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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1947 SECTION TWO THE JOURNAL. PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA PAGE ONE The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1831 TuHihfl soml-weokly, Mondays nnil TIiutb il.iys, nt 40!t-41?. Mnin Street, I'lattsmoulh, 'ass County, NYrnska. RONALD R. FURSE Editor-Publisher James Moore, Advertising Manager Thelma Olson, Society Editor. Helen E. Ileinrieh, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Patrick Osbon, Pressroom Superintendent Elarry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Kntrrcil at the Potof f lef nt PI a ttsmont h. NVI.raska as sc-oonl das! mail matter in nc cciiilancf with tin- Act of t'onfrrenii of March n. is70 . SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 15 cerrts for two weeks. EDITORIALS GOVERNMENT Of, By and For the People ' I think it is time to tell our people not just once, but again and again that in this country at least, government was not created to organize the daily life of its citizens; that man is not gov ernment's creature, but that government is man's creature instituted by him for the preservation of his rights ... 'We must tell our people of the desperate fi nancial dilemma we are in because of the govern ment's continued profligacy; and that because of this profligacy we must reconcile ourselves to giving a large share of our income to the govern ment for years to come. "We must realize that government does not create income, as you and I do that is by pro ducing goods and services. Government can get its income only by taking it from its citizens from you and me. And, in this connection, we must remind our people that the only thing so called liberals have to be liberal with, is the wages and profits earned by others. What else is there to divide?" James E. McCarthy, Dean, College of Commerce, Notre Dame University. THE SATURATION POINT Last year the per capita income of Americans reached a new peak of $1200 double the prewar figure. Thus, even though the purchasing power of the dollar has declined by about a third, the average citizen has more money to spend than he ever had and his pay has reached a new high. This isn't the sole reason for high prices by any means, but it is one of the important factors. The payrolls of manufacturing inustry have gone up tremendously. So has the cost of farm labor. And. finally, the retailer from whom you buy your food and your, clothes and everything else has to pav his help more along with higher rents, higher taxes, higher everything. Under these conditions, we can reduce prices or prevent further major increases only by improved production methods, which industry is ronstantly seeking, and by increased output on the part of labor. Those two factors were respon sible for the immense efficiency achieved by mass production in the past. They gave us the highest standard of living on earth, and a dollar whose buying power was relatively stable. And they are in direct opposition to the present day philosophy of more pay for less work. Industry wants lower prices, in order to main tain the mass market by which it lives. Retail business wants lower prices for precisely the same reason. It has voluntarily absorbed in creased overhead in an effort to avoid passing it on to the ultimate consumer. But the point has been reached and passed where this can continue to be done. The goods you buy, in the vast ma jority of instances, are sold at the lowest price possible under today's economic conditions. downemoMTane" THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO Mrs. Roy Dodge died at Omaha hospital . . . Otto Messier, former resident visited oldtime friends here, enroute to Worchester, Mass. . . . Fred Srhmader drowned in sandpits north Louisville . . . Matthew Hcrcld departed Cambridge, Mass., where he entered the law partment of Harvard University . . . Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Fox entertained at a six o'clock din ner for Mr. and Mrs. Morg-an Waybright of Los Angeles, Calif. . . . New Carnegie library was nearing completion . . . John Schiapacasse dis posed of his fruit and confectionary store to Guy W. Morgan . . J. A. Walker of Murray celebrated his E3rd birthday . . . W. B Banning of Union was superintendent of Class M of the agricultural department at state fair. TEN YEARS AGO Vincent Straub prominent resident of Cass and Otoe counties was buried from Holy Trinity church at Avoca . . . Reproduction of Burling ton locomotive made by John W. Crabill was dis played at Denver and other prints on lines west . . . Rev. Paul L. Dick named as pastor at Uni ted Brethren Mynard church . . . W. H. Tritsch taken to Immanuel hospital following injury while unloading hay on his farm . . . Residence of Fred Oldenhausen on west Oak street destroyed by fire of unknown origin . . . New BREX steel car was placed on exhibition here . . . Herbert Minor was enrolled at University of Nebraska . . Tontenelle Chapter DAR observed 150th anni versary of the constitution with group meeting at Methodist church . . . Shrader reunion held at Herman, Nebraska. of for de- When you expect a smile but receive only a frown, it may be because she doesn't Hike your seeing her in unattractive clothes or make-up. She prefers to be seen at her best, and wants to impress you in particular. You really rate high with her in such a case. Furse's Fresh Flashes The more Mom cans this season the larger the jar against the hig-h cost of. living. A joint bank account is where hubby deposits and wifey takes out. A pet regret is that we have but one vacation (if any) to spend in our country. Department stores delight in having the wo menfolk take the wind out of their sales. If you save 25 cents a day from now until Christmas you will still be broke on December 26th. m Some auto speeders don't wake up until after they're pinched. When friends advise you on how to cure a sore throat, take it with a grain of salt. The salt might do the trick. They say crocodiles can go three months with out eating, 'but we've always wondered when we're near one, will he? This is the season when some men go fishing and others do their drinking at home. Worry does a swell job of getting you noth ing but more of the same. MERRY-GO-ROUHP By DREW PEARSON General Eisenhower's recent press conference indicating- that while he wasn't a candidate for President, he would not close the door to it, was no news to Washington Merry-Go-Round readers. On June 23, Drew Pearson quoted Eisenhower as telling friends: '"No man would ever refuse to be President of the United States and therefore I certainly would not refuse provided I bentrop as follows: ' Your Excellency: I have pre viously called the attention of Your Excellency to the constant attempt of the Jews to emigrate from Europe in order to reach Palestine. I ask Your Excellency to take the necessarv steps to were given the j prevent the Jews from emigrat- nomination by acclamation without going out to ! mg." de-1 EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN (This Is thesccend of four dippatchcson the fortncorniv.g sci:lon .of the US General Assembly. ) Edson campaign for it. But you and I know that it just doesn't come that way." The Bell Syndicate. DREW PEARSON SAYS: GRAND MUFTI HELPED INSPIRE MURDER OF 5.000,000 JEWS; STATE DEPARTMENT HAS DOCUMENTS SHOWING HOW ARAB LEADER WORKED WITH HITLER: MERRY-GO-ROUND PUBLISHES DOCUMENTS. WASHINGTON. As the United Nations to morrow endeavors to solve among other things, the long-festering question of tragic Palestine, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem has carefully Official records also show that on June 5, 1943, the Mufti wrote the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria protesting that 4.000 Jewish children should not be permitted to arrive there. He was success ful. On June 28, 1943, he also blocked the transport of 1.800 Jews to Roumania. NAZIS PAY MUFTI The financial agreement be-1 tween the German government and the Grand Mufti came in the last days of the war. when Hit- ccached a delegation of Arabs to come to New j ler knew he was defeated, but York to defeat that settlement. I planned to continue the battle Ever since the war's end. when the allies cap- against the British even after the tured certain Nazi documents and witnesses, the . armistice. To this end. the Mufti o. . t. . . , , j . , i , was given parachutists, equipped State Department has had sensational evidence of i V . H ,. ' ,' , K , i , , with short-wave radio and plentv Ulf pel V W . llV.il lilt." Uldllli iWUlll pid) tU 111 UlC f Cash The contract, dated April 5. 1945, just a month before V-E cold-blooded Nazi murder of 5.000,000 Jews. Deliberately and carefully, the Grand Mufti plotted to exterminate completely all Jews from j Day, and later captured by the Europe. No wonder they are now bitter! No won-ia'hes. reqd as follows: ri r manv of them arp ln rritiral nf Iho State "AGREEMENT" Between Department for not having made these records public. The records even included a signed contract by which Hitler agreed to pay the Grand Mufti 50. 000 marks a month to stir up the Arabs against the allies. The Mufti, now trying so diligently to defeat the United Nations settlement of Palestine, jumped on the Axis bandwagon early in the war when he fled to Iraq and started the famous Iraq revolt against England. This was at the most cri tical time of the war, as the British were being driven out of Greece and the Russians had their backs tonhe wall at Stalingrad. It was Hitler's aim to join his two armies in Iraq, where t the Mufti had enlisted an Iraquian army to help him. He almost succeeded. STATE DEPARTMENT CENSORSHIP Since the State Department has refrained from publishing documents bearing on one of the most important and controversial subjects before the United Nations, this column herewith publishes the most pertinent of them. Evidence that the Grand Mufti conspired to exterminate European Jewry is given in the tes timony of Diter Von Wisliczeny, a deputy fuehrer who held the title of Adviser on Jewish Affairs in Slovakia, Greece and Hungary. He states: "In my opinion, the Grand Mufti, who has been in Berlin since 1941, played a role in the decision of the German government to exterminate the European Jews, the importance of which must not 1 be disregarded. He has repeatedly suggested to the various authorities with whom he has been in contact, above all before Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler, the extermination of European Jewry. He considered this as a comfortable solu tion for the Palestine problem. "In his messages broadcast from Berlin, he sur passed us in anti-Jewish attacks. He was one of Eichmann's best friends and has constantly in cited him to accelerate the extermination mea sures. I heard say that, accompanied by Eich mann, he has visited incognito the gas chamber in Auschwitz." (Eichmann, referred to aboove, was the Nazi in charge of Jewish extermination.) JEWISH ESCAPE BLOCKED During the war, American Jewish leaders, working through Catholic leaders in the Vatican, made partially successful efforts to smuggle Jews out of Germany. Field Marshal Goering was sym pathetic and arranged to wink at the next exit of several thousand Jews into Bulgaria and Rou mania, as a step toward Palestine. This aroused the vigorous protest of the Grand Mufti. And one captured telegram dated July 25, 1944, shows that he wrote Foreign Minister Rib- the government of the greater German Reich and the Grand Mufti of Palestine, Hadii Amin El Husseini. "The government of the great er German Reich, represented by the foreign office, concludes the following agreement with the Grand Mufti cf Palestine, Hadji get (made during the OPA bates one year ago): Sen. Kenneth Wherry, Nebras ka Republican "Taft! Taft! Everybody's always talking about what Taft has done to OPA. I'm the fellow that knocked out meat control, and I've done more to that bill than anybody else." Rep. John Tabor, New York Republican 'OPA is at the pres ent time the chief promoter of in flation." Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio Repub lican "Prices somewhat higher than normal trend to increase production. We certainly should not force such a reduction of prices as to interfere with more production." Rep. Reid F.Murra'y," Wiscon sin Republican "I do not care to vote for any more money for the OPA and thus increase the dangers of starvation . . . Ches ter Bowles and the other agen cies are there to keep business men from making a profit." Rep. Henry D. Larcade Jr., Louisiana Democrat, "(OPA) was run in a high-handed, dic tatorial and discriminating man ner, treating not only the mem bers of Congress but the people cf the country as a whole with disdain, disrespect and discour tesy." Rep. -Chase Woodhcuse, Con necticut Democrat "Let us have the courage to face a fjw more months of orderly decontrol as the price of economic stability and peace." Rep. Jessie Sumner, Illinois Republican "Subsidies are just OPA's black-market way of con cealing the fact the cost of liv ing is g-oir.g up and up and your monev is buying less and less and less." Rep. William Lcmke, North Dakota Republican "Today the question is should the OPA be liquidated abolished? My an swer is that it shculd never have been created. It is an un-American, illegitimate child. It was born of foreign parentage." Rep. Carl T. Curtis, Nebraska i Republican "(OPA) is a sham and a fraud. It is ore of the prime causes of inflation." Rep. Edward O. McCowen, Ohio Republican "Let us make the break now. and then let the price-control act die its na tural death. There will be con ' fusion for a few months . . then confusion will end, prices will be stabilized and production will be normal and sufficient." (Copyright. 1947, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) zw&. . -. V BY TETEK EDSON wr- NEA Washington Correspondent T7ASh1nGT0N, D. C. (NEA) First few weeks"of the United ' " Nations General Assembly, convening at Flushing Meadows,! N. Y., Sept. 16, will be spent in the somewhat dull, red tape busmesSj of getting organized. . . i Hearing a lot of reports and electing a presiaent, seven viee-presi- dents and tne cnairmen 01 si. bifjuuuis are first important business. These 14 officers con-( stitute the General Assembly steering committee, 1 which really runs the proceedings. It is responsible for the agenda. Tentatively on this list are some. 62 issues now troubling the world. More may be added as the session progresses. - Over the presidency there may be a battle. Dr. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, who presided over the special session on Palestine, will probably be nom inated to succeed himself. Ex-UN President Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium is expected to be a candi date. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India, glamor. nf nil international conferences, will probaDiy be nominated. So will Herbert Vare Evatt of Australia, international gadfly and spokesman for the small nations. 1 k All these candidates come from countries outside the Soviet sphere of influence. Russian bloc candidate is expected tobe Zygmunt Mondzelewski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. IT'ARLY in the proceedings will come election cf new members to - UN councils. Three new non-permanent members must be elected to the 11-nation Security Council, to succeed Australia, Brazil and Poland. Six nations must be selected for the 18-member Economic and Social Council. The Argentine has a proposal to increase this group's membership to 24, which would mean six more. Because the United States has been given trusteeship ever the former Jap-mandated Pacific islands, two additional non-trusteeship powers must be elected to the Trusteeship Council. - i Some time will have to be consumed by reports. Secretary General Trygve Lie has a number to file. The three councils must make re ports on what they've been doing in the past year. After them come the UN specialized agencies International Bank, Monetary Fund, Refugee, Children's, Aviation, Educational, World Health, Food and Agricultural organizations. Incidentally, Russia has boycotted e:ght of these outfits. ' ..... ... Finally come reports from the six principal standing commitices oc the General Assembly. They are the Political and Security, Economic and Financial, Soci&l J.nd Cu.tu.rel, Trusteeship, Budgetary sad Lesul committees. FIRST bout before the Political and Security Committee is the mat ter of UN membership. There are now 55 member nations. The Security Council has approved admission cf two others Yenttn and Pakistan. Over admission of ten other applicants there is trouble. They are Ireland, Portugal, Trans-Jordan, Outer Mongolia, Albania, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. Outer Mongolia, Albania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania are def initely within the Soviet sphere of influence. Taking them in "ivould increase to 11 votes the Russian bloc of nations, which now includes only Czechoslovakia, Pcland, Yugoslavia, the Ukraine and White Rus sia, besides the U.S.S.R. ilscll. Finland has not yet applied for men bership. , , , , . . Australia has put on the General Assembly Egenda a proposal to revise completely the procedure for admission of new members, and to take away from the Security Council its sole right to approve or veto applications from non-member countries. That may provide one cf the livelier debates at the forthcoming General Assembly session. : Leaves for Michigan Mrs. Grace Gapen, who has been visiting her daughter in Omaha, left early Tuesday morning by plane from Omaha for Willow Run, 'Michigan where she will visit her daughter, Mrs. Otto Marek and Mr. Marek at their home in Rockwood, Mich. Use Journal Want Ada All colors crepe paper i Gate's Book Store. NAEVE'S Package Store LIQUEURS BEER WINE 115 N Sixth St. The Arundel, Insurance Agency Has the policy you need at the price you can pay. Adequate Coverage with Reliable Companies at a Reasonable Price See Don Arundel Office of the Mutual Loan & Finance Co. North of Cass Drug Phone 57 Amin El Husseini: "1. The government of the greater German Reich puts at the disDOsal of the Grand Mufti of Palestine funds required for the fight of liberation against the common enemy. These funds are granted in the form of Reichs- mark. "2. For this purpose an ac count is being- oDened for the 1 Grand Mufti of Palestine with the Reichtrcasurer. "The Grand Mufti of Palestine can draw against this account until further notice 50.000 Reichsmark per month in order to cover the immediate financial requirements for this movement. The money originates from Reich funds. "This account will also be charged with the expenses of the foreign office and other headquarters of organizations of the Reich which are incurred for the Grand Mufti of Palestine or the movement conducted' by him. It is understood that these expen ses commencing April 1, 1945 shall not exceed the amount of 12.000 Reichsmark per month (in words: twelve thousand Reichs mark) until further notice. "3. The Grand Mufti of Pales tine agrees to pay back the cred it advanced to him. Amortization and interest payments will be subjects of further agreements. 4. This agreement becomes effective retroactively as of. the first of April, 1945. Signed, in duplicate original in Berlin, the fourth day of April. iy45. For the Foreign Office. (S) Steengrecht. jThe Grand Mufti of Palestine. (S) Amin El Husseini": . Such is the record of the man who now plots to block the Uni ted Nations settlement of Pales What Statesmen Would Like to Forg-et WASHINGTON. Words cer tain statesmen would like to for- nertirnt nnmnrrnt -T ,c V, , SllhSfrihA in Th Innrnil I Red Ryder Fred Herman 1 1 SSS52 5AU-')pr-5 lite i?t5,co:b:5 1 1 Jt-. 1. --.9' 1 ip v'r ."Lri S mm- m&sM wv&ui my u THAT'S fVf 0fAO)HOdCCT EL I COULDN'T (Trt:S 15 A FRESH 1 f 1 WAS TOO 6U5Y A,T f-Yf Ri,5CHio) ) Nf gSf S Csi -fAT CALF-. CODlVS'i GV. BY &AOO, VfPf?.' 3RA!T STcCX YE 6 DAY- OR v - CCALTS.??. BUT J 5YU5!' 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