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XEA TELEPIIOTO UNITED TRESS SERVICE PiLATnrSIMKIDQJTIH JJflDOMFMtL CASS COUNTY'S NEWS pa per SECTION 2 ME The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1831 r,u l. islnil fi'ml-wpcUly, Mnndnvs nnil Thurs days, ;it 40:-41" Miiin Mr-t-t. lUttsmul h, Cos -nitity, Nebraska.. RON'ALD R. FURSE - FRANK II. SMITH Publisher . .Editor Thelma Olson, Society Editor, ilelen E. Ileinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department KntPri'il at t'.ip IVistnf fief at 11 a t tmoij t h. NVhriiylia a s-onil !;tss mail mnMr in a' ni(!:i uii- tin- At nf 'oiirsii of March 1T9. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By cariier in Plattsmouth, 15 cert.s for two weeks. EDITORIALS AN HONEST PRICE One unfortunate phase of the price problem is that everyone stems to be looking for a pat solution, which will solve it in one fell swoop. The fact is that the problem is simply the sum total of innumerable other problems and forces, some of them of extreme complexity. For example, high wages contribute to high prices. Foreign aid contributes to high prices. Government fiscal poli cy, which is still strongly inflationary, contributes to hif,-h prices. Our record national income (in creased printed money), which no one wants to reduce, contributes to high prices. The worst illusion of all is that a return to price control of the OPA type would solve the .problem. The government could set a low price tor an article but it couldn't make anyone pro duce that article if the price involved an operating loss. Price control would drive goods inexorably into the black market, which would then become the real market. Most dangerous of all, price con trol would be completely impossible unless it in volved the strictest kind of wage and other con trols and subjected the nation to some kind of an economic dictatorship. Dining the next year, prices may go up or they may come down. No one knows, and, as the experience of the past year pr two shows, the forecasters are almost invariably wrong. But. in a free economy, where open competition exists all along the commodity line, down to the chain or indepi ndent store from which you buy your goods, the price will be an honest price. It will be an accurate reflection of present-day costs and con ditions. And that is all that anyone can expect. FIRE AND YOUR CHILD "Fire is the leading accidental killer of child ren," writes the Star of Saugerties, New York. It then points out that while the battle against di sease as a cause of child fatalities is being won, the battle against accidents is being lest. Some G.COO children under the age of five die in home accidents each year. More than a third die from burns and scalds a larger toll than is exacted by the dread disease of polio. On top of that, for every child who is fatally burned, many more arc crippled or disfigured for life. No child is burned through his own fault. The blame comes straight home to parents who, through carel'-sseness or ignorance or downright inertia, permit the child to be exposed to haz ards. The Star cites some suggestions, made by the National Board cf Fire Underwriters, which should be memorized by every parent: 1. Never leave children unattended in the hi nm and be sure the sitter is responsible. 2. Keep matches, hot liquids, lamps, etc., out f the reach of children. :!. Don't permit children to play with bon l:re: er fireworks. Such amusements as popcorn i oasts should be held under close adult super vision. 4. Avoid dressing children in highly inflam mable clothing, such as net dresses. 5. In case of fire, get children cut of the house, then call the fire department. If all parents will follow these easy rules, the horrible toll fire now takes in the coin of child ren's lives and health will be sharply reduced. DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Judge and Mrs. A. H. Duxbury visited at Ft. Crook schools where they showed pictures of their trip to Washington and New England states . . . Mrs. R. A. Bates returned from a visit with relatives at Lockport, Illinois. the old family home . . . Thomas Thomsen of Nebraska City established a credit bureau sponsored by the Business Men's Ad Club . . . Life magazine hon ored former resident, Lloyd B. Wilson, president of the Chesapeake company, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co W. W. Perry of Orange, California visited at the C. D. Spang ler home and joined in celebration of his mother's 91st birthday . . . Blizzard and winter weather caused Santa Claus to worry over anticipated trip to city. THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO The ladies of St. Mary's Guild conducted a very successful Christmas shop in the Riley Ho tel block . . . Mesdames Fannie Dickscn. Wil liam Mann and Fred Morgan entertained the Ladies Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church at f'e Dickson home on Chicago Avenue . . . Frank Schmarder was victorious over Gus Pappas in match staged at Grand Theatre . . . Chris Barkening purchased 3C8 acres near Cullom Furse's Fresh Flashes The members of the high school graduating classes over the state have just about five more months to be in blissful ignorance that the woild does , not owe them a living. "A step farther and I would have bcen a step father,' 'explains a local man since he escaped the clutches of a Plattsmouth widow with a teen aged son. One Plattsmouth mother is not so perturbed by her children telling fibs as she is by them telling the truth at the mot inappropriate times. Too bad that by the time a person has sense enough to drive an automobile, he's too feeble to handle the wheel. A local woman doesn't know whether to send her soiled camel hair coat to the cleaners or the beauty parlor. All the nuts in an auto should be kept tight except the one at the wheel. The trouble is. that all the thing's that come to a man who waits are seldom what he has been waiting for. One reason we will never have a woman can didate for president is that a presidential candi date must be over 35 years of age. i A lot of people who arc headed for hell should stop off here in Plattsmouth and get a glimpse of paradise. We have such a stingy man here in Platts mouth that he has all his children believing that Santa Claus is the "boogy-man." A famed social worker makes the statement that a man needs $1,000 before he marries. No doubt, but not anything like as bad as he needs it after he marries. - ' known as the Seybcrt police . . . Ther mometer at local Burlington station regis tered 4 degrees below zero at 7 a. m., lowest for the winter to date . . . Fire Chief A. F. Braun reported to the city council the purchase of a forty g-:llon chemical engine as a sple-ndid addi tion to the fire department equipment. IM Edson ft 7 THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, JOURNAL Thursday, December 11, 1947 PAGE ONE EDSON'SWASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSOV ' ..- NEA Washington Correspondent TTTASHINGTON. D. C. (NEA) Major criticism hurled "against President Truman's anti-inflation program is that it represent: a return to "planned economy." Truman himself, in one of the worst political boners of his career, admitted at a press conference a month before his special message to Congress that consumer con trols were police state methods. Republicans are rubbing that one in till it hurts. Senator and presidential candidate Robert A. Taft charges that the Truman administration ii demanding "complete power over everything and everybody ... a regimented and planned econ omy." Previously Taft declared, ". . . we can better stand higher prices than we can stand a complete relapse to Fascist regimentation." Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Recce in what sounds like an attempt to crack the first political slogan for 1948 says Truman wants ta put "a cop in every kitchen." But bless their hearts, if you removed from Washington all the people of both parties who had plans for curing whatever it is that's wrong with the country, this place would look deserted. , lJAKING plans is the biggest business in the capital. People who hate the Truman ideas the most are some of the hottest planners. Committee for Constitutional Government certainly one of the most anti-New Deal outfits in the country and the second biggest spender among the registered lobbyists issues more plans and state ments than Democratic and Republican National Committees. National Assn. of Manufacturers, fills many wastebaskets with copies of its plans on taxes, labor, high prices or what have you. Railroads, realtors, farm organizations and labor now have re search staffs and representatives who do nothing but make plans. Before World Depression One most of the planning was done by individual scholars, like Adam Smith. They would shut themselves up and write a book. The New Deal of course went in for planning in a big way. That's where the dog got its bad name Nevertheless, the government's National Resources Planning Board did some exceptional work. But outside government a few blue ribbon private and endowed groups have begun to take hold. Today. National Planning Assn., founded in 1934. and Committee for Economic Development, started in 1943, are probably at the top of the heap among the private organi zations interested in trying to steer the economy for the general good. TT is difficult to know just how much good these planners do. Certainly, congressional reorganization could not have been put over in 1946 if advance planning had not been done by George B, Galloway for the American Political Science Assn. and Robert Heller CUe VASyiKGTOH MERRY-GO-RGimD By DREW PEARSON DREW PEARSON SAYS: CHINESE GOVERNMENT HUSHING UP GREAT LOVE STORY; SEN. AUSTIN PAYS TRIBUTE TO BRAZIL'S ARANHA: AGRI CULTURE DEPARTMENT HAGGLES WITH ARMY OVER FOOD. WASHINGTON The greatest love story since Edward VIII of England gave up the throne of England to marry Wally Simpson is now being fearfully hushed up by . the Chinese government. It is the romance of Madame Sun Yat-Seo. wi dow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, with an American Army Captain, Gerald Tannebaum of Baltimore. To understand why the Chinese government is so worried over this love match, it is necessary to realize that Madame Sun is the Martha Wash ington of modern China, venerated by national ists and communists alike. Her home and every thing connected with her has become something of a shrine in the eyes of the Chinese people. Therefore, the news that she had fallen in love with a foreign soldier would be shattering to Chinese public opinion. Madame Sun is also the sister-in-law of Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, and the sister of Madame Chiang. She is the youngest of the fa mous Soong- sisters and married Dr. Sun, founder of the Chinese Republic, when she was only 23. She is now 55 and still one of the most beautiful women in China. In high Kuomintang circles, Madame Sun is regarded as the black sheep of the family, be cause she has long advocated peace between the Kuomintang and the communists the same pol icy as that recommended by General Marshall. Some high Chinese privately even call Madame Sun a communist, though, because of her great prestige, no one dares say a word ag-ainst her in public. Instead, the government guards her as a sort of living national monument, and writers sometimes refer to her as a "palace prisoner". It was this close surveillance and ah inter cepted letter that uncovered Madame Sun's ro mance with Captain Tannebaum. For three years however, it remained one of the best-kept sec rets in China. The story is that of a modern "Madame Butterfly" in reverse. A comparatively young man, Capt. Tannebaum met the 55-year-old widow of Sun Yat-Sen in Chunking where he was attached to the U. S. Air Forces. Politically they thought alike, and an intellectual friendship was struck up, which swelled into a warm love, told in sentimental notes exchanged between the two. LOVE LETTERS BY RADIO RECORDS After the war, Tannebaum was transferred to Shanghai and Madame Sun followed. He con tinued to write love letters, addressing her af fectionately as "Susie." These were deposited by a Chinese messenger in a secret cache where they would not be censored by Kuomintang watchers. When Mme. Sun was under too close observation, she sent records of popular love songs to Tannebaum's office at Shanghai's ra dio station XMHA, at that time operated by the American forces. He would re tire to the control room and play them in secret. Sometimes she was also able to put through telephone calls. On such occasions. Tannebaum would order his staff out of the room. But to a few trusted friends he confided that he hoped to marry Madame Sun. Madame Sun was most dis creet, and took care to ignore Tannebaum at public functions that brought them together. But when it came time for his dis charge from the Army and his return to the States, she took a daring- step. She hired him to di rect a small relief agency which she had organized. Later, he flew home upon word his brother was dying. The Chinese authorities seized this opportunity to try to block Tannebaum's return to China. But after several weeks of wait ing and wranglintr. he manage-d to get back to Shanghai and the most idolized ladv in China. Best Friend of I SA j Senator Warren Austin of Vermont, now U. S. delegate to j the United Nations, arose in the j closing session of the assembly and paid tribute to a great American Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil. The average newspaper reader might not think of the former Brazilian foreign minister as an American, because we have the bad habit of thinking that only North Americans are Americans. But not only is Aranha a great American whether north or south but he has been one of the r-eatest friends of the Uni ted States. Time after Time during the early stages of the war, when the Brazilian army and even President Vargas were convinced the U. S. forces would not re cover from the crippling blow at Pearl Harbor, Arrnrn forced them to give vital Brazilian military bases to the U. S. A. Time after time he threw his weight behind U. S. requests that Brazil clean cut nazi agents nnd the Jap colonies in Sao Pau lo. At the recent United Nations meeting. Aranha as president did more than any other one man to pilot the assembly throue'i the pitfalls of Vishinskv recrimina tions, British vacillation and Gromvko vetoes. The sometimes wavering U. N. came out strong er and healthier for Aranha's wise leadership. Senator Austin, who has done a lot for the United Nations himself, had good reason to knov all this. The only thing that might have been added to Aus tin's tribute is that if ?nvone de serves the Nobel Peace prize next year, it will be Oswaldo Aranha for his great work as nresident of the United Nations. U. S. Bureaus Count Dollars It should interest these who worry about government expen ditures that the ArgicuUure De partment has been haggling late ly with its most stubborn custo mer the Army. The argument is a familiar one in the grocery business. Agriculture has some surplus stocks on its hands that it would like to sell dried fruits, dried eggs, sweet potatoes and peanuts. But the Army is a frugal buyer and wont' pay the i ing several very pleasing games. ! for the National Planning Assn. prices. Argiculture argics that the i Army is in no position to quib- ! ble over prices with starving j people to feed in occupied areas, ' points out that the Army's duty is to lay hands on any food it can get. Besides, isn't it more practical to buy up goods that will help both Europe and America at the same time? But the Army complains that its budget is running low as a .v'sedt. first, of the shsving Con- ' The Club ladies sang Christmas carols led by Mrs. John Hansen and accompanied by Mrs. Her bert Kuntz. Guests present were Mesdames Neil Pierce. Vance Balfour, Glen Thacker, Fred Hansen Krong, Miss FVnces Hansen and Mrs. Edna Wolfert, Redondo Beach, Calif. The hostesses served delicious refreshments from a table made beautiful with Christmas decorations. National Planning Assn was probably responsible for starting the thinking on postwar reconversion and lull employment in '41-'42. Committee for Economic Development, in studies by A. D. H. Kap lan, anticipated most of the contract termination policies later de veloped by Barney Baruch for the postwar planning committee. Some of their ideas have been duds and flops. Other examples of plans that panned cut could be given. Those cited above illustrate the main point, which is that economic planning is now a science. Every big business firm now has its planning staff. And for the government, which is the biggest business of them all, to try to get along without planning would be the height of folly. Only a few of the politicians have yet waked up to the fact that politics is no longer purely an emotional game. It is also a science political science. Politicians, therefore, don't mean wh:it they say when they talk about doing away with planning and the planned economy. The Re publican proposal to' cut taxes and let the economy run wild is just as much a plan as Truman's proposals to try putting on a few curbs. "I LET THE GAS FLAME QUINTS DO THE WORK IN MY HOME" (Jips fravr antirnnrulinni;' cor- ond. the sudde-n skyrocketing of 'T?SE JOURNAL WANT ADS and attempting to prevent World Depression Two prices; and third, the extra bills which dollar-bankrupt Britain left the U. S. holding. Now it looks as if Congress may step in and settle the con troversy. At the backstage prompting of Senator Carl Hay den. Arizona Democrat, the S"n ate agreed to make surplus foods available for overseas re lief at the same price per calory as wheat. If the resolution passes. Congress will make up the loss es to the Agriculture' Depart ment. Note Agriculture still isn't , happy, doesn't want the losses to appear in its bookkeping. It would rather that the Army bought the surpluses at prevail ing prices, then let Congress make up the deficit to the Army. (Copj light, 1947, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Nehawka Woman's Club Notes The Nehawka Woman's Club met Friday, Dec. 5th, 1947 at the home of Mrs. Raymond Pol lard, with Mrs. Bruce Stone, Mrs. Leo Switzer and Mrs. Geo. Sheldon as assistant hostesses. The President, Mrs Henry Ross, conducted the business meeting. Mrs. John Hansen led the flag salute. 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