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UNITED PRESS SERVICE NEA TELEPIIOTO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper SECTION 2 S r TTME PlLAWSMtiDlUTFDu ildDOJTOAIL The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 PiiMishf sf mi-werkly, Mondays and Tburs tlavs, ;it 4 0!-m M;iin Street. I'luttsmoiith, nss- fount v. Xhrnskn. rtONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor HAROLD TUCKER .-Advertising Manager Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department 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 for two weeks. Kntfrefl at t)i l'ostoff io at TMnttsmnuth, Nebraska as swnnd class mail matter in nc conla rve with the Act of I'onftrcs.s of March 2. 179. EDITORIALS IT WAS A GREAT SHOW On every hand, and from every corner of the county come words of praise for the 1943 Kass Kounty King Korn Karnival. Praises for the fine entertainment provided, including the Koro nation, the parades, the Horse Show provided by the Cass County Horse Show Association. The bands came in for their share of congratulations, as did the corn, 4-H, homemaking and flower shows, each one topping all that came before. The men and women who gave unstintingly cf their time for days and weeks prior to staging the event are certainly worthy of a big vote of thanks and appreciation for a job well done. The farmers of the county who cooperated with the ' Farmers Day" events can rest assured their ef -forts are not lacking in appreciation by we folks here in the "city limits.'' The school teachers, the boards of education, and the hundreds of school children did an excellent job and The Journal joins with hundreds of others in extend ing a great big "Thank You." Locally the police and street departments are entitled to an expression for their excellent job during the show in maintaining order and clean ing up the '"mess" left by thousands of people who visited the city during the four day event. Carpenters, electricians, movers and truckers, all cooperated in making it the best show ever. The only sore spot of the event in this writer's estimation was the midway carnival company. This, to us, was the soriest spectacle ever paraded before the public. It was dirty, rough and dis gusting, not to mention the "Jessie James" tactics at the box offices. Steps should be taken imme diately to insure our people of a better showing another year. IT MIGHT HAPPEN HERE Only a rumor now. but the full blast of the truth could land in the face of Plattsmouth at any moment. It has happened in other cities, could and more than likely will happen here. It has been rumored that consideration is being given that Plattsmouth be declared "off limits" to air force personnel due to the inflationary rent conditions plaugeing the city. We have attempt ed to trace down the source of this rumor bfit have failed in our attempts to learn from where the story originated or by whom the statement was made. The Journal to date has been playing more or less a one-man band in warning of the dangers facing our community with the runaway rents of today. It will be most interesting- to sit on the side lines a fc?w weeks hence and here our people "howl" with remorse when the command is given "Do not go near Plattsmouth under penalty of court martial." It will take more than editorials in the local newspaper to have such a ban lifted. DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Frank A. Cloidt and Theda Martha Kaffenberg er named as King and Queen of the King Korn Karnival . . . Rev. and Mrs. Lentz attended the 11th Biennial convention of the United Lutheran church held at Baltimore, Mr. . . . More orderly departure of students from school was arranged by oganization of new Boy Scout safety patrol; their slogan "Cross streets at intersections." . . . Eion Hoffman named as coach of P.H.S. . . . Chamber of Commerce and Burlington railroad officials joined in celebrating the coming of the Burlington to the middle west in 1869, with a dinner party at Hotel Plattsmouth; Burlington veterans were honor guests. TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO Announcement of pledges at Nebraska State were Edith Farley to Alpha Delta Theta. Kath leen Troop and Jean Tidball to Pi Beta Phi and Elmer Johnson to Delta Theta Phi . , . Local Chapter F.P.E.O. honored memory of Mrs. Lillian ' Pollock Parmele, member, who inaugurated th;? educational fund project of the society, by pre senting a porcelain likeness of her for placing in executive offices of the Memorial Library at Mt Pleasant, Iowa. . . . Members of the Horn and Falter families held reunion at West Point. . . . D. H. Wentworth purchased Herger Bakery of Harold G. Renner. . . . Ruth Shannon was elected president of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Uni versity of Nebraska. . . ."The melancholy days are come, despite all incognitos, when all men's rest is on the bum because of the mosquitoes." Furse's Fresh Flashes The Chinese who invented the fan would never recognize it now . . . out in the bleachers swing ing a pop bottle. All g'irls like to cling to their youth, that is, if the youth doesn't mind. Dr. Amato says spectacles are becoming to most people. All we can say is they did improve our looks. The bathing gal of today, as depicted in a Karnival float, surely doesn't look like she did 20 years ago. But then, on the other hand, that much time would tell on anyone. - Any girl can make a name for herself. Just get married. It doesn't make any difference how badly a fellow dances as long as he holds his own. - Christmas may be in the far future but we still worry about the present. It's foolish to argue that the law has no heart. Look how easily it is for the sheriff to develope an attachment tor your home. Out at the horse show Thursday we were toid by a trainer that the inexperienced should never ride a frisky horse. We'll agree -that they are better off. MERKY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: ' TRUMAN IS PAID $1 AN HOUR AS PRESIDENT; "SOMETIMES I WISH I HAD REMAINED A PIANO-PLAYER" H.S.T.; UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE CLAIMS RED SPIES ARE IN U. S. CHURCHES. WASHINGTON When and if Harry Truman leaves the White House, he will have saved up until 1948 just about $4,000 a year out of the total $75,000 annual salary which the people of the United States pay their presidents. In th? year 1948, thanks to a republican tax cut, Mr. Truman will save more. 5 The president sat down with paper and pencil the other day and figured that his job as presi dent had paid him only $1 an hour up until the G.O.P. tax cut. He estimated that, getting up early in the morning as he always does, he had averaged 4,200 hours a year on the job. After taxes and other heavy expenses of entertaining and travel, he saved $4,000 the first year and $4,200 the second or about one dollar an hour. However, in 1948, thanks to the republican tax cut, his net income will be $12,000. "And I vetoed that bill," chuckled the presi dent. Today Mr. Truman is out on the hustings trying to break through his usual wall of body guards, servants and secretaries in order to show the people his human side. The truth is, that despite the steady stream of callers Truman re ceives daily and the reams written about him, only a few close friends know the real man inside te White House. Actually, he is a lonesome man. Not many people know, for instance, that Tru man keeps two large anthologies of poems on a desk by his bedside and, before dropping off to sleep at night, likes to prop himself up in bed and read from the classics. His favorites are Shelley and Keats, but he can also recite at length from "Alice in Wonder land." One passage the president likes to quote is the Red Queen's remark to Alice: "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." Truman also likes to read history especially the biographies and autobiographies of his prede cessors because, he told a friend, "it is men who make history." HISTORIAN TRUMAN Truman's secret ambition is to write the history of his own administration, but it will have to wait until his term is finished. "There are times when I make up my mind I am going to do it and I start assembling my thoughts," he confided to a friend. "When the pressure of work forces me to drop it. There just aren't enough hours in the day." He complained that the public never knows the true history of a period until long- after it is past and sometimes forgotten. "The trouble," he grumbled, "is that people have to depend on Drew Pearson and the Alsop brothers for their information." As a boy the president used to crawl out of bed at 5 a. m, to practice on the piano for. two hours, and he still gets up early. He has more important things to do now, but he confessed wearily to a friend: "Sometimes this job gets so strenuous that I think I should have stayed a piano-player." The president has an orderly mind and an amazing memory. He kept a careful record and still recalls the exact number of rounds he fired as an artillery captain in the first world war. It was 18,342 shells. What's more, he remembers when he fired his last round Nov. 11, 1918, 10:52 a.m. -PET PEEVE Truman's pet peeve is the way Senator Fergu son of Michigan has handled the former war investigating committee. "I built that conomittee into one of the finest on the hiU," the president complained bitterly to an associate. "Since Ferguson has taken over, he has made it into a -arbage: company," That's Why He's Going to Be Hard to Oust WALLER )U'& TlVJSiA RYous noThicoi.' Wgrjfey, ( 1 -J "NOiNcf , t lit - lC( who sgZF&U T M Mil 1 IWS. A - V -rr . 1, 1 J i THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEW I-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, September 23. 1943 PAGE ONE WASHINGTON COLUMN Hoover Study May Turn Up Good Ideas for Government BY DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent (Peter Eioon is on vacation.) WASHINGTON (NEA) Just what's cooking inside the super-" secret Hoover Commission is the source of great speculation lhcs 23 VS t The job of the commission is to make a report at the end of thiw year on how the executive branch of the government can be reorEan-f ized to operate more efficiently. There have been several of these commissions assigned to da the same job but they never accomplished? much. Former President Herbert Hoover, who heads this commission created one himself for the same purpose when he was in the WhiM House and so did Franklin Roosevelt. - But this one looks like it might really do a good job, for several reasons Most important. Congress had a hand in its organization an appointed eight cf the 12 members. A fat bankroll of $1,938,000 wa provided to hire plenty of competent help to insure a good job. Ther is bi-partisan support behind the idea. And the members appomtertt to the commission are prettv savvy gents in the art of good govern-,-ment They include former U. S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthurf S Flemming, Dr. James K. Follock, professor of political science at the University of Michigan, former Under Secretary of State Deani Acheson, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, Senator Aiken of Vermont and others of equal caliber. f what started out as President. THE irony of the thing will be if Truman's pet idea ends up organization of the government becoming the basis of Dewey's re-j REDS IN RELIGION House spy probers plan to fol low up their communist expose with a report on reds in religion. They claim to have unearthed Soviet agents trying to infiltrate into American church groups. The report will charge that if such infiltration was accomplish ed which seems highly doubt ful the next step would be an antireligion propaganda drive in the U.S.A. similar to that in Rus sia, with red agents working from within to undermine the churches. 0 MERRY-GO-ROUND George Allen, Ex-White House itster, is reported pulling back statje wires to block the sale of the government's C 1 e v eland blast furnace to Henry Kaiser. George, a director of Republic steel, performed one of the greatest political favors for Tru man. He persuaded Eisenhower not to run for president . . . Joe Jacobs, a career man, will be new U. S. Ambassador to Czech oslovakia . . . The Republican National committee has hired Fred McLaughlin, high-powered Boston Public-Relations man, to make a political survey in the so called border states . . . CIO offi cials believe that communist controlled and left-wing CIO un ions will split off from the na tional organization by the end of 1948 and form an all-left-wing-third labor movement . . . Utah republicans have devised a se cret campaign technique, pattern ed after the old chain-letter sys tem. It works this way: seven people pledge to vote for a parti cular candidate (always a re publican). In turn, each one pledges seven of his close friends to vote for the same candidate. Thus the chain is continued un til it sweeps the state. UNDER THE DOME Down-to-earth Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley isn't the kind who will pull his rank even on an enlisted man .Not Spain Loses Out; Rita Hay worth Born in U. S. By DON ALLAN United Press Staff Correspondent . SEVILLE, Spain Ol.R) Rita Hayworth's many Spanish .-fans have heard sad news. The fam ous actress wras born in New York and not in Seville. For years a lively controversy has existed here over the birth place of Rita, born Margarita Cansino, and most S p a n ish movie-goers claimed her as a Spaniard from Seville. . The man who shattered this' illusion is her grandfather, An tonio Cansino, who arrived here by plane to finish his years in his native city. , Cansino at 83 is lively and spry and walks with the grace ci a born dancer. A typical Anda lusian, quick-witted and proud with the music of the Gypsies in his voice. He speaks Spanish with a strong Sevillian dialect and despite his many years in America, almost no English. Taught Her to Dance In the modest roof which he occupies in the home of relatives there are pictures of Rita Hay worth and her only child, Rebec ca Welles. Over a bed hang two Spanish guitars, one a magnifi cent instrument 87 years old. To the guitar, he said, Rita Hayworth danced her l'irs't steps with her grandfather as her teacher. She learned rapidly be cause she, too, is a true Anda lusian, descended from genera tions of dancers, he explained. Rita Hayworth is the most popular Hollywood actress in Spain, as much for her Spanish origin and dancing ability as' for her face and figure. After the showing of her film "Gilda," all Spain was swept with a Gilda X Notice to Public on Parade Lists In reporing the? participants in the various parades, particularly the children's parade, the Journal is publishing the lists as furnish ed them. We have done our best to avoid errors, but if an omis sion or incorrect spelling of a name has been made we assure you it was unintentional and we shall be very happy to make correction. Out of - Old Nebraska By JAMES C. OLSON Supt., State Historical Society The modern Nebraska house- l wife with her automatic wasaer. long ago a sergeant was assigned i craze. There are now Gilda shoes, adley move some be- Gilda to help Bradley longings to his new quarters. In stead of turning the job over entirely to the sergeant, Gen. Bradley pitched in and helped haul the bag-gage himself. In fact, Bradley made eight trips, the sergeant only seven . . . President Truman has told inti mates that if he's re-elected, se cretary of the Army Royall won't be around much . . . Secretary Marshall if secretly out to block America's best friend, Austral ian Foreign Minister Evatt, from becoming president of the Unit ed Nations. Reason: the Ameri can delegation fears it can't con trol the two-fisted. Evatt, wants a puppet as president of the gen eral assembly . . . Seen talking together recently: J. Howard McGrath, Chairman of the Dem ocratic National committee, who's in political trouble, and Pres- ton A Tucker, head of the Tucker Motor Car company, who's in dire financial trouble. Wonder which could help the other most? a nandos, penumes and an especially pretty girl is dubbed a "Gilda." Adviser to Hollywood Antonio Cansino gave his first dancing lesson 70 years ago. Since then he has' traveled with dance troupes all over the world, served as dancing- professor at the Royal Opera House in Madrid and performed before royalty. In recent years he has served as a teachnical adviser on danc ing for Hollywood studios and has continually helped his grand daughter with her film routines. He has' no plans returning to America. "I came back to Seville for a decent glass of sherry and to talk my head off," he says, "and I'll stay here until I've had enough of both. If Dewey wins it will certainly be a boon to him to have a carefully worked out reorgamzauon pian ae-r livered on a silver platter. J Although the Hoover Commission has kept its work probably mora secret than thrt of the Atomic Energy Commission, a lew bits of re-r liable information on its plans have leaked out. It is well known than Hoover himself is making the st:o on how to improve the offices of" the White House. Being the only former U. S. president still aliv and a competent authority on the principles of management, he ia well qualified to handle this end of the report. , Another pretty well-founded report is that a special Department of f Administration will be suggested. It will be a sort of "housekeeping"! agency and will probably also include the present oureau of the budget.? A rumor goes even further to suggest that the head of it, if it is created.; will be Governor Warren, if the Republicans win. ( A BUREAU to run the bureaus isn't so silly when you look at th? multi-function proposition American government has becomfly today. There are now between 40 and 50 maj'or federal agencies, each witH countless bureaus, branches, etc. George Washington started it all? with onV four; the War Department. Treasury Department, Statert Department, and an attorney gcnerrl's office. At the time h wa concerned lest the citizens think that he was creating an empire and! overstepping his authority by having the new federal government perform too many functions. "J The First President would indeed be shocked to take a peek at today's federal civil service list of jobs. It gives an insight as to just, how much government activity has expanded over the years. He would find that there is practically no limit to the sphere ot' federal activity cn land, sea, or in the sky. Federal "astronomers' probe the sky and space. Federal "occanogrcphers" explore the bot-j torn of the sea r.nd the U. S. "mine inspectors" operate deep in th earth. Just that glance at the.. complexity of government today gives an idea of the size of the job wh'ch Tic Hoover Commission has tackled. If the former president manages to come up with a sensible blue-j print for an economical rcorgnniznficn of the government U. S. tax-, payers should be very grateful xo nun. ' dryer and ironer or perhaps an account at the local laundry puts in a far different wash day from that experienced by the pio neer women of Old Nebraska. Dr. Edward Everett Dale of the University of Oklahoma tells something about those early wash days in an article in the June issue of NEBRASKA HISTORY, the State Historical Society's quarterly magazine. He states that in many areas, the housewife found it easier to load her tubs, pails, and dirty clothes on a wagon and haul them to the source of water rather than to bring the water to the soddv. If the latter were done, though, the suds could be used to scrub the floor provided, of course, it was of wood, which frequently it was not. Then, too, the rinse water could be used to bathe the children after it had served the purposes of the laun dry. There are numerous other ac counts in Nebraska's historical literature of the hardships which wash-day imposed upon the frontier housewife. Mrs. Samuel W. McGrew, wife of a territorial J pioneer, once wrote an article in which she described the water ing trough, made of a hollowed log, and the ash leach or hopper as standard household equipment connected with wash-day. Lye would be run off from the hopper into the trough to make, "a choice brand of soft soap." Water for the washing would be heated in great iron or copper kettles suspended from poles or forked sticks in the yard. Fats, of course, were saved very carefully to be combined with the lye from ashes to make soap. In the eastern part of the state wood ashes were used, but on the treeless plains ashes from corn stalks had to be substituted. The soft soap developed from this combination later was improved by the addition of salt and a continuation of the boiling pro cess. Labor-saving devices were un known. A common practice was to dump the clothes into a keg containing a mixture of soft soap and hot water. After they had been prodded vigorously with a stick, the clothes were taken out, laid on a block and pounded with a mallet. Great care had to be taken to avoid breaking the but tons, which were both scarce and costly. When the clothes had become sufficiently clean they "were hung on fences or bushes to dry. Commercial bluing was not available, and if the clothes were blued at all it was by putting them through a pan of water in which an old piece of blue calico had been rinsed. In many areas , the water was extremely hard, and responded to no devices for j softening it, leaving both the ! clothes and the hands in bad j condition. ; It is little wonder one woman remarked that wash day really ; meant Monday and Tuesday I should have been "wash days." For -Hie tfelsf Vacation r take a fun-filled trip this Fall The best way to save values is to cook potatoes in their jackets. Boiling saves more vita mins than baking. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lorenz of Des Moines, Iowa, were here the past week to visit at tho L. W. and E. A. Lorenz homes' and en joying the King Korn Karnival. Mr. Lorenz is a brother of the food i Messers -Lorenz of this city. READ THE THE LATEST JOURNAL IN NEWS, FOR, MICE. RATS. GOPHERS, MOLES . WITH Sweeney's Poison Wheat Easy to ate. No messy mixing. -- 20c - 35e 75c per box. For stlt . and recommended by F. G. 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