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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1947 THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA PAGE FIVE The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1C81 I'ii li ihl s.-ni i-WH-kl v. Mitil;iyM nnl Thurs day, hi tti!"-n". Muiii Street. l'lattsniiMitli. Ciiiintv. Xctniiska. RONALD R. FURSE Editor-Publisher James Moore. Advertising Manager Thelma Olson, Society Editor. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Patrick Osbon, Pressroom Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Kter.-.l t the !Vtrrii-e lit l'liittsniont h. Xfhrii'ka n sfii.iiil class mail matter in m- or.lmiee with the Act of nnarresK if March SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 15 cents for two weeks. EDITORIALS DEFENDING OUR BREAD AND BUTTER Next time you hear somebody scoff at adver tising as a waste of money, next time you hear somebody charges that advertising Imposes a needless "tax" on the consumer, keep in mind a few of the answers listed below: In 1927 a nationally advertised electric refrig erator cost $310. By 1940 the .consumer cost had dropped to S133. Over a 12-year period a famous drug product, through mass advertising, increased its sales 600 per cent and lowered its selling price more than 50 per cent. A famous washing machine, made by a marn facturer who "didn't believe in advertising." sells for one-third its original price since the manufac turer changed his mind. And advertising does more than lower prices, it makes jobs. Today's pent-up demand for ' 000,000 cars. 3.500.000 vacuum cleaners and 3.000. 000 washing machines was created by advertis ing, because advertising created the ponular de mand that changed such items from luxuries necessities. In our own home town, advertising has prov ' itdf able to reduce prices and give employment. Take the user of big space in The Plattsmof1" Journal, people flock through his doors. Through the consistent use of newspaper space he has beer able to lower his prices through a larger volu of sales. Using the old adage, 'A Quick Dime Eeats a Lnzv Quarter" and letting the people know about it throuph advertising has been the road to suc cess of all popular stores, manufacturers and suppliers. WHILE YOU READ In about the time it will take you to read this h-ief article, a fire will occur somewhere in the United States. Thousands of dollars worth of property will be destroyed. And it is verv pos sible that someone will die a horrible death. The National Board of Fire Underwriters states that a fire alarm is sent in every 53 sec ond? and a fire breaks out every 57 seconds. Earh day. the property loss runs into the million and several lives are lost. Finally, for each death, there are four injuries. This is the record for an ordinary, "quiet day." On days when spectacular fires occur, the. toll of death and destruction soars far beyond the aver age. The fire that is in progress while you rr- " this may be far away. But the next fire mav in your home or your place of business. Destruc tive fire has no favorites. It strikes withov warring and no property and no life is safe from it. . . w-- Fire is a terrible challenge to the Americr--people. That challenge can be met only if r1' the peonle understand the causes of fire and " accordingly. The alternative is an ever-increasing tell of death and destruction. DOWN MEMORY LANE Ten years ago this month the Legion Auxil iary sponsored a "Miss Plattsmouth" beauty con test . . . Louis Harris was badly burned while working at the Sullivan tourist camp on Chicago avenue . . . Rev. V. C. Wright spoke before Rotary club on community service . . .. Fu neral service for Henry Wiedman held with burial at Oak Hill . . . Mrs. Sarah E. Kerr, long time resident, celebrated her eighty-second birth day with family gathering at her hom here . . Jean Soangler announced local office of Resettlement Administration joining with Nebras ka City office jn a state-wide consolidation pro pram . . . Dr. and Mrs. Emmett Dunn of West Frankfort, 111., were guests at the M. D. Brown home . . .' Mrs. Sophia Mayfield and Mary Petersen returned from trio to Tacoma and Se attle . . . Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Kocian and chil dren vacationed at Estes Park and Yellowstone . . . Richard Rea. Faustine Nowacek and Wal ter Sikora departed on camping and fishmg trio at 1,1 Pine, Nebraska . . . Messrs. Richard KrcWW. Gv Hopkins. R. P. Hobson, Lovd Bhr ens. Weeping Water, and John Crans of Manley, departed for National league games at .Chicago . . . Misses Josephine Rys and Mary Holy en joyed visit and vacation in Chicago . . . M. and Mrs. Olaf Lundbcr celebrated forty-fifth werldinp anniversary at Nehawka The Dn Philpot - family departed, for Pacific coast 'for a two-months visit . . . New Mexico anthracite coal is shipped to smelters in the souhtwest and on the west coast, and as far north of Canada. Furse's Fresh Flashes Whenever our dumbest friend hears us talk of a syndicated . article, she thinks a dirty story is being referred to. We don't know how the negotiations will turn out, but if workers in the soft coal industry get f raise and a thirty-hour week, we shall understand better than we have the use of the word "soft" as applied to the coal industry. We notice they have a state law in Kansas that prohibits the residents of the state from eat ing snakes. We also noticed, when we lived dowr there, they also had a law that prohibited a mar from drinking anything that might enable hiir to see a snake or two. ' Another thing that can be said in favor r church attendance is' that fewer people get killed in church than on the highway. The biggest liar in the world is the gossiping old hen who says "I hate to believe it. but . . ." A great many women go to waist long before they reach middle age. The dissatisfied clerk, after opening up hi; own business, learned that he had to work twic as hard to keep his job when working for himself The three most delightful feminine occupa t.ons are changing her clothes, her mind, and he name. - Nature has been very kind to so many people Shi has given them a voice that their own ear: enjoy hearing. West Virginia became the 35th state of the Union on June 20, 1863, at the height of the Civil War. CIL YASMOH mergy- so- mum The Army was covering up fmr!.-trJ airnlanp cvlinders manu- J - foctured b; j Cincinnati. And when Patterson. I who wps in charge of all Armv j nrrdurtion. tried to defend the j brass hats and explain away the I cracked cylinders, the then sena ; tor from Missouri seethed with ! indignation. i There was almost nothing too ! 1 L U:m r- . knl "Put- narsn iur mm iu auuuk ! terson at that time. Chairman Harold Knutson, who has a habit of; t. .ir hn-ivpvrr as Patter- 3 ffmr. tTnrrv DREW PEARSON SAYS: REP. KNUTSON BEGS FOR S25.000; HARRY TRUMAN FORGETS HARSH WORDS RE GARDING SECRETARY PATTERSON: CON GRESS SNARLS UP QUESTION OF "CON TEMPT OF CONGRESS." WASHINGTON. Bull-headed Ways and Means acting first and consulting his committee after ward, recently stepped out too far. Without a word to the committee or authorization from any one, he appointed a special tax-study ' group, largely composed of Wall Street lobbyists, and generously promised that the government would pay all their expenses. But at a closed-door meeting the other dav. protesting against the efforts of i der to use our highways, another New Jersey Republican j How much longer will taxpay- I t- n ti - i i . i li'nctino r.t mm- f.ctured by Curtiss-Wrht near j " ; ..nt xo smear ur. tuwam t,unuun, i m muut . -.ii head of the U. S. Bureau of Stan- j men to office, who in turn hire dards. 1 employees interested only in sal- Dr. Condon, one of the nation's j ar' checks, leading atomic scientists. gave ! Perhaps immediate use of the up an important job in private ; recall election ballot for rcmov industrv to become head of the j al of all incomoetent and self Bureau of Standards. Todav serving public officials, would be Thomas and his un-American ! a first necessary step for lm Af fairs Committee are trving to provement and restore pubic i smear Dr. Condon as a Red. be- j confidence. 1 pciico ni cAmol l rrt t Kp T Ti Q a TT1PTTI - i . X . INULil . be-r of the American-Soviet j Scientists Society. j From Mr. and Mrs. F-ed Todd. Acnarentlv one thine Cone- General Delivery. Indio. Calif. ressman Thomas overlooks is i comes this letter with their EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON s -NEA Washintton Correspondent ' Z WASHINGTON D. C. (NEA) Anyone taking a dim view of the : " housing situation can today confidently expect that it may be a , lot worse before it gets any better. tj On half a dozen fronts in Congress and the executive agencies. vi.nts are shamne up for an eventual showdown i on government housing policy. What it will lead tdj no private industry nor government housing official ; can say with any certainty. But these developments j seem likely: j Heavy cuts in appropriations for existing housing I agencies. . ' i Curtailment or abolition of many more housing j controls. A late summer and fall in which private enter- ! prise real estate and building interests will have everything their own way. If they are able to build more houses and bring down prices as their trade associations have claimed they could, further expansion of government participation in housing activities may be : ended. - , 1 If private industry doesn't deliver, the chances for passage of a i government long-range aid to housing bill such as is incorporated in . the Taft-Wagner-Ellender proposal would seem to be much improved. There is little chance that the TWE bill can get past the House in the j present session of Congress. Either way this situation develops, it is going to take the better part of a year to work out. The house-hunting public may have to put up with inconveniences and shift for itself in the meantime. But if , it can hold out long enough, something really constructive may be , worked out. In the light of recent developments in Congress, there j appears to be no other solution than to let present programs die. IF Congress and the real estate and building lobbies had permitted the Veterans Emergency Housing program to operate, the story j today might be different. If Congress had passed the Taft-Wagner-Ellender bill last year or earlier in the present session of Congress, the story might be different . If Congress had approved President Truman's housing reorganiza- ; tion plan last year the story might be different. i if Congress should approve the President's new Reorganization Plan : No. 3, sent to the Capitol on May 27, something still might be salvaged i from the ruins. This plan would group the 13 existing government j housing agencies under a new Housing ana nome finance Agency, with a new director to boss the works. But the House apparently wants no part of this scheme. On top of all this negative action, the House Appropriation Com mittee's special report blasting the FederrJ Public Housing Authority as "a complete failure" puts all government housing programs under suspicion. The report is one of the most vicious criticisms ever made by a congressional committee against an executive agency, endives waste, mismanagement, embezzlement, favoritism to labor unions. THE new housing bill introduced by Congressman Jesse P. Wolcott of Michigan has already curbed much of the expediter's powers. The bill has been passed by both Senate and House in varying forms, and is now in conference. Final approval will come soon. With all this wreckage of federal housing agencies strewn around, the only hope for any kind of government aid to housing will be to start on new foundations and build an entirely new co-ordinated program. Out of the chaos ahead the need may be seen for some really constructive law which will profit from past mistakes. The present mess in which government housing agencies find them selves represents a complete victory for the housing industry. Real estate, building materials' and builders organizations wanted all government housing programs killed so as to restore the business to uncontrolled free enterprise. That's what they will soon have. But if they don't deliver more and cheaper housing within the next year, the situation may well be dynamite for the Republicans in 1948. Truman, forgetting the past, turned on the magnanimity. "It is hard for mp to find pro per words to describe vour ser vice to vour country." he wrote. "It has been magnif icient. I saw a great deal of your work when I was head of the Senate eommit- re- that the American-Soviet Scien- j newal subscription: Joe Lees ley Friday afternoon and spent the evening at the Emil Meisinger home. Mrs. Henry Wright spent Wed nesday in Lincoln. i Rishels Return From Vacation Mr. and Mrs. James B. Rishel have returned from Dayton, Ohio I where they were the guests of the bumbling Minnesotan awkwardly begged the I tee to investieate the National well -I Defense nrogram .... how you acquitted yourself:" TRUMAN HATES The reverse side of Harry Tru man is illustrated in, his pettinpss toward ex-Spcretarv of the m- the nations tidelands oil has now been vindicated by the Supreme Court. committee's forgiveness. "I exceeded my authority," he blurted apologize to the committee." Then he asked the committee to approve reso lutions belatedly authorizing both his aDDoint- mems to the tax-studv ernun. anrl S?-, 000 f nr ! . r. .u : . . r-i . xerior fiaroia icitfs. n m si""'- their expenses. A few stubborn Democrats, how- j y agreed that no civilian did a ever, long annoyed over Knutson's arbitrary man- better iob on the home front than ner. balked. i ickes' handling of gasoline, oil ' By what authority did you appoint this ad- S and coal. Furthermore his almost visory committee0" pressed Rhode Island's Aime single-handed stand to safeguard Forand. "Technically I didn't have any," Knutson red dened. "I acted too hastily. "It reminds me." he addpd weakly, "of the old saw. better late than never." "Well, Harold, it looks like you're eoing to have to dig into your own jeans," needled an othpr Democrat. Forand poirted out that most of Knutson's ap pointees alreadv had testified at committee hear ings and favored exactly the same tax legislation advonqtd bv big business. "I fail to spc why we ned to pay S25.000." he rWlarpH. -when we already have their views on record. vindicative Harry When Knu'snn mad it plain that he intended o"r foroivp. to make ro cHonqes in thp advisory eroun. For- i CONTEMPT Or CONGRESS niH cnann-d- "This is mcr.lv n r f Talk about red faces! Nearly " - - " " ' " - ' V ' . t .11 1 L.ll 1 i M o rr 1 1 apt tulrpn covnril . rt ' ' L 3 cii y iUiiiiiniiir. uy ivuilc vuv.c tists Society has been backed fi nancially by that very "subver sive" outfit The Rockefeller Foundation. (Copyright, 1947. by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) LETTER BOX "We'd like to comment on the improvement of the Journal, since the change-over to your ownership. The news is more about Plattsmouth and it's people, and that's what we want. As others have said, we can read the worM news in any news naDer. but we like our home town paDer to be about things : we are familiar with. ! "Having lived in California T!if Journal welcomes letters from readers eonimn - , -t;n .t v..,,,- ....me must i,e ! the nast twelve years, we still sisrrvil to all fiitii'les itiTetuleil Tor I'Ul.IicHtioii, however. Iv request, it eau t.e oiu!tt-l from the letler Mhiieaiinir in luint. (Contents lo not necessai il v etr-ss the opin ions of this newspaper. ) f Annual Bible school classes are-e and the new grandson, Jimmie. i Burton is an engineer with the I Dayton Power and Light Com i pany. Enroute home they visited 1 at Chicago. Mr. Rishel then came 1 I on home while Mrs. R'ishel stop : ped for a visit with Dr. and Mrs. Ellis Schlichtemeier at Peterson, I Iowa. Mrs. Schlichtemeier is the , former Louise Rishel. being held at the Methodist church this week. With both Methodist and Christian chur ches taking part. They will pre sent a urogram at the Methodist church Sunday morning at 10:30 A. M. Everyone is welcome. Use Journal Want Ads ! . July 17, 1947. However, because Ickes fought j Plattsmouth Journal, Truman's personal friend, Ed Dear Editor. Pauley over the Tidelands oil j shall.submit a few observa. case, and resigned a relt-, tion of Cass Truman has never foreo ten h , m , m A whole oaraoe of civilians j ho , her as in perform jobs on the nar Pro-, wothwhiie endeavor, is heard of has troooed into the White House to receive the Le pion of Merit from the President. But not Ickes. He will probably ! be the last man the sometimes Truman will work, wise planning and more hard work. In the first commis sioner district, this has not been in evidence among the person- ! nel. The deplorable condition in think of Plattsmouth as home, as both of us have relatives and friends living there." By Connie Osburn ; which the county finds itself now should be no surprise to ' any thinking taxpayer, as there I were pienxy oi sijms m uic Mr. and Mrs. Eill Meyers were in Ashland Saturday evening. The Cooking Cookies 4-H club met with Janice Mannbeck Wednesday afternoon. Lesson was on bread making. Miss Wintermote of Plattsmouth also attended the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Robinson of Ashland stopped for a sho-t vicit at thp Claude Osburn home The ; c, NOTICE OF CHICKEN SUPPER ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY SING On The Lawn Of CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH On Plattsmouth-Louisville Road -on- Sunday Evening, July 27 Serving to Start at 6 o'clock EVERYONE IS INVITED , .1. ri t..j:: Ku"'"P 111 u.i-vi..w. mnmn i uri t t i r i r 1 1111 .1 i i 111-1. . ... . . ui-. ivov. reform fl-.-.H nn v hp nprt in ar- ! . t i i I- 1 .. ....v. xneir way to L'"-tuin iu neiu ivn. Knut ! -'-"j u:, k Tzrxy P0n,,. i "lerate tne crisis. , Robinson's brother. Mr. S. S. Kit- tnrnod to tve pormittep snd snok humblv "Tfs ! If. ..:. ... - -.T ! ror neanv w yearb. u.e ..uu x reLceiebrate his birthday a. r ,-11 . - . . . 1 up o von. 1 want you ienows to necinp." I sylvania J he cemm'ttee decided, 18-4. to "save face" S500 and . f nmiiraonrv hriHpp tax . f-J ' ' I l Clli 4 iivj After the discussion simmered down. f-r thpir chairman. F""-e are np of the tax advisers for whom bridee building was placed in the increasing maximum. , - unscruDulous com-' penalty tor contempt ot congress th t builds bridges for ; ' " 1 J iPCflA . .. ii um one year in jau auu fino to five years in jail Mr. and Mrs. Harold Shaffer and Luella of Plattsmouth called on Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hoenshell prom rather tnan service, duu m Sundav afternoon p taxnovprp will now nav 5.0no f0r advice on' ss-oc' fine- f lne committee's j conected the past few years, we i z mraoers, were prt-iciu. j now have hardly a bridge tn-u However, the progressive;js usable and safe for travel. , Republican Clifford Case of New I They were built at exhorbitant ' Jersey was opposed to the bill j prices, but now stand there as and decided to write a minority j monuments to the folly and stu- report. And believe it or not, be- j pjdity of responsible public cf-; fore Rep. Louis Graham of Penn- j f icials. Had a little more com-1 sylvania could write the major- mon sense and altrustic motivec ity report raising the penalty ; PUided them, and made use of for being in contempt of Con-: our OWT, natural resource, rock, i gress. Case's minority report had i m making fills and abutments to an eauy oren s'na uy it nit-m- j tne Dridges ana usea in siaun bers of the 27-man committee, i j7 ctreams. I would fnifss They were opposed to five years J that 90 per rent of the bridges future taxps: P newel 1 Mapill. Wall Street tar lawvpr: John L. Connollv. pounspl for the Minnp pn! Mininw and Manufacti'rine Co.: Cpevr C"'-jn- chf!rman Universal Pictures and Trans-oontiron-i Transport: Carson Duncan, the Arrer-i-r, a c-r-ipjor, of Railroads; John Hanps, dire" r o Pn "P"n Ai-wavs. Snerry Gvrosconp pp.Mdnlie. U. S. Lines, Bankers Trust, an'' American Supemwor. TRUMAN LOVT.S In Hirr-y Trvmari's mavp-un runs a auppr ro' f.p of rreat magnanimitv and pettv vindictive rp. Fe pn bp as bi?-hqrted and forgivin" a Letter D-'v Saint, but hp can alo rpmember r.el ptiHops even more diligently than Frkl'n Roosevelt. For iritn"0. most npopV who rpad tHe ful. cwp r.ra; Tri'TTian hppned on Bob Pattoi-so- tat rt on" t;ie Trvman was so sore at Pattero Urt advised Roosevelt to fire him as undersecre tary. Truman's ire esneciallv surged over th Carm1 rM r.'-oiprt in Aka vi'ph Truman regarded as "?rnn "-tp. ?nd "hich Pattercon sts'inM'" H -ndpd. Nw"nen who talked to Tmrhan ab-n. r'awoi Pnd it? army backers remember vividl' how he boiled over. Truman also hit the ceiling when he discovered M. W. M. Club met this week with Mrs. Ktnneth Carpenter. j Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Wright and Gene and Mr. and Mrs. Clin- 1 ton Green and sons were in.! Lincoln last Thursday evening. . I Mr. and Mrs. Louis Meisinger and daughter. Mrs. . Leonard Stoehr of Plattsmouth, called on in jail and $5,000 fine for being in contempt of Congress. The committee finally met to decide what to do whether to stard on a majority report repre senting a majority of its mem bers. It decided, since a major ity had signed the minority re- would today be sound and safe, and wpre the county in posses sion of a few rock and gravel trucks the matter of roairs to bridges and rods would be only davs instead of months. Railroads have always used liberal quantities of rock in ccn- port. to do nothing. The report struction and "have a record for on "Contempt of Congress" was laid on the table. "SUBVERSIVE" ; ROCKEFEL LER FOUNDATION Frank Jewett, president of the Bell Telephone laboratories and former head f the National Academy of Sciences, -has writtn a strong letter to George Merck, New Jersey Republican leader, sDeedv repair work to their rights-of-way. Many stone bridges in foreign countries have civen -.uninterrupted service for 500 years. While we have rock, gravel and cement in our front yard, we make ourselves dependent on Pittsburgh steel and bridge plank from the Pacific Northwest in or- NOTICE Detasseling Applications Left at Plattsmouth Creamery STECKLEY HYBRID CORN CO. ru ru . . TV InAfi 'w- j Gives Pigs A Chance to Make HOGS of Themselves 10 PROTEINS 7 VITAMINS 6 MINERALS pA OTHER PORK-MAKING NUTRIENTS S3? Plattsmouth Creamery "HOME OF CASCO BUTTER" 203 Main Street PHONE 94 Plattsmouth