kissed her- across the-back' of a cow. ''You never, can. tell cows," she pointed out. There have- been dawn noon kisses and moonlit altrtut I will end,, though he is not settling 'down in Hollywood Instead, he'll kisses retire in 194G at Miami of the nation is in their hands. Behind the present chaotic sit- Beach,! uation is a truth which, like B.O., bought the " T-l I -L 1 runnine-. un into astronomical fie- rid-' r"Vc -"S uree. Even, on one screen occa-j Lord Tarlton hotel. sion, a kiss in the dark. That was' ' between Garbo and John Gilbert. Tk T ' " I U!! The audience saw only the ap-j JjCW I ! Dill proacn of Gilberts lighted cigar-: ette and heard the sighs. t And" then there's the kis-s Sh Ul Jty Si1"8' St" WASHINGTON, D. C.-Order, 2J' avI V " rfJ to have all'of The American Le- for Arnold Pressburgcrs 'A. , . . o . i i t , cj. t t . 1 irion-snonsoreil amendments to the Scandal in Paris. " St. Joseph put',, T V-n r- t n r - , f, 1 o (J. I. Bui of Rights in full force in a scene showing George Sand-' , ee -i f u .u i ' , r i t- . , and effect by March 28 have been ers kissing Carole Landis in tha f . , , - . ,f , r,, - ion.--' ...... laid down for all his staff by Om- . ... TV"' l?to H 1 rtr i ri i-ki inictrotrir T Order Is Issued l-oach Nothing unusual about that, but there's an accompanying circum stance which is. While George pas j veterans' affairs. Tlie date conforms to the W- day deadline set by Congress for u. ,l , . hutting the changes into etfect fionately busses the beauteous L ,, r .. . R , , r,. ,r-1t ... 4.u i following their approval by Prcsi- Carole full on the mouth, he re- , . e V i o -ki ...uuident Harry S. Truman, the na- .kiic f-nm i. .ifoi.. i tions No. 1 Legionnaire UVIVO A V.' 1 X I 1 V L Ol id IHiJ IVlb v the cad! ! Sanders showed a remarkable interest in his work when he was making the seene.'For instance he threw himself into it so whole heartedly that' director Douglas Sirk found his first' take satisfac tory. Not Sanders. : "Indefinitely think we should do it' over," he said.1 That's what he said about the second f take, , too. He was afraid he had .covered too much of: Car ole consideration t for her1' professional welfare 1 ' "Some of the changes have al ready been put into effect but others must wait upon new regula tions and for new forms and pro cedures," General Bradley said. "We need not wait to raise the loan guarantee from a maximum of $2000 to a maximum of $1,000 and we are not waiting. Wc are also wiping out the 25-year 'age factor in educational requirements immediately, making loans on ap proval of VA appraisers., paying b face from the camera. Such ; thc ' incrfea T nntT ..MMtiM. . v...,- i ' ances of $90 and $( a month, few officials talk about because to do so would probably be con sidered a confession of personal weakness. What is that truth? It is this: From the president down the list, most Washington officials, both elected and appointed, must attempt to carry responsibilities beyond their capacity. Let mc illustrate: Many letters are on my desk from G.I.'s in out raged complaints over the fact that Secretary of War Patterson was ignorant of the simple facts about discharge points. Likewise, recently we learned that the order to destroy ultra-valuable scientific equipment a most serious blunder, went out over Patterson's name without his knowledge. and we are granting benefits ; AViH Vio ritWn't - mirwi of oil . 4 Vio-' to Americans who fought in allied the-cam.rai.-iiCrr.fon1 h Kant forces." And so, the attempt in Wash Secretary Robert Patterson, much as some of us may disagree with him, is an extremely able man. But like others in Washing ton, he is attempting the impos sible. There are no Supermen ex cept in the funny papers. When officials here attempt that role, they soon appear ludicrous. A lough example was seen a few days ago. The President was nick named "The Little Man Who Doesn't Know"' because remarks by him revealed a shocking lack of knowledge of basic government policies. started in the car for Albuquer que, New Mexico. She has spent nearly two months in the Douglas home. Elmwood basketball team play ed a very close game with Murdock 011 Mondav nie-ht. nur tpam win. The county fellowship meeting ning by a small margin, which was scheduled to meet at, The Elmwood people who were Avoca on Sunday night was post- ; injured in last week's accident are poned to a. future date. . j still in the hospital, and some will Lmmett Cook has so much 1111- be there for- some time yet. Ray proved that he plans to come home Fentiman has returned home, as from the Veteran's hospital the his injury was not so serious. Rav iiuuuie ultima wi-ctw. xia, bun jjavia jsterner s children were cared for who came from his Louisana sta-! by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Phillips, tion becauhe of the illness has a i for a time, and the mother of Mrs' furlough lasting until January 30. J Steiner will keep them part time Mrs. Gertrude-Davis visited over jin Fagle. the weekend with Mrs. Lore-. nH at the Liston home in Lincoln, .er I cousin, Grace Jean Davis, ,vas ' with her on Saturday, going ..ok that evening to Omaha for' her radio school work. Mrs. Mary Andrews has been confined to her home for some weeks, because of illness.' Her sis ter, Mrs. Herman, had the flu a few days.- Miss Frances Arnold, a cadet nuise in umafia visited her par ents, Mr: and Mrs. Harry Arnold, over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.- Frank Pulec have spent part of several davs in the last two weeks assisting with the work at the home of their daugh ter, Mrs. Robert Wade, on Eighth and G. street in Linclon. They put in a gas furnace and made other improvements. Henry Frisbee ha returned to his home- on California- after BARBS BY HAb COCHRAN pHERE are many reasons why - women dress attractively each reason being a man. in serving a full-course din ner, never try to mofce both ends meat. m m m America's birthrate" is ot the ipswing. Will someone please -invent an extra leg to stand on when proud papas start talking about the - new- baby. -' Why is- it people-are altaays , seeking more happiness . when they are using only a small part 0 what they have? . . This country is always goin to the dogs but never has? of his head. The conflict and ' marriage called (the actors between career the cares and the VA may not be able to put burdens of,the world has resulted into effect until March 28 are in- jn indescribable confusion. Simple in the old ? davs: elusion of - correspondence schools .inquiries become tangled up in red ts curse has end-iu.nder the educatoinal title of the tape like a bullhead hooked ; for ed: in-Hollywood; according to Al-11 and approval of usmebs loans - . . - ' b -fnr wnrkinc ranit.al and onera- Jolson. . j "Of i course, an actor: and; his Wife still get into fights,'.' he add ed quickly, with' a-look at his lat est newspaper: "But the basic con flict whicW resulted' from the necessity to trarel-i is gone." for working capital and opera tions General Bradley said. Sells 'Heir Conditioner' : BLOOMINGTON, Ind. J.R A second mechanical baby tender has been put into use here. The So marked' has been - the con-! baby tenders were designed and flict between love of show busi-, built by an Indiana university pro ness, on-one hand, and the desire fessor who named his invention for home and marriage, . on the an ''Heir Conditioner." Mr. and other, in- JolsonV own experience , Mrs. Henry R.' Hope have bought er,-in Jolson's own experience the second tender' he built' and that it has become the theme of :'a' report that their baby, Sarah Jane, film' based'' on his life: ' : has thrived in it since she was a 1 The conflict has broken hours on a set-line. Many officials, in reality overwhelmed by complex and impossible burdens, attempt to "bluff it out." The present na tional confusion is in large part the consequence of this gigantic bluffing' contest. Asks Navy for Bell DENVER (U.R) The ship's bell of the old USS Colorado soon may be ringing on the statehouse rounds in Denver. The Navy De partment' has been asked to send the old bell back to Colorado from Hawaii, where it now is ser- up week old. The inventor is using ving as a chow bell for a Seabee three of Jolson's marriages to Al- his first product for his child. unit. SPECIAL PURCHASE MERCHANDISE MEN'S All Leather Stair - Co-ate 29 INCHES LONG BELT BACK 4 FLAP POCKETS If you think these are plentiful'. Just try to buy one elsewhere. Since 1S79