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UlE PL&TirMCIDaJTIH JJaDOJOSNM. SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper The Plattsmouth Journal . THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL ; Thursday, November 24. 1949 PAGE ONE Furse's Fresh Flashes HAPPY MOTORING UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE KSTAIU.ISIIKD IX 1S81 I'uhlished sfmi-veekl v. Mondays and Thum rtayn, at 409-413 Main Street, liattflmouth, C'itHs County. rn!kn. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD ... .Advertising Mgr. O. C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor fassocaron itKrnszi. r Assocuncm 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. KntT(1 at the T'nstr.f rice fit I'lattsniouth. Nlir:ika as sProrul las mail matter In uc rorln m r with the Art of Congress of ilarth ::. J0T9. A THOUGHT FOR TO DA V .v (treat ability to be able to conceal one's ability. La Rochefoucauld . - . - aeeeaseoe,evaeeeeeaeeee.ase THE LOWLY TRADING STAMP We're lad that somebody finally found time to make inquiry into a certain practice that has long been a subject of controversy among many business execu tives and leaders in the field of advertis ing. The lowly trading stamp, long an in centive for exclusive consumer patronage of certain stores, usually is employed by retajl merchants as a protective measure designed to retain sales rather than to in crease the over-all business volume. This fact was brought out during a re cent nationwide survey by Robert Gray, instructor in business administration at Hastings College, as part of his thesis re quirements at Harvard University. The survey, primarily intended to de termine the effectiveness of stamps as an advertising medium, revealed that many dealers adopted a trading stamp plan merely because his competitor had done so. Gray pointed out that the trading stamp idea grows during times of depres sion and stamp companies make a huge profit. He illustrated with the example of the Sperry Hutchinson Company which declared a 100 per cent dividend in 1932. The survey bears out this writer's thoughts regarding the give away or premium idea incorporated in so many merchants plans of merchandising. We have long contended that a merchant, giv ing an honest value and dealing with the public fairly, will only inform the people effectively through newspaper, or other forms of advertising need not resort to premiums to do a bang-up business. We remember too plainly the selling schemes of Georgie-Porgie and a few others that gave away everything but the family heirlooms, but corn flakes still out sell them all. -K -fc FARM PRICE SUPPORT ASSURED Final action by congress, accepting the free conference compromise on the farm bill, makes it certain that the farmers of the nation will -continue to receive price supports based upon ninety per cent of parity. This is well for the country, as well as for the farmer. In fact, the economic pros perity of the nation depends, to a large extent, upon the economic well-being of agriculture. If the farmers of the nation have no surplus cash to spend, the demand for manufactured goods dwindles. This lays off workers and slows down the cir culation of cash which promotes business and makes profits possible. In most discussions of the farm issue, emphasis is laid upon the fact that no reduction in farm support prices will mean no reduction in most food prices for con sumers. Oddly enough, there is hardly ever a reference to the tariff which makes the consumer pay more for manufactured goods. Apparently overlooked is the con nection between farm support prices and a high tariff wall. So long as a tariff protects manufacturers, forcing the farm ers to buy products on an artificially-supported market, there should be a compen sating arrangement to give the farmer a fair deal. While we are most heartily behind ,full price supports for farm products, we do not lose sight of the fact that they are justified by the tariff policy of the United States. If the nation ever gets to the point of abolishing its tariff walls, then the time will be at hand to do something about parity price supports. YUGOSLAVIA QUITS Yugoslavia, which for more than three years nas supported the Soviet Union's We've just never been fast enough to keep up with our good intentions. It's easy to call a spade a spade until you stumble over one in the dark. There would probably be more joint bank accounts if wives were a little less quick on the draw. When you're young you do a lot of wishful thinking. As you get older you do a lot of thoughtful wishing. ', Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says she always falls in love at purse sight. A member of Plattsmouth's sewing circle says there are more husbands darned at their meetings than socks. Our wife is a most careful woman she never loses more than one glove at a time. Noticed an ad the other day offering a "Short Course in Accounting for Women." It's the first we knew there was any ac counting for women. Things would be a lot better if more folks felt at home at home. A dog with poor teeth should use judg ment when he growls. policy of attacking all colonial powers, recently deserted the Soviet bloc by re fusing to support a blanket condemnation of administering authorities in United Na tions trust areas. The Yugoslavian delegate praised a Brazilian resolution on education in there regions as "a step forward," and when it was subsequently approved, the Sovbt bloc shrunk to five. There were thirty nine favorable votes. - c DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO Police Judge Charles Graves passed his 66th birthday anniversary Nov. 23rd . . . Mr. and Mrs. Will Oliver celebrated their golden wedding Nov. 21st . J . Mrs. D. O. Dwj-er tried her first case in her own right before local court . . . L. L. Turpin resigned as court reporter after serving for a number of years; accepted position with Judge James Fitzgerald of Omaha court. D. C. Thornton, head of commer cial department of high school, was se lected to fill vacancy . . . Coldest weather of season was registered during the week with the mercury falling to 11 degrees above zero at 8 a. m. at the local Burling ton station With chilling wind and snow. TEN YEARS AGO William B. Banning, one of the veteran legislators of the state and widely known leader in the Democratic circles, filed for member of the state legislature from the third district to succeed Fred Carsten . . . Herman Meisinger, manager of the eleva tor at Mynard, displayed an ear of yellow corn of the Iowa wealth hybrid variety from the Joe Pipal field which had an almost perfect outline of the map of Ne braska in red kernels in the midst of the yellow kernels ... . Mrs. F. W. Nolting was hostess to members of the Nolting family at her home which was featured by a tur key dinner . . . Congressman Heinke named John Benton Livingston of this city as third alternate to Annapolis. I Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: SEN. McCARRAN GIVES FRAN CO SOME PUBLIC RELATIONS TIPS; MEDICAL BUREAUCRATS ARE THE COUNTRY'S UNSUNG HEROES; DOCTORS RISK THEIR LIVES IN RESEARCH ON COMMON DISEASES. WASHINGTON. Senator Pat McCar ran of Nevada, No. 1 enemy of Europe's homeless refugees, has now set himself up as chief volunteer public relations coun sel to Europe's No. 1 fascist dictator. On his latest junket abroad, supposedly to "investigate the current refugee situa tion," McCarran gave Spain's Francisco Franco some shrewdly cynical advice on how to make friends and influence people. In the course of two lengthy interviews, the senator from Nevada assured his at tentive host that "with p little smart han dling at this end, Spain can be right back in the front parlor by this time next year." McCarran happens to represent a state containing less than one-tenth of one per cent of the U. S. population, and most Ne vadans are not the slightest bit interested in Franco. Nevertheless, McCarran did not hesitate to speak for all the American people. "The overwhelming majority of the - - f?VyS FILL iTUFtARfcyk 1 Vkffi A UAPO TRW Si' American people," he said, "are convinced that your country has been given a raw deal. It's just a question now of pounding the point home and getting enough pressure put on enough con gressmen to whip the state de partment pinks." A "healthy bloc of senators,"! McCarran added, are prepared j to advocate, early in the next congressional session, that the j United States sponsor Spain's j admission to specialized agen- j cies of the United Nations. "They are also prepared to put the heat on a few of our Euro-! pean charity patients so thafci you can get invited into that western union club of theirs,"; McCarran said. ; "However," McCarran warned Franco, "don't let your pride j keep you from blowing your ; own horn, good and loud. , You've got to keep telling every- ' body that Spain deserves a ; place on the anti-Communist : team. Don't bother about any-! thing else, or answer any other criticism; just keep hitting that j one line, and you'll make the j grade." Franco, whose background ; hasn't given him much expe- i rience in molding public opin- ; ion, must have been grateful , for these tips. For less than a j week later, Franco followed Mc- : Carran's suggestions closely in an exclusive interview with a U. S. correspondent. i Radio Madrid, on its short- ; wave broadcasts to the Ameri- : cas has also began to bear' down heavily on "Spain's con tributions to the struggle of western civilization against Rus sian Communist barbarism." High point of these propagan da blurbs is the cryptic declara tion: "If it hadn't been for Spain, England would . now probably be the only free na tion in western Europe." UNSUNG DEMOCRATS Thousands of words have been rained upon the reading public about the inequities Of bureau crats. However, there are bu reaucrats and bureaucrats and without some of them, the gov ernment couldn't function to day, j For instance, a handful cf medical bureaucrats are risking death and disease every day to safeguard the health of others. The door outside their bureau at Bethesda, Md., might be cov ered with quarantine signs, but one sign alone tells the story: "Infectious diseases." Inside, doctors and assistants are exploring with microscopes and test tubes, seeking cures for everything from polio to the common cold. At one time or other, nearly everyone on the staff has been bedridden with some disease; at least three have died during the past de cade vfctims of their own re search. For such risks, these doctors are paid a modest government salary, ranging from $4,500 to $10,000, though they could earn far more in private practice. They don't work for the glory either, since their discoveries are kept anonymous by the public health service. Yet their selfless , research goes on. j The doctor in charge of polio I research, for example, is Dr. Charles Armstrong who spent eight months in bed and nearly died from tularemia, or rabbit fever, and also came down with dengue fever, parrot fever, Q fever and encephalitis on other assignments. He is now search ing desperately for a serum that will prevent polio, is testing other diseases which might be given' as an inoculation against polio. He has finally traced the coxaxe virus, which causes a mild disease sometimes mistak en for polio, to suckling mice. NO CURE FOR COLDS Another important Research task force, under Dr. Leon At las, is exploring the common cold. He has already isolated the elusive virus which causes colds, has proven this by drop ping the virus into the nostrils of volunteers from the District of Columbia jail. However, Dr. Atlas has also discovered there are many types of colds caused by other viruses, aller gies and mild diseases that do not 'go past the preliminary, stuffed-up-nose stage. Dr. Atlas still hasn't discov ered a serum or drug to prevent colds. In fact, he warns against using any drugs, including th? antihistaminic drugs which have been ballyhooed in full-page ads as a cold cure. "As yet," he cautions, "there are no adequate and convincing studies that demonstrate un equivocally that any drug or combination of drugs will pre vent or influence the course, severity or duration of colds." Two other researchers. Dr. Charles Shepard and Dr. Rob ert Huebner, have made encour aging progress in the fight against Q fever and as usual, caught Q fever in the process. They traced this fever to the milk of infected dairy cows, par ticularly in the Los Angeles area. However, they still haven't located the actual virus that causes the disease. Dr. Huebner also solved an epidemic of rickettsial pox that cropped up in a New York City apartment district. Huebner's experiments showed the disease was carried by house mice and transmitted by mites, so by cracking down on the mice, the epidemic was checked. Doing field work in " Texa. Dr. James Watt traced bacil lary dysentery to flies and was able almost to eliminate it by fly control. Now he is contin uing his experiments in anoth er area near New Orleans. brain 1. Betty Boop was (a) a character in a Jane Austen novel, (b) a movie-cartoon character, (c) a newspaper comic strip character, (d) a burlesque dancer. 2. A sampan is (a) a sedan chair carried by two bearers, (b) a dance native to Ceylon, (c) a skiff used in Chinese river traffic, (d) a Mexican corn dish. 3. A roc was ridden by (a) Sinbad the Sailor, (b) Marco Polo, c Balaam, d Eddie Arcaro. 4. Will Rogers met death in (a) North Dakota, (b) Alaska, (c) Canada, d Greenland. 5. The place indicated in "I will arise and go now, and go to " i (a) Kingdom Come, (b) perdition, (c) lnnisfree, (d) Middlesex. ANSWERS . (b) A mvvie cirttia rharaeCrr. S. (c) A skiff ased in Ckiaaaa river traffie. S. (a) Sinbad tba Sailar. . Alaka. S. () laaiafre. Another disease, which mean"; almost certain infection to any one experimenting with it, is bangs disease or brucellosis. No one has suffered more from this disease than Dr. Alice Evans who did the pioneer research at the Bethesda laboratory. S" i has now retired, however, and turned the work over to Dr. Carl ' Larson. All research in the laboratory i is under the general supervision of Dr. Karl Habel, who nas been bedridden with Q fever and en cephalitis, but is now searching for a more potent rabies vac cine: - '- - r - These doctors are just a few of the unsung bureaucrats who are giving the taxpayers their money's worth. Note To cut down the alarm ing disease and death rate, the public health service built a new, modern laboratory for these doctors in 1946. " Inside the air is sucked away from the re searchers, then heated to 450 degrees in order to kill all germs before being discharged into the ! atmosphere. In spite, of such precautions, the doctors still catch the diseases they are studying. New Law Aids Disabled Vets A total of 13,675 Nebraska dis abled veterans will receive in creased benefits beginning Dec. 1 under a new federal law. Ashley Vestmor'and, manager cf the regional VA office here, .spiel Thursday thit increased benefits for all si a'? veterans will total $51,684 monthly. Of the total veterans now re ceiving disability payments 11, 299 served in WorK war II. 2,054 j-erved during World wrtr I and 122 arj veterans of pracetim-3 service. The new disability compensa tion rate will be an 8.7 per cent across-the-board increase. For example, a veteran who has oeen rated 10 per cent disabled and is drawing a check for $13.80 per month will be raised to $15. Others with greater dis abilities will receive proportion aie increases. Thus, a 100 per cent disabled veteran will draw $150 instead of the $138 he now receives. in addition, Westmorland said, the new law provides additional compensation for veterans with dependents if they are rated 50 per cent or more disabled. It also budget Ml m tt km THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRI CULTURE and the commodity credit corporation have been given authority Ly which they can uie surplus agricultural crops for bar ter cf commodities v. Inch are in short supply in this country. Heretofore, when the depart ment was forced to take over agricultural commodities, if fcle was not made at support price, the department was forced to take a lass. Partic ularly was this 'rue in hand lint perishable produce such as potatoes. Under the Anderson-Gore farm law, passed by the 81st congress however, this provision is made: 'In order to prevt-nt the wi.ste cf food commodities acquired through, price support operations which are found to be in danger of loss through deterioration 'or spoil age before they can be disposed of in normal domestic channels with out impairment of the price sup port program, the secretary of icu'.ture and the commodity credit corporation r.re authorized, upon application by the munitions board or any other federal agency and on such terms and ur.drr such regulation as may be docmrd in the public interest. t m;.Ue such commodities available to r-.y such sgency for use in n-.ai. '.r. . .-.ynicnt for the commodities ik : j .; -.lured i:i the United Sta'cs . . And the evten-ion ' charter of the C'C'C. t' more authority to provide ' . ac space also gives it au.'i- r ity to acquire strategic aiui critiral materials in rx' tan ;e for agricultural commodities to be "transferred to the stock pile provided by the strategic and critical materials stock piling act." Already there is nction underway to exchange a million tons of U.S. surplus wheat for $30 million dol lars worth of manganese from India. A committee representing the munitions board, the CCC. and the federal bureau of supply is in vestigating such a swap at the in sistence cf the Indian government. In the meantime, Ralph - Trigg, president of CCC, Issued a report on CCC investments as f July 31, 1949, indicating that as of that date the CCC, has $2.450.Oe.0OO invested in the price support program. Of this total, loans outstanding total 406,000, 000, while inventories establishes a revised method -f rating the compensation claims of veterans with arrested tuber culosis and increases the death compensation to wartime widows with one or more children. The name "rubber" comes from the earliest use of the substance, which was to rub out pencil marks, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. 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Hie net realized loss on thr fiscal year ending June 30, 194!t was SVii,- ; 000.000, according to the report. ,' Bulk of the price supi-crt opera tions are accoutred fur in four commodities cotton: 3.S18.t57 bales. $600.3C9.C77; corn: 343.215.1CS bushels, ?477. 425.214: tobacco: 343, 903.248 pounds, $132,869,322; wheat: 78.380.254 bushels. $131,024,091; other crops: $37,734,922. ; Several measures important t agriculture, but less dramatic thaa the master farm program, included passage cf the rural telephone bill, which permits 2'i government loans for expansion and improve ment of rural telephone service; fifty per cent increase in the num ber of counties in which federal crops insurance is authorized; r.p propriatim direct from the treas ury of SC3.5D0,0!0 to finance school' lunch pro-rams; a new measure applying to cotton acreage ami marketing quotas, setting the quota referendum at not later than De cember 15, the national marketing quota at not less than the smaller of 10 million bales, or one million bales less than the domestic con sumption and export of cotton in the preceding marketing year, and fixing the national acreage tllot ment for 1P.V) at not less than 21 million acres; the rational heat' agreement, providing for annual it cf 18S million btishels of ...K..t v. :h a cc-ilir.g pi ice of S1.8J a fio r price in v. o: Id n.aikcts from 1.50 the f.rst year,, ..I. . j. 10 cents each year to S1.20 ;I. . .. . car; and a r.-.c-asut e in . li-.o international v.heiit agree. ..i which allows the CCC." to take the necessary loss on wheat' exported under the agieemet'.t. I'ub'Ishcl gi-vrrnment re ports i.iui.-n'c thut business J profits are dewn about 25 per , tent the I'ir- t h:-li ti this year compared to Ir'S. The new council of American buMness says this is nut a true reflec tion, that profit rease is nly about 10 per i after taxes, because of thi- i-lfect of ''changes in the valu.t.or.j of in- ventorics taken ta a lisinf market. But even in terms of the 25 per cent drop, profits in 1949 stand up, for only in 1947 and 194J cre; profits higher than today. It was once believed that the king's touch could cure certain forms of tuberculosis, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. FOR Dependable Insurance Income Tax Service SEE J. 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