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ii TTME PLAinri(D)aJTi (fDOJTOAQ- SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE h f i r The Plattsmouth Journal ESETABLISHED IN 1881 ruhlisfi.l. s.m.wf(kl-. Mnnrtavs and Thurs Clavs. at 4!t-4ir! Main Strt. I 'la ttsmouth, ass I'mintv, Xcl.raska. RONALD R. FURSE .Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor HAROLD TUCKER. . .Advertising Manager O. C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen. Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor Helen Mrasek, News and Circulation 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 mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. nffrrt St tl.p Vosrnf f ir nt T"'a turnout h. Nebraska as -onru! f-la vp'.) m:ift-r In vc-ron'.m.-- witl, tht- .Act of tVi;sys tr March 11-79. EDITORIALS TODAY'S BIGGEST BARGAIN A bargain is something- that "lias been lost in the shuffle durintr the past few years of inflation, but readers of the print ed paee are still getting- an even bifrg-er bargain than thev did onlv a few vears ag-o. During: the past year about thirty-five large and small city daily newspapers have closed up shop, while nearly four times that number of weekly papers have sold their equipment and started their pursuit of a livelihood in other fields, due to the tremendous increase in costs of publishing a newspaper. Although publication costs have increas ed up to five times, the average increase in subscription and advertising rates totals less than 20 per cent. Here at The Journ al, payrolls have increased nearly four times that of five years ago, newsprint has climbed from $37.50 per ton to over SI -40, Linotype metal that used to cost seven cents a pound now is around 32 cents, and with corresponding1 increases in everything- used, only 50 cents per year has been added to the subscription price, and less than a 15 per cent increase has been made in advertising rates. Lots of readers will take from the above that Prewar newspaper publishers were literallv "roiling- in dough." This is far from the truth. Today's costs of publish ing are only met by the tremendous in. crease in use of advertising space in both daily and weekly newspapers. Where this increase in usage has failed to materi alize, small city dailies have converted to weeklv and semi-weekly publications, and weeklies have suspended publication alto gether. This trend continues throughout the country. Average subscription rates of news papers rarely cover the cost of newsprint alone at today's prices. Revenue to main tain salaries and -other operational over head is derived entirely from advertising and job printing. Many a publisher is scratching his head bald trying to read, a crystal ball to learn what the future holds. A small drop in use of ad space, plus an other increase in paper costs will convert still more dailies to weeklies, and more weeklies to obscurity. It takes a real GOOD town to boast the luxury of a decent newspaper in present times. TOWARD BETTER MEDICAL CARE If anyone has an idea that the physicians of this country are fighting any and all plans that would give American people better medical attention at a cost which is within their means, he is sadly misin formed. It is true that the great majority of doc tors are strongly opposed to compulsory government health insurance, and kindred schemes which would open the gates wide to completely socialized medicine. The basic reason for this opposition is found in a statement issued bv the American Medi cal Association, which said: "The experi ence of all countries where government has seized control of medical care has been progressive deterioration of the standards of that care to the serious detriment of the sick and needy." The wholehearted cooperation and sup port of doctors, on the other hand, has ; been one of the biggest factors in the re : markable growth of the low-cost voluntary prepayment plans, which now provide a vital protection to tens of millions of citi ' zens. These plans represent the most posi tive and most successful idea yet devised to lessen the economic pressure that fol lows unexpected illness or accident. There is, of course, a small proportion of the population which cannot afford any kind of protection. The medical profes sion is aware of this, and is working to do nomething about it. According to Medical Economics, the private physicians are de , veloping a national health program of their own. and adequate care for the indigent will be one of its important provisions. ' The typical doctor, in other words, is interested in the best possible medical at- tention for the most possible people. He knows that political medicine is not the way to attain that goal. Furse's Fresh Flashes At present prices it is about as hard to keep my car as clean as it keeps me. A local woman is said to be a "worm- j styled" motorist you never know which ' wav she'll turn. - - One reason von never spp anv nnfpl with whiskers is that although some men go to Heaven, they ret there by a close j shave. -k -k Some people admire a certain Platts mouth business man for the reason that "He always calls a spade a spade." But that ain't what we heard him call the one he tripped over the other night. I think that I shall never see A skirt hem lovely as a knee; And, unless hems cease to fall, I'll never see a knee at all. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, reports that a new flame may be hot stuff, but the old flames know what's cooking". If some people were as sour as they look the world would be in an even worse pickle. -fc Night club bouncing is about as common as an old shoo. MEMORV OF -A LOT OF Uy - All Things Are Relative THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, January 13. 1948 PAGE ONE ,3 DOWN MEMORY LANE TWENTY YEARS AGO Plattsmouth State Bank Buildinpr was redecorated and placed in best of condi tion following recent fire damage. . . . H. A. Schneider was named president of the Plattsmouth Bridge Company, with R. A. Laussler of Omaha vice president. . . . The Cass County Creamerv announced winners in contest sponsored bv them. The winning name selected was "Casco" sub mitted by Helen Virginia Price; while Miss Price also won on the cartoon design and slogan "It Melts in Your Mouth." Other prizes donated bv local merchants were won by Frank Bierl for youngest person bringing in cream on opening day; C. D. Gearv for bringing in first can of cream; Frank Schlichtemeier of Nehawka for the greatest amount of cream brought in; Wil liam Senf of near Avoca for coming long est distance. Joe Sykora won for the most unique means of delivery of cream mak ing same with a horse and buggy. S I w mar k i - 1 v , m m j mm sxz. x w V . try i ii -Oi 1 -zr fOPAY -vOQ? I m li Hi It II .1 -V II! II mm :! 11' km (Copj'right, 1948, by Th Bell Syndicate", Inc.) DREW PEARSON' SAYS: JAMES WEBB W'lLL BE "TRU MAN'S MAN" IN STATE DEPART MENT: .WEBB WAS PROTEGE OF THE .LATE O.- MAX GARDNER ; GRANGE HEAD URGES LABOR F ARM-BUSINESS CONFERENCE. WASHINGTON At a White House Press Conference, in 1946, newsmen, knowing a new director of the budget had just been selected, asked President Truman for his name. The President hesitated, fumbled on his desk for a piece of paper, picked it up and read the name: "James E. Webb," he said. It was obvious from Truman's hesitation that he had not known Webb before'. In the two years that have passed, how ever. Budget Director Webb has so won the confidence of Harry Truman that last week he was appointed to the No. 2 spot in American Foreign Affairs Undersecre tary of State. As such, his job will be to oil the creak ing State Department machinery and fire some of the diplomatic Doodlers who have been piddling away the peace. He was picked personally by Truman for this job, and will run the State Department, leav ing Acheson free to run foreign affairs. Webb will be Truman's man. As such, there is. of course, the risk of setting up more Sumner Welles - Cordell Hull -type friction. Webb, however, is easy to get plonsr with, knows almost nothing about Foreign Affairs, but has had about as good an efficiency training in and out of govern ment as any young man in Washington. It beean when a truck ran into a car near Raleigh, N.C.. 26 years ago, killing the Secretarv of North Carolina's conoress man Edward Pou, then Chairman of the Rules Committee. Pou. looking for a new secretary, turned to young Jim Webb, then a flier in the Marines, got him discharged pnd brought h'm to WashintHon. MAX GARDNER FINDS WEBB One year later, another North Carolin ian, the late ex-Governor Max Gardner, "me to Washington to set up a law firm. 'Max was looking for a man with Wash ington know-how to join his firm, and at six o'clock one morning sat up in bed to tell his law partner, Fred Morrison, that Jim Webb was the man. "Don't you think you'd better talk to Congressman Pou before you take away his secretary?" Suggested Morrison. '"No, replied Max. who cam? Irom Western North Carolina '"I understand these Eastern North Carolinians. They pay a man $2,500 a year and want to keep him for life. I'm going to talk to Jimmy first." He did with the result that young Webb joined the Gardner law firm. A year or so later, after Jim Farley had canceled the Air Mail Contracts, the Gardner Law Firm represented the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, including Sperry Gyroscope, which brought Webb in contact with another North Carolinian, Tom Morgan, head of Sperry. Morgan, an Eastern North Carolinian, decided to do what Max Gardner had done to Con gressman Pou. He grabbed Jim my Webb as his assistant. For the next seven years, therefore, Webb worked as an executive of Sperry Gyroscope, until in 1943 he rejoined the Marines. Webb got out of the Marines in 1945. by which time his old friend Max Gardner had been appointed Undersecretary of the Treasury, and Max persuaded Webb to return to government as his assistant. Later Max sold Webb to Truman as the best man to handle the intricate job of Director of the Budget. Truman acted on the recommendation without meeting Webb and that was why he fumbled on his desk and didn't- know Webb's name. Note As Undersecretary of State, Webb's policies will be on the conservative side. As Direc tor of the Budget, he jjut Uni versal Military Training ahead of Aid to Education. And, despite President Truman's vigorous election campaign for Health and Social Welfare, Webb recent ly chopped every cent for health out of the Alaskan Budget. LABOR-FARM-BUSINESS CONFERENCE Albert Goss, Master of the Na tional Grange, had some inter esting advice for President Tru man when he called at the White House the other day. "The time has come, Mr. Pres ident," said Goss, "for Business. Labor and Agriculture to quit thumbing their noses at each other if we are to survive these tryine times of mounting debt and threats of war. The leaders of all three groups must sit down around the table and start pull ing together as a team to keep our Democratic System Func tioning." Truman said he thought the idea of a conference amon; Business, Labor and Farm lead ers was a eood one, and promis ed to think it over. "MORE DEMOCRATS BORN" TRUMAN Inaucural Committee Chair man Melvin Hildreth was telling the President about the huse de mand for tickets for the inaugu ral ceremonies. "Never in history has an in augural stimulated such tremen dous popular sunnort and en thusiasm." said Hildreth. "The neoDie re as enthusiastic now as thev were the day after your elecMon." "The answer mav be, Mel," grinned Truman, "that there are a lot more democrats than there used to be." MERRY-GO-ROUND At 7 a. m. on Inaugural Day, President Truman will breakfast with the little group of men he commanded in World War I Battery D, 12P:h Field Artillery. They will breakfast at the May flower Hotel on Missouri Ham. and the high point of the occas ion will be when Captain Tru man calls the roll of his wartime comrades. . . . Madame Chiang Kai-Shek has about completed a eal to purchase a huge. 30-room mansion and estate near Gen eral Marshall's home in Virginia. It will cost $175.000 enough to feed a lot of Chinese Coolies. . . . Young Congressman Ben nett of Florida is introducing a bill whereby the Federal Gov ernment would reimburse the states for all schools erected for Negroes and Indians. . . . All three services will get equal bill ing in the President's Inaugural Parade thanks to Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. Invited to ride at the head of the parade as Marshal. Bradley accepted the honor. But he privately got on the phone and asked Chief of Naval Operations Louis Denfeld and Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg to ride with him. . . . Both the CIO and AFL have teamed up in a petition, asking the Justice Department, Treasury Department and the Senate to investigate Senator Homer Ferguson in his home state. The charges are based up on facts first published in The Washington Merry - Go - Round. President Truman wants his Wrhite House Chief of Staff. Adm. William Leahy, to write a book telling the inside story behind the wartime Big Three Confer ences. . . . Maine's GOP Sen. Owen Brewster, who frequently takes to the air himself, is now championing the Navy cause in a magazine article, called: "The Navy Takes to the Air." WTriting for the Aero Digest, Brewster chooses sides in the Navy-Air Force controversy, refers to their bitter squabble over appropria tions ss a "healthy struggle for funds." NEW NEBRASKA CONGRESSMAN One member of the 80th Con gress who won't be missed in Washington is bombastic Rep. Howard Buffett of Omaha, Neb. The big broom that swept Buf fet out of office on November 2. swept in his opposite number an affable, 6-foot-2 Irishman named Eugene D. O'Sullivan. who got himself elected by plumping for the Liberal Pro gram of Harry Truman. Folks out Nebraska way claim that Gene O'Sullivan is the greatest criminal lawyer since Clarence Darrow. And he has a heart as big as his reputation, with the result that his fees fre quently go uncollected. O'Sulli van has fought numerous cases for impoverished clients, includ ing several that went to the hisher courts, at his expense. Politically, he is a 100 per cent "Fair Dealer" on both Domestic and Foreign Policies. The new Nebraska Congressman got his start in Big-Time Politics at the 1924 Democratic Convention, where he was given chief credit for putting over Charles W. Bry an, former Nebraska Governor, as the running mate of John W. Davis. There was strong opposition to Bryan because of the Grape Juice Crusade of his famous brother, William Jennings. The hostility centered in the big New York delegation. So when O'Sul livan was drafted at the last minute to make the Bryan nom inating speech, he ad-libbed a glowine tribute to the late Tam many Hall boss, Charles Francis Murphy. His quick thinking appeased the New Yorkers and clinched the Vice Presidential nomina tion for Charles Bryan. i Mustard Gas May Be Cancer Foe ; Lincoln Chemicals related to a potent mustard gas developed during World War II may pro vide science with an effective weapon against cancer. Dr. Nor- ,man H. Cromwell. University of Nebraska chemist, announced .Thursday. j The deadly gas, called "nitro gen mustard", has a vesicant or j blistering effect on normal skin I tissues. Its effect on abnormal ' tissue such as cancer cells is even more adverse. In fact, nitrogen mustard already has been used clinically to treat certain types of cancer. S2Z5 brain budgggjg 1. The National Football League championship was won this year by (a) Philadelphia Eaeles, (b) Chica-o Bears, (c) Buffalo Bisons. 2. Where did Vice President-elect Barkley spend Christmas? (a) Paducah, (b) Washington, (c) Paris. 3. A puck should make one think primarily of which sport? (a) Volleyball, (b) Hockey, (c) Tennis. "4. The primary source of our pineapple is which country? (a) Hawaii, (b) Cuba, c) Puerto Rico. 5. It has been customary to nickname football teams. What school's team is known as the Mustangs? (a) California, (b) Southern Methodist, (c) Clemson. ANSWERS 1. ,) Philadelphia EagUa. 2. (c) Pari. 3. (b) Hockey. . 4. (a) Hawaii. 5. (b) Southara Metfcodiat. nrrHILE political observers here ' agree that President Truman has established himself as the un contested leader of the Democratic party, they are wondering just how far the congress will go in granting him a green light on the Truman legislation which he promised the voters and which the Democratic platform pledged to the people. The concensus is that the Presi dent can have just about what he wants, with the possible exception of the civil rights program, insofar as the southern delegation is concerned. And the Democratic caucus is likely to determine, by changing the house rules slightly, that Congressman Eugene Cox of Georgia, ranking member of the all-important house rules committee, never will have the chance of dominating the committee as he did during the 79th and 80th congresses when a coalition of re calcitrant southern Democrats joined with northern Republicans to dictate the measures which should go before congress for a vote. . . President Truman, howerer, has not given in one iota on his civil rights program and has served notice on his congression al leaders that he expects them to go down the line for him on this program which includes abolition of the poll tax, anti lynching, anti-segregation in in terstate transportation lines, and a fair employment practices measure which would eliminate race, color or creed in matters of employment. " An indication of how lobbyists mav cuote figures to prove points is given In. a recent speech of Earl Bunting, managing director of the National Association of Manufac turers. Speaking of the joint con gressional committee named to study housing. Bunting said: "This committee reported that since 1933 the federal government has made specific expenditures and commitments and assumed direct and contingent liabilities for hous ing of at least 20 billion dollars. The fierure has been increased at least several billion dollars since that time. Think of that; more- than $20)00. 000,000 of federal funds have been noured into housing since 1933." Here are the facts. Actually the federal government under the U. S. housine act of 1933, up to the end of 1947 had expended less than one billion dollars for public housing. In 1947 administrative expenses and subsidies for the federal public hous ing administration were only $17, 100,000. The difference between these figures and the 20 billion dollars re ferred to by Bunting was made up by 19 billion dollars of insurance of private housing loans on properties owned privately. These 19 billion dollars were not federal funds spent on housing; they represent the amount of private housing insured by FHA over the past 15 years. The committee for economic de velopment which is a non-profit or ganization of small or medium-sized business men has come forward with, a monetary and fiscal policy for gov ernment after several years of study. Briefly the CED says: 1. FIX STABLE tax rates. The tax rates to be fixed should be at level designed to yield a moderate surplus when national income and employment are high. These tax rates should not be changed even if the economy turns down. Thus, in boom times there should be a budget surplus and in depressions a budget deficit. 2. DURING FERIODS of inflation, the government should use federal reserve action to tighten credit; uso government surplus to retire bank held debt; refund government debt in ways that will reduce portions held by commercial banks; cut the volume of government loans and guarantees of loans. During periods of deflation these policies should bo reversed. Administration leaders, however, declare that the more practical solu tion would be to concentrate on pro grams which would prevent a depres sion since costs of depressions would more than cT?ct the surpluses gained in period.; cf boom times. One of the most bitterly contested measures to come before the new congress is fccierul r.id to education. Proponents r.ro divided amons them selves and this fret alone is indica tive cf a delect cf the measure. Some groups favor limiting aid sole ly to public-:.u;:perted schools. Other groups, led by the Na tional Education association, fa vor aid ta the s'.ates to be usod according to the established practices and policies will. in those states. Untler this theory, if private and parochial schools are aided by state funds, they would abo be helped by federal funds. Dr. Cromwell said the new chemical warfare agent was de veloped by federal scientists dur ing the war. Chemically it is a beta choloro ethylamine. The Cancer Research Grants Branch of the U.S. Public Health Service this week made a grant of $7,992 to Dr, Cromwell. With these funds he hopes to prepare compounds related to nitrogen mustard gas which will have a lower general toxic effect . on human beings and an equal or greater selective anti-cancer ac tivity than the chemical warfare agent. "We are not overly optimistic about this approach to solving the cancer problem," Dr. Crom well said. "We believe, however. that the behavior of the mtro gen mustard compounds should ' be exhaustively studied. It seems more probable that a complete solution of the cancer problem cannot come until more is learn ed of cellular growth and com position." Dr. Cromwell said the anti cancer compounds related to nitrogen mustard to be prepared at Nebraska will be tested by the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City.- Hunters Not Welcome JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (U-P1 Hunters arn't welcome at the Mowry-White farm any more. George Mowry and Glenn White marked up their third cow cas ualty to careless marksmen. They estimated the slain cows were worth $1,500. 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