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PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA Thursday, November 7, 1946 The Plattemouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 ESTABLISHED: DAILY, 1905; SEMI-WEEKLlT, 1MI Published weak iay evenings except Saturday a? 409-413 Mate Street, Plattsmooth, Cass County, Nebraa&p, fry Tha) Journal Publishing Csmpany. jtESTER A. WALKER. B. J. ALCOTT -Publisher .General Manager Entered at the Postofflct at PUttsmouth. Nebraska, as sacond class tall matur ia accordaau aritn the Act at Congress at Marcfe 3, 1879. UBSCRlPTlOtl RATE. $3 per year, cash in advance, by RflM outs. the PiatUnMuth trade area. -L V.L SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by car . : :. t at Putumevth, IS ceatt per week, or $7.04) per . . : x advance; by sail la the PUttsmouth trade areas , v , $1.75 tor six months, $1.00 lor three wjonths. cash u it t By malt outside the PUttsmouth trade Sea. $5.00 cii. SJ.iO six months, 60 cents per month, cash la iti(ii.. f ta WASHINGTON It has been exactly sixteen years since anyone save a Democratic eleva tor, doorkeeper, or page-boy drew a salary lor chewing gum and pretending to adminis ter to the needs of Congressmen in the Halls cf the capitol. For sixteen long years, Re publicans have been out in the very cold, pa u onugeless world. Now however, comes the big job transfer Beginning with the new Republican congress in January, 600 Democratic guards, ushers, clerks, stenographers, stationery room, work ers, et al will get their walking papers, and (iUO Republicans will take their places. I'-Iost important of all, however, will bs the iv v charimen of committees, since the com jT. ttees of Congress shape legislation iar . ore than most people realise. Republican airmen for the next two years will defin ..ily affect the course of the nation. Here is the roll call of the most important c mmittees and the Republicans who will run ..iem: Foreign affairs Under congressman Char les Eaton of New Jersey, The House Foreign affairs committee will continue a nonpartisan Truman-Roosevelt pol icy. Bom in Canada, trained as a Baptist preacher, addicted to red neckties, Congress man Eaton has been a staunch supporter of U. S. world cooperation. When isolationist Ex-Congressman Ham Fish tried to dictate GOP policy on the foreign af f a i r s com mittee. Eaten was continually at his throat As a result FDR invjted the New Jersey Representative to the White House rather than Fish. Eaton has occupied pulpits in Tor onto, Cleveland. New York, was once editor of Leslie's weekly, served as Canadian cor respondent for the New York Tribune and the Boston transcript. Ways and means Karold Knutson of Minn esota, new chairman of this vital committee, is bad news both to his party and the coun try. He voted against practically every de fense measure before Pearl Harbor, claimed "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might well be emulated by statesmen of other coun tries.". .. ."Personally," proclaimed the bra zen Mr. Knutson. "I cannot see much dif ference between Germany's actions in Nor way and the New Deal program in this country." Knutson is noisy, irrepressible, publicity loving, has a mania for cutting taxes, es pecially in the higher brackets. .. .He once made a bitter attack on the late Cardinal Mundelein for favoring the reorganization bill ... .When the Time Magazine called him Fuz zy Congresswoman Luce, wife of Time's pubr.'licr smoothed it over by recit lings poem, "Fuzzy Wuzzy." Her t league purred. .. .Knutson will b e :t: to high-bracket taxpayers, no gift ;ittle fellows--copriations This is all important com r ..o which, decides how much the govern r: ?".'. cn spend. Its new chairman will be .Toha Tkber of Auburn. N. Y-, a bank director president of a water Company. He is g3ged in a fist fight with Congressman Can non of Missouri and who yells so loud that he once restored the hearing of the late Con gressman Leonard Schuetz of Chicago. Schutz always used an ear trumpet on the floor, but during one of Taber's bellowing tirades a nerve in Jus ear was restored and he dis charged the trumpet. Taber glories in his reputation as a penny pincher. He delighted in chopping NewOeal expenditures, but once brought great grief to his isolationist colleagues by making a speech strongly defending seven billions for lend-lease. Colleagues were once aghast when Taber berated the wild life division of the Interior Department, for paying 11,500 to Mrs- E. Eu gene Lay, for land near the Finger Lakes for which she wanted $16,500 .Taber demand ed that the Interior Department be penalized lor this penny pinching by killing its entire J9.000.000 for wild life. It turned out that Mrs. Lay was a constituent of Congressman Ta ber's. UN-American Affairs New Chairman will be J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, bald, a snappy dresser and a wordy wrangler. Kis last name once was Feeney, but he changed it to more high-sounding "J. Parnell Thomas.' Thomas is a wall street Broker on leave from Paine. Webber and Company. If he had -is way, the UN-American committee would spend all its time harrying labor leaders Ho will out-rankin Rankin and Ex-Congressman Ham Fish will be very happy. Rules Committee New chairman of this all-important committee, which decides what legislation can or cannot go to the floor of the House, will be Leo Allen of Illinois- Allen is pure Illinois ccrnbred. is Republican lead er Joe Martin's closest friend. ttalks litte. is a middle-of-the-road conservative, does exact ly what Joe Martin tells him. In the first World War he had a good record as a Field Artillery Sergeant. Agriculture Committee New chairman of this important body will be Cliff Hope of Garden City. Kansas., probably the ablest member of Congress in either party when it comes to Agriculture. Hope wrote most of Wendell Willkie's farm speeches and was scheduled to be Willkie's secretary cf Agri culture had Willkie been elected. Hope talks little, moves slowly, works hard. He is co author of the bill for farm research, believes that the USA must get ready to take care of farm surpluses again, should begin now to study quick freezing, new packaging of farm products. The Veterans Committee This important committee will now shift from the chairman ship of Mississippi's rooting-tootin' Jo h n Rankin to that of hard-working, effective U6.y Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell. Mass- Mrs. Rogers is one of the oldest members of Con gress from thetopifeonisreve etaonshrdlu gress from the point of service, having ic ceeded her husband in 1925. She has served the government 25 years- is 64 years old, and not afraid to state her age- Her husband was author of the Rogers act which crested the American career diploma tic service- Ever since. Mrs. Rogers has keot up her interest in foreign affairs, as well as doing a terrific job for her district- Few Congressmen work harder and get more accomplished- Probably she got more favors from the Democratic administration than the average Democrat.. As a lung-tim- member cf the Veterans committee. Mrs. Rogers has been battling bitterly with Chairman Rankin, will be a vast improvement over the gentle man from Mississippi. Rivers and Harbors New chairman nrob ably will be George A. Dondero cf Royal Oak, Mich., home town of Father Coughlin Dondero served in Congress for th'rteen years is one of the three congressmen of Italian descent, the others. D'Alesandro of Baltimore and Marcantonio of New York, being much more in evidence- Dondero is a great exne-rt on Lincoln, boasted of friendshipv.ith the late Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the Civil War president, is nice, conservative harmless, For a time he let his office be used by Wal ter Steele, a vigorous, isolation lobbyist. Al ter King George and Queen Mary came io ;he capital, Dondero held out his hand to friends, saying. "Shake the hand that shook the hand of a king- and held four kings a few times." (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate,! nc.) Low Bridge e o: ft PERCY MARKS 0 by Percy Marks: Distributed ty NEA Service. IneX Author of "The Plastic" Age'. A Tree Grown Straight' Etc. Q-.What is the XS-3? A A new supersonic Navy plane being built to fly 1500 mph. If hpd xxxr I ' AVi-iiu o Drotlier Jimmie always said, "When Gayle gets her back up, look out. She's danger ous." When Mr. Godfrey made clear that her custody of Kent might be threatened, she became more dan gerous than she had ever been in her life. She was ready to fight Bart or hi3 mother, or both of them, in private or in public; and she was ready, too, to use any weapon that would strike the hardest blow. She lay long awake that night thinking and planning, and the next morning she began to put her plans into effect. She dis missed the maid and Miss Norton, the nurse. It hurt her to tell Tom. he wasn't reeded any longer, but he made the situation as easy as possible for her. "I've been thinkin I ought to go to Bridgeport," he said. "I'm a good mechanic pretty good, anyhow, and they need 'em bad in the factories. I think we're goin' to be in the war pretty ciuick, Mrs. Bartlett." "So do I, Tom." Gayle waited until evening to talk to Mrs. Mays. Then she asked the cook to come into the living room and sit down. "It's something personal," she explained. As Gayle looked at Mrs. Mays, wondering how she could best begin, she thought of the many women she had entertained in that room who had less the look of quality than Mrs. Mays had. In three years Mrs. Mays did not seem to have aged at all; she was still a little plumper than she should have been, but her cheeks were still pink, and her eyes were tire same clear blue. Her spec tacles always seemed brighter than other peoples'; the lenses shone with cleanliness. "This is very difficult, Mrs. Mays," Gayle began hesitantly. tk or, die smiled. "I'm afraid I'm not very subtle. I wanted you to come in here because I well, there's a new relationship. Oh dear, I don't know how to put it." Mrs. Mays smiled. "I'm not the cook now?" "No! Oh no! That's just it. Don't you see, I'm talking to you as a friend." "I thought that's what you meant. I'm glad you feel that way, Mrs. Bartlett. I know about Jane and Tom end Miss Norton, of course. I was going to tell you I wasn't ready to be fired." She hesitated and then added firmly, "I'm staying." "TLESS your heart!" Relieved, her faith in Mrs. Mays com plete, Gayle began to talk, all confusion gone. "I've been think ing over everybody I know. I've been having a bad time. I didn't want to worry my parents, and so I haven't said a word to them yet and it didn't matter whom I thought of, I wasn't satisfied. I wanted to talk things over with a woman. I want help and advice, and finally it dawned on me, I'd rather talk about this with you than anybody else, even Rose Beecher. I'm going to tell you everything, friend to friend, and then I'm going to ask your help." "I won't tell." T know you won't. If I didn't know it, I'd never tell you any of it." Then Gayle told the story up to, and including, her talk with Mr. Godfrey. "And so, you see," she concluded, "I've got to re arrange my entire life. I've got to get a job not right away but in the next few months. You can get another job " "I told you I wouldn't be fired," Mrs. Mays said quietly. "I thought you needed me." "Oh, I do!" "I know." Mrs. Mays turned her hands palms upward in her lap and studied them thoughtfully. Then she looked up, and her quiet smile lighted her face. "It comes down to this, doesn't it, Mrs. Bart lett: somebody's got to take care of Kent, and somebody's got to work to earn enough money and you'd like for us to work it out some way together? Isn't that it?" "Oh yes exactly! But I won't be able to pay you even " "Pay me?" Mrs. Mays drew herself up in her chair. "I thought you said we were talking as friends." G2yle flushed painfully and cried, "We are! We are! But I don't want to ask sacrifices of you. I haven't any right to ask sacrifices. No matter what hap pens, I gain and you lose. I've tried and tried to sec. my wy arcund that, and I can't. You're always the loser." "Mrs. Bartlett." Mrs. Mays' voice was very quiet but her blue e3"es were serious, almost stern. "At my age you're never the loser when you're needed" and wanted." 'T'HE next morning Gayle wrcts to her parents, to Nate Kent, who was in an Army camp in California, and to Rose. To Rose, she confessed, "You told me in plain words. I give you leave to say, 'I told you so.' " She sent the letters air mail and then set about putting her affairs in order. On Mr. God frey's advice, she transferred her account to a different bank. "If you don't," "he had explained, "you're likely to find monej de posited in your name, and that would be an embarrassment." Then she set about selling all her jewels, her pearl necklace and the pearl set left her by Mr. Bartlett I excepted. It was a shock to find that the jewels would bring only a small part of their value, but even that small 'part totaled sev eral thousand dollars, quite enough to ensure Kent's education. When the money had been invested in government bonds, she felt braver and stronger. 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She c j rcaay ior ner reconverted maiaen voyage dui wa L'J tied up by the recently ended maritime strike. i4r- The only liners not tied up were the Matsonls cleared for emergency food-carrying to Hawaii, am the Vulcania, which had an Italian crew. Bu . when the Vulcania gets back from Italy, she wi be given back to her former Italian owners and the U. S. passenger ship fleet will be cut that much further. AT the end of the war the U. S. Maritime Commission fleet num bered nearly 5000 ships of all types. Nearly 500 were troop trans ports, with the capacity to move half a million men at one time. But troop transports stack their passengers in tiers, four or sij bunks to the tier, and the life-saving equipment is mostly rafts Coast Guard rules won't permit ships to carry civilian passenger unless there is one lifeboat seat per passenger. Under the Second War Powers act, the President has been able t set these regulations aside. Two pre-war passenger liners, the Man hattan and the Ericsson, plus seven troop transports, were partially reconverted to bring back war brides and American war refugees The Second War Powers act expires March 31, and if it is not re newed by Congress, these ships will no longer be able to carry passen gers and will have to be reconverted a second time before they can g into regular commercial and tourist passenger service. j "PY next spring, however, it is hoped that the 18 passenger ship: . now in the process of completion or conversion will be ready foi ; business. Fourteen of them will be for. the Caribbean and Soutl American trade, four for the Pacific. The Office, of War Mobilizatior having issued stop orders on further construction of new passengei ships, this seems to. be the total prospect for the next year or so. 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