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PASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper SECTION 2 THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, JOURNAL Thursday, March 4. 1943. PAGE ONE SPRING BOARD? The Plattsmouth Journal Furse's Fresh Flashes ESTABLISHED 1881 DEMOCRATIC COLUMN DEM-' SEA TELEPIIOTO UNITED PRESS SERVICE I I 'HP ' 4ssssS&rJ & , M I : 1 I ' I PnHisfipd c ml-wpf klv, Uoniiavs and Thurs nys. at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth. fuss Coiurty. Ntir?ki. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising Manager Helen E. Ileinrieh, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxtn, Manager Job Department TnTfrd at tnc Poefoff Pt T'lattsmouth. Net :raka st-roml Mass mail mnMer in ac rordnnte Mitli tl,e Act of Congrt of March S. 1S79. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4. CO per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mor.th, 15 cents for two weeks. EDITORIALS IT'S TIME TO GET KID OF FIDDLERS An interesting, enlightening and surprising article appearing in the current issue of the United States-News-World Report is titled "Why Federal Costs Stay High." Since the advent of the New Deal, which initially campaigned on the promise of reducing government expense 25 per cent, Americans soon became unstartled by the announcement of ex penditures of dollars counted by the millions. It was not long before government accounting be gan running into dollars by the billions, yet none of us can conceive how much a billion dollars redly is. Annual budgets for the operation of the fed eral government at the beginning of the New Deal ran between seven and nine billion dollars. Today Congress has before it President Truman's request for a peace-time budget totaling approxi mately forty billion dollars, which the U. S. News publication points out is two billion dollars more than the government is spending in the present fiscal year .ending next June 30. Taxpayers complained, in face of the false promise of 25 per cent reduction in government costs, about nine billion dollar budgets, and in this connection the publication shows that today taxpayers are putting up ST for every SI they put up only eight years ago. In view of all this tremendous spending Con gressmen are confronted with the tremendous and serious task of determining whether or not the $40 billion requested by the President for the next fiscal year shall be pared down. Economy minded Republican members of both houses of Congress, with the backing of old-line Democrats, are determined that cuts shall be made, prin cipally through the adoption of a workable sys tem of reducing waste and the program of reck less spending that came with the advent of the New Deal. Every person should be concerned about the effort of Congress to cut expenditures through elimination of waste and unnecessary spending, as it is estimated that fifty-two per cent of the government's income to meet the proposed $40 billion budget ccmes from individual taxpayers. Everyone is having to puil in his belt in these days of high costs of necessities, brought about mostly by high taxes, and naturally agree that the bureaucratic spenders in Washing-ton should begin tightening up on the government money bags, into which they have been dipping for these pal dozen or more years. If one is to dance one must pay the fiddlers. About the only way to bring about economy in government is to get rid of the financial '-musicians" in Washington who are fiddling away so much of the public funds. EETTEIt WATCH STASSEN Today nobody seems to know for sure who will be the Republican presidential candidate this year. Many think Governor Dewey will be selected at the Philadelphia convention, otheis believe Senator Taft will get the call. All we can add is that former Governor Har e Id E. Stassen of Minnesota will bear watching. In event of a deadlock he may emerge as the standard-bearer with the possibility Governor Warren of California will be his running mate. Stassen has been campaigning' for the presi dency since he got out of the Navy two years ago. Public opinion polls have not yet given him any great prominence in the nomination race, but that may be changed as the convention date draws closer. THE PAPER IS A LADY "The night editor usually says he 'puts her to bed'," says Uncle Mat, writing on "The Paper Is a Lady," in the Wall Street Journal, "and in all of their hourly contact with her the boys in the news room personalize her in a feminine sort of way. She may be a lady, but she has been known to sell herself cheap. She's a mamma dog to work for, but sometimes she's a'most a mother. Certainly at all there is a great deal of similarity between a newspaper and a woman and I'll tell you why: "They both have forms. They always have the last word. Back numbers are not in demand. They are well worth looking over. They have a great deal of influence. You cannot believe everything they say. They carry the news where ever they go. Every man should have one of his own and not borrow his neighbor's." Political note: Some of the professionals now think that, with Eisenhower out of the running, Taft and Dewey will deadlock at the convention, and open the way for Stassen or Warren, There is also more and more talk of the merits of Van-denberg. Too many auto drivers fail to wake up even after they're pinched. A local woman left her husband because he slapped her while she slept. Men get bolder and bolder as time goes on. Flying hotels may be a thing of the future says a writer. It may put board bills. a stop to jumping Married men are said to be more inventive than single men. Probably by necessity. Barbers in a nearby town have decided not j to take any more tips. Now, if they will discon tinue g'iving them. a Standardization is a wonderful thing but we wish the movies wouldn't be so deadly in earnest about it. Our estimation is about 70 per cent of the men looking for arguments are single. If we could do just as we please, think of the dishes that would be piled up in the sink, says a local woman. An auto salesman is the only one that can make a new car climb a hill backwards in neutral. We ought to "Only about tern be lynched for writing thi months until Christmas:" DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Ray J. Larson entertained the Neighborhood club at their home . . . Platter team entered finals of basketball tournament at Falls City . . . W. H. Puis was re-elected as Sec retary of the Nebraska County Assessors asso ciation meeting- at Kearney . . . Mips Vida Shif fer and Homer A. Lutes wedded at Presbyterian Manse on March 6 . . . Nehawka Order of Re bekah lodge entertained district officers . . . P.li.S. Debaters and Coach Milo Price were at ; Peru in attendance at tournament . . Stephen M. j Davis returned to Booneville .Missouri to resume j his studies at Kemper Military school after a ; visit with his parents here . . . Family dinner held at home cf Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Graves to observe the birthday of Mr. Graves . . . E. H. Eernhardt departed for Denver on business trip. TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO Richard Elliott won Ford sedan at Elks carni val . . . Mrs. John F. Gorder named to head Prepared by ATTY. FRANCIS M. CASEY Democratic County Chairman Plattsmouth. Nebraska Chapter F., of P.E.O. Society . . . Sarah Baird j was nostess at a amner at ner nome . . . iyie Lawton third Plattsmouth boy to be given Eagle Scout honor in local Scouting circles ... A mu sical group composed of Raphael Janda, Robert Wurl, George Caldwell, Ira Mumm and Frederick Gorder and Charles Howard were a feature at the Plattsmouth Nebraska School for Deaf bas ketball game . . . Bargain Wednesday Specials advertised by local merchants quoted shirts at 43 cents each . . . Candy at 30 cents pound . . . Sugar 10 pounds for 69 cents . . . New "stylish" spring hats $1.00, $1.95 and $5.00 ... 43 pound sack of flour $1.98 . . . Soap 4 cakes for 29 cents, etc. wanted to be re-elected. Bob Taft and the Senate republicans are most anxious to save Cooper's seat for the G.O.P.. so finally de cided to go down the line for the whiskey trust. Incidental!-, democratic leader Alben Bark ley, also from Kentucky, joined them. Interesting sidelight is that Cooper's formula hurts 19 dis- i tillers in his home state, while most of the distilleries which are helDed belong to the Distilled Spirits Institute the front for the whiskey trust. Of the three bier companies that dominr.te the whiskey trust, two are Canadian. Sen. Taylor Still a Democrat Significantly, a move to ban ish Sen. Glen Taylor from th democratic party after he signed up with Henry Wallace v?- de feated recently inside Idaho's democratic state central commit tee. At a meetin" in Boise. ey-Scn. Charloq Gnssett sr forme- State 'Hemocrati'' Cha'Tman Rrbert CotiHrT- trieH o pu-h through n cue vaswiKSToa By DREW FEARSON (Copyright, 1948, By The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: SENATOR TAFT GOES DOWN THE LINE FOR WHISKEY TRUST; SENATOR TAYLOR IS STILL A DEMOCRAT; STATE DEPART MENT MADE EFFORT TO HELP CZECHO SLOVAKIA LAST JULY. WASHINGTON. It's no secret that the big whiskey trust has tremendous political influence, but few realize it was able to tell Sen. Bob Taft what to do. However, that was what happened last Thurs day, when the republican majority held up the business of the Senate for three hours on orders from the whiskey trust that the distillery grain allocation bill had to be amended. The republic ans voted solidly to allocate most of the grain for distilling to the three big whiskey companies which control the distilled spirits institute Seagrams, Hiram Walker and National distillers. The first two of these are Canadian. Hitherto, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton An derson has allocated grain based on a combina- so1ution ruling Taylor out of the tartv. Afr- two hourc of wrnnelino. Srm Hindmnn of Bois mo-M to adiO';n without n vote. Hind mn'! motioi mrriod 33 to 19. Note. Political observers rn rort considerable Wallace back- in th norih"-est. Czech Secret Deal When the secret documents on the Czech crisis are finally made Vnown. it will be found that the State department made one enormous effort to save the Czechs from the iron curtain. The attemot took nace last July and here is the inside story. When the Czech cabinet first (heard about the Marshall Plan. they sent a secretary cnvssarv to sec then Undersecretary of State Will Clavton in Genrvr and informed him that Czecho s'ovnkia wanted to line up with the West. In the past, the Czech said Washington regularly eave his government the brush-off. as. for instance, when Prague tried to buy $10,000,000 worth of seed wheat in the United States for cash. The offer wc turned down cold: meanwhile, Russia gave the Czechs the wheat free. Ac cordingly the Czech agent sug gested to Clayton that the Tru- WASHINGTON COLUMN Marshall Gives Congress ! Points on Russian Policy BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent TT7ASHINGTON (NEA) Any consideration of European recovery, the Truman doctrine on Greece and Turkey or aid to China finally leads to an argument over U. S. Russian policy. It isn't surprising, therefore, that when Secretary of State George , Marshall presented his $370,000,000 Chinese program to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the questioning developed into a free-for-all that covered the globe but bounced back frequently on the Russian question. Congressman John M. Vorys (R., Ohio) began it when he asked if the situations in Greece and China weren't similar. If it's all right to give military aid to fight communism in Greece, why not in China? Marshall pointed out some differences. Most of the people in Greece, he said, were not on the side of the guerrillas. The guerrillas got their support from outside Greece. Marshall's intimation was that in North China the people are actively supporting the Communists. Congressman Karl Mundt (R., S. D.) raised the." question of U. S. policy in Germany. It was obvious, said Mundt, that the Truman administration wanted to continue the Morgenthau program. He was referring to ex-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau's war time plan to reduce Germany to a farming country by destroying its manufacturing capacity. Mundt also charged the administration with exporting to eastern European countries types of products which enabled Communists to terrify western Europe. Bluntly Mundt said he wanted to know what steps were being taken by the State Department, other than those costing the U. S. money all over the world? THESE were serioue challenges. With apparent calmness, Marshall patiently set to work to answer. With respect to the Morgenthau plan. Marshall said General Clay in Berlin had only recently declared that he considered Germany an important part of European economy and that recovery was essential. As for the rest of the world, Marshall said the U. S. had an interest in the Far East, the Mediterranean. Europe and Lafin America. Con ditions differed in all. To come in with one estimate for all at one time was not practical. In China the American aim was to bring about a degree of stabili zation. In Greece the purpose was to make a solid, self-contained country as a bulwark. Mundt was not satisfied with this brief summary of foreign policy. He had a feeling, he said, that in order to work out agreement with Rifrsia. there should be rules of reciprocity. He mentioned that last yer 3000 Russians had been admitted to the U. S. The Soviet had even refused to let a group of senators inspect the U. S. Embassy in Moscow. Mundt demanded a stiffening of policy. " TARSHALL admitted the situation was disagreeable. But the U. S. 1 was struggling for certain freedoms. Reciprocity had to be care fully weighed for its end results. "It is simple to break off negotia tions." said Marshall. "It is hard to make them up." Congressman Walter Judd (R., Minn.) raised the question of the Yalta Agreement which gave 30-year Manchurian port and rail rights to Russia. Marshall had to admit he had no part in making the terms of that agreement, though he attended the Yalta Conference as chief of stall. At that time he felt it important for Russia to commit herself in Manchuria to break Jap power in China. Today's difficulties over the Yalta and Potsdam Agreements were the same, said Marshall. They were in trying to get Russian com pliance to statements that were in themselves clear. 'We must abide by the agreements," aid Marshall. "We should not start reconsideration. If we put in the opening wedge, the whole thing falls apart.". QUOTE THE RAVEN Last week's editorial cn rent controls in this vicinity really scunded a resounding note. The need for local rent control is evi denced by the example set out in the editorial referred to which brought bitter complaint from the Republican property owners. This writer sympathizes with the sentiments expressed by th tditor .but to accomplish such' an end seems to be a Herculean task. I wonder how many poor misguided souls from Plattsmouth have wasted stamps and stationary by writing Messrs Wherry, Butler ;nd Buffett about their awful predicament. Certainly such com- i l.laints, and many have been made, went unanswered. The pre sent I Administration is without means to offer any relief as they are . . . ... , . i. - struggling desperately to maintain the shattered remnants oi t Rent Control Law. The Republican Congress and the Republican's I owerful real estate lobby in Washington would love nothing better than to relegate all rent control legislation to the ashcan The only solution is to replace our present reactionary Senators and Congressir.cn with liberal clear-thinking Democrats. How could a man like Howard Buffett, who has been nothing- but a.i investment banker all of his life, realize the predicament of the j-eor working man who must sustain his family on weekly wages? I: the common man wa-nts consideration and representation, he must elect someone to Congress who has trod the same ground as he. While such major issues as the above are before the people, the Republicans would rather complain about high income taxes for the rich and trying to point an accusing finger and discredit the President in his appointment of an F BI agent to the Federal bench, but in pointing their finger of accusation, they must re member they are trying to make the public believe, that the F.B.I, i.- a foul and corrupt institution and this they can not do. as the F.B.I, is above conniving or political trickery. The Republicans are the dominating force in both houses of Con gress. The Republicans, through their majority whip, Kenneth S. Wherry, boast cf removing- price controls. The Republicans there fore are responsible fer our present inflationary fiends and ve must therefore refer to our present situation as a Republican in flation. Now let us see what the Republican inflation is doing to reb Americans of their heritage. A recent survey prepared by the National Education Association shows that the Republican in iiation is robbing American children of a right to a decent educa tion. We are now spending more on our schools than we were seven years ago, but the school conditions are worse. The report shows that while school funds have increased 66''. they should have gone up oGr, to keep even with the inflationary Republican prices. It describes shocking inequalities in school systems due to the dif ference in taxable wealth in various sections of the country. The? survey shows that some areas, although they leyy virtually con confisatory taxes to support their schools, still are unable to pro vide schools of an even level. To bring the matter closer to he'me, we have in Cass County one rural school wuh thirty-one students, ranging from the first grade to the eighth grade and only one teacher. In the city of Plattsmouth we have one school with thirty students covering four grades and only one teacher. Are the children in these two schools being robbed? There can be but one answer to the question and this writer blame-s this situation to such men as Kenneth S. Wherry and Company. "Remove price controls and prices will adjust them selves to normal", quote the raven Kenneth S. Wherry FVERmore. While the uneven quality of public education has long been a problem, the Republican inflation has aggravated it by pulling down the quality of teaching in the better schools and by increasing the number of poorer schools. The only solution the National Education Association report can offer is federal aid. President Truman has proposed a comprehensive national aid pro gram to give all American children the opportunity for a decent education. What has the Republican Congress done with the Pres dent's proposal? They have talked and talked and talked but don nothing. A few shortsighted conservatives in the Republican party are determined to hamstring this legislation for one reason only; namely, that it is sponsored by the Democratic Administration and the same thing applies to the present Universal Military Training Bill which is now pigeonholed by a Republican dominated Con gressional Committee and the chairman of this committee has made the promise that although the majority of America is in favor cf U.M.T., that he and his powerful position as chairman will st-e that the bill is never reported out of the committee. Are these actions c;n the part of reactionary Republican, American? You, the voters, can answer these and many more questions at the November election. department wish. 3rd Tartv Mo soon will get their uls .Meet Henry Wallace and running mate. Sen. Glen Taylor, met (Continued on Page Two) , u ' who have been demanding a nized Democratic party in M ch- , division in thP State tele-the uuii e.n uisunci s capacity ana us pasi use. ( Clayton said he wr-s willing. 'xnis ga-ve a DreaK to smaller and independent and the Czech promptly prepos companies. The Senate Banking and Currency I ed that the export-import bank committee had agreed unanimously that this authorize a S50.000.000 credit to formula was fair, and urged the Senate to let the Agriculture department continue using- this formula. But the Senate republicans voted solidly to overrule their own committee and laid down a new nana-pitkea tormuia, careiuiiy selected to Czechoslovakia pulled out of the favor the whiskey trust. This cuts down alloca- j Marshall Plan. When that hap- tions to independent companies such as Schen- , nened .the State Department ley, Publicker and United which have never joined the whiskey club known as the Distilled Spirits Institute. Inside reason why the Senate republicans overruled their own committee is that the whis key trust made it plain to Senator Cooper, a republican from normally democratic Kentucky, that he had to put across their formula if be Benos and Masarvk with a real I -an from the 8round l,p wl11 be 1 gesture of friendship. Czechoslovakia. Clayton phoned Washington, got loan OK d. Meanwhile, however, Moscow began wielding the big stick, the Czech cabinet caved in, and lost knew Czechoslovakia had he will to fight back. Under the Dome Russell Adams, director of the Civil Aeronautic board's eco nomic bureau and a career man, will replace CAB board member , Harlee Branch ... A movement j to rebuild the badly disorga-' lrunchcd by a group of young , lbierals. They include Assistant ; Secretary of Labor Jchn Gibson; , Hickrna.n Price of Grand Rapids, i vice president of Kaiser-Frazer; Wendell Lund, wartime indus- I trial relations chief of the War Production board; and Mennon Williams of the soap family . . . Those 20 senators from coastal states, led by Warren Magnu son pf Washington. Wayne Merse of Oregon and Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, ! !l DAVIS & PECK Lawyers Plattsmouth Phone 2C4 Experience is a Better Teacher IF YOU'RE still insuring for what your property was worth a few years ago . . . instead of what it is worth today . . . Fire may teach you an expensive lesson. Be smart! Make sure NOW that you have adequate in surance protection. Call on Stephen M. Davis Second Floor PlattsmoutL State Bank Bldg. Phone 6111 BEFORE YOU BUY A SWEEPER call us for a demonstration of the NEW 1948 HOOVER. Complete HOOVER Sweeper Service. We use only genuine HOOVER Parts. 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