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MONDAY, MAY 12, 1947 PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA The Plattsnriouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published serai-wcekjy, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409--413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Publishing Company. RONALD R. FURSE Editor-Publisher Thclma Olson, Society Editor. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Iola Ofe, Circulation-Office Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Patrick Osbon, Pressroom Superintendent Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mall matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth, By carrier in Plattsmouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Furse's Fresh Flashes EDITORIALS J l ST PLAIN AMpilCAX As newcomers to Plattsmouth we've been try ing to make the rounds meeting all th business men and women and citizens possible. We'll ad mit we haven't bt.-'rt able to do a very good job, but after all. Plattsmouth is somewhat of a city and making every contact is going to take some time. One person we introduced ourselves to in quired as to our nationality and, we unquestion- ingly, gav him a prompt answer, dividing our blood carefully into the categories supposedly running through our veins. We hear U;at qusetion often. "Whit Nationality are you?" Thinking it over, we think the better answer should be "Wo are Americans." America is the melting pot of the world we don't give a hang if he's got German, Italian, Bo hemian, English, French or Scandinavian cor puscles racing through his system, it's all red and that's what it takes to make a one-hundred percent citizen of the good old U. S. A. It's great to live in a country fhere all national ities, persecuted for years have come to seek free dom a!id opportunity, inter-marry and to live to gether in peace and harmony and any one of them is good enough lor us until he proves himself otherwise. Thirty years ago women never thought of doing the things they do today, says a news item. That'3 probably the reason they did not do them. , According to reports, cars will soon be refrig erated for more comfortable driving. That's swell. They need to add just one more feature to give a car all the comforts of home and filling stations would probably welcome such additions. Alas! We have just learned how women choose such horrible holiday neckties. When purchasing one the other day we looked them all over and def initely rejected three. The salesman layed them out carefully in another box. Asked the reason for that he replied, "We sell those to women who come in here to buy ties' for men." A California judge ruled it isn't cruelty when "a wife makes her husband do the housework. Nope just a crime. When visiting friend the other evening they pointed out ashes on the library table, saying they were grandmother's. Now, we don't know whether the poor old soul had passed on or was too lazy to find an ash tray. Astronomical effects are strange-for example a full moon making autos run out of gas. ' You can't tell us that advertising doesn't get results. Old Grandpa p Grumpus hadn't taken a drink in twelve years, but when he got hold of the local sheet and saw the advertisement picture a rich, creamy bowl of eggnog and a pint bottle of Jim Beam,, he went on a toot and it took the whole village fire department to get the old man r to bed. Don Martin. Billy Hula, Ralph Hilt, Jimmy Mauzy, Gerald Hennings, John Soermichscn, Ed Hiber and Tcm Solomon .... gypsy camp north of town ob served traditional holiday and christening of in fant members of the tribe .... Jack Ledgeway made chief clerk for commissary department of Burlington at Chicago .... Hugh J. Kearns post No. 56 of the American Legion host to state of ficers .... Death of John L. Tidball at Imannuel hospital, Omaha . . . . R. Foster Patterson of Tar kio college, delivered commencement address of eighth grade at Nebraska City, Otoe County also at Elmwood high schwl .... Rock surfacing of Winerstcen hill road begun .... Southeast Ne braska Amateur baseball league season started. The Voice of Jacob but the Hand of Esau lH&2 NOTHIM6 tO'BE AFRAID Or aimT MAP AT, dF unci J)o - Wl f (4 George Hall, treasurer; and Roy Carey. writing Soap Box Derby, Nebras-t ka City, Nebr. Use Journal Want Ads Union Mrs. L. G. Todd Mrs. C. A. Wager of Denver arrived in Union last Monday and is visiting1 at the homo of her sister. Miss Leuna Barber. Mr' and Mrs. Donald McQuin and family were Sunday dinner guests at the home of the Marsh; Thompsen lAmny. The Union Woman's club met with Mrs. Herman Comer last Tuesday afternoon. Twelve mem bers and several guests were present. This was the last meet ing of the year. The club will hold their annual picnic this year at Pioneer park in Lincoln on June 3rd. The topic of the after noon's lesson was music. Mrs. Earl Upton and Mrs. L. B. Mougey sang "frayer Perfect. Mrs. Todd was leader of this meeting. Hostess, assisted by Mrs Roy Becher and Mrs. Gob le man served refreshments. The Youth Fellowship group held a skating party last week at Nebraska City. BOYS IXVITEtt TO ENTER AUTO DERBY Boys from this area, ages 11 through 15 inclusive, are invited to enter the All-American Soap Box Derby to be held in Nebraska City on July 4. The winning driver and his car will be taken to Akron, Ohio, in Aueust at no expense to him to compete in the national finals. Full information can be had by R3AY 27th thru JULY 5th EXCEPT SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS 8 RACES DAILY The Fine.-t MU Tracfc Between Chicago and tht Pacific Coast ADMISSION 75c Including State and Fed. Tax LADIES' DAYS TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS (EXCEPT HOLIDAYS) Ladies Admitted Upon Payment of 35c Tax and Service Charge No Children Admitted! ft t;ie cost of voi r newspaper It's remarkable how cheaply a newspaper can be produced, yet many think the cost of the home town paper is too high. A. few examples of your everyday expenditures should give one a different perspective. A list of comparative costs for an average citizen are: Daily and Sunday newspaper $13.00 Magazine . 5.00 . One Movie per week 23.80 One Coca Cola per day 1.25 One Cigar per day 36.50 One pack of cigarettes per day 58.40 Trip to the beauty parlor per week . . 52.00 The list is endless and brings us back to the place where we started your local newspaper is about the lowest priced and most informative ex penditure one can make we wonder sometimes how it is sold so low and still enables the printer to eat three times a day most days. MERRY-a0-ROUND WE CAN'T ALL FEME3IBEK Often we hear of deep personal dislike engend ered by one person failing to recognize a second person after the initial meeting which may have been casual and have occurred long ago. We don't understand how people get that way. Of course it's pleasant and flattering to have people remember you even though your meeting, was limited to a hundshake. Some are girted with the ability to remember faces and names forever. Others have such wretched memories that they can't recall their home telephono number or the full names- of their children. Courtesy would seem to demand a bit of help It should be no injury to normal pride to say, "I'm So-and-So. I met- you n a train three years njO." DOWN MEMORY LANE Thirty-ono Year Ac Tho Daily Journal repotted the con.sumatiw of salp of Hotel Riley property by W. F. Kinslow to Z. T. Sutiey of South Dakota. . . . Judgfr Allen J. Bcoson moved to his farm home north of town .... grading for permnnent sidewalk o"n Fifth street completed . . . . Sheriff Quinton and. Tolice Chief Barclay rounded ijp two young men for theft of fishing tackle .... Miss Elsa Myra Thierolf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Thierolf graduat ed from Lord Lister hospital school of nurses .... Miss Elizabeth Wood, talented musician from New York, visited )cr aunt, Mrs. J. T. B.vlrd two- column five nh ad appeared in this issue advertising "good, auto roads to Omaha" by the PlattHmouth Auto & Wjjgon BrhlRo Company .... J. G.. H. A. arid J. M. Meisinger bought new Over land autos from local agent John Bauer . . . . C. M. l'arker, retiring foreman of tho Burlington freight car repair department presented with a gold watch by fellow employees .... Ten Years Ag Small fire at Cass theatre canned excitement ....Sheriff Homer Sylvester anil Deputy Cass Sylvester honored at. Omaha by Tribe of Ycssir C. E. Tcfft of Weeping Water named, to Kvvvt as county judge during the absence of A. 1 1. Duxbury Carter Minor, Plattsmouth Boy Scout troop No. S64 advanced to first class scout at Syracuse meet. 'Tin?! other !outs advanced Bj DREW PEAESON Drew Pearson says: LOBBYISTS FEAST WHILE VETERANS POUND PAVEMENTS; BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS PULL WIRES AGAINST HOUSING BILL; CONGRESS MAN VORYS CONSULTS CLAIRVOYANT. WASHINGTON Meanwhile several million vet erans and others continue pounding the pavements trying to find homes, the anti-housing lobbyists staged a gala dinner at the Statler hotel here. The dinner was engineered by ace-lobbyist Morton Eodfish. executive vice-president of the U. S. Savings and Loan league and the American Savings and Loan Institute, who managed to corral so many congressmen for his jamboree that it took 45 min- , utes to introduce them. I Chief target of the anti-housing dinner was Lhe Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill which provides ' government loans for low-cost housing. This, of I course, cuts tne ground out from under the profits on housing made by the Building and Loan Associ ations, which is why the lobbyists are gnashing their teeth and buttonholing congressmen. The man who cracked the whip and introduced the speakers at the dinner Morton Eodfish doesn't often get into the headlines, but is one of the most astute wire-pullers in Washington. He vten managed to Wrangle a desk in the office of Sec retary of the Navy Knox during the war, from which he worked against the home owners loan corporation. PLLL THE RIGHT WIRES Bodfish is also astute in placing his henchmen on key congressional committees where they can aid the building and loan associations. Last No vember, a GOP cengressman, Charles Fletcher, who. happens to be pr esident of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Association, was elected from San Dirgo, California and very mysteriously, Fletcher-though a freshman suddenly found him self a member of the iowerful House Banking and Currency Committee where he can and has voted against housing measures. It is not often that a freshman gets on such an important committee, but Lobbyist Bodfish knew how to pull wires. One of the few other recent cases where fresh men congressmen have been given spots an this committee was two' years ago when newly elected Democratic "Congressman John J. Riley of South Carolina mysteriously turned up on Banking and Currency. .Nobody knew exactly why at first. Then the reason became readily apparent. Congressman fliley is secretary of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association. BoJfish is president of the Frist Federal Savings and Loan Association of Chicago. Lobbyist Bodfish had waved his congressional wand. Now he has two henchmen on the Banking and Currency Committee. j Note when the veterans housing bill came I before the Banking Committee last vear hench man Uilcy voted against some of it3 most impor tant provisions. STEArt AND ORATORY When Lobbyist Bodfish began organizing his re cent Statler hotel, dinner, ho tried to get Speaker Joe Martin to- attend. But Joe w.-is too smart. About 40 other congressmen showed up, however, including Senator Ed Johnson, of Colorado. Sonator Pnppy 'OT;rtel-.of Ttxao, Scmitr Clyde Rccd of Merry go roud j erans . . Bennett, Mo.; Kilday, Texas; i Gladys Daws in, Utah; Hardy, Va; Stock-j man, Ore. ; Spence, Ky. ; Dirksen, 111.; King. Calif.; Gore, Tenn.; j Holifield. Calif.; Curtis, Neb.; ! In adition, Dodfish's two son- j Preston. Ga. j In addition, Dodfish's two con-! gressional henchmen. Riley of j South Carolina and Fletcher of ; California, were present; aloo : everal associated lobbyists i Frank Cartright of the National ; i Association of Home Builder s. George M. Fuller of the National j Manufacturers Councd, Douglas j Whitlock, head of the Producers j Council and of the Brick and Clay lobby. fro mtendcrfoot to uxond class Cary Marshall, j Kansas, and Ilcprcseutativca Cuuiiuigham,. Iowa; Chief forensics of the evening were fired by Senator "Pass the Biscuits Pappy O'Daniel, who told how a - building and loan as sociation had started him on the road to success. He borrowed the down-payment oo a grain eleva tor from the association, left his S20-a-week job and begin selling flour, and ended up in the United States Senate. "Folks down my way are Jef fersonian democrats and don't be-; lieve in the New Deal," boomed , O'Daniel, an alleged democrat, j "There was rejoicing in my heart j when the republicans won last November." i Chairman Bodfish b e a m e d j broadly. How much he enjoyed it i can be gathered from a bulletin j which he once sent to members of i the Building and Loan busneiss republicanism when it was detid- j 'ed to elect the President by popu lar vote .... democracy is mob government." O'Daniel poured such vitriol on his fellow-democrats that repub lican speakers who followed de cided that they coudn t do any better. GOP Senator Reed of Kansas contented himself with telling a story on O'Daniel which can't be repeated here, while Rep. Dirksen compared the free enter prise of his home in Pekin, 111., to political Washington. It was all music to the cars of Bodfish and the anti housing lob by. Though some of the congress men present weren't influenced by the steak-and-oratory, many obviously were. Note helping Bodfish organize tho dinner were Abner Ferguson, who left the B'cderal Housing Ad ministration to become an anti housing lobbyist, and Horace Rus sell, who wa3 dropped by the HOLC after he used a government frank, to recommend O? B. Taylor, a Mississippi ex-judge as attorney t a long list of loan companies. MAKING DEMOCRACY LIVE Mayor McKcldin of Baltimore recently set aside one Sunday as "Housing inday," during which Caltimorcans were urged to rent hooms, remodel houses and find homes for . veterans .... Florida citrui growers have lowered prices to about one-third what they were at this time last year ....citizens of Lockport, N. Y., and Pittsfield, Mass., are building homes for paralyzed veterans. Last year amputees were voted automobiles by congress but paraplegic veterans -those coin pletely paralyzed -have been largo) y neglected .... in Lock port, carpenters, bricklayers, and operative engineer's local unions arc contributing thu required la bor for houses for paralyzed vetr U. S. Army Mothers W. Hughs, National Commander) have about 25,000 members working voluntarily in hospitals and otherwise aiding wounded veterans .... Harvard university this fall will present a special study of Russia, in cluding the Russian language. Whether friends or enemies, it's probably more important to know the Russians than enyone else in the wor ld. OHIO GANG Ohic's GOP Congressman John Vorys was addressing a dinner given by Senator and Mrs. Brick er for Gevernor Thomas Herbert of Ohio. While near the Egyptian pyramids on his near eastern trip, Vorys said, he met several sooth sayers. "At first," he continued. "I refused to have my fortune told but finally they asked me if I would just ask them a single question. "I inquired what it would cost me, to have a single question ans wered and the reply was lpound. This seemed pretty expensive, but I thought I had better go ahead with it, so I gave them the pound and watched the soothsayer go into a sort of trance preparing to answer my question. "Finally I popped the question. It was: 'Will it be Bricker and Taft of Taft and Bricker in 1948?' "Just then," concluded Con gressman Varys, "the rest of the party started yelling at me to hurry up. that they were leaving. I ha dto run for the car so Inever did hear who would be the next President of the United States." (Copyright, 1947, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) District Meeting In Omaha Honors Local Rebekahs Mrs. A. E. Johnson, past noble grand of the Rebekah lodge, was installed as vice president of Dis trict No. 2 of the Nebraska Re bekahs at the annual meeting Tuesday in Omaha. The all-day session was held in the ballroom of the Omaha Elks club. A luncheon at noon and a bancyiet in the evening were features of the meeting. The Plattsmouth lodge was honored by beng-selected for the exemplification of flag ceremony Mrs. Joe Stibal, vice grand of the local lodge, served on the teller committee. During the memorial services in the evening the late Miss Anna Leach and Mrs. Hilda Coffman were honored. Other lodge members attending were Mrs. Cleo Capper, noble grand; Miss Florence Persinger, warden; Mrs. Roy Carey, conduc tor; Mrs. Olga Storm, left sup porter to N. G.; Mrs. Oliver Finne frock, outside guardian; Miss Ma. rie Kaufmann, secretary; Mrs. KEEP DRY! There' just no sense or economy in taking chances of getting wet while at work or at leisure. 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