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The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 miblished semi-weekly. Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth. Cans County. Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE .Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising Manager Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second class mail matter in ac cordnnce with the Act of Congress of March t. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and .adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts month, 15 cents tor two weeks. OS EDITORIALS OPPORTUNITY UNLIMITED Some very interesting studies have been made in late years on the subject of retailing a a career for young people. The old idea that anybody could do a satisfactory job of working in a store is no longer tenable. Retailing is a complex and highly specialized enterprise. Large stores have as many as 800 different job classi fications. And even in very small stores, a long list of aptitudes and skills is required. Small stores, it is pointed out, frequently offer the best place for training. One person performs a multitude of duties. That is a pri mary reason why the top people in retail trade today so often began at the bottom in modest stores. They literally learned the job from the ground up . Opportunity in retailing is unlimited. Prac tically, all of the large stores, including the chain systems, had extremely humble beginnings. Their growth was the inevitable result of their giving the kind of service that the public liked. What happened in the past is happening still. Few enterprises offer the individual so much chance to demonstrate imagination, ingenuity and a brand of personal public relations that makes friends and customers. Retailing, in all its various branches, isn't just a job. It's a career. And those who approach it with that attitude have the best chance of going to the top. If Congress would balance the budget, why not abolish salaries and offer office holders a percentage of surplus? SACRIFICES TO FIRE The trouble with statistics is that they are difficult to visualize. We read, for example, that more than 10,000 people are killed by fire each year. But that doesn't come home until we break it down, mentally, into individual tragedies that could happen to us, our families, and the people down the block. Here are a few headlines, all taken from re cent issues of newspapers, that illustrate better than argument the horror of fire: , "Concord, N. H. Mother, Son Die in Fire." "Sylvester, Ga Child Burned to Death in Home Fire." 'Tigard, Ore. Fire Kills Two Men." "Utica, N. Y. Eleven in Family Burn to Death." - "Mallard, la. Farm Hands Meet Tragic Death in Fire." "Chatham, N. Y. Five Persons Die from Stove Explosions." Oskaloosa, la. Child Dies in Farm Home Fire." "Marietta, Okla. Farm Woman, Child Perish in Flames." "Lewiston, Pa. Trapped in Her Room, Child Suffocates in Early Morning Blaze." "Dillon, S. C. Two Children Lose Lives When Home Burns." This list could be continued indefinitely. Great fries make the headlines nationally but it is the "little," isolated blazes which cause most of the death and damage. And it can happen to you unless you use all precautions possible to prevent fire. DOWN MEMORY LANE Furses Fresh Flashes The experts who always guess wrong on elections are now trying to predict when the cost of living will drop. Thpv 53v it is easv to learn to dance. j . you have to do is keep turning around and wip ing your feet. When the daughter wrote home from college that she was becoming infatuated with calis thenics, dad said to mother, "That's all right, I guess, but I did hope she would marry an Amer ican." A local woman told us that after working her way into and out of her new girdle, she knows now why her grandad had to chase old Nellie all over the pasture to catch her to put her harness on. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twis ter, says she ought to make a good truck driver. She probably would if he had blue eyes and nice curly hair. A local lady gives the kind of party where the scandal is burned at both ends. The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep. If a man is shot they usually take him to a hospital. If he is only half-shot they usually let him stick around and make a monkey out of himself. WHAT A CLUMSY OPERATOR YOU WERE! THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, JOURNAL cAGE FOUR Monday, March 8. 1943. MERRY- 50 mm mm TEN TEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Huffer departed to make their home at Eaton, Ohio. The Huffers former ly lived near Mynard . . . Mrs. L. S. DeVoe was selected as First District Chairman, Department of American Homes of Federation of Womans Club for Nebraska . . Cullen Wright, noted speaker, gave main address at Happy Hundred banquet honoring Coach Clark Boggess and his basketball team . . . Mr. and Mrs. Lester Ganse mer residing west of Murray celebrated their eleventh wedding anniversary recently . . . Marie Vallery entertained the Needlecraft club at a party. TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO Capt. and Mrs. A. Fingerson entertained a dinner party attheir home at Ft. Crook. Mrs. Fingerson was assisted by her mother, Mrs. J. H. Donnelly of Omaha . . . Mrs. L. L. Turpin was elected president of the Plattsmouth Wom ans Club .": . Ten new citizens were given ci tizenship papers by court, with Mrs. J. S. Living ston, regent of Fontcnelle chapter DAR presiding over ceremonies . . . Floyd Flack, instructor of physics at the Plattsmouth High School with his class of forty-six visited the office and exchange of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Com pany, through courtesy of manager, J. p. Lahr ... Mr. and Mrs. William F. Rau, long time residents of Louisville, moved to Omaha ... J. W. Pointer, principal of the high school, accepted a position as superintendent of schools at Belle-vue. By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: LEAK-OUTS OF PRESIDENT'S CASTIGA TIONS OF CERTAIN GROUPS WILL HURT HIM AT ELECTION TIME; G.O.P. PLAN FOR ANTI-LYNCHING BILL SNAGGED. WASHINGTON President Truman was talk ing to a prominent New York publisher the oth er day about Palestine. He was not merely talk ing; he was almost shouting. Pounding his desk he used words that can't be repeated about "The ' New York Jews." "Those New York Jews;" the President exclaimed ."They're disloyal to their country. Disloyal." "Would you mind explaining that a little fur ther. Mr. President?" interrupted the publisher, whose wife happens to be Jewish. "When you speak of New York Jews are you referring to such people as Bernard Baruch? Or are you re ferring to such New York Jews as my wife?" Truman glared, assured his visitor that he did not include Baruch or the publisher's wife, then abruptly changed the subject. This conversation is not an isolated case. There have been others, and they illustrate why it is that Truman has received so little credit or the position he has taken officially on Palestine, on civil rights, and for labor. Ordinarily, negro voters would be out shout ing and drumming up votes for Truman as a ii. i , . i . iebuii oi ms civu-ngnts message, tsut too many times the President has talked to intimates about lhe niggers' m exactly the same way he talked about "The New York Jews." These conversations leak out. , PRESIDENTIAL TANGENTS une oi the most significant conversations to leak out was between Chester Bowles, then head of OPA, and President Truman in the early winter of 1945-46 when there was still time to save price control. Bowles, who saw clearly what would happen if price lontrols were taken off, told the Presi dent with great satisfaction tha the had worked out a deal with the AFL and CIO not to ask for wage increases if price controls were continued. He explained that if price controls were aban doned, organized labor was all set to ask for a series of big wage boosts, which in turn would lead to more price increases, more inflation, and another round of wage increases. However, organized labor nad agreed to a mor atorium on wage increases if price controls were kept. Naturally Bowles expected Truman to be pleased. He wasn't. Instead, he launched into a tirade against labor leaders. "Those labor lead ers" he said. "You can't trust 'em. They're wreck ing the country. There's only one you can truii and that's John L. Lewis. Aside from him I wouldn't trust any of those labor leaders." Naturally this conversation leaked back to Phil Murray of the CIO and William Green of the AFL. It didn't endear Truman to them. But, more important, it upset an agreement by which the present disastrous inflation could have been prevented all because Trum&n lost his temper. Incidentally, it was only a few months later that Truman was cussing out John L. Lewis for tying up the entire nation with a coal strike. In brief, more and more people have got wise to the manner in which the President tangents tie can send messages to Congress which read oeauutuliy on paper, but when it comes to carrying out these messages, it's all too apparent . that Truman doesn't believe in -them. '..lil-J.iii' ! ts I. ;J Ay" ah lifeuif f ' I v &?vZCj&',& '. : - - Salter " : -.- V?" - y : WASHINGTON COLUMN V The Strange Dream-World p Of Candidate Henry Wallace BY PfcTER ED SON NEA Washington Correspondent IT WASHINGTON' (NEA) Henry V paragraphs v. hen he a cleared bef Committee to read his 12,000 word su.-t Recovery Program. Perils the r.v.t it "While the Jtuxj.jt.ns Ult that they sincerity of the invitation to them, I t by withdrawing J rem the Paris rrts This sentence r; r.otah!e htrL-u.'e it ce leit out ore :h v.'i-ii' ;ad leasx.':1: -..V. thc-y a whole lot of Foreign Affairs t th European s c: itted were: Vj doubt the ;oe a mistake t tr.e cr.Ir ccrr.mcn r-:3. A-hde from rre at which the for a four-year rer.tiy Jake with :et V. CO :s cr.e of r'ri'rr.cp .Not one ? et : '.re yo .: :. .;-r 1 : '.(: Vj v ha' - !.' .. '.: ' CO .r..v.ur: v.hat he h;d ; in a cream :i to Lciieve. ; Coro:nuniit ii.Ut oil :e knew ft f rr -ml REPUBLICAN COLUMN Prepared by STEPHEN M. DAVIS Republican County Chairman Plattsmouth, Nebraska VOTE G.0.V SSOi ? a lynching judgment is not paid " inquired Fellows. "Unquestionably," replied Walter. '"Any type of grant-in-aid to the states would be af fected." That ended the debate. VP V? Merry-Go-RCuTiJ State e poll of Texas taking a NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS ENDORSE THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM (National Defense) We stand for an integrated, fully equipped national defense force adequate to meet any emergency. (Foreign Affairs) We stand for continued support of the United NatiQns and sane, humanitarian, businesslike measures for the relief and rehabilitation cf the people in war devastated areas of the world, within the limits of cur ability. (National Debt) We propose that a definite portion of the national revenue from now on be set aside to reduce the national debt in succeeding years. There should be rigid economy in Federal spending. (War-time Controls) Should not exist in peace time. (Monopolies) Democrats have fostered monopolies; we favor strict enforcement against them. (Taxation) Lower Federal taxes, based on the Republican plan submitted to Congress. We realize the cost of State govern ment has been increased by inflation. We recognize the need to make vital expenditures deferred during the drouth and the war. We commend Gov. Val Peterson for his "courageous" action in this regard. (Conservation and Reclamation) We will "support soil con servation, the Pick-Sloan Plan, the Nebraska public power de velopments. Expenditures for conservation and reclamation are investments. (Agriculture) We pledge ourselves ,to support a national program of maintaining agriculture on an equality with industry and labor. We commend the University of Nebraska for its in creased emphasis on research, particularly in the fields of agri culture and the livestock industry. Under the leadership of Chan cellor Gustavson, a co-ordinated and efficient research program is rapidly becoming a reality. (Labor) We favor the new Nebraska laws activating the anti-closed shop constitutional provision and establishing a Court of Industrial Relations. We approve the 1947 revisions of the National Labor Relations Act. (Relief and Old-Age Assistance) We pledge the party to maintain at all time adequate funds to provide relief and old-age assistance. (Education) We believe in Nebraska's school system, whicn has placed Nebraska second in the nation in literacy, and will support any sound and needful movement to strengthen and im prove it. (Roads) We commend the Governor for starting a survey of the road system, the Legislature and the Governor for starting a program to take the farmers out of the mud. We pledge our selves to contiue working for better roads. ollcge students, a tpica! Texas town Denton, found that cniy 27.8 per cent wanted tr keep the poll tax. Fcrty-six percent said they wanted to get rid cf the poll tax, 25.7 per cent had no opinion . . . The Argentine gov ernment is trying to get the State department's OK for a tour of the U.S.A. by Eva Peron, famous wife of Argentina's dic tator president. Wallace made that v.-sr. at a!! ootieai that one thing withdra v. irg from the fdrh: C 16 European nation.--; drtv t o their reo ,-ire: recovery plan everything the R.s.-iao- oo .. jr. Henry. The fault i:; ail with toe U. -ho ll: who want to intervene in li jror.e. This most recent V.'a'hingto.o ;;,;;:? ,.f v.' the strangest pe-rformc-noe.-; :: ;. :.-. f,' on the committee gav?? the :'. 0.,r hoir.; accused him of demagog ;f-rv, o! oia y.ri to the r a political speech. They v.-ar.t'-ii to i to say was completely bfef.'iir.p. s. world in which the only real. tic , "What is the difference between plan?" Sol Bloom (D., N. Y.) z-V.'A He ?aid he wasn't familiar with the Common:::! pk. was that the countries of eastern -fop& were be-in western Europe. rTHE fact that Moscow had compelled Poland and Czechoslovakia to stay out cf the Marshall Plan, Wallace seemed to ignore. F.RP, Wallace told Congressman Karl Mundt (R.. S. Dak.), was American intervention in the affairs of countries overseas. "Don't you feel the Communist? are intervening in eastern E;;ropc?" Mundt asked. Wallace said he didn't know the extent to v.hi.h ihey were intervening. "It is impossible to know what the truth is, based on the American press," he said. Wallace's own plan is fcr a UN Recovery Program run like UNRRA. Every country should contribute. Wallace puts the co:;t r.t S3 000. 000.000 a year. for 10 years. The U. S. gave 73 per cent of the UNRRA total. Wallace hopes it would have to pay only 50 per cent of the UN recovery bill. This is world-saving at a bargain. Through page after page cf his si: unreality. He's an optimist, he says. commun;sm cau survive in the srrr.e world. There doc-jn't ue a bnovvGown. mis is a religious war, uxe m tne Ijju s. TS that his answer? Is the Wallace dream world back in the 16th century not the 20th cr the 21st? Wallace said he thought there was no danger Russia would penetrate western Europe. Communist governments rmgnt ia:-:e over, out Kussia woi:!cn t come into power. ;or.-.e new faces cnt. They'd have to get hole world problem and foment runs this same note cf He thinks both eanit.ilisi-.i and have to tverytmng would ce a a right it there were jut in the executive end of tne L. S. govern together with the Russians to discuss ths get an understanding. Congressman Lawrence Smith (R.. Wis.) fcr new faces in Washington. That v.-as prepared for. "I thank you for yoi reared. It was the only demor.st.' The congressmen themselves vc licans wanted to share Wallace's ; couldn't quite bring themselves to it. Wallace said he agreed en the need one opening Wulk'ce was uppovt, sir," he s n cf the whrh:- irorui-. doubters. While all U ihe crowd Repub- hall Plan, ..bly made votes for ERP. Even the Democrats were hostile to his point of view. Cass County Extension Notes Cas Ccunty Feeders Day M?.rch 12 The Annual Cass County Feeders Day will be held March 12, 1943 at the Agricultural Au ditorium at Weeping Water. Hiahliehts of the meeting in lay S-.an- Spccialist, E::Len- . Serve-d by 11:00, Demonstration. Trepar in? Chicken for Roasting fa Freezer Locker, I-.Iiss ok, Nutrition sici Scrvico. 12:00 Lunch. Serve-d by v, cop ing Water American Legion Auxiliary. Review Exhibits. 1 :00, " M o v i e. "Regim-.-ntrd Raindrops." Harold Storm, Ra dio Station WOW. 1:45. Rural Electrification, Roy L. DeRose. Extension Service. 1:45. Cass County Extension Club Members and anyone do siring to attend will meet in the basement of the Auditorium af ter the talk on Ri tion. At this time 3:20. Deft, c culture. 3:'J. Dr. Al i crti.i Dr. College Wcidon, of Agri- Erucellcsis r-.nd Mastitis, ord. Extension Service. "Brucvllcsls (Eancs Disease) when transmuted to man is known as Unjulant Fever. Come early and stay all dc.y. ::i - 4. tr. ry mum. aid lesson ral Elcctrifica the Extension elude: An electrical equipment ' Clubs will be honored for ac- shew, discussions of popular sub jects such .s Commercial Ferti lizers, Weed Control, Insect Control and Bangs Disease. An other attractions on the program is the showing of the technicol or sound picture "Regimented Raindrops." The outline of the program in cluding speakers follows: 10:00, Electrical Exhibits, Basement. ccmplishir.g the State Goa-s. This program will bo our An nual Achievement Day Program. 2:20. Crop Insects and Live stock Parasites, Clarence Sootcr, Extension Service. 2:50. New Crop Varieties. Chas. Gardner, Extension Serv ice. 3:15. War on Weeds, Bui Amg wert, Manager, Cass Noxious Weed District. WICAKA CAMPFIRE The membeis t f the Wn-n Campfirc are now taking i'i aid lessens from Miss Core Pfann, enjoying it ' Tkev had their firs on Saturday as well as t:,o Camofire meeting al the heme of Mrs .C. M. Manners. The members of the Camofiro held their election cf uifiecrs. the following being r.ar.v-d: Prtsi dent, Doris Wiles: Vice Presi dent. Elna Bomberg: Secretary, ShMey Strough; Treasurer. Do lores Be-ins; Scribe; Helen Gon-soliy. Like to fcuv that new car mnv? MUTUAL FINANCE cau show you how! N SECRET ANTJ-LYNCII DEBATE Republicans have been planning to take in negro votes with their anti-lynching bill, but it looks as if they would have trouble with their own members, and three staunch republicans Representatives John Gwynne of Iowa, Frank Fellows of Maine and Edward Devitt of Minne sota upset the G.O.P. applecart at a closed door session of the judiciary committee. Speaker Joe Martin and other G.O.P. leaders had decided at a previous secret caucus to make the anti-lynch law applicable to crimes against property as well as persons. Al-: so, they decided to approve Sec- j tion 1 of the bill, a declaration j of racial equality which demo cratic foes claimed was a "po litical stump talk, aimed at further dividing the Democratic party." However, when the Judiciary committee met behind closed doors, Gwynne and Fellows joined the democrats in a close vote to delete Section 1. "Let's confine this to an anti lynching bill and leave out po litical stump talk aimed at southern states,"" which has no place in legislation," demanded democrat Francis Walter of Pennsylvania. G.O.P. Representative Clifford Case cf New Jersey, the bill's author, contended that Section 1 was written on the advice of "experts," who felt that a pre amble was necessary. "I don't care who wrbte it," persisted Walter, a northern democrat. "It's inflammatory and doesn't belong in the bill." Republican Devitt of Minne sota offered the motion to kill the "Crimes against property" provision. This would have made it a violation of the anti-lynch j law for two or more persons to conspire to injure the property of another. The motion carried over hot opposition from repub- , licans Case and John Henning'3 of Tennessee, who insisted that ! if it was wrong to lynch a man, ' it also was wrong to "wreck his store or his home." "I submit again that this is irrelevant to the problem of preventing lynchings," broke in ... .i r ninr.,li'ini' "Tine! i C 1 WallCl OI I Liiiojruaiui.'. l" i either an anti-lynching bill or it isn't. Let's hew to the line." The republicans also had to accept defeat on a provision that Federal grants-in-aid be with held from any state if a town or community therein refused to pay & judgment to heirs of a lynch victim. " "A state would be penalized for' lynching committed within it borders by out-of-state thugs under this provision, oojeeieu democrat Fadjo Cravens of Ar- ; kansas. . . "Could an appropriation for ; hot lunches for school children ! be withheld from a state where i Oil i hi EASTER is just around the corner and your Easter Suit is RIGHT HERE ON THE CORNER 5th and Main We can proudly say, tlifct despite the short age of fine hard finish all wool worsteds, we have been able to assemble a very creditable showing of new, bright, attractive Spring pat terns for your Easter selections. We have no substandard Suits in our racks. Every one a hundred percenter. We have absorbed the ad vances are still selling these Suits at 550 or under. Compare and see how right we are. Wo shall be glad to show you. WHITE SHIRTS w Since 1879 GREEN STAMPS Tf 4 t I f ! SCI