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Vi The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED IN 18S1 J'iiliish- si-wl-wevkly, Monrinvs and TMirs v. ft 41'- 4 1 M:-i in Mri, I'iattsmoutU, a-- ( ir.t y. Ni-tirn-k:i. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor HAROLD TUCKER . Advertising Manager O. c. Osterholm, Piar.t Superintendent Harry Wileoxen, Manager Job Department Helen E. Heir.rich, News Editor fnesRfisxf) LSD (assccaron f o A w.-.V..... V, ....V.vy.j .,..V.VA TM ) 9 KATiONAl I . SJ s, T ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass end adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Rlatts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. F'i'!r.-il at tt.- I t f f i( e at flat' mnttt ii N l.r;k hi otmJ t -;j m: ! tn1 It in hi '!".;, ret- w ; 1 1, th. Act f C.ns-'rs of March EDITORIALS NOT CREDITABLE The House of Representative? doe? not ;inTlt,.,r :n a vorv faVr.rab!,. lin-ht in its con iderntion of the Fan kin bill to provide P-n-ns for the veterans of World War I and II after thev each reach the aire of 65. Recently, whon th- vite of no individ ual rrinbar v:is recorded, the House voted 154 to llV.t to kid the enacting clause of the pleasure, which would render it inop erative. Wh.-r. a teller vote was demanded, the House voted 1 G3 to 134 to confirm its action. liu ider.tly. when a teller vote is taken, tlie nn-mbers rise to be counted, but there is no permanent record made of the votes of individual members. After these two votes, the House went into considerati.-.n rf the bill. A motion was made to sear! the bill back to the com mittee, where it mishit be pitreon-holed, and the vrte was recorded. The members reversed their previous attitude by voting 2?.' t 187 n-u to recommit the bill." There after, a record veto was demanded on the ouestion "f kill in? the enacting: clause and "under t ho impact of a record vote," the House voted 201 to 120 to brinjr "back to life what it. rveviouslv appeared to have hot to death." The action of the House amounts to an admission on the part of a majority voting that the bill is bad and that it ought to be killed but that, facing- political realities, the majority of the members is not willing to place themselves on record to this effect although perfectly willing to kill the mea sure if it can be done without political consequences. The margin of victory for opponents of the pension plan is probably too small to stand up against the organized pressure that will be exerted by some of the vet erans organisations. The power of this pressure .i illustrated by the fact that when the House members could vote with out going on record, the ballot was uni formly adverse to the proposition but, whenever a record vote was taken, the votes in favor of it increased almost by m a v i c . P. O. W. HONOR GERMAN Something unusual appears in the news dispatch, tolling of the plan of British prisoners of war in Germany to have a re union in October to honor the German I : r i s o n c o m m a n d e r . It seems that the men held in prison at 7'b'chhamner. in Upper Silesia, think that Prince Wilhelm von Yor.henlohe. the pris on commander, deserves to be honored be cause he was "so decent" and "helpful to the men when they got in trouble." In view of the many reports of brutal ity that came from Germany during the war, it is refreshing to learn that at least one of those in command behaved kindly to the prisoners of war in his charge. -K DOWN MEMORY LANE TWENTY YEARS AGO The Platter, local school paper was one of C1 ruiblications entered in the third an nual Tri-State Press contest sponsored by the Thcta Gamma Ep-ilon fraternitv at Midland college . . . Beatrice Knoflicek s'-cured first place in bookkeeping and Charles Xowacek placed third in commer cial contest held at Nebraska Citv . . . The Inttsmouth Woman's Club made arrange ents for a Women's exchange of hand work, iooci, etc.. to be heid at V. . A H ells grocery on Main street . . . Rex Young represented the Nebraska auctioneers at a meeting held at Shenandoah, Iowa, and spoke over KFNF on Plattsmouth and Cass County, and also told of the new bridge soon to span the Missouri. - -f. TEN YEARS AGO Mrs. W. S. McGrew, past president of the Louisville "Woman's Club, was named president of first district federation 'at1 meetinir here . . . Harley Street left for Springfield, Missouri to report to the farm there of the St. Louis Cardinals . . . Mar garet Ann Vallery and Jacqueline Grass- Pi m FurseV Fresh Flashes Now that we have days for most every thing else, why not set one aside for people who mind their own business? Agriculture is something like farming, only farming is doing it. - -K The Senate in Washington is consider ing a bill for the relief of distressed gold mine owners. These must be the new f rty-niners, and the rush this time will be east. - The citizens of Plattsmouth would be surnrised at what they could accomplish if they just made up their minds to accom plish something. -t A Plattsmouth woman say? marriage is jut like ridinc a street car. It starts with a jerk and ends with a jerk. With a slight sagging of prices, most of us who laid some' money away have found out it is good again. Contrary to rumor, the stuff bore no expiration date. - The doctor tells us that our indigestion is nothing but our failure to adjust a square meal to a round stomach. A husband can always obtain domestic harmonv if he's willing to plav second fiddle. -k One trouble with democracy is that too many people suffer from mental paralysis. -K If dodging work is a paying business, we know some fellows in this town that ought to be millionaires. MM man entertained at a shower at the Theo dore Ptak home honoring Miss Bette Bulin wh .-e marriage to Raymond Bourne was an Easter Sunday event . . . Announcement was made of the wedding of Ralph Mason of this city to Miss Lucille G if ford of Re publican City. Nebraska. mmtf-60- mum (Copyright, 1949, By the Eell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: TRUMAN IS ADVISED DEPRESSION LOOMS IN 1950-51 ; BUSINESS BUST CAN BE AVERTED BY STRINGENT PROGRAM OF SOCIAL SECURITY. PUBLIC HOUSING. ETC.: ECONOM- , IC ADVISERS AGREE ON GENERAL REMEDIES. " WASHINGTON. There's been a lot of petty bickering between the President's Council of Economic Advisors, but there's one unpleasant fact they all agree on. Thev foresee definite depression in 1950 or 1951 unless immediate steps are taken to head it off. The council, it w;ll be recalled, was created by Congress in 1946 to advise the White House on how to ward off depress ion. And although the three members dif fer on a lot of things, thev feel that de pression can be stopped thou eh only by the concerted cooperation of the adminis tration, Congress, business, farmers and labor. To understand the background of the economic council's vitally important busi ness diagnosis, it should be recalled that for the past 100 years American economy has been riding a roller-coaster of ups and downs, inflation and deflation, of booms arid busts. In the past 590 years these ups and downs have become more severe so severe that the Politburo in Moscow is known to have based its global .strategy on the theory that one more economic depress ion would wreck the entire American sys tem. HISTORY'S GREATEST BOOM Since V-J Day most Americans have been enjoying the greatest wave of pros perity in history for two reasons: 1, The public's unsatisfied demands for goods thv could not buy during the war; 2, the cold war. which has caused the government to pour billions into the Avorld's economic stream. However, the council estimates that the long pent-up demand for .automobiles, re frigerators and other consumers' goods is now just about filled, while the vast ex penditures to Europe in another year will begin to taner off, so that depression will come in 1950-51. Another factor is the psychological ef fect of swiftly rising prices followed by dropping prices. If OPA and inflation controls had not been thrown overboard by Congress and prices had not shot up so high, business dislocation might not be so bad now. For, while falling prices at the moment may be healthy, yet a lot of business especially small business always gets hurt bv falling prices. And the psycholog ical effect of falling prices encourages de pression ; for people, waiting for lower prices, don't buy. THE PRESIDENT'S ADVISERS The three members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers are: Chairman Dr. Edwin Nourse, a New Yorker, long-time member of the Brookings Institute, and generally considered the most conservative counselor. Leon Keyserling, a native of South Car olina, former secretary to Senator Wagner, and who has had a long experience in the i "IH MRFR flM TMF I FFT" ! E ggElEEl !LE1 I ill I I I mmt) drv v WB, ' ! i r 1 . , ! I 1 ( I 1 Ml THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEERASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JC'JRIVAL Monday, April 4, 1949 PAGE THREE d INFLUENCE an -HOW TO WIN FRIENDS THE ART OF APPRECIATION or of PEOFU" D. CJnerfe government, chiefly in the U. S. : housing authority. A liberal, Keyserling frequently disagrees with more conservative chairman ; Nourse. ! John D. Clark, a native of Col- ' orado and former economics pro fessor at the University of Ne braska and the Un'vcrsity of Denver. Clark usually lines up with liberal Keyserling. However, the council has com posed its differences to recom mend a proeram to President : Truman which it regards as ab solutely essential to block de gression. Whi' oll three aeree, : Dr. Nourse considers the volun- tary phase of thf oroeram more; important, but K"nrling and j Clark. thc-.-?h not d; agreeing, j would place more emphasis on ' the government pl-ae. The j prosram which Nourse considers j most important is: I Farmers Convince frters to! grew bigger crops and accept somewhat lower supper pn?es. therebv reducing the conuirs' food bill, but continuine r. r".-s-onable return for farmers. Business Sell businessm - lower profits per item, thr ' v ret'ing cratr-r volv.me and con tim;fi renonable prcfis. Labor Persund" labor leaders not to seek v:ag in"rpaes thaf : will throw the economy out of , GOVERNMENT RFMDIES j The Clark-Keyserlin? group. ; wliile agreeing with The abov. cravely doub:s the eovemment's ; ability to "persuade" business, j farmers and labor. Therefore. ! they nut more emohasis on hard- j and-fast eovernment incentives! which would prop up the econo my "regardless of persuasion. They propose: 1. Tncrpasd Social Security benefits to take care of unem ninvmnt and th aTfd. Prsent 0!d-A?-e pensions are woefully low and unemnlovment. benefits last only a briaf interval after uppmnicvmfnt starts. 2. Increase minimum ware.s to 75 cens. This is aimed at in creasing buying nower in the lower bri nkts. At rrevnf. un ion labor's constant round of vaf? demands has nut nranlred labor far phed of the crpat ma"s of unsV'iUed and unorran ired lanr. Onn sure wav to nrp vent denresion is to promote buving power by lower income Trouns. 3. T.ow-cost. housinrr. built Virnu"h n"prnmpnt cnbsidieq This plo hplos to nro irlp work 4. Aid to education. This would inrreqsp fpnohers' sqiiries and nmvido new sehoolhouse con struction. 5. PtckrninfT critical mater ials. This is not only an essen tial safeo-pard in case of war. but, the buvinr of raw matprials hpirs tr bolster saline pconomv. Dr. Nnrso aTPPS that this phase of the rroTn-n n1so is s- evitav,ie depression in 1950 or J. QvJTtr Npw-nn. livp-wirp mayor of Denver. Co . is lobby ing to pet his fathr-in-iaw. MorHson Phafrob. nnnointed to the IT. p court of Annuals. Thp .Tnsice dartartmnt isn't enthus iastic, howevpr. Fcr. when Shaf roth was chief counsel nf the Burpau of Internal Revenue, FDR wanted him to testify before Congress regarding the yachting income-tav dpductions of Roy powari. Shafroth refused . . . Lobbyists for the bie notash com panies hqvp bppn cailin? on Sen ator Clinton AndPrr.on of Nw Mexico. They are fearful of in creased taxes in his state . . . KNOW YDUR WEATHER - 1 r WEATHER LIMIT Above 35,000 feet there is no weather, and therefore there are no clouds at that height. That is the limit of circulatory atmospheric movement caused by the earth's heat, and above it lies the strato sphere with a 70-degree-below-zero cold. LETTER BOX The Journal welcomes letters from rra'l-'rsi for this column on anv subject. Your name must be sip:n 1 to all articles Intended for publication, howtver. by request, it can be omitted from the letter appearing in print (Contents do not ne-etssnrily express the opin ions of this newspaper. J Plattsmouth, Nebr., March 29, 1949. Plattsmouth Journal. Dear Sirs: In answer to the letter you published concerning the ladies rest room. When the city of Plattsmouth insialled the rest room, it was nice and clean with all new fixtures. Did the ladies take care of this? Treat it as though it was in their own house? Definitely not! Why not? Because they figured the city could replace anything. So they keep on destroying every thing that is put in there. It is cleaned every Saturday and taken care of, for which in re turn the persons gets pay. I agree once a week is not enough, but when people do not care enough to take care of tissue and etc.. when put in once a week, why should the city try to do more? As far as the tavern's rest rooms, many, many women do not care to ener the taverns. Not because they turn up their noses at them either. Just be cause they do not care for them. Sincerely, A Journal Subscriber. CAPII0L NEWS Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska's community property law appar ently will be repealed, despite the prediction that the action virtually will halve the state's benefits from federal irrigation projects. Sen. Arthur Carmody, Tren ton, gave the warning, but next day the repeal bill was advanced in the unicameral with little de bate. Carmody explained that the National Reclamation Bu reau has limited to 160 acres the amount of land any farmer may irrigate. This was intended to save the benefits for individuals, rather than large corporation leased farms. In the sprawling western states, the 160-acre limitation however feasible it may appear in the east, has been labeled "ridiculous." And under the community property law it could be doubled, since both husband and wife could claim that amount. Repeal of the law will return Nebraska to the status of the original figure, Carmody said. The road problem continues to plague the unicameral, and lines of the battle are beginninT to be drawn. Sen. Cliff Ogden Omaha, withdrew his support of the governor's highway develop ment program after the law- I makers gave tentative approval j to a change in the formula for i allocating the counties' share of gasoline tax revenue. 1 He said Douglas county al j ready is putting in more ta i money than it gets back, and he could not permit the county s share to be whittled down even more under the formula spon sored by Sen .Norris,. Schroed er, Hoskins, and also vote for the governor's program. The executive committee of The Better Nebraska associa tion, formed to help enact th program, is scheduled to meet at Lincoln about March 25 to discuss the situation. Trie unicameral breathed new life into Sen. Hugh Carson's (Ord bill abolishing capital punishment, overriding the de cision of its judiciary commit tee. Carscn led the fight against the death penalty, arguing so ciety cannot control crimes of violence by becoming party to them. "There are worse things than murder," he said."Briding pub lic officials, adulteration of food and drugs these are worse." The bill has cleared the first hurdle of the committee's in definite postponements, but it still must win passage through the legislature. TERE'S a story based on a seller's market, but a story with a lesson that can be used in anv market. Helen Roll of Oakland. Calif., read a newspaper advertise ment of something- she had lon wanted some needlepoint' chairs. She hastened to the store during- her lunch hour and allied to see the chairs. Appar- t'- 1 ently, it was the desk's lunch hour, too, for Ehe 4f seemed in a hurry to leave the floor and '"W 'p ' ' ? answered curtly, "TheyYe a-U gone; Ave haven't V' anv more. S Said Mi?s Roll, "Anyone could see that fhe hid no interest in my getting one of the chairs. Rebuffed, I started away." "But," she added, "it occurred to me that this was a good time to put to use something I had just learned, so I turned back and pointed to some needlepoint footstools and, taking a chance cn them being the work of someone in the art department, I asked 'Did you do that work?' 'Yes, I did,' said the clerk. 'Oh, they're beautiful,' I told her and, noting that she was softening a bit, I discussed the color combinations with her and asked her advice as to colors I should use cn a piece cf work that I was doing. "All of a sudden, that clerk became very friendly r.r.d very helpful. She was no longer in a hurry to go off the floor and went to great lengths to show me various yarns. I made no further mention of the chair I wanted, but started away. Then she said, 'Why don't you leave your name and telephone num ber? If we get another chair, 1 will call you.' "And call me she did, the very next dry, trying: I have your chair; a friend has ja:t com: in cd c:l::tcJ cne, but as I knew she could wait awhile I r :ruzd;d Lcr not to take it but to let you have it. "From that time on, that clerk and I 1 -: ? " lends and she lias been of great assistance to me iu r.;y , Stories like this bob up in your life prr.ctiea'ly even day; watch for them; show appreciation of a.iy work when you can, or of anyone. It will make that person happier; it will make you happier. And the chances are it will help you to accomplish -nv goal you may have looked forward to reaching. Cumberland Falls, southwest of Corbin. Ky., is said to be the only waterfall in the western hemisphere where a moon-bow may be seen. Congressmen Klein and Keogh, both New Yorkers, will spark plug a Congressional investiga tion of illegal wire tapping. They'll try to get legislation re quiring manufacturers of wire tapping equipment to number and register every unit of their eavesdropping devices just as re volvers are numbered. Permissive school redistricting also won tentative approval, after friends of the legislation beat down three amendments ' they contended would leave the bill impotent. The bill provides for county committees to meet once a year . and discuss their school situ I ation. If redistricting seems the 1 answer, the committee would j draft a plan, air it in public hearing, and submit it to a state committee appointed by the governor. The state body'r. recommendations could be ad opted or vetoed, and the pro posal then submitted to a vote of the people. Rural and high school dis tricts would ballot as separate units so that, proponents ex plained, they could not be over ridden by a vote of urban areas areas. Sen. Hal Eridenbaugh. Dako ta City, tried hard to eliminate the one mandatory provision of the bill: the annual meeting of the county committees. He wanted the meeting called only if petitioned for by 20 per cent of the eligible voters in the area. But he was voted down, 13-22. Opposition to the bill general ly stemmed from senators who argued roads must be improved before redistricting can te ac complished. Proponents count ered whh the contention that roads never will be improved until redistricting is begun. Governor Val Petersen has signed into law an emergency bill providing state funds to help educate physically and mentally handicapped children The state will put up $400 a year for the phyricaily disab'ei youngsters, and $100 annually for those with lcwer-than-nor- : mal IQ. after their districts have provided the regular per-pupil ; cost. ; The state department of pub , lie instruction will ask the ap- pronriation committee for a $150,000 1949-51 biennial budget to carry out the program. i The miscellaneous appropria : tions committee swung the axe j wide and killed bills providing ; retirement systems fcr justices ; of the state supreme court, dis ! trict judges, and state emplcy- es. Another bili. calling for man i datory retirement systems for : governmental employes in all I cities and towns. ; Observers predicted the action ' foreshadowed u n s y m p athetic attention to remaining pensions 1 ana salary-raisin0; bills stiil to be acted cn bv the committee. IT e Jiurnil Want Ads ? UCCC35 jarc5itlioocl BY MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS Associate Editor, Parents' Magazine tvtOT LONG AGO we were discuss- ' ing a motion picture with a group of women whose task it was to decide whether or not the film was suitable for children. Cue of the committee members remarked indig nantly, "But the boy told a bare faced lie how can you recommend the film for children?" As a matter of record, the film was finally considered too ma ture for children under 12, but not because of the boy's false hood, tlhat, in fact, was in the opinion cf most cf the commit tee one of those inescapable lies that most children succumb to now and then. The boy told a lie because the truth was too pain ful for lam to utter. The circumstances were thse: the boy's beloved pony was dying and h knew it. But when a bunch of neighbor children trouped by to see him ride the pony they had heard so much about, he couldn't say, "You can't see my pony he's in the barn sick he's going to die." To put that terrible truth into words would have required age and maturity. So the boy said instead, "My father took the pony in town to get him shod." This was not the fabrication of what strict disciplinarians usei to call "a natural born liar." It was a defense against the hurts of life put up by one too young to know better. The film, incidentally, is John Steinbeck's "The Red Pony" and this isn't the only example of its Insight into childhood's problems. Indeed, parents could benefit greatly la increased understanding by see ing it. An undercurrent to the whole story Is the unhappiness of the boy's rn't serious parents. It lilx2 poverty, or infidelity or drunk enness. It is just the inability of two young people to understand what is in each ether's hearts. The father is unconsciously jealous of his son's devotion to the hired man, who is a hero to the boy because he knows so much about horses. Instead cf acknowledging this to himself, the husband takes out his unhappiness on his wife's father a garrulous old man whose long and oft-repeated tales cf leading a cara van across the desert "westerin" he calls it irritate the younger man. This, in turn, puts the wile on the defensive out of loyalty to her father. This familiar situation, is sketched in the film from the point cf view cf its eilect on the boy. The youngster doesn't miss a bit of the tension between his parents. Being a sensitive lad, he feels sorry for his grandfather, too, and tries in little, ineffect ual boyish ways to comfort him. If ycu suppose for one minute that you can bring children up in a tense, quarrelsome atmosphere and not have them equally tense and on their guard against the unpleasant ness they dread, this film should help make it clear that children ab sorb as much through their feelings as through the words they hear spoken. Another extreme example, that of a child's need to strike back at the injustices of life, is shown In the boy's insane attaclr on the vultures which he finds winging over his pony's body. The next time your child deliberately kicks a chair cr mistreats his pet. try to find out what It is la his own We he Is try ins to get even with. ifcf- -T-tw mm m niu 1