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4 THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1347 PAGE TWO The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1831 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Publishing Company. RONALD R. FURSE Editor-Publisher Thelma Olson, SX'iety Editor. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Iola Ofe, Circulation-Office Merle D. Fursc, Plant Superintendent Patrick Osbon, Pressroom Superintendent Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March , 18?y. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: ?3 per year, cash m advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmoum. By carrier in Plattsmoutn, 15 cents for two weeks. Furse's Fresh Flashes 23 has succeeded would be given by a trip to the slum areas cf the , Uniiecl States . which were built (without government control',. They were built long before there was any sort of government eon- After having 'heirloom" explained to him as trol. something handed down from father to son, a local veterans, we favor the pro young lad thinks that's a terrible name for his vision of publicly own'J housing EDITORIALS rilR KRSrOASiBILITY lOIt INFLATION The support given by retail busuiesa to the drive to lower prices has become a strong stabil ising influence on the national economy. Kc Uiiers, including both the chains and the inde pendents, took the initiative voluntarily and have uone everything within their power to check die inflationary spiral. It will be unfortunate, however, if consumers expect a miracle to occur. The influence of re tail business on the final selling price of any thing is strictly limited. It lies largely in holding retail profits to a reasonable minimum, and in re ducing operating costs. So far as basic costs are concerned, such as raw materials, wages and the rest, the retailer can do nothing. The causes of inflation go deep. Government .debt and government spending are among the most important. We cannot have a stable econr my without a stable and conservative government fiscal program. The responsibility for achieving this lies squarely on Congress and the Presi dent. Again, the apparently insatiable demands of labor are potentially disastrous to stability. The woiker who demand better goods for less money on the one hand, and higher wages for less work in the other hand, is the best friend unbridled inflation ever had. He is, unwittingly, cuttm his own economic throat. More dollars in hz pay envelope are meaningless when each dollar purchases less and less. Finally, it is the inescapable responsibility of all business to hold profits to a moderate level, and to produce with maximum efficiency and min imum waste. In the long run, competition will assure this. The profiteer never lasts in a free, competitive economy. What it all add3 up to is that inflation most be fought by us all. Business can't do the job alone. for those who cannot auord de cent, sanitary and safe Ivvjsl-ig. We support Senator Tact's view.? on ujat." "Well. I don't agree with Sena . tor Taft," snapped the gentleman j from San Diego. ! Western Democrats Tell Trur.iasi. President Truman heard some frank talk about his domestic uM , foreign policies during the latest j "thought clinic" held at the W'lutt House with democratic party bir- wiga from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. . Dlunlest of the group was Mrs. James H. Wolfe, national comrrit : tee-woman fro mUtali, who told i t.ie president that many votvs A local couple say they would like to spend v.-ere against the Truman doctrine W siv mnnfh ivarrhin h rfst of th wnrl.i and that SOme Fp!e were W..I- go by. All they have to do is buy themselves a good used car. pants. Here's one for you hard working men to shoot at. A recent survey discloses that farm women are the top working classes of the nation and 87 percent of them never had a vacation. The upright piano is hardly holding its own against the new baby grand. It's fighting with it's back to the wall. A Plattsmouth man has fired the hired girl because she broke all the saucers and the family has had to drink their coffee out of cups for weeks. We wonder sometimes if a bee ever gets iiiec of being busy. I know of few people who have done more for others than she and r her husband. ried because military men re geting high posts in goverrm r.t. In general, western demcoraiic leaders gave their blessing to ihe people of New Mexico were for his foreign policy 100 per cent. "Last year," he said, "the folks thought you were doing a. good job carrying out someone clse'o program. .Now that they know you're carrying out your own pro gram, they're even more pleased." "We can't go along with Gov ernor Dempsey that the people of Colorado are for your foreign pol icy 100 per cent." said Colorado National Committeeman Barrey Whatley. "Dut the groat majori ty feel you're on the right track and you can count on Colorado supporting ycu for re-election in 194S. This wa3 obvious bait to get Truman to admit his candidacy for re-eiection. But the president ducked. J "I'm interested in th-? country," ! he replied, "and I'm interested m doing tne job I v e got to do row." He then made a final plea for foreign-policy sucDort. "If we had spent just on3 bil-1 11 ia local and county news of our lion dollars after the frst world friends and acquaintances that we war on preventive medioinp." ! wan- Truman said, 'v.e could have Yours truly, Owen Welch., E iitor Weeping Water Keirubician new venture. ' can on you personally, and look This note doesn't require any . forward to seeing you. answer. I know you are much Lo busy to be acknowledging good wishesexcept as you have done it in the Journal. j I just hope that you'll grow to j love our town as many of the rest ' of us do. ; Cordially, j Helen Wescott Murdiek ' -P. S. That bouquet from Aunt Martha Bates is so typical of her. H ilayonnaise was origna'.cd by the Duke of Richelieu. Walter li. ilarcld Atiornej's-at-Law Docat Bl&g. Platts.T.i'utb Use Journal Want Ads Plattsmouth. Nbr. May 14, i&7 Plattsmouth Journal, Plattsmouth, Nebr. Dear Sirs : A3 an old subscriber, I want to congratulate you on the improve ment in the Journal already. We are even anticipating more chang es for the better. We want a good local paper We get other news from the big dailies and th eradio. s.ived some 230,000 lives and from An advertisement reads "Repairing Stockings Truman doctrine, but empnasid j .,uou 10 50,000,000.- ... ... . . . . ... , wavs of fighting communism was the kind of job where you start at the bottom and . " , v , . . - J i by a liberal democracy at hone. I "We've got to lead the world in work up. ' this," spoke up Colorado State Never hesitate to body likes to give it. ask for advice as every- (Copyright. 19-17, by the Bed Syndicate, Inc.) Chairnvin Eugene Cervi. "If we have a dynamic and liberal de- ! mocracy here at home, that is the best possible antidote to the Speaking of pianos a minute ago, reminds ni spread of communism, Mr. P: i of the woman we knew one time who refused to ident. Our own economy must be make the payments as they came due. She said a blazing beacon if you expect to the advertisement read "Pay as You Play" and make the principles you have es- she hadn't been able to play a note up until the Pusea a vinS ming m ouier na- tions." time we lost track of her. i . . , , m j Cervi said he saw no learon ! why the Democratic pariy com! 1 not have a "left winrr," provided tion was necessary, and fire fighting eq V)m?nt it wa3 not a "comn unirt leu j was extremely scarce and often completely uii- wing," but was composed of pio-j LETTER BOX INLKSS HF WOKK Eeinard M. Earuch, one of the great raider Statesmen of America, recently gave his country men some wise advice. The world, he said, "can get going only if men work," and "if we accept the challenge to preserve civilization, it means greater effort than that exerted during the war." He pointed to the pressing need for maximum production, with ro- strikes and no layoffs, in the future. And then he said: "Unless we work, we shall see a vast inflation. Unless we work, we shall not be able to maintain our claim to power. That would be the greatest blow we could receive, for it would strip us of our strength to preserve our way of life." We have Fought for an easy way to do thing. s and we have found that no such way exists. We have wanted every luxury, but we have not wanted to labor to arn it. Our whole philosophy of Lite has been eht sucidal one of asking mote and giv ing less. Capital, labor, agriculture, the consum er this indictment fits large segments of thf-m all. ! fio country has ever undergone a sreat infla tion and kept its institutions free. No country has ever turned to government to solve every real or imagined domestic difficulty and escaped from degrading itself into some kind of a totali tarian state. Freedom in not imperishable. It must, be earned, and it must be constantly de fended. Mr. LJ.uuch pointed to a choice that cannot long be postponed. We will work and we will assume the clear duties of a free people or we will lose our freedoms in a terrible economic and political upheaval. I obtainable. That alibi is no longer valid. Com- munities can and must adopt building codes which i will assure maximum protection against fire even as they can and must modernize their fire de ! partments and train members properly. The fact ! that the majority of our municipalities have no j building codes at all is discraceful and inexcusable. i We can reduce fire loses by at least 75 per ! xent- if we have the will to do it. ' C DKEW FEARSON Drew Pearson says: CALIFORNIA'S CON I GRESSMAN FLETCHER REAPS DIVIDENDS I AS LOBBYISTS' PROTEGE, CLASHES WITH AVC'S PATERSON ON "SOCIALIZED HOUS- NG" : TRUMAN "GETS TOLD" BY DEMOCRAT IC BIGWIGS. WASHINGTON With housing the No. 1 need of the nation, the real-estate-building-and-loan lobbies continue to be more active than ever to block any kind of public housing. Here is a sample of how the backstage boys operate, j Last November, the Republicans elected a new J congressman from San Diego, California Charles j Fletcher, who is also president of the Home Fed j eral Savings and Loan Association. Immediately I following his flection. Morton Bodfish, ace-lobby-J ist for the building and loan associations, skili I fully contrived to get Fletcher appointed to the Banking and Currency committee. Ordinarily no freshman congressman rites this gressive elements who arc "tiuj liberals." Truman said he agreed, but asked: "That brings up the old ques tion -what ia a liberal? He said he had always consid ered himself a liberal, adding: "Nobody objects to true liberal ism, but communism is nut lib eral in any cense i.f the void. It is strictly totalitarianism." There were laughs when Cervi! Grand Haven, Mich. May 13, 1947 Dear Mr. Furse, This morning your first issue of the Journal came in the mail. Dad, Mr. E. H. Wescott, had sent it to me. I'd like to welcome you and yours to Plattsmouth, too. and wish for you and the Journal ail the success possible. It's a I lovely spot you've moved into ! f"D rf firm frllrs ones too. 'Ive been away a long time, but when we make our an nual summer trip back I know that it will always be home to me. I grew up knowing and loving Uncle Bob and Aunt Martha Bates. Since Mrs. Bates gave up the Journal, it just hasn't seemed like the home-tuvn p?por at all. I dm't know, technically, what makes up a good small town Yours truly, Addie Perry Weeping Water, Nebr. May 3, 137 Mr. Ronald Furse, Plattsmouth Journal, j Plattsmouth, Nebr. j Dear Mr. Furse: Welcome to Cass county, and i may your stay here be a pleasant Jp ; 'a I so seldom get up in your corner of the county, that unless J write to extend my greerrgs I would seem entirely unfriendly. At my first opportunity, I will SIX-ROOM RESIDENCE IN MURDOCK, NECR. The undersigned referee will sell at Public Auc tion at the South front door of the Court House in Ihe city of Platan; rath, Nebr., at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon- on Monday, June 2, 1947 the William a 'id Katharine J. Smith residence situ ated cn Lots Nineteen (19). Twenty (20) and Twenty-one (21) in Block FJirht (8), in the village of Murdock, Cass County, Nebraska. Thi.s is a good residence, well situated. Free and clear -of encumbrances, to the highest bidder for cash. 20 per cent payable on day of sale, balance on approval of abstract of title. J. A. CAPWELL, Referee. E. S. SCHIEFELCEIN, Attorney. Wahoo, Nebraska. do know love a are r.oi iring 10 pui me m me, smaI1 tmvn want to read about. miMiwii "i LieieiHiii:.: coiii.iiuiU:i)i. quickly responded: "I know you : h t thoae of ViS who Mr. ' Ycu know that too, and so rresiuem. i am equally ( p- i ant to ioin the host of others Ksed to it." j w.j,0 .vV;c;h fcr you every success Wileh-hunt for Liberals. ) - ,i.; iMmni th kinrl Both Cervi and Mrs. Wolfe cn Utah expressed concern over the prospect of a witch-hurt which would discourage liberal.? from serving in the government. "We are not going to ha--:; a witch-hunt." replied the Piesi- ; dent. "The liberals won't pet j hurt so long as I'm around. Re member that communists are not liberals. They are very conserv ative people serving conservative , This c?used new Mexico's ex masters." 'governor Jack Dempsey to le mark : "Do you remember how the re publicans called us mivrnr.niats when v e introduced old-age pen sion? and social insurance?" "I cure do," replied the resi dent. "And when they vt ren't calling us communists. ih?y were calling us crackpots." "I sat on the Wavs an 1 Menns of a paper which fills a real niche in our lives. I grew up wUh Thelma Olson and I've known Iola since she came there to teach, and Helen h;;3 been a part of our store al most ever since I can remember. Seems to me that you have j many things in your favor in this ' ond at longa i2f i t KITED SEED CORN "rie Corn of Plenty" PLENTY AVAILABLE IN NEARLY ALL S IZ ad NUMBERS key committee, but Bodfish, with long experience committee when the social tcu I in pulling the right wires in Washington, managed I it iint thi pimp Anil hnvinr hipn mit ii th!c "niv- oal place, here is how Fletcher is reaping divi dends for his building and loaners,. Chat Paterson of the American Veterans com mittee was testifying before the Banking and Cur rency committee against the "Bodfish-inspired" legislation whereby emergency war housing built by the government would be sold largely for car,h and to the big real-estate operators. Pater son proposed instead the cities and veterans' group-? be able to buy this war housing for low-in- j come tenants. This brought an immediate objec ! tion from building-and-loan executive Congress I man Fletcher." ' "Socialized housing!" he exclaimed, adding ! that he was against Senator Taft's idea that the , gover nment should help low-cost housing because J pr ivate enterprise has failed. I "I resent the statement that private onter i prise has not done the job," continued Fletcher. "It has not had a chance to do the job. The presi- itv bill came up," continued Dempsey, "and watched every one of the 14 republicans on tha' oommtitee vote against the bdl. But now they're all for it." Dempsey told Truman that die STEPHEN M. DAVIS Writing G Bonds Every Type Available 2nd Floor Plattsmouth State Bank Building PHONE 9 xtn tions O Whatever the need . . . barn, workshop, office, warehouse, im plement shed, machine shop, ani mal shelter, boat house, garage, vehicle shelter . . ."Qiionsets" fill the bill. Sheathed with sheet steel nailed to Stran-Steel arch ribs, joists and purlins, "Quonsets" are easily, quickly erected. j "Quonsets" are the answer to j your immediate building prob lems. Call or write us today. WALC0, Inc. , "YOUR STRAN-STEEL QUONSET DEALER' 72nd & Pacific OMAHA, NEBR. The Hybrid Seed Corn SEE US FCR PRICES 3 John Deere & General Eleciric Dealer i' i i I IRK ' PREVENTION ANI TUB C OMMI NITY American communities must bear much of the blame for our soaring toll of deaths and property destruction by fire. According to A. Bruce Bielaski, executive director of the President's Conference on Fire Prevention, less than 2.000 of the more than 1(5,000. municipalities in the United Stales have building codes. Most of the existing laws are more than 15 years old. On top of that a great many fire departments are badly equipped and undermanned, and are not organized to give firemen adequate training. Here are some of the reasons why the toll of fire luis reached record proportions, and is still increasing. Last March, for example, losses leached a new monthly high of almost $72,500,000 fire's death toll is running in excess cf 10,000 ZG percent above the same month in 1?46. And fire's death toll is running in excess of 10,000 lives annually. During the war, much substandard construc- dent has not turned loose the controls. This com mittee is even now working on legislation ORGY OF RACETRACKS "But the bill you are proposing, interrupted AVC's Paterson, "would allow a new orgy of race tracks and commercial construction at a time when controls to channel scarce housing are des perately needed. "Most of the controls cn housing were Removed last year," he added. "We were promised that private enterprise could do the job. Instead we find housing starts reaching new lows. "I remember, too, that just a year ago, when I appeared before this committee in defense of OP A, members of the com m lite were confident that private enterprise could bring down the cost of living if price controls were removed and look what's happened since." "It is the rankest sort of propaganda to say tlint private enterprise has been given a chance to succeed," retord Fletchr, hotly. Paterson then invited the San Diego Banker Congressman to visit some of the slums near the capitol. 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