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TTME tPtLAWSidDaJTIH JtfDOraAlL SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S 'NEWSpaper united rurss AND XWXS SERVICE The Plattsmouth Journal KSTAnLISITED IN 1SS1 I'ulilislieu pemi-nsfklv, Mondays nnd Thurs days, at 4ti'.-4 1 Main street, l'lattsmouth, '"ass Ci.uniy, N-!r;iska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. O. C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor assocATon HATtOMAl IDITOfilAt ASSOQAIIOm 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. rnt-r-1 at Oi Postnf f if c at I'lattsrrnmtli. N-raka as scc-oml lass mail matter In ( (iinlanrf with li.t; Aft of Congress uf Marih ::. 179 .ka ' A THOUGHT FOR TODAY ClhHii'c of weather is the discourse of fools. Thomas Fuller. EDITORIALS THE "DISABLED VETERANS RACKET" Harry D. Mitchell, chairman of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, is hot and bothered about the definition of a "dis abled veteran." which gives to a man extra points in connection with civil service ex aminations. Mr. Mitchell does not object to the ex tra points going to a veteran, injured in the war, but he is not so enthusiastic over the "disabled" rating that goes to a man because of a "service-connected" disability, which mav be nothing more than "flat oot." As everybody knows, after the first World War, and, presumably, after the second, many veterans got into service only to be discharged later because of some physical disability, not connected with in juries received in the service. These indi viduals have been rated as "disabled," and given the same preference that Congress intended to grant to those who were in jured in action. What Mr. Mitchell objects to, and what every citizen should object to, is seen in this example cited by him. A man as certified by his draft board as physically able and inducted into the first World War. Three weeks later, he was discharged be cause of bad feet. The assumption was that his short army career flattened his arches and the veteran got the official label, "disabled." As a result of this "disability," the flat footed veteran, in connection with civil .fe'rvice ratings, goes to the head of the job-eligibility roster above a combat sol dier with a higher examination rating who may have been wounded in action but was never "disabled." BOY SCOUTS NEED HELP An effort is being made to extend the activities of the Boy Scout movement in Cass county, so that the training of this youth organization can become available to a large number of boys. The Boy Scout work in Plattsmouth has fluctuated up and down through the years. Various organizations sponsor the troops, but probably the greatest need is for competent volunteers to serve as scout masters and assistants. As a general rule, there are those ready to share some of the financial costs of executing but there is a dearth of competent men to act as leaders. This scarcity is the bottleneck of scouting, not only in Platts mouth, but elsewhere. We hope that some young men will volunteer to give some of their time to the responsible work of the Boy Scouts. 4t 4t -ft TO BUY ... OR NOT TO BUY , A man lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs. He was hard of hearing so he had no radio. He had trouble with his eyes so he read no newspapers. But he sold good hot dogs. He put up signs on the highway telling how good they were. He stood by the side of the road and cried: "Buy a hot dog, Mister?" And people bought. He increased his meat and bun orders. He bought a bigger stove to take care f his trade. He got his son home from college to help him. But then something happened . . . His son said, "Father, haven't you beeu listening to the radio? "There's a big recession on. "The European situation is terrible. "The domestic situation is worse." Whereupon the father thought, "Well, Furse's Fresh Flashes A local man says from now on he's la carte" on the wagon. - Admonished and told where bad little girls go as a child, Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says she found out as she grows older they go al most everywhere. e A Plattsmouth man, hale and hearty at 70 years, says all he wants is a little peach and quiet. A compositor in our shop is more in clined to be a critic than a printer. He left the T out of George Baft's name, and put an 'n' instead of a t' in Vic Mature's last name. A lot of fellows we know have lost their shirt because thev put too much on the cuff. Down at the football game Saturday people went wild when one of the fellows ran out and caught a long pass. We couldn't see anything to get excited about that's what he ran out there for. No allowance a man gives his wife compares with the one she makes. Of the labor saving devices invented for women, none has proven so popular as the husband with plentv of money. - Who now remembers when peace didn't have to be waged? my son's been to college. He reads the paper and he listens to the radio and he ought to know." So the father cut down on his meat and bun orders. Took down his advertising signs. And no longer bothered to stand out on the highway to sell hot dogs. And his hot dog sales fell almost overnight. "You're right, son," the father said to the boy. "We certainly are in the middle of a great recession!" Automotive News. DOWN MEMORY LANE TWENTY YEARS AGO Miss Freda Wohlfarth departed for Los Angeles to make her home . . . F. L. Busche was low bidder on road to bridge and secured city contract and a large part of state and county letting for work to be started soon . . . The year 1929 marked silver anniversary of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company, according to C. H. Jensen, local manager . . . Supt. R. E. Bailey, vice-president, attended executive committee meeting of the second district association ... .' ; - . TEN YEARS AGO The Plattsmouth Merchants baseball team and a number of the fans were treated to a barbecue at Merritt's Beach by Man ' ager Ray Shafer and Vic Nord, with Jess Ogden as chef . . . Miss Janet Westover, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Westover, was chosen to represent Plattsmouth as a member of the countess group at Ak-Sar-Ben . . . George Conis and E. O. Vroman attended the national convention of the American Legion in Chicago . . . Mr. and Mrs. William T. Starkjohn entertained at a family dinner party honoring Midship man Karl Stefan of Bellevue, home on leave from Annapolis ... 1 113 VC-lJ.wJi (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: OLD-AGE PENSION DEMANDS ARE ON THE INCREASE; WOULD BE JUDGE DAVE BAZELON IS EM BARRASSED BY HIS REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION; JUDGE GOLDSBOROUGH MAKES IMPORTANT RULING AFFECTING AIR ROUTES. WASHINGTON. The battle over old age pensions in the steel industry is being watched by several million people not only in other industries but especially in south ern California and Florida where Dr. Townsend's old-age pension movement and the ham-and-eggers have been so strong. Regardless of how the steel dispute comes out, more and more demands for old-age pensions will follow. One little-realized fact in the steel dis pute is that, during the president's fact finding board hearings, CIO Chief Phil Murray appealed to the steel industry to settle the old-age pension issue by support ing the social security bill now before con gress. He said: "Look here, you fellows, there's a bill before congress right now calling for in creased old-age pensions for everyone. Will you join me in supporting.it?" Murray's remark was addressed to Enders Voorhees and John Stephens, exec utives of U. S. Steel; to C. M. White of ODORIFEROUS! THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, September 29. 1949 PAGE ONE - 5 I 3 A c&' I k,).i aswr r Mill IBB IP i it I 3T ; r 1 i w mm DO OOOOOGOCJ i I D asmngton i EBATE OVER EXTENSION of the reciprocal trade agree ments received top billing in the senate this week, and with legisla tion at a standstill in the house, vacationing until Sept. 21. little def inite action was in the immediate offing. The compromise farm bill, offered by Sen. Clint Anderson of New Mexico, appeared to have bi-partisan support, and even Senator Aitken of Ver mont, author or the Aitken law, appeared to be willing that his law should go out the window without taking effect. Effective date of the Aitken law was Jan uary, 1, 1950. Republicans in both house and senaie breathed a sish of relief when administration forces agreed j 1 to support the Anderson bill with a lower parity support than the house-passed Gore bill. Reason is that farm prices will take a dip this fall and the Aitken law would I have meant lower farm prices. jThui, with farm states already off Republic Steel, A. B. Homer of Bethlehem, Ben Moreell of Jones-Laughlin and several others. However, he got no re- tested the Canadian agreement cn air routes as a state depart ment invasion of the senate's ratification powers. Meanwhile sponse. None offered to support Canada has put the state depart ment on the spot by threatening to throw out every U. S. line from Gander airport in Newfoundland tomorrow Sept. 30 . Gander is the most important base on the trans-Atlantic hop, and the con stitutional issue raised by Judge the congressional bill for old-age pensions. Murray's inference was that if congress had handled the pen sion matter for everyone, his un ion would not need to threaten a strike. As it is, however, the unions with sufficient strike up politically, but his prolific ideas on farming continue to find favor with government i planners. Latest Wallace idea, to j be revived is the "Ever Normal i Granary" plan, which as Sec retary of Agriculture, he. pro moted before the war. You'll be hearing about it soon under a new name: stab ilization reserves. Briefly, the program will call for substantial reserves of food and feed grains Goldsborough is probably the power, such as the coal miners, ! most important since the Dred to insure stable supplies for do auto workers, steelworkers et al. ocou decision. mestic and" emergency export can get pensions. But unskilled MERRY-GO-ROUXD ' needs. labor, farm labor, white-collar i ! The American embassy in ; First tipoff on the program workers and oldsters who never, jjme has informed Edda, Ciano, ; was the announcement that the belonged to unions will get sec- ; Mussolini's daughter and widow ' Commodity Credit Corporation ond-rate pensions or none. 0f Italy's fascist foreign min TRYGVE LIE'S ENGLISH , ister, that she can soon expect Friends of U. N. Secretary 30,000.000 lire from the U. S. A. ; The money is part of the royal ties earned in the United States through the sale ,of Ciano's diaries. Secretary of the Treas ury Snyder's office made the de- General Trygve Lie explain pri vately why the jovial diplomat doesn't like to make public ut terances in English. He is fear ful of a faux pas. For example: One day, in a conference with his U. N. staff, Lie was discuss ing the proposal to build a pray er room in the newr U. N. head quarters. Some had suggested that it be called a temple of prayer. "No," said Lie, "that sounds too formidable. Let's just call it a rest room." NEW JUDGE FROM CHICAGO? Charming Dave Bazelon, as sistant attorney general in charge of alien property, dropped in to see Paul Douglas, the hard hitting senator from Illinois, to get his help in being made a judge on the U. S. court of ap peals from the District of Columbia. As Bazelon sat down he no ticed on the senator's desk a clipping from a Chicago news paper telling how Bazelon had contributed $200 to the campaign of G. O. P. Senator Curley Brooks, whom Douglas defeated. "Perhaps that's not a very good contribution." remarked the red-faced Bazelon, referring to the clipping. "I don't keep political books." replied the good-natured Doug las. Bazelon's explanation is that Ed McGinnis, who was running Senator Brook's re-election cam paign, had persuaded him to make the $200 contribution. But this glosses over the fact that Douglas and Truman were run ning against uphill odds, were never expected to win, while Sen ator Brooks had all the power and money of the Chicago Tri bune crowd behind him. In brief, Brooks was considered a sure bet, and the delightful Bazelon, though appointed to a job by Truman, was betting aeainst him. TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR THREATENED Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who wasn't afraid to fine John L. Lewis, signed a little-noticed order last week which is diplo matic dynamite. He cast serious doubt on the state department's right to enter into agreements with othef governments without ratification by the senate. Ruling that the Canadian American air agreement may be illegal, Judge Goldsborough re quired the executive departments to define where the president's power of executing agreements ends and the senate's right to ratify treaties begins. Forty-nine senators have pro- would provide up to 500,000,000 bushels capacity in new corn storage. While no definite goals have been set, some topflight planners are thinking in terms of a Granary Reserve of up to 1,000,000,000 bushels of feed ; grains and up to 500.000.000 bu- cision believe it or not on the ! shels of wheat and rye. grounds it can't be proved Edda ! Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan has repeatedly stressed was a fascist . . . Robert Hag gerty of Detroit will be the new director of census, and as such will dole out 150,000 jobs to find out how many people live in the United States in 1950 . . . Secre tary of the Air Force Symington had a personal reason for snub bing the navy court that is in vestigating the B-36 smear. Un der navy rules, Cedric Worth, who wrote the smear sheet at tacking Symington, would have the right to cross-examine the witness. Rather than face Worth's questions, Symington ducked the hearing. (Feared he might lose his temper!) . . . One reason Democratic moguls have been worried about a steel strike is because it would cut off the sheet steel now desperately need ed for new grain-storage bins in the farm belt. Democrats feel they won the election partly be cause of the grain-storage issue and if they don't come through for the farmers it'll be bad news . . . President Truman is so pleased with the Democratic conferences in the midwest and far west that he is considering another in the deep south now very hostile territory . . . Several Truman advisers are urging him to bring up the civil-rights bill just before congress is supposed to adjourn, with the idea that this would keep southern con gressmen filibustering until Christmas when they might get tired and give in. WALLACE'S GRANARY Henry Wallace may be washed the need for ample feed-grain reserves to provide a more con stant supply of meats, dairy and poultry products. In this connection, Brannan has emphasized that the year-to-year uncertainty of feed supplies, as well as feed price fluctuations, retard not only stable farm production of live stock, milk and poultry, but al so stable prices to consumers. the reservation insofar as the Re publicans are concerned, they wer stager to take the Anderson bm and light out the issue in the coming campaign on the Brannan progranfTybich is not jieadUg; long shot5P--,'aft luo doII. which has been taxeir'n indicates that a majority of farmers favor the Brannan plan, even though leaders of farm organizations have taken a stand against the proposal. Debate on the reciprocal trade extension will take two to three weeks with the Republican mem bers determined to place strings on i the president's authority under the measure. Democrats are standing fast on extension of the law as is. Before adjournment for the ' Labor day holiday, the senate en acted a watered down minimum ' wage bill, raising the minimum to 75 cents an hour, but removing I an estimated 200.000 persons from its provisions. The house bill al ready had removed about a million I workers from coverage by the j measure. So it's a half-way victory i for the administration. Most exemptions came as a re sult of an amendment offered by Sen. Spessard Holland of Florida and include removal of most retail and service workers. Senator Hol land's colleague. Sen. Claude Pep per ol Florida, led the fight against the amendment. The bill now goes to conference. In addition to the Holland amendment, the following ex emptions were voted: Western I'nion messengers, workers on maintenance of reservoirs or waterways not operated for profit, newsboys, awiUhboard operators in telephone ex changes w ith not more than "50 stations, workers in establish ments selling goods to be used in residential or farm building construction or repair, sawmill workers where fewer than 12 persons work, employees ft cotton gins or cotton seed mills in counties where cotton is raised. Sen. Scott Lucas of Illinois, ma- jority floor leader, again was opti mistic about an early adjournment. . He has a list of 'must" bills how ever which include the military aid program, liberalization of the displaced persons act, the new farm program, pay raises for gov ernment officials, military pay raise and repeal of oleo taxes. Also on the list is the lig jam cf appropriation bills. Of 15 appro-' priations bills passed by the house, 1 nine have been sent to the Presi-, dent, but six remain awaiting ac-, tion. Five of these are stalled in; conference and one of them, the army civil functions bill, has been in conference since June. 3&HWKj Also before Labor day adjourn- ment the senate finally passed thej military appropriations bill ftftew slashing a billion dollars front th house version. Total is now $12,- 731,834,478. The cut was achieved, largely by reducing outlay for th6 air force to provide for a 48 com bat group force instead or 58 1 groups as in the house bill and by giving the defense secretary dis cretionary powers to reduce ex penditures on his own by about a half billion dollars. The senate de feated the rider which would have provided the president make an overall budget cut of 5 to 10 per cent and eliminated a long-standing ban against the use of oleo for other than cooking purposes in mil itary establishments. This latter was considered a decisive defeat for the milk producers association and a signal victory for the oleo people. Hearing on the five per center In vestigation brought out no new damaging testimony. -! was served. A good time wasnesday night. In the evening Wuvudadi Mrs. Florence McPonaH Mr. and Mrs. William Stock moved into their new home on Tuesday and are gradually get ting settled. Mrs. Alvin Bornemeier had, her tonsils removed on Thurs day morning at the Bryan Me morial hospital. She returned home on Friday morning. The Friendly Neighbor Club ladies with their husbands -met Wednesday evening at the Wm. Lau home to. enjoy with this kindly couple the evening of their 22nd wedding anniversary. The club presented them with a garnet colored water set. The evening was spent playing cha rades and visiting. A luncheon of pie and sandwiches, which had been brought by the lad ies, with hugh pieces of wed ding cake baked by Mrs. Lau enjoyed by all Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schaf er of Omaha spent Thursday in Murdock visiting old friends. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kupke, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kupke, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd KcKee and Bill Blum all attended the Luther an Laymen's League banquet Sunday night at the Hotel Corn husker at Lincoln. About 400 visitors were seated at the tables. This banquet ended the dav afternoon tentn annual ijuineraii day men's League convention. Next year the convention will be held at Fremont, Neb. Mr they all attended the Ashland Stir-Up. The Sarpy-Cass Bi-County R. N. A. convention was held at Springfield on Thursday, Sep tember 22. There were 13 ladies from the Murdock lodge in at tendance. Mrs. Ernest Schlueter left last Friday to visit a sister who is seriously ill. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Elseman i were Omaha shoppers on Tues- Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Peters and daughters of Omaha spent Saturday afternoon and even- I in? at the home of Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Glenn Peters of . Grant Peters. In the evening a Omaha were supper guests at J pinochle party was held in their the Grant Peters home on Wed- ' honor. 1. "There was a man in the land of Uz," begins the book, (a) The Wizard of Uz. (b) Arabian Knights, (c) Job, (d) Beowulf. 2. "Alas, poor Yorick!" (a) "Fare thee well," (b) "I knew him, Horatio," (c) "He failed to touch first," (d) "But why did you kick me downstairs?" is a quotation from Hamlet. 3. Misspelled in this group of words is (a) felonious, (b) fixitive, (c) ferrous, (d) flabbergast. 4. The pass at Thermopylae in Greece is famous as a last ditch defense by U) Leonidas, (b) Miltiades, (c) Homer and Jethro, Hannibal. 5. Who was called Der Fueher of Jersey City? (a) Mayor Frank Hague, (b) Leo Durocher, (c) Jersey Joe Walcott, (d) Jimmy Walker. 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