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PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL.. PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 I'uUiali.d .-n.i-wt-klv. Monday an1 Thnrs day. t 40-4i: Main Miect. 1-luttMiioutli. t'iisM Countv, Xolirasku. RONALD R. FURSE Editor-Publisher James Rloore Advertising Manager Thelma Olson, Society Editor. Helen E. Hcinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Patrick Osbon, Pressroom Superintendent harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Knternl at tlio T'oMoff ii-t nt I'lattsmontli. Nrtiraka as sccoikI -lass m.-tll matter in ac cordance with the -it of Consrcsi of Aliiieli 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 FRIENDLINESS WINS TRADE The finest asset the merchant and business men of any community ch give to that commu nity is the feeling over the trade territory that the town is a good friendly, hospitable town they can go to trade. This will do more to build up the good will toward the community than any other one. thing they can do. If this feeling exists, trade will come to town because it likes to come. If on the other hand there is a feeling of coldness, of aloof ness, of selfishness about the town, no amount of high pressure salesmanship is going to make it a popular place in which to trade. It is up to every individual merchant of a community to do his part toward making the community a desirable place in which to trade. While Plattsmouth is not one hundred per cent in this respect, it measures up far beyond the av erage when it comes to courtesy and friendliness in the shops and stores. Furse's Fresh Flashes One of the grcates disappointments of my life was not having been born soon enough to have my name on a shaving mug gracing the "cubby hole" shelving in the home-town barber shop. It Jends distinction to an individual as does your name listed in society's blue book. About the saddest sight ve have ever gazed upon is the two-hundred-forty-pound woman at the lingerie counter fumbling through a pile of unmentionables carrying a large sign reading -Special sale of panties." Social security is all right, reports a Platts mouth man who is old enough to qualify for the payments, but, he says, "It won't allow me tc save anything for my old age." The Kansas legislature voted for the cotton wood tree as the state tree. It's all right to vote for it, but don't plant it. . In these times about the only good it will do to teach the average boy to count over one hun dred is that it will help him in later years to total up his golf score. "What's a Grecian urn?" asked a local prof of one of his pupils. "That depends upon what kind of a restaurant he runs," was the reply of a student. It's a lot easier to burn a twenty-dollar bill than to pay one. A Plattsmouth woman is .o charmed with her husband that she thinks some designing woman leads him astray and the family parrot taught !iim to swear. TOTAL-STATE IN ALL ITS GLORY It will be interesting to see just how Ameri can Communists, Communist sympathizers, and fellow-travelers go about squaring the present policy of the Soviet Union with the old propa ganda to the effect thai their particular brand of dictatorship offers the sole hope for bettering the lot of the "common man." When, some ime ago, the Soviet Union refused to join in the Marshall Plan for the rehabilitation of Europe, it divided the world into two opposing camps. It made united effort for putting hungry and destitute peoples on their feet, impossible. It: decreed, in effect, that the citizens of the small nations such as Czechoslovakia must divorce them selves from all hope of American assistance on pain of "displeasing" Moscow and thereby invit ing the kind of terrorism that subdued Hungary. The peoples of these unhappy countries were not, of course, given an opportunity to express their own wishes in the matter. It is only in "de generate" capitalist nations that the ordinary citi zen has a free ballot, free speech and a free press. Only under the obsolete and ridiculous democratic system can a man work or not work as he pleases, start a business, speak his mind, and go about his affairs without dread of secret police and drumhead courts and concentration camps and slave labor. Only where the laughable institu tion of free enterprise exists do the people con trol their government and choose their officials all the way from town marshal to the head of the nation. Communism feeds upon despair, starvation, terror. The Soviet high command has decide that these shall be its gifts to every nation whir' it can Influence and dominate. It is building onr 'A the most brutal systems of slavery in the his tory of the world. Here is the total-state, in all its glory. me viujHimivii duty, and when Trippe puts on an especially big party, extra ser vants are brought in, som'.-iiyes from the White House staff. nt for this colonial mansion i im ported to be ?800 a month. PAN AM'S AIRPLANE JUNKETS Then there are the special Pan American facilities at the Na tional airport where two private planes are kept, the NC4C0U and the 400W. It is these planes which have flown Serater Brewster on various trips up to his home in Maine, and once to Hobo Sow-d, Florida, where Sain Pryor, vice president of Pan-American, main tains his winter home. Mr. Pryor, Former Republican National Committeeman from Connecti cut, is one of the ablest lobbvLsts in the Capital and handles Pan-j one flights and extra expenses are important is that they help to determine the amount of air mail subsidy paid by the govcrn-n-ent to Pan-American Airway?. It. is estimated that Pan-American has received a total subsidy from the government of more than $150,000,000. This docs not include the $190,000,000 paid Fan-Am in connection with building special airports in Latin America during the war. The $150,000,000 figure com pares with the $40,003,000 paid by the goverrm 'nt to Howard Hushes. And just as ihe money spent by Hughes to entertain El liutt Roosevelt ia reported to have come cut of government funds, so also the cost of ornate lobbying oi'fiaes, the $10,000 for meals for Pan-Am vice-president, and THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1947 Am's most difficult jobs. It is Senator Brewster who has been charged by Howard. Hughes with investigating him because h? refused to take Brew-! ster's suggestion that Hughes' '. Trans World Airline amalgamate ' with Pan-American. j It was Senator Brewster who; the fees to high-priced lobbying attorneys all go into expenses wncn it comes to figuring Pan Am's r.ir-riail subsidy. Regarding Pan-Am's waste of money on lobbying, the Civil A', ronnutics board has some caustic things to sa; And it would be a simple matter for Senator Brewster's committee to ports if flew to Raleigh N. C, last war to visit ailing Senator Bailiy of; subpoena the CAB r North Carolina, then chairman of, he wants the full truth. the Senate Interstate Commerce '; (Copyright. 19-7. the Bell Syn committee, to urge his support of j dicate, Inc.) the "one compan y" i lea for American airlines over seas. The '"one co plan is urged by Pan-A to fly all foreign routes, as j Livestock values failed to keep agums.i ine aiii'-Muii s.v v.. t(1 naco v.-jt, the scaring mercury San! Livestock Market favored by in free competition other companies. Incidentally, wlvn flew to see Sen. Bailey lcigh. Jack Frye, then pr'sid nt of Trans World Airline, h-a'-eed of the flight; and. getting ex-Senator Bennett Clark out of bed in Kansas City, persua'led him t phone Senator Bailey long dis tance not to side v. ith Brewster in favor cf the "one company" bill. Monday and Tuesday on the Omaha maikct. In the fat cattle Bie-wsttr j division, only b- eves from $27.00 ; i p showed strength, oome oi j those were 25 cents higher Tues ; day. Top on steers was $.r2.50, i with heifers quotable to $30.00. ; Grasyfat Wyoming steers sold f.;r slaughter at a now all-time ' high f r Westerns, G25.C0. but t generally under $27.00 trade was i on weak to 50 cents lower basis, j Cows were sharply lower, as Realty Transfers F. J. Svoboda and Rese, Elmer Jacobscn & wife; 7-23-47, L. 1, 2, 3, 1. & 79 NW't SEVt L. 8!) & 93 SW'i NE'.'i 12-12-13, $6000.00. OUie Dasher, George Dasher; 7-25-47, L. il & 12 B. 20 S. Park, $1.00. Abigail Stover and Leone B. Hogarth, F. L. Althouse & wife; 7-10-47, NVVi 2G-!0-9, $17600.00. H. A. Balthazcr and Elva, Roy Beins and Anna P.; 7-23-47, L. 8 to 15, B. 5 Duke's Add, $3500.00. Cera Hathaway, G. L. Hatha way; 7-20-47. L. 8 to 13, B. 5 Lynn's 1st Add to Union, $1.00. H. E. Branel and Esther, Eldora Pankonin; 7-?;)-47, L. 58, 59, 60 ! Louisville, $1.00. Eldora Pankorvn, 11. F. Brand & Esther; 7-29-47, L. 53, 59, 60 Louisville. $1.0C. , George Baker and May, Paul Dru.n; & Ellen; 7-3-47, L. 420 & 421 Louisville, $2100.00. W. A. Hollenb'Tgcr and Maude ; E.. W. A. Hollcr.bcrger & Maude; 7-30-47, CVs L. 3 B .13 Avoca, $1.00. Emmet L. Wessel, R. R. McDon ald; 7-21-47, Cls L. 4 B. 18 Avo ca, $1.00. Anastasia Claus c'.al. Eva Mc Grath; 7-18-47, L. 9 & V2 L. 10 B. 9 Plattsmouth, $1.00. r.'obt. VanP;U, Mildred Van Pelt; 7-23-47, S2 SEU 32-12-9. $1.00. Peter C. Standcr and Ruth, Earl Fletcher & Nellie; 3-1-47, S'2 NW'i 5-11-9. $10000.03. Mr. c.-.i Mrs. Carl Schneider and son, Ronnie, are enjoying a vacation in Colorado. Be rnard Dow was heme for the weekend from Syracuse where he is employed this summer. We How Have All Size Auto, Truck and Tractor Tires c ur Selection Is Complete Our Price Is Right HIMERS WELS Firestone Store Phone 147 Plattsmouth, Nebr. Mrs. Ralph Buchanan is from Chicago for a short with her parents, Mr. and Don Sciver. here visit Mrs. j David and Paul Anderson of ! Plattsmouth are spending a few j days in Union visiting their grara-parents. i.r. ana Airs. Frank Andersen. DOWN MEMORY LANE Seventy-one years ago in Plattsmouth J. B. Fcjlden the old miller of Rock Bluffs operated the saw mill, sawing lumber by the acre, and ad vertised cottonwood for sale ... A steamboat coming down from the mountains stopped over night here for repairs. It had on board a cinna mon bear which caused much excitement among the younger generation who made a general stam pede to the boat to view the curiosity ... A car of Russians seven months from Russia, bound for Seward passed through the city . . . Prof. Simons of New York elected to take charge of two de partments in high school . . . Hon. J. C. Cummins, county treasurer, returned from trip to Cleveland attending convention encampment of Sir Knights. Prof. Drummond's literary society held meeting and entertainment . . . Henry Eikcnbary returned frcm Utah cattle buying trip. from saw- The possibility of making surar dust or any kind of wood shaving is forecast by Prof. Erik Hagglund of fhe Swedish Wood Rc- search Institute. In the last 10 months of 1946-47, $160,000 worth of show dogs left Britian, more than half of them to American breeders and exhibitors. James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland were the only bachelors ever elected president of the United Sates. Ilialeah horse racing has contributed $20,000, 000 in stale revenue since the legalization of Florida pari-mutucls. Fain; machinery that will stand outside dur ing the winter should have all wearing surfaces treated with rust preventive. By DREW PEARSON DREW PEARSON SAYS: PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS OFFICIAL SPENT $49,923 FOR? "PERSONAL" EX PENSES IN ONE YEAR; LOB3YING BY AIRLINES IS PAID BY TAXPAYERS THROUGH AIR-MAIL SUBSIDIES; PAN AMERICAN GOT $130,000,000 IN AIR SUB SIDIES. WASHINGTON. Senator Brewster's War Investigating Committee has performed a healthy service in showing how Howard Hughes' aiele spent $5,083 entertaining Elliott Roosevelt. This is something the public is entitled to know about. However, the public is also entitled to know about all the lavish entertainment poured out by other big airplane companies when that enter tainment was deducted from the taxpayers' money. And if you take the $5,033 spent on Elliott Roose velt and stack it alongside what the taxpayers shelled out for "entertainment" by Pan American Airways, it makes Elliott's entertainment look like chicken-feed. For'instance, here is the expense account of Pan-American's senior Vice-President, Robert G. Thach, as noted in an official report of the Civil Aeronautics board: "Meals for himself and others, $10,203.30 in 1933." Ten thousand dollars is a lot to soend for meals alone in one year. And Mr. Thach had other expenses that year which totalled $49, T28.24. These he lifted as "laundry, sightseeing, deck chairs, club dues, doctors, nurses," and var ious other things. His bill for long-distance tele phoning alons in 1938 was $10,3.-'4.25. However, the year 1933 ws net out of line with other years for Mr. Thach. The Civil Aero nautics board, examining the accounts of Pan American Airways, made this official and critical comment: "When during a 30-month period, expense vouchers totalling $100,000 exclusive of salary, iire approved for one officer (Thach) without investigation or inquiry by the company's chief accounting office, then such items would not be considered by the CAB in determining the 'need' of the carrier." HOW THE PUBLIC PAYS "Need," in this case, refers to Pan-Am's need of air-mail subsidies and the reason -he CAB was examing Pan-American's accounts was that the amount of its mail subsidy determined in part by its expenses of operation. And what the American taxpayer doesn't generally realize is that the cost of the expensive lobbv conducted by Pan-Americanto influence Congress is largely paid for by th2 taxpayer himself through the air-mail subsidy. This is also true of other aviation companies, except that Pan-American has re ceived far more in airmail subsidies than any other company, end also conduces one of the most far-flung and expensive lobbies in the his tory of government. For .instance, Pan-American maintains three different offices in Washington, though it has no airline entering Washington. In addition, it has two secret hideaway spots in the capital all con nected with lobbying. Ono of these is a 10-room suite at 1815 15th street, which has a private telephone line direct to Pan-Am headquarters in New York. Then there is a confidential office at 1319 F street op crated by Bill McAvoy, Pan-Am's ruavo public ity man and full-time lobbyist. Very few people know this of f ico exists. Also, t'Aere is the official office c.t 1109 Connecticut Avenue. In addition, three rooms aro always kept, at the Mayflower, Hotel rooms C05, 621 and 743 available to Pan Am officials in case of sudden trips to Washing ton. Much of the time, however, they are vacant, thus adding to the crowded condition of Wash ington hotels. Much of this eventually is paid out of the taxpayer's pocket. Finally, there is Pan-Am's colonial mansion at 2017 F street where Pan-Am President Juan Trippe entertains congressmen and other big bhots. Hurt: a ' butler and maid are on constant J Brewster's pla. e about fifteen ing Raleigh, was delayed! much as 50c-$1.50 off, at $10.00- minutes in reach-i $18.aU, and stockcrs ana lceaers v-hirh n..m-,iitpd ! 50c-$l.CO lower, stock steers to i .i.ii k : . i ; 1 1 i it ti . i iu . v.m i , . - - - through and persuade Bailey not! Hogs, which reached last to go along with Brewster." This ! week, were 50e-$1.25 lower, with was probably the chief reason j $28.00 Monday's peak and only why the "one eompanv" bill; a few to $27.75 Tuesday. Fat never passed the 79lh Congress, i lambs scored a 50 cent advance Tl , , r a - I and $23.50 top Mondav but It was also one of Pan-Am s: ' .' , . . . 1 ,.,,f.n t' ,i.- , , , - , .,i ; skidded bacK to $24 00 Tuesday. F. Whitncv of the Railroad Train- s mov LlP a men and Alvanley John: ton of; hoi' Inn,.n.livn V .in i .or c r,.l :J AlTlOng lCCel'lt sales: win. i. .ueizgcr, a sieers, wt. 1032, $23.25. $21.' Phone Mutual Loan & Co. for LOANS or ANCE. Finance INSUR quarter, Cass county trip from Cleveland last year at hp iim. when the two Brother hood leaders eem- out for the? L. B. Todd, 2G steers, wi. 1035, hill. : 5-50.00. "one comoany PAN-AM'S TREMEM.OI S SUBSIDY The reason all these special ! Sterling Ingwersen, 42 steers, wt. 1128, $29.50; 30, wt. 1032, $29. Herman Zierotl, 8 heifers, wt. ,822, $25.50. CASS THEATRE BACK IN ACTION QUICKLY i Out in Ri d Willow county they elidn't lose any lime with the har ! vest. Everv available combine Last Time Thur., Aug. 7 Joan Crawforel and John Garfield in "HUMORESQUE" See it From the Start! Fri. & Sat., Aug. 8 c 9 Double Feature Charles Starrett' and Smiley Burnette in "STRANGER FROM PONCA CITY" Durango Kid Fools the Outlaws! and Donald Barry and Ann Savage in "THE LAST CROOKED MILE" Mystery of a $300,000 ear Also "Jack Armstrong" Serial Mat. Sat. 2:30 Nights 7 & 0:30 Sun. & Mon., Aug. 10 & 11 Jeanne Grain and Linda Darnel! in "CENTENNIAL SUMMER" Greatest Celebration the Screen has Ever Seen All Technicolor! Also Color Cartoon & News Mat. Sun. 2:30. Nights 7 & 0:15 was kept busy last week getting in the wh'-at crop. For instance Re lane! Trail, who ore-rates a farm southwest cf McCook, fell over an 13 foot bank v jh his ! i a. y x X'tir-J r ' ) ond ot long ot .x 1 1 vmmk i i IT PAYS TO BUY THE BEST Boy's Schwiiin Bicycle e-uipment when he was moving! liii rfiniliinn iinrl 1rn.trr from imp I field to another. Trail was hospi tal-: with a broken chest bone I and ribs, and a gashed arm. i Although the tractor was some J what bent uo in the fall, it still ; operated. And the combine was j practically undamaged except ' for a broken sweep blade. 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