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YDflE EPtLATTSRQStUTIH JJdPOJlRWAB. CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper SECTION 2 XEA TELEPHOTO UNITED PRESS SERVICE i The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published Sftnl-wefklv, Monflavs and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth Cass Oountv, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor VERN WATERMAN -Advertising Manager Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Fntered at t!i Postof f Ire at TMnttsmoiit h. Ketiraska a spoorid class mail matter in c r i rrl n n re Willi tlie 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 outsidp the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts month, 15 cents for two weeks. Furse's Fresh Flashes EDITORIALS IT'S TIME TO ACT It is deplorable that it takes' a death at the intersection of Sixth and Main streets to brint,- to the attention of highway officials the seriousness of traffic conditions at this busy corner. For several years Plattsmouth city official? have urged the installation of traffic signals at 1 his point to eliminate one of the most serious hazard;-.' for motorists and pedestrians that exists between Omaha and Kansas City. Not only docs the intersection carry the entire load of down town traffic, but also is the intersecting point of Highways 34 and 75, one of the busies't through fares in Nebraska. Hundreds of cars, trucks and busses pass this busy corner at every hour of the day and night. It not only carries' a heavy motor traffic, but it is also a focul point for at least fifty per cent of the city's pedestrians. Hundreds of school chil dren cross this busy street three times' each day. Half the city's population must cross Main or Sixth streets to and from their homes. City officials have done their bes't to cope with this problem. Police are stationed at the comer to assist school children in crossing, but with through traffic on Sixth it is not enough. Signal lights should and must be ins'tajlcd without further delay. The Journal believes it a direct responsibility of the State Highway Department to make this in stall at ion. The heavy load carried by the two highways, added to city traffic is directly respon sible for the dangerous condition that exis'ts. LET'S GO PLACES THIS SUMMER That's the opening line of a most seasonable letter that passed across our desk- this Tuesday morning. Continuing, the letter got us' all steamed up by adding .... "Yes. in spite of war talk, high prices, shortages you can get awav from it all! And you hove such a g-:and selection cf places which mountains, beaches, forests, . . . See the world's most . Alaska . . . San Francisco . Canadian Rockies . . ." by the generosity expressed in this colorful missile. The wife had the bags packed, the dog had been farmed out to the neighbors before we discovered they had over looked enclosing a check to cover expenses. you can visit . . . , wide-open spaces. . popular beaches . . . . . The Riviera . . We were stunned .... IT SAYS HERE High building costs can be curtailed to some extent by ingenious planning, foresight, and some compromise, according to the building forum in a popular maguzine. "Your cue today is to use less cubage, but make it work harder," the article states in part. "Get a s'pacious effect with b'g windows, 'open plan' terraces that extend the indoors outdoors.-If your dream house budget is limited, eliminate the base ment, have a dining alcove instead of a dining room, a car port instead of a garage. Choose a low pitched roof. Select a new-type heating unit tnat can be tucked into a niche, under the stairs, or even in the attic. Build your house close to the ground or on a concrete slab, s'aving cubage, steps and terraces." And, if you still can't afford it. we might sug-t,-jst you purchase an army surplus pup tent. It would probably be just as comfortable. It's the the least. g'.rl with the most cheek who blushes Scientists find that persons under the in fluence of liquor sunburn more easily than sober DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Miss Minnie Guthman won first honors and LIrs. R. W. Clement second at the Afternoon Bridge Club entertained by Mrs. Henry McMaken at h?r home . . . Many residents' viewed total eclios? of the moon at an early morning hour . . . Music Department of the schools under direction of Mr. Lee Mvers gave a recital at the high school .... Four Cass County boys were selected to Boys State they were John F. 'Arnold. Louis ville; Donald Nelson, Murray; Arthur C. Everett, Weeping Water; and James A. Lake, Elmwood. people. Maybe that's the color" look the next day. Right now the average until his wife nags him cutting the lawn. reason for the "off- "Now if I Can Stay Out of the Rough!" THE PLATTSMOUTH. Thursday. May 13, l!4tt NEP.RASK A. JOURNAL PACK ONE man into can hardly getting out wait and A look TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO Mrs. L. L. Wiles. Mrs. John W. . Crabill and Mrs". J. E. Wiles were hostesses at a prenuptial handerchief shower honoring Grace Beeson Kathleen Troop was selected as Queen of the May by the members of the high school at their May Day fete .... Miss Marie Fitzgerald enter tained a group of friends at a bridge party at her home near Mynard .... Mrs. Frank Barkus was elected president of the Central Building PTA . . . Missouri river swollen to flood tide with a rise of 3 feet and 7 inches flooding bottomlands. girl who's like it. worth a million doesn't have to Scientists are right. Man did develop from the monkey. Pay one week's' grocery bill and you won't argue about it. A style authority insists that men need more color in their clothes. We think green is nice especially in the pants pocket. Many politicians who start out to name names wind up just calling them. Women are still told to remove their hats in theatres'. That is, if the usher can recognize them. Saying you have no bad habits makes you al most to good to be true. Flies travel at the rate of five feet a second, but it will take them all this coming summer to pass you up. Nobody can uplift anybody by steppirg on their necks. CUe WS0KO0H MERRY-0-&QUt$ i WToRY m W Nj " MA WASHINGTON COLUMN Hoffman's First Big Job Is Recruiting, Not Recovery BY TETER EDSON ?EA Washington Correspondent TTrASHINGTON (NEA) Paul Hoffman has been Economic Co " operation Administrator for a month. He has performed no miracles in that time. If. as a result. Congress and the American people begin to lose interest in Marshall Plan operations, that's bad. Hoffman's first month has been spent in recruiting. He has had to build a $6,800,000,000 organization from the top down. Jobs could have been filled with punks in a hurry. But getting $50,000-a-year men to take jobs paying $15,000 a year is hard. At the end of his fourth week, however, Hoffman feels he has nearly all his key jobs fdled. Howard Bruce as his deputy. Wayne C. Taylor as director of operations. Averell Harriman as roving ambassador in Europe William C. Foster director of missions. It may be July before Administrator Hoffman can announce any notion on recovery projects, which is the important part of his job. The relief part of tlie program is an old story. The U. S. has been feeding people ever since the war was over. Shipping out a million bushels of wheat is no longer news. No one is more aware of this than Hoffman. That's why he is bank ing heavily on Ambassador Han iman's first quick trip to Europe. He is to be gone about 10 days. In that time it is hoped he can look over whatever specific plans OEEC the lG-nation Office of European Economic Co-operation may have. rFHERE is a suspicion it may not have very many. But if Ambassador Harriman c?n find 10 or 20 good projects sure of contributing to recovery, he can bring them back to Washington and say, "Here's something we can go ahead on." Hoffman can then begin to function constructively. He believes it important that the European recovery organization ny in Europe. Mn.'-t countries want to send missions to Washington to throw their weight around. Hoffman is fighting that off. Their joo is over there, not over here. It is a job for all Western Europe, not separate countries. There is a pretty-well-founded suspicion that the first estimates made by the 1 0 European nations' experts on n country-by-country basis are not very realistic. Many of the projects they have counted on will have ;o be cut down or cut out. It's impossible to plan every detail a full year ahead. Some of the By DREW PEARSON Copywright, 1948. By The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: IF SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ANDER SON HADN'T REVERSED FARM LEADERS REGARDING CROP SHORTAGE. EUROPE MIGHT BE COMMUNIST TODAY; ANDER SON UNCOVERED TEAPOT DOME SCAN SON UNCOVER D TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL; BAN PRESIDENT LED TO STABLE PRICE OF SUGAR. (Ed. Note Clinton Anderson, retiring secre tary of Agriculture, today receives the bras's ring from Drew Pearson, good for one free ride on the Washington Merry-Go-Round.) WASHINGTON Several editors have said some nice things about this columnist in connec tion with winning the Italian elections. However, the real man who won the elections stepped out of the Truman Cabinet this week and went back to New Mexico to run for the United States Sen ate. For if secretary of Agrculture Clinton Ander son had not made a certain, vital decision re garding farm policy at the end of the war, star vation and communism both would be rampant in Italy today. Few people know about that decision. It came at the end of the war when American farm lead ers had visions of farm surpluses and falling nrices. Wanting to avoid a farm slump, the killing of little pigs and the plowing under of cotton j farm leaders' urged less produition. I But secretary Anderson said no. This was a tough decision to make. For if An- j derson was wrong, it meant that he would be cussed out by farmers for years to come. Care fully he read the' reports of David Houston, secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson, for guidance. Houston gave him none. Nevertheless, Anderson finally demanded that farmers increase, not decrease production which is the big reason why we have had enough grain to feed Europe. NO PICTURE FARMER Clint Anderson has" been one of the most refreshing and variegated personalities in the turbulent Truman administration. Once when asked by the March cf Time to pose with a pitchfork, he said: "I'm an insurance man. not a farmor." Actually he has a cattle ranch back in Albuquerque, has made a lot of money at in surance, voted ag-ainst all insurance measures in the house of representatives. , Though wealthy, he has made some of the most effective speeches in congress championing labor and blasting lus"h business profits. FDR was one of his idols, and the Anderson Library on the late president is one of the best in the country. Coming to New Mexico from South Dakota be cause of lung trouble, Anderson first worked for the Albuquerque Journal where . he uncovered I the first tip on the Fall-teapot dome scandal. This was" the fact that the then secretary of the Inter ior had received a $25,000 stallion from Harry Sinclair. That started the train of circumstances which finally upset the teapot dome lease, brought two resignations trom tne coinage wouiei ana sent both Fall and Sinclair to jail. Later, Anderson went into insurance. Became '.he biggest individual insurance man in his state, then was elected to the house of representa tives. Now Anderson is going home to run for the upper branch of cone'ess the U. S. Senate. Though Anderson says' he was a better Con gressman than cabinet member, actually he did an outstanding job as secretary of Agriculture. SOLVING SOAP SHORTAGE Not only in regard to grain, but sugar, copra and cotton was he most farsighted. During the first months' after the war, the world, desperately hard up for soap, received no coconuts from the Phillipines . Plenty still grew there, but weren't being har vested. So Anderson induced the Army and Navy to send small boats up Philipine rivers' and trucks to inland plantations un til enough copa was carried out to solve the world's fat and soap shortage. The end of the war also found the U. S. commodity credit cor poration with 7. 500,000 bales of Nazi's Wife Sues For War Spoils VIENNA 'U.R1 Hans Wittkc was' the appraiser of the Nazi authori ties in Vienna. Whenever a Jew was compelled to rid himself of his. belongings in favor of an "Aryan," Wittkc fixed the a r.vunt of comppensation to be Paid to the Jew. Hans had his own pnce-tixing surplus cotton. Not only-was the"' mo system. He wouldn't appraise taxpayer likely to be stuck lor this' cotton, but the surplus had a depressing effect on the mar ket So Anderson conceived the idea of selling it to Japan and Germany for the manufacture of textiles. Both countries needed a nenwar industry, and textiles were the best answer. Anderson sold Japan and Germany the cot ton; the American cotton far mer benefited; Europe and Asia got badly needed clothing. Sugar Salesmanship One of Anderson's' greatest to triumphs was his purchase of two Cuban sugar crops at the same time. Sugur then was scarce,- and in order to keep prices down, he wanted to buy both the 1946 and ! 1947 Cuban crops. But the Cu I bans' said no. and Agriculture de partment emissaries 'got nowhere I with them. i Finally Anderson, himself, went to Cuba, called on President Grau San Martin. "This is a situation where Cu ba can win the good will of the United States for a long time." he told the Cuban president. "Cuba faces the alternative of having sugar prices s'hoot way crash or of keeping them steady. A boom and bust such as after the last war isn't going to do you any good. But if you cooperate with us now,' we'll re member it." President Gran said he agreed, but that Cuban workers were afraid the price of U. S. wheat, j lard, etc. would go up. so tney would find themselves paying more while sugir sold for the same low price. So Anderson proposed an escalator clause bv which the price of sugar vould increase if the cost of American lard and wheat increased. The president of Cuba agreed. In 72 hours Anderson had closed a deal which other emissaries had not been able to sign in six weeks. That is one reason why the price of sugar has remained so s'table. Most people think thqt running the department of agriculture is a matter of putting out booklets on soil conservation, boll wee vil and how to preserve veget ables. But it isn't. And in these days, where croD shortages can cause communism, th? U. S. A. has been lucky to have as secre tary of Agriculture a farsighted statesman. a fur coat, valued at $2,000 for more than $2. He himself "bought" a houb'e, a villa, a g-'eat many works of art, valuable fur niture, furs for his wife and what not. At the approach of the Red Army, the Wittkes moved to more western regions. But that didn't help them much. Hans was arrested and is now under in dictment as a bad war criminal. Liese, the appraiser's wife, re turned to Vienna where the Witt kes' had sublet their apartment the Voglhuber family. The Voglhubers uid not expect to see the Wittkes again .So they too& possession of the former Jewish furs, jewelry, lingerie and what else the Wittkes left behind Mrs. Wittke now is suing the Voglhubers. She asks compensa tion for the valuables they ap propriated. But for the $2,000 fur coat her husband had ap praised at $2. she does not ask for only S2. She asks for the en tire $2,000. Whether she'll get it depends on the timing of the trials. Should the sentence in the Vo glhuber trail be pronounced prior to the sentence in the ware crime trial, sac mig-'.U get some corn- p'ans that look promising on paper may be found to yield small results. ' hers that don't look good at the start may show surprising results. Wlion they do it will be necessary to thllt funds from bad projects '.o those that pay off. fOR instance, one of the big itcm; even after the original Paris -v conference estimates were scaled ('own by the Harriman Commit tee and State Department was for $60,000,000 worth of freight cars ; nm the U. S. Knowing how scarce freight cars were in the U. S. and how Ion it would take to get deliveries, Administrator Hoffman wondered why I'.ie Europeans couldn't use trucks. He discovered that it was against liie laws of most countries to have trucks cross national boundaries. The solution for that one, in Hoffman's mind, is not to order more li eight cars but to tear down European trade barriers. Another obstacle being encountered is an attitude, found among .rime British pessimists, that the recovery program isn't going to work. They say that at the end of four years, if all goes well, Europe will be about where it is today. The problem will then be what to do next. The answer to that one is that this isn't any four-year program. It is now a one-year program. If it doesn't show results in the first year, there isn't gomg to be any more money. Tire quicker Europeans realize that, the belter off they'll be. In the meantime, Mr. Hoffman deserves a full year in which to show results. pensation. But if Wittke is sen tenced as a war criminal and his belongings "acquired" during the Nazi regime aie confiscated, she- will not claim. be able t sustain lit r Use Journal Want Ads f t CnBf THE COMPLETE LIKE OF FAHO'JS KALGREES PRODUCTS Drigs with 1 nepotaUea It it 1 LINCOLN'S FIRST BIG TIME ICE SHOW IMfAS PIRIN 5 Grain WALGREEN BRAND B B Perfection Cold Cream $1.19 Value 79c wo&e me a can ok FOR YOUR BIRDS DRINKING WATER On a Lake of Real Ice 20 Acts Cast of 65 Color Beauty Comedy : S ' 21- Hour Show! 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