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I 1 1 IJ'.-I ill. E. . AGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLAiTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1947 Tbe PlattsThoutli Journal ! ' cstabusmco S1 ' . Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thurcdays, at 09.413 Main Street, Platttatoota, Ca County, Ne raska, by The Journal Publishing Company.. -ESTER A. WALKER. S. J. ALCOTT..- .Publisher ...General Manager latere! at tr Postotfice i Puttsmouth Ncbrtska m Mcond clan Mil mattct mi accpraoc mm Ad at Congrct Marca i, 1 tr9 . . . .... SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 ot rear, cash Aau MUM Um Putumoutn trao frea. m aavanct. y A LAST MiNUTE SOLUTION During the infamous days of the Munich meeting, Winston Churchill was' advising the British government, with great foresight and wisdom, to ceae the appeasement of Hitler, which was leading to war. His voice was un heeded until it was too late. Now Mr. Churchill has spoken again in an effort to avert a crisis. This time his foresight is less apparent than his wisdom. For he is speaking in what may be the closing minutes of the eleventh hour .vhen he urges his gov ernment to turn over its Palestine man date to the United Nations. Such a move would not solve the problem of Palestine. But it might check the headlong approach to chaos in that unhappy land. The situation there has now deteriorated to a point where the only prospect is for more terrorism and gterner repressive meas ures. One of the most tragic aspects of the situation is that the basic question is all but forgotten. The homeless Jews are still in European DP camps or de tained on Cyprus. To say that all the fault is not Brit ain's provides no helpful answer. Jew ish terrorism has made any sane or responsible- action hopeless at the mo ment. The violence is inexcusable, and demands quick, decisive steps to pre vent any more loss of life, j But hiow are the terrorists to be stopped short of military action? Ne ther the British nor the moderate Jews are able to say to them "Only cease your; terrorism and we will reach an agreement." So the terror continues. It is not a fight between Jew and Arab, But between the anarchist Jew and everything British. There seems to brohpp for peace except through the withdrawal of the British from Pal estine and their replacement by a new and stronger authority until order is restored. Mr. Churchill suggests, as an al ternative to UN responsibility, a 50-50 sharing by the United States of "all the bloodshed, odium, trouble . and ex pense" in Palestine. This seems neither very wise nor very gracious. We have found in China, as Brit ain has in Palestine, that the would be peacemaker is not always blessed. The logical solution, then, is unit ed action by the United Nations with a genuinely representative committee engaged in the actual work. It is the UN's stated purpose to in corporate territories now under man date into an international trusteeship system. And there ought to be isome way for the UN to put a stop to the pre sent terrorism and bloodshed ' even though technically, they may not con stitute a threat to international peace. The First Sign of Relief ' - " ' 1 . . ' , Edscn's Washington Column BY PETEE ED$ONT j, NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C. (NEA) There has been more than the " usual amount of grief in high places, trying to make govermvent budget estimates for the fiscal year beginning next July I. Exact amounts requested icr each federal agency are still restricted infor mation. I hey will.be released only when tne resi dent's budget message goes to Congress. It is safe to bet that no government department asked for less money than it is now getting. But there have been two pressures to pare these amounts down. First is the President's own desire for economy. Second is pressure from tlie new Republican majorities in Congress, who have been talking big but vaguely about cutting the budget from this year's $41.5 billion to $25 or even $20 billion. What congressmen and politicians are prone to forget is that they themselves are the worst offend , ers against government economy. Congressmen as a whole talk good economy, but don't act it. They pass authorizations for big projects. The authorizations themselves don't cost a dime. But later on appropriations must be made to cover the authorisations. That's where lots of the money goes. A LL the legislation enacted by previous Congresses and now in effect authorizes certain minimum expenditures below which the gov ernment cannot go until some of these laws are repealed, some ol these programs stopped. This figure has been estimated at $25 billion. It covers only non-military items. When you add about $13 billion for national defense, you may have a pretty close estimate of what it will take to run the federal govern ment next year. The Army and Navy, incidentally, can't be cut below their present strengths if present occupational commitments in Eu rooe and the Pacific are to be carried out. This is the kind of realistic thinking people must follow when talk ing about reducing government expenses. Most of the post-election economy talk by victorious Republicans has been strictly bunk. is f Fdson Walter H. Fvold B. Smith & Lebens Attorneys-at-Law Donat BIdg. Plattsauatb- 41 Dr. and Mrs. H. !VV. rorth Omaha Tuesday. "I lost 52 Lbs.! WEAR SIZE 14 AQAJN" MRS. C DL WBI.LS fT. VOTH A, Pictured fcra Yoa mmy lose pounds nl have a more rfender roeul Aiure. No exercise. o druKs. No laxative. ft meet. poa. cravr. setter. Th experirnce of M r. Well may or maw not be Afferent than yMt. but whr not try the AYD.S Vitamin Candv Plan? 1 ook t these w.iilta. In chrrioal (Mt eoruhicted br medical doctor more thaa 109 irtMU to at to IS Imot erce In few veeLa with the AYDft VttMDio Caad7 teduojnf, Flaa. With tbia Ard Plan yoa don't eo tit aay mraii ataiehea. fioutaea, me; V or butter . Ytm aimpl v cut theta 4omj. It'a aim vie and eaater when you enioy delicioua vitamin forti HL AVnblnnMr aael. Afaaew luxilv harmless. 30 day adnrdy Ayu only tl 25. II not delighted with MONEY 3ACK on tha rer first bos. ft iulta Oai-t ki ad as n CASS DftUC Phonn 46 , f boua remidr Leo Darling, Tom Nicholson and Lawrence Addleman of near Springfield have arranged for a Polio Benefit Coyote hunt to be beki in Sarpy County on Sun day . Feb .2. Wilbur Heil and his plane will hcljj in the drive. Two drives win be made, one in the mrn- . ni and another beginning rt lif'O p.m. Dinner mav be obtain c4 in Springfield and the hunt ers -will be takn to the lines and' returned to town. Ed Sfoirkcmn of YVcn n "f.'-i-tr and mfmber of th Boa"d of th Ca?s Novious Weed Dis trict has arranged for a met ;nr of farmers end landowners in Louisville and Eight Mile Grove Precincts to be held at the Louisvil'p City -Hall on Fri dav evnins Feb. 7. Cnr1 Wirth," and vifo of Leieh. vis'tei n I.ouisvil'e Sunav. . Ned W.-kr:. who vt? opera ted cn p Om"ha two weks aeo fpfnripd 1ast Thii'-sHay and went to Tt Hpven Home in V'en ir)S Water to r-Tr"'-i while he in reainin his health. . Mt. ad Mrs. WaHor 7'mm"r. man of Springfield are the par ents of a daughter., born recent ly in an Omaha Hospital. They have one other child a daughter. Mrs. Zimmerman was former ly Phyllis Cornish. Gail Virtv and wife of Lin coln spent Sunday visiting in Louisville. Bruce Hirseh his been out of school this week with a touch of flu. Alan Snyder and Joe Zastera. 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VII .. . . i fF course, you could never guess . what Ace would or wouldn't I do: he was slippery as quicksilver; ! Sidney had Known that from the j beginning, and it w;is probably . part of his charm. And what was I the beginning? Sidney didn't have ; 1o concentrate, remembering. It ; was a day in September, she was visiting Norma inIIenderson; they j had gone to the -county fair, taking ! in the races, the side-shows, the ! tents cf freaks, everything, until they hadn't a red cent left and had laughed themselves into a state of sheer exhaustion. Sidney had but to close her eyes to bring it.all back, the heat of the afterncoxi, the .white sunshine, the dust rising in clouds from the race track. Sidney and Norma had been eating popcorn and cotton candy, their throats were dry, and they thought that maybe if they went to the refreshments pavilion, some friend of Norma's might come by and treat them to pink lemonade. But the person who bought the lemonade turned out to be Ace Latshaw though, qf course, they didn't know his name then. Sidney would probably never forget her first -impression of him, leaning against the bunting wrapped pillar of the pavilion; blond, nonchalant, a smile in. his calculating eyes, the straw hat on the side of his head secured by a black cord to the lapel of his blue serge coat." His trousers were white ice cream pants! He was carrying a thin Malacca cane, twirling it in his fingers. He looked exactly like the dude your mother always warns you about; and he must im " 1 hare been watching, Sidney and 1,'Crma from the minute they t rossed the grass toward the lem onada stand, for no sooner had they stopped, giggling and casting yearning glances at the big bowl of swimming pink liquid, than he stepped right up. ' JfLadies, allow me!" He said it to.jboUi of them, he laid a dollar bill on the counter but he was slolring right at Sidney. . A ND Sidney stared at him, won M dering if site oughtn't to ig nore him, - and then knowing it wasn't a question of. whether she ought,, but whether she could. As their eyes held,, she knew, she couldn't. So she nodded. The three of them drank quan tities of lemonade; they drank a dollar's worth, before Norma said that they really must go, it was almost supper time. . "Allow me to see you home, ladies." Sidney nodded again. It was a . glorious ride, neither of the girls, had ever ridden so far in a hack and Norma wondered how much it cost. Not thit the cost seemed to matter. Their new friecd peeled off dollar bills from a great roll in his vest pocket. For the next three days, Sidney and Norma went to the fair every afternoon, - always happening to run into Ace, and then strolling, a threesome, through the grounds until evening, but ty the end of the week (and of the fair) Norma was generously suggesting that Sidney and Ace might want to dis pense with her society. ''You're the one he's stuck on," Norma said. "I feel like a chap eron.' . Siri-e Norma somehow didn't think it wise for Ace to come to the frarsonage, Sidney's meetings with him occurred downtown, at a soda fountain or the nickelodeon. This clandestine aspect of what was certainly an innocent affair (Sidney Iiadn't lost her head, cr even been ca the verge of it; she was just as cool as a cucumber, though more provocative), this air of furtiveness seemed to suit Acc Latshaw; and it was he who sug gested the scheme for their com munication when Sidney had to return to Blakesville. Their let ters, he said, could , be sent back and forth by Norma, the sealed envelopes rcsealed in an outer en velope and addressed cither to or from the parsonage. A BUNDANT as autumn leaves, the letters flew, through Oc tober and November, until Thanks giving when Sidney visited in Henderson again. She was there for a few days at Christmas, too. The Lyons were hospitable folk, though maybe rather bewildered by Sidney's devotion to them. Ace was still in Henderson on January fifteenth, but then he went to Chi cago to confer with his partner on a business deal. Sidney didn't know who the partner was, or what the deaL Really, she knew almost nothing about Ace, except that he was foot-loose and fancy free. His letters were light in vein, mostly about Sidney and how re markable she was. - His spelling was terrible. Sidney, in her answering letters, was much more restrained. She had never aid she was in love with Ace, never would say it, for probably she wasn't. Just the same, she had been chagrined when the letters came irregularly hi February, ceased altogether in midT3March. Sidney had written last, which was a mark against her. And now Ace was in Blakes ville. Or was he? Silence, ten days of blank si lence. In those ten days Sidney evaluated romance and repudiated it forever. She was convinced now that she'd never hear again from Ace, never lay eyes on him. She did wish, though, that she, and not Ace, had ended it. She wished she could banish this feel ing of something more to come, an aftermath, a sequel. She kept expecting that damned telephone to ring! ... (To Be Continued) ECONOMIES can be made yes. Some items in this year's budget loans to Britain. Subsidies are over. So is UNRRA. But the public debt is still more than $260 billion over $18b0 per capita and the interest on it alone is $5 billion a year one-eighth of present gov ernment expenditures. Government payrolls run about one-sixth of the total expense. Promises to cut federal employment to 500.000 are poppycock when it takes 440.0(10 to run the Post Office Department and half thai num- bT to run the Veterans' Administration. Logical consideration of the principal items of the present budget, which amounts, to $41.5 billion, indicates that the total can scarcely be reduced by more than $10 billion. This would leave the total for. the new budget $31.5 billion, excluding, of coursd, any new appropria tions which may be granted. between semesters. The boys are oomin if:t:'tht r i." Oinih.i r.ow. A'an recently enlisted in the Naval Reserve as a photograph ers Mate and is . expecting to take a Summer cruise in the Carribean to get in part of his training. Rev. H. L. Dickerson of Ne braska City is now at home from St. Marys Hospital in Ne braska City after a weeks' stay h3re due to Virus pneumonia. He is reported to be getting ilong satisfactorily. Mr. ard Mrs. Harold Brun- John G. Hansen of Fremont, a brother of Mrs. Christina Nes sen has been promoted to Gen eral Agent for the eastern half of South Dakota by the Bank ers Life of Lincoln. His head quarters will be at Sioux Falls. Mr. Hansen wfis born near Louisville. He hS been a teach er for several years and was Superintendent if Fremont pub lic schools for seven years. He i left this work about a year and j a half ago to take up insurance work. I jffcrc is 7etvs Men's Worsted Gaberdine TOP CO A T5- -just received Thess coats have, been off the naret during the war the scarcest item in Men's Clothing - Most every man wants o.ne. Right now wo have all sizess and the price WHITE SHIRTS $35. 00 GREEN STAMPS Since 1879 l lef go home i No argument about it they agree the best place in town for choice foods is JOSEPH MAYER GROCERY. PURE BLACK PEPPER Kal Pound Pkg. $1.00 Dehydrated CREAM of MUSHROOM SOUP 3 Pftgs. or 25c PINK SALMON SARDINES In Tomato Sauce or Oil All Kinds of CANNED FRUIT Packed in Sryup We're As Close to you as your telephone Phone 252 Free Delivery oS Groceries and Meats JOS. MAYER Grocery (Formerly Egenbergers) 322 Main St. jajaiBaHaaaaaaaaaaaaBaaaaaaa31iBiaa JSSSZ an